When It Changed: Women in SF/F since 1972
This is the programme schedule of the SFF 2022 conference in partnership with the University of Glasgow's Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic and the Games and Gaming Lab. All times given are GMT UK. If you would like to attend, you can purchase tickets via Ticket Tailor at:
https://buytickets.at/thesciencefictionfoundation/741815
Both the pre- and post-conference activities are free to attend on purchase of a ticket. All enquiries can be sent to the conference organizers: Paul March-Russell (paulmarchrussell@gmail.com) and Kathryn Heffner (kh543@kent.ac.uk).
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Friday, 2 December
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18.20 Introduction (Paul March-Russell and Katie Heffner)
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18.30 Keynote 1 – Lisa Yaszek (Georgia Institute of Technology): ‘A Brief History of Gender and Genre in the
SF Anthology’
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19.30 BREAK
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19.40 Panel: The Work of Vonda McIntyre (chair: Una McCormack)
Panellists: Nicola Griffith, Kate Macdonald, Nisi Shawl
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20.50 CLOSE
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Saturday, 3 December
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10.30 Introduction (Paul March-Russell)
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10.45 Panel 1: Singularities
Nick Hubble (Brunel): ‘Are you sure you can tell the difference between something dying and
something being born?'
Jonathan Thornton (Liverpool): ‘Posthuman Embodiment in Gwyneth Jones’ Aleutian Trilogy’
Sarah Lohmann (Tubingen): ‘Unworlding and Ecogothic Estrangement in Le Guin and Darcie Little
Badger’
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Panel 2: Motherhood and the Environment
Abi Curtis & Liesl King (York St John): ‘Speculative Fiction and Women's Writing’
Paul Mitchell & Emilio Ramon Garcia (Universidad Católica de Valencia San Mártir): ‘Sex-Gender
Identity, Motherhood and Nonhuman Alterity in the SF of Elia Barcelo’
Beth Aherne (University College Cork): ‘The Family and Environmental Decline in Parable of the Sower’
12.00 BREAK
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12.15 Keynote 2 - Cheryl Morgan (Independent): 'Something in the Air?'
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13.20 LUNCH
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14.00 Panel 3: Temporalities
Andrew M. Butler (Canterbury Christ Church): ‘Ecstatic Draughts: Ellen Gallagher’s Aquatopia’
Rachel C. Pittman (University of North Carolina Wilmington): ‘Making Mr Right’s Ironic Nostalgia as
Feminist Retrofuturism’
Beatriz Hermida Ramos (Universidad de Salamanca): ‘Narrating Sapphic Futures in This is How to
Lose the Time War’
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Panel 4: Cyborg Identities
Tristan Sheridan (Florida State University): ‘Reading Transness in Autonomous’
Laura Larrodera Arcega (University of Zaragoza): ‘Bot Narratives of Gender Transformation and
Transgression in Autonomous’
Agnieszka Podruczna (University of Silesia): ‘Re-Visioning the Cyborg in Larissa Lai’s “Rachel”’
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15.15 BREAK
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15.25 Panel 5: Vandana Singh
Sara Martin (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): ‘Vandana Singh’s Complex Case’
Debaditya Mukhopadhyay (Manikchak College/University of Gourbanga): ‘Vandana Singh’s
“Speculative Manifesto” and Arati Kadav’s Cargo’
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Panel 6: Representing Disability
Colleen Etman (University of South Carolina): ‘Finding Autistic Representation in Anne McCaffrey’s
Acorna Series’
Clare Moore (Independent): ‘Megan Whalen Turner’s Disability Representation in The Queen’s Thief
Series’
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16.20 Panel 7: The View from Brazil
Andreya S. Seiffert (Independent): ‘How Judith Merril’s First and Last Stories Connect SF’s Past, Present
and Future’
Frank R. Lopes (Universidade de São Paulo): ‘Ursula K. Le Guin as Turning Point’
Elton Luiz Aliandro Furlanetto (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul): ‘Marge Piercy and Her
Ideas of Motherhood’
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Panel 8: Female Utopias
Peyton Campbell (Western University): ‘Queer SF and Utopian Insurgency’
Amy Bouwer (Nottingham): ‘Queer “Whileaway” or “For-A-While”? Lesbian Separatism in
Contemporary Women’s SF’
Angela Lopez-Garcia (University of Murcia): ‘Naomi Alderman’s The Power and the Disavowal of Post-
Patriarchal Utopias’
