The SF Literature and Theory division of the International Association
of the Fantastic in the Arts seeks paper and panel proposals for the
31st International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts which will
be held March 17th ? 21st, 2010 in Orlando, Florida at the Marriott
Orlando Airport Hotel.
The topic of this year?s conference is ?Race and the Fantastic.?
Papers related to this topic, as well as to the work of our guests of
honor and attending authors, are especially welcome; as always,
proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels
on any aspect of sf literature are also welcome.
Of particular interest to the SF Literature and Theory division for
this year?s theme are papers exploring:
· the alien in SF
· postcolonial readings of SF
· alternative history SF reimagining imperial history
· images of post-racial futures
· the race of robots, androids and cyborgs
The guests of honor and guest scholar for 2010 are as follows:
Guest of Honor: Nalo Hopkinson, award-winning author of Blackheart
Man, Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, Skin
Folk, The New Moon?s Arms; editor/co-editor of Whispers from the
Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, Mojo: Conjure Stories,
Tesseracts 9, and So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction
& Fantasy
Guest of Honor: Laurence Yep, award-wining author of Sweetwater,
Hiroshima, Dragonwings, Child of the Owl, Sea Glass, Dragon Steel, The
Rainbow People, Dragon?s Gate, Dream Soul, The Junior Thunder Lord;
co-editor of American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices
Guest Scholar: Takayuki Tatsumi, author of Full Metal Apache:
Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America, Cyberpunk
America, Japanese SF Controversies: 1957-1997; co-editor of Robot
Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
Attending authors and scholars at the 2010 conference will include:
Joe Haldeman, Stephen R. Donaldson, Andy Duncan, Candas Jane Dorsey,
Kathleen Ann Goonan and Patricia McKillip.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
In order to be considered for the 2010 program, your proposal to (1)
read a paper, (2) recruit and chair a paper session, or (3) organize
and chair a panel discussion should be date-stamped no later than
October 31, 2009; electronic correspondence is welcome. Proposals must
be sent to the appropriate Division Head. Advise the Division Head if
you would like to volunteer to chair a paper session. Proposals must
include a 500-word abstract and appropriate bibliography indicating
the project's scholarly or theoretical context. Presenters must be
members of IAFA at the time of the conference. Be sure to indicate
all audio-visual equipment needs in this initial proposal; later A/V
requests cannot be guaranteed.
Submissions and inquiries may be directed to Film and Media division
head Sherryl Vint, Brock University ((SVINT /at/ BROCKU.CA)).
More information and updates are available at the IAFA Web site:
http://www.iafa.org.
