WisCon 33 schedule

Thursday, May 21, 2009

• Room of One's Own Reception and Readings

Friday, May 22, 2009

• The Gathering
• Cultural Appropriation 101 Workshop
• YA Authors on the Edge: Reading, Chocolate, Book Raffle
• Simple Things: Puzzles, Coloring, DDR
• Mod Squad - The Panel
• Writing in the Recession
• Warrior Women in Current Fiction - Do They Exist, Really?
• Forces Beyond Our Control: power, identity, and magic in fantasy
• Rethinking Disabling Metaphor
• We Do The Work
• The Female Bachelor
• The Object In the Story, the Story In the Object
• Where Are the Minority Mad Scientists?
• First WisCon Dinner
• Opening Ceremonies
• Haiku Earring Party
• Think Galactic
• LiveJournal Party
• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog party
• Gaylaxicon 2009
• Does Google Find The Real You?
• Norovirus and You: Responses to WisCholera 2008
• Responses to WisCholera 2008
• NOT ANOTHER F*CKING RACE PANEL
• Turns Out This Is Your Dad’s SF/F
• Poem–agranates and Passion: Some Words on Forbidden Fruit
• Urgent and Essential: The Role and Function of Science Fiction in the Societal Stabilizing the Converging Technologies/Romance of the Robot: From R.U.R & Metropolis to Wall-E
• Phantom Maids and Ghostly Ladies
• TYRANNOSAURS IN F–14S!!!!
• From Mythpunk to Lullabye: SJ Tucker in Concert
• Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading
• We Are the Apes Who Pray
• Narrative Structure and the Practical Importance of Story
• Not Exactly What We Expected: Bastard Gods in Chalion, Terre d'Ange, and Elsewhere
• Transgender Life in Taiwan

Saturday, May 23, 2009

• Silent SF Films of 2008
• "Belly Dance": The Intersection of Feminism and Colonialism
• So You Want to Be Published? Are You Your Own Biggest Roadblock?
• Where is the Goddess These Days?
• It Are Fact: Science and Oppression Intersect
• Conceiving Pregnant Men in Speculative Fiction / Anticipation, Retrospection
• SF and Anarchism 101: It's Not Chaos
• The Unspunky Teen Protagonist
• War on Science: Report From the Front
• The Mismeasure of Man, and the Rest of Us, Too: Science, Colonialism, Genocide, and Science Fiction
• Open and Affirming Childrearing
• Reinventing the Adventure
• Guest of Honor Reading: Ellen Klages
• Sex, Drugs, Magic and Rock 'n' Roll
• Octavia Butler's Wild Seed and Kindred: Black Female Bodies as Sites of Intersection / Escape from the Prism: Intersectional Identity in Children of Men
• Better Lives Through Technology
• Book View Café: A New Venture in Online Publishing
• LEGOs, More Simple Things
• The Middleman: This Panel Is Sheer Elegance in Its Simplicity
• Joss Whedon's Dollhouse
• Attendees Receive Free Cyborg Unicorn
• Tiptree Bake Sale
• Allies Meeting
• Journeyman's Writers Meeting
• Science/Religion/Art
• Chakrams and Shotguns and Celluloid, Oh My
• The Fiction of Ellen Klages
• Kick–ass Moms
• True Names: Would A Fan By Any Other Handle Smell as Sweet?
• What, No Rapture?
• Keeping Up With Science
• Boll Weevils Advance From The South, Eating Everything That Tries To Stop Them
• Spaces of Narration in Steven Barnes' Far Beyond the Stars / Manifest Destiny in the 21st and 26th Centuries
• Gadgets: Then, Now and When
• Let's Build a World
• Girl Genius: A Discussion Group for Kid Fans of Agatha Heterodyne
• What's in the Air?
• Alien Technology: Your Garden, Your Pets, Yourself
• Wisps, Wizards, Wonders, and Other Words That Start With W: YA and Middle Grade Fiction
• Resolving Time Travel Paradoxes
• We Want Your Children: Writing to Recruit
• Feminism, Anarchism, & Power: The Marq'ssan Cycle
• Disability in Battlestar Galactica
• Your Friend Academia
• Ask a Pro
• Safe Space at Cons: What it Is, What it Isn't and How to Create it Effectively
• Myths, Dreams, and Stories
• The Continuing Vision and Revision of the Transgressive Woman Warrior
• Food in a Post–Oil Economy
• On Joanna Russ
• Electricity with Margie
• Breaking Into the Young Adult Market
• Home Wrecker! How to Destroy Our Planet
• A Cabinet of Curiosities, A Circus of Marvels
• Are We Done Believing in God Yet?
• SF/F TV Shows This Season
• How Should Magazines and Anthologies Review Submissions?
• Robots From the Future (and the Past)
• Genuinely Multicultural
• The Treatment of Aging in Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Bisexual and Pansexual Characters in SF/F
• Taboo II: Electric Bugaloo
• Gender and Sexuality in Invasion of the Body Snatchers / Venturestein Unbound: Frankenstein and The Venture Brothers
• Romancing the Beast
• The Fiction of Geoff Ryman
• SF Swim
• Write Here!
• Roll to See If I Advance the Plot
• Book View Café Writers: New Paradigms
• Tiptree Auction
• Aqueduct Press Party
• Capricon Party
• Verb Noire Party
• Raleigh NASFIC 2010
• Tor Party
• Reno in 2011 Bid Party
• What Gender Is Your Roomba?
• Witches and Wizards: Gender and Power in Portrayals of Magic
• One God or Many - or None?
• Fanfic and Slash: Redux
• Women of the Horror Film: The British Fears, 1957–1961
• Feminist, Fantasy, or Fetish: The Evolution of Wonder Woman / Little Girls on the Hero's Journey
• Was It Good for You?
• Favorite Books Open Mike

