Some updates on conferences for 2020.
The Popular Culture Association has announced procedure for refunds for the cancelled conference in Philadelphia, and they are also seeking donations to offset the cost of that decision.
Details can be found at https://pcaaca.org/conference/2020/2020-cancellation-faqs and at https://pcaaca.org/conference/2020/2020-registration-donate-transfer-or-refund.
The 2021 conference is scheduled for Boston, 3/31-4/4/2021. Submissions for 2020 may be resubmitted for 2021.
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts has also posted information on refunds and details for the 2021 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.
Details at https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2020/good-news-reicfa/ and at https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2020/icfa-41-and-42-update/, from their blog.
Next year's conference will maintain the same theme of "Climate Change and the Anthropocene." It will run 3/17-3/20/2021. Submissions for 2020 may be resubmitted for 2021.
Most recently, the Science Fiction Research Association has cancelled their summer 2020 conference.
Full details at https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2020/icfa-41-and-42-update/.
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Friday, March 27, 2020
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Conference Cancellations as of 3/15/20
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the follow events have recently been cancelled.
Follow the links for more details.
2020 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2020/icfa-41-is-cancelled/.
2020 Conference of the Popular Culture Association: https://pcaaca.org/conference/2020/update-2020-pca-conference-march-13-2020.
Follow the links for more details.
2020 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2020/icfa-41-is-cancelled/.
2020 Conference of the Popular Culture Association: https://pcaaca.org/conference/2020/update-2020-pca-conference-march-13-2020.
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Panel Call for ICFA 2020: Expanding the Archive (10/11/2019; Orlando 3/2020))
Panel Call for ICFA 2020: Expanding the Archive
July 2, 2019
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2019/panel-call-for-icfa-2020-expanding-the-archive/
Panel Call for ICFA 2020: Expanding the Archive
In 2019, the fanfiction site Archive of Our Own (AO3) was nominated for a Hugo award. This repository of nearly 5 million original works, representing over 30 thousand fandoms, stands out in the world of Science Fiction and Fantasy awards not only because of the sheer number of authors it represents, but also because it is the first nomination for unpublished fanfiction and many of the authors are young women. This nomination draws attention to what is “archived” and, by extension, what is valued. AO3’s nomination is not the year’s only example of the expanding canon of Speculative Fiction. The documentary film Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, produced by Tananarive Due, directed by Xavier Burgin, and based on Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman’s book Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present (2011), begins with the assertion that “black history is black horror” and tracks how the genre can engage with questions of race and power. Similarly, Dr. Ebony Thomas’s The Dark Fantastic considers Black female characters Bonnie Bennett (CW’s The Vampire Diaries), Rue (The Hunger Games), Gwen (Merlin), and Angelina Johnson (Harry Potter), and explores how these characters mirror racist violence in the real world. Each of these examples makes a case for expanding the idea of the canon (and what we value enough to archive) to include different types of characters and voices.
In terms of physical archives, a recent open letter on the Reading While White blog called out the lack of context and white-washing of the University of Minnesota’s Children’s Literature Research Collection’s exhibit and corresponding book The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter, demonstrating that even professional archives are not neutral—especially once their materials are extracted and exhibited for public consumption. In the wake of this controversy, curators of archives, whether in libraries, classrooms, or their own scholarly work, must address how the materials presented and their surrounding context represent choices that speak to the curator’s values and priorities.
When archives hold the power to exclude and include, to value and affirm both people and genre, then how do we as scholars decide what belongs and how do we think through the consequences of those choices for ourselves, our students, and our field? We encourage submissions that answer these questions and otherwise critically examine the speculative fiction archive, broadly defined.
Submissions may consider but are not limited to the following topics in relation to archives:
Please submit a 300-500 word abstract and preliminary bibliography to Emily Midkiff (midki003@umn.edu) or Sara Austin (austins4@miamioh.edu) by Oct 11, 2019. Abstracts will also be considered for a special issue of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, for which we will be issuing a CFP in November.
