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* [[Foremothers of Today's Feminist SF (WisCon 31 panel)|65 Foremothers of Today's Feminist SF]] '''(T)''' | * [[Foremothers of Today's Feminist SF (WisCon 31 panel)|65 Foremothers of Today's Feminist SF]] '''(T)''' | ||
* [[Why Is The Universe So Damn White? (WisCon 31 panel)|66 Why Is the Universe So Damn White?]] '''<—>''' | * [[Why Is The Universe So Damn White? (WisCon 31 panel)|66 Why Is the Universe So Damn White?]] '''<—>''' | ||
* [[Three Comrades Go on a Quest (WisCon 31 panel)|67 Three Comrades Go On A Quest....]] '''<—>''' | * [[Three Comrades Go on a Quest (WisCon 31 panel)|67 Three Comrades Go On A Quest....]] '''<—>''' '''(T)''' | ||
* [[Gendering A.I. (WisCon 31 panel)|68 Gendering A.I.]] | * [[Gendering A.I. (WisCon 31 panel)|68 Gendering A.I.]] | ||
* [[WisCon 31 readings|69 Special Guests: Julie Phillips and Dorothy Allison (Reading)]] | * [[WisCon 31 readings|69 Special Guests: Julie Phillips and Dorothy Allison (Reading)]] | ||
Revision as of 21:31, 31 May 2007
WisCon 31 Program Schedule
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Friday May 25, 2007
- The Gathering
- 16 Staged Reading Auditions
- 17 The Mod Squad <—>
- 18 Ergonomics for Writers
- 19 Mid-Career Writers Reception
- 22 Half Lives, Orphans, and Other Tiptree Oddities
- 20 Fey Faery Fiction <—>
- 21 Poem To Song
- 23 First WisCon Dinner
- 24 Opening Ceremonies <—>
- 25 Please Touch/Don't Touch
- 26 Whither Hero(in)es? <—>
- 27 GOH Reading: Laurie Marks
- 28 The Feminist (and other) Appeal of Kelly Link's Fiction
- 29 Ratbastard's Rabid Karaoke Blast
- 30 Counting Past Two <—>
- 31 The Evil Twin Must Die: The Idea of The Collective in Science Fiction and Fantasy/ Singing Like a Bird: The Articulate Silence of Sarah Canary
- 32 A Long-Expected Party
- 33 Lifestyles of the Rich and Supernatural <—>
- 34 Tachyon Publications/Book Launch Party for Carol Emshwiller and Ellen Klages
- 35 Think Galactic...Or Your World Is Lost!
- 36 Carl Brandon Society Party
- 37 Aqueduct Press/Payseur and Schmidt
- 38 Silent SF Films of 2006 <—>
- 39 Entering the Labyrinth <—>
- 40 Tools Of Our Own: Women And Hands-on Work <—>
- 41 Voices from the West Readings
- 42 Swords and Sabres Readings
- 43 Ask Me Anything (About Publishing, That Is)
Saturday programs
- 44 Farmer's Market
- 45 How To Read Aloud <—>
- 46 Underneath It All <—>
- 47 Revisiting the Wow: Books That Changed Everything
- 48 Pat Cadigan's Cyberpunk Realities
- 49 Officer Unfriendly? Problematizing Law Enforcement and the "Justice" System
- 50 I Sense Your Pain. <—>
- 51 Genre Tokenism Today: The New Octavia (T) <—>
- 52 Editing Anthologies <—>
- 53 Boys and Gender Expectations in Contemporary YA Fantasy and Science Fiction
- 54 Please Explain Slash To Me <—>
- 55 Aqueduct Press Writers
- 56 Moving Toward Marriage: The Politics of Consent in the Fiction of Ursula Le Guin/Historical Revision in Earthsea
- 57 Women Authors You Probably Never Heard Of (But Should Read!): The Karen Axness Memorial Panel
- 58 Modern Myth and the New Skepticism
- 59 Implausible Teaching
- 60 Set–Up and Legos
- 61 The Double Life of Alice Sheldon
- 62 Feminine God Imagery: Not Just For Pagans!
- 63 Claiming Your Voice
- 64 Short Fiction Markets You Should Know
- 65 Foremothers of Today's Feminist SF (T)
- 66 Why Is the Universe So Damn White? <—>
- 67 Three Comrades Go On A Quest.... <—> (T)
- 68 Gendering A.I.
