Conference Schedule 2011

Here is the schedule for CRSF 2011. It should be stressed that this is a draft schedule and may not reflect the content on the day of the conference. It  is, however, accurate as things stand.

CRSF 2011 - 18th June 2011 - The Rendall Building, The University of Liverpool

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9.00-9.30  Registration, with refreshments. Foyer.
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9.30-10.30 Keynote Lecture #1: 
Mr. Andy Sawyer (Science Fiction Foundation Collection Librarian; Director of MA in Science Fiction Studies, University of Liverpool): "The Strange Case of the Science Fiction Short Story", Theatre 2.
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10.30-12.00 First Round of Parallel Panels.

Panel 1.1: History and Historicism, Theatre 2.
Chair: Erica Moore.

Harry Wood: External Threat Masks Internal Fears: British Invasion Literature, 1899-1914.

Elinor Taylor: History Repeating: John Sommerfield's May Day.

Glyn Morgan: Alternate History and Paratextual Instinct.

Panel 1.2: AI and Being (Artificially) Human, SR 124.
Chair: Chris Pak.

Amy Christmas: Augmented Intimacies: The Impact of Technoculture on (Post)Human Relations.

Mark McCleerey: Robots Playing Dress-Up: The Android as Child and Adult in Blade Runner and Teknolust.

Minwen Huang: The Poetical Evolution of Artificial Humans in Science Fiction.

Panel 1.3: Britain and the Universe, SR 125.
Chair: Clare Parody.

Chris Daley: Assessing the Semi-Cosy: John Christopher's The Death of Grass (1956) and the English Disaster Narrative.

Joseph Norman: Singing, Playing, Exploding and Dying: The Culture of "The Culture".

Tom Sykes: From New Worlds to a New World: Tracing the Influence of the New Wave of Science Fiction on Postcolonial Speculative Fiction.

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12.00-13.00 Second Round of Parallel Panels.

Panel 2.1: Rethinking the Vampire, Theatre 2.
Chair: Giulia Sandelewski.

Lucy Arnold: "The children on the night. What music they make": Exploring Vampire, Victim and Infant in John Lindqvist's Let the Right One In.

David Mcwilliam: Dexter as 21st Century Vampire.

Panel 2.2: Media and Medium, SR 124.
Chair: Clare Parody.

David Moran: "Rorschach's Journal": The Construction of Narrative in Watchmen.

Aidan-Paul Canavan: Illustrating a Dream: An Analysis of the Storytelling in Gaiman and Vess's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Panel 2.3: Spaces and Places, SR 125.
Chair: Chris Pak.

Amanda Dillon: The Postmodern Prometheus: Frankenstein Unbound and Possible Narrative Worlds.

Michelle Yost: The Quest for Terra Incognita: Looking for New Land, New Races, New Wealth in the Hollow Earth Narrative.

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13.00-13.45 Buffet Lunch, Foyer.
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13.45-14.45 Keynote Lecture #2:
Professor Adam Roberts (Royal Holloway, University of London): "The Comedian as the Letters SF", Theatre 2.
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14.45-16.15 Third Round of Parallel Panels.

Panel 3.1: Dystopias and Utopias, Theatre 2.
Chair: David McWilliam.

Adam Wood: Synthesising the Synthetic, Realising the Real: The Dialectic of Reality and Illusion in Dystopian Literature.

Emma Filtness: Fay Weldon’s Chalcot Crescent: Ageing, Autonomy, Autobiography and Speculation in a Near-Future Dystopian Britain.

Roger Cotrell: Victims of the Future: Post-war Dystopian Science Fiction in its Context.

Panel 3.2: Language and Languages, SR 124.
Chair: Clare Parody.

Giulia Sandelewski: A Soothing Strangeness: the Role of Fantastical Semantics in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors.

Lykara Ryder: The Ability to Speak Lunarian Is Not a Prerequisite.

Andrew Ferguson: Perils Pinnacled and Parts Impossible: The Necessary Failure of R.A. Lafferty.


Panel 3.3: The Science In Science Fiction, SR 125.
Chair: Glyn Morgan.

Erica Moore: The Myth of Progress in the Fiction of J.G. Ballard and Kurt Vonnegut.

Hallvard Haug: Teleologies of science: the singularity as technological narrative.

Marie Puren: The French science-fiction revival and the faith in a science-based society: Insights from the works by Jean de La Hire (1878-1956). 

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16.15-16.30 Refreshment Break, Foyer.
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16.30-18.00 Fourth Round of Parallel Panels.

Panel 4.1: Psychology and Reality, Theatre 2.
Chair: Andrew Ferguson.

Anna McFarlane: Adam Roberts and Collective Consciousness: The Politics of Psychology.

Matthew Colbeck: ‘A compartmentalised life’: coma, memory and the exilic self in Irvine Welsh’s Marabou Stork Nightmares.

Marcello Maggi: Adolf Wölfli: Testing the boundaries of the real.

Panel 4.2: Animalistic and Alternate Models of Thought, SR 124.
Chair: Minwen Huang.

Jennifer Cox: The Best in Beasts: Animal Healers and Heroes in the Short Stories of Cordwainer Smith.

Sandra Grötsch: The Animalistic Human - Shapeshifters in the Harry Potter-series by J.K. Rowling.

Chris Pak: ‘A Fantastic Reflex of Itself, An Echo, A Symbol, A Myth, A Crazy Dream’:
Gaian Anticipations and Terraforming as Landscaping Nature’s Otherness in Post 1960s Scientific Romance and Solaris.
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Conference Ends.