WisCon 32 schedule

This is the program schedule for WisCon 32 (2008), with links to transcripts, panel reports, and so on.

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Thursday May 22, 2008

• A Room of One's Own Reception

Friday May 23, 2008

• Writers' Workshop
• G is for The Gathering
• 1 Toys: The Other Childhood Fixation We Didn't Leave Behind
• 2 Nordic Trek
• 4 Puzzles, Coloring, Magic the Gathering
• 5 The Hunt is On
• 6 It's Not About Identity
• 7 Mod Squad
• 8 Juvenilia: What We Wrote Before We Were Writers
• 9 Not Enough Octopusses
• 10 Glass slippers come off! 5 new YA writers
• 11 And Now For Something Completely Different
• 12 Opening Ceremonies
• 13 LiveJournal and WisCon
• 14 Not Just Japan: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
• 15 Elves and Dwarves: The Racism Inherent in Fantasy
• 16 Punctuation, Grammar, Usage: Who Needs 'Em?
• 16a Ratbastards' Rabid Karaoke Blast
• 17 Aqueduct Press Writers II
• 18 Narrative Process in SF
• 19 Thinking Ahead: Feminists thinking about possible near and middle futures and feminist responses to them
• 20 Women Writing Speculative Poetry
• 21 Clarion West 25th Anniversary
• 22 Scribe Agency/Electric Velocipede
• 23 Speculative Literature Foundation/Serendib Press
• 24 ThinkGalactic
• 25 Stevenson/Wilce Book Launches
• 26 Lilacs, Laundry Lists and Lycanthropy: The Magic of Everyday Life
• 27 Sexual Politics, Gender and Class in the Universe of C.J. Cherryh's Chanur Series
• 28 The Joy of Fat Sex
• 29 Fanfic and Slash 101
• 30 Sherlock Dracula: The Appeal of the Vampire Detective
• 31 Academics & Fans: Bringing them Together #2
• 32 Silent SF Films of 2007
• 33 Boisterous Basilisks, Bears and a Balcony

Saturday May 24, 2008

• 34 Fantasy Films of 2007: The Year of the Franchise
• 35 Ancient Mythology in Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction
• 36 Balancing Creativity And The Day Job
• 37 Technology and the Environment
• 38 Environmentalism and Spirituality
• 39 Women of Action
• 40 Porn Crushes the Patriarchy!
• 41 Is Reading a Choice that Closes Other Doors?
• 42 Soylent Green or Just Plain Soy?
• 43 Parenting On Other Planets
• 44 Defining God
• 45 Fantastic Groves of Academe
• 46 Guest of Honor Reading: L. Timmel Duchamp
• 47 Scribe Agency Dreamtime Commandos
• 48 Representing Seers/Out of Egypt
• 49 Strong Or Stroppy?: Annoyingly Feisty Female Protagonists
• 50 Carl Brandon Society Update
• 51 Legos and Build a Castle
• 52 Two Heads With But a Single Brain - Collaborators talk about writing together
• 53 Elemental Magic
• 53a Tiptree Bake Sale
• 54 Broad Universe Rapid-Fire Reading
• 55 Historical Research for Fiction Writers
• 56 The Curious Boundaries of YA Fantasy
• 57 Disability in SF and Fantasy Fiction
• 58 Combining Science And Fiction
• 59 Magical Realism: Threat or Menace?
• 60 How I Did It All Wrong And Got Published Anyway
• 61 Good Reads, Chocolate, and Scotch
• 62 Critiquing Maureen McHugh
• 63 Women of Japan
• 64 WisCon 101
• 65 Build a Castle
• 67 Navigating the Id Vortex
• 68 Fat Is Not the Enemy
• 69 League of Substitute Heroes
• 70 Sparkly Boys and Tough Girls, Revisited
• 72 The Rights of Simulacra
• 73 Fairy Tales for a New Generation of Girls
• 74 Here's Where The Story Ends
• 75 Captain Jack's Big Gay Torchwood
• 76 Curses! YA Villains Unite
• 77 Aqueduct Press Writers I
• 78 Creative Futures of Fiction & Politics
• 79 Books You Haven't Heard Of, The People of Color Edition!
• 80 Women and Hard SF
• 81 Kids' Discussion: Harry Potter Book 7
• 82 The Bearded Man, The African, the Witch and the Whore
• 83 Does It Have to Get Boring Before it Gets Good?
• 84 Retrospective Tiptrees
• 85 Fighting the Good Fight with Limited Resources
• 86 The Ship Who Knitted, and Other Side-Effects of Transportational Intelligence
• 87 The "Real City" of Urban Fantasy
• 88 What Can't We Forgive?
• 89 The Slayer's Legacy: Ten Years of the Buffyverse
• 90 Journeys of Self-Discovery
• 91 Sexuality in SF: Art or Social Critique?
• 92 Making Ends Meet
• 93 'Out And Proud' Or 'Not In Front Of The Children?'
• 94 SF Swim
• 95 Red Beans and Rice
• 96 Tiptree Auction
• 97 Fanfic and Slash 201
• 98 Beyond Illustration: The Process of Creating 'Vision'
• 99 Male Feminists: You Don't Get A Cookie
• 100 LGBTQ Fiction: Are we ready for the Mainstream? Are they ready for us?
• 101 Wizards & Shamans
• 102 Avoiding the Environmental Apocalypse
• 103 Prineas/Schwartz Book Launches
• 104 Haiku Earring Party
• 106 Capes and Consoles
• 107 Tor Books
• 108 EDGE Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing and Flying Pen Press
• 109 What If You Don't Want to Have Children? Redux
• 110 Fanfic Rising: The Organization for Transformative Works
• 111 Living in the Castle: The Writing of Shirley Jackson
• 112 Making 'War' on 'War,' Part 2
• 113 What is Fabulist Fiction?

