Conzilla Program Schedule Grid
Note: This is a preliminary schedule. Times, participants and places are subject to change!
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Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Schedule by Time
Saturday
| Salon A | Salon B | Salon C | Salon D | Salon F | Cabrillo 2 | Pavilion | Santa Fe | Ashley's | Dealers' Room | Art Show | Balboa 2 | |
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| 10am | NASA: Are the Big Projects Pushing out Science? | The Fate of Humanity: Man Destroys Himself | Costume Design: Principles and Elements | Run and Find Out: How to Do Research Without Specialized Knowledge | Tai Chi | |||||||
| 11am | Basic SF library | Hogwarts: Sorting Hat | Out of the Closet and into the Halls: Creative Costuming with What You've Got | Mars Exploration Rovers Year 2 | Geeks as Heroes | Games as Literary Art | Autographs: David Ross | |||||
| 12 noon | PC Nation: Who Is it Okay to Offend/Make Fun Of? | Technology of Writing | Trek as Metaphor | Opening Ceremonies | Decorating Your House the Fannish Way | Autographs: David Friedman, Jenna Rhodes | ||||||
| 1pm | How (and how well) do writers maintain consistency across series? | Hogwarts: History of Magic (Stories) | Anthropo- morphics in the Visual Arts | Fantasy World Building #1: Place And Races | Energy Options for the 21st Century | If We Ran the Networks | KaffeeKlatch: Heather Alexander | Autographs: Marc Matz, Karen Anderson | ||||
| 2pm | San Diego for Book Lovers | Anachronistic Details in Literature | The Great Evolutionist Conspiracy | Behind the Cameras of Star Trek | Backrub Workshop | Organizing a Con | Movie: Destination: Mars! | Concerts: Tom Tuerff, Steve Savitzky, Jane Mailander, Timothy Griffin | KaffeeKlatch: Lorna Freeman | Autographs: Denise Dumars, Steven Barnes | Docent Tour: Sue Dawe | Reading: Todd McCaffrey |
| 3pm | It Works Great on Paper: Political SF | Hogwarts: Wandmaking | Logistics of LARP | Fantasy World Building #2: Gods and Mythologies | Human-Machine Interface: Neural WiFi and the Telepathic Internet | Accessories Make the Costume | KaffeeKlatch: Dawn Devine | Autographs: Todd McCaffrey, James Young | ||||
| 4pm | Things I Wish Some Pro Had Told Me When I Was Starting Out | Raising the Dead: Remaking Old TV and Movies | Time Travel | Alternate Histories: Suddenly the World Changed | Vampire/Human Relationships | Star Wars Trivia | Movie: Lost Skeleton of Cadavra | KaffeeKlatch: Walter Jon Williams | Autographs: Michael DeMeritt, Deborah Ross | Reading: Amy Sterling Casil | ||
| 5pm | Sex and Romantic Themes in Role-playing Games | Firefly Costuming | Science of Art | Ecology of Dragons | Types of Stories | Writing Funny Filk | KaffeeKlatch: Cody Goodfellow | Reading: David Friedman | ||||
| 7pm | Cabaret Show and Meet the Guests | |||||||||||
| 8pm | Furry Reception (runs through evening) | Mars in the Movies (2.5 hours) | Classic Trek Song Circle (Filk) | |||||||||
| 9pm | Shadowlords LARP | Open Filking | ||||||||||
| 10pm | Buttonhead Ball |
Sunday
| Salon A | Salon B | Salon C | Salon D | Salon F | Cabrillo 2 | Pavilion | Quad | Santa Fe | Ashley's | Dealers' Room | Art Show | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10am | Cosmic Supernatural Horror | Alternative Electoral Systems | Poor Tactics in SF Movies and Television | Humans to Mars | SanSFIS meeting (2 hours) | Morning Dance & Stretch | ||||||
| 11am | The Fannish Inquisition | Hogwarts: Trans- figuations: Origami | How to Write in an Established Universe | Art of Bob Eggleton | Can't We All Just Get Along? The Lack of Civility in Political Discourse | Fate of Humanity: Man Evolved | KaffeeKlatch: Deborah Ross | Autographs: Dylan Birtolo, Sheila Finch | ||||
| 12 noon | Westercon Business Meeting (2 hours) | Female of the Species: Women as Lycanthropes | Heinlein's Mobile Infantry — For Real | Fantasy World Building #3: History and Culture | Found Filk | Writers Workshop | Fused Appliqué for Costuming | KaffeeKlatch: Michael DeMeritt | Autographs: Bob Eggleton | Docent Tour: John Hertz | ||
| 1pm | Hogwarts: Potions | Star Trek: The New Voyages | Octavia Butler Tribute | Non-Fabric Costuming | Anatomy of the Face | KaffeeKlatch: Larry Niven | Autographs: Cody Goodfellow, Nancy Holder | Docent Tour: Connor Freff Cochran | ||||
| 2pm | Fantasy World Building #4: Stories | Harry Potter: Rampant Speculation | Is Mars the Wrong Goal? | Walter Jon Williams Interview | Trivia for Chocolate | Convention Traditions We No Longer Need | Heather Alexander Concert (2 hours) | KaffeeKlatch: Sheila Finch | Autographs: Robert Reginald, Tim Powers | |||
| 3pm | Putting a New Spin on Old Horror Tropes: How Do You Make Them Fresh? | Hogwarts: Wizard Hats | Physics of Superheroes | Alternate History: Science Before Its Time | Writing for TV | Running a Con Suite | KaffeeKlatch: Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta | Autographs: Lorna Freeman, Mike Moscoe | ||||
