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What should people talk to me about? If it has any vague passing relation to anything at this event, I will probably be happy to discuss it.
Friday
, July 1
9:00am PDT
Registration
Halsey
Helen Umberger
11:00am PDT
Makeup Tips and Techniques
Sellwood
Amber Clark • Theresa Halbert
12:00pm PDT
Fan Tables
Ballroom Lobby
1:00pm PDT
Conventions of the Pacific Northwest
Ross Island
Karen Anderson • Gene Armstrong • Gregory Gadow • Gibbitt Rhys-Jones
sTEAmpunk!
Weidler
Angela Hardy
2:00pm PDT
Bustle Hustle: How to Make a Quick Last-Minute Bustle with Flair and Style
Washington
Joy Knight-Richards
Academia Duellatoria: Italian Knife Fighting and Knife Defense
Mt Bachelor/Mt Hood
Jeff Richardson
3:00pm PDT
Steampunk for the Casual Fan
Weidler
Lindsay Schopfer • Jeffrey Cook
Forgiving History
Lincoln
Gibbitt Rhys-Jones • James Fiscus • Sarah Gulde • Frog Jones • John Scalzi
Nonconformists and Utopians: the Future of Offworld Settlements
Jeff/Adams
Dave Davis • Keith Henson • Charlie Stross
The Wired Brain
Hawthorne
Sonia Lyris • William Hertling • Kenneth Lett • Sean Robinson
3:30pm PDT
Academia Duellatoria: English Style Sabre
Mt Bachelor/Mt Hood
Jeff Richardson • Angel Tanner
4:00pm PDT
Behind the Scenes: Vintage Tomorrows
Weidler
Alan Winston • Samuel Coniglio
Meet the Steampunks!
Gearcon Parlour
Battle Scenes
Lincoln
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff • S. A. Bolich • Jim Doty • Fonda Lee
5:00pm PDT
Goofy Patents of the Steampunk Age
3 Sisters
Guy Letourneau
Mad Science
Jeff/Adams
Bob Brown • Dave Davis • Fonda Lee • Andrew P Mayer
If the Pen is Mightier Than the Sword, What Have You Stabbed Lately?
Roosevelt
S. A. Bolich • Manny Frishberg • G. David Nordley • Sara Stamey
Short Fiction Markets
Lincoln
Crystal Connor • Andrew Fuller • Keffy R. M. Kehrli • Devon Monk
6:00pm PDT
Opening Ceremony
Mult/Holl
Alexander James Adams • Bobak Ferdowsi • David D. Levine • Lea Rush • John Scalzi • Charlie Stross
Steampunk Media Recommendations
Weidler
Mac McGowan • Lindsay Schopfer
Anticipatory Anthropology
Hawthorne
Manny Frishberg • Rhiannon Held • Rhiannon Louve • John Lovett
7:00pm PDT
Stump the Master Costumer
Sellwood
Richard Stephens • Betty Bigelow • Janet Borkowski • Jesse Lagers • Johanna Mead
8:00pm PDT
Brewery Crawls
Event
Charlie Stross
Flirting 101
Ross Island
Sonia Lyris
9:00pm PDT
Vanitys Vaudeville Vixens
Mult/Holl
Vanity Thorn
Sex Positivity
Ross Island
Dr. Jamie Hardy • Gibbitt Rhys-Jones • Sienna Saint-Cyr
10:00pm PDT
Doctor Who Fandom Celebration: Tiptoe Through the TARDIS
Washington
Jamie Bear • Katie Klecker • Ellen Klowden • Jess Knight • Chantal Rochette
11:00pm PDT
Stand Up for Geeks
Washington
Tristian Spillman
Saturday
, July 2
10:00am PDT
F*** Your Knight and the Horse He Rode in on: Fantasy Series Not Based on Medieval European Culture
Lincoln
Frog Jones • Manny Frishberg • Emily Jiang • Petrea Mitchell
Empathetic Diversity Chat
Ross Island
Amber Clark • Sarah Gulde • Abbie Normal • Cat Rambo • Roget Ratchford
Dealers' Room
Exhibit Hall across from the main lobby
Fan Tables
Ballroom Lobby
