Building Futures: Science Fiction Research and Teaching at Georgia Tech

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Friday September 19, 2014
      12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
  • Location: Hall 102, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
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  • Fee(s):
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Contact

Carol Colatrella, LMC, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

carol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu

Summaries

Summary Sentence: Jay Telotte, Lisa Yaszek, and Kathy Goonan (LMC) will discuss their research and teaching in Science Fiction

Full Summary: Jay Telotte, Lisa Yaszek, and Kathy Goonan (LMC) will discuss their research and teaching in science fiction and will host an open discussion. Free lunch will be provided  

Innovation and Collaboration in Liberal Arts, Science, and Technology (ICLAST)

Literature, Media, and Communication & Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
Funded by GT FIRE Transformative Research and Education

 FALL 2014 lunch panels and discussions (most in Hall 102, Fridays, noon-1:30 pm) open to any interested GT faculty, post doctoral fellows, students, staff. There is no registration fee for the lunches. The schedule with an RSVP link is at "ICLAST Research Lunches" at the bottom of http://lmc.gatech.edu

8/29: Anne Pollock (LMC) & Lena Ting (BME)—How Culture Becomes Embodied

9/19: Jay Telotte, Lisa Yaszek, Kathy Goonan (LMC)—Building Futures: Science Fiction Research and Teaching at Georgia Tech

 9/26: Ian Bogost (Digital Media/LMC, Center for Media Studies)--Games

 10/3: Shatakshee Dhongde (ECON), Olga Shemyakina (ECON), Munmun De Choudhury (CoC)—Technology, Development Economics, and Human Rights
10/17: Nassim JafariNaimi, Carl DiSalvo, Chris Le Dantec (Digital Media/LMC)--Civic
              Media

 10/24: Richard Utz (LMC), Britt Holbrook (SPP), and Fred Rascoe (Library)--Public Access (in association with the Medievalisms on the Move conference)—location may change from Hall

  11/7: Sy Goodman (INTA & CoC)—From Technological Innovation to High Impact Outcomes: Cases from the American Civil War

 11/21: Ute Fischer (LMC), Michael Nitsche & Brian Magerko (Digital Media/LMC)—Cognition, Creating, and Crafting

Additional Information

In Campus Calendar
Yes
Groups

Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

Invited Audience
Public
Categories
Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
Keywords
Creative writing, humanities, science fiction, teaching
Status
  • Created By: Carol Colatrella
  • Workflow Status: Draft
  • Created On: Aug 11, 2014 - 6:49am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 10:08pm