| 4pm | Advancing Machine Intelligence and the Singularity | It's About Time Someone Told You the Truth: Secret Histories | Art Show as Marketplace | Imaginary Sexes | Guilty Pleasures: TV | Hogwarts: Herbology | Robots Running Rampant!: Robot Sumo! | Reading: Hamit "Robot Dreams" | KaffeeKlatch: Joy Oestreicher | Autographs: Jane Mailander, Nora Milner | ||
| 5pm | Lost: No, No, What's Really Going On | Diana Warrior Princess | Superhero Gaming | Writing from a Non Human Point of View | Jewelry Making | The Spice Must Flow | Movie: Surge of Power | Flint Knapping Demon- stration | Autographs: Marc Scott Zicree, Michelle Welch | Docent Tour: Geri Sullivan | ||
| 7pm | Regency Dance | Are You A Good Witch or Bad Witch? | ||||||||||
| 8pm | Eroticism and Horror | Movie: Lost Skeleton of Cadavra | Cindy Circle filking | |||||||||
| 9pm | Horror Reading | Open Filking | ||||||||||
| 10pm | Camerilla LARP (Part one) | Dance | ||||||||||
Monday
| Salon A | Salon B | Salon C | Salon D | Salon F | Cabrillo 2 | Pavilion | Quad | Santa Fe | Ashley's | Dealers' Room | Art Show | |
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| 10am | Second Generation Writers | Classic, non Genre, Literary Works as Sources | Science Behind Fantasy | The Changing Movie Industry | Tai Chi | |||||||
| 11am | Building a Website | Comparative Anatomy in Art: Drawing Aliens, Furries and Fantastic Creatures | Fandom as an Ethnicity | SF/F and Spirituality/ Religion/Ethics | Future Firearms | Stage Movement | Origami for Adults | Autographs: Walter Jon Williams | Docent Tour: Bob Eggleton | |||
| 12 noon | Westercon Business Meeting, part 2 | Hogwarts: Trans- figurations: Masks | Anachronistic World Views in Fiction | The Appeal of Evil | The Concept of the Fisher King | Global Warming/ Global Dimming | Reading: The Stravinsky Code - Leonard Carpenter | KaffeeKlatch: Karen Taylor | Autographs: Larry Niven | |||
| 1pm | Tangible Interfaces: Getting a Grip on the Molecular World | The Blog Ate My 'Zine | Literary Filks | Who Wants to Live Forever?: The Implications of Immortality | Customizing Alignments for your own Campaign | Art of Collaboration | KaffeeKlatch: Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah | Autographs: Karen Taylor | ||||
| 2pm | Spintronics Demon- stration | Hogwarts: History of Magic | Art, Eroticism, and Censorship | Horror with Subtlety | Indirect Exposition: You Don't Need an Idiot Lecture | Costuming for Your Body Type | Iron Chef (3 hours) | Concerts: Arigma, Lynn Gold, Karen Rodgers, Lynn Maudlin | KaffeeKlatch: David Friedman | |||
| 3pm | Television Series That Died Too Soon | Science Fiction Literature: 1940-1960 | The Future of Copyright | The Cassini Project | Great Convention Mistakes! | Medical Questions at the Ends of Existence | KaffeeKlatch: Bob Eggleton | Autographs: Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta | Docent Tour: Karen Anderson | |||
| 4pm | Styles of Convention Programming | Hogwarts: Scarves | Future War: Earthbound | Star Trek: From Concept to Editor in 14 Days | Cuirboulli | Autographs: Vernor Vinge, Jacqueline Lichtenberg | Docent Tour: Allison Hershey | |||||
| 5pm | Living the Artist's Life | Humanity: A Darwinian Perspective | Fate of Humanity: Man to the Stars | Extempor- aneous Conspiracies | Why You Want To Be Edited | The Economics of MMORPGs | ||||||
| 7pm | Mars on Earth | |||||||||||
| 8pm | Masquerade | Open Filking | ||||||||||
| 10pm | Camerilla LARP (Part two) | Dance |
Tuesday
| Salon A | Salon B | Salon C | Salon D | Salon F | Cabrillo 2 | Pavilion | Quad | Santa Fe | Dealers' Room | |
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| 9am | Robots Running Rampant! Submarine Races (3 hours) | |||||||||
| 10am | The Biophysics of Fantastic Creatures | Catastrophic Population Loss: How it could effect society? | Why do we still need conventions? | Future Warfare in Space | Morning Dance & Stretch | |||||
| 11am | Mind/Brain: Software/Hardware? | Hogwarts: History of Magic | The Future of Publishing | The Fate of Humanity: Man Plus | But It's British! Comparing British vs. American Genre Television | Retro Styles in Art | Prosthetic Makeup (1.5 hours) | Autographs: Kevin Gerard | ||
| 12 noon | You're Traumatizing Little Suzy!: Limits in Children's Fiction | Hogwarts: Muggle Studies | Decline of Copy of Editing | Ambiguity of Evil | The (Sometimes) SciFi Channel | Art Auction (2 hours) | Match Game SF (2 hours) | Autographs: Heather Alexander | ||
| 1pm | How Dare You Edit Me? | The Fall of America: Adjusting to Being Number Two | Decline of the Masquerade | Reading: Walter Jon Williams | New Media of the Internet | |||||
| 2pm | The Economics of Ebooks | Hogwarts: OWLs | How Does How We're Seeing Television Effect What We Will See? | What Constitutes Evil? | Brilliantly Written but I Didn't Care about the Characters | 2006 Dramatic Hugos Nominees Presentation | Concerts: Mark Horning, TBA | |||
| 3pm | Overcoming Writer's Block | Nitpickers Anonymous Meeting | From the Scarlet Pimpernel to V: Superheroes as Subversives | Closing Ceremonies | ||||||
| 4pm | Con Talk Back |
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