Sunday Schedule

Zombies never get beyond Maslow’s need for food. Dungeon lurkers: what do they get out of lurking? A freewheeling speculation about what makes classic monsters tick and how they could be defeated by curing what ails ‘em.

Panelists:

• Jason Wodicka
• Matt Youngmark
• Torrey Podmajersky
• Yasmine Galenorn

How should we treat our digital creations? Are they our possessions? Our servants? Our children? Our equals? How can we assess their capabilities, and how do we make the determination of how to treat them? How do intellect and self-determination relate, and what does that mean for the societies and laws of an artificial-intelligence future?

Panelists:

• Dave Howell
• Frederick Douglas Saling Marshall
• Jack Foy
• Ted Chiang

What are the terms we use to express gender, and how do they relate to each other? Is gender a set of discrete points, a continuum, or a multidimensional space? What purposes does defining gender serve, and how should those purposes be addressed?

Panelists:

• Amber Clark
• Ben McKenzie

Fannish culture is the most accepting place in the world, right? We’re completely over all of those -isms that plague less enlightened folks! Well… no. But the recent public controversies in fannish communities show that a lot of us want to see ourselves that way. How do these disconnections between perception and reality come about? How can we identify our own blind spots? Are there ways our community can use these situations to grow? How do we have a productive conversation about the problems instead of a lot of yelling and factionalizing?

Panelists:

• Amber Clark
• Marta Murvosh
• Marty Hale-Evans
• Nathan Crowder
• Tom Whitmore

New technologies have created new means of distribution. From NetFlix to e-books, and Hulu to micropayments, the world of creating and being paid is changing. What are the new trends, and how else can we move on to the paradigms of the future?

Panelists:

• Chris Battey
• Manny Frishberg
• Tod McCoy
• Tom Hopp

For many people, the difference between illustration and comics is the little bubbles with dialogue. So what happens when comics leave the words out and do all their storytelling with pictures? Is there a good way to distinguish them from the rest of art? Do we even need to? What are the unique benefits and challenges of telling stories without letting language in to play?

Panelists:

• Egypt Urnash
• Jim Woodring

The Village Common has a new face: shared property is taking off. Zipcar lets you rent a car by the hour, maker spaces provide high-end tools like laser cutters and 3D printers, shared kitchens give you commercially legal space for cooking. What does it mean for creativity and productivity when you don’t need to own something, just a share in it? What are some of the advantages and drawbacks to sharing vs. owning things?

Once basic needs are met, what would you do with a small amount of discretionary cargo when preparing for a long space voyage?

Join all your friends at Foolscap for a Sunday brunch – plus more! Chat with new and old friends, and show off your aptitude with SF trivia. Maybe you’ll even win a prize!

Join our auctioneers as we exchange small green slips of paper for fabulous art, objects, and unique goods that simply can’t be found elsewhere. The Foolscap auction is a mixture of performance art, improv comedy, and good old-fashioned commerce. Don’t miss it!

Panelists:

• Karen Anderson
• Tom Whitmore

You think you know what technology is, but have you ever tried to define it? Does it have to do with ideas? Tools? Skills? What IS it?

Panelists:

• John Braley
• Manny Frishberg
• Michael Stiber

What is it that brings the words from the pen or typewriter or keyboard? Why do we write, and what motivates different people to do so?

Panelists:

• Danika Dinsmore
• Nathan Crowder
• Sarah Hirsch
• Yasmine Galenorn

With another Foolscap at a close, tell us how we did! What worked for you? What could we do better? What should next year’s Foolscap be like?

As the convention winds down, join our guests of honor for a conversation in the Commons, and continue all those discussions you started with them over the weekend.

Panelists:

• Jim Woodring
• Ted Chiang

Join the Convention Committee for dinner! We’ll be meeting up in the commons, and going to a location to-be-decided for food!

The Con Is Dead! Long Live The Con!

Join us as we celebrate the end of another fabulous Foolscap, and party in the Commons until we’re all too tired to go on!