CRSF 2013 Final Schedule

Barring any last minute problems or issues, the below schedule is representative of how the day will go:

VENUE: The Mathematical Sciences Building, The University of Liverpool.

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 Rydar
12:00 -13:00	Television Room 029 • Marie Lottman • Eve Bennett	Anthropology and Travel Room 103 • Giulia Iannuzzi • Rhys Williams	Margaret Atwood Room 104 • Miriam Rune • Lucas Alexander Boulding	Gibson and Cyber-Culture Room 105 • Grace Halden • Anna McFarlane
13:00 -13:45	Lunch           Mathematical Sciences Building Reception
13:45 -14:45	Keynote Lecture #2: Pat Cadigan         Room 029
14:45 -16:15	Biology and Environment Room 029 • Sandra Mänty • Katherine Buse • Chris Pak	Myriad Horrors Room 103 • Valerio De Simone • Vitor Cei • David McWilliam	Liminal Fantasy Room 104 • Carolyn Ellam • Audrey Taylor • Leimar Garcia-Siino	[Room Vacant]
16:15 -16:30	Refreshment Break          Mathematical Sciences Building Reception
16:30 -18:00	Alternative Media Room 029 • Jacob Murphy • Andrew Cooper • Glyn Morgan	Post-Catastrophic Room 103 • Claire Browne • Arthur Newman • Zosia Kuczynska	[Room Vacant]	[Room Vacant]
18.00 -19.00	Post-Conference Wine Reception                    Mathematical Sciences and Official Conference Group Photo                  Building Reception

Panel 1.1: Fans and Fandom (10:30 – 12:00, Room 029)

• McAuliffe, Kerry – Fandom in Fiction and “The Family Business”: Fan Participation and Reformation in the Narratives of Supernatural
• Paterson, Kasi – “Silhouettes from Popular Culture”
• Adams, Mark Richard – Lunatics Running the Asylum: Exploring the Influence of Fandom and Fan-Producers on the Narrative Worlds of Doctor Who

Panel 1.2: The Urban (10:30 – 12:00, Room 103)

• Buciu, Felicia – Anger and Abulia: Two Faces of Collective Anxiety in Selected English and Italian Dystopian Fiction
• Butt, Amy – The Tower City
• Welstead, Adam – Dystopia and the “Crowd” in 21^st Century British Writing

Panel 1.3: Undead Icons (10:30 – 12:00, Room 104)

• Dear, Beverley – From Coffin to Couch: Fin-de-Siècle Anxieties and the Rise of the Psychological Vampire.
• Harwood-Smith, Jennifer – The Death of the Mind: The True Fear at the Heart of the Zombie Narrative
• Yost, Michelle – Preparing for Horror: the Zombie Survival Market

Panel 1.4: Linguistics (10:30 – 12:00, Room 105)

• Marecki, Mateusz – From the Real to the Fantastic to the Scientific: Double Reading in Joan Slonczewski’s Brain Plague
• Dillon, Amanda – Worlds Out of Words: World-Building and Metafiction in Ursula K. LeGuin’s ‘Feeling at Home With the Hennebet’ and ‘The Language of the Nna Mmoy’
• Ryder, Lykara – Not All Conlang Material is Written in a Conlang

Panel 2.1: Television (12:00 – 13:00, Room 029)

• Lottman, Marie – Ambiguous Objects in 1970s SF Set Design: “Raumpatrouille Orion”
• Bennett, Eve – The Mad Doll in the Attic: Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse as Female Gothic for the Neoliberal Era

Panel 2.2: Anthropology and Travel (12:00 – 13:00, Room 103)

• Iannuzzi, Giulia – Italy on Mars: Italian SF Between Space Travel and Hallucination
• Williams, Rhys – Anthropology & the Fantastic: Magic, Rationality & Fetish

Panel 2.3: Margaret Atwood (16:30 – 18:00, Room 104)

• Rune, Miriam – ‘Seeing Gestalt’: Genre Expectations, and How Perspectives Further the Transhumanism Debate in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake.
• Boulding, Lucas Alexander – Mrs Brown Among The Crakers: Character and Virtue in Speculative Fiction

Panel 2.4: Gibson and Cyberculture (14:45 – 16:15, Room 105)

• Halden, Grace – The Technologically Rapine: Science Fiction and Technology during the 1980s with specific reference to William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984)
• McFarlane, Anna – Gestalt Perception in William Gibson: ‘Fractals’ and Pattern Recognition

Panel 3.1: The Environment (14:45 – 16:15, Room 029)

• Mänty, Sandra – Umwelt and its Application in Literary Analysis
• Buse, Katherine – Heat Maps: American SF, Global Warming, and the Shape of History in the 1990s
• Pak, Chris – ‘The Goal of Martian Economics is not “Sustainable Development” but a Sustainable Prosperity for its Entire Biosphere’: Science Fiction and the Sustainability Debate

Panel 3.2: Myriad Horrors (14:45 – 16:15, Room 103)

• De Simone, Valerio – “Slasher Movies and Feminism”
• Cei, Vitor - New Aeon: Aleister Crowley and Raul Seixas on Thelema and Counterculture
• McWilliam, David – ‘Beyond the Mountains of Madness’: Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror and Posthuman Creationism in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012)

Panel 3.3: Liminal Fantasy (14:45 – 16:15, Room 104)

• Ellam, Carolyn – “Falling Between Categories”: Realism and Fantasy in Looking for Eric (Ken Loach, 2009)
• Taylor, Audrey – The Formulation of ‘Active Time’ in Fantasy Literature
• Garcia-Siino, Leimar – Exploring Gaiman: The Colourless Worlds of Coraline and The Graveyard Book

Panel 4.1: Alternative Media (16:30 – 18:00, Room 029)

• Murphy, Jacob - ‘Always “We Had No Choice”’: An Exploration of Freedom and Unfreedom in the Final Fantasy X Saga.
• Cooper, Andrew – Smallville: From Print to Screen and Back Again.
• Morgan, Glyn – More Than Just Maus: The Holocaust in Comics.

Panel 4.2: Post-Catastrophic (16:30 – 18:00, Room 103)

• Browne, Claire – Worse Games to Play: Death, Hope and Trauma in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy 
• A Short Suite on the Theme of Post-Catastrophic Space-Time:
• Newman, Arthur – ‘An Argument in Time’: Iron Council as Post-Catastrophic Novel.
• Kuczyńska, Zosia – ‘Total Event Collapse’: Post-Catastrophic Space-Time and its Place in Speculative Fiction