Dr. Bradford Lyau

Entrepreneur and Independent Scholar
Globosocks LLC
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 Dr. Bradford Lyau participates

Saturday 26 May, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Afrofuturism 101
1 hour 30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

- Convene 1

Leslie Light, Black Nerd Problems.com (Moderator)

Mx Sarah Williams, Merrie Pryanksters (Participant)

Dr. Bradford Lyau, Globosocks LLC (Participant)

DrWanda Kurtcu, SJSU (Participant)

Sumiko Saulson, Iconoclast Productions (Participant)

4:00 PM
4:00 PM
O'Neill Space Habitats as a Real Estate Operation
1 hour 30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

- Connect 1

G. David Nordley, The Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society (Moderator)

C. Sanford Lowe, C Sanford Lowe (Participant)

Dr. Bradford Lyau, Globosocks LLC (Participant)

Sunday 27 May, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Diversified Fandom, Diversified Canon
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

- Connect 4

Dr. Bradford Lyau, Globosocks LLC (Moderator)

Dr. Heidi Stauffer, Lydian Academy (Participant)

Randy Smith (Participant)

Gregg Castro, Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (ARO) (Participant)

1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Science and Politics in the USA: Latter Day Lysenkoism?
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

- Connect 1

Edward Kukla, Kukla Consulting (Moderator)

Dr. Bradford Lyau, Globosocks LLC (Participant)

Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, RPG Power Systems (Participant)

Howard Davidson, Facebook (Participant)

Monday 28 May, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Diversity v. Unity
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

- Synergy 1

Dr. Bradford Lyau, Globosocks LLC (Moderator)

DrWanda Kurtcu, SJSU (Participant)

Randy Smith (Participant)

Taunya Gren, 5Rainbow Productions (Participant)