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Videos and Photos from the Tenth Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on “Image in SF”

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The 10th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on “Image in SF” was a great success!

If you missed it, you can watch each session in the videos embedded below.

The original call for papers is here and the program with participant bios can be found here.


Videos of the 10th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium

9:00AM Opening Remarks
Jason Ellis and Justin F. VĂĄzquez-Poritz


9:20AM Paper Session 1
Moderator: Kel Karpinski
Jason Ellis, “10 Year Retrospective”
Mary Billyou, “Pocket Paperback & Pulp Magazine Covers of Important LGBTQIA+ Texts in the City Tech Science Fiction Collection”
Frank Wu, “Images of Aliens and Strange Creatures in Astounding and Analog Science Fiction and Fact“


10:50AM Paper Session 2
Moderator: Wanett Clyde
Richard Rivera, “Cli-Fi and Community Alliance and Reporting Environmental Systems (CARES)”
Jason Ellis, “City Tech SF Collection”
Jim Keen, “Hallucinated Cities: Designing Cognitive Environments Through Image and Imagination”


1:10PM Student Panel: “‘Never did I behold a vision so horrible’: Frankenstein Reimagined”
Moderator: Vivian Zuluaga Papp
Gal Ben Baruch, Gilberto Martinez, Michael Peterkin Jr., Yudesh Ramphal, Chandler Wu, Kaiwei Yu, and Elijah Zindoga


2:10PM Analog/Asimov’s Artists and Writers Panel
Moderator: Emily Hockaday
Donato Giancola
Aleksandra (Ola) Hill
Kris Dikeman
Frank Wu


4:00PM Keynote Address: “Is Contemporary Science Fiction Strange Enough?”
Moderator: Leigh Gold
Keynote Speaker: Carlos Hernandez


Photos of Carlos Hernandez from the Keynote Address

man wearing a sweater speaking in front of a whiteboard and gesturing with his hands
man wearing a sweater speaking in front of a whiteboard and gesturing with his hands
man wearing a sweater speaking in front of a whiteboard and gesturing with his hands
man wearing a sweater speaking in front of a whiteboard and gesturing with his hands
man wearing a sweater speaking in front of a whiteboard and gesturing with his hands