Bradford Lyau
he/him
Entrepreneur and Independent Scholar, Globosocks LLC
Community Guest of Honor
Participates in 5 items
Bradford Lyau has been a life-long reader of science fiction, part of fandom for over forty years, and a panelist for over twenty-five years. He is a historian by training (BA, UC-Berkeley; MA, PhD, University of Chicago) and once taught at several universities in California and Europe. He presently works for a start-up company and is a political activist/consultant. He remains active in formal scholarship, publishing academic articles on American, British, French, and other European science fiction. He was an invited program participant in 1984 for the George Orwell Conference held in London, and in 1991 for the Utopian Conference held in Yverdon-les-Bain, Switzerland, as part of Switzerland’s 700th Anniversary celebration. One of his recent articles analyzed Cixin Liu’s recently translated novels, his first attempt to analyze science fiction from a non-Western culture. His book analyzing French science fiction, The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction: Stepchildren of Voltaire, received very positive reviews from leading academic SF journals and is listed as a reference for further reading in the “France” entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
Sessions in which Bradford Lyau participates
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2:30 PM
- Afrofuturism 101 San Mateo Marriott - Convene 1
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- With the fantastic success of the Black Panther movie from Marvel, the word "Afrofuturism" is much in the news. What's it mean? Is it a genre or a ...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- O'Neill Space Habitats as a Real Estate Operation San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1
- 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Given robots to mine the materials and do almost all the labor, how much would it really cost to build a hundred-thousand person habitat? Wou...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Diversified Fandom, Diversified Canon San Mateo Marriott - Connect 4
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Science and Politics in the USA: Latter Day Lysenkoism? San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1
- 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Diversity v. Unity San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 1
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The line between celebrating our differences and dividing ourselves is often blurry. When is embracing racial, religious, politica,l or personal id...