Sean Ambrose
Participates in 1 Session
Sessions in which Sean Ambrose participates
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Anime with adult protagonists: a guide Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
Sessions in which Sean Ambrose attends
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
- Opening Ceremony Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour
- Are you ready??? Meet this year’s team, meet the guests, and get the lowdown on all things Swancon 2018.Welcome to Country ceremony will be...
- Keynote
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- Con-going 101 Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- What you need to know as a first-time con-goer. How to maximise your con experience and have a fabulous time. This discussi...
- Workshop
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Music in Fandom: Making Everything Even Better Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- How does music fit in to our fannish lives? The panellists look at the place of music in fannish enjoyment and transformative fan art. How do some ...
- Panel
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Welcome to Swancon Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- Workshop
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Run Through Banner Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Workshop
- Believing Impossible Things Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Humans are good at believing improbable, or even impossible, things. This panel will sort out the degrees of impossibility involved in key science ...
- Panel
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Captain America vs America (and Australia) Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- What do we find so hot about the idea of a superhero? How does this compare to how we view humans who have ‘super’ power in the form of extreme wea...
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Foz Meadows' Reading, and Q and A session Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Guest of Honour, Foz Meadows, will give a reading, and then be interviewed by PRK on their work and plans. An audience Q and A will follow, and a s...
- Keynote
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- SF movies that engage the brain Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- One of the most notable elements of written science fiction is the focus on exploring ideas in depth and speculating about the effects of technolog...
- Panel
- Let's talk about Star Wars Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- It’s baaaaack! Star Wars has returned to our screens to mixed feelings of delight and dismay. What are the new films doing right? What are we hopin...
- Panel
- Data is Beautiful: Data visualisation can tell a story Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Humans are inherently bad at seeing the patterns in numbers, but really good at picking visual patterns. Data visualisation is one of the tools tha...
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Quiet Time Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
- Australian TV: Early days to Cleverman Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- The style of storytelling in Australian TV has changed radically from the early days of Homicide to Cleverman. The panellists look at the changes, ...
- Panel
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Beyond the Binary: Alternatives to patriarchy and other binary models of society Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- The panel work their way through historical, theoretical and fictional alternatives to the shitshow we are in. Then they get angry. Then they make ...
- Workshop
- Miyazaki: a retrospective Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Miyazaki Hayao is one of the biggest names in animation, and in Japanese cinema. In this panel we explore his history, starting with his early days...
- Talk
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Graphic Art in the family room Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour
- Workshop
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- How stars work, what happens over a star's lifetime, and why Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- All you need to know about astrophysics without the equations.Andrew Williams presents: There's an awful lot of science fiction featuri...
- Talk
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Authorial Voice and Writing the Other Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour
- Writers spend a lot of time worrying about how to write marginalised voices without, well, marginalising the voices. How do writers who are Other w...
- Panel
- Australian Landscapes as Characters Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour
- From the deserts to the suburbs*, Australian landscapes have been turned into important characters in their own right, particularly in YA sf and fa...
- Panel
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- Remembering LeGuin Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM | 1 hour
- Ursula LeGuin was a giantess of SF, and will be sorely missed. The genre would literally not the be same without her. The Earthsea books, The Lathe...
- Panel
- Here be dragons...? Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM | 2 hours 30 minutes
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- Safe Spaces LARP Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour
- We've had some great discussions over the years and it's time to walk that talk. This workshop is an opportunity to examine difficult situations ...
- Workshop
- Online safety Facebook, cyber-security and identity theft Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour
- Recent events in online fan spaces have shown that your fan identity is easily linked to your government assigned identity, and that this can have ...
- Panel
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Play 'DropMix'! Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
- Paranormal Romance vs Urban Fantasy Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Not sure if you write fantasy with romantic elements, urban fantasy or paranormal romance? It’s more than just the species or style of magic. Delve...
- Panel
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Common Mistakes of Early Career Writers, and How Not to Make Them- writing workshop Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 3
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Satima Flavell's workshop deals with the most common mistakes of first-time writers(and sadly, sometimes second or third time writers too!) Ove...
- Workshop
- Changing Nature of Fan Communities Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Swancon has been running for 43 years, and fandom has changed around the convention during this time. (Or has it?) What was Perth fandom like in th...
- Panel
- Writing the Romantic Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- How do authors handle romance well when writing other genres? SF or fantasy with romantic elements are popular with readers, but getting the balanc...
- Panel
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Project Runway Swancon Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Designers, you have a challenge awaiting you. You must design your outfit, choose your fabric, make your item and dress your model. You have ...
- Ryan J Griffen Guest of Honour event Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Post it Art Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Workshop
- UNISFA is how old?! Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- UNISFA turns 40 this year. Join several generations of UNISFAns as they remininisce, contemplate, anecdote and laugh. Middle age has never looked s...
- Panel
- Fannish Speed Friend-ating Pan Pacific Perth - Boardroom foyer
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Finish the Drawing Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Workshop
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Disney from the kids' seats Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
- Contemporary SF illustration and storyboarding Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- The panelists explore the three way intersection of story, visual art and technology, possibly with illustrations. How can art be used to tell stor...
- Panel
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Indian Speculative Fiction - what's hot Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Maia chats about the best of contemporary Indian speculative fiction, including these stories:The Woman who Thought She was a Planet by Vandana...
- Panel
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Swancon 2019 Launch Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Kids Masquerade Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara
- 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Collaborative
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- More than glitter Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour
- We all know the importance of writing and creating a diverse group of characters. The panel focusses on the next step, making the diversity not the...
- Panel
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Creating the Cleverman Comics: Emily Smith's and Wolf Bylsma's Guest of Honour event Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Emily Smith and Wolf Bylsma give a presentation on the creative and practical processes behind developing the Cleverman comics, explaining how the ...
- Talk
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Ryan Griffen's commentary for Cleverman S2 E3 "Dark Clouds" Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Ryan Griffen provides commentary and background details for "Dark Clouds", Cleverman S2 E3. Parental Advisory warnings for violence ...
- Talk
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Comics -> TV/movies VS TV/movies -> comics Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- We’re used to media changing format, comics to TV or movies, or back the other way. Is there a difference in the kinds of stories told, dependi...
- Panel
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Cross-fertilising, from genre to aesthetic Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour
- Cross-fertilising genres gives awesome results like the SF spy novel and the supernatural romance. The panel discusses why these combinations are s...
- Panel
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Steven Universe Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Steven Universe: why are all my LGBTQ friends going crazy over a kids’ cartoon? The panel discusses the relevance of Steven Universe's themes, and ...
- Panel
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Fanfic as a gateway to canon Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- The expectation is that we consume the canon, then dive into the fan creations. Except, sometimes, we slide sideways into canon through fic or vids...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Philosophy of Mind in SF Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- What is the mind? How closely does the mind depend on the biological nature of the brain? The mind/body split has a long and not always noble histo...
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Swancon Feedback Panel Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Tell us how we did: what bits you loved, what bits we could have done better. We’ll engage in some constructive criticism as to how to rework less-...
- Workshop