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Draft Schedule — Saturday 9 December 2017 (UPDATED 29 November 2017 — note new timing for first session)
Please note we may well be switching a couple of sessions around.
Powell Foyer: 8.45-9.30 Registration
9.30-10.40: Welcome
Keynote — Powell Lecture Theatre/Pg09 (Chair: Dr Paul March-Russell)
Professor Charlotte Sleigh, “Science and the Ancient Geeks: Fiction and Fandom in Interwar Britain”
10.40-11.40: Science Fiction Contexts — Powell Lecture Theatre/Pg09 (Chair: Maureen Kincaid Speller)
- Dr Boyarkina Iren (University of Rome Tor Vergata) “The Destiny of Life and Mind in the Universe in the Works by Arthur Clarke and Olaf Stapledon”
- Andy Sawyer (University of Liverpool) “‘It’s just my job five days a week’: ‘Rocket-Men’ of the 1950s”
11.40-12.00: Refreshment Break
12.00-1.00: Parallel Stream A: Sexuality and Gender — Powell Lecture Theatre/Pg09 (Chair: Aren Roukema)
- Mike Laycock (Birkbeck, University of London) “The Shifting Sexual Politics of Imperial Earth”
- Danielle S. Girard (Lancaster University) “Campaigning for a Fluid Future: Clarke’s Influence on Roddenberry’s Star Trek”
12.00-1.00: Parallel Stream B: Clarke’s Influence on Liu Cixin — Pg06 (Chair: Rhodri Davies)
- Lyu Guangzhao (Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry, UCL) “The Acceptance of Arthur Clarke in the Trilogy of Remembrance of Earth’s Past by Liu Cixin”
- Professor Stephen Dougherty (Agder University) “Liu Cixin, Arthur C. Clarke and ‘Repositioning’”
1.00-1.45: Lunch Break
1.45-3.15: Parallel Stream A: NASA, Space and Terraforming — Powell Lecture Theatre/Pg09 (Chair: Paul Kincaid)
- Alexey Dodsworth (Universities of São Paulo and Venice) “‘All These Worlds Are Yours – Except Europa’: On Ethics of Terraforming”
- Dr Robert Poole (Uclan) “A Prophet in his Own Future: Clarke, NASA, and 2001.’”
- Thomas Connolly (Maynooth University) “Asimov and Clarke: Two Visions of Human Society”
1.45-3.15: Parallel Stream B: Religion(s), Transcendence and the Transhuman — Pg06
(Chair: Francis Gene-Rowe)
- Thore Bjørnvig (University of Copenhagen) “Leaving the Cradle: Transcendence and Childhood’s End”
- Dr Dani Shalet (University of Kent) “The Divine Human: Clarke and the Transhuman”
- Dr Jim Clarke (Coventry University) “A Space Bodhi Tree: The ‘Crypto-Buddhism’ of Arthur C. Clarke”
3.15-3.30: Refreshment Break
3.30-5.00: Clarke’s Legacies — Powell Lecture Theatre/Pg09 (Chair: Tom Hunter)
- Dr Nick Hubble (Brunel University London) “The Clarke Award, ‘Literary SF’ and the Role of Criticism: Cultural Value in the 21st Century”
- Dr Joe Norman (Brunel University London) “‘call me highway call me conduit call me lightning rod’: ‘Big Dumb Objects’ in Selected Works by Arthur C. Clarke and Iain M. Banks”
- Professor Patrick Parrinder (University of Reading) “Clarkaeology: Arthur C. Clarke’s Time Capsules”
5.00-6.00: Keynote — Powell Lecture Theatre/Pg09 (Chair: Dr Andrew M. Butler)
Stephen Baxter, “A Voice from the Sky”