Sunday, May 24, 2009

• Fantasy Films of 2008: The Year of the Superhero
• Doctor Who and Torchwood - “The Gay Agenda”
• New Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Is Regionalism Dead?
• Judging the Tiptree
• The Etiquette of Self Promotion
• Internet Publishing for Science Fiction Authors
• Bang? Whimper? None of the Above?
• Dealing With Your Male Answer Syndrome
• The Post–Scarcity Utopia in an Age of Injustice
• Why You Should Write Book Reviews
• Andrea Smith's Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
• Keeping the S in SF
• The Kids' Books That Made Us
• Something Is Wrong on the Internet!
• Scotch and Bacon
• Women's Work in Anathem and Other SF Titles / Construction of Art and Gender in Le Guin's Picture Books
• Their Images, Our Stories: Vidding as Feminist Critique
• Public Libraries: Where's the SF?
• Take Things Apart
• Five Months Into the Obama Administration
• Synopsis: a Necessary Evil?
• A Small Press Strikes Back: Exciting New SF from Hadley Rille Books
• Marxism and Beyond: Assembling a Class Discussion Toolkit
• The Care and Feeding of Your Vampire
• Your Electric Critics
• Know What?: The Subconscious vs. Free Will
• The Obligatory Workshop Panel
• Battlestar Galactica: Our Sine Qua Non
• Guest of Honor Reading: Geoff Ryman
• Nightmares in Pleasant Dreams
• Reflected Self, Refracted Identities: The Meanings of Multiplicity / Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters in Dreaming in Cuban and The Room In–Between
• "Going Native": Gender, Colonialism, and C.J. Cherryh
• Metal, Beads, Fiber and High Geekiness
• Make Fantastic Creatures!
• Exploring Sex and Gender in Recent YA SF and Fantasy
• Fathers and Daughters in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Does Anyone Get It Right?
• Excerpts from Unfinished, Agonizingly Slow–Going Novels in Progress
• Wish Fulfillment in Fiction
• Hey, Wait a Minute...
• Adapt, Revise, Revisit: When Is a Copy Not the Source?
• Terry Pratchett, Feminist Author?
• The Rules: Use or Abuse Them
• Racism, Classism, and the Singularity
• Consistency vs. Variety
• Aqueduct Press
• The Black Superwoman in the Land of Zombies / Cherryh's Foreigner and Issues of Hegemony
• Young Writer Q&A
• The Politics of Posterity
• How to Batik
• Grrr! I Hate That Book Cover!
• Shadow Over Powderhorn
• Strange Horizons Tea Party
• SF/F and Higher Ed
• Humor in Feminist Speculative Fiction
• Book Clubs: Bringing WisCon Home
• Media vs. Book Fandom
• The Anvil Chorus: Historical Fiction and Social Justice
• Authorial Intent vs. Reader Response
• Dear Writer: I Don't Want Kids
• Aqueduct Press Part 2
• WisCon Geographies / How to Reason Paraconsistently About Inconsistent Fiction
• Birthing a Writers Community
• Dystopias Are Easy. Utopias Are Hard.
• SF Swim
• Take Back the Sci-Fi
• Nyarlathotep's Daughters: Many Sides of the Fantastic
• Dessert Salon
• Guest of Honor Speeches and Tiptree Ceremony
• Fancy Dress Party
• Scribe Literary Agency Party
• Belly Dancing Party
• Beer and Marmalade!
• Diversicon Party
• Anticipation, the 67th Worldcon
• Why Writers Need Physical Hobbies
• Acting for Authors
• Death Is Weirder Than We Think
• Does a Writer Really Need a "Platform?"
• Netbook Show and Tell
• Science Fiction Films of 2008: The Year of the Superhero

Monday, May 25, 2009

• Beyond the Con: Infiltrating WisCon Ideals into the "Real World"
• Writing Science Fiction While Living in an SF Disaster Novel
• An Uncertain God: A-gnostic Mysticism in History and Speculative Fiction
• Tech Tools for Writers
• Getting it Wrong Gracefully
• What's Your Personal Shark Point?
• Porn Crushes The Patriarchy, The Sequel
• Not Enough Tricksters
• Science Fiction Poetry Association
• Who Is Disposable?
• Karen Axness Memorial Panel: Women Writers You Probably Never Heard Of
• Always a Companion, Never a Doctor
• Games and Twilight discussion
• Is Print Finally Dead?
• How to Plot Your Novel in Half an Hour Flat and Have Fun Doing It
• The SignOut
• Clean–up
• Developer Recruiting Meeting
• WisCon 33 Post–Mortem
• Mid-Career Writer's Gathering
• Dead Cow Party