WisCon 30

WisCon 30 was held May, 2006, in Madison, Wisconsin.

• multiple reports at the WisCon LiveJournal Community @ http://community.livejournal.com/wiscon/
• con archives at http://wiscon.info/w30.php

*T* -- partial transcript available

Friday May 26

• Curse Words and Other Ways to Tell It's Not a Children's Book (#2, 10-1115am)
• Books You Bounce Off Of (#3, 10-1115am)
• Two Different Species? (#4, 10-1115am)
• Does Hard SF Have to Involve Metal? (#5, 10-1115am)
• Culture Shock! (#12, 1-215pm)
• Feminist SF/F Jeopardy (#13, 1-215pm)
• Láadan vs tlhIngan Hol: Differential Diffusion of Created Languages (#15, 1-215pm) *T*
• Sex and the Believeable Alien (#16, 1-215pm)
• More Wisps from Harry's Wake, Recent Children's Fantasy (#17, 1-215pm)
• Dark Fantasy (#18, 1-215pm)
• Opening Ceremonies (#36, 730-830pm)
• Women's vs. Men's Magic in Fantasy (#38, 845-10pm)
• Pick one! Both/And in an Either/Or World (#39, 845-10pm)
• Trailer Trash and Unrighteous Rebels: Human Beings in Space (#43, 845-10pm)
• What Would a Feminist Think Tank Look Like? (#44, 845-10pm) *T*
• The Karen Axness Panel: Women Authors You Should Be Reading (#45, 845-10pm)
• Feminist Fairy Tales (#53, 1015-1130pm)
• There's Something About Alice: The Life, Fiction, and Fictional Life of James Tiptree, Jr. (#54, 1015-1130pm)
• What does it take to be a bad girl anymore? (#55, 1015-1130pm)
• Fat, Feminism, and Fandom (#57, 1015-1130pm)
• Resurrecting the Spanish Influenza (#58, 1015-1130pm)
• Gender in Gaming (#59, 1015-1130pm) *T*

Saturday May 27

• Wiki Workshop @ WisCon (unscheduled programming, 730-830am)
• Conveying the Post-Human in Humanist Terms (#89, 1-215pm)
• An Agent's Point of View (#90, 1-215pm)
• Myth of Class Mobility? (#91, 1-215pm) *T*
• Food in SF/F (#92, 1-215pm)
• Autism, Asperger's, and Fandom (#93, 1-215pm)
• Jane Yolen as Editor (#95, 1-215pm)
• The Borderlands of Science (#96, 1-215pm)
• Science, Hard Science Fiction, and Women (#104, 230-345pm)
• Animal, Human, Alien (#106, 230-345pm) *T*
• Feminist Fiction Is So Five Minutes Ago (#107, 230-345pm)
• Literary History of Women in Science Fiction (#108, 230-345pm)
• Feminist romance (4-515pm)
• Why Are We All Ignoring Stargate: SG-1? (#128, 4-515 pm)
• Cultural Appropriation & Writing Fantasy Outside Western Tradition (#132, 9-1015pm)
• Who Wants a Revolution? Will a Reform Do? (#134, 9-1015pm) *T*
• The Librarian Hero: Real and Imagined (#151, 1030-1145pm)

Sunday May 28

• Wiki Workshop @ WisCon (7:30am-8:30am in computer lab area)
• Cruise, Flirt, Pick-Up and Other Sexual-Social Strategies (#170, 10-1115am)
• All About the Benjamins (#171, 10-1115am)
• Is Reading Feminist SF a Theory Building Activity? (#173, 10-1115am) *T*
• Fundamentals of Feminism (#175, 10-1115am)
• The Muse Is Never Monogamous (#195, 1-215pm)
• Pushing the Envelope (#189, 1-215pm)
• The Death of the Panel (#203, 230-345pm)
• Science Fiction from the (so-called) Third World (#204, 230-345pm) *T*
• Coming Out (#205, 230-345pm)
• Joanna Russ Interview with Chip Delany (#220, 4-515pm) *T*
• Kate Wilhelm Guest of Honor Speech (#229, 830-10pm) *T*
• Jane Yolen Guest of Honor Speech (#229, 830-10pm) *T*
• Carl Brandon Society Awards Ceremony (2006) (#229, 830-10pm) *T*
• Tiptree Awards Ceremony (2006) (#229, 830-10pm) *T*
• The Wages of Trash (10-1115pm)
• Uncomfortable Politics in Feminist Writing (#242, 11:30pm-12:45am) *T*

Monday May 29

• Wiki Workshop @ WisCon (7:30am-8:30am in computer lab area)
• Military Women: Past, Present, Future (#245, 830-945am) *T*
• Is the US a dictatorship yet? (#246, 10-1115am)
• Finding the Queers: A GLBT Book Slam (#255, 10-1115am) *T*