2nd anniversary of best-ever Canadian academic conference on science fiction
by Rob - September 13th, 2015.Filed under: McMaster Conference.
Two years ago today, the biggest and best academic conference ever held about science fiction in Canada began at McMaster University. “Science Fiction: The Interdisciplinary Genre” — three days with multiple tracks — was hosted there in honour of the receipt by McMaster of my professional archives (subsequently certified as being of “outstanding significance and national importance” by the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board). The conference was fabulous, the papers — many on my work — uniformly excellent, and the event was a career highlight for me.
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September 14th, 2015 at 8:07 pm
They need to have another conference – for purely selfish reasons. I couldn’t make it to that one, but the idea fascinates me. As a philosophy professor, I have started teaching a “Metaphysics and Science Fiction” course (although I mix in a healthy dose of epistemology as well, but the title would be too clunky with that thrown in), and am working in a fair amount of sci fi into my Philosophy of Mind course as well.
An interdisciplinary academic look at sci fi would really great. Have to hunt around to see if there are others, but I really wished McMaster made it into a regular offering.