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<div>This is the program schedule for [[WisCon 32]] (2008), with links to transcripts, panel reports, and so on. <br />
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==Thursday May 22, 2008==<br />
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* [[A Room of One's Own Reception (WisCon 32)|A Room of One's Own Reception]]<br />
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==Friday May 23, 2008==<br />
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* Writers' Workshop<br />
* G is for The Gathering <br />
* 1 Toys: The Other Childhood Fixation We Didn't Leave Behind <br />
* 2 Nordic Trek <br />
* 4 Puzzles, Coloring, Magic the Gathering <br />
* 5 The Hunt is On <br />
* 6 It's Not About Identity <br />
* 7 Mod Squad <br />
* 8 Juvenilia: What We Wrote Before We Were Writers <br />
* [[Not Enough Octopusses (WisCon 32 panel)|9 Not Enough Octopusses]] <br />
* 10 Glass slippers come off! 5 new YA writers <br />
* 11 And Now For Something Completely Different <br />
* [[Opening Ceremonies (WisCon 32)|12 Opening Ceremonies]]<br />
* 13 LiveJournal and WisCon <br />
* 14 Not Just Japan: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy <br />
* [[Elves and Dwarves: The Racism Inherent in Fantasy (WisCon 32 panel)|15 Elves and Dwarves: The Racism Inherent in Fantasy]] <br />
* 16 Punctuation, Grammar, Usage: Who Needs 'Em? <br />
* 16a Ratbastards' Rabid Karaoke Blast<br />
* 17 Aqueduct Press Writers II <br />
* 18 Narrative Process in SF <br />
* 19 Thinking Ahead: Feminists thinking about possible near and middle futures and feminist responses to them <br />
* 20 Women Writing Speculative Poetry <br />
* 21 Clarion West 25th Anniversary <br />
* 22 Scribe Agency/Electric Velocipede<br />
* 23 Speculative Literature Foundation/Serendib Press <br />
* 24 ThinkGalactic <br />
* 25 Stevenson/Wilce Book Launches <br />
* 26 Lilacs, Laundry Lists and Lycanthropy: The Magic of Everyday Life <br />
* 27 Sexual Politics, Gender and Class in the Universe of C.J. Cherryh's Chanur Series <br />
* 28 The Joy of Fat Sex <br />
* 29 Fanfic and Slash 101 <br />
* 30 Sherlock Dracula: The Appeal of the Vampire Detective <br />
* 31 Academics & Fans: Bringing them Together #2<br />
* 32 Silent SF Films of 2007 <br />
* 33 Boisterous Basilisks, Bears and a Balcony<br />
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==Saturday May 24, 2008==<br />
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* 34 Fantasy Films of 2007: The Year of the Franchise <br />
* 35 Ancient Mythology in Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction <br />
* 36 Balancing Creativity And The Day Job <br />
* 37 Technology and the Environment <br />
* 38 Environmentalism and Spirituality <br />
* 39 Women of Action <br />
* 40 Porn Crushes the Patriarchy! <br />
* [[Is Reading a Choice that Closes Other Doors? (WisCon 32 panel)| 41 Is Reading a Choice that Closes Other Doors?]]<br />
* 42 Soylent Green or Just Plain Soy? <br />
* 43 Parenting On Other Planets <br />
* 44 Defining God <br />
* 45 Fantastic Groves of Academe <br />
* 46 Guest of Honor Reading: L. Timmel Duchamp <br />
* 47 Scribe Agency Dreamtime Commandos <br />
* 48 Representing Seers/Out of Egypt<br />
* 49 Strong Or Stroppy?: Annoyingly Feisty Female Protagonists <br />
* 50 Carl Brandon Society Update <br />
* 51 Legos and Build a Castle <br />
* 52 Two Heads With But a Single Brain - Collaborators talk about writing together <br />
* 53 Elemental Magic <br />
* 53a Tiptree Bake Sale <br />
* 54 Broad Universe Rapid-Fire Reading <br />
* 55 Historical Research for Fiction Writers <br />
* [[The Curious Boundaries of YA Fantasy (WisCon 32 panel)|56 The Curious Boundaries of YA Fantasy]] <br />
* 57 Disability in SF and Fantasy Fiction <br />
* 58 Combining Science And Fiction <br />
* 59 Magical Realism: Threat or Menace?<br />
* 60 How I Did It All Wrong And Got Published Anyway <br />
