Keynote: Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, York University.
Time: TBA.
Website and registration: https://www.yorku.ca/accsff/Events24.html
The 2024 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held Saturday and Sunday, June 8-9, 2024, at York University. You can see the tentative program here.
The Author Keynote Address will be delivered by Larissa Lai, author of nine books including The Tiger Flu, Salt Fish Girl, and most recently The Lost Century. She has been the recipient of the Jim Duggins Novelist’s Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the Astraea Award, and the Otherwise Honor Book and twice finalist for the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Award, among other honours. She is currently the Richard Charles Lee Chair of Chinese Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Our Scholar Keynote Address speaker will be Nicholas Ruddick, who has been teaching at the University of Regina since 1982. Among his publications are British Science Fiction: A Chronology 1478-1990 (1993), Ultimate Island: On the Nature of British Science Fiction (1993), and The Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel (2009). He has also edited a number of scholarly editions, including H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (2011) and Ignatius Donnelly’s Caesar’s Column (2003).
McFarland published the proceedings of selected papers from the 2005 to 2013 conferences as The Canadian Fantastic in Focus: New Perspectives; to purchase a copy, visit their website here . Also, we still have copies of the proceedings of the 2003 conference, and the book will be on sale at the conference; please visit our Publications page for information. The collection features Margaret Atwood’s keynote address plus the papers presented at the conference. All proceeds from the sales go to support the conference, ensuring we can continue to present interesting speakers–both writers and scholars–and keep our registration fees as low as possible.