11:00am PDT
Mad Science: Curious Concoctions
Morrison
Hunter Mayer • Timothy Storey
Mer People Meet and Greet
Poolside
Orchid Cavett • Sally Newman • Rachel Phillips • Yl'luria WaterSong
The Patent Office as a Historical Research Tool
Sellwood
Guy Letourneau
Nikola Tesla and the Tesla Coil
3 Sisters
Don Anderson
Long Series - Why We Love Them, Why We Hate Them
Roosevelt
Esther Jones • Stoney Compton • Mike Moscoe • Sara Mueller
Visiting Food Carts
Outside the Ballroom Lobby entrance
11:30am PDT
Ears for Wigs
Washington
Siobhan Ernst • Jamie Bear • Emily Brier • Rebecca Ernst
12:00pm PDT
Cover and Interior Illustration Art in the Age of Digital Publishing
Jackson
Michael Brugger • Robert Plamondon • Jeff Sturgeon
Costuming 101
Sellwood
Sandra King • Andrea Letourneau • Johanna Mead • Kevin Roche • Richard Stephens
Beyond Victoriana - A Multicultural Perspective on Steampunk
Weidler
Anina Bennett • Jeffrey Cook • Paul Guinan • Emily Jiang • Roget Ratchford
GEAR Con Tea Parlour
Gearcon Parlour
Flori Lima-Steele
More Than Just Black and White: Humanizing Heroes and Villians
Roosevelt
Carol Berg • Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff • David Boop • Wendy Wagner
1:00pm PDT
GoH Artist: Amusements and Diversions in the Age of Steam
Jeff/Adams
Theresa Mather
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Costuming in Hollywood
Sellwood
Mark Chapman • Theresa Halbert • Jesse Lagers • Laura Sinclair McShane
Grimm Discussion
Ross Island
John Shirley • John Lovett • Micky Shirley • Alan Winston
2:00pm PDT
Academia Duellatoria: Victorian Self-Defense Against the Knife
Mt Bachelor/Mt Hood
Diana Hauer • Heidi Young
Victorian Working Girls: History of Victorian Prostitution
Jeff/Adams
Heidi Davisson
Violence in Fantasy
Jackson
Jim Doty • Anthony Pryor • John Shirley • Wendy Wagner
3:00pm PDT
Satire to Striptease: The History of Burlesque in the Victorian Era
Weidler
Vanity Thorn
LGBT in Fandom
Ross Island
Gene Armstrong • Amber Clark • Gibbitt Rhys-Jones
4:00pm PDT
Academia Duellatoria: Victorian Self-Defense Swords for Scribes
Mt Bachelor/Mt Hood
Matthew Howden • Kim Switzer
Steampunk Horror
Weidler
Paul Abeyta • Geahk Burchill • Gwen Callahan • Montana Marshall
Does an Advanced Civilization Really Need Sex?
Hawthorne
Mike Moscoe • G. David Nordley • Abbie Normal • Gibbitt Rhys-Jones
5:00pm PDT
Victoria's Other Secret
Jeff/Adams
Laura Sinclair McShane
Xenoarchaeology in SF
Hawthorne
Keith Henson • Sharon Joss • Jim Minz • Sean Robinson
6:00pm PDT
Animation from Around the World
Hamilton
Nat Saenz
Social Justice Warrior
Ross Island
Frog Jones • Amber Clark • Jim Minz • Anthony Pryor • Sienna Saint-Cyr
The Wild and Wonderful Weird West
Sellwood
S. A. Bolich • David Boop • Gordon E Frye • Scott Woodard
6:30pm PDT
Animation from Around the World
Hamilton
Nat Saenz
7:00pm PDT
Masquerade
Mult/Holl
David D. Levine • Alexander James Adams • Andrea Letourneau
Touring Beer Establishments
Event
Animation from Around the World
Hamilton
Nat Saenz
Obligatory Paranoia Panel
Ross Island
Ari Goldstein • Frog Jones • Rhiannon Louve • Erica Satifka
8:00pm PDT
How Much Math Is Really Necessary?