Sunday May 25, 2008

• 114 Is LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy In Trouble?
• 115 Cliché or Trope?
• 116 Phillip Pullman vs. C.S. Lewis: Smackdown!
• 117 Timmi Duchamp's Marq'ssan Cycle
• 118 The Dead Have No Shadow
• 119 Biscuits, Bells, Bravery, and other things that Start with B
• 120 'How to Manage Teh Stupid': White Allies Confronting Racism
• 121 Time To Put Down The Laptop?
• 122 Old Age, Illness and Death in SF/F
• 123 Hot Flashes and Power Surges
• 124 Narrative and Politics
• 125 Why Return a King (or Queen)?
• 126 Terry Pratchett: Bend That Trope Until It Breaks
• 127 When Worlds Collide
• 128 Power, Ethics, & Possibility in Fantastic Ecofeminist Fiction
• 129 Judging the Tiptree
• 130 Can Internet Drama Change The World?
• 131 Take Things Apart
• 132 Transgender Folks Discuss Transgender Books
• 133 Love, Sex and Weirdness
• 134 Inside the Magic Book Machine
• 135 Supporting Our Writers
• 136 The Fictional Is Political — Political SF/F Of Both Sorts
• 137 The Future Of The Book
• 138 Writing Working-Class Characters
• 139 Let's Build a World
• 140 Guest of Honor Reading: Maureen McHugh
• 141 Taboo
• 142 Roleplaying: Gender and Heroism
• 143 Karen Axness Memorial Panel: Women Writers You Never Heard Of
• 144 Philip Pullman: Threat or Menace?
• 145 Start A Mosaic
• 146 Get Out Your Secret Decoder Ring
• 147 Women of The Twilight Zone
• 148 Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades
• 149 Does Written SF Have a Future?
• 150 Being the Heroine of a Romance Novel Doesn't Make Me Weak
• 151 Revealing Your World
• 152 Transformation, Ready or Not
• 153 Publishing, Profit, Agendas, and Ideals: The Eclipse One Cover Debate
• 154 Workshops and Critique Groups
• 155 Dissecting Privilege — Let's Look At The Guts
• 156 Delicate Flowers
• 157 Octavia Butler, SF, and the Political Imagination
• 159 War for Water
• 160 Crochet
• 162 Like Quills upon the Fretful Porcupine
• 163 On The Lifespan Of Genres
• 164 Pansexuality and Polyamory: The New Face of Romance in Fiction?
• 165 The WisCon Scavenger Hunt
• 166 Faux Diversity vs. Actual Diversity
• 167 Publishing: Meritocracy or Social Construct?
• 168 Writing and parenting, and Writing About Parenting
• 169 Violence, Destruction, Degradation, and Catharsis
• 170 Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!: Even Better than Monster Trucks
• 171 Performing Gendered and Genred Identities
• 172 Welcome Back to Riverside
• 173 Some of Us Are Brave: Identity Intersections in an Election Year
• 174 SF Swim
• 174a Strange Horizons Tea Party
• 175 Clarion San Diego 2007
• 176 Dessert Salon
• 177 GoH Speeches
• 178 Trans 101
• 179 OUFISCIPO: Writing SF/F with Arbitrary Constraints
• 180 Martha Jones: Made of Awesome or Disappointing Stereotype?
• 181 The Appropriated Magic User
• 182 Shape-Shifting and Identity
• 183 The Brave New World of Twenty-First Century Publishing
• 184 Greening WisCon
• 185 Fancy Dress Party
• 186 Lethe Press
• 187 Post-Rapture Comic Launch / TheCulturalGutter.com
• 187a LiveJournal Party
• 188 Small Beer Press
• 189 Gaylaxicon
• 190 SF Films of 2007: The Year of the Franchise
• 191 Last time, on Battlestar Galactica...
• 192 Imagination as Resistance
• 193 Gender in Virtual Worlds

Monday May 26, 2008

• 194 How Much Is Too Much?
• 195 Embarrassing Foremothers!
• 196 How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?
• 197 SF on TV This Season
• 198 Feminist SF Cons: Past, Present, Future
• 199 Classic Progressive Books For Children
• 200 Fundraising for Small, Feisty, Paradigm-Shifting Literary Nonprofits
• 201 How To Be A Good Ally—And A Bad One
• 202 On Being an Aging SF Writer
• 203 Powerful Protagonists or Fetish Fantasies: Female Roles in Modern SF Television
• 204 Two-Headed Monsters: A Collaborative Entity
• 205 Tradition & Liberation in the Fantastic
• 206 Apples to Apples & Other Games
• 207 The SignOut
• 208 Clean-up
• 209 WisCon 32 Post-Mortem
• 210 Mid-Career Writer's Gathering
• 211 Dead Dog Party