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*