Hawthorne
Manny Frishberg • Sarah Gulde • Jordin Kare • Guy Letourneau • Roy Torley
Flirting 102
Ross Island
Sonia Lyris
9:00pm PDT
Interstellar Art Trade
Ross Island
Elizabeth Adams • L. Pierce Ludke • Brigid Nelson • Tom Whitmore
Literary Beer
Gather
Frog Jones
Sunday
, July 3
10:00am PDT
Goggles and Gears and Brown, Oh My
Sellwood
Steven Criss • Betty Bigelow • JD Hughes • Flori Lima-Steele • Johanna Mead
Academia Duellatoria: Women's Self-Defense Seminar
Mt Bachelor/Mt Hood
Diana Hauer • Heidi Young
Fan Tables
Ballroom Lobby
Fantasy In the City
Lincoln
Diana Pharaoh Francis • Rhiannon Held • Phyllis Irene Radford • Jennifer Willis
Formidable Women
Roosevelt
Langley Hyde • Kristin Landon • John Lovett • Mike Moscoe
11:00am PDT
Art Show
Exhibit Hall across from the main lobby
Vacuum Tubes and the Vacuum Tube Tesla Coil
3 Sisters
Don Anderson
Frog Jones Reading
Madison
Frog Jones
SF as a Stealth Delivery Platform
Ross Island
Liz Argall • Sunni Brock • James Glass • John Scalzi
Dealers' Room
Exhibit Hall across from the main lobby
Visiting Food Carts
Outside the Ballroom Lobby entrance
Realistic Dialogue
Roosevelt
Carol Berg • Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff • Stoney Compton • Rhiannon Held • William F. Nolan
12:00pm PDT
Black Cinderella and the New Jim Crow: Media Representation in Post-Racial America
Washington
Elizabeth Adams • Emily Jiang • Roget Ratchford
World of Steampunk
Hamilton
Nat Saenz
Game Design With Steampunk
Weidler
Paul Abeyta • Angela Hardy • Dr. Jamie Hardy
GEAR Con Tea Parlour
Gearcon Parlour
Flori Lima-Steele
Suborbital Tourism
Lincoln
Samuel Coniglio • Dave Davis • Dan Dubrick • G. David Nordley
The Amish Approach to Changing Technology: The Error of Presumed Neutrality of Technology
Hawthorne
Ari Goldstein • Keith Henson • Guy Letourneau • Sara Stamey
12:30pm PDT
World of Steampunk
Hamilton
Nat Saenz
1:00pm PDT
World of Steampunk
Hamilton
Nat Saenz
Professional Steampunks Dogpile
Mult/Holl
Jonathon Burgess • Jeffrey Cook • Mac McGowan • Professor DR Schreiber
Young Adult Fantasy We Read
Roosevelt
Emily Jiang • tina connolly • Esther Jones • Fonda Lee
Neologism and Linguicide: How the Dominant Language Mutates and Assimilates Other Languages
Ross Island
Jason V Brock • Amber Clark • Angela Hardy • John Lovett
2:00pm PDT
Gender Roles in Steampunk Fiction and Victorian Moral Climates
Washington
Paige Mackmer • Anina Bennett • Raven Bond • Chad Budrow • Sheri Budrow • Ellen Klowden • Jess Knight • Rhiannon Louve
World of Steampunk
Hamilton
Nat Saenz
Zombies, Vampires, and Capitalism
Lincoln
Emily Jiang • Bob Brown • Gwen Callahan • Andrew P Mayer • Erica Satifka
Worldbuilding
Roosevelt
S. A. Bolich • Ctein • Ru Emerson • Rhiannon Held
3:00pm PDT
Anime Theme Songs, From 'Tank!' to 'Take My Revolution!'
Washington
Chantal Rochette • Karen Black • Katie Klecker • Ellen Klowden • Guy Letourneau • Petrea Mitchell • Nora • Roget Ratchford • Ayla Jade Spillman
Book Discussion: Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
Lincoln
John Hertz
Books Into Audiobooks
Broadway
tina connolly • Lynn Gold • Sharon Joss
4:00pm PDT
Up Close and Personal
Sellwood
Wolfcat • Theresa Halbert • Sandra King • Flori Lima-Steele • Johanna Mead
Regency Dance
Jeff/Adams
John Hertz
Doctor Who for Steampunks
Weidler
Johnn Fultz • Danielle Nicole Arthun • Dr. Jamie Hardy
Swords for Scribes: Rapier Fighting
Mt Bachelor/Mt Hood
Matthew Howden • Kim Switzer
Toxic Masculinity as Villain
Ross Island
David D. Levine • Sara Mueller • Sienna Saint-Cyr • Sara Stamey
5:00pm PDT
Hayao Miyazaki Discussion
Ross Island
David Boop • Bobak Ferdowsi • Lizzy D Hill • Katrina Spillman
The End is Now: Images of the World After in Popular Media
Washington
Karen Black • Manny Frishberg • Robert Plamondon • Roget Ratchford • Jeff Sturgeon
Ultimate Steampunk: Could the Victorians Have Built a Flying Carriage?