Bookmark the Google Doc version of this call to keep on top of any updates: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i1_izexTPz_vj8hfreDZjqaXc3yNN4zud5ifc6TV9QA/edit?usp=sharing
July 2, 2019
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2019/panel-call-for-icfa-2020-expanding-the-archive/
Panel Call for ICFA 2020: Expanding the Archive
In 2019, the fanfiction site Archive of Our Own (AO3) was nominated for a Hugo award. This repository of nearly 5 million original works, representing over 30 thousand fandoms, stands out in the world of Science Fiction and Fantasy awards not only because of the sheer number of authors it represents, but also because it is the first nomination for unpublished fanfiction and many of the authors are young women. This nomination draws attention to what is “archived” and, by extension, what is valued. AO3’s nomination is not the year’s only example of the expanding canon of Speculative Fiction. The documentary film Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, produced by Tananarive Due, directed by Xavier Burgin, and based on Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman’s book Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present (2011), begins with the assertion that “black history is black horror” and tracks how the genre can engage with questions of race and power. Similarly, Dr. Ebony Thomas’s The Dark Fantastic considers Black female characters Bonnie Bennett (CW’s The Vampire Diaries), Rue (The Hunger Games), Gwen (Merlin), and Angelina Johnson (Harry Potter), and explores how these characters mirror racist violence in the real world. Each of these examples makes a case for expanding the idea of the canon (and what we value enough to archive) to include different types of characters and voices.
In terms of physical archives, a recent open letter on the Reading While White blog called out the lack of context and white-washing of the University of Minnesota’s Children’s Literature Research Collection’s exhibit and corresponding book The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter, demonstrating that even professional archives are not neutral—especially once their materials are extracted and exhibited for public consumption. In the wake of this controversy, curators of archives, whether in libraries, classrooms, or their own scholarly work, must address how the materials presented and their surrounding context represent choices that speak to the curator’s values and priorities.
When archives hold the power to exclude and include, to value and affirm both people and genre, then how do we as scholars decide what belongs and how do we think through the consequences of those choices for ourselves, our students, and our field? We encourage submissions that answer these questions and otherwise critically examine the speculative fiction archive, broadly defined.
Submissions may consider but are not limited to the following topics in relation to archives:
- Accessibility
- Materialism
- The worth/value estimation of collecting
- Teaching courses in the archives
- Archival pedagogy- constructing the archives for our courses/ asking students to construct their own archives
- Controversies and canon
- Digital collections
- Internet as archive
- Fan spaces
- Race and representation
- Award winners as archive
Please submit a 300-500 word abstract and preliminary bibliography to Emily Midkiff (midki003@umn.edu) or Sara Austin (austins4@miamioh.edu) by Oct 11, 2019. Abstracts will also be considered for a special issue of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, for which we will be issuing a CFP in November.
Bookmark the Google Doc version of this call to keep on top of any updates: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i1_izexTPz_vj8hfreDZjqaXc3yNN4zud5ifc6TV9QA/edit?usp=sharing
Sunday, September 23, 2018
CFP “Politics and Conflicts,” the 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (10/31/2018; 3/13-17/2019)
(Apologies if this is a repeat post.)
CFP: “Politics and Conflicts,” the 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2018/cfp-politics-and-conflicts-the-40th-international-conference-on-the-fantastic-in-the-arts/
July 2, 2018
CFP: “Politics and Conflicts,” the 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Please join us for ICFA 40, March 13-17, 2019, when our theme will be “Politics and Conflicts.”
We welcome papers on the work of: Guest Scholar Mark Bould (Reader, University of the West of England; winner of the SFRA Pilgrim Award; author of several books on sf including Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook) and Guest Author G. Willow Wilson (winner of a PEN Center award; writer of the Hugo-Award-winning series Ms. Marvel, author of Alif the Unseen).