* 61 Good Reads, Chocolate, and Scotch <br />
* 62 Critiquing Maureen McHugh <br />
* 63 Women of Japan<br />
* 64 WisCon 101 <br />
* 65 Build a Castle <br />
* 67 Navigating the Id Vortex <br />
* 68 Fat Is Not the Enemy <br />
* 69 League of Substitute Heroes <br />
* 70 Sparkly Boys and Tough Girls, Revisited <br />
* 72 The Rights of Simulacra <br />
* 73 Fairy Tales for a New Generation of Girls <br />
* [[Here's Where The Story Ends (WisCon 32 panel)|74 Here's Where The Story Ends]]<br />
* 75 Captain Jack's Big Gay Torchwood <br />
* 76 Curses! YA Villains Unite <br />
* 77 Aqueduct Press Writers I <br />
* 78 Creative Futures of Fiction & Politics <br />
* 79 Books You Haven't Heard Of, The People of Color Edition! <br />
* [[Women and Hard SF (WisCon 32 panel)|80 Women and Hard SF]]<br />
* 81 Kids' Discussion: Harry Potter Book 7 <br />
* 82 The Bearded Man, The African, the Witch and the Whore <br />
* 83 Does It Have to Get Boring Before it Gets Good? <br />
* 84 Retrospective Tiptrees <br />
* 85 Fighting the Good Fight with Limited Resources <br />
* 86 The Ship Who Knitted, and Other Side-Effects of Transportational Intelligence <br />
* 87 The "Real City" of Urban Fantasy <br />
* [[What Can't We Forgive? (WisCon 32 panel)|88 What Can't We Forgive?]] <br />
* [[The Slayer's Legacy: Ten Years of the Buffyverse (WisCon 32 panel)|89 The Slayer's Legacy: Ten Years of the Buffyverse]]<br />
* 90 Journeys of Self-Discovery <br />
* 91 Sexuality in SF: Art or Social Critique? <br />
* 92 Making Ends Meet <br />
* 93 'Out And Proud' Or 'Not In Front Of The Children?' <br />
* 94 SF Swim <br />
* 95 Red Beans and Rice <br />
* 96 Tiptree Auction <br />
* 97 Fanfic and Slash 201 <br />
* 98 Beyond Illustration: The Process of Creating 'Vision' <br />
* 99 Male Feminists: You Don't Get A Cookie <br />
* 100 LGBTQ Fiction: Are we ready for the Mainstream? Are they ready for us? <br />
* 101 Wizards & Shamans <br />
* 102 Avoiding the Environmental Apocalypse <br />
* 103 Prineas/Schwartz Book Launches <br />
* 104 Haiku Earring Party <br />
* 106 Capes and Consoles <br />
* 107 Tor Books <br />
* 108 EDGE Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing and Flying Pen Press <br />
* 109 What If You Don't Want to Have Children? Redux <br />
* 110 Fanfic Rising: The Organization for Transformative Works <br />
* 111 Living in the Castle: The Writing of Shirley Jackson <br />
* [[ Making 'War' on 'War,' Part 2 (WisCon 32 panel)|112 Making 'War' on 'War,' Part 2]] <br />
* 113 What is Fabulist Fiction?<br />
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==Sunday May 25, 2008==<br />
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* 114 Is LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy In Trouble? <br />
* 115 Cliché or Trope? <br />
* 116 Phillip Pullman vs. C.S. Lewis: Smackdown! <br />
* 117 Timmi Duchamp's Marq'ssan Cycle <br />
* 118 The Dead Have No Shadow <br />
* 119 Biscuits, Bells, Bravery, and other things that Start with B <br />
* 120 'How to Manage Teh Stupid': White Allies Confronting Racism <br />
* 121 Time To Put Down The Laptop? <br />
* 122 Old Age, Illness and Death in SF/F <br />
* 123 Hot Flashes and Power Surges <br />
* 124 Narrative and Politics <br />
* [[Why Return a King (or Queen)? (WisCon 32 panel)|125 Why Return a King (or Queen)?]] <br />
* [[Terry Pratchett: Bend That Trope Until It Breaks (WisCon 32 panel)|126 Terry Pratchett: Bend That Trope Until It Breaks]]<br />
* 127 When Worlds Collide <br />
* 128 Power, Ethics, & Possibility in Fantastic Ecofeminist Fiction<br />
* 129 Judging the Tiptree <br />
* 130 Can Internet Drama Change The World? <br />
* 131 Take Things Apart <br />
* 132 Transgender Folks Discuss Transgender Books <br />
* 133 Love, Sex and Weirdness <br />
* 134 Inside the Magic Book Machine <br />
* 135 Supporting Our Writers <br />
* 136 The Fictional Is Political — Political SF/F Of Both Sorts <br />
* 137 The Future Of The Book <br />
* 138 Writing Working-Class Characters <br />
