Last month, December 1-3, I was fortunate to attend and be a part of the 2016 Tiptree Symposium at the University of Oregon. The symposium honored the work and legacy of Ursula K. Le Guin. I helped organize a panel of my WGS 410/510: Feminist Science Fiction students, who reflected on and spoke about The Word for World is Forest. I also arranged for my students to exhibit their final project research posters during the symposium. It was a honor and a privilege to be part of the second symposium, to meet Ursula K. Le Guin for a second time, and I hope the Tiptree is held every year well into the future.
Here are the links to the 2016 Tiptree Symposium Videos:
December 1, Sally Miller Gearhart Lesbian Lecture, Dr. Alexis Lothian, “Queer Longings in Straight Futures: Notes Toward a Prehistory for Lesbian Speculation”
http://media.uoregon.edu/
December 2, Welcome and Panel 1: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Field of Feminist Science Fiction
http://media.uoregon.edu/
December 2, Panel 2: UO Prof. Edmond Chang’s Feminist SF students on The Word for World is Forest
http://media.uoregon.edu/
December 2, Keynote and Q & A: Karen Joy Fowler, “Ursula Le Guin and the Larger Reality”
http://media.uoregon.edu/
December 3, Panel 3: “Speculative Gender and The Left Hand of Darkness”
http://media.uoregon.edu/
December 3, Panel 4: “Le Guin’s Fiction as Inspiration for Activism”
http://media.uoregon.edu/
December 3, Panel 5: Kelly Sue DeConnick and Ben Saunders: “New Directions in Feminist Science Fiction: A Conversations with Kelly Sue DeConnick”
http://media.uoregon.edu/
December 3, Keynote: Brian Attebery, “The James Tiptree Jr. Book Club: A Mitochondrial Theory of Literature”
http://media.uoregon.edu/