CRSF 2012 Schedule and Paper Titles

CRSF 2012 is just days away.

This year's conference received an even greater swell of papers and support than last years and we must thank everyone who submitted an abstract as well as those who helped to spread the word and ensure that this year's conference will be bigger, and hopefully better, than last year's.

As you can see below it's a varied and interesting day we've got ahead of us.

If you're interested in attending the conference to see some of these papers please get in touch: crsf.team@gmail.com.

Here's the schedule for the day:

9:00-9:30	Registration and Refreshments             Rendall Building Foyer
9:30-10:30	Keynote Lecture #1: Professor David Seed Lecture Theatre 3
10:30-12:00	Games and Gaming Lecture Theatre 3 Chair: Chris Pak •Christos Callow •Stephen Kenneally •Andrew Ferguson	USA TV Lecture Theatre 2 Chair: Michelle Yost •Eve Bennett •Jennifer Harwood-Smith •Anna McFarlane	Gothic Seminar Room SR124 Chair: David McWilliam •Tuğçe Tümer •Chloe Buckley •Xavier Aldana Reyes	Fantasy Seminar Room SR125 Chair: Elsa Bouet •Leimar Garcia-Siino •Giulia I. Sandelewski
12:00-13:00	Variations in SF Lecture Theatre 3 Chair: Elsa Bouet •Arthur Newman •Glyn Morgan	Critics / Urban Lecture Theatre 2 Chair: Michelle Yost •Ruth McLaughlin •Ruth Doherty	Politics Seminar Room SR124 Chair: Chris Pak •Richard Howard •Marie Lottman	Black SF Seminar Room SR125 Chair: Chloe Buckley •Florian Bast •Jessica Edwards
13:00-13:45	Lunch            Rendall Building Foyer
13:45-14:45	Keynote Lecture #2: Professor Fred Botting Lecture Theatre 3
14:45-16:15	Vampires Lecture Theatre 3 Chair: David McWilliam •Li-Anne Nixon •Donna Mitchell •Özge Erdem	European SF I Lecture Theatre 2 Chair: Michelle Yost •Mariano Martin Rodriguez •Giulia Iannuzzi •Sandra Mänty	Modes of Understanding Seminar Room SR124 Chair: Glyn Morgan •Lykara Ryder •Rhys Williams •Elsa Bouet	Film Seminar Room SR125 Chair: Ruth Doherty •Simon Spiegel •Phil Nichols •Daniel Lukes
16:15-16:30	Refreshments            Rendall Building Foyer
16:30-18:00	Transhuman / AI Lecture Theatre 3 Chair: Chris Pak •Hallvard Haug •Amy Christmas •Caroline Egan	Dr. Who Lecture Theatre 2 Chair: Glyn Morgan •Mark Richard Adams •Katherine Buse •Michelle Yost	Monstrous Seminar Room SR124 Chair: David McWilliam •Hussein Zamani •Clare Wall •Paul Frith	- Room Closed -

And here are the paper titles:

• Richard Adams - "Marketing Doctor Who: Contextualising British Public Service Broadcasting and Commercialisation"  4
• Florian Bast - "“There Was Barely a Recognizable Human Feature Left”: Octavia Butler’s “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” and the Narration of Self in the Face of its Looming Self-Destruction"   5
• Eve Bennett - "Deus Ex Machina: Apocalyptic AI in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"
• Elsa Bouet - Displacing the Real: Simulation, Desires and the Thirteenth Floor 
• Chloe Buckley - "‘Too Gigantic to be Seen, too Horrible to be Understood’: The Weird Monstrous in The Power of Five and Skulduggery Pleasant"  10
• Katherine Buse - "The Special Relationship: Doctor Who on Hollywood and the Decline of ‘Britishness’"  12
• Christos Callow - "Moral Responsibility and Philosophy in a Post-Nuclear World: The Interactive Dystopia of Fallout New Vegas"    13
• Amy Christmas - "A.I.R. – Augmented Intimacies Revisited"  14
• Ruth Doherty - "Explorations of Overpopulation in Late Nineteenth-Century Speculative Fiction"  15
• Jessica Edwards "‘Flesh-Machines>><<Bodies By Design: The Engineering of The Black Womandroid’"   16
• Caroline Egan - "‘As the Sounds of Playgrounds Faded’: The Impact of Sterility on Society in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, P.D James’ Children of Men and Jane Roger’s The Testament of Jessie Lamb"    18
• Özge Erdem - "Violating Borders: Carmilla"   19
• Andrew Ferguson - "Glitches, Narrative Theory, and Final Fantasy VI"    20
• Paul Frith - ""It was Good to Get Out into the Fresh Air After Seeing this Film": Realism, Censorship and the Post-War Horror Film"   21
• Leimar Garcia-Siino - "Metafantasy by Resembling Fantasy: George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones"   22
• Hallvard Haug - "Post-human, post-memory: Mnemotechnics in Charles Stross’ Accelerando"   23
• Jennifer Harwood-Smith - "Frayed Bodies and Minds: Fringe and the Deterioration of Bodily Integrity"   24
• Richard Howard - "‘Estrange Conflict: Fragments of The Irish Troubles in Bob Shaw’s ‘Slow Glass’ Stories’"  25
• Giulia Iannuzzi - "Italian Science Fiction Literature: Magazines and Works from the Fifties to the Seventies, in search of a Critical Citizenship Between Mass Literature and Ghetto" 27
• Stephen Kenneally - "'Roll a Character': The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Tabletop Roleplaying Games"  29
• Marie Lottmann - "The Politics of Science Fiction Television"   30
• Daniel Lukes - "The Artificial Father: Darth Vader and the Patriarchal Prosthetic"   31
• Sandra Mänty - "Does Fiction See the Exit of Anthropocentrism?"   33
• Anna McFarlane - "Deconstructing Lost:  An Argument for Re-Assessment"   34
• Ruth McLaughlin - "Homesick – Architecture and the Domestic Dystopia"    35
• Donna Mitchell - "Strained Sisterhoods: A Critique of Femininity and Female Sexuality in Gothic Literature"   36
• Glyn Morgan - "Investigating Nothing: Trends in the Publication of Alternate Histories of the Second World War"   38
• Arthur Newman - "“Muldoon […] on the other side of the Moon”: Fantastic frontiers in Stephen Baxter's Voyage and Paul Muldoon's 'Madoc: A Mystery'"    39
• Phil Nichols - "Apocalyptic Revisions: Ray Bradbury’s Screenplay Versions of The Martian Chronicles"  40
• Li-Anne Nixon - "Notions of Identity, Reproduction and Colonisation in Vampire Narratives"   41
• Xavier Aldana Reyes - "Whereto the ‘Gothic Experience’?: Contesting the Aesthetic Surface Model through Post-Millennial Body Horror"   43
• Mariano Martín Rodríguez - "Longing for the Empire? Modernist Lost-Race Tale and Dystopian Mode in Spain"
• Lykara Ryder - "The ‘Dazzling Project of Making a Malacandrian Grammar’ in Out of the Silent Planet"   44
• Simon Spiegel - "In Search of the Utopian Film"   45
• Giulia I. Sandelewski - "Courting the Faeries: Dreams of Shakespeare and Marlowe"  48
• Tuğçe Tümer - "Exploring Freud and Gothic in Coral‘I’ne"   50
• Clare Wall - "Monstrous and Alienating Selves in China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station, and Iron Council"  51
• Rhys Williams - "‘Cognition’ Should be a Dirty Word"  52
• Hussein Zamani - "Historical Trace of Monsters in British Literature"