- 69 Special Guests: Julie Phillips and Dorothy Allison (Reading)
- 70 Sexism: A Spotter's Guide <—>
- 71 YA Fantasy
- 72 Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood as Speculative Fiction / The Scientific Horror of Addiction in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling
- 73 Making Good Books
- 74 A Conversation on Feminism and Japan <—>
- 75 Take Things Apart!
- 76 Tiptree Bake Sale
- 77 SM in Feminist Science Fiction
- 78 Liking Your Life in an Unlikeable World: Personal Energy for Political Work
- 79 Everything I Needed to Know About Feminism I Learned From YA
- 80 Lady Poetesses From Hell
- 81 The Sensuality of Writing and Writing Sensuality
- 82 Cultural Appropriation Revisited Part One (T) <—>
- 83 Wicked!
- 84 The Ten-Foot Shelf Of Perdition: Books to Avoid
- 85 Can Technology Be The Answer?
- 86 General Reading Group
- 87 Feminism and the Problem of Gender for the Source, Voice, and Identity of the Woman Who Writes/Feminist and Science Fictional Resources for the Cultural Critic of Technoscience
- 88 The Japanese Sense of Gender
- 89 Outsourcing and the Auxiliary Brain <—>
- 90 Endicott Studio Living Room
- 91 Call and Response readings
- 92 Around the Writer’s Block <—>
- 93 Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading
- 94 Feminist SF Wiki Workshop
- 95 Judging the Tiptree Award
- 96 Cultural Appropriation Revisited Part Two: Facilitated Discussion (»)
- 97 Sarcasm and Superheroics: Feminism in the Mainstream Comics Industry
- 98 GOH Mutual Interview: Laurie Marks Interviews Kelly Link/Kelly Link Interviews Laurie Marks
- 99 Outreach to Non-Readers
- 100 Fantastical Girls in Fantastical Worlds readings
- 101 Playing for Self-Esteem: How Video Games Represent Females And Affect Female Self-Esteem/Idealizing Fantasy Bodies in Video Games <—>
- 102 Staged Reading Rehearsal
- 103 Real World Magic and Speculative Fiction
- 104 SF Swim
- 105 Putting the "D" in InterDisciplinary <—>
- 106 Rocking the Good Boat Utopia <—>
- 107 SF&F — Revolutionary or Conservative?
- 108 Tiptree Auction <—>
- 109 Let's Do the Time Warp Again
- 110 The Tragedy of Change <—>
- 111 Feminism and Fantasy Art
- 112 Last of the Michigan Clarionites
- 113 Bodies/Politics: Disability, Addiction, and Larger-than-life Women in Laurie Marks’s Elemental Logic/Kelly Link Is Haunting Me—Who Is Haunting Kelly Link?
- 114 Making War on "War"
- 115 Lightning Write
- 116 Tales of the Unanticipated Party
- 117 Haiku Earring Party
- 118 Tor party
- 119 Scribe Agency/Farrago's Wainscot/Wheatland Press Release Party
- 120 Water Logic Book Launch/Small Beer Press Party
- 121 SF Films of 2006: The Year the Critters Ran Wild
- 122 Unfair to Middle-Class White Guys!
- 123 Fay Goddesses and Little Deaths
- 124 Criticism: Beyond Slamming And Mythologizing (T) <—>
- 125 When Good Books Happen to Bad People <—>
- 126 The Privilege of the Sword, Denied: Pacification in History) (T coming)
- 127 There Be Dragons!
- 128 General Reading Group 2
Sunday 5/27
- 129 What the Shadow Knows About SF&F <—>
- 130 The New Atheism: Hope of the Future or Throwin' Gas on the Fire?
- 131 Doing Your Homework: Where Do You Find the Good Stuff On the Web?
- 132 Transsexuality as Trope (T) <—>
- 133 Carl Brandon Society Update
- 134 The Allure of the Unreconstructed Stereotype <—>
- 135 What These People Need Is A Honky
- 136 Can This Genre Be Saved?
