A Commonwealth of Science Fiction
Liverpool Foresight Centre
(Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 August 2004)
Liverpool, UK
An Event Organised By The Science Fiction Foundation
Guests of Honour: Damien Broderick, Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Nalo
Hopkinson Call for Papers
By the end of the twentieth century, sf had come to be dominated by
American books and magazines produced by writers in the
Gernsbackian-Campbellian tradition. Equally television, films and
comics have been dominated by agendas and conventions established in
Hollywood and New York. But this is not the only kind of science
fiction available to writers and readers, producers and consumers. At
the moment there is a boom in British sf, in recently years there has
been a boom in Australian sf, and Canadian sf continues to thrive.
Sometimes challenging the US tradition, sometimes appropriating it,
sometimes entirely separate, there is a whole Commonwealth of Science
Fiction.
Building on the success of the 2001: A Celebration of British Science
Fiction event we wish to bring scholars, critics, researchers,
academics, librarians and readers together to consider that
Commonwealth and the commonweal: the Empire writing back, centres and
margins, national histories of sf, national identity and science
fiction, dialects and idiolects, hybrid identities, post-imperial
melancholy, international and local markets, the 'Special
Relationship', the Pacific Rim vs. the North Atlantic, and discoveries
and rediscoveries, evaluations and re-evaluations of science fiction in
any media, written or visual, from Commonwealth countries.
Send abstracts or expressions of interest to: Andrew M Butler, Dept of
Media and Arts, Canterbury Christ Church University College,
Canterbury, CT1 1QU, UK or email amb21@cant.ac.uk by 31 January 2004.
Dr Andrew M Butler
Media and Cultural Studies
Canterbury Christ Church University College
Ext 3127
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amb21@cant.ac.uk
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