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20170115 – Women and Gender in Imaginative Fiction Speakers Needed on 04/21/2017 for Ithaca, New York for Pippi to Ripley 4: Gender and Sexuality in Fantasy,Science Fiction and Comics – Free Speaker Bureau Expert Wanted

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04/21/2017 through 04/22/2017
Ithaca College
Ithaca, New York
Pippi to Ripley 4: Gender and Sexuality in Fantasy,Science Fiction and Comics

 

Preferred Meeting Topics:
Women and Gender in Imaginative Fiction

Booking Deadline for Speaker: 01/15/2017

Demographic Mix of the Audience:
50% Male
50% Female

Age Group(s) Expected in Audience:
20-60+

Number of Attendees Expected
100+

Special Details About This Meeting/Audience:

Keynote: SAMMUS performs her acclaimed nerdcore hip-hop and talks about race, geekdom, and feminism.

Special guest: Breakout YA author LJ Alonge

Pippi to Ripley 4 is an interdisciplinary conference with a focus on women and gender in imaginative fiction. We invite papers devoted to fictional characters in all media, including: comics, films, television, and video games as well as in folklore, mythology, and children’s and young adult literature. This year’s conference includes a special focus on:

Fan Intersectionality: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Fan Communities

But we also welcome paper proposals on all aspects of female/gender queer representation within an imaginative context, including but not limited to:

  • Young female and queer characters, especially in media for young adults and children (The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Song of the Lioness, His Dark Materials, The Runaways, Power Pack)
  • Women and their place in futuristic or other worlds (Dystopic Fiction, Classic Science Fiction, Fantasy Worlds, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Babylon 5, Firefly)
  • Female and queer protagonists in urban fantasy and paranormal romance (Buffy, Anita Blake, Sookie Stackhouse, Clary Fray)
  • Gender politics after the apocalypse (Revolution, Falling Skies, Oryx and Crake, Y: The Last Man)
  • Teaching imaginative fictive/offering imaginative fiction-based programming at all levels (Buffy-based courses; graphic novel units, YA dystopias, children’s fantasy)
  • Female and queer characters in updated/adapted fairy tales (Once Upon a Time, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Snow White and the Huntsman, Grimm)
  • The women of superhero films/television with a special focus on differently abled and gender non-conforming characters (Jessica Jones, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Agents of SHIELD)
  • Female-focused comic book series (Ms. Marvel,Wonder Woman, Pretty Deadly, Rocket Girl)
  • Horrific women and women in horror (American Horror Story, Lamia, Carrie, Mama)
  • Science fiction and reproductive body horror (Alien franchise, Twilight, Bloodchild)
  • Cyberpunk and the redefinition of gender (William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Charles Stross)


Scope of the Overall Organization:

Local, National, Global

Name of Meeting Organizer:
Katharine Kittredge

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