[ecrea] CFP SF/F Now and M John Harrison conferences

SF/F Now and Irradiating the Object: M. John Harrison conferences

Warwick University (UK)

21-23 August 2014

Deadline for proposals 31 March 2014



http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/sf

https://www.facebook.com/events/183568798514822/ and 
https://www.facebook.com/events/746044732091348/



SF/F Now (22-23 August) is a 2-day international, interdisciplinary 
conference showcasing current research into the fantastic in any medium. 
We invite proposals (300-500 words) for 20-minute papers or 
pre-constituted panels (3x20 minute related papers) on the current state 
of the fantastic, contemporary research into the fantastic, or the ways 
in which sf, fantasy and the weird grapple with and illuminate the 
crucial political and social issues of the moment. Please include 
details of institutional affiliation and any AV requirements.



In addition to conventional panels, the conference will include a series 
of innovative workshops led by pairs of international specialists:

Animal Studies Tom Tyler (Oxford Brookes), Sherryl Vint (UC Riverside)

Crisis and Protest Mark Fisher (Goldsmiths), Carl Freedman (LSU)

Energy and Petrofiction Graeme MacDonald (Warwick), Imre Szeman (Alberta)

Environmental Studies Gerry Canavan (Marquette), Pablo Mukherjee (Warwick)

Humanity 2.0 Veronica Hollinger (Trent), Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin)

Science Studies Joan Haran (Cardiff), Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck)

Utopia and the City Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck), Lisa Garforth (Newcastle)

World Systems and World Sf Andrew Milner (Monash), Stephen Shapiro (Warwick)



The conference will be accompanied by a season of films, including a 
programme of indigenous futurist shorts curated by Grace Dillon 
(Portland State).



For further information, see our website 
(http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/sf) or join our FB event 
page (http://on.fb.me/1ce1dfn)



SF/F Now will be preceded by a one-day conference, Irradiating the 
Object: M. John Harrison (21 August 2014), in collaboration with Gylphi, 
on one of Britain’s leading sf and fantasy writers and critics.



M. John Harrison persistently upsets distinctions between genres and 
between literary and popular fiction, and challenges our desire for the 
fantastic. His fiction – whether space opera (The Centauri Device, the 
Kefahuchi Tract trilogy), near-future thriller (Signs of Life), ironic 
post-apocalypticism (The Committed Men), weird horror (The Course of the 
Heart), magic realism (Climbers) or sword’n’sorcery and baroque fantasy 
(the Viriconium stories) – unerringly charts transformations of British 
social, political and physical landscapes. The agenda-setting literary 
editor of Michael Moorcock’s New Worlds who thirty years later unearthed 
the New Weird, he is the most demanding of genre critics.



Keynote speakers: Sara Wasson (Edinburgh-Napier University), Fred 
Botting (Kingston University)



M. John Harrison will give a reading and participate in a Q&A session.



We invite proposals (300-500 words) for 20-minute papers or 
pre-constituted panels (3x20 minute related papers) on any aspect of 
Harrison’s fiction and career. Please include details of institutional 
affiliation and any AV requirements. Selected papers will appear in a 
collection co-edited by Mark Bould and Rhys Williams.



For further information, see our website 
(http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/sf) or join our FB event 
page Irradiating the Object (http://on.fb.me/1dSlKmV).



Conference fees

Irradiating the Object £20

SF/F Now £40

To attend both £50



A small number of travel and accommodation bursaries will be available 
for students attending all three days of the conference(s). For those 
wishing to apply, please include a CV with you proposal.



Please address any queries and submit proposals to Rhys Williams 
((A.Rhys.Williams /at/ warwick.ac.uk)) and/or Mark Bould ((mark.bould /at/ gmail.com)).







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