Friday, October 17
1:00: Welcome: Tyrus Miller, Dean of Humanities, and Jonathan Alexander, Chair of English, UCI
1:10: Welcome
(Ursula K. Heise and Donna V. Jones)
1:20: Nan Z. Da, “Rappaccini’s Daughter’s Friend”
(introduced by Meredith Martin)
2:50: Break
3:00: Patricia Ingham, “Speculatio and the World in Medieval Romance”
(introduced by Jennifer Fleissner)
4:30: Coffee break
5:00: Adeline Johns-Putra, “Climate Fiction as Futurology: When Speculation
Becomes Prediction”
(introduced by Ursula K. Heise)
6:30: Opening reception
Saturday, October 18
8:30: Continental breakfast
9:00: Annie McClanahan, “Teaching Machines: Language, Automation, Babel”
(introduced by Yoon Sun Lee)
10:45: Anthony Reed, “Computer Love”
(introduced by Virginia Jackson)
12:15: Coffee break
12:45: The Conversation: Fredric Jameson, “Progress vs. Utopia, or, Can We Imagine
the Future?” and “Utopia Now,” download readings for the conversation here.
1:45: Lunch
3:00: Christopher Pexa, “Native Subjects”
(introduced by Paul Saint-Amour)
4:45: Avery Slater, “Words Within Words: The Latency of Literary Meaning”
(introduced by Meredith Martin)
6:15: Closing reception