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Sandra Norman Sandra

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Sessions in which Sandra Norman Sandra participates

Sunday 1 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
8:00 PM
8:00 PM

Sessions in which Sandra Norman Sandra attends

Thursday 29 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
9:30 PM
9:30 PM

Friday 30 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
  • 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
    scienceScience fiction
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
  • 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
    TV & MoviesRetrospective
    retrospectiveTVneeds panelistsAustraliaCleverman
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
  • Mammoth Speculations
  • Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM  | 30 minutes
  • Matthew ChrulewCentre for Culture and Technology, Curtin UniversityThe woolly mammoth has often appeared in speculative fiction as ...
  • Talk
    Academic
    AcademicScience fiction
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
  • Never, ever underestimate a library
  • Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • The internet has brought a decreased need to travel to a physical place to find facts or even fiction. Freed from these housekeeping tasks, what am...
  • Panel
    Futurism
    TechnologyFuturism
  • Kdrama with Candice
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Mount Newman
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • A Kdrama year in review. Netflix has made Korean dramas much more accessibl, with both easily accessed shows worth watching, and harder ones worth ...
  • Talk
    TV & Movies
    TVMoviesFandomFans of non-fannish things
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
  • 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
    Science fictionWriting
    WritingReadingAustraliaGuest of Honour
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
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
    FandomGaming
    FandomLARP

Saturday 31 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
  • Technohorror
  • Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • How do horror writers and film-makers deal with advances in tech such as cell phones - giving characters a light source and the ability to call...
  • Panel
    Writing
    horrorWriting
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
7:00 PM
7:00 PM

Sunday 1 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
  • With a whimper, not a bang
  • Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM  | 1 hour
  • Rather than ending in a loud, messy apocalyptic bang, what if climate change turns out to be a slow, terrible descent into poor drinking water, mos...
  • Panel
    Science fictionFuturism
    Science fictionclimate changeWriting
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
  • Science fiction's boneyard
  • Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • Does science fiction even exist anymore? The panellists examine how reality has caught up with and overtaken anything storytelling has to offer. Ho...
  • Panel
    Science fictionWriting
    Science fictionfantasy
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
  • Fans of Sport Panel
  • Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  | 1 hour
  • Sport: it’s like a game! Many of us bookish types reflexively recoil from sport (possibly because of memories from school), but sport has plenty to...
  • Panel
    Fandom
    FandomFans of non-fannish things
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
    TV & Movies
    ComicsTVMoviessuperheroesneeds panelists
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
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
    Science fictionWriting
    Science fictionfantasyhorrorWritingGuest of Honour
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
  • National Awards Ceremony (Ditmars)
  • Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River
  • 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM  | 30 minutes
  • Australia’s national SF awards since 1969, the Ditmars are awarded each year at the Natcon, which this year is Swancon.These fan-voted awards i...
  • Keynote
    Fandom
    CoreAwards

Monday 2 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
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
    Fandom
    Fandom