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The Academic Track
The Science Fiction Foundation Academic Track at the 2005 Worldcon will
focus on the Matter of Britain. This is your chance to hear about Arthur, and John Dee, about
Britain's Empire and what that Empire thinks of Britain. There are
panels and papers on children's fiction, with special guests Janet
McNaughton (from Canada) and Julie Bertagna (a local Scottish writer).
John Clute and Gary K. Wolfe have a conversation. The
track opens with visions of suburbia, and closes with a plenary
session in which authors Stephen Baxter and Steph Swainston talk about
the British landscape.
The call for papers is now closed, but any other queries may be sent to:
academic-prog@interaction.worldcon.org.uk.
The final programme for the Academic Track is as follows. 
| Time | Friday 5th | Saturday 6th |
Sunday 7th |
10 a.m. -
11 a.m. |
The Future Around the Corner
(Mike Cosgrave, M)
Paul Billinger: Near Future Visions
Dr. Nick Hubble (Kingston University): Future Memories of the Suburbs
Andy Sawyer (Liverpool University): 2000 AD |
The View From Over There
(Maureen Kincaid Speller, M)
Allan Weiss (York University): The Image of the British Empire in Early Canadian Science Fiction
Michelle Reid: Post-Colonial SF. |
Stretching the View
(Edward James, M)
Knud Larn: Hans Christian Anderson
Andrew May: Parsifal as proto-S
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11 a.m. -
12 noon |
Visions of a Small Island
(Paul Kincaid, M)
John Garrison: Oxford and Cambridge
Neil Hook: Wales
Jeana Jorgensen (Indiana University): Anime View of Britain |
The Sf Britain Doesn’t See
(Andrew May, M)
Alan Le Bussy: French SF and Fandom
Jim Walker (Independent Scholar): Urdu SF
Dale Knickerbocker: Javier Negrete |
Myth, History and Fantasy
(Christine Mains, M)
Tania Scott (UCD): Pegana and Ireland: The Fantastic Realms of
Lord Dunsany
Dr. Mike Cosgrave (University College, Cork): The Unionist Mistake? Home Rule and Empire: 1886-1930
Michael Johnson (Buffalo State College): What's the bear doing in C.S. Lewis'
That Hideous Strength? |
12 noon -
1 p.m. |
It’s How You Say It
(Andy Sawyer, M)
Dianne Newell: Judith Merril in Japan
Amelia Beamer: Genre Evolution
R. J. Cheyne (Royal Holloway): Alien Languages in Science Fiction |
The Down Sides of Fantasy
(Veronica Schanoes, M)
Christine Mains (Univ Calgary): Adultery: Sin/Crime in Arthurian Fantasy
Cecilia Dart Thornton: British Folklore
Dr. Kim Selling: Fairy Lands Forlorn |
Old Masters and New Voices
(Veronica Schanoes, M)
Sandra Singer: So Long Been Dreaming
Geetha B. (Birla Institute of Science and Technology):
Thematic Concerns in Arthur C. Clarke |
1 p.m. -
2 p.m. |
Fantasy for Children
(Fatima Ahad, M)
Irma Hirsjarvi (Jyväskylä University): Young People Reading Fantasy
Stefan Ekman: Susan Cooper
Jessica Yates: Catherine Fisher and Annie Dalton, contemporary UK fantasy writers |
The Matter of Britain Revisited
(Naomi Novik, M)
Alice Jenkins: Returning Kings
Elizabeth Lloyd-Kimbrel (Mt. Holyoke): Come Again? Considering Bryher's
VISA FOR AVALON
Steve Sneyd: The Goodbye Nights |
Geography, Landscape and Nature
(Tony Keen, M)
Noga Applebaum: Only God Can Make a Tree
Elizabeth Billinger: Not Waving But Drowning
Maureen Kincaid Speller (University of Kent at Canterbury): Landscape and
Presence in the Novels of Allan Garner |
2 p.m. -
3.30 p.m. |
Discussion Panel: The Second Golden Age of Children’s Fantasy (1970-1990)
Charles Butler (M), Francis Spufford, Stefan Ekman, Maureen Kincaid Speller,
Janet McNaughton, Conor Kostick |
John Clute and Gary K. Wolfe in Conversation |
Discussion Panel: Science Fiction and Other Archives
Andy Sawyer (M), Amy Sissons, Dianne Newell, Dana Hayward, Mary Hemmings |
3.30 p.m. -
5 p.m. |
Questioning Camelot
(Edward James, M)
Dr. Kari Maund (Independent): The Myths of Avalon: Celtic realities and Arthurian fantasies
Faye Ringel (United States Coast Guard Academy): When Knighthood Was in Flour |
Art, Media and Speculative Fiction
(Sydney Duncan, M)
Dr. Gail-Nina Anderson (University of Sunderland): Arthurian Subjects in Victorian Art
Tony Keen: Cartagia in Babylon 5 and his historical antecedents
Sue Short: The British Dystopian Imagination |
The Making Of Britain
(Farah Mendkesohn, M)
Steph Swainston (Author): The North-South Divide in Fiction
Stephen Baxter (Author): The Industrial Landscape of Great Britain and British Sf |
5 p.m. -
6 p.m. |
Breadth of Character
(Faye Ringel, M)
Dr. Sylvia Kelso (James Cook University): The
Green Knight's Progeny: Medieval and Modern Romance(s).
Peter G. Christensen: John Dee
Albrecht Fritsche: James Bond |
Ideas, Fiction and Reality
(Nick Hubble, M)
Paul Kincaid: The Separation
Aliv C. Kibel: A Function for Thought Experiments
Joan Gordon: Six Moon Dance. |
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