Name: Stephen Griffiths
Confirmed panels
| Title | Proposed Time | Proposed Room |
|---|---|---|
| Banned Books | Friday 3:00 PM | Cocktail Lounge |
| TV Pilots | Friday 10:30 PM | Cocktail Lounge |
| Left Behind the Bush | Sunday 9:00 AM | Oshaneshii |
| Battlestar Galactica | Sunday 7:30 PM | Oshaneshii |
| How come vampires are heroes now? | Monday 10:00 AM | Oshaneshii |
Title: Banned Books
Status: confirmed
Proposed by:
Description:
'If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it...'
Science fiction and fantasy books feature prominently in the pantheon of banned books. Books that seem inoffensive to today's readers, such as The Wizard of Oz, were previously considered so dangerous that schools and libraries refused to hold them. Classics of the genre including Slaughterhouse Five and Brave New World still raise frequent objections. What is it about these books and the genres of fantasy and science fiction in general that raise the ire of those who would control what we read?
Room Notes:
Tags: Equipment: AV, Books & Literature
Confirmed panellists: Stephen Griffiths, Gina Goddard, Emma Hawkes
No additional panellists have been suggested.
Room: Cocktail Lounge
Time: Friday 3:00 PM
Title: TV Pilots
Status: confirmed
Proposed by:
Description:
What's coming up? What looks good? What looks terrible but we're going to watch anyway?
Room Notes:
Tags: Media, Equipment: AV
Confirmed panellists: Jenny Owen, Stephen Griffiths, Graeme Watson
No additional panellists have been suggested.
Room: Cocktail Lounge
Time: Friday 10:30 PM
Title: Left Behind the Bush
Status: confirmed
Proposed by:
Description:
Join our incredulous panelists as they wade through sparkly abstinence-only education (Twilight), exclaim eschatology gone Right (Left Behind), the War on <strike>Terror</strike> Terrible Writing (Marvel's Civil War/Heroes) and the oddly prescient (Iron Man/The Dark Knight)
Room Notes:
Tags:
Confirmed panellists: Stephen Griffiths, Kate Williams, Nick Evans
One additional panellist has been suggested.
Room: Oshaneshii
Time: Sunday 9:00 AM
Title: Battlestar Galactica
Status: confirmed
Proposed by: PRK
Description:
Battlestar Galactica's final episodes screened in Australia on March 21st. How well did it end? How did everything tie together? Was it a satisfactory ending, or should it have gone differently? What key moments defined each season, both for the characters and the audience's perception of them?
Note - this panel will contain spoilers up to and including the end of Season 4.
Room Notes:
Tags: Format: Panel, TV, Needs panellist(s)
Recording: (rights of use)Confirmed panellists: Stephen Griffiths, PRK
No additional panellists have been suggested.
Room: Oshaneshii
Time: Sunday 7:30 PM
Title: How come vampires are heroes now?
Status: confirmed
Proposed by:
Description:
Expect at least 10 minutes of Twilight gender-role evisceration followed by passing mentions of Polidori, Stoker, Lee and Whedon, amazement at the greenlighting of Moonlight and rampant glee accompanied by mad mansqueeing over True Blood, Let the Right One In, Being Human and unwritten Lost Boys TV series pilots.
Room Notes:
Tags: Fantasy
Confirmed panellists: Stephen Griffiths, Lara Morgan
No additional panellists have been suggested.
Room: Oshaneshii
Time: Monday 10:00 AM