Speculative texts have a tremendous power to help us envision how the world might be otherwise and to see the historical contingencies that have given us the world as we find it. Fantastic genres allow us to imagine other paths that history might have taken and to explore the power dynamics of conflicts among competing factions, from the local scale of family and gender arrangements to the global scale of transnational trade and migration. Such texts can often articulate critiques that would have been silenced by censorship of realist genres in times and places of government, religious, or other oppression. We invite papers that understand the concept of politics very broadly, from international relations and structures of governance, through to the politics of everyday life. If at times the genres of the fantastic can be complicit in naturalizing and perpetuating dominant power structures and the politics they endorse, more often they provide a rich set of tools for telling such stories from marginalized perspectives, visions that cannot be captured by a realism that is structured by default ideological assumptions. We also welcome proposals for individual papers, academic sessions, creative presentations, and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media. We will gather in 2019 to question, celebrate, argue over, and deduce speculative fiction’s contributions to thinking through the politics and conflicts of our past and its capacity to guide us toward more inclusive futures.
The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2018. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, graduate students. Artists are encouraged to submit proposals for our Creative Track, which features sessions on writing, art, music, and poetry, as well as panel discussions on topics of interest for creative professionals.
For more information on the IAFA and its conference, the ICFA, see https://www.fantastic-arts.org/. The Submissions Portal opens on September 1st. To submit a proposal, go to https://www.fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/.
To contact the Division Heads for help with submissions, go to https://www.fantastic-arts.org/about/governance/division-heads/.
For information on the Creative Track, go to https://www.fantastic-arts.org/annual-conference/creative-track/.
CFP: “Politics and Conflicts,” the 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2018/cfp-politics-and-conflicts-the-40th-international-conference-on-the-fantastic-in-the-arts/
July 2, 2018
CFP: “Politics and Conflicts,” the 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Please join us for ICFA 40, March 13-17, 2019, when our theme will be “Politics and Conflicts.”
We welcome papers on the work of: Guest Scholar Mark Bould (Reader, University of the West of England; winner of the SFRA Pilgrim Award; author of several books on sf including Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook) and Guest Author G. Willow Wilson (winner of a PEN Center award; writer of the Hugo-Award-winning series Ms. Marvel, author of Alif the Unseen).
Speculative texts have a tremendous power to help us envision how the world might be otherwise and to see the historical contingencies that have given us the world as we find it. Fantastic genres allow us to imagine other paths that history might have taken and to explore the power dynamics of conflicts among competing factions, from the local scale of family and gender arrangements to the global scale of transnational trade and migration. Such texts can often articulate critiques that would have been silenced by censorship of realist genres in times and places of government, religious, or other oppression. We invite papers that understand the concept of politics very broadly, from international relations and structures of governance, through to the politics of everyday life. If at times the genres of the fantastic can be complicit in naturalizing and perpetuating dominant power structures and the politics they endorse, more often they provide a rich set of tools for telling such stories from marginalized perspectives, visions that cannot be captured by a realism that is structured by default ideological assumptions. We also welcome proposals for individual papers, academic sessions, creative presentations, and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media. We will gather in 2019 to question, celebrate, argue over, and deduce speculative fiction’s contributions to thinking through the politics and conflicts of our past and its capacity to guide us toward more inclusive futures.
The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2018. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, graduate students. Artists are encouraged to submit proposals for our Creative Track, which features sessions on writing, art, music, and poetry, as well as panel discussions on topics of interest for creative professionals.
For more information on the IAFA and its conference, the ICFA, see https://www.fantastic-arts.org/. The Submissions Portal opens on September 1st. To submit a proposal, go to https://www.fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/.
To contact the Division Heads for help with submissions, go to https://www.fantastic-arts.org/about/governance/division-heads/.
For information on the Creative Track, go to https://www.fantastic-arts.org/annual-conference/creative-track/.
Monday, July 2, 2018
CFP Politics and Conflicts - ICFA 2019 (10/31/2018; Florida 3/13-17/2019)
CFP: “Politics and Conflicts,” the 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2018/cfp-politics-and-conflicts-the-40th-international-conference-on-the-fantastic-in-the-arts/
On July 2, 2018
CFP: “Politics and Conflicts,” the 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Please join us for ICFA 40, March 13-17, 2019, when our theme will be “Politics and Conflicts.”
