WisCon Schedule!
May. 22nd, 2023 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forestofgloryI'm heading to WisCon latter this week!
I'll be on two online panels on Friday:
The Social life of Recs
Online Zoom Room 1 • Fandom as a Way of Life • Fri 1:00 PM–2:15 PM
Recs (short for recommendations) play an important social role. Recs can be a way to share joy and build community. Talking about the things you love can help connect with other people who have similar taste. However recs can sometimes be a problem as well. What happens when you don't like the thing your friend recced? Let's talk about the social role of recs.
Imaginary Book Club
Online Zoom Room 2 • Fandom as a Way of Life • Fri 7:30 PM–8:45 PM
Five panelists discuss books they've read in the last year—even though those books (technically) do not exist—and improvise commentary with each other. This year's subjects may include: a newly discovered eighteenth-century robot romance, the Complete Animorphs as annotated by Thomas Pynchon, and an office-worker horror anthology called "Break Room".
And I'm also moding one the new Roundtables on Monday.
Epistolary Fiction
Conference 4 • Reading, Viewing, and Critiquing Science Fiction • Mon 10:00 AM–11:15 AM
Roundtable discussion. Epistolary Fiction, or stories that consist of letters and other artifacts, have a long history. In an age where distance seems smaller every day, why does epistolary fiction still have an appeal, whether it's emails, text messages, social media, or book reviews? Is there something unique about the format that allows for a different type of storytelling? Are we just powerless to resist the implicit intimacy reading others' correspondence implies? Come join a discussion of the appeal, and challenges, of reading and writing epistolary fiction.
If you are going to be there and want to meet up let me know!
I'll be on two online panels on Friday:
The Social life of Recs
Online Zoom Room 1 • Fandom as a Way of Life • Fri 1:00 PM–2:15 PM
Recs (short for recommendations) play an important social role. Recs can be a way to share joy and build community. Talking about the things you love can help connect with other people who have similar taste. However recs can sometimes be a problem as well. What happens when you don't like the thing your friend recced? Let's talk about the social role of recs.
Imaginary Book Club
Online Zoom Room 2 • Fandom as a Way of Life • Fri 7:30 PM–8:45 PM
Five panelists discuss books they've read in the last year—even though those books (technically) do not exist—and improvise commentary with each other. This year's subjects may include: a newly discovered eighteenth-century robot romance, the Complete Animorphs as annotated by Thomas Pynchon, and an office-worker horror anthology called "Break Room".
And I'm also moding one the new Roundtables on Monday.
Epistolary Fiction
Conference 4 • Reading, Viewing, and Critiquing Science Fiction • Mon 10:00 AM–11:15 AM
Roundtable discussion. Epistolary Fiction, or stories that consist of letters and other artifacts, have a long history. In an age where distance seems smaller every day, why does epistolary fiction still have an appeal, whether it's emails, text messages, social media, or book reviews? Is there something unique about the format that allows for a different type of storytelling? Are we just powerless to resist the implicit intimacy reading others' correspondence implies? Come join a discussion of the appeal, and challenges, of reading and writing epistolary fiction.
If you are going to be there and want to meet up let me know!
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Date: 2023-05-22 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-26 09:10 am (UTC)(found this post by searching Dreamwidth for "WisCon")
Glad you like the idea! Here's how to run it in case you want to bring it to another con!
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Date: 2023-06-01 04:17 pm (UTC)