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In Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the SF Imagination
| Location: | Alabama, United Kingdom |
| Conference Date: | 2009-04-03 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-09-24 |
| Announcement ID: |
164194 |
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The UAHuntsville Department of English invites paper proposals for a graduate student conference devoted to the general exploration of Darko Suvin’s claim that the estranging function of science fiction allows us to “redescribe the known world and open up new possibilities of intervening into it.” Potential topics include (but are not limited to) intersections of SF with the following:
Feminism
Critical race theory
Postcolonial studies
Ecocriticism
Utopia/Dystopia
Film studies
Globalization
Queer theory
Citizenship studies
Border studies
Architecture
Science and technology
Comics/graphic novels
Keynotes: Dr. Phillip E. Wegner
Tobias S. Buckell
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Dr. Eric Smith
University of Alabama in Huntsville
222 Morton Hall
Huntsville, AL 35899
(256) 824-2374
Email: eric.smith@uah.edu
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