We welcome papers on the work of: Guest Scholar Mark Bould (Reader, University of the West of England; winner of the SFRA Pilgrim Award; author of several books on sf including Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook) and Guest Author G. Willow Wilson (winner of a PEN Center award; writer of the Hugo-Award-winning series Ms. Marvel, author of Alif the Unseen).
Speculative texts have a tremendous power to help us envision how the world might be otherwise and to see the historical contingencies that have given us the world as we find it. Fantastic genres allow us to imagine other paths that history might have taken and to explore the power dynamics of conflicts among competing factions, from the local scale of family and gender arrangements to the global scale of transnational trade and migration. Such texts can often articulate critiques that would have been silenced by censorship of realist genres in times and places of government, religious, or other oppression. We invite papers that understand the concept of politics very broadly, from international relations and structures of governance, through to the politics of everyday life. If at times the genres of the fantastic can be complicit in naturalizing and perpetuating dominant power structures and the politics they endorse, more often they provide a rich set of tools for telling such stories from marginalized perspectives, visions that cannot be captured by a realism that is structured by default ideological assumptions. We also welcome proposals for individual papers, academic sessions, creative presentations, and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media. We will gather in 2019 to question, celebrate, argue over, and deduce speculative fiction’s contributions to thinking through the politics and conflicts of our past and its capacity to guide us toward more inclusive futures.
The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2018. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, graduate students. Artists are encouraged to submit proposals for our Creative Track, which features sessions on writing, art, music, and poetry, as well as panel discussions on topics of interest for creative professionals.
For more information on the IAFA and its conference, the ICFA, see https://www.fantastic-arts.org/. The Submissions Portal opens on September 1st. To submit a proposal, go to https://www.fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/.
To contact the Division Heads for help with submissions, go to https://www.fantastic-arts.org/about/governance/division-heads/.
For information on the Creative Track, go to https://www.fantastic-arts.org/annual-conference/creative-track/.
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2018/cfp-politics-and-conflicts-the-40th-international-conference-on-the-fantastic-in-the-arts/
On July 2, 2018
CFP: “Politics and Conflicts,” the 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Please join us for ICFA 40, March 13-17, 2019, when our theme will be “Politics and Conflicts.”
We welcome papers on the work of: Guest Scholar Mark Bould (Reader, University of the West of England; winner of the SFRA Pilgrim Award; author of several books on sf including Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook) and Guest Author G. Willow Wilson (winner of a PEN Center award; writer of the Hugo-Award-winning series Ms. Marvel, author of Alif the Unseen).
Speculative texts have a tremendous power to help us envision how the world might be otherwise and to see the historical contingencies that have given us the world as we find it. Fantastic genres allow us to imagine other paths that history might have taken and to explore the power dynamics of conflicts among competing factions, from the local scale of family and gender arrangements to the global scale of transnational trade and migration. Such texts can often articulate critiques that would have been silenced by censorship of realist genres in times and places of government, religious, or other oppression. We invite papers that understand the concept of politics very broadly, from international relations and structures of governance, through to the politics of everyday life. If at times the genres of the fantastic can be complicit in naturalizing and perpetuating dominant power structures and the politics they endorse, more often they provide a rich set of tools for telling such stories from marginalized perspectives, visions that cannot be captured by a realism that is structured by default ideological assumptions. We also welcome proposals for individual papers, academic sessions, creative presentations, and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media. We will gather in 2019 to question, celebrate, argue over, and deduce speculative fiction’s contributions to thinking through the politics and conflicts of our past and its capacity to guide us toward more inclusive futures.
The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2018. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, graduate students. Artists are encouraged to submit proposals for our Creative Track, which features sessions on writing, art, music, and poetry, as well as panel discussions on topics of interest for creative professionals.
For more information on the IAFA and its conference, the ICFA, see https://www.fantastic-arts.org/. The Submissions Portal opens on September 1st. To submit a proposal, go to https://www.fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/.
To contact the Division Heads for help with submissions, go to https://www.fantastic-arts.org/about/governance/division-heads/.
