{"71086":{"#nid":"71086","#data":{"type":"event","title":"The Shape of Things to Come: Science Fiction at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch3\u003EThe Shape of Things to Come: Science Fiction at Georgia Tech\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EA Symposium hosted by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts School of Literature,Communication, and Culture\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EThursday, November 17, 2011\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Thursday, November 17, the School of Literature, Communication and Culture will host a day-long symposium spotlighting science fiction as a signature intersection of science, technology, and humanistic studies at Georgia Tech. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe symposium will feature a series of scholarly panels involving faculty members from various disciplines, showcasing their involvement in science fiction study across various media, as a cultural phenomenon, and as it relates to issues of scientific and technical development. The symposium will also feature a presentation on the Science Fiction Collection at Georgia Tech (recently cited by \u003Cem\u003EScience Fiction Studies\u003C\/em\u003E as one of the twenty most important such collections in the world), a report on student activities in the Science Fiction Research Lab at Tech, and readings by award-winning and critically-acclaimed science fiction authors Kathleen Ann Goonan, Eugie Foster, J.M. McDermott and Chesya Burke. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAll presentations will be in Skiles Room 02. The Georgia Tech and Atlanta communities are invited to attend.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ESchedule\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E9:30 am-10:45 am:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Science Fiction and Society\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJackie Royster (IAC\/LCC), Tom Morely (MATH), Aaron Santesso (LCC, moderator), Richard Barke (PubP), Christie Champlan Gurley (PubP)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E10:45 am-11:00 am:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Coffee Break\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E11:00 am-12:00 pm:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Science Fiction Collection Presentation and Student Demos\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERyan Speer (LIB), Joshua Cuneo (LCC), Keith Johnson(LCC), Adam LeDoux (LCC), Paul Zaitsev (LCC), Lisa Yaszek (LCC, moderator)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E12:00 pm-1:30 pm:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026nbsp; Catered Lunch with Author Reading and Book Signing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKathy Goonan, \u003Cem\u003EThis Shared Dream \u003C\/em\u003E(LCC)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1:30 pm-2:45 pm:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Speculative Fiction in Literary and Cultural History\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeter Brecke (INTA), Carol Senf (LCC, moderator), Nihad Farooq (LCC), Narin Hassan (LCC)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2:45 pm-3:00 pm:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Coffee Break\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3:00 pm- 4:15 pm:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Science Fiction Across Media \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMichael Nitsche (LCC), Jay Telotte (LCC, moderator), Lisa Yaszek (LCC), Nettrice Gaskins (LCC), Hank Whitefield (LCC) \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E4:30 pm-6:00 pm:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Science Fiction in Atlanta: Author Reading and Book Signing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKathy Goonan (LCC, moderator), J.M. McDermott, Eugie Foster, Chesya Burke\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll events will take place in 02 Skiles and are open to the public except the lunch which is\u0026nbsp;limited to symposium participants and will take place in 343 Skiles.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Thursday, November 17, the School of Literature, Communication and Culture will host a day-long symposium spotlighting science fiction as a signature intersection of science, technology, and humanistic studies at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Science Fiction Symposium Hosted by the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2011-10-11 10:59:23","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:56:19","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-11-17T08:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2011-11-17T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-11-17T17:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-11-17 13:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-11-17 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-11-17 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.lcc.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Literature, Communication, and Culture"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/","title":"Ivan Allen College"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/files\/wysiwyg\/file\/Sci_Fi_PosterD.pdf","title":"Event Flyer"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"875","name":"LCC"},{"id":"167576","name":"sci-fi"},{"id":"167577","name":"science fiction conference"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Lisa Yaszek\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lisa.yaszek@lcc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elisa.yaszek@lcc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}