CRSF 2013 Provisional Schedule

Below is the provisional schedule for CRSF 2013, including paper titles. It is worth stressing that this schedule is subject to change, a finalised version will be circulated in hard copy to delegates at the conference.

This year's conference is due to be held on Monday 17th June at the University of Liverpool's Mathematical Sciences Building (206 on the University's campus map).

If you wish to attend as a non-presenting delegate then you need to pay the £30 conference fee. To do so please visit the Univeristy of Liverpool School of English online shop: http://payments.liv.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=53&modid=1&compid=1

Refreshments and lunch are included in this cost.


See you in June!

9:00 - 9:30	Registration and Refreshments    Mathematical Sciences Building Reception
9:30 -10:30	Keynote Lecture #1: Dr. Peter Wright          Room 029
10:30 -12:00	Fans & Fandom Room 029 • Kerry McAuliffe • Kasi Paterson • Mark R. Adams	The Urban Room 103 • Felicia Buciu • Amy Butt • Adam Welstead	Undead Icons Room 104 •  Beverley Dear •  Jennifer Harwood-Smith •  Michelle Yost	Linguistics Room 105 • Mateusz Marecki • Amanda Dillon • Lykara Ryder
12:00 -13:00	Horror Cinema Room 029 • Patrick Bingham • Valerio De Simone	Anthropology and Travel Room 103 • Giulia Iannuzzi • Alun Williams	[Room Vacant]	[Room Vacant]
13:00 -13:45	Lunch           Mathematical Sciences Building Reception
13:45 -14:45	Keynote Lecture #2: Pat Cadigan         Room 029
14:45 -16:15	Environment Room 029 • Sandra Mänty • Katherine Buse • Chris Pak	Gibson and Cyber-Culture Room 103 • Papori Rani Barooah • Grace Halden • Anna McFarlane	Liminal Fantasy Room 104 • Carolyn Ellam • Audrey Taylor • Leimar Garcia-Siino	Alternative Media Room 105 • Jacob Murphy • Artem Zubov • Andrew Cooper
16:15 -16:30	Refreshment Break          Mathematical Sciences Building Reception
16:30 -18:00	Television Room 029 • Marie Lottman • Laura Osur • Eve Bennett	Atwood and Shelley Room 103 • Miriam Rune • Ayan Mitra • Lucas Alexander Boulding	Post-Catastrophic Room 104 • Claire Browne • Arthur Newman • Zosia Kuczynska	Other Horror Room 105 • Vitor Cei • David McWilliam
18.00 -19.00	Post-Conference Wine Reception        Mathematical Sciences Building Reception

9.00 – 9.30      Registration and Refreshments

                                    Mathematical Sciences Building Reception

9.30 – 10.30    Keynote Lecture #1: Dr. Peter Wright

                                    Room 029

10.30 – 12.00  Panel 1.1: Fans & Fandom

                                    Room 029

• Kerry McAuliffe, Fandom in Ficton and “The Family Business”: Fan Participation and Reformation in the Narratives of Supernatural.

• Kasi Patterson, Silhouettes from Popular Culture.

• Mark Richard Adams, Lunatics Running the Asylum: Exploring the Influence of Fandom and Fan-Producers on the Narrative Worlds of Doctor Who.

Panel 1.2: The Urban

            Room 103

• Felicia Buciu, Anger and Abulia: Two Faces of Collective Anxiety in Selected English and Italian Dystopian Fiction.

• Amy Butt, The Tower City.

• Adam Welstead, Dystopia and the “Crowd” in 21^st Century British Writing.

Panel 1.3: Undead Icons

            Room 104

• Beverley Dear, From Coffin to Couch: Fin-de-Siècle Anxieties and the Rise of the Psychological Vampire.

• Jennifer Harwood-Smith, The Death of the Mind: The True Fear at the Heart of the Zombie Narrative.

• Michelle Yost, Preparing for Horror: the Zombie Survival Market.

Panel 1.4: Linguistics

            Room 105

• Mateusz Marecki, From the Real to the Fantastic to the Scientific: Double Reading in Joan Slonczewski’s Brain Plague.

• Amanda Dillon, Worlds out of Words: World-Building and Metafiction in Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘Feeling at Home with the Hennebet’ and ‘The Language of the Nna Mmoy’.

• Lykara Ryder, Not All Conlang Material is Written in a Conlang.

