Organizers of UC Riverside’s annual Eaton Science Fiction Conference are inviting submissions of proposals for papers and panels to be presented at the 2011 event, and short-story contest entries from University of California students.
The 2011 conference theme is “Global Science Fiction,” and paper and panel proposals should address the ways in which science fiction is a global phenomenon, such as how historical and contemporary science fiction relate to processes of globalization, international social movements, universalist ideologies, multinational cultures, technoscientific networks, philosophies of cosmopolitanism, neo- and postcolonial politics, and separatist and sovereignty movements.
Conference co-director Rob Latham, UCR associate professor of English, said the event “will highlight the maturity of science fiction as an international genre, showing how it has become a complex, flexible mode of expression, engaging crucial topics and debates of concern to scholars, students, and all global citizens.”
Abstracts of 500 words should be submitted by June 15 to Melissa Conway, head of Special Collections and Archives at the Rivera Library, melissa.conway@ucr.edu. More information is available at http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/2011/call.php.
(More information HERE.)
The 2011 conference theme is “Global Science Fiction,” and paper and panel proposals should address the ways in which science fiction is a global phenomenon, such as how historical and contemporary science fiction relate to processes of globalization, international social movements, universalist ideologies, multinational cultures, technoscientific networks, philosophies of cosmopolitanism, neo- and postcolonial politics, and separatist and sovereignty movements.
Conference co-director Rob Latham, UCR associate professor of English, said the event “will highlight the maturity of science fiction as an international genre, showing how it has become a complex, flexible mode of expression, engaging crucial topics and debates of concern to scholars, students, and all global citizens.”
Abstracts of 500 words should be submitted by June 15 to Melissa Conway, head of Special Collections and Archives at the Rivera Library, melissa.conway@ucr.edu. More information is available at http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/2011/call.php.
(More information HERE.)
