Therese Lyons

Sessions in which Therese Lyons attends

Wednesday 29 July, 2020

Time Zone: NZDT/Wellington
9:00
9:00
Live Long and Prosper: Meditation for Trekkies 50 minutes 9:00 NZST  -  9:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Instructor Erin Wilcox (SFWA) |
Activity
12:00
12:00
Is it Time for a Best Video Game/Interactive Media Hugo? 50 minutes 12:00 NZST  -  12:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist Ceinwen Langley | Moderator Vincent Docherty (SMOFcon 39) | Panelist Karen Bovenmyer (PseudoPod Horror Podcast Magazine) | Panelist Cameron Bolinger (Explorasaurus Studios) | Panelist Ira Alexandre (Lady Business) |
Panel
Gaming
14:00
14:00
Novel vs. Game: Approaches to Narrative Fiction 50 minutes 14:00 NZST  -  14:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist Zach Dodson (featherproof books) | Panelist Casey Lucas (Seven Seas Entertainment) | Moderator Edward Fortune (Starburst Magazine) | Panelist Carrie Patel (Obsidian Entertainment) |
Panel
Writing/Business of WritingGaming
15:00
15:00
Epidemics and Plagues in the Real World and in Fiction 50 minutes 15:00 NZST  -  15:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panelist Andy Dudak | Moderator Mason A. Porter (University of California) | Panelist Perrianne Lurie | Panelist Freya Marske | Panelist Prema Arasu (University of Western Australia) |
Panel
Science/TechnologyScience Fiction/Fantasy
16:00
16:00
Killing it in Kindle Unlimited 50 minutes 16:00 NZST  -  16:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 7 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist Eileen Mueller |
Presentation
Writing/Business of Writing
17:00
17:00
A Short, Sharp, Shock: Horror in Few Words 50 minutes 17:00 NZST  -  17:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Moderator Suyi Davies Okungbowa | Panelist Emma Osborne | Panelist Nibedita Sen |
Panel
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
20:00
20:00
Scarey Stuff 50 minutes 20:00 NZST  -  20:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Contestant Frances Hardinge | Contestant Elizabeth Knox | Master of ceremonies Kyla Lee Ward (Prea Press) |
Game Show
Horror
22:00
22:00
Planning and Attending Conventions in the Age of COVID-19 50 minutes 22:00 NZST  -  22:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist Gerard Kraus (Science Fiction & Fantasy Society Luxembourg) | Panelist Carolina Gomez Lagerlöf | Moderator Alison Scott (Punctuation) | Panelist Vincent Docherty (SMOFcon 39) |
Panel
FandomEuropean Time