* 139 Let's Build a World <br />
* 140 Guest of Honor Reading: Maureen McHugh <br />
* 141 Taboo <br />
* 142 Roleplaying: Gender and Heroism <br />
* 143 Karen Axness Memorial Panel: Women Writers You Never Heard Of <br />
* [[Philip Pullman: Threat or Menace? (WisCon 32 panel)|144 Philip Pullman: Threat or Menace?]] <br />
* 145 Start A Mosaic <br />
* 146 Get Out Your Secret Decoder Ring <br />
* 147 Women of The Twilight Zone <br />
* 148 Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades <br />
* 149 Does Written SF Have a Future? <br />
* 150 Being the Heroine of a Romance Novel Doesn't Make Me Weak <br />
* 151 Revealing Your World <br />
* 152 Transformation, Ready or Not <br />
* [[The Eclipse One Cover Debate (WisCon 32 panel)|153 Publishing, Profit, Agendas, and Ideals: The Eclipse One Cover Debate]]<br />
* 154 Workshops and Critique Groups <br />
* 155 Dissecting Privilege — Let's Look At The Guts <br />
* 156 Delicate Flowers <br />
* 157 Octavia Butler, SF, and the Political Imagination<br />
* 159 War for Water <br />
* 160 Crochet <br />
* 162 Like Quills upon the Fretful Porcupine <br />
* 163 On The Lifespan Of Genres <br />
* 164 Pansexuality and Polyamory: The New Face of Romance in Fiction?<br />
* 165 The WisCon Scavenger Hunt <br />
* 166 Faux Diversity vs. Actual Diversity <br />
* 167 Publishing: Meritocracy or Social Construct? <br />
* 168 Writing and parenting, and Writing About Parenting<br />
* 169 Violence, Destruction, Degradation, and Catharsis<br />
* 170 Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!: Even Better than Monster Trucks <br />
* 171 Performing Gendered and Genred Identities <br />
* 172 Welcome Back to Riverside<br />
* [[Some of Us Are Brave: Identity Intersections in an Election Year (WisCon 32 panel)|173 Some of Us Are Brave: Identity Intersections in an Election Year]]<br />
* 174 SF Swim <br />
* 174a Strange Horizons Tea Party <br />
* 175 Clarion San Diego 2007 <br />
* [[Dessert Salon (WisCon 32 event)|176 Dessert Salon]] <br />
* [[GoH Speeches (WisCon 32 event)|177 GoH Speeches]]<br />
* 178 Trans 101 <br />
* 179 OUFISCIPO: Writing SF/F with Arbitrary Constraints <br />
* 180 Martha Jones: Made of Awesome or Disappointing Stereotype? <br />
* 181 The Appropriated Magic User <br />
* 182 Shape-Shifting and Identity <br />
* 183 The Brave New World of Twenty-First Century Publishing <br />
* 184 Greening WisCon <br />
* [[Fancy Dress Party (WisCon 32 panel)|185 Fancy Dress Party]] <br />
* 186 Lethe Press <br />
* 187 Post-Rapture Comic Launch / TheCulturalGutter.com <br />
* 187a LiveJournal Party<br />
* 188 Small Beer Press <br />
* 189 Gaylaxicon <br />
* 190 SF Films of 2007: The Year of the Franchise <br />
* 191 Last time, on Battlestar Galactica... <br />
* 192 Imagination as Resistance <br />
* 193 Gender in Virtual Worlds<br />
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==Monday May 26, 2008==<br />
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* [[How Much Is Too Much? (WisCon 32 panel)|194 How Much Is Too Much?]] <br />
* [[Embarrassing Foremothers! (Wiscon 32 panel)|195 Embarrassing Foremothers!]] <br />
* 196 How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? <br />
* 197 SF on TV This Season <br />
* 198 Feminist SF Cons: Past, Present, Future <br />
* 199 Classic Progressive Books For Children <br />
* 200 Fundraising for Small, Feisty, Paradigm-Shifting Literary Nonprofits <br />
* 201 How To Be A Good Ally—And A Bad One <br />
* 202 On Being an Aging SF Writer <br />
* 203 Powerful Protagonists or Fetish Fantasies: Female Roles in Modern SF Television <br />
* 204 Two-Headed Monsters: A Collaborative Entity <br />
* 205 Tradition & Liberation in the Fantastic <br />
* 206 Apples to Apples & Other Games <br />
* 207 The SignOut <br />
* 208 Clean-up <br />
* 209 WisCon 32 Post-Mortem <br />
* 210 Mid-Career Writer's Gathering <br />
* 211 Dead Dog Party<br />
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