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Thursday, March 18, 2021- 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Board Meeting [LIVE]Belle Isle**********Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.BIPOC Meeting [LIVE]Magnolia**********Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 13:00 p.m. - 14:00 p.m.JFA Business Meeting [LIVE]Belle IsleSCIAFA Meeting [LIVE]PineLord Ruthven Assembly Meeting [LIVE]Magnolia**********Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 15:00 p.m. – 16:00 p.m.SCIAFA Meet & Greet / Orientation [LIVE]Belle Isle **********Thursday, March 18, 2021 16:00 p.m. - 18:00 p.m. Division Head Meeting [LIVE]Maple**********Friday, March 19, 2021 08:00 a.m. – 08:50 a.m.1. (IF/SF/FTV/VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Weirding the Anthropocene I: H.R. Giger, The Matrix, Volodine, and VanderMeerMaple Chair: Dale KnickerbockerEast Carolina UniversityDecadence and Parasitism in the Anthropocene: An inquiry into the textual and surreal worlds of Weird Fiction, H.R. Giger and The Matric Trilogy of FilmsArnab ChakrabortyAshoka UniversityAnthropocene Weirding in the Fiction of Antoine Volodine and Jeff VanderMeerChristina LordUniversity of North Carolina Wilmington2. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Superhero EcologiesOak Chair: Mark T. DeckerBloomsburg UniversityThere are Black People in the Future:?Fast Color, Black Futures, and Radical Ecologies??Shelby CadwellWayne State University"Thanos Was Right": Masculinity, Toxic Fandom, and the Villainization of Climate ChangeDan Hassler-ForestUtrecht UniversitySaving the World?: Superheroes and the EnvironmentKim WickhamHorry-Georgetown Technical College3. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Climate FictionsCaptiva AChair: Audrey TaylorSul Ross State University, Rio Grande CollegeLyricality in the Anthropocene: An Afterlife for the Romantic Tool-BoxSumita SharmaUniversity of DelhiAspects of climate migration in Parable of the Sower and The New WildernessAnderson GomesFederal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ)4. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Reading IVista AHost: Bryan D. DietrichJeanne BeckwithF. Brett CoxJean Lorrah***********Friday, March 19, 2021 09:00 a.m. – 09:50 a.m.5. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] (Re)considering Zombie Narrative from the Comic Shop to the Academy: The Walking Dead, Severance, and Sacrificial Fathers in Maggie, Train to Busan, and CargoBelle IsleChair: Bonnie CrossUniversity of Central Florida and Valencia College(Un)Death of the Father: Self-Sacrificing Paternity in Modern Zombie NarrativesKyle William BishopSouthern Utah UniversityUndead, with an MFA: The "Literary" ZombieC. Wylie Lenz Florida Polytechnic UniversityThe Death of Rick Grimes and the End of The Walking DeadAngela TengaFlorida Institute of Technology6. (CYA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Who Speaks For the Trees? Forests in Fantastic Children's LitMagnoliaChair: Alaine MartausUniversity of IllinoisGnomes, Gnature, and the "Gnifty Gnomobile": or, Elemental Spirits, Deforestation, and American Car CultureDimitra FimiUniversity of GlasgowBeing a Tree in the Chthulucene: Magic, Kinship and Plants in Margaret Mahy's Fantasy FictionMelanie Duckworth?stfold University CollegeHarry Potter and the Forbidden ForestDenise PinnaroFlorida Atlantic University7. (FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Tied to the Land: Fairies in the Natural WorldPine Chair: Derek J. ThiessUniversity of North GeorgiaSave a Horse, Steal a Baby: Fairy Exchange in the First Branch of The MabinogionMarisa MillsUniversity of Southern MississippiBreaking the Great Silence in Queen Mab: The Great Famine and FairiesAbigail HeinigerLincoln Memorial UniversityNaturalizing Death and the Afterlife Through Fairy Tales: George MacDonald's "Little Daylight"Hannah MummertUniversity of Southern Mississippi8. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Energy, Ecology, and Empathy in Video GamesDogwoodChair: Gerry CanavanMarquette University Animal Crossing, Spiritfarer, and Connections and Empathy during the COVID19 PandemicDustin ConnisThe University of Colorado DenverPower Games: Discourses of Energy in Speculative Video GamesPawel FrelikUniversity of WarsawDangerous Pleasures: Mixing Reality, Speculative Fiction, and Ecological Precarity while the World EndsJessica FitzpatrickUniversity of Pittsburgh9. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Gender and Sexuality in Science FictionCaptiva AChair: Kylie KorsnackUniversity of RichmondTERFs, Trans bodies, and Queer Critique in Delany's TritonDagmar Van EngenArizona State UniversityUnfair to Judge: Sexual Dynamics and Non-binary Gender Norms in Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small Angry PlanetJaclyn L. SutherlandIdaho State UniversityGender Complexity, Pronoun Usage, and Reading The Left Hand of Darkness with a Modern PerspectivePeregrine BrownFramingham State University10. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session I Vista AHost: James Patrick KellyDana Chamblee Carpenter Will LudwigsenBryan D. DietrichLawrence C. Connolly***********Friday, March 19, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.11. (CYA/FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Intersectional World of Harry PotterMagnoliaChair: Amanda FirestoneUniversity of TampaHagrid, Messenger of DeathAnna LüscherUniversity of KonstanzHarry Potter and the Dearth of Research Wizards: Questioning the Natural Laws of Rowling's Wizarding WorldRobin WhittleIndependent ScholarThe Politics of Portal-Quest Fantasy: Marginalized Identities in Harry PotterAl MaierUniversity of Northern IowaBeastly, Beautiful "Underbeings": J.K. Rowling's Perilous Expansion of the Wizarding WorldSam MorrisUniversity of South Carolina Beaufort12. (IF/SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Posthuman and the AnthropoceneMapleChair: Natalie DeamIowa State UniversitySubverted Dichotomies and Permeable Borders in "Semente Exterminadora"M. Elizabeth GinwayUniversity of FloridaCapitalocene ecologies in Rosa Montero’s Bruna Husky seriesKiersty Lemon-RogersBerea CollegeEl último sue?o: A Novel of Anthropocenic Posthumanistic SensibilityMiguel ?ngel Albujar-Escuredo?University of Kansas?13. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Identity and IntersectionalityDogwoodChair: Eliza Rose University of North Carolina at Chapel HillAssemble Me, Piece by Piece: Re-Signification of Disability through Fetishization of the ProsthesisJulia GatermannUniversity of BremenCyborg Nation: Building Identity in Egoyan Zheng’s The Dream DevourerEmily Olive MooreBrigham Young University"I Love Y… Yams": Queer Identity in She Kills Monsters and Kapow-I GoGoScout StoreyUniversity of Georgia14. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Posthuman and the Trans-corporeal: Alaimo, Harraway, and the EndOakChair: Rikke SchubartUniversity of Southern DenmarkTranscorporeality in the Critical Zone: To the LakeJulia KuznetskiTallinn University, EstoniaSleeping with the Fishmen: Reimagining the Anthropocene through Oceanic-Chthonic KinshipsPrema ArasuDrew ThorntonUniversity of Western AustraliaCurtin UniversityEnd (of the World) GirlAshley HendricksGeorgia State University15. (FL) [LIVE] Theory Roundtable: Maria Sachiko Cecire’s Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century CoveModerator: Benjamin J. RobertsonUniversity of Colorado, Boulder16. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] AfricanfuturismCaptiva AChair: Sherryl VintUC RiversideGimme My Respect: Steven Barnes the Black CyberpunkIsiah Lavender IIIUniversity of Georgia"Master harmonizers": Making Connections in the Post-Disaster World of Nnedi Okorafor's Binti Novella SeriesIuliia IbragimovaDublin City UniversityClimate Change Predictions in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents: A Call to ActionJeanne GriggsKenyon College17. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings IIVista AHost: Veronica SchanoesFran WildeUsman T. MalikShveta Thakrar***********Friday, March 19, 2021 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.18. (IF/SFL/FTV/FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Creature Features I: Ants, Mosquitos, and MerpeopleMapleChair: M. Elizabeth GinwayUniversity of FloridaIncompatible Empires: Insect Apocalypse in Latin America in the early AnthropoceneRachel Haywood FerreiraIowa State UniversityMermaids as Mediators between Humans and Nature in Asian Eco-Fantasy FilmsLi ZengIllinois State University19. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Climate Change and (diegetic and non-diegetic) TimeOakChair: Jen CarusoMinneapolis College of Art and Design"Our Place in the Dirt": Slow Violence and the Cinema of Climate ChangeLuke RodewaldUniversity of Florida"Welcome to the 21st": Travelers (2016-2018) and the Spectre of Self-DestructionAnna Maria GrzybowskaUniversity of Warsaw1408 and the Structure of HauntingJeffrey Andrew WeinstockCentral Michigan University20. (FL) [LIVE] Panel: Setting up a Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic in a Global Climate EmergencyCoveModerator: Dimitra FimiUniversity of Glasgow21. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Politics in Science FictionCaptiva AChair: Noah SlowikLewis UniversityCity Space: Ecology and the Politics of the Self in SFMark SoderstromSUNY- Empire State CollegeFutureWork: Representations of Labor in Current Science FictionLars SchmeinkHafenCity University, HamburgIs That from Science or Fiction? Otherworldly Etymologies and Neologisms Reveal the Impact of Science Fiction on the English LexiconBryce Lyne KingFlorida Atlantic University22. (SCIAFA) [LIVE] Tending to Mental Health as Graduate Students during COVIDCapriModerator: Samantha BaugusUniversity of Florida Joshua PearsonCalifornia State U, Los Angeles Shelby CaldwellWayne State University23. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings IIIVista AHost: Andy DuncanJames MorrowMarian WomackDavid C. Kopaska-Merkel**************Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.Coffee Break On Your Own **************Friday, March 19, 2021 13:00 p.m. - 14:50 p.m.24. (Board) [LIVE] Panel: Indigenous Sciences, BIPOC SF, and Environmental/Restorative JusticeCapriModerator: Grace L. DillonPortland State UniversityJoy Sanchez-TaylorLaGuardia Community College (CUNY)Isiah Lavender IIIUniversity of GeorgiaTaryne Jade TaylorEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityAndrea HairstonInvited Author**************Friday, March 19, 2021 15:00 p.m. - 15:50 p.m.25. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Wolves, Werewolves, and Ghosts in Film, Fiction, and FolkloreBelle IsleChair: K.M. FerebeeGhent University"Unnatural Stresses": Witnessing Death in Hold the DarkFrances AuldState College of Florida"Wolves and Werewolves: How Our Beliefs About One Influence the Other"S. M. MackIndependent Scholar"A Pleasing Terror": Legends, Scholarly Authority and the Folkloresque in the Ghost Stories of M. R. JamesTimothy H. EvansWestern Kentucky University26. (CYA/SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Colonizers are ComingMagnoliaChair: Tereza DědinováMasaryk University, Czech RepublicRejecting the Anthropocene: Hybridity in Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking TrilogyIldikó LimpárPázmány Péter Catholic University (Hungary)"Something Here is Completely, Horribly, Unnaturally Wrong": Eco-Horror in Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff's Aurora Rising (2019)Alena CicholewskiUniversity of OldenburgWolf-Woman: Posthumanism in Tamora Pierce's Young Adult Feminist Fantasy LiteratureGrace A. T. WormUniversity of Glasgow27. (FTFN/FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Shifting Socialization in Fairy TalesPineChair: Judith Gero JohnMissouri State UniversityFairy-Tale Socialization and the Many Lands of OzJill Terry RudyBrigham Young UniversityThe Gentry and the Little People: Resolving the Conflicting Legacy of Fairy FictionSavannah HughesUniversity of Maine, StonecoastLook Who's Talking: Fairy Tales as Social Scripts for Discrediting Women's Testimonies of AbuseLinda J. LeeUniversity of Pennsylvania28. (IF/GaH/SFL/FL/FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Apocalypse, Dystopia, and the Anthropocene IMapleChair: Suparno BanerjeeTexas State UniversityRussian Dystopian Cinema in the Twenty-First CenturyJesse Brown-O'DellCalifornia State University Long BeachWhen Contagion Trumps Climate Change: Re-Watching Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies in the Corona WinterMichael FuchsUniversity of Oldenburg"Chan ann an-diugh": Facing the end of the world in M. Evan MacGriogair's "A Pale Horse"Nathaniel HarringtonUniversity of Toronto29. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Fandom, Narrative, and PerformanceDogwoodChair: Carrie J. ColeIndiana University of Pennsylvania"A Certain Solid Fragrance, Risen From The Earth": Dystopian Bodies and the Cultivation of Touch in the Fanfiction of Mad Max: Fury Road Nicola R. GovocekTemple UniversitySleeping with the Entity: Cosmic Horror, Cosmic Romance, and "The Magnus Archives"Eden Lee LacknerUniversity of CalgaryPerforming Alternative History: Steampunk as Creative AnachronismKelli ShermeyerUniversity of Oklahoma30. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Queer Ecologies and/in Steven UniverseOakChair: Gina WiskerUniversity of BathWaking the World Up: Apocalyptic Awakenings and Weird Symbiosis in Alpha Centauri, Steven Universe, and the Southern ReachJoshua PearsonCalifornia State U, Los AngelesBefriending the Apocalypse: Queer Ecologies in Steven UniverseStina AtteberyCalifornia Polytechnic State UniversityQueer Ecologies and Colonial Resistance in James Cameron’s AvatarLuke ChwalaClemson University31. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Dream Visions and MemoriesCoveChair: Liam DrislaneMarquette UniversityDreaming in the Capitalocene: Elizabeth Knox’s Dreamhunter DuologyBrian AtteberyIdaho State University/Journal of the Fantastic in the ArtsVisions, Dreams and the Gifts of the Collective Unconscious: A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous FantasyLaura MartinUniversity of GlasgowAnthropocene and Speculative Memory in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth TrilogySylwia Borowska-SzerszunUniversity of Bia?ystok, Poland32. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] 1960s & 1970s Science FictionCaptiva AChair: Jeanne GriggsKenyon CollegeClassical Myth and Inner Space in 1960s New Wave Science FictionRobert CapeAustin CollegeKate Wilhelm's Feminist PalimpsetsJoe SandersShadetree ScholarNo Stone Left Unturned: Environmental Catastrophe in J.G. Ballard's The Day of CreationAmanda RoseUniversity of Florida33. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Anthropocene NowCaptiva BChair: Terry HarpoldUniversity of FloridaTerradeformation: Unsettling Environments, Knowledge, and Control in Recent Speculative FictionsAaron Gabriel MontalvoPennsylvania State University"Ten Years Too Late": Can Time Travel Fix the Anthropocene Earth?Stan Hunter KrancPennsylvania State University"A Philosophical Koan": Gwyneth Jones on Climate Catastrophe and the Way OutSteven ShaviroWayne State University34. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings IV Vista AHost: Molly TanzerAnna KashinaMicah Dean HicksIlana C. Myer35. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Young Adult FictionVista BModerator: Justina IrelandDarcie Little BadgerLeah CypessCecil Castellucci**************Friday, March 19, 2021 16:00 p.m. - 16:50 p.m.36. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and the Infrastructures of HorrorBelle IsleChair: Stephen WebbUniversity of AlbertaInfrastructures of Horror: Race, Neoliberalism, American Literature, and the Anthropocene in Mat Johnson’s PymBenjamin J. RobertsonUniversity of Colorado, BoulderNecropolitics, Revolution, and The Return of the Obra DinnAndrew FergusonUniversity of Virginia'A Lovecraftian Horror Within It': Post-9/11 Existence and Anthropocene Destabilization in Mat Johnson’s PymRachel CombsUniversity of Oregon37. (FTFN/FTV/IF) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Survival Stories: Film as Folk NarrativePineChair: Lucy FraserThe University of QueenslandUsing the Apocalyptic Film to Understand Storytelling in the Modern WorldKathleen RaganIndependent ScholarMonsters in the Forest: Pokot (2017), "Little Red Riding Hood" Crimes, and Ecologies of the Real and Fantastic Cristina BacchilegaPauline GreenhillUniversity of Hawai'i-MānoaUniversity of WinnipegSpinning Flesh into Gold: Engineered Bodies, Capitalism and Global Production in Bong Joon-ho's Okja and Karen Russell's "Reeling for the Empire"Amy GreenhoughFalmouth University38. (IF/SFL/FL/FTV/VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] When Cultures Meet, the Fantastic Happens: Mexico, China, and the U.S.A.MapleChair: Rachel Haywood FerreiraIowa State UniversityDisrupting the Western Theme Park Norm with a New Ethos: Theme Park Design in ChinaCarissa BakerUniversity of Central FloridaMestizaje, Weapons, and Writing in Rudolfo Anaya's ChupaCabra TrilogyDavid DaltonUniversity of North Carolina, Charlotte"Necesitamos agua": Reading Sleep Dealer as Climate FictionStephen C. TobinUniversity of California, Los Angeles39. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Stormlight, Cosmere, and the CarnivalesqueDogwoodChair: Megan SuttieMcMaster UniversityDisability and Speculation in Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight ArchiveLiam DrislaneMarquette UniversityTheopocene: Deity, Humanity, and Climate Crisis in Brandon Sanderson's CosmereAdam MclainHarvard University"It Just Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This!": Climate, Krewes, and the Carnivalesque in Sean Stewart’s GalvestonDanielle Bienvenue BrayUniversity of Georgia40. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Vampires and Zombies: Reconsidering GenreOakChair: Kyle William BishopSouthern Utah UniversityMonstrous Infection: Open and Closed Pandemics in Film and the Cultural Fears They RevealBernadette BoskyOlympiad Academia"Real" Hunger: The Santa Clarita Diet and the CapitaloceneSharon Diane KingUCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesChildren of the Night in a Sunburnt Country: Australian Vampires on FilmGraeme Wend WalkerTexas State University41. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Epic Violence and the AnthropoceneCoveChair: Matthew SangsterUniversity of GlasgowSpeeding Up Slow Violence: Epic Fantasy Length and the Shaping of Environmental Imagination Matthew OliverCampbellsville UniversityCthulhu in the Chthulucene: On Marjorie Liu’s Monstress and Environmental DystopiaDerek LeeWake Forest UniversityAbandoning the Quest: On the Ineffectiveness of High/Epic Fantasy in the AnthropoceneWeronika ?aszkiewiczUniversity of Bia?ystok42. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Anticapitalist Ecologies in Science FictionCaptiva AChair: TBATBAFeminism, Sovereignty, and Place: Ecocritical Dystopianism in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu and Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living GodConrad ScottUniversity of AlbertaWork/Play on a Barren Moon: Useful Labor and Ecological Necessity in Le Guin’s The DispossessedKira BrahamIndependent ScholarTechnological Displacement and Innovative Failure in Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean AnthologyKylie KorsnackUniversity of Richmond43. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Early Science FictionsCaptiva BChair: John RiederUniversity of Hawai'i-MānoaHow Our Developing Understanding of the Anthropocene Helps Us Reinterpret Lost Race Fictions in Early Australian Science FictionGillian PolackDeakin University, AustraliaWhere Do We Go from Here?: Approaching the End of Humanity in Two Early French Science Fiction NovelsAndrea BlatzUniversity of Texas at AustinThe Anthropocene and Afterwards: Planetary Ruination and Posthuman Extinction in the Future Histories of Olaf StapledonJames G. LowderSchool of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow44. (SCIAFA) [LIVE] Navigating the Job Market during COVIDCapriModerator: Samantha BaugusUniversity of Florida Mark DeckerBloomsburg UniversitySarah FishCollin College45. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session IIVista AHost: Karen Joy FowlerEleanor ArnasonAlaya Dawn JohnsonBruce McAllisterCandas Jane Dorsey46. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Teaching SF+F WritingVista BModerator: Lisa Rowe FraustinoGregory A. WilsonRussell DavisNancy KressMary Anne Mohanraj**************Friday, March 19, 2021 17:00 p.m. - 18:00 p.m.Coffee Break On Your Own **************Friday, March 19, 2021 18:00 p.m. - 19:50 p.m.47. (Board) [LIVE] Guest Panel: Making the Anthropo(s)ceneCapriModerator: Gerry CanavanMarquette UniversityStacy AlaimoUniversity of OregonJeff VanderMeer, Guest Author Grace L. Dillon Portland State University **************Friday, March 19, 2021 20:00 p.m. - 20:50 p.m.48. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Apocalypses Great and Small: How Speculative Works by People of Color Rethink Our Pasts and Futures in the AnthropoceneBelle IsleChair: Novella Brooks de VitaHouston Community College/ Texas Southern UniversityReturning to Nature, Destroying the Self: Apocalyptic DesireMaia Gil'AdíUniversity of Massachusetts LowellThe Afterlives of Racial Capitalism: Apocalypse, Racism, and Resilience in Carman Maria Machado’s "Inventory" and Colson Whitehead’s Zone OneDavid J. VázquezAmerican University, Washington, DCTechnologies of Contagion: Spores, Viruses, and The Promise of the Apocalyptic Eliza Rodriguez y GibsonLoyola Marymount University49. (CYA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Real World Impacts of Fantastic Literature Three WaysMagnoliaChair: Sam MorrisUniversity of South Carolina BeaufortTolkien's Father Christmas Letters as Environmental FableSimone Caroti Full Sail UniversitySpeculative Fiction in the High School ClassroomMadeline LudwigUniversity of Northern IowaOnward, Gamers!: Depictions of Roleplaying Games in Disney's OnwardJessica StanleyOld Dominion University/John Tyler Community College50. (FTFN/FTV/IF/CYA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Transformative Wonder: Eco-Criticism and Fairy TalesPineChair: Jalondra A. DavisUniversity of California, San DiegoThe Capitalist and Animal: Imprints in Walt Disney's Fairy Tale FilmsRachel HarrisConcordia UniversityWonders of Nature and Storytelling: An Examination of Ponyo as Reflective and Cultural AdaptationJade LumUniversity of Hawai'i-MānoaThe God Who Protects the Village: Ainu Owl Stories in Japanese Picture BooksLucy FraserThe University of Queensland51. (IF/FL/FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Weirding the Anthropocene II: Weirding Race and SpaceMapleChair: Dale KnickerbockerEast Carolina UniversityStrange Gardens: Encountering Wilderness in Medieval Chinese ParadoxographyEvan Nicoll-JohnsonUniversity of AlbertaMake the Familiar Strange: Decolonizing Speculative Fiction Through Postcolonial VisibilityMarisca PichetteStonecoast MFA Program52. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Immersion and InteractionDogwoodChair: Kelli ShermeyerUniversity of OklahomaOf Alt/Worlds and Alien Dramaturgies: Speculative Scripting in Immersive TheatreCarrie J. ColeIndiana University of PennsylvaniaRetelling "The Tell-Tale Heart": An Interactive Transmedia ProjectKenton Taylor HowardUniversity of Central FloridaPerforming Environmentalism in Pandora: Narrative, Hyperreality, and Saving the Planet at Disney’s Animal KingdomDaryl RitchotUniversity of British Columbia Okanagan53. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Feminist Ecology and Gender AutonomyOakChair: Stina AtteberyCalifornia Polytechnic State UniversityAniara (2019) as Feminist Survival NarrativeJen CarusoMinneapolis College of Art and DesignStranger Things and The Body: Examining Gender and Autonomy in HorrorJennifer PendragonIndependent ScholarSalvaging Revisited: Margaret Atwood's Feminist Eco-Gothic Challenges to the AnthropoceneGina WiskerUniversity of Bath54. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Pratchett - of Horsemen and CreatorsCoveChair: Matthew OliverCampbellsville UniversityCreation and Responsibility: Terry Pratchett’s Feet of Clay (1996) and Unseen Academicals (2009)Caroline WebbThe University of Newcastle, AustraliaThe Horsemen Variations: Christian Apocalyptic Imagery in Fantastic Literature of the 1980sCat AshtonIndependent ScholarUpsetting the Great Plan: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett and the ApocalypseAnne ClaretUniversity of British Columbia — Okanagan55. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Fantastic SubstancesCaptiva AChair: Taryne Jade TaylorEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityFrom Plastic to the Plastiglomerate: Science Fiction’s Shifting Synthetic SensibilitiesLisa SwanstromUniversity of UtahDaughters of Mother Earth in the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or Chthulucene: From Environmental Toxicity to the Reproductive Sterilization of WomenSumeyra BuranUniversity of California Riverside/Istanbul Medeniyet University56. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Exploring Southern ReachCaptiva BChair: Dagmar Van EngenArizona State UniversityDying Names for Living Lands: The Intersections of Race and Climate in Vandermeer's Southern Reach TrilogyAlexandria NunnUniversity of Maryland, College ParkMagic(s) of the Anthropocene: Enchantment vs. Terroir in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern ReachFilip BoratynUniversity of Warsaw"Acceptance Moves Past Denial": The Horror of Climate Change and Post-Normal Science in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach TrilogyJerome WinterUniversity of California, Riverside57. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings VVista AHost: A. T. GreenblattJoyce ChngNancy HightowerP. Andrew Miller58. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: The Fantasy Lives of Humans and Animals Vista BModerator: Eileen GunnDominica PhetteplaceCharis LokeLindsey Drager**************Friday, March 19, 2021 21:00 p.m. - 21:50 p.m.59. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Monstrous Masculinities and Hideous ProgenitorsBelle IsleChair: Jennifer K. CoxIndependent ScholarMaggots and Tomato Worms: Impotence and Violence in Coraline and The 1855 Murder Case of Missouri versus Celia, an Enslaved WomanNovella Brooks de VitaHouston Community College/ Texas Southern UniversityThe Strange Toxicity of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeCoralyn PowellLongwood UniversityHideous Progenitor: Mary Shelly in Adaptations of FrankensteinJude WrightPeru State College60. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Life and LossDogwoodChair: Eden Lee LacknerUniversity of CalgaryIf You're Not Scared of Death, How Can You Value Life?': Bridge Babies, Timefall Rain, and Eco-Horror in Death StrandingAndrew BartonTexas State UniversityPutting the Earth's Future on Display: Balancing Realism and Hope in a Climate Change and SF ExhibitJeremy BrettShelby HebertTexas A&M UniversityTexas A&M University Walking Tall Through Life and Loss: How Video Games Help Us Navigate GriefNeysa KlauerUniversity of Northern Iowa61. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Science Fiction and Horror Futures of Days Gone ByOakChair: Regina HansenBoston UniversityCloser Than Ever: Our World Out of Control—Horror Futures in 70s Science Fiction CinemaCat SparksIndependent Scholar"Best not to look back": Monstrosity, Medium, and Genre in Tommy Lee Wallace’s It (1990)June PulliamLouisiana State UniversityThe Price of Flesh: How Horror Musical Repo! The Genetic Opera Prophesied the PandemicKenzi RamerUniversity of Northern Iowa62. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Of Plants, Food, and RecoveryCoveChair: Paul WilliamsIdaho State UniversityFantastic Plants: Rewilding the Imagination in Richard Powers' The OverstoryTimothy S. MillerFlorida Atlantic UniversityHow Environment Informs the Inhabitants of a Secondary World: As Explored Through the works of J. R. R. TolkienOdin Hartshorn HalvorsonStonecoast MFA"Fish Broth and Pickled Moths": Fantastic Food in the Secondary Worlds of Canadian Portal Fantasy NovelsMark BuchananYork University63. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] More Climate FictionsCaptiva AChair: Sumeyra BuranUniversity of California Riverside/Istanbul Medeniyet UniversitySpeculative Orientalism in Philip K. Dick’s NovelsSangkeun YooUC RiversidePost-Apocalyptic, Post-Human? Margaret Atwood's Biocentric Vision in the MaddAddam TrilogyKatrin Isabel SchmittUniversity of Konstanz, GermanyUtopia in Recent Climate Fiction: MaddAddam, MAEVA! and New York 2140Andrew MilnerMonash University64. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] New WeirdCaptiva BChair: Conrad ScottUniversity of AlbertaThe Incomprehensible Real: Tracing a New World in the New WeirdJennifer KrauseEmory & Henry College"Why must they be strong?": Abjection and Capacious Being in Jeff VanderMeer's The Strange BirdJohn LandrevilleWayne State University65. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q+A Session III Vista AHost: Gregory Norman BossertKathleen JenningsBrenda PeynadoMatthew Sanborn Smith Sally Wiener Grotta66. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings VIVista BHost: Mary Anne MohanrajArin GreenwoodSimone Snaith**************Saturday, March 20, 2021 08:00 a.m. - 08:50 a.m.67. (CYA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Children Bear the Burden: Responsibilities in Climate Change, Colonization, and the SupernaturalMagnoliaChair: Dimitra FimiUniversity of GlasgowFantasy for the Anthropocene or Fantasy of the Anthropocene? Confronting the Ecocidal Unconscious by Imagining Biocentric FuturesMarek OziewiczUniversity of MinnesotaCrises, Chasms, and Unlikely Collectives: Growing Up in Contemporary Young Adult Eco-dystopian FictionAmanda HalterFriedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, GermanyChildren Should Be Seeing but Not Heard: Childhood Power and the Gothic in Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood and Co. SeriesRhonda Brock-ServaisLongwood University68. (IF/SFL/CYA/FTFN/FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Race, Gender, and Fantastic HerstoriesMapleChair: Marisca PichetteStonecoast MFA ProgramBones, Fossils, Fantasies - Reconstructing Fantastic Natural Histories of Species, Extinction, and Race in Jules VerneNatalie DeamIowa State UniversityResistance and Authority in a Fairy-Tale 19th Century Latin American Kingdom: "Elena of Avalor" and the Exploration of Latina PowerKaren DollingerUniversity of West GeorgiaAn Unearthly Wail and a Deadly Kiss: Irony, Satire and Gender in Espronceda's "El estudiante de Salamanca"James A. WojtaszekUniversity of Minnesota Morris69. