WISCON!

[oyceter]

Eeeeee! Programming is out for Wiscon! I copy Mely and post my schedule and a poll.

Not Just Japan: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy

"What works of science fiction and fantasy are being produced in Asia today? How does the popularity of anime and manga fit into this, and how do we bring in other Asian nations and not focus solely on Japan? Questions to tackle may include: Can we even classify certain works and genres, such as wuxia, as SF/F, and is there a difference in how speculative fiction in Asia might be thought of? How do people who are just being introduced to Asian SF/F react to a different set of tropes and genre expectations, versus those who grew up with it? And where do Asian-(nationality) folks (e.g. Asian-Americans, British Asians) fit in?"
Friday, 8:45-10:00 P.M.

M: Rachel Kronick
Vandana Singh (!!!!!!!!)
me


Can Internet Drama Change The World?

"Impassioned blog debates have initiated many into feminist praxis, queer critique, and antiracist ideology. But they also generate frustration, disillusionment, and flamewars. Participants in online political discussions are frequently derided for wasting energy that would be better expended in 'real' political work than in online drama, but many can also attest to the importance of online participation to developing understandings of power and privilege. This roundtable will raise questions of the validity and importance of online micro-political interventions, and their relationship to social justice activism on a larger scale."
Sunday, 10:00-11:15 A.M.

M: Alexis Lothian
Julia Starkey
K Tempest Bradford
Woodrow Hill
me

[Poll #1183668]

Comments

[cofax7]

Boo, hiss, I want to attend your panels and especially the guerrilla panel on Octavian Nothing!

Also, I think the Internet Drama one is going to be fascinating. ::rests chin on hands, like Jon Stewart::

[oyceter]

I am looking forward to the Internet Drama one! Yay panelists I know!

Also, I am hoping the Asian Fantasy one goes well, since... I need to brainstorm. And read. A lot.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, I'm looking forward to that one. :)

[the_rck]

I wish I were going. I'd definitely attend a guerrilla panel on bodies in shoujo manga if I were there. I'd skip the one on Octavian Nothing because I haven't read the book (and suspect that it would make me feel a bit too suicidal for me to risk it). For people who have read the book, I expect that such a panel would be fascinating. It sounds like a book that produces very strong reactions in most everyone.

[oyceter]

Octavian Nothing is awesome, and strangely did not make me feel depressed, though it made me feel angry and frustrated and also made me think a lot.

I waaaant the shoujo bodies one so much! Largely because I want feminists to talk about shoujo manga with me!

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

I will go to your panels if you request it! It's totally up to you. :-)

[oyceter]

Only if you are interested and it won't stress you out! Though I'd love to have you in the audience for Asian Fantasy for sure!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Vandana Singh might remember me from "Strange Horizons;" say hello, anyway.

I have no idea what her background is, and she may not be into Indian media at all... but if she is, I want a full report. (Myth! Movies! TV! Comics! Mainstream sf! Magic realism! India has tons of speculative fiction.)

If it does turn out that she grew up in India, ask her if she ever read the serialized epic fantasy stories in a magazine called "Chandamama." I was obsessed with those, and can't remember if they even had an author credit.

[oyceter]

Will do! I will probably also pick your brain in a non-zombie fashion re: Indian fantasy.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Motherfucker. The internet drama panel is scheduled at the same time I am on the white allies, etc. etc. panel.

God damnit. With three absolutely fun people too.

Y'all better record the fun parts in some fashion.

Well at least I know that other people will have to get up early Sunday so I could still have brunching buddies.

[oyceter]

DOH. But! Sunday morning panelist brunch yes yes? When are you getting in and leaving? Hopefully I will get to sit down and talk to you this time instead of waving from a panel!

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

Dude, I will definitely say hi to you! I still remember last year when you noticed me reading Saiyuki manga. As for meals, I'm sure there are tons of people you'd like to eat meals with? But I'd be totally down with that. I know littlebutfierce and read the journals of lots of people on your FL, too (assuming that group!meals are preferred).

