MCLC: Global Science Fiction symposium

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Mingwei Song <msong2 at wellesley.edu>
Subject: Global Science Fiction symposium
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Dear list members,

I am writing to announce the "Global Science Fiction symposium" that will
take pace at Wellesley College on March 8-9. Chinese, Japanese, and North
Korean science fiction will be discussed by five papers during the
symposium. The symposium is open to the public. We will welcome anyone who
is interested, particularly those who live int the Greater Boston area, to
come to attend this event. If you have any questions, please don't
hesitate to write to me at msong2 at wellesley.edu

Mingwei Song

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Here is the program:

Global Science Fiction
All Events in Collins Cinema, Wellesley College

Sponsored by
The Newhouse Center in the Humanities, Wellesley College
The Cinema and Media Studies Program, Wellesley College
 

MARCH 8, 2013

 
4: 00-6:00 pm
Keynote | Andrea Hairston (Smith College)
 

Reading with live music: Redwood and Wildfire
Short talk: “Conjuring the Future: Post-colonial Divination”
 

6:00-7:00 pm

Reception in Collins Café
 

7:00-10:00 pm

Film screening
Cloud Atlas (Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, Germany/US, 2012)
Hosted by Winifred Wood (Wellesley College)
 

MARCH 9, 2013
 

Symposium
 

8:30-9 am Coffee
 

9:00-9:15 am
Welcoming Remarks
Carol Dougherty (Wellesley College)
Mingwei Song (Wellesley College)
 

9:15-10:45am

Panel 1:
Globalization and Transculturation: Familiar and Alien Worlds
 
Chair: Lawrence Rosenwald (Wellesley College)
 

“This Fractal, Alien World: SF in the Global Moment”
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. (Depauw University)
 

“Remixing Science Fiction in Latin America”
Andrew Brown (Washington University)
 

“Great Wall Planet: The Estrangement of Chinese Science Fiction”
Veronica Hollinger (Trent University)
  

11:00-12:30 pm

Panel 2:
Transgressive Possibilities: Ancient Epic, Space Opera, and Cultural
Politics
 
Chair: David Ward (Wellesley College)
 

“Ramayana-based Science Fiction: Transgressive Possibilities”
Vandana Singh (Writer, Framingham State University)
 

 “Galaxy Goes South: Argentine Science Fiction and the Era of the Global
Space Age”
Rachel Haywood Ferreira (Iowa State University)
 

“The Italian (Milky)Way to Science Fiction”
Jadel Andreetto (Independent Writer)
 

12:30-1:30 pm

Lunch break
 

1:30-3:00

Panel 3:
The New Order: The Postcolonial, the Post-Cold War, and the Posthuman
 
Chair: Rosalind Williams (MIT)
 

“Race, Nation, and Imperial Anxieties in Black Science Fiction from the
Nadir”
Lysa Rivera (Western Washington University)
 

“Global and Science-Fictional Dimensions of the Korean Demilitarized Zone”
Seo-Young Chu (Queens College, CUNY)
 

 “Beyond the Body: Posthuman Adolescents in Gantz”
Miri Nakamura (Wesleyan University)
 

3:00-3:30 pm

Coffee break
 

3:30-5:00 pm

Panel 4:
Terrorized Planet: Melancholia of the Future History
 
Chair: David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University)
 

"Apocalyptic Utopias: Miyazaki Hayao and the Possibility of Nostalgia for
the Future."
Susan Napier (Tufts University)
 

“Revolutionary Resistance and the Totalitarian State: The Specter of the
West German RAF in Juli Zeh’s The Method.”
Patricia Mezler (Temple University/ Wellesley College Newhouse Fellow)
 

 “2066, Red Star over America: Utopia and the Uncanny in Chinese Science
Fiction”
Mingwei Song (Wellesley College)


-- 
Mingwei Song
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Wellesley College
106 Central Street, Green Hall 230
Wellesley, MA 02481
Email: msong2 at wellesley.edu
Tel: 781-283-3588