The 2011 Eaton Science Fiction Conference

The 2011 Eaton Science Fiction Conference, cosponsored by the University of California, Riverside's Libraries and College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, will be held at the Mission Inn Hotel and Spa in Riverside, California, on February 11-12. The topic of the conference is "Global Science Fiction." A flyer and complete program for the event can be found here:

http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/index.php

Friday, February 11, will feature a full day of paper sessions. Saturday, February 12, will feature sessions through the early afternoon. All of these will be held in the Mission Inn.

Beginning at 4 PM on Saturday, a plenary session will be held in Culver Center in the nearby UCR Arts Block. The plenary events will include: a keynote address by UCR Professor of Creative Writing Mike Davis; a panel on Global Science Fiction with attending authors China Mieville, Nalo Hopkinson, and Karen Tei Yamashita, and SF scholar Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.; and an awards ceremony that will feature the announcements of this year's winner of the Student Science Fiction Short Story Contest, the R.D. Mullen Reseach Fellowships supporting work in the Eaton archive, and the presentation of the Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award to Samuel R. Delany (in absentia) and to Harlan Ellison (who will be in attendance). A reception follows the plenary session.

Full registration for the conference is $165. Single-day registrations are available for $75. We have also arranged a special rate for University of California students of $25 on Friday and $20 on Saturday. The latter does not include attendance at the plenary session. Some tickets are available for the plenary session at a cost of $50. For more information about registration, please contact Sarah Allison at .

The Eaton Conference will be preceded by the third annual Science Fiction Studies Symposium, which will also be held at the Mission Inn on Thursday, February 10, from 2:30 until 5 PM. The Symposium is free and open to the public. A flyer with information about that event can be found at:

http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/2011/symposium_flyer.pdf