For information on the Creative Track, go to https://www.fantastic-arts.org/annual-conference/creative-track/.
Friday, August 12, 2016
CFP ICFA 2017 (proposals 10/31/2016)
Too bad not everyone's spring break is the week of the conference:
CfP: International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts 38, “Fantastic Epics”
http://www.fantastic-arts.org/2016/cfp-international-conference-for-the-fantastic-in-the-arts-38-fantastic-epics/
CfP: International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts 38, “Fantastic Epics”Please join us for ICFA 38, March 22-26, 2017, when our theme will be “Fantastic Epics.” We welcome papers on the work of: Guest of Honor Steven Erikson (World Fantasy and Locus Award nominee), Guest of Honor N.K. Jemisin (Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominee, Locus Award winner), and Guest Scholar Edward James (Pilgrim, Hugo, British Science Fiction Association, and Eaton Award winner).
The hero(ine)’s tale is as old as storytelling itself. We trace our way from Gilgamesh to current practitioners of the art through routes that lead to – and beyond – other kingdoms, including those of Malazan and the cities of Gujaareh, Sky, and Shadow. Papers may tread the paths of Thomas the Unbeliever, Bren Cameron, Sundiata Keita, and Boudica, or follow a dark road through Gondor, Camelot, or any valley of shadow. We can find the Epic in the hall of Heorot and in the rooms of Schaherazade. Examinations of modern epics might include the American west, the Marvel Universe, or the world of Miyazaki. A journey, a quest, an awakening – all these and more are part of Fantastic Epics.
We also welcome proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media.
The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2016. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, and graduate students.
For more information on the IAFA and its conference, the ICFA, or to download a PDF version of this CfP, see http://www.fantastic-arts.org/. To submit a proposal, go to http://www.fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/.
The submission portal opens on September 1st and closes on October 31st.
To contact the Division Heads for help with submissions, go to http://www.fantastic-arts.org/annual-conference/division-heads.
Monday, July 20, 2015
CFP ICFA (10/31/15; Orlando, FL 3/16-20/16)
CfP: ICFA 37 – Wonder Tales
Posted on July 17, 2015 by Public Information Officer
http://www.fantastic-arts.org/2015/cfp-icfa-37-wonder-tales/
Please join us for ICFA 37, March 16-20, 2016, when our theme will be Wonder Tales.
Folklorists often use this term to refer to the stories commonly known as “fairy tales” due to the genre’s emphasis on the marvelous and its invocation of wonder, but what is wonder and where can it be found? Many events, characters, or objects generate a response of wonder—transformations and resurrections—but wonder also may be generated in technological advances and from the “sense of wonder” in science fiction. Papers might explore wonder tales and their modern incarnations, readers’ responses of wonder to fantastic texts, uses of wonder within fantastic texts, how wonder is invoked across media and genres, and the relationship between wondering (marveling) and wondering (questioning).
We welcome papers on the work of our guests: Guest of Honor Terri Windling, Guest of Honor Holly Black, and Guest Scholar Cristina Bacchilega. We also welcome proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media.
The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2015. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, and graduate students.
Join us in Orlando in 2016. We will add your intellectual and creative distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
For more information on the IAFA and its conference, the ICFA, see http://www.fantastic-arts.org/.
To submit a proposal, go to http://www.fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/
Download the CfP for ICFA 37 from Dropbox @ https://www.dropbox.com/s/6uleynif1wijh2z/IAFA37-CfP-2.docx?dl=0
Posted on July 17, 2015 by Public Information Officer
http://www.fantastic-arts.org/2015/cfp-icfa-37-wonder-tales/
Please join us for ICFA 37, March 16-20, 2016, when our theme will be Wonder Tales.
Folklorists often use this term to refer to the stories commonly known as “fairy tales” due to the genre’s emphasis on the marvelous and its invocation of wonder, but what is wonder and where can it be found? Many events, characters, or objects generate a response of wonder—transformations and resurrections—but wonder also may be generated in technological advances and from the “sense of wonder” in science fiction. Papers might explore wonder tales and their modern incarnations, readers’ responses of wonder to fantastic texts, uses of wonder within fantastic texts, how wonder is invoked across media and genres, and the relationship between wondering (marveling) and wondering (questioning).
