Tuesday, September 21, 2010

AussieCon 4 part two

I finally have a minute to continue my AussieCon 4 adventures:

Saturday 10am: Girl meets boy meets dragon: romance in fantasy
11am: Capes and skirts: The plight of the female superhero
12am: Lunch
1pm: Fringe: paranormal investigations in SF television
2pm: Kim Stanley Robinson guest of honour speech
3pm: Dealer's room
4pm: "Just a minute" gameshow
5pm: Love hurts: Young adult paranormal romance


Sunday 10am: Academic track: Adam Brown on Bladerunner
11am: Academic track: Andrew Cameron on astrology and astronomy
12am: Academic track: Weibke Eikholt on anthropomorphism in SF
1pm: Has hollywood sucked the vampire dry?
2pm: Academic track: Guy Mickelthwait on modes of time travel
"Science Fiction: The Language of Bioethics Philosophy" by ME!!
3pm: Academic track: Gilbert Hottois on philosophy in SF
Anita Harris Satkunananthan on postcolonialism in SF
4pm: Academic track: Deb Watson on paranormal romance
5pm: Build a lego Dalek (although we skipped out early to get some autographs)
6pm: Dinner
8pm: Hugo awards ceremony

Monday 10am: Bioethics of terraforming
Academic track: Rebecca-Anne Do Rozorio on fairytale in Dr Who
11am: Dealer's room
12am: Academic track: Jeff Harris on popular culture
"Adrift: the Generation Starship in science fiction" by Zachary Kendal
1pm: Lunch
2pm: Vampire and Zombie smackdown
3pm: Caught in the slipstream: fiction between genres
4pm: Closing ceremony

Here are some of my pictures from these days:
This is me taking questions at the end of my talk...
This is me stalking Shaun Tan for autographs!
This is my husband and I with John Clute whom we met at the Utopias conference before AussieCon.

That's it for now!

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