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17.35 BREAK
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17.45 Panel 9: Introducing Gold SF (chair: Una McCormack)
Panellists: S.J. Groenewegen, Gabrielle Malcolm, Hoa Pham, Jessy Randall
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Panel 10: Fan Communities
Alexis Lothian (University of Maryland): ‘Slash Fan Fiction and the Racial Politics of Feminist Fantasy’
Kristina Busse (Independent): ‘Paranormal Romance, Sexual Violence, and the Politics of Desire’
Emma French (Glasgow): ‘The Summer of Aabria: Marginal Identities, Accessibility, and Transformative
Storytelling in Actual Play’
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19.00 CLOSE
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Sunday, 4 December
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10.40 Introduction (Paul March-Russell)
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10.45 Panel 11: Bodies
Zoe L. Tongue (Leeds): ‘Reproduction in Feminist SF by Octavia Butler and Laura Lam’
Jasmine Sharma (Delhi): ‘Interrogating Corporeality and Techno-Bodies in The Handmaid’s Tale’
Amrita Sitaraman (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): ‘Traded Bodies in Manjula
Padmanabhan’s Harvest’
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Panel 12: After Patriarchy
Domenico Di Rosa (Glasgow): ‘Naomi Mitchison's Revision of “Pure” Science and Phallic Utopias in
Solution Three’
Maria Victoria Fuentes Del Rio (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela): ‘The post-patriarchal world
of Connie Willis’ “Even the Queen”’
Ciaran Kavanagh (University College Cork): ‘Shunning Seriousness: Eye-rolls, The Emperor’s New
Clothes and We Who Are About To…’
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12.00 BREAK
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12.10 Panel 13: The Maternal Body Problem
Amy C. Chambers (Manchester Metropolitan): ‘Bodies, Babies and Bioethics in Claire Denis’ High Life’
Anna McFarlane (Leeds): ‘Pregnancy and Maternity in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child’
C. Palmer-Patel (Independent): ‘Unpacking Anxieties of Infertility and Abortion in 1980s Fantasy’
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Panel 14: Gyn/Ecologies
E. Anne Dawson (York St John): ‘SF and Horror as Safe Spaces for Birth and Pregnancy Narratives’
Jamie Uy (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): ‘"The New Eve": The Techno-Pastoral Ideal
in Han May’s Star Sapphire’
Giulia Verardi (University of Perpignan): ‘Ecological Science Fiction in the Time of the
“Manthropocene”’
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13.20 LUNCH
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14.00 Keynote 3 – Joy Sanchez-Taylor (LaGuardia Community College, CUNY): ‘Witches/Brujas and SF/F
Activism’
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15.05 BREAK
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15.15 Panel 15: Post-Apocalyptic Futures
Julia Lindsay (University of Georgia): ‘Apocalypse in the Delta: Institutional and Environmental Racism
in Sherri Smith’s Orleans’
Ruth Myers (University of Georgia): ‘Intersectional Communities as Revolutionary in Justina Ireland’s
Dread Nation Series’
Hannah V. Warren (University of Georgia): ‘Revisioning Forced Reproduction in Meg Elison’s The Book
of the Unnamed Midwife’
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Panel 16: Curating SF
Jeremy Brett (Texas A&M University): ‘“Blame the Archive”: Attracting Fans and Fanworks to Libraries
and Archives’
Cait Coker (University of Illinois): ‘Gender, Genre and the Limits of the Archive’
Phoenix Alexander (University of California, Riverside): ‘Excessive Corpse: The Radical SF of Jody
Scott’
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16.25 BREAK
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16.35 Panel 17: Did It Change?
Robin Anne Reid (Independent): ‘Racism in SF/F in the 21st Century’
Amelie Hurkens (Uppsala University): ‘The Distorted Democratization of the SF/F Award’
Rachel Harrison (Dundee): ‘The Women Men Did Not See’
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Panel 18: Ancient and Classical Influences
Wendy Gay Pearson (University of Western Ontario): ‘Gender in Jo Walton’s Thessaly Trilogy’
Taryne Jade Taylor (Florida Atlantic University): ‘Feminist Ancestral Feminisms in Latinx SF/F’
Elena Pasquini (Aberdeen): ‘Theodora Goss: Female Monsters Speak Up’
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17.45 CLOSING REMARKS
- to be followed by post-conference socializing/networking in which members of the Beyond Gender
Collective will read selections from the Khatru symposium on 'women and sf'
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