We welcome papers on the work of our guests: Guest of Honor Terri Windling, Guest of Honor Holly Black, and Guest Scholar Cristina Bacchilega. We also welcome proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media.
The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2015. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, and graduate students.
Join us in Orlando in 2016. We will add your intellectual and creative distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
For more information on the IAFA and its conference, the ICFA, see http://www.fantastic-arts.org/.
To submit a proposal, go to http://www.fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/
Download the CfP for ICFA 37 from Dropbox @ https://www.dropbox.com/s/6uleynif1wijh2z/IAFA37-CfP-2.docx?dl=0
Thursday, July 24, 2014
CFP Scientific Imagination-ICFA 36 (10/31/14; Orlando 3/18-22/15)
Thirty-Sixth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
The Scientific Imagination
March 18-22, 2015
Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel
Source: http://www.fantastic-arts.org/annual-conference/next-2/
The Scientific Imagination will be the theme for ICFA 36. Join us as we explore the possibilities and intersections of science and imagination—from Faust and Frankenstein, through the Golden Age and the New Wave, to steampunk and mash-ups—in all their guises, including fiction, film, television, music, theater, comics, visual art, and social media. Papers might explore topics such as rationalism vs. belief, science for good and ill, alternate and speculative technologies and biologies, futurism, imaginary sciences, time travel, and the tensions inherent in discovery, among other topics. We welcome papers on the work of our guests: Guest of Honor James K. Morrow (winner of the Sturgeon Award, the World Fantasy Award, and two Nebula Awards) Guest of Honor Joan Slonczewski (winner of two Campbell Awards), and Guest Scholar Colin Milburn (author of Nanovision: Engineering the Future). We also welcome proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media. The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2014. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, and graduate students.
To Attend the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
http://www.fantastic-arts.org/annual-conference/submissions/
Some important steps:
Send in a paper proposal by going to http://fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/ (see the Call for Papers, above).
Register or renew as a member of IAFA: http://fantastic-arts.org/membership/.
(Note: If you received an email about the new membership system in the last few months, use your receiving email address and click on “forgot password” to set up a password for yourself. )
Register to attend the ICFA.
(Note: Conference registration will open soon. However the new membership system is up and running.)
Book accommodation with the conference hotel. Read the ICFA-36 Hotel Information and look at some pictures from the hotel and vicinity. Note that the hotel operates a complimentary airport shuttle service from Orlando Airport. Should you prefer taxi, the estimated fee (one way) is USD 10.
If you are new to the conference, you might want to check out affiliated organizations.
Membership or registration questions can be directed to IAFA Membership & Registration Coordinator, Valorie Ebert through the Contact Page.
Guest of Honor
James Morrow
James Morrow is a science fiction writer and author of the Godhead Trilogy, which includes the novels Towing Jehovah, Blameless in Abaddon, and The Eternal Footman. He has won the Theodore Sturgeon award for Shambling Towards Hiroshima, the World Fantasy Award for Only Begotten Daughter, and Nebula Awards for “City of Truth” and “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge.” A self-described “scientific humanist,” he is widely recognized as one of our premiere satirists of religion, philosophy, and human belief systems. He is also a playwright. His most recent novels are The Philosopher’s Apprentice and Shambling Towards Hiroshima.
Guest of Honor
Joan Slonczewski
Joan Slonczewski is a Professor of Microbiology at Kenyon College and an award-winning science fiction writer. She holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University and teaches courses including Microbiology, Virology, and Biology in Science Fiction at Kenyon, in addition to mentoring students conducting research in Kenyon’s Bacterial pH Laboratory. She has won grants for her research from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other major donors. She has twice received the John W. Campbell Award for best science fiction novel, for The Highest Frontier and A Door Into Ocean.