12.00 – 13.00  Panel 2.1: Horror Cinema

                                    Room 029

                        • Patrick Bingham, ‘Shaky Cam’: The ‘Nauseating’ Genre.

• Valerio De Simone, Slasher Movies and Feminism.

 

Panel 2.2: Anthropology and Travel

                                    Room 103

•Giulia Iannuzzi, Italy on Mars, Italian SF Between Space Travel and Hallucination

•Alun Williams, Anthropology & the Fantastic: Magic, Rationality & Fetish

13.00 – 13.45  Lunch

                                    Mathematical Sciences Building Reception

13.45 – 14.45  Keynote Lecture #2: Pat Cadigan

                                    Room 029

14.45 – 16.15  Panel 3.1: The Environment

                                    Room 029

                        • Sandra Mänty, Umwelt and its Application in Literary Analysis.

• Katherine Buse, Heat Maps: American SF, Global Warming, and the Shape of History in the 1990s.

• Chris Pak, ‘The Goal of Martian Economics is not Sustainable Development but a Sustainable Prosperity for the Entire Biosphere’: Science Fiction and the Sustainability Debate.

                        Panel 3.2: Gibson and Cyber-Culture

                                    Room 103

• Papori Rani Barooah, Recrafting Human Bodies: Metamorphosis of Human into the Cyborg in William Gibson’s Neuromancer.

• Grace Halden, The Technologically Rapine: Science Fiction and Technology During the 1980s With Specific Reference to William Gibson’s Neuromancer.

• Anna McFarlane, Gestalt Perception in William Gibson: ‘Fractals’ and Pattern Recognition.

                        Panel 3.3: Liminal Fantasy

                                    Room 104

• Carolyn Ellam, “Falling Between Categories”: Realism and Fantasy in Looking for Eric (Ken Loach, 2009).

• Audrey Taylor, The Formulation of ‘Active Time’ in Fantasy Literature.

• Leimar Garcia-Siino, Exploring Gaiman: The Colourless Worlds of Coraline and The Graveyard Book.

 Part 3.4: Alternative Media

            Room 105

• Jacob Murphy, ‘Always “We Had No Choice”’: An Exploration of Freedom and Unfreedom in the Final Fantasy X saga.

• Artem Zubov, ‘A Russian Gernsback’: Yakov Perelman and “Scientific Imagination”.

• Andrew Cooper, Smallville: From Print to Screen and Back Again.

 

16.15 – 16.30  Refreshment Break

                                    Mathematical Sciences Building Reception

16.30 – 18.00  Panel 4.1: Television

                                    Room 029

• Marie Lottman, Ambiguous Objects in 1970s SF Set Design: “Raumpatrouille Orion”.

• Laura Osur, The Aesthetics of Countervisuality: 21^st Century Dystopian Science Fiction Television.

• Eve Bennett, The Mad Doll in the Attic: Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse as Female Gothic for the Neoliberal Era.

                        Panel 4.2: Atwood and Shelley

                                    Room 103

• Miriam Rune, ‘Seeing Gestalt’: Genre Expectations and How Perspectives Further the Transhumanism Debate in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx Crake.

• Ayan Mitra, Frankenstein: Deconstructing the Myth of Humanity and Monstrosity in Close Relation to Manichean Ethics.

• Lucas Alexander Boulding, Mrs Brown Among The Crakers: Character and Virtue in Speculative Fiction.

Panel 4.3: Post-Catastrophic

                                    Room 104

• Claire Browne, Worse Games to Play: Death, Hope and Trauma in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy.

• Zosia Kuczynska, A Short Suite on the Theme of Post-Catastrophic Space-Time 1: ‘Total Event Collapse’: Post-Catastrophic Space-Time and its Place in Speculative Fiction.

• Arthur Newman, A Short Suite on the Theme of Post-Catastrophic Space-Time 2: ‘An Argument in Time’: Iron Council as Post-Catastrophic Novel.

Panel 4.4: Other Horrors

                                    Room 105

• Vitor Cei, New Neon: Aleister Crowley and Raul Seixas on Thelma and Counterculture.

• David McWilliam, ‘Beyond the Mountains of Madness’: Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror and Posthuman Creationism in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.

18.00 – 19.00  Post-Conference Wine Reception

                                    Mathematical Sciences Building Reception