I haven't figured out a panel schedule for myself yet, as I think only the panelists have received schedules of any kind. But if I can make them, I will go.

And if there is a guerrilla panel on shoujo bodies, I would most definitely be there.

[oyceter]

Yes, that would be awesome! Also, I was planning on forcing littlebutfierce to eat with me anyway, if she so desires!

Also, omg, I want people to talk about shoujo with me!

[jain]

If it weren't for the fact that I'm catching a flight for Taiwan on the 21st, I would totally love to meet you. (I've never attended Wiscon, but I do live in Madison.) As it is, I'll just wish you the best of luck for a great con experience and say that both of your panels sound fascinating.

[oyceter]

Oh man! Wait, you're going to be in Taiwan? Do you know which parts and when? I will be there for almost all of June and July.

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

I'm just stopping by to say how jealous I am, and also to pimp Powerful Opponents (Chae Rim being a hot bodyguard for the hot president's son!).

I have decided to work my up to WisCon by going to an anime convention in London with my manga obsessed younger cousins.

[oyceter]

I am so sad I will not get to see you, although I will cross my fingers for us meeting somehow in the future.

Also, eeee, anime con!

[heresluck]

Farmers' market, please?

[oyceter]

EEEE I did not realize you were going!!! I forgot, is it Sat. or Sun.? Also, I do get to pitifully whine about caffeine before the market?

[jennifergearing.livejournal.com]

*pouts* Wiscon needs to be less far.

[oyceter]

I knoooow! I wish it were easier for non-USians to come.

[shati.livejournal.com]

Ooh, the bodies in shoujo guerrilla panel sounds awesome! So do both of your official ones. (Actually so does the Octavian Nothing one, I just haven't read the book yet.)

[oyceter]

I knoooow! I am sad I am not on it and that I think it didn't get enough volunteers to be an actual panel.

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

Yay WisCon! Yay Internet Drama panel (thank you for encouraging me to submit it)! I am super excited to meet you!

:D

[oyceter]

I am really looking forward to meeting you!!!

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

I would totally come to an Octavian Nothing panel if I were going to be there!

[oyceter]

Maybe if Mely doesn't get one at Wiscon, we can do one online!

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I will do my best to get to your panels, as long as they don't collide with the panels the wife's on! Did the shoujo bodies panel get knocked off the schedule? I think that was one she signed up to be panel for -- if you're doing a guerrilla panel of it and we are otherwise free, I think we'll do our best to come to that. :)

[oyceter]

I think that was one she signed up to be panel for

AWESOME! I was really worried that only me and Mely volunteered for it, since Wiscon-goers tend to know less about manga (though possibly it is shifting), so I wanted to have it if it was canceled. But! If it is official, that is EVEN BETTER! It had better not conflict with my schedule!

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I demand NOTES on these guerrilla panels, because going there in spirit doesn't provide good transcripts.

[oyceter]

I will try to take lots of notes! And hopefully get around to posting all of them...

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

Sigh. One of these years I will make it to Wiscon. Friends have been trying to get me to go since, like, 2000. Or earlier! It's not even a distance issue for me--my problem is utter failure at Advance Planning.

Anyway, at least I can look forward to everybody's interesting posts on-line!

I absolutely would go to the guerilla shojo manga panel.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Do you read wiscon? People are always posting last minute memberships/rooms there. I might actually be able to get you a membership this year, if you're interested.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

I am feeling dumb. Is the schedule posted on the WisCon site? How does one get word about guerilla panels?

[oyceter]

No, all I know of the schedule is what I have. I sort of assumed Octavian Nothing and shoujo bodies didn't get on because I was assuming there wouldn't be that many panelists volunteering, but if they are official panels, I am so going to them instead!

Spontaneous programming has a board for it at Wiscon, and sometimes people more organized than me make things like flyers.

Are you going to Wiscon?? I had no idea!!

[keilexandra]

Ooooh, you had better write a report on Asian SF/F!

[oyceter]

Will do!