Unofficial WisCon 38 Programming Idea-Generation Fest

[laceblade]

Let’s talk about what we would like to see at WisCon 38 for programming, any topic.

Post any thoughts you have, however semi-formed.
People can comment & try to come up with the best panels possible! Anyone can suggest panel ideas: People who run the convention, authors, attendees, or people who have never attended WisCon and never will. Please feel free to join in!

If the comments go in a direction you dislike, or you don't want to participate in a discussion, you can submit your own panel idea here on WisCon's website.

Here's a link to the Dreamwidth post on which we came up with ideas for WisCon 37, specifically anime/manga programming. It's an example of how this works. Threaded comments FTW.


Things to know:
--Not every panel idea that gets suggested ends up on the schedule. For WisCon 37, programming chairs had to cut about 50% of the panels due to space/time constraints.
--Much closer to WisCon 38, people will be able to vote on WisCon's website for panels they'd like to attend, & also indicate their interest in being a panelist or a moderator. These votes matter.
--Programming minions edit panel titles/descriptions after they've been submitted. Sometimes they combine multiple panels on the same theme into a single panel.

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Commenting disclaimer: If you're reading this on LiveJournal, I would appreciate it if you could post your comments on the Dreamwidth post, so they're all in one spot. Of course, if you are unable to do so, comment at LJ.

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badass women and identity pr0n all the way

[jjhunter]

Barring unanticipated personal apocalypse, next year will be my first Wiscon! I would be especially interested in helping run and/or attending panels along the following lines:

The Once and Future Badass
Historical women who inspire, challenge and unsettle us
From 'Badass Women in History RPF' as a Yuletide fandom to tumblrs like historicalheroines and the Reconstructionists project, fans have a hunger for (re)discovering and celebrating women who go to extremes to Get Shit Done. Who are our favorite Badass Women in history, past or present? How do they conform to or subvert (or perhaps blatantly blast to smithereens) current tropes about 'strong' women in fiction and the news?

Ghosts in the Machine
Anonymity, Autonymity and Social Construction of (Internet) Reality
It's easier to notice online that how we perceive each other is something we collectively create. What are the pleasures and pitfalls in having so much freedom to construct our online identities? Is the internet version of reality actually all that different from what we construct in meatspace? And what's in a name, anyway, when services like Google+ try to enforce which names are 'real'?

ETA: feedback / suggestions / tweaks very much welcome & appreciated before I submit some variation of these as panel suggestions.

Re: badass women and identity pr0n all the way

[laceblade]

(edit as much as you'd like - after a year of co-chairing and seeing LITERALLY EVERY WISCON EMAIL EVER, I am immune to inbox spam. It's my new super power XD)

Re: badass women and identity pr0n all the way

[jjhunter]

that is an amazing superpower. :oD

Re: badass women and identity pr0n all the way

[jesse_the_k]

Love Ghosts in the Machine. We always seem to have one panel about the diff between online and offline, and this is one we haven't explored!

Re: badass women and identity pr0n all the way

[jjhunter]

[Your icon! amazing]

It's something I've always paid attention to, and starting to read Bergland's the National Uncanny (which is even better than rushthatspeaks' review, I did not think that was possible) + exposure to rainjoyswriting's thoughts has sparked my interest in revisiting the 'social construction of reality' angle. And as someone constantly negotiating the degree to which her online and offline identities overlap, well, identity meta hits me right at the intersection of personal & political.

Thanks for letting me know - I'll definitely submit this one as a panel rec!