Speakers

Keynotes

  • N. Katherine Hayles, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Literature at Duke University. “Theorizing the Global Influence of Digital Media through the Technogenetic Spiral”
  • Thomas Lamarre, James McGill Professor in East Asian Studies and Communications Studies, McGill University. “Humans and Machines — Media Interface after the Cyborg”
Filmmaker

Panelists

  • Ritch Calvin, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory, Stony Brook University. “Post-Apocalyptic Narrative in Short SF Cinema”
  • Michelle Cho, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Studies and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University. “A Disenchanted Fantastic: The Pathos of Objects in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Air Doll”
  • Steve Choe, Assistant Professor, Film Studies, University of Iowa. “The Invention of Romance: Park Chan-wook’s I’m a Cyborg, But That’s Okay”
  • Robyn Citizen, PhD Candidate in Cinema Studies, New York University. “Are Black Women the Future of Man?: The Shifting Constructions of Black Femininity and Women in Science-Fiction Films”
  • William B. Covey, Associate Professor of English, Slippery Rock University. “Hell is Other People: The Joy of Technotise: Edit and I”
  • Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Professor of English and World Literature, Depauw University. WorldCanvass panelist. “What is Estranged in Science Fiction Animation?”
  • Jacob Emery, Assistant Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, Indiana University. “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, or, A Clone Playing Craps Will Never Abolish Chance.”
  • Pawel Frelik, Assistant Professor of English, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland. “Famous for 15 Minutes” – Permutations of Science-Fiction Short Film”
  • Theresa L. Geller, Assistant Professor of Film Theory and History, Grinnell College
    “Becoming-Girl, Becoming-Cyborg: Feminist Dystopia in Live Action East Asian Cinemas”
  • Víctor Goldgel-Carballo, Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Estrellas (Federico León and Marcos Martínez, 2007): Breaking the SF Frame”
  • Matthew Goodwin,“The Eyes of Real Labor and the Illusions of Virtual Reality in Sleep Dealer and ‘Reaching the Shore’”
  • Everett Hamner, Assistant Professor of English, Western Illinois University
    “The Virtual Immigrant: Sleep Dealer, Science Fiction Cinema, and the Borders of Biotech”
  • Rachel Haywood Ferreira, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Iowa State University. WorldCanvass panelist. “Argentines on Mars: From 19th-Century Text to 21st-Century Claymation”
  • Nathaniel Isaacson, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, North Carolina State University. WorldCanvass panelist. “Media and Messages: Blurred Visions of Nation and Science in “‘Death Ray on a Coral
    Island’”
  • Sami Ahmad Khan, Fulbright FLTA, University of Iowa; PhD Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University. WorldCanvass panelist. “Bollywood’s Encounters with the Third Kind: Navrasas, Materiality and Mythology”
  • Brooks Landon, Professor of English, University of Iowa. WorldCanvass panelist
  • Rob Latham, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
    WorldCanvass panelist
  • Walter Metz, Professor of Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois State University. “What’s Surprising About This Dream Ship?: (T)Raumschiff Surprise (2004) and German Sci-Fi Parody”
  • Sharalyn Orbaugh, Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of British Columbia. WorldCanvass panelist. “Who Does the Feeling When There’s No Body There? Cyborg Affect in the Films of Oshii Mamoru”
  • Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai, Assistant Professor of English, Michigan State University.
    “Enthriran (Robot, 2010): Asimov, Sujatha and Transnational Travels”
  • Baryon Tensor Posadas, Postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Studies, McGill U. “Remakes and Retroactive Continuities: Intertextuality and Empire in Japanese Science Fiction Cinema”
  • Garrett Stewart, Professor of English, University of Iowa. “The Surveillant Eye: Recent Screen Sci Fi, Digital Paranoia, and Globallistics”
  • Julie Turnock, Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “‘That’s an Alien Bruv, Believe It’: Genre Exportability and the Transnational Visual Effects Business”
  • Sherryl Vint, Professor of English, Brock University. “The Biopolitics of Globalization in Damir Lukacevic’s Transfer”
  • David Wittenberg, Associate Professor of English, University of Iowa.
  • Travis Workman, Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. “Corporate Aliens and State Monsters: Figures of Inhumanity in the Sci-fi of Divided Korea”
  • Wei Yang, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Film Studies, University of the South. “Voyage into an Unknown Future: SF Film as a ‘Subaltern’ Genre in Chinese Cinemas”