- 137 The Feminist (and other) Appeal of Laurie Marks' Fiction
- 138 The President Wears Prada; or Women: The Dark Side
- 139 Bond, Butner, Rowe, Nakashima-Brown LLC
- 140 Baba Yaga Abroad/A Postcolonial “Borders View” of Geoff Ryman’s Air
- 141 Take a Ride Across Dark Energy into the Fantastic
- 142 The Object In the Story, the Story In the Object <—>
- 143 Let's You And Her Fight <—>
- 144 Circulation Reboot: Basic Bellydance Moves
- 145 Romance of the Revolution (T) <—>
- 146 Male Allies
- 147 GOH Reading: Kelly Link
- 148 Colonialism...In...Space! <—>
- 149 Mixed-Race Characters in Speculative Fiction
- 150 The X-Women
- 151 Sparkly Boys and Tough Girls: Raising Children Outside of the Gender Binary
- 152 The Transformative Power of Baba Yaga and the Armless Maiden
- 153 Supersonic Stories
- 154 Destroying the Illusion of Traditional Gender Roles in Joanna Russ’ The Female Man / Weird Worlds, Warrior Women: The Cyberfeminists of Joanna Russ and William Gibson
- 155 The Role of Women and People of Color in Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis
- 156 Adventures in Peacemaking <—>
- 157 Domestic Fantasy <—>
- 158 TBA Kids Programming
- 159 A Room Of Your Own
- 160 The Many Answers to Fermi's Paradox
- 161 So What Is The Plunkett, Anyway?
- 162 The Pre-Pregnancy Program
- 163 SF&F on TV This Season
- 164 Battlestar Galactica: The Debate <—>
- 165 Writing About War
- 166 Little Girls on the Hero's Journey
- 167 That's Not Scary Anymore
- 168 What Do Writers Owe Their Readers?
- 169 This is Not Your Mother's Childhood
- 170 The Author's Blog: Does It Help? Does It Hurt?
- 171 These Kids Tomorrow
- 172 The Human Genome
- 173 Just How Smart Are Animals, Anyway? <—>
- 174 TBA Kids Programming
- 175, 191 Strange Horizons Tea Party
- 176 Mad Scientist Japanese Tea Party Parties <—>
- 177 Speculative Fiction Theatre
- 178 Fun Home <—>
- 179 John M. Ford: In Memoriam <—>
- 180 "Overnight" Success and the Experienced Writer
- 181 Feminism, Submission and Loving-Kindness <—>
- 182 SF & The Escape From The Body
- 183 How To Do Good Work in High Fantasy <—>
- 184 Love, Marriage, and Feminist Pair-Bonding
- 185 Desire and Disappearances
- 186 Inherited Traits: Race, Gender, and Intertextuality in Heroes
- 187 Writing Violence
- 188 Third Culture Kids
- 189 Welcome Back to Riverside!
- 190 SF Swim
- 192 Updates on Decluttering
- 193 Dessert Salon
- 194 GoH Speeches and Awards Ceremony
- 195 Sunday Night Fancy Dress Party
- 196 Diversicon Party
- 197 LiveJournal Party
- 198 The Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts
- 199 Doctor Who & Torchwood
- 200 Wyrdsmiths Party <—>
- 201 Fantasy Films of 2006: The Year the Critters Ran Wild
- 202 What If You Don't Want to Have Children?
- 203 Words Like Icebergs <—>
- 204 Staged Reading Performance: Juvenilia
- 205 Sailing Strange Winds: Heave To and Prepare to be Boarded!
- 206 Writing as Spiritual Practice
- 207 Glorifying Terrorism Readings
Monday 5/28
- 208 Workshop: Morning Taekwondo
- 209 InterFictions Anthology Reading
- 210 The Future of Feminism <—>
- 211 Teaching SF&F
- 212 Boy Books? Girl Books?
- 213 But The Master Has A Black & Decker Cordless Drill
- 214 Farthing Magazine/Nights at the Gauntlet Readings
- 215 “Wait and See What I Become”: Gender and Performativity in James Robinson’s Starman/The Woman's Superpower: Ghosts, Empaths, and Psychics in Contemporary American Prime-Time Television
- 216 How Dense Can We Get? Options for Making a Better Future
- 217 The Religious Left Takes to the Streets
- 218 Board and Card Games Kids Programming
- 219 The Crutch of Religion in Moral Behavior <—>
- 220 Charting Interstitiality: Choosing stories for InterFictions Solo Presentations•634• Monday, 10:00-11:15 a.m. Delia Sherman
- 221 The SignOut
- 222 Post–Mortem
- 223 Mid Career Writers Gathering Solo Presentations•Senate A• Monday, 1:00-2:15 p.m. Pat Murphy
- 224 OddCon/Dead Cow Party