WisCon 31 schedule
WisCon 31 Program Schedule
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
- 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
- 66 Why Is the Universe So Damn White?
- 67 Three Comrades Go On A Quest....
- 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
- 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
- 125 When Good Books Happen to Bad People
- 126 The Privilege of the Sword, Denied: Pacification in History)
- 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
- 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
- 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•611• Monday, 10:00-11:15 a.m.
- 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 Events•Wis/Cap• Monday, 11:30am-12:45pm Come and sign your works, come and get things signed, come and hang out and wind down before you leave. Alma Alexander, Charlie Anders, Elizabeth Bear, Steve Berman, Gary A. Braunbeck, Lori Devoti, L. Timmel Duchamp, Carol Emshwiller, Kelley Eskridge, Alicia Ellen Goranson, Nicola Griffith, Andrea D. Hairston, Rosemary Kirstein, Ellen Klages, Naomi Kritzer, Ellen Kushner, Kelly D. Link, Kimberley Long-Ewing, Will Ludwigsen, Laurie J. Marks, Sarah Monette, Nancy Jane Moore, Pat Murphy, Annalee Newitz, Nnedi Nkemdili Okorafor-Mbahu, Susan Palwick, M. Rickert, James P. Roberts, Benjamin Micah Rosenbaum, Patrick James Rothfuss, Rebecca K. Rowe, Melissa Scott, Kristine Smith, Lucy A. Snyder, Midori M. Snyder, Kassandra Grace Sojourner, Catherynne M. Valente, Kerrigan Valentine, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Élisabeth Vonarburg, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Terri Windling
- 222 Post–Mortem Events•Assembly• Monday, 1:00-2:15 p.m. The last panel of WisCon is your opportunity to let us know how things went for you. Committee members who are still able to walk will answer your questions and listen to your suggestions.
- 223 Mid Career Writers Gathering Solo Presentations•Senate A• Monday, 1:00-2:15 p.m. Pat Murphy
- 224 OddCon/Dead Cow Party Parties•629• Monday, 3:00 p.m.- 3:00 a.m.