How to Avoid Gillian at Continuum
The draft programme is out for the Aussie NatCon. When we have a final, I'll do a new blogpost, perhaps (if things change) but anyone intending to be in Melbourne in June may want to start planning now to get the best out of their trip, and the very best trip avoids anything that has even the least possibility of me singing or making bad jokes. Here, for your Melbourne pleasure, are the times and places to avoid (and the subjects and speakers you will be sacrificing):
We Do This Stuff Friday 17:00-18:00 with: Amanda Elliott, Alex Matti, Fran La Fontaine, Dan Rabarts - you can attend this one safely, actually, for it's not a panel. Just avoid my corner.
Solo Presentation: Seventeenth Century Borderlands Friday 18:30-19:00 - this is the first time I'll talk about the results I've been getting from the 17th century stuff. I'm giving a presentation about that hinterland between magic and science and how the people of the late seventeenth century handled living there.
Medieval Diversity Friday 20:00-21:00 with: Brendan Carson, Jane Routley - Brendan and Jane are both very nice people. It's a shame they're stuck on a panel with me. I'm not sure that Brendan knows about my historian-self. You might want to come to cheer him on and to support him during moments of woe.
In Conversation: Jack Dann Saturday 11:00-11:30 with: Jack Dann - this is the 20th anniversary of Jack living in Australia. I get to interview him, possibly as a tandem interview with Jason Nahrung. I'm happy to consider any questions people have been dying to ask him.
Fans and Faith 2 Saturday 17:00-18:00 with: Kathryn Andersen, Alex Pierce, Brendan Carson - Poor Brendan. Twice in two days. I don't think he knows I'm so very Jewish, either...
Researching Other Cultures Sunday 14:00-15:00 with: Cat Sparks, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Jack Dann, Tracy Joyce - This is totally the panel to not avoid, simply because of Ambelin. Sorry I'm on it, but maybe you can wear special glasses with attached ear plugs and put them on when I speak.
Perceptions of Witches Sunday 18:00-19:00 with: Jason Nahrung, Julia S, Tracy Joyce, Stacey Larner - this panel brings out one of my not-terribly-deep secrets. I studied witchcraft at university. Mum hid the belladonna when she heard what my third year history subjects would be. She only worked out years later that it wasn't witchcraft I was studying, but the history of witches in Europe. I've maintained the interest, and the Continuum programme people knew about it (it strikes me from this list that they know a bit about me). You won't get views of modern witches from me - I'm the history component of this panel.
Solo Presentation: Writers and History Monday 14:00-15:00 - this is where the results of my recent research will be unleashed onto fandom. No-one wanted to hear at Conflux, so I'm really, really happy to be given a chance to talk about it at Continuum. This is the stuff that follows the stuff that was in the PhD, and it's all about genre writers. SF writers are, it seems, very different to historical fiction writers in a number of ways, and history is a key to unravelling the differences. There will be a book on this sooner or later, but the fun stuff will appear, magically in the presentation that you will not attend for you have been warned that I shall be there!
We Do This Stuff Friday 17:00-18:00 with: Amanda Elliott, Alex Matti, Fran La Fontaine, Dan Rabarts - you can attend this one safely, actually, for it's not a panel. Just avoid my corner.
Solo Presentation: Seventeenth Century Borderlands Friday 18:30-19:00 - this is the first time I'll talk about the results I've been getting from the 17th century stuff. I'm giving a presentation about that hinterland between magic and science and how the people of the late seventeenth century handled living there.
Medieval Diversity Friday 20:00-21:00 with: Brendan Carson, Jane Routley - Brendan and Jane are both very nice people. It's a shame they're stuck on a panel with me. I'm not sure that Brendan knows about my historian-self. You might want to come to cheer him on and to support him during moments of woe.
In Conversation: Jack Dann Saturday 11:00-11:30 with: Jack Dann - this is the 20th anniversary of Jack living in Australia. I get to interview him, possibly as a tandem interview with Jason Nahrung. I'm happy to consider any questions people have been dying to ask him.
Fans and Faith 2 Saturday 17:00-18:00 with: Kathryn Andersen, Alex Pierce, Brendan Carson - Poor Brendan. Twice in two days. I don't think he knows I'm so very Jewish, either...
Researching Other Cultures Sunday 14:00-15:00 with: Cat Sparks, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Jack Dann, Tracy Joyce - This is totally the panel to not avoid, simply because of Ambelin. Sorry I'm on it, but maybe you can wear special glasses with attached ear plugs and put them on when I speak.
Perceptions of Witches Sunday 18:00-19:00 with: Jason Nahrung, Julia S, Tracy Joyce, Stacey Larner - this panel brings out one of my not-terribly-deep secrets. I studied witchcraft at university. Mum hid the belladonna when she heard what my third year history subjects would be. She only worked out years later that it wasn't witchcraft I was studying, but the history of witches in Europe. I've maintained the interest, and the Continuum programme people knew about it (it strikes me from this list that they know a bit about me). You won't get views of modern witches from me - I'm the history component of this panel.
Solo Presentation: Writers and History Monday 14:00-15:00 - this is where the results of my recent research will be unleashed onto fandom. No-one wanted to hear at Conflux, so I'm really, really happy to be given a chance to talk about it at Continuum. This is the stuff that follows the stuff that was in the PhD, and it's all about genre writers. SF writers are, it seems, very different to historical fiction writers in a number of ways, and history is a key to unravelling the differences. There will be a book on this sooner or later, but the fun stuff will appear, magically in the presentation that you will not attend for you have been warned that I shall be there!
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