Guest Scholar
Colin Milburn
Colin Milburn holds the Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities at UC Davis, where he is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the UC Davis Humanities Innovation Lab. His research focuses on the intersections of science, literature, and media technologies, and he is affiliated with programs in Cinema and Technocultural Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory, as well as the W. M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth and the Center for Science & Innovation Studies. His books include Nanovision: Engineering the Future and Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter, forthcoming in 2014.
More information forthcoming at www.iafa.org.
The Scientific Imagination
March 18-22, 2015
Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel
Source: http://www.fantastic-arts.org/annual-conference/next-2/
The Scientific Imagination will be the theme for ICFA 36. Join us as we explore the possibilities and intersections of science and imagination—from Faust and Frankenstein, through the Golden Age and the New Wave, to steampunk and mash-ups—in all their guises, including fiction, film, television, music, theater, comics, visual art, and social media. Papers might explore topics such as rationalism vs. belief, science for good and ill, alternate and speculative technologies and biologies, futurism, imaginary sciences, time travel, and the tensions inherent in discovery, among other topics. We welcome papers on the work of our guests: Guest of Honor James K. Morrow (winner of the Sturgeon Award, the World Fantasy Award, and two Nebula Awards) Guest of Honor Joan Slonczewski (winner of two Campbell Awards), and Guest Scholar Colin Milburn (author of Nanovision: Engineering the Future). We also welcome proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media. The deadline for proposals is October 31, 2014. We encourage work from institutionally affiliated scholars, independent scholars, international scholars who work in languages other than English, and graduate students.
To Attend the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
http://www.fantastic-arts.org/annual-conference/submissions/
Some important steps:
Send in a paper proposal by going to http://fantastic-arts.org/icfa-submissions/ (see the Call for Papers, above).
Register or renew as a member of IAFA: http://fantastic-arts.org/membership/.
(Note: If you received an email about the new membership system in the last few months, use your receiving email address and click on “forgot password” to set up a password for yourself. )
Register to attend the ICFA.
(Note: Conference registration will open soon. However the new membership system is up and running.)
Book accommodation with the conference hotel. Read the ICFA-36 Hotel Information and look at some pictures from the hotel and vicinity. Note that the hotel operates a complimentary airport shuttle service from Orlando Airport. Should you prefer taxi, the estimated fee (one way) is USD 10.
If you are new to the conference, you might want to check out affiliated organizations.
Membership or registration questions can be directed to IAFA Membership & Registration Coordinator, Valorie Ebert through the Contact Page.
Guest of Honor
James Morrow
James Morrow is a science fiction writer and author of the Godhead Trilogy, which includes the novels Towing Jehovah, Blameless in Abaddon, and The Eternal Footman. He has won the Theodore Sturgeon award for Shambling Towards Hiroshima, the World Fantasy Award for Only Begotten Daughter, and Nebula Awards for “City of Truth” and “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge.” A self-described “scientific humanist,” he is widely recognized as one of our premiere satirists of religion, philosophy, and human belief systems. He is also a playwright. His most recent novels are The Philosopher’s Apprentice and Shambling Towards Hiroshima.
Guest of Honor
Joan Slonczewski
Joan Slonczewski is a Professor of Microbiology at Kenyon College and an award-winning science fiction writer. She holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University and teaches courses including Microbiology, Virology, and Biology in Science Fiction at Kenyon, in addition to mentoring students conducting research in Kenyon’s Bacterial pH Laboratory. She has won grants for her research from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other major donors. She has twice received the John W. Campbell Award for best science fiction novel, for The Highest Frontier and A Door Into Ocean.
Guest Scholar
Colin Milburn
Colin Milburn holds the Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities at UC Davis, where he is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the UC Davis Humanities Innovation Lab. His research focuses on the intersections of science, literature, and media technologies, and he is affiliated with programs in Cinema and Technocultural Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory, as well as the W. M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth and the Center for Science & Innovation Studies. His books include Nanovision: Engineering the Future and Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter, forthcoming in 2014.
More information forthcoming at www.iafa.org.
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