Weidler
Guy Letourneau
Victorian Underwear
3 Sisters
Sarina Dorie
6:00pm PDT
SF&F Films
Hamilton
Nat Saenz
The Cabaret of Curiosities
Mult/Holl
The Conjuring Connection: The History of Science's Influence on Magic
3 Sisters
Professor DR Schreiber
The Leisure Society: Phantom or Just Around the Corner?
Ross Island
Bob Brown • Rhiannon Louve • Paige Mackmer • Erica Satifka
7:00pm PDT
Crossplay, Gender, and You
Washington
Ellen Klowden • Sheri Budrow • Heather Burgess • Amber Clark • Ari Goldstein • Jess Knight • Rhiannon Louve • Chantal Rochette • Richard Stephens
Science Fiction Movies
Ross Island
Michael Brugger • Jason LaPier • Tod McCoy • Jennifer Willis
8:00pm PDT
Make it Work
Ross Island
Elizabeth Adams • Theresa Mather • Liv Rainey-Smith • Professor DR Schreiber
Quiz Show: Can You Survive a Journey Through Time?
Washington
Tristian Spillman • Manny Frishberg • Ari Goldstein • Ellen Klowden • Ayla Jade Spillman • Katrina Spillman
Touring Beer Establishments
Event
9:00pm PDT
Costuming from Your Kitchen
Sellwood
Betty Bigelow • Gail Glass • Brigid Nelson • Richard Stephens
Late Night Anime Sunday
Hamilton
Nat Saenz
10:00pm PDT
Putting the Oomph into Your Smut: a Fanfic Writing Panel
Washington
Heather Burgess • Catherine Chandler • Ari Goldstein • Ellen Klowden • Tristian Spillman • Debra Stansbury
Monday
, July 4
10:00am PDT
Broadsword Swinging and Etiquette
Washington
A.M. Brosius • Michael Brugger • Mark Chapman • Tristian Spillman
The Anthropogenic Extinction
Hawthorne
Gregory Gadow • Keith Henson • Charlie Stross
Dealers' Room
Exhibit Hall across from the main lobby
Fan Tables
Ballroom Lobby
11:00am PDT
Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?
Ross Island
Christian Lipski • L. Pierce Ludke • Robert Plamondon • Lindsay Schopfer
Prop-Making 101
Sellwood
Mark Chapman • Chin Chin • Sandra King
Adapting for Comics
Lincoln
Liz Argall • Anina Bennett • Paul Guinan
12:00pm PDT
The 52 Project: Writing a Short Story Every Week for a Year (and Publishing the Best!)
Washington
Kenneth Lett • Ellen Klowden
Replicator Economics
Ross Island
Elizabeth Adams • Manny Frishberg • Ken Lizzi • John Scalzi
1:00pm PDT
Space Travel and Religion
Hawthorne
Gregory Gadow • Guy Letourneau • Sean Robinson • Jennifer Willis
Geeks and Feminism
Ross Island
Liz Argall • Amber Clark • Ari Goldstein • Langley Hyde
Someone Else's Universe
Roosevelt
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff • Anina Bennett • David Boop • Robert Plamondon
2:00pm PDT
Costume Exchange
Sellwood
Andrea Letourneau
Local Food Sustainability & Community-Building
Washington
Ellen Klowden • Liz Argall • Karen Black • A.M. Brosius • Guy Letourneau • Robert Plamondon
Whither conventions?
Broadway
Gene Armstrong • Mir Plemmons • Gibbitt Rhys-Jones • Tom Whitmore
Academia Duellatoria: Swords for Scribes: Arms vs. Armor Swords
Mt Bachelor/Mt Hood
Matthew Howden • Kim Switzer
3:00pm PDT
Kitten Kaboodle: Portrayals of Cats and Their People in Popular Culture
Washington
Ellen Klowden • Katie Klecker • Flori Lima-Steele • Contessa Paxton Timmerman
Closing Ceremonies
Mult/Holl
Lea Rush
Steampunk In Portland
Weidler
Stephen Couchman • Julie McGowan • Professor DR Schreiber
7:00pm PDT
GoH Science : Juno Viewing Party
Jeff/Adams
Bobak Ferdowsi
8:00pm PDT
Open Filking: Dead Dog
Oregon
Linnea Thompson
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