Off to Foreign Lands

Well, next month, anyway. I will be at the World Science Fiction Convention (popularly, Worldcon, and more familiarly, Interaction) in Glasgow from August 3-7, and then do a five day research tour before heading back home. My schedule at the con is as follows:

Thursday 2:00pm Fem-Bots and Faeries (1.5 hrs)
Judith Clute, Paul Cockburn, Karen Haber, Madeleine E. Robins, Jannie Shea, Delphyne Woods
"Although we no longer live with the nipple shortage of the 1950s,
fantasy art remains unreconstructed." Why hasn't feminism affected
sf and fantasy art - or has it?

Friday 10:00am Kaffeeklatsch

Friday 12:00 noonThe Return of the Queen: Writing Feminism in a Medieval World
Lillian Stewart Carl, Ellen Kushner, Julianne Lee, Diana L. Paxson, Madeleine E. Robins (M)
The "real" Middle Ages is not known for fostering feminism. Apart
from the upper aristocracy, few women had any power or freedom of
action, and that was limited by the conventions of male society.
What are the effects of introducing feminism to a medieval setting?

Sunday 11:30am Reading (0.5 hrs)

Monday 11:00am Autographing


I intend to have fun and learn things, while leaving the Young in the care of their Father for 12 days.