Conference Announcement
&
Call For Papers
Blacks In Science Fiction: A New Frontier
Howard University, Washington, D.C.
March 27-28, 2003
This interdisciplinary conference aims to engage the literature of
African-American science fiction writers and their role in defining the genre.
Creating a forum that will produce research and other materials necessary
to further analyze the writing of black bodies in fiction and Popular
Culture are all crucial goals for this conference. At its core are
exchanges of ideas and identity theories surrounding the African-American
in a genre of literature and film that has only recently been considered
as a viable space for Black experiences.
Topics to be covered will include, but not be limited to, the list below.
Contributions focusing on the works of Octavia Butler (Key Note Speaker),
Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Samuel Delaney, Steven Barnes, and LeVar
Burton are particularly welcome.
The Absence/Presence of Race in Science Fiction; African-American/Caribbean
Folklore and Science Fiction; Matriarchies and Patriarchies of the Future;
Speculative Fiction vs Science Fiction; Gender Construction in the
Past/Present/ Future; Embracing Difference; Sacrifice and Survival; Time
Travel for the African-American; Memory as a Time Machine; Slave Narratives
of the Future; Aliens and Black Bodies; Immortality and the Ancestors;
Robots and Slaves; White and Other on the Silver Screen; Lilith and Other
Black Witches.
To submit essays or get more information about conference and participants
please contact the conference organizer:
Gregory J. Hampton, M.A., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of African-American Literature
Department of English
Howard University
Locke Hall 212
2400 Sixth Street
Washington, D.C. 20059
(202) 806-5611
ghampton@howard.edu
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