There’s a draft program up on the ICFA web site. (Because they don’t allow deep linking you’ll have to go to the home page and click on the link at the right that says “Preliminary Online Program for ICFA-31” – silly people.) My paper is in a session on posthumanism, but it sort of fits there because so much of the discussion of trans people in SF is in that context. The conference itself is focused on race and there is very little gender material this year. And provisionally I have Saturday morning, not too horribly early, which suits me fine.
I’m looking forward to the conference already. There’s loads of interesting material there. I’m particularly interested in Irma’s paper: “Queer Con: Finnish Anime Fandom as a Queer Space”. She’s also on a panel titled: “Antifans: What Fans Love to Hate”. Is that about me, by any chance?
Most of the time, however, I’ll be busy talking to people about the Translation Awards. I’m delighted to see that there is a whole panel on Mexican science fiction, apparently full of Mexican science fiction writers, including Pepe Rojo whose story I thought was the standout piece in Cosmos Latinos. Awesome! (Larry, you should be there.)
Any offer to help with the web site will be gratefully received. Sadly, when it comes to academia, web skills are hard to find.
I’d be happy to talk to them in March, but what they have done with the URLs is not a result of lack of skill, it is a deliberate decision.
“(Because they don’t allow deep linking ”
Because I’m such a techno luddite, how do they do that?
Maybe because I am such a techno luddite is there some reason I shouldn’t be able to do this: http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/iafa/icfa28/icfa2010draftprogramjan22.htm ??
Currently channeling my inner Howard Waldrop.
Oh, well done. As they mask the URLs when a page is displayed I figured they’d do that everywhere. Should have taken the time to look, shouldn’t I.
(Of course that makes what they are doing even sillier.)
The http://www.WSFA.org site is the same way, and a right click on the page brings up a menu with assorted options, such as “This Frame” then “Show only this frame”.
It’s certainly not intuitive.
this sounds really interesting, I wish I could go.