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1:00pm PDT

Conventions of the Pacific Northwest Ross IslandKaren Anderson • Gene Armstrong • Gregory Gadow • Gibbitt Rhys-Jones sTEAmpunk! WeidlerAngela Hardy

2:00pm PDT

Here There Be Dragaroos! BroadwayPaul Abeyta • L. Pierce Ludke • G. David Nordley New Horizons HawthorneRoy Torley 3D Gun Printing: When You Can Print Your Own, How Do You Regulate It? Ross IslandAndrew Nisbet • William Hertling • Autodidactic polymath • Sean Robinson

3:00pm PDT

Tesla Coil Demonstrations 3 SistersDon Anderson Forgiving History LincolnGibbitt Rhys-Jones • James Fiscus • Sarah Gulde • Frog Jones • John Scalzi Nonconformists and Utopians: the Future of Offworld Settlements Jeff/AdamsDave Davis • Keith Henson • Charlie Stross The Wired Brain HawthorneSonia Lyris • William Hertling • Kenneth Lett • Sean Robinson

4:00pm PDT

The Celestia Space Simulation Program HawthorneRoy Torley

10:00am PDT

Film Festival: New Worlds HamiltonNat Saenz F*** Your Knight and the Horse He Rode in on: Fantasy Series Not Based on Medieval European Culture LincolnFrog Jones • Manny Frishberg • Emily Jiang • Petrea Mitchell How Do You Change History? RooseveltJames Fiscus • Gregory Gadow • Sharon Joss • Phyllis Irene Radford International Space Flight – A New Cold War HawthorneAri Goldstein • Dan Dubrick • Hugh S. Gregory • G. David Nordley Empathetic Diversity Chat Ross IslandAmber Clark • Sarah Gulde • Abbie Normal • Cat Rambo • Roget Ratchford

10:30am PDT

Film Festival: New Worlds HamiltonNat Saenz

11:00am PDT

Film Festival: New Worlds HamiltonNat Saenz All Punked Out WeidlerSarina Dorie • Paul Guinan • Andrew P Mayer Nikola Tesla and the Tesla Coil 3 SistersDon Anderson

11:30am PDT

Film Festival: New Worlds HamiltonNat Saenz

12:00pm PDT

Fan Films, oh My! HamiltonNat Saenz Beyond Victoriana - A Multicultural Perspective on Steampunk WeidlerAnina Bennett • Jeffrey Cook • Paul Guinan • Emily Jiang • Roget Ratchford Laser Weapons: Reality or Myth? HawthorneJim Doty

12:30pm PDT

Fan Films, oh My! HamiltonNat Saenz

1:00pm PDT

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Costuming in Hollywood SellwoodMark Chapman • Theresa Halbert • Jesse Lagers • Laura Sinclair McShane Fan Films, oh My! HamiltonNat Saenz Recent Scientific Breakthroughs JacksonDave Davis • Dan Dubrick • Janet Freeman-Daily • Gregory Gadow The Search for Water on Mars HawthorneRoy Torley The Scientist vs The Authors: Intellectual Brawl of the Century Mult/HollDavid D. Levine • Bobak Ferdowsi • John Scalzi • Charlie Stross

2:00pm PDT

Gravestone Entertainment Presents HamiltonNat Saenz Colossus, Skynet, or the Culture? BroadwayHoward Davidson • Dave Davis • William Hertling • Loretta McKibben Disasters, Crises, and Resultant Industrial Progress HawthorneGordon E Frye • Ari Goldstein • Hugh S. Gregory • G. David Nordley

3:00pm PDT

Documentaries HamiltonNat Saenz Ecology in Action HawthorneBob Brown • Dave Davis • John Lovett LGBT in Fandom Ross IslandGene Armstrong • Amber Clark • Gibbitt Rhys-Jones

4:00pm PDT

Features HamiltonNat Saenz The Past Year in the Rest of the World in Space SellwoodDan Dubrick • Hugh S. Gregory Drones - Who Decides Who and When They Kill? Ross IslandAndrew Nisbet • Dave Davis • William Hertling • Frog Jones • Ken Lizzi

5:00pm PDT

Super-Powered Television LincolnEsther Jones • Emily Jiang • Andrew P Mayer • John Shirley SF and Slavery Ross IslandElizabeth Adams • Ari Goldstein • Gibbitt Rhys-Jones • Jennifer Willis

11:00am PDT

Cosmic Horror in Mainstream Media JacksonGwen Callahan • Crystal Connor • Andrew Fuller • Devon Monk Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading BroadwayWendy Van Camp • S. A. Bolich • J Tullos Henning • Marta Murvosh • Cat Rambo SF as a Stealth Delivery Platform Ross IslandLiz Argall • Sunni Brock • James Glass • John Scalzi

12:00pm PDT

Black Cinderella and the New Jim Crow: Media Representation in Post-Racial America WashingtonElizabeth Adams • Emily Jiang • Roget Ratchford Suborbital Tourism LincolnSamuel Coniglio • Dave Davis • Dan Dubrick • G. David Nordley The Amish Approach to Changing Technology: The Error of Presumed Neutrality of Technology HawthorneAri Goldstein • Keith Henson • Guy Letourneau • Sara Stamey Has Star Trek Left Us With an Enduring Mythology? Ross IslandSunni Brock • Sarina Dorie • Langley Hyde • Patrick Swenson

1:00pm PDT

Surviving Cons with Disabilities WashingtonEllen Klowden • Karen Black • Chad Budrow • Sheri Budrow • Jess Knight • Nora • Chantal Rochette Is Gibson Getting Out of Hand? HawthorneBob Brown • Jim Doty • Janet Freeman-Daily • Frank Hayes

2:00pm PDT

Evolution of fandom BroadwayGene Armstrong • Petrea Mitchell • Tom Whitmore • Ben Yalow Zombies, Vampires, and Capitalism LincolnEmily Jiang • Bob Brown • Gwen Callahan • Andrew P Mayer • Erica Satifka Hubble HawthorneLoretta McKibben

3:00pm PDT

Fan Films HamiltonNat Saenz

4:00pm PDT

Power Satellites: Replacing Fossil Fuels with Solar Energy from Space HawthorneKeith Henson Toxic Masculinity as Villain Ross IslandDavid D. Levine • Sara Mueller • Sienna Saint-Cyr • Sara Stamey

12:00pm PDT

Human Speciation in an Interstellar Culture HawthorneHoward Davidson • Hugh S. Gregory • Loretta McKibben • G. David Nordley Replicator Economics Ross IslandElizabeth Adams • Manny Frishberg • Ken Lizzi • John Scalzi

1:00pm PDT

Space Travel and Religion HawthorneGregory Gadow • Guy Letourneau • Sean Robinson • Jennifer Willis Geeks and Feminism Ross IslandLiz Argall • Amber Clark • Ari Goldstein • Langley Hyde