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Saturday, October 19
 

10:00am PDT

But that’s not what I meant!
Saturday October 19, 2024 10:00am - 10:50am PDT
Madison
Business communication tips for those of us on the geek spectrum.
Moderators
JH
Panelists
MN
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S
Saturday October 19, 2024 10:00am - 10:50am PDT
Madison
  GENERAL INTEREST

11:00am PDT

SARS-CoV-2 Did Everything Wrong
Saturday October 19, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PDT
Madison
Fast movement. High mortality. Clear and obvious symptoms. Transmission only after illness starts. Vaccines that grant full and permanent immunity. These are common tropes in fictional plagues, but we saw almost none of this things with the COVID-19 pandemic. How did our narratives of plague wind up this way, and what kind of stories do we need to prepare for the next one?
Moderators
KL
Panelists
TW
KC
JK
Saturday October 19, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PDT
Madison
  SCIENCE FICTION

1:00pm PDT

Laws Tax Codes and Society Oh My!
Saturday October 19, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
Madison
What is the future of our laws, rules, and societal systems? Will laws and tax codes become increasingly complex simply because we have more tools to adapt to them, or will there be an effective push to simplify? What about corporate and governmental bureaucracy? How much is our society, positively and negatively, affected by complexity and how might it change, for better or worse?
Moderators
CM
Panelists
RM
MA
DR
Saturday October 19, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
Madison
  SOCIETY POLITICS AND HISTORY

2:00pm PDT

The Population Bomb Has Fizzled
Saturday October 19, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
Madison
The birth rate in all nations has declined, in many places below replacement levels in some (Italy, Japan, ...) dramatically so. What does a world look like when there are more people over 80 then under 18?
Moderators
WR
Panelists
LW
AN
EL
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D.L. Solum

Debut Author of the Dark-Thriller-Urban-Fantasy series: Persephone-A Tale of Darker Seattle. Long time medieval re-enactor and arms and armor specialist.
Saturday October 19, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
Madison
  SOCIETY POLITICS AND HISTORY

3:00pm PDT

Climate Change: the Good the Bad and the Ugly
Saturday October 19, 2024 3:00pm - 3:50pm PDT
Madison
The terrible news about the risks of climate change are almost impossible to dodge, as are the attempts to "greenwash" the organizations and institutions that are responsible for the current situation and essential to resolving it. But there is also a lot of cause for hope, from technological advances in renewable energy and new battery chemistries, to the newly adopted UN treaty on protecting the world's open oceans after 20 years of negotiations by more than 190 seafaring nations.
Moderators
HD
Panelists
WR
AD
AS
Saturday October 19, 2024 3:00pm - 3:50pm PDT
Madison
  SOCIETY POLITICS AND HISTORY

4:00pm PDT

Alternative History Examined
Saturday October 19, 2024 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
Madison
We've all heard the term, Alternative History. What does it really mean? Do you have to be a history freak to understand it or merely like reading a "what might have been" adventure story? How would you change history to make an engaging story?
Moderators
SA
Panelists
LW
AA
MA
AB
Saturday October 19, 2024 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
Madison
  SOCIETY POLITICS AND HISTORY

5:00pm PDT

Fantasy before Tolkien
Saturday October 19, 2024 5:00pm - 5:50pm PDT
Madison
What are the essential works of fantasy that preceded The Hobbit? Among the pre-Tolkien greats, which could still be essential reading today?
Moderators
LW
Panelists
KL
GT
TW
Saturday October 19, 2024 5:00pm - 5:50pm PDT
Madison
  FANTASY AND HORROR

6:00pm PDT

Beyond Anthropocentrism
Saturday October 19, 2024 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
Madison
What are examples of anthropocentrism? Would society and the environment benefit if people moved beyond a anthropocentric (human-centered) view, and is this possible? If so, what strategies could we use for this?
Moderators
AS
Panelists
EL
MF
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Tara Campbell

Fiction Editor, Barrelhouse
Tara Campbell is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse. She received her MFA from American University. Previous publication credits include SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, Wigleaf, Booth, Jellyfish Review, Strange Horizons, and CRAFT Literary... Read More →
Saturday October 19, 2024 6:00pm - 6:50pm PDT
Madison
  SOCIETY POLITICS AND HISTORY

7:00pm PDT

Humor in Science Fiction
Saturday October 19, 2024 7:00pm - 7:50pm PDT
Madison
Humor can be challenging enough to present in "our" time and place in light of what different human cultures of the here-and-now may consider humorous -- or insulting. How much more difficult might it be when we also factor in the variables of future alien civilizations with nonhuman intelligent beings?
Moderators
BB
Panelists
DB
AO
MA
Saturday October 19, 2024 7:00pm - 7:50pm PDT
Madison
  SCIENCE FICTION
 
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