CFP: SF and the Canon

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An intriguingly positioned set of speakers.

SF and the Canon

Proposals for 20 minute papers are sought for a one day conference to take place at Anglia Ruskin University on Saturday 24 March 2007. The conference seeks to explore interfaces between the genre of science fiction (often studied in isolation or not at all) and more traditional, canonical literatures and discourses. There will be panels on SF and the classical tradition, SF and Shakespeare and SF and the Victorians. Confirmed speakers include Michael Bywater, Joss Hands, Tony Keen, Genevieve Liveley, Nick Lowe, Katy Price, Jonathan Sawday, Peter Stockwell and Rowlie Wymer. Please send proposals (approx. 300 words) to Professor Sarah Annes Brown, Department of English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT. (sarah.brown@anglia.ac.uk).

Comments

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Perhaps I need to add I don't think she/they are necessarily starting from the wrong place - indeed sometimes someone outside the whale is better placed to ask the right questions. Different rather than wrong. (Although I can imagine people feeling that is the same thing...

When the fantasy theory roundtable at ICFA was on Mark Bould's intro to the HM marxism and fantasy special issue, there was a distinct sense that he wasn't talking to the people in the room. Just as if he were to be writing on Marxism in Vector or Foundation he would not be talking to members of Respect. It felt like a moment for which the word Differend was coined - the two parties don't necessarily share the same language to argue in, let alone agree in.

I think it's worth trying to have the conversation though.

Still, I'll put an abstract together and see what comes of it - although if I go to ICFA funds will be low.