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Climate Change in Science Fiction and Horror FilmOakChair: Jeffrey Andrew WeinstockCentral Michigan UniversityParasitic Humanity in Eco-horror FictionJulie HugonnyUniversity of Stirling"We’re all we’ve got": Science Fiction, Climate Change, and the Silent GodJustice HaganMarquette UniversityThe Kaiju Shall Inherit the Earth: What Monster Movies Tell Us About Climate Change Sara AustinMiami University70. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Water, water, everywhere – or notCaptiva AChair: Brian WillemsFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of SplitSurvival on the Edges: Liminality and Liberation in Blackfish CitySarah CanfieldShenandoah UniversityTowards a Sustainable Built Environment: Arcology in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water KnifeKate?ina HoufkováMasaryk UniversityThirst: Water, Obligation, and Form in Israeli SFKeren OmryUniversity of Haifa71. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Origin Stories: Starting Points for Crafting New Science FictionVista AModerator: Helen MarshallUna McCormackAnne CharnockNina Allan**************Saturday, March 20, 2021 09:00 a.m. - 09:50 a.m.72. (FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Rethinking the Archetype: Tricksters, Dragons, and the Garden of EdenPineChair: Abigail HeinigerLincoln Memorial UniversityEvolution of a Trickster Figure: Reynard the Fox from the Eleventh Century to TodayCharlie AllisonIndependent ScholarJung and the DragonJudith Gero JohnMissouri State UniversityBack to the Garden: The Creation Story of Eden as ProphecyClay WyattIndependent Scholar73. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Art and AestheticsDogwoodChair: TBATBADead Men Walking: Bones of the Anthropocene in the Post-Apocalyptic Worlds of Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) and J.G. Ballard (1930-2009)Alexandra Gushurst-MooreUniversity of York, UKMaterialising Energy. Eco-Speculative Narratives in Contemporary ArtMonika LubińskaUniversity of Silesia in KatowiceMoving the Earth One Meter Closer to the Sun: Terraforming Gestures in Polish ArtEliza RoseUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill74. Cancelled Oak75. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] World SystemsCaptiva BChair: Keren OmryUniversity of HaifaUnmooring Algorithms for Climate ChangeBrian WillemsFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of SplitRu(m)ination: On Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway’s The Collapse of Western Civilization and the Speculative Historical NovelJuan Miguel Leandro Lim QuizonDe La Salle University - ManilaPostcolonial Thought, Decolonizing the Anthropocene, and Tobias S. Buckell’s Climate Change NovelsShaun DukeBemidji State University76. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings VIIVista AHost: Sydney DuncanPetra KuppersJason Baltazar**************Saturday, March 20, 2021 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.77. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Urban Ecology and the Seeds of AnarchismCove Chair: Allen ShullUniversity of Tennessee at MartinWalking Beyond Omelas: An Expanded Vision of Anarchism, Ethics & Subjectivity in Ursula K. Le GuinJames GiffordFairleigh Dickinson UniversityReading Acacia Seeds: Decentering Anthropocentrism in the Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le GuinTheodora GossBoston UniversityEvery Natural Thing in this Place: City Fairies and Urban Ecology in Emma Bull's War for the OaksSaga BokneKarlstad University78. (SFL) [LIVE] Theory Roundtable: Stacy Alaimo's Work in ProgressCaptiva AModerator: Rebekah SheldonIndiana University79. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session IVVista AHost: Kelly RobsonJose Pablo IriarteRich LarsonSarah Pinsker Robert V. S. Redick 80. (Creative) [LIVE] Words and Worlds AVista BHost: Gina WiskerRegina HansenDon RiggsSydney DuncanKristiana Willsey**************Saturday, March 20, 2021 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.81. (SFL) [LIVE] Panel: Fascist Imaginaries and Speculative FictionCaptiva AModerator: Sherryl VintUC RiversideAnindita BanerjeeCornell UniversityJordan S. CarrollUniversity of Puget SoundDavid M. HigginsInver Hills Community CollegeRebekah SheldonIndiana UniversityElda Maria RomanUniversity of Southern California82. (SCIAFA) CV WorkshopCapriModerator: Sarah Fish Collin College83. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings VIIIVista AHost: John KesselSofia SamatarGreg BechtelA. C. Wise84. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings IXVista BHost: Alan SmaleBen LooryDell Award WinnerSuzanne Church85. (LRA) [LIVE] Lord Ruthven Assembly: Panel: "For the Dead Travel Fast!": Vampires' Propensity for Endless Travel from The Vampyre to TwilightMagnoliaModerator: Amanda FirestoneUniversity of TampaJeffrey Andrew WeinstockCentral Michigan UniversityLokke HeissIndependent Scholar Bryan D. DietrichInvited Author**************Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:00 p.m. - 13:00 p.m.Break **************Saturday, March 20, 2021 13:00 p.m. - 14:50 p.m.86. (Board) [LIVE] Guest Scholar PresentationCapriHost: Sherryl VintUniversity of California, RiversideFantastic Speculations: Sea Creatures and Biodiversity in the AnthropoceneStacy AlaimoUniversity of Oregon**************Saturday, March 20, 2021 15:00 p.m. - 15:50 p.m.87. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Abject Spaces: Traumatic and Affective Settings in HorrorBelle IsleChair: Jude WrightPeru State CollegeEvolutions of Evil in Stephen King's EnvironmentsJennifer K. CoxIndependent ScholarThis Inhuman Place Makes Human Monsters: Applications of Trauma Theory in Stephen King’s The Shining and Doctor SleepErica YoonHunter College High SchoolDream of the Future: The Eerie Nightmares of Christiane Vadnais’ FaunaHannah A. BartonUniversity of Glasgow88. (FTFN/FL/FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Is That a Fairy Tale? Fairy-Tale Structure in Twenty-First Century TextsPineChair: Jill Terry RudyBrigham Young UniversityLegend Content Tucked into a Folktale Structure: Karen Joy Fowler's Wit's EndJennifer Eastman AtteberyIdaho State UniversityStories That Eat the World: Fairy-Tale Space and Narrative Structure in Seanan McGuire's Indexing SeriesChristy WilliamsHawai'i Pacific University"This Is The Way": The Mandalorian as Fairy TaleJeana JorgensenButler University89. (IF) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Post-Coloniality and the Anthropocene: Changing the Way We ThinkMapleChair: Nicola HunteThe University of the West Indies, Cave Hill(Re)Living in the Chthulucene: Tentacular Thinking with Nalo HopkinsonMailyn Abreu ToribioPalm Beach State CollegeThe Language of Chaos: Post-Apocalyptic Essays in the Age of PandemiaSilvia G. Kurlat-AresIndependent ScholarDegrowth in the Anthropocene Worlds of Okorafor and Le GuinSandra J. LindowIndependent Scholar90. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Superpowers: Creative Labor and PedagogyDogwoodChair: TBATBA The SuperPOWwers of the Interrogative ModeNoran AminCairo UniversityAutonomous Collectivity against the State: WATCHMEN #11 (August 1987)Gerry CanavanMarquette UniversityLabor Ecologies of Comic Books: Why Are Marvel and DC Hiring All These SFF Writers?Aaron KashtanUNC Charlotte91. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] PosthumanitiesOakChair: Taylor EvansUniversity of California, Riverside"Carry Hunger All Your Days": Donna J. Haraway's Sympoesis and Amal El-Mohtar’s and Max Gladstone’s This is How You Lose the Time WarBrantley L. BryantSonoma State University"Beyond the End of Her Story, of Herself": Jeff Vandermeer’s The Strange Bird and the Emergence of Posthumanist SentimentalityTony M. VinciOhio University, ChillicothePosthuman pastorals: adaptation and survival in Paolo Bacigalupi's "The People of Sand and Slag" and Sara Genge's "Shoes-to-Run"Vera BenczikE?tv?s Loránd University, Hungary92. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Fantasy, Myth, and IndividualismCove Chair: Daniel CreedFlorida International UniversityFantasy, Individualism and the Value of Common PropertyMatthew SangsterUniversity of GlasgowThe Many Lives and Deaths of Dar Oakley: Repeated Underworld Journeys in Ka: Dar Oakley and the Ruin of YmrPaul WilliamsIdaho State University"A bad land for Gods": Environmentalism and Presence in American GodsAshleigh McIntyreUniversity of Newcastle93. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Women of/in Science FictionCaptiva AChair: Claire StanfordUniversity of California, Los AngelesAnne McCaffrey and the AnthropoceneAudrey TaylorSul Ross State University, Rio Grande CollegeFemmes Fatales: Mirror Neurons and Machiavellian Intelligence in Tepper's Gate to Women's Country and Haden Elgin's Native TongueBarbara SimerkaQueens College / CUNYThe Reclamation of McCaffery's The Ship Who Sang: Feminist Irony as Resistance to Utopian Ableist NarrativesTessa SwehlaUniversity of Arkansas94. (SFL) [LIVE] Panel: Fifty Shades of Nay: Consent for SF Characters and ConsumersCaptiva BModerator: Kiersty Lemon-Rogers Berea CollegeKristy EagarBrigham Young UniversityKate JohnstonUniversity of MinnesotaAdam McLainHarvard UniversityK. Tempest BradfordIndependent scholar95. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session VVista AHost: E. Lily YuKaren Joy FowlerMolly TanzerRachel Steiger-MeisterNicola Griffith96. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Crafting the FantasticVista BModerator: David D. LevineNick WolvenSuzanne PalmerAlan SmalePeter OrullianRachel Swirsky**************Saturday, March 20, 2021 16:00 p.m. - 16:50 p.m.97. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Technology, the Anthropocene, and the Bodies Politic.MagnoliaChair: Cynthia ZhangUniversity of Southern CaliforniaDismembered Bodies Politic: Hobbes’ Leviathan, Smith’s "Colossus of Ylourgne," and Barker’s "In the Hills, the Cities"Timothy S. MurphyOklahoma State UniversityThings That Go Bump in the Light: Techno-Political Horrors in Cory Doctorow's Radicalized Sonja Froiland LynchWartburg College"We all knew that what hung above London were icebergs": The Weirding of Climate Change in China Miéville’s "Polynia" and "Covehithe"Deborah BridleUniversité C?te d'Azur98. (FTFN/IF) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Through the Enchanted Forest: Fairy-Tale Tourist LocationsPineChair: Rachel HarrisConcordia UniversityFairy-Tale Tourism in Germany: On the Road with the Brothers GrimmClaudia SchwabeUtah State UniversityClimate Change and Creatures of the Enchanted Forest: How to Reimagine the Future in a Swedish Tourist AttractionTora Wall?bo Akademi University99. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Jemisin's Heroines and Broken EarthMapleChair: Katy BoyerPenn State University"Of Course, Father Earth Never Moves When One Wishes": Alterity and Geopaternalism in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth TrilogyAllen ShullUniversity of Tennessee at MartinLocating Blackness at the End of the World – N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth and the Black AnthropoceneMisha Grifka WanderOhio State UniversityOther as Global Savior: Jemisin’s HeroinesBE AllatIndependent Scholar100. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Playing the CapitaloceneDogwoodChair: Jessica FitzpatrickUniversity of PittsburghBrave-ing the Anthropocene: Nominative and Procedural Rhetorics in Ecological VideogamesJustin CosnerUniversity of IowaThe Cosmic Pessimist in The Long DarkMu?mtaz Murat K?kThe Graduate School for Social Research (at the IFiS PAN)Dreaming of Crepes and Kaiju: Monstrous -Cenes in 13 Sentinels: Aegis RimLillian Marie MartinezUniversity of Florida101. (FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Legacies of Violence: Legend and Myth in ModernityOakChair: Jennifer Eastman AtteberyIdaho State UniversityOnly the Devil and I: Myth, Violence, and BlackbeardDerek J. ThiessUniversity of North GeorgiaThe Age of the Motherfu**ker: A Critical Gender-, Sexuality- and Race-based Analysis of Mother Earth and the AnthropoceneJane Caputi Florida Atlantic UniversityInterrupting Human: The Black Atlantic Mermaid and the AnthropoceneJalondra A. DavisUniversity of California, San Diego102. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Winter is the Season of BloodCoveChair: Stefan EkmanUniversity of GothenburgDrowning in Blood; George R.R. Martin Critiques the White SaviourJoseph Rex YoungUniversity of OtagoForces of Nature in the Secondary WorldAtli Dungal Sigur?ssonUniversity of IcelandAlways Winter but Never Christmas: Global Cooling in Fantasy Literature and its Medieval Predecessors Eleanor GriggsUniversity of North Carolina Chapel Hill103. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Ecologies & EnergiesCaptiva AChair: Steven ShaviroWayne State UniversitySolar Power as a Design Challenge: Using Science Fiction to Imagine Futures in the AnthropoceneClark A. MillerJoey EschrichArizona State UniversityArizona State UniversityBetween the Singularity and the Dying Earth: SF, Fantasy, and Horror as Energetic GenresRhys WilliamsUniversity of Glasgow104. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Golden Age Science FictionCaptiva BChair: Robert CapeAustin CollegeFrom the Golden Age Frontier of Plenty to Crisis Frugality: Ecological Themes in Asimov's WorkJari K?kel?University of HelsinkiThoreauvian Virtue Ethics in the Works of Clifford SimakJeffrey M. BausE?tv?s Loránd UniversityTechnology in the Garden: Will Simak's Robots Ever Find Their Souls?Stanley C. KrancUniversity of South Florida105. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings XVista AHost: Nisi ShawlMarie BrennanAlyc HelmsHenry Lien106. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Queering the FantasticVista BModerator: Julia RiosMari NessLawrence SchimelCecilia TanZen Cho**************Saturday, March 20, 2021 17:00 p.m. - 18:00 p.m.BreakOn Your Own**************Saturday, March 20, 2021 18:00 p.m. - 19:50 p.m.107. (Board) [LIVE] Guest of Honor Presentation – CapriHost: Benjamin J. Robertson University of Colorado, BoulderToo Late/Not Too LateJeff VanderMeer**************Saturday, March 20, 2021 20:00 p.m. - 20:50 p.m.108. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Sense of an Ending: Closure and Disjunction in Weird Fiction and HorrorBelle IsleChair: Timothy S. MurphyOklahoma State University"No Truce with the Chthulucene" - Staying with the Trouble through the Weird Fictions of China Miéville, Jeff Vandermeer, and Disco ElysiumTom Byam ShawUniversity of Aberdeen and Curtin UniversityThe Ellen Datlow Horror Endings ProjectBrooke WondersUniversity of Northern IowaRestless Figures: Animated Horror Stories as HypertextBonnie CrossUniversity of Central Florida and Valencia College109. (IF/SFL/FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Apocalypse, Dystopia, and the Anthropocene IIMapleChair: David DaltonUniversity of North Carolina, CharlotteDisaster and the Environment in 20th Century Indian Science FictionSuparno BanerjeeTexas State UniversityApocalypse for Them: Sergei Lukyanenko and Climate Skepticism in Post-Soviet Science FictionWalker GriggsUniversity of Southern CaliforniaComing up for Air: Approaches to Ecodystopia in Brazilian Cinema Alfredo SuppiaUniversity of Campinas (Unicamp)110. (VPAA) [LIVE] Panel: The World Beyond Tomorrow: Comics, The Anthropocene, and Other Planet-Changing TransformationsDogwoodModerator: Kevin J. MaroneyNew York Review of Science FictionNoran AminCairo UniversityRachel HartnettUniversity of FloridaAaron KashtonUNC CharlotteP. Andrew MillerNorthern Kentucky University111. (FTV) [LIVE] Panel: Are We in a Post-Zombie World Yet? The Changing Climate of Zombie Narratives and the Walking DeadOakModerator: Valérie SavardUniversity of AlbertaKyle William BishopSouthern Utah UniversityAngela TengaFlorida Institute of TechnologyC. Wylie LenzFlorida Polytechnic University112. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Deep Image of LondonCove Chair: Brian AtteberyIdaho State UniversityThe Deep Image and the AnthropoceneDon RiggsDrexel University"Mildly Obsolete in London": Salvagepunk in China Miéville’s Un Lun DunRhonda KnightCoker UniversityPortraying Magic, Estranging Modernity in the Rivers of London Graphic NovelsStefan EkmanUniversity of Gothenburg113. (SFL/IF) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Other FuturismsCaptiva AChair: Ian CampbellGeorgia State UniversityClimate Changes and Environmental Degradation in Chinese Science Fiction of the New MillenniumFang TangYangtze UniversityPosthuman Poetics in Franny Choi's Soft ScienceClaire StanfordUniversity of California, Los AngelesDefining Latinx Futurisms: Latinx Diasporic Science FictionTaryne Jade TaylorEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University114. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Playful FictionsCaptiva BModerator: Lisa SwanstromUniversity of UtahClimate Apocalypse, Aliens, and Robots – Potential Futures for Humanity as Imagined in the Mass Effect SeriesHilmi UlasChapman UniversityAn Elaborate Contraption: Pervasive Games as Mechanisms of Control in Ernest Cline's Ready Player OneJack MurrayUniversity of Central FloridaSpeculating an Escape from Universe 25; or, Learning to Play in the AnthropoceneTheo McLemoreUniversity of Colorado Boulder115. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session VIVista AHost: Nancy HightowerAnna Smith SparkCat RamboDavid SandnerDavid Nickle 116. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Decolonizing the FantasticVista BModerator: Alexis Brooks de VitaIsabel YapJohn CluteErin Roberts**************Saturday, March 20, 2021 21:00 p.m. - 21:50 p.m.117. (Board) Panel: BIPOC Panel – Writing the UnsaidCapriModerator: Alexis Brooks De Vita Texas Southern University Joyce ChngUsman MalikMimi MondalErin Roberts118. (VPAA) [LIVE] Panel: Skins of Sand, Fur, and Steal: Rethinking Personhood in Environmental, Animal, and Robotic IdentitiesDogwoodModerator: Justin CosnerUniversity of IowaSamantha BaugusUniversity of FloridaSylvan E. SpicerUniversity of KansasKatherine RandazzoUniversity of Iowa119. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings XIVista AHost: P. Andrew MillerRichard ButnerA. T. GreenblattGregory Norman Bossert120. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: The State of Speculative Fiction PublishingVista BModerator: Liza Groen TrombiNeil ClarkeBrian EvensonFrancesca MymanMike AllenSheila Williams**************Sunday, March 21, 2021 08:00 a.m. - 08:50 a.m.121. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] New Minds in Science FictionCaptiva A Chair: Jerome WinterUniversity of California, Riverside"She Was Probably Male": Gender and Embodiment in Ancillary JusticeDavid M. HigginsInver Hills CollegeHolistic Approaches to Training Artificial Intelligence in The Lifecycle of Software ObjectsNoah SlowikLewis UniversityCybernetics and Ancillary Justice: Embodiment, Crisis, and Resistance Robert NguyenPennsylvania State University122. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session VIIVista AHost: Fran WildeSarah KozloffDavid Erik NelsonElle E. IreDennis Danvers123. (Creative) [LIVE] Clone with Joan BreakfastVista BHost: Joan Slonczewski**************Sunday, March 21, 2021 09:00 a.m. - 09:50 a.m.124. (CYA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Let's Hear It For the Girls!: Gender Fluidity in Tamora Pierce's Tortall Series and Black Girl Magic in the Works of Jewell Parker Rhodes and Delia ShermanMagnoliaChair: Robin WhittleIndependent Scholar"The Woman Who Rides Like a Man": An Examination of Gender in Tamora Pierce's Tortall Fantasy SeriesSamantha NilesUniversity of Northern IowaNatural Black Girl Magic and the Horrors of Environmental Destruction in the MG Fantastic of Jewell Parker RhodesLynette JamesIndependent ScholarThe Education of Sophie Martineau: Learning Black Girl Subjectivity in Delia Sherman's The Freedom MazeAmanda FirestoneUniversity of Tampa125. (FTFN) [LIVE] Panel: Dark Forests of the Imagination: Fairy Tales and Ecological ThinkingPineModerator: Theodora Goss Boston UniversitySara CletoThe Carterhaugh SchoolBrittany WarmanThe Carterhaugh SchoolPsyche Z. ReadyUniversity of Connecticut126. (IF/FTFN/GaH/FTV/VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Creature Features II: Subversive Interspecies RelationsMapleChair: Li ZengIllinois State UniversitySnake in the Hair as a Sacred Thread of Wedlock: Interspecies Love as Decolonial Love in Girish Karnad's NagamandalaSheetala BhatUniversity of Western OntarioEgocentric Loves and an Anti-anthropocentric Ending: A Comparison Between Izumi Kyoka's Fantastic Play, "Demon Lake", and Shinkai Makoto's Movie, Weathering with YouMasaya ShimokusuDoshisha University, KyotoIntellectual Hypocrisy and Social Hierarchies in José Fernández Bremón's "Un crimen científico"Morgan Keith StewartUniversity of Kentucky127. (VPAA) [LIVE] Panel: Kentucky Route Zero: The First DecadeDogwoodModerator: Andrew Ferguson University of VirginiaVirginia L. Conn Rutgers UniversityPawel FrelikUniversity of WarsawJohn MurrayUniversity of Central FloridaAnastasia SalterUniversity of Central Florida128. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Trauma in Fantastic FilmOakChair: Simon SpiegelUniversity of Zurich, Department of Film Studies"The Fate of this Blood!" - Inherited Trauma in JoJo's Bizarre AdventureKatherine RandazzoUniversity of IowaMutilating Maleficent: The Function of Fantastic Trauma in Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)Rikke SchubartUniversity of Southern DenmarkA Revolution in American Horror Film: Intergenerational Trauma and Transmissibility in Ari Aster's HereditaryAlex StoryCU Boulder129. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Fantasy, Foucault, and the AnthropoceneCove Chair: Alexis KaegiStonecoast MFA"Earth is a Local Aberration": The Anthropocene, the Pluriverse, and the FantasticGrant DempseyThe University of Western Ontario"Die and give us life": Confronting Power to Prevent Climate Catastrophe in The Magician’s LandMegan SuttieMcMaster UniversityBad Metaphors and Petro-culture: Magic as Oil in Sarah Monette’s CorambisChey WollnerFlorida Atlantic UniversityThe Biopolitics of Posthuman Children in One of Us and Never Let Me GoMark HeimermannLakeland University130. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] International Science FictionCaptiva AChair: Vera BenczikE?tv?s Loránd University, HungaryDevoured by Flowers: The Societal Response to Anthropogenic Climate Change in Sabri Musa's The Gentleman from the Spinach FieldIan CampbellGeorgia State UniversityWhat is Left of Us: Post-Human Agency and Femininity in Laura Pugno's SirensRoberta BerlingòUniversity of Calabria131. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings XVista AHost: Greg BechtelPaul TremblayJohn ChuTenea D. Johnson132. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Using Mythology and Folklore in Fantastic FictionVista BModerator: Kehkashan KhalidBryan CampIndrapramit DasAda Palmer**************Sunday, March 21, 2021 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.133. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Non-Genre Science FictionCaptiva AChair: Shaun DukeBemidji State UniversityPredictive and Prescriptive Modeling: The Cruelty of the Future and Kōbō Abe's Inter Ice Age 4Andrew WenausUniversity of Western OntarioIn the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster: Prophesying a Bleak Future for America and the Rest of the WorldArianna CasaliIndependent scholarLibertarians in Space. The Future in the Short Film "Libra"Simon SpiegelUniversity of Zurich134. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings XIIVista AHost: Sarah PinskerJoe HaldemanC. S. E. CooneyJames Patrick Kelly135. (Creative) [LIVE] Words and Worlds BVista BHost: Regina HansenGina WiskerGillian PollackGraeme Wend WalkerCurt Steindler**************Sunday, March 21, 2021 11:00 a.m. -11:50 a.m.136. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Reaction and Interaction: Human Relationships with ApocalypseCaptiva AChair: Isiah Lavender IIIUniversity of GeorgiaKoontown and COVID: Using Science Fiction to Understand Health Without Care in the United States Chanara AndrewsUniversity of GeorgiaRepresentations of Marginalization and Revenge in AMC’s The Walking DeadHannah V. WarrenUniversity of GeorgiaD/Evolution: Reimagining Darwinism and the Rhetoric of Evolution in Kurt Vonnegut’s GalapagosJulia LindsayUniversity of Georgia137. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session VIIIVista AHost: C. S. E. Cooney Kelly RobsonAndy DuncanVeronica SchanoesJohn Kessel138. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings XIIIVista BHost: Michael J. DeLucaAlbert WendlandJulie C. DayCarrie Vaughn**************Sunday, March 21, 2021 12:00 p.m. - 13:00 p.m.BreakOn Your own**************Sunday, March 21, 2021 13:00 p.m. - 14:50 p.m.139. (Board) Guest of Honor Reading: Jeff VanderMeer - Hummingbird Salamander and Dead AstronautsCapriFollowed by: Alison Sperling interviews Jeff VanderMeer**************Sunday, March 21, 2021 15:00 p.m. - 15:50 p.m.140. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Unstable Ontologies: Re-Examining Personhood Amidst Ecological CrisisBelle IsleChair: Benjamin J. RobertsonUniversity of Colorado, BoulderUnpeople of the Apocalypse: Charting Animacy and Its Outside in Indra Sinha's Animal's People and Jeff VanderMeer's BorneK. M. FerebeeGhent UniversityAgainst Man: Violence and the Vegetal in Han Kang’s The VegetarianCynthia ZhangUniversity of Southern CaliforniaComplicity with Infection: Pedagogical Pivots for Teaching Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation in a PandemicStephen WebbUniversity of Alberta141. (CYA/FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Who Owns This World? Eco-Responsibility in Fantasy and Real LifeMagnolia Chair: Alena CicholewskiUniversity of OldenbergThe Otherworld Crumbles: Metaphoric Climate Loss in Young Adult Fairytale AdaptationsValerie Estelle FrankelMission College and San Jose City CollegeEmbodying the Permaculture Story: Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching SeriesTereza DědinováMasaryk University, Czech RepublicFolklore and Fantasy in Environmental Picture BooksTina L. HanlonFerrum College142. (FTFN) [LIVE] Panel: Folk Narrative Ontologies and the AnthropocenePineModerator: Cristina BacchilegaUniversity of Hawai'i-MānoaLinda J. LeeUniversity of PennsylvaniaKathleen RaganIndependent ScholarKristiana WillseyUniversity of Southern California143. (IF) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] (De)Colonizing the Anthropocene: Tobias Buckell, Nnedy Okorafor, Rosa GuyMapleChair: Mailyn Abreu ToribioPalm Beach State CollegeTobias Buckell's Post-Apocalyptic Eco-systems in Island-Worlds: Reading the Anthropocene within the "Culturality of All Other Human Orders"Nicola HunteThe University of the West Indies, Cave HillThe Colonization of Bodies in Okorafor's "The Popular Mechanic"Mary LaffidyNorthern Arizona University"Responsible for Each Other": Gods, Mermaids, and the Anthropocene in Rosa Guy's My Love, My LoveJalondra A. DavisUniversity of California, San Diego144. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Gaming the Anthropocene: Survival of the Fittest?Dogwood Chair: Lillian Marie MartinezUniversity of FloridaBoundless, Terrifying Freedom's: Ecocriticism and Ludographic Metafiction in Final Fantasy VII: Remake (2020).Ruth BoothDr. Darshana JayemanneUniversity of GlasgowAbertay University The End of the Zombie Era: Sustainability and Security at the End of The Walking DeadSteven Donald HolmesUniversity of Hawai'i-MānoaReplicating the World in Science Fiction GamesCameron KunzelmanMercer University145. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Animated FantasticOakChair: Joshua PearsonCalifornia State U, Los Angeles"I Want You Very Much to Improve:" Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Tattered Tom, and the Ideological Depths of NostalgiaMark T. DeckerBloomsburg UniversityAnother Lady, Another Tiger, Another Time: Reclaiming the Fantastic in Amazon’s Animated Series Undone Nate GarreltsFerris State UniversityInto the Unknown: Masquerading Fear in Over the Garden WallKayla LawrenceUniversity of Northern Iowa146. (FL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Heterotopes of Middle-Age and DeathCove Chair: Misha Grifka WanderOhio State UniversityA Third Place to Stand: The Journeys of Middle-Aged Women in Adventure FantasyAlexis KaegiStonecoast MFA"Grey Mist Coiling": The Biopolitical Twilight of Death in Garth Nix’s SabrielKaty BoyerPenn State UniversityFrom Portable Landscapes to Themed Thrill Rides: Rowling’s Heterotopic Hopescapes in the AnthropoceneStephanie J. Weaver, Ph.D.Savannah College of Art and Design147. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Science Fiction in the WorldCaptiva AChair: Stan Hunter KrancThe Pennsylvania State UniversityKim Stanley Robinson's Case for Hope in New York 2140John RiederUniversity of Hawai'i-MānoaDream Mining: Art and Intellectual Property in Caragh O'Brien's Vault of DreamersRebecca McNultyUniversity of FloridaIndifference Engines: "Cold Equations," Omelas, and the Zong MassacreTaylor EvansUniversity of California, Riverside148. (SFL) [LIVE] Panel: Speculative Modernists Blow Up the World!Captiva B Moderator: Robert StaufferDominican CollegeBill GillardUniversity of Wisconsin OshkoshJames ReitterDominican College149. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings XIVVista AHost: Andrea HairstonMimi MondalErica L. SatifkaTobias Buckell150. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Ecology and Climate ChangeVista BModerator: Siobhan CarrollMaria Dahvana HeadleyChinelo OnwualuMichael J. DeLucaAlyx Dellamonica**************Sunday, March 21, 2021 16:00 p.m. - 16:50 p.m.151. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session IXVista AHost: Molly TanzerNalo HopkinsonAndrea HairstonE. Lily YuNisi Shawl 152. (Creative) [LIVE] Panel: Speculative Film and Television AdaptationsVista B Moderator: Sherryl Vint, University of California, RiversideTed Chiang, Invited AuthorJason F. Brown, Invited ProducerJonathan Alexander, University of California, IrvinePawel Frelik, University of Warsaw**************Sunday, March 21, 2021 17:00 p.m. - 18:00 p.m.BreakOn Your Own **************Sunday, March 21, 2021 18:00 p.m. - 19:50 p.m.153. (Board) [LIVE] IAFA Business Meeting and Awards PresentationCapri**************Sunday, March 21, 2021 20:00 p.m. - 22:00 p.m.154. (VPAA) Flash PlaysCapriHost: Carrie J. Cole Indiana University of Pennsylvania ................
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