WisCon 31 schedule

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? (T) <—>
• 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)
• 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 (T)
• 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 <—> (T)
• 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! (T)
• 190 SF Swim
• 192 Updates on Decluttering
• 193 Dessert Salon
• 194 GoH Speeches and Awards Ceremony
  • Tiptree Song 2007 <—>
• 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
• 221 The SignOut
• 222 Post–Mortem
• 223 Mid Career Writers Gathering
• 224 OddCon/Dead Cow Party