Thursday 30 July, 2020

Time Zone: NZDT/Wellington
9:00
9:00
The Human Mind and Perception of the Other 50 minutes 9:00 NZST  -  9:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Moderator David Carmel (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) | Panelist Lars Backstrom (auticon) |
Academic
Academic
Yarnbombing & Crafting Time Thursday 50 minutes 9:00 NZST  -  9:50 NZST  |  Programming , Discussion Groups
Moderator Jan Bass (Programme) |
Activity
10:00
10:00
The Future Is Female: Women SF Writers from Mary Shelley to Ursula Le Guin and Octavia Butler 50 minutes 10:00 NZST  -  10:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panelist Sarah Pinsker (SFWA) | Moderator Karen Purcell (Woodsdale Animal Hospital) | Panelist Arwen Curry (Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin) | Panelist Bradford Lyau | Panelist Alexandra Pierce |
Panel
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Justice in SF and Fantasy 50 minutes 10:00 NZST  -  10:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist Adri Joy (Nerds of a Feather) | Panelist Fred Lerner | Moderator Jenn Lyons (Tor Books) | Panelist Brent Lambert (FIYAH Literary Magazine) | Panelist Melinda Snodgrass (Stealing Fire Productions Inc.) |
Panel
Science Fiction/Fantasy
11:30
11:30
Reading: Becky Chambers 25 minutes 11:30 NZST  -  11:55 NZST  |  Programming , Reading Room 2
Speaker Becky Chambers |
Reading
12:00
12:00
The Timeless Child and the Evolving Canon of Doctor Who 50 minutes 12:00 NZST  -  12:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panelist John Toon | Panelist R.W.W. Greene (Angry Robot Books) | Panelist Lynne Thomas (Uncanny Magazine) | Moderator Jim Mann | Panelist Phoebe Wagner (University of Nevada at Reno) |
Panel
Media
13:00
13:00
Ray Bradbury Centennial 50 minutes 13:00 NZST  -  13:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Speaker Jason Aukerman (Indiana University-Purdue University) |
Presentation
People
14:00
14:00
Medicine in the Future: From Surgery in Zero G to New Treatments for Disease 50 minutes 14:00 NZST  -  14:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panelist Z Aung | Panelist Rivqa Rafael | Panelist Perrianne Lurie | Moderator Benjamin Hewett (Author / Juggler / Enthusiast) |
Panel
Science/Technology
15:00
15:00
Re-engineering the Natural Form 50 minutes 15:00 NZST  -  15:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Moderator David (Marti Ward) Powers (Flinders University of South Australia) | Panelist Deborah Munro (University of Canterbury) |
Academic
Academic
Nevertheless, She Persisted: The Explosion of the Heroine in the 50 Years Since Mia Havero 50 minutes 15:00 NZST  -  15:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist Maiya Ibrahim | Moderator Catherine Lundoff (Queen of Swords Press) | Panelist Lee Murray | Panelist Glenda Larke |
Panel
Science Fiction/Fantasy
16:00
16:00
Kaffeeklatsch: Becky Chambers 50 minutes 16:00 NZST  -  16:50 NZST  |  Programming , Kaffeklatch and Literary Beer Room
 |  Signup required
Participant Becky Chambers |
Kaffeeklatsch
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
On Afrofuturism 50 minutes 17:00 NZST  -  17:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Panelist Suyi Davies Okungbowa | Panelist Oghenechovwe Ekpeki | Panelist Brandon O'Brien (FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction) | Panelist Eugen Bacon | Moderator Maquel A. Jacob (MAJart Works) |
Panel
18:00
18:00
Meet and Greet the Programme Participants 50 minutes 18:00 NZST  -  18:50 NZST  |  Programming , Meet and Greets
Reception
19:00
19:00
Book Launch: Taylor Neeran Chronicles #4 by J. J. Matthews 50 minutes 19:00 NZST  -  19:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 7 (Zoom Meeting)
Speaker J J Mathews (Mouse Moon Press) |
Book Launch
20:00
20:00
Book Launch: Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 2 50 minutes 20:00 NZST  -  20:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 7 (Zoom Meeting)
Moderator Marie Hodgkinson | Panelist Melanie Harding-Shaw | Panelist Octavia Cade | Panelist Casey Lucas (Seven Seas Entertainment) | Panelist AJ Fitzwater (Author) | Panelist Rem Wigmore | Panelist Juliet Marillier | Panelist Andi C. Buchanan (Writer) |
Book Launch
Science Fiction/Fantasy
23:00
23:00
Book Launch: Somewhere Else by Sally McLennan 50 minutes 23:00 NZST  -  23:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 7 (Zoom Meeting)
Speaker Sally McLennan |
Book Launch

