Wednesday, September 25
7:30 pm Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Illinois Modern Ensemble concert featuring premieres by guest composers Fernando Benadon (American University) and Dmitri Tymoczko (Princeton), plus music by Claude Vivier and a “Beethoven mash-up” with guests artist Professor Timothy Ehlen and the Jupiter String Quartet
Thursday, September 26
9:00am Levis Faculty Center
Welcome remarks : Professors Stephen Taylor and Robert Markley
Featured Speaker : Lisa Yaszek (Georgia Tech) on International Science Fiction
10:30am Break
11:00am Levis Faculty Center
Featured Speaker : Minister Faust on Afrofuturism, Black Nationalist eschatology, and the meanings of Parliament-Funkadelic’s Mothership
Lunch Break
2:00pm Levis Faculty Center
Panel on Science Fiction Literature and Humanities Research at Illinois
Associate Professor Kevin Hamilton, moderator
- LeAnne Howe, Professor, American Indian Studies, English, and Theatre
- Jake Bowers, Associate Professor, Political Science and NCSA
- Rob Barrett, Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies
- Jodi Byrd, Acting Director and Associate Professor, American Indian Studies
- Robert Markley, Trowbridge Professor of English, Writing Studies, and Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
4:00pm Music Building Auditorium
Keynote Lecture : Kim Stanley Robinson
7:30pm Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Illinois Wind Symphony concert featuring music by Taylor, Bates, and guest composer Perry Goldstein
Friday, September 27
9:00am Levis Faculty Center
Graduate Student Presentations
- Shawn Ballard (English), “David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas as Sestet, Concertina, and Potentiality”
- Michael Black (English), “Better Living Through Technology?: Kim Stanley Robinson and Public Debate over Technoscience Policy”
- Brandon Jones (English), “The Natural Politics of Wonder: Music, Complexity, and the Life Sciences in Richard Powers’s The Gold Bug Variations and Ian McEwan’s Saturday“
10:15am Break
10:30am Levis Faculty Center
Panel on Science Fiction Literature and Arts Research at Illinois
Associate Professor Kevin Hamilton, moderator
- Therese Thierney, Assistant Professor of Architecture
- Tammie Rubin, Assistant Professor of Crafts/Ceramics
- John Boesche, Associate Professor of Theater
- Robert Riley, Professor Emeritus, Landscape Architecture and Architecture
11:30am Levis Faculty Center
Panel on Science Fiction Literature and Music
Associate Professor Stephen Taylor, moderator
- Minister Faust, Guest Writer
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Guest Writer
- Dexter Palmer, Guest Writer
- Fernando Benadon, Composer
- Perry Goldstein, Composer
- Dmitri Tymoczko, Composer
12:30am Lunch Break
3:00pm Music Building Auditorium
Writing Another Future: A concert of Electroacoustic Music from the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios