
Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series (Tor Books: Too Like the Lightning, Seven Surrenders, the Will to Battle, forthcoming final volume Perhaps the Stars) explores a future of borderless nations and globally commixing populations. Ada teaches history at the University of Chicago, studying the Renaissance, Enlightenment, heresy, atheism, and censorship, and recently did a video series on censorship & information control during information revolutions, organized with Cory Doctorow (available online). She composes fantasy, SF and mythology-themed music, including the Viking mythology musical stage play Sundown: Whispers of Ragnarok (available on CD and DVD), and performs with the group Sassafrass. She is also disabled and a disability activist, researches anime/manga, especially Osamu Tezuka, early post-WWII manga and gender in manga, and has worked as a consultant for many anime and manga publishers. She blogs for Tor.com, and writes the philosophy & travel blog ExUrbe.com.
Sessions in which Ada Palmer participates
- Reading: Ada Palmer Programming - Reading Room 1
- 15:00 NZST - 15:25 NZST | 25 minutes
- Reading
- Cory Doctorow and Ada Palmer discuss censorship and information control Programming - Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
- 13:00 NZST - 13:50 NZST | 50 minutes
- Dialogue
- Kaffeeklatsch: Ada Palmer
- Signup required Registered On Wait List Session is full Programming - Kaffeklatch and Literary Beer Room
- 12:00 NZST - 12:50 NZST | 50 minutes
- Kaffeeklatsch
- History and SF Programming - Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
- 13:00 NZST - 13:50 NZST | 50 minutes
- Panel
- Sassafrass presents Viking Mythology Music Programming - Programme Room 9 (Zoom Meeting)
- 15:00 NZST - 15:50 NZST | 50 minutes
- Concert
- The History of the Book Programming - Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
- 10:00 NZST - 10:50 NZST | 50 minutes
- Presentation
- Comics and Manga in the 21st Century Programming - Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
- 12:00 NZST - 12:50 NZST | 50 minutes
- Panel