Friday 31 July, 2020

Time Zone: NZDT/Wellington
8:00
8:00
The Skiffy & Fanty Show Podcast 1 hour 50 minutes 8:00 NZST  -  9:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 8 (Zoom Meeting)
Speaker Shaun Duke (Bemidji State University / The Skiffy and Fanty Show) | Participant Alasdair Stuart (Escape Artists Inc.) | Participant Wendy Browne (Women Write About Comics) | Speaker Jen Zink (The Skiffy and Fanty Show) |
Podcast
MediaComics/Graphic Novels
9:00
9:00
Technology for Disability in the Real World and in Speculative Fiction 50 minutes 9:00 NZST  -  9:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba) | Panelist Farah Mendlesohn (BSFA) | Panelist Elsa Sjunneson | Moderator Lars Backstrom (auticon) |
Panel
Society/CultureScience/Technology
10:00
10:00
LGBTQIA Themes in Books, Comics, and Movies/TV 50 minutes 10:00 NZST  -  10:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist Ira Alexandre (Lady Business) | Panelist Prema Arasu (University of Western Australia) | Moderator Karen Bovenmyer (PseudoPod Horror Podcast Magazine) | Panelist Jason Wodicka | Panelist Charles Payseur |
Panel
Stranger in a Strange Head: Imposter Syndrome 50 minutes 10:00 NZST  -  10:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Panelist Curtis Chen (SFWA) | Panelist Ash Charlton (ACE TRAINING) | Panelist Margot Atwell (Kickstarter) | Moderator Cassie Hart | Panelist Grant Stone |
Panel
Writing/Business of Writing
The Expanding Worlds of Audiobooks 50 minutes 10:00 NZST  -  10:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist C. L. Clark (Escape Artists Inc. (Editor)) | Panelist Timothy Ellis (The Hunter Legacy Universe / WriterSanctum author forum) | Panelist Tansy Rayner Roberts | Moderator Simon Vance (Self) |
Panel
Science Fiction/FantasyWriting/Business of Writing
10:30
10:30
Reading: Peadar Ó Guilín 25 minutes 10:30 NZST  -  10:55 NZST  |  Programming , Reading Room 1
Speaker Peadar Ó Guilín |
Reading
11:00
11:00
Dungeons and Dragons: Still Going Strong 50 minutes 11:00 NZST  -  11:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Moderator Cat Rambo (Cat Rambo) | Panelist Paul Weimer | Panelist Sascha Stronach |
Panel
Gaming
13:00
13:00
Fandom Over the Years - The Female Perspective 50 minutes 13:00 NZST  -  13:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist Andi Dukleth (Accidental Aliens and KPBS News) | Panelist Laurie Mann | Panelist Alison Scott (Punctuation) | Panelist Gay Haldeman | Moderator Jennifer Zwahr-Castro (St. Mary's University of San Antonio, TX) |
Panel
FandomScience Fiction/FantasySociety/Culture
SF and Fantasy from New Zealand 50 minutes 13:00 NZST  -  13:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 7 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist Andi C. Buchanan (Writer) | Panelist Cassie Hart | Panelist Toni Wi | Moderator Dylan Horrocks (Victoria University of Wellington) |
Panel
Science Fiction/Fantasy
14:00
14:00
Good Omens at 30 50 minutes 14:00 NZST  -  14:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist Ira Alexandre (Lady Business) | Panelist Soon Lee | Moderator Sam Blackley (freelance) | Panelist Maria Haskins | Panelist Harun Siljak (CONNECT Centre For Future Networks and Communications) |
Panel
Science Fiction/FantasyMedia
15:00
15:00
Pandemic Myths and Facts 50 minutes 15:00 NZST  -  15:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (LIRNEasia) | Moderator Naomi Kritzer | Panelist Andi C. Buchanan (Writer) | Panelist Mason A. Porter (University of California) | Panelist Perrianne Lurie |
Panel
Yarnbombing & Crafting Time Friday 50 minutes 15:00 NZST  -  15:50 NZST  |  Programming , Discussion Groups
Moderator Jan Bass (Programme) |
Activity
16:00
16:00
Universal Rights in the Age of AI 50 minutes 16:00 NZST  -  16:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba) | Panelist L.J. Kendall (L. J. Kendall Publishing) | Panelist Barbara Howe | Panelist Benjamin C. Kinney (Escape Pod) | Moderator Mikko Rauhala |
Panel
Society/CultureScience/Technology
17:00
17:00
From Peter Jackson to Taika Waititi : New Zealand Originated Genre Films and TV Series 50 minutes 17:00 NZST  -  17:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panelist Caemasache McKenna (Full Sail University) | Moderator Matthew S. Rotundo | Panelist Catherine Lundoff (Queen of Swords Press) | Panelist Peter Hassall (Stunt Guild of New Zealand) | Panelist Sam Blackley (freelance) |
Panel
Media
20:00
20:00
Book Launch: Enter Entropy: Volume 3 50 minutes 20:00 NZST  -  20:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 7 (Zoom Meeting)
Moderator Candice Michelle Goodwin (RWC Productions) |
Book Launch
Science Fiction/Fantasy
21:00
21:00
Love in the Time of COVID-19 50 minutes 21:00 NZST  -  21:50 NZST  |  Programming , Discussion Groups
Discussion Group
PeopleFandomSociety/Culture

