STaC Related Events
Tournees--Recent French Cinema Series
April 11-21, 2005
All programs begin at 7:00 p.m. in room 236 of Georgia Tech’s Global Learning Center, Technology Square, 85 5th St. (between Spring and Williams). FREE and open to the public.
This series is co-curated by Professor Angela Dalle Vacche and Rodney Hill.
Film at Tech has full details along with the movie listings.
Thursday, April 7, 2005
THOMAS LUX
presents
ROBERT BLY and HEATHER McHUGH
The LeCraw Auditorium
1st floor of the College of Management Building in Technology Square
800 West Peachtree St.
7:00 p.m., FREE
Open to the Public
No Tickets or Reservations Required
Book sale and signing to follow the reading
What: “Monstrous Bodies in Science, Fiction, and Culture: Celebrating 25 Years of the Fantastic in the Arts at Georgia Tech”
When: March 31-April 1, 2005
Where: Bill Moore Student Success Center, Georgia Tech
From March 31st through April 1st the School of Literature, Communication and Culture (LCC) will host a two-day symposium in which participants explore the meaning of monstrous bodies in science, fiction, and culture. The symposium, which will take place in the Bill Moore Student Success Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is free of charge and open to all interested parties.
The symposium celebrates both LCC’s ongoing commitment to the study of the fantastic in the arts and, more specifically, the pivotal role that LCC Professor Emeritus Irving F. “Bud” Foote played in shaping this commitment. Foote taught the first accredited science fiction class at Tech in the early 1970s and over the course of the next two decades brought a number of science fiction writers to Tech including Frederik Pohl, Ursula K. LeGuin, Octavia Butler, and Kim Stanley Robinson. Upon his retirement in 1997 Foote donated 8000 science fiction-related items to the Georgia Tech Library, and the Bud Foote Science Fiction Collection was born. With additional gifts from Georgia Tech alumni and science fiction authors such as David Brin and Kathleen Ann Goonan, the Bud Foote Collection is now one of the twenty largest research collections of its kind.
The Monstrous Bodies symposium will commemorate both Professor Foote’s legacy and LCC’s continued dedication to the study of the fantastic in the arts by featuring student research on and creative writing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and the gothic. The symposium will also include art and film exhibits as well as presentations by local scholars, science fiction writers, editors, publishers, and artists from Adult Swim, Cartoon Network’s late-night cartoon programming for adult audiences.
Our special guests of honor are two leading figures in fantastic art and scholarship: science fiction author Paul di Filippo and popular culture expert Rhonda Wilcox. In 2004 Di Filippo received the Prix L’Imaginaire for his short story “Sisyphus and the Stranger”; other stories have been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, Philip K. Dick, Wired Magazine, and World Fantasy Awards as well. Wilcox is the author of the forthcoming book Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Television and coeditor of Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies.
If you have any other questions or comments, contact conference coordinator Prof. Lisa Yaszek (lisa.yaszek@lcc.gatech.edu) or conference assistant Amelia Shackelford (gte697v@mail.gatech.edu).
For more information
On the symposium, please visit http://monstrousbodies.lcc.gatech.edu;
On the Bud Foote Science Fiction Collection, please visit http://sf.lcc.gatech.edu;
On previous student work in the Bud Foote Collection, please visit http://sciencefictionlab.lcc.gatech.edu.
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