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<font style="font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Cambria"><strong><em>Deletion—Deviation: The Perversions of Science Fiction</em></strong></font></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria" style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>We are pleased to announce the keynote speakers: Professor Barbara Creed (Uni of Melb) and Professor Anne Cranny-Francis (UTS). </strong></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Science Fiction exists in a state of tension between the pleasurable and the perverse — of the pleasure gained from its fictive forms, and the perversions
of facts and flesh within its speculative futures, imagined worlds and Decreative appropriations of technological innovation.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There is an immutable thread that runs throughout science fiction, that which “distinguishes its fictional worlds to one degree or another from the
world in which we live” (Roberts, 2000), worlds perhaps characterised by Darko Suvin’s ‘estrangement’ or Samuel Delaney’s ‘reading/writing effects.’ The ways in which this distinction is maintained traces the nebulous line between the pleasurable and perverse
in science fiction. How does the pleasure of its fiction collide with the perversions of the ‘world in which we live’?</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This symposium looks to the very edge of science fictional possibilities, at the many perversions and pleasures that can take place when pushing the
boundaries of science fictional imaginings.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Possible topics for papers may include:</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">Perversion(s) of science fact in science fiction</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">Environmental perversions in science fiction</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">Perversions of the body in science fiction</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">Queer imaginings in SF</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">Sex in SF</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">Perverse pleasure in science fiction</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">Trauma in SF</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">Perverse greed in SF</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">SF and psychosexuality(s)</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">Acts of violence in SF texts</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">Trans-humanism</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">The perverse imagination and science fiction</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">Perverse characters/perverse worlds</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">Perversions of form in science fiction cinema</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">The perverse “What If?”</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria"><strong><em>Deletion—Deviation: The Perversions of Science Fiction </em></strong></font><font face="Cambria">will take place February 19th</font><font face="Cambria" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></font><font face="Cambria">and
20th Deakin University’s City Prime location, 3/550 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia. Keynote presentations by Professor Barbara Creed (Uni of Melbourne) and Professor Anne Cranny Francis (UTS). </font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">We invite contributions that address any of these areas around the deviant or perverse in of literature, film, gaming, art, and science and technology, and any other field with an investment
in the deviant or perverse in science fiction.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">This symposium will allow for a future edited collection on the open access online forum for science fiction studies </font><font face="Cambria"><em>Deletion </em></font><font face="Cambria">(</font><font face="Cambria" color="blue">www.deletionscifi.org</font><font face="Cambria">),
aiming for publication in mid 2015.</font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria">We welcome abstracts of 300-350 words, along with a short biography, emailed to </font><font face="Cambria" color="blue"><a href="mailto:grady.hancock@deakin.edu.au">grady.hancock@deakin.edu.au</a> </font><font face="Cambria">or </font><font face="Cambria" color="blue"><a href="mailto:leon.marvell@deakin.edu.au">leon.marvell@deakin.edu.au</a> </font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Cambria" color="red">DEADLINE</font><font face="Cambria" color="red"> </font><font face="Cambria" color="red">EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 24th</font></div>
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