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ACCSFF
Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The Academic Conference on Canadian
Science Fiction and Fantasy is a quasi-annual conference featuring
academic papers, guest speakers, and panel discussions on all aspects
of the field. The conference has been in existence in one form
or another since 1995, and has hosted speakers ranging from Guy Gavriel
Kay to Margaret Atwood.
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Keynote Address Speakers
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Madeline Ashby
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Dominick M. Grace
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| Madeline Ashby is a science fiction
writer, futurist, speaker, and immigrant living in Toronto. She writes
a column for the Ottawa Citizen. She is represented by Anne McDermid
& Associates, and Jason Richman at UTA.
She has worked with Intel Labs, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures,
Nesta, Data & Society, The Atlantic Council, the ASU Center for Science
and the Imagination, and others. Her short fiction has appeared in Nature,
FLURB, Tesseracts, Imaginarium, and Escape Pod. Her other
essays and criticism have appeared at BoingBoing, io9, WorldChanging,
Creators Project, Arcfinity, Tor.com, MISC Magazine, FutureNow,
and elsewhere.
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Dominick Grace is the author of The
Science Fiction of Phyllis Gotlieb (McFarland) and co-editor with Eric
Hoffman of Dave Sim: Conversations, Chester Brown: Conversations,
and Seth: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi)
and, with Jason Sacks and Eric Hoffman, of the forthcoming Jim Shooter:
Conversations. Additional projects include The Canadian Alternative:
Cartoonists, Comics and Graphic Novels, co-edited with Eric Hoffman
and forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi, and a collection
of essays on the television series Twin Peaks, again co-edited with
Hoffman and forthcoming from McFarland. . He has also published numerous
articles on topics ranging from medieval literature to contemporary literature
and popular culture. His many conference presentations include over a dozen
talks and panel appearances at the various iterations of the Academic Conference
on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy held since 1996; at the 2009 conference,
he was presented with a certificate in honour of his tenacious support of
this conference. |