Wataru Ishigame

Editor
Tokyo Sogensha (Publisher)
Participates in 1 Session

Wataru ISHIGAME has been an editor of Tokyo Sogensha, one of the oldest SFF publishers in Japan, since 2011. He published many translation works including Ann Leckie, Jo Walton, Becky Chambers, Charlie Jane Anders, and Lavie Tidhar. Three of them won annual Seiun Awards (Japanese equivalent Hugo). Now he is working at N. K. Jemisin's The Broken Earth trilogy. He also translated two short stories of Peter Watts and Karen Joy Fowler into Japanese in 2011.

Sessions in which Wataru Ishigame participates

Friday 31 July, 2020

Time Zone: NZDT/Wellington
12:00
12:00
Translation: the Key to Open Doors to the Cultural Diversity in SFF 50 minutes 12:00 NZST  -  12:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panelist Libia Brenda (Independent) | Moderator Cora Buhlert | Panelist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld Magazine) | Panelist Wataru Ishigame (Tokyo Sogensha (Publisher)) | Panelist Luis F. Silva |
Panel
Science Fiction/FantasyWriting/Business of Writing

Sessions in which Wataru Ishigame attends

Wednesday 29 July, 2020

Time Zone: NZDT/Wellington
14:00
14:00
Science Fantasy: A Core Piece of the SF/F World 50 minutes 14:00 NZST  -  14:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panelist Tommy Kucera (Dept of Mathematics) | Moderator David D. Levine | Panelist L.J. Kendall (L. J. Kendall Publishing) | Panelist Jacqui Greaves | Panelist Rivqa Rafael |
Panel
Science Fiction/Fantasy
15:00
15:00
Small Press Leading the Way 50 minutes 15:00 NZST  -  15:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist Joyce Chng | Moderator Tod McCoy (Hydra House Books) | Panelist Michelle Lovi (Odyssey Books) | Panelist Zach Dodson (featherproof books) |
Panel
Writing/Business of Writing
16:30
16:30
Reading: Umiyuri Katsuyama 25 minutes 16:30 NZST  -  16:55 NZST  |  Programming , Reading Room 1
Speaker Umiyuri Katsuyama |
Reading
19:00
19:00
Representing the Other 50 minutes 19:00 NZST  -  19:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Speaker Brandon O'Brien (FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction) | Panelist Cliona Shakespeare (University of Jyväskylä) | Panelist Prema Arasu (University of Western Australia) | Moderator Bradford Lyau | Panelist Laura (El) Lam (Edinburgh Napier University) |
Panel
21:00
21:00
Are We Living in a Simulation? 50 minutes 21:00 NZST  -  21:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panelist Fiona Moore | Panelist Sultana Raza | Moderator L.J. Kendall (L. J. Kendall Publishing) | Panelist Christopher Gee |
Panel
Science/Technology

Thursday 30 July, 2020

Time Zone: NZDT/Wellington
13:00
13:00
Cory Doctorow and Ada Palmer discuss censorship and information control 50 minutes 13:00 NZST  -  13:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Speaker Cory Doctorow | Speaker Ada Palmer |
Dialogue
17:00
17:00
Asian Women of Horror: The Experience of Perpetual "Otherness" Through the Lens of Dark Fiction 50 minutes 17:00 NZST  -  17:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist Lee Murray | Panelist Prema Arasu (University of Western Australia) | Moderator Geneve Flynn | Panelist Umiyuri Katsuyama |
Panel
Science Fiction/FantasySociety/Culture

Friday 31 July, 2020

Time Zone: NZDT/Wellington
17:00
17:00
Post The Three-Body Problem: What Is Happening in Mainland Chinese Science Fiction? 50 minutes 17:00 NZST  -  17:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist Andy Dudak | Panelist Yen Ooi | Panelist Taiyo Fujii (SFWJ) | Moderator Regina Kanyu Wang (Storycom) |
Panel
Science Fiction/Fantasy
18:00
18:00
Is Cyberpunk Mainstream Now? 50 minutes 18:00 NZST  -  18:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Moderator PR K | Panelist Edward James (none) | Panelist Laura (El) Lam (Edinburgh Napier University) | Panelist Takayuki Tatsumi (Keio University) | Panelist Eli K. P. William |
Panel
Science Fiction/Fantasy

Saturday 1 August, 2020

Time Zone: NZDT/Wellington
11:00
11:00
Kaffeeklatsch: Umiyuri Katsuyama 50 minutes 11:00 NZST  -  11:50 NZST  |  Programming , Kaffeklatch and Literary Beer Room
 |  Signup required
Participant Umiyuri Katsuyama |
Kaffeeklatsch
Hugo Awards Ceremony 3 hours 30 minutes 11:00 NZST  -  14:30 NZST  |  Events , Events Room
Presenter Mercedes Lackey (High Flight Arts and Letters) | Presenter Rose Mitchell | Presenter Robert Silverberg | Presenter Alison Scott (Punctuation) | Presenter Erin Underwood | Presenter Larry Dixon | Presenter Greg Broadmore (Weta Workshop) | Moderator George R. R. Martin |
Event
Science Fiction/Fantasy
18:00
18:00
Intersection of Science Fiction and Technology in Japan 50 minutes 18:00 NZST  -  18:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Moderator Terrie Hashimoto | Panelist Dohjin Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba) | Panelist Yugen Yashima | Panelist Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba) |
Panel
23:00
23:00
Parties: 1 August, party band #1 3 hours 23:00 NZST  -  2:00 NZST  |  Con Operations , Party Zoom
Party

Sunday 2 August, 2020

Time Zone: NZDT/Wellington
12:00
12:00
Ghosts in the Ships: Sentient Ships in SF and Fantasy 50 minutes 12:00 NZST  -  12:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist Jeffrey A. Carver (SFWA, Starstream Publications) | Panelist Sascha Stronach | Moderator Z Aung | Panelist Mark Van Name |
Panel
Science Fiction/Fantasy
13:00
13:00
Beyond the Anglosphere: SF and Fantasy from the Rest of the World 50 minutes 13:00 NZST  -  13:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panelist Shiv Ramdas | Panelist Yasser Bahjatt (Jeddi High Council) | Panelist Terrie Hashimoto | Moderator Zaza Koshkadze | Panelist Valentin Ivanov (European Southern Observatory) |
Panel
Science Fiction/Fantasy