Wiscon is May 27-30 in Madison, WI. I'm working on a presentation on Cherryh & alterity ethics; my paper would pair well with work on:
- SF writers who deal with interspecies contact & communication, like Cherryh.
- Philosophy/psychology/sociology of "the other"--I'm touching mainly on Levinas, but there are many others that would resonate.
- Discussions of reality, virtual reality, or hyper-reality in SF/F
- The use of art, artistic creation, and aesthetics within SF/F works
- Wiscon welcomes discussions of gender, sexuality, race, class, and disability, as well as any work on this year's Guests of Honor: Sofia Samatar, Nalo Hopkinson, and Justine Larbelestier.
- Michael Swanwick (a guest of honor this year).
- Meta-fiction, framing, and other narrative techniques.
- Genre construction and deconstruction, particularly "mixed genre" (like the New Weird etc.) or "anti-fantasy".
- Detective, private eye, or procedural stories or tropes
- "Real Magic" (illusion etc., or confidence games, as opposed to the supernatural) in Science Fiction & Fantasy
- I'm not making more than an offhand reference to his work, but I feel like any discussion of David Mitchell would pair well with this.
If you have any interest whatsoever in putting together a 15ish minute paper on these topics, contact me. You can also get ahold of me on Facebook & Twitter. If you're already planning on doing a paper for either of these conferences and trying to form a panel yourself, I'd be happy to signal-boost.
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