Saturday 1 August, 2020

Time Zone: NZDT/Wellington
9:30
9:30
Reading: Jenn Lyons 25 minutes 9:30 NZST  -  9:55 NZST  |  Programming , Reading Room 2
Speaker Jenn Lyons (Tor Books) |
Reading
10:00
10:00
Horror from Elsewhere 50 minutes 10:00 NZST  -  10:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist Ellen Datlow | Moderator Geneve Flynn | Panelist Octavia Cade |
Panel
Science Fiction/Fantasy
11:00
11:00
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
14:00
14:00
Reading: Garth Nix 25 minutes 14:00 NZST  -  14:25 NZST  |  Programming , Reading Room 1
Speaker Garth Nix |
Reading
15:00
15:00
Not Your Parents' Space Opera 50 minutes 15:00 NZST  -  15:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panelist Valerie Valdes | Moderator Sean Williams (Flinders University) | Panelist Melinda Snodgrass (Stealing Fire Productions Inc.) | Panelist Becky Chambers |
Panel
Science Fiction/Fantasy
16:00
16:00
Good Work, Questionable Creator 50 minutes 16:00 NZST  -  16:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panelist James Davis Nicoll (James Nicoll Reviews / University of Waterloo Theatre Centre) | Panelist Richard Gilliam (Self) | Moderator Julie Hofmann or ADMedievalist |
Panel
Other
18:00
18:00
Film Festival Block 4 4 hours 18:00 NZST  -  22:00 NZST
Media Screening
20:00
20:00
Yarnbombing & Crafting Time Saturday 50 minutes 20:00 NZST  -  20:50 NZST  |  Programming , Discussion Groups
Moderator Jan Bass (Programme) |
Activity

Sunday 2 August, 2020

Time Zone: NZDT/Wellington
9:00
9:00
Apocalypse as Insight 50 minutes 9:00 NZST  -  9:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Panelist Octavia Cade | Panelist Julie Hofmann or ADMedievalist | Panelist Gillian Polack |
Academic
Academic
10:00
10:00
"Sarabande" / "Resurrection Eve" 1 hour 10:00 NZST  -  11:00 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Performer Bill Ritch (The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company) |
Presentation
Other
11:00
11:00
Closing Ceremony 50 minutes 11:00 NZST  -  11:50 NZST  |  Events , Events Room
Master of ceremonies Norman Cates (CoNZealand) | Master of ceremonies Kelly Buehler (CoNZealand) | Participant Bill Lawhorn | Participant Colette Fozard |
Event
Speculative Poetry 2020 The Rhyme of the SF Mariner 50 minutes 11:00 NZST  -  11:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Panelist Ryn Yee | Moderator Brandon O'Brien (FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction) | Panelist Joyce Chng | Panelist Katherine Quevedo | Panelist Hester J. Rook |
Panel
Other GenresPoetry
12:00
12:00
Reading: Holly Black 25 minutes 12:00 NZST  -  12:25 NZST  |  Programming , Reading Room 1
Speaker Holly Black |
Reading
TV in Space: The Expanse, Star Trek, The Orville, and More 50 minutes 12:00 NZST  -  12:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panelist Sarah Gulde (Star Trek Quarterly) | Moderator Amy (A.K.) DuBoff | Panelist Michael Sheffield (Northrop Grumman Space Systems) | Panelist Daniel Abraham | Panelist Julie Czerneda |
Panel
MediaScience Fiction/Fantasy
13:00
13:00
The Best of the Rest: 2019 Novels that Weren't Nominated for a Hugo 50 minutes 13:00 NZST  -  13:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Moderator Jo Van |
Panel
Science Fiction/Fantasy
14:00
14:00
The Appeal of Spider-Man 50 minutes 14:00 NZST  -  14:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panelist Gideon Marcus (Galactic Journey (and Journey Press) ) | Moderator Daniel Abraham | Panelist Stina Leicht |
Panel
Comics/Graphic NovelsMediaFandom
15:00
15:00
Yarnbombing & Crafting Time Sunday 50 minutes 15:00 NZST  -  15:50 NZST  |  Programming , Discussion Groups
Moderator Jan Bass (Programme) |
Activity
16:00
16:00
The Future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe 50 minutes 16:00 NZST  -  16:50 NZST  |  Programming , Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist Candice Michelle Goodwin (RWC Productions) | Moderator Carrie Vaughn | Panelist David Peterson | Panelist Elsa Sjunneson |
Panel
MediaFandom