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CFP closing: Current Research in Speculative Fiction (CRSF) postgraduate conference on June 8 2015

Just a reminder that today is the abstracts deadline for submissions to the Current Research in Speculative Fiction (CRSF) postgraduate conference on June 8 2015. It will take place at the University of Liverpool, with Dr. Andrew M. Butler (Canterbury Christ Church University) and Dr. Sarah Dillon (University of Cambridge) as this year’s keynotes.
Returning for its fifth consecutive year, CRSF is a one day postgraduate conference designed to promote the research of speculative fictions, including SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY and HORROR; showcasing some of the latest developments in these fields. CRSF attracts an international selection of delegates and provides a platform for postgraduate students to present their current research. We are seeking abstracts relating to speculative fiction, including, but not limited to, the following topics:
Alternate History; Alternate Culture; Animal Studies; Anime; Apocalypse; Body Horror; Consciousness; Cyber Culture; Drama; Eco-Criticism; Fan Culture; Gaiming; Geo-Politics; Genre; Gender; Graphic Novels; The Grotesque; The Heroic Tradition; Liminal Fantasy; Magic; Meta-Franchises; Morality; Monstrosity; Music; Non-Anglo-American SF; Otherness; Pastoral; Poetry; Post-Colonialism and Empire; Proto-SF; Psychology; Quests; Realism; Sexuality; Slipstream; Spiritualism; Steampunk; Supernatural; Technology; Time; TV and Film; Urban Fantasy; Utopia/Dystopia; Virtual Spaces and Environments; Weird Fiction; World Building; Young Adult Fiction.
Please submit an abstracts of 300 words for a 20 minute paper and a 100 word biography to CRSF.team@gmail.com by Monday 9th March 2015.
For further information email us at the above-stated address, or visit out website: www.currentresearchinspeculativefiction.blogspot.com
by flares

Welcome… By way of a meta(research)blog

I seem to have scattered myself around the social media and really ought to focus a bit more. But that’s not likely to happen, so I will use this to act as a jumping off point for various other blogs.

My photographs are at Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewmbutler/

This comes in fits and starts and is probably the most frequently updated.

My 1970s sf blog relating to Solar Flares is at http://flares.wordpress.com/ and was not as posted to as I planned. Writing the book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Solar-Flares-Science-Fiction-Liverpool/dp/1781381178/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409755636&sr=1-1 – now in paperback) seemed to take the energy for bloggage, but I will return to it as I come across further 1970s materials.

My blog on beer and drinking is at http://galaxychallenger.wordpress.com/. I’m hoping to come back to this.

There are a couple more blogs waiting in the wings… as projects become more concrete. I have a chapter that needs a rewrite this month and another not so long after that. There’s a chapter needs a draft, and short pieces in the queue.

Meanwhile, on the publications front:

Coming Soon:

Recently published:

  • ‘Doctor Who Symposium: Richard E. Grant’ Science Fiction Film and Television 7.2 (2014)
  • ‘Bearly Conscious?: Deconstructing Pullman’s Postmodern Marionettes’, Philip Pullman edited by Catherine Butler and Tommy Halsdorf (New Casebooks, 2014)

In press:

  • ‘Human Subjects/Alien Objects?: Abjection and the Constructions of Race and Racism in District 9’ Science Fiction and Tales of Transnationalism, edited by Ulrike Kuchler, Silja Maehl and Graeme A. Stout. Bloomsbury Academic USA, 2015.