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CoNZealand Schedule

It’ll soon be time for CoNZealand! Come hang out with me in Zoom!

Reading: Alex Acks
NZ Time: 30 Jul 2020, Thursday 11:00 – 11:25, Reading Room 2
Mountain Time: 29 July, Wednesday 17:00 – 17:25

My Favourite Board Game
NZ Time: 30 Jul 2020, Thursday 14:00 – 14:50, Programme Room 5
Mountain Time: 29 July, Wednesday 20:00 – 21:00
Join us as we explore the wonderful world of board games. Our panel of expert gamers will discuss their favorites from the past 10 years. We’ll compare bragging rights, and swap tales of our victories (or defeats). Let’s include our top ten lists.

Ask a Scientist
NZ Time: 31 Jul 2020, Friday 10:00 – 10:50, Programme Room 1
Mountain Time: 30 July, 16:00 – 17:00
Here’s your chance to publically pick the brains of various scientists, including a geologist, a chemist, an astrophysicist and a neuroscience researcher.

Climate Fiction/Climate Fact
NZ Time: 31 Jul 2020, Friday 14:00 – 14:50, Programme Room 1
Mountain Time: 30 July, 20:00 – 21:00
What’s the relationship between fiction about climate change and real-world actions? Does where authors live and work affect their perspective, as they write about climate?

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WorldCon Dublin schedule

Busy busy!

IMPORTANT NOTE! This year I’m actually participating in the WSFS Business Meeting as the timekeeper (god help us) so I’m obviously not going to be able to liveblog the meeting. That said, I’m going to see about having one or two guest bloggers who share my love of pedantry and serpentines take over that task for this year, so stay tuned.

Thursday, August 15

  • Understanding the WSFS Business Meeting (13:30-14:20)

Friday, August 16

  • WSFS Business Meeting (10:00-12:50)
  • Can Fiction Convince People When Facts Can’t? (14:00-14:50) [Wicklow Room-2]
  • Autograph session (16:00-16:50) [Level 4 Foyer] (PLEASE COME SEE ME SO I DON’T DIE IN SAD LONELINESS!)
  • Reading (18:30-18:50) [Liffey Room-3] (PLEASE OH PLEASE I’M SO ALONE)

Saturday, August 17

  • WSFS Business Meeting (10:00-12:50)
  • Beyond Binary (14:00-14:50) [Wicklow Room-1]

Sunday, August 18

  • WSFS Business Meeting (10:00-12:50)
  • Kaffeeklatsch (16:00-16:50) [Level 3 Foyer]
  • HUGO AWARDS CEREMONY!

Monday, August 19

  • Stroll with the Stars (09:00-09:50) [Ground Floor Foyer]
  • WSFS Business Meeting (10:00-12:50)
  • Holy Forking Shirtballs: The Good Place Panel (13:00-13:50) [Wicklow Hall 2B]
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LonCon 3 Schedule

Subject to change, of course. (Why yes, I am sitting around in a hotel room [possibly in my underpants because I forgot to pack pajamas] and catching up on all the shit I should have been doing for the last month. Why do you ask?)

Saturday

  • 16:30 – 18:00 – Just Three Cornettos
    • The Simon Pegg/Nick Frost/Edgar Wright “Cornetto trilogy” concluded last year with The World’s End, following Sean of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. What is the trilogy’s place in British SF? The panel will discuss why the films’ endings are so unconventional, what the trilogy had to say about topics such as society and consumerism, masculinity and maturity, and the British landscape … And they’ll decide which fence gag is best.

Monday

  • 10:00 – 11:00 – Mythology and Folklore in Anime
    • Fantastical anime often have mythical or folkloric entities at their core, Japanese or otherwise: the demons of Inu Yasha, the many retellings of Journey to the West, the dragons of Spirited Away. Which tropes and stories seem to crop up most often? Which creators are most creative in their use of mythological and folkloric elements?
  • 13:30 – 15:00 – Tapped Out – from Magic to Netrunner
    • Discussing some of the best things about card games, past and present!
  • 15:00 – 16:30 – The Scientific Culture
    • Is there a scientific culture? The success of The Big Bang Theory, XKCD and PhD Comics suggest that there is, but if so, what is scientific culture? What values and attitudes can there be in common between fields as diverse as biology and cosmology? What experiences and views are shared by scientists across such disparate fields, and why are they different from the experience and views of non-scientists? Is this important, and should SF writers and fans be taking notes?

 

 

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DetCon1 Schedule

At least the schedule… so far!

Friday

  • 6:00 PM – Anti-Science Sentiment in the US – Mackinac West
    • Anti-Science sentiment seems to be on the rise in the USA. Why? What is going on, and what can we do to reverse this unsettling situation?

Saturday

  • 2:00 PM – Women in Science and STEM – Mackinac West
    • What are the unique challenges for women in STEM fields, how can they be addressed, how can we get more women interested in these fields, what can you do to prepare?
  • 3:00 PM – Welcome to Night Vale: You Should Know About It – Mackinac East
    • Turn on your radio and hide. Our panelists share their love for Welcome to Night Vale, the viral podcast drama that combines surreal humor, human relationships, and weird creeping horror into a delightful community radio show. If you know Night Vale, come. If you don’t know Night Vale, come and bring your friends. There will be no hooded figures.
  • 4:00 PM – Women in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – Nicolet A
    • The Marvel Cinematic Universe and its associated television titles are full of highly competent, talented women that move in a world of men. Women regularly save the day, from Black Widow in Avengers to Pepper Potts in the Iron Man franchise. How does Marvel excel at putting women on screen in superhero movies? Where could they show improvement? Panelists will discuss issues of presentation, diversity, and cultural expectations as they examine the many marvelous women of the MCU.

Sunday

  • 11:00 AM – Reading – Joliet A
  • 12:00 PM – Fat, Feminism, and Fandom Revisited – Mackinac East
    • How have things changed since fannish feminists and fat activists first started this panel series? What did it accomplish, within fandom and outside of it?