Fern Clarke
Participates in 1 Session
Sessions in which Fern Clarke participates
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Live-action Foosball Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
Sessions in which Fern Clarke attends
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Is climate fiction the new cyberpunk? Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- Cyberpunk was a hugely popular sub-genre of science fiction, particularly in the 1980s when issues of technology, urbanisation, and changing cultur...
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Up Up and Away: 81 years of Superman Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- This powerpoint presentation take look at the history of Superman through the mass media, from the voice of Superman on radio, to animation, fil...
- Talk
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Problematic favourites: How to read from the past Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Times change, as do social attitudes and our common ground of morals and ethics. A science fiction novel that might seem perfectly acceptable upon ...
- Panel
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Finding the Difference: Australian SF vs the Rest of the World Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Australia has a strong and vibrant speculative fiction industry and community - but how does it differ from the SF produced in the USA, the UK, or ...
- Panel
- Doctor Who: Season 2 Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 2 hours
- With Doctor Who's second season, the series continued to be popular with the mixture of sci-fi and with some historical stories to take a hu...
- Panel
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- The Purpose of Critics Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Critics have always been around to analyse, discuss and consider works of art of all genres. They play a firm role in science fiction, fantasy and ...
- Panel
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- Video Quiz Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- This award winning event is back for its 13th (yes 13th!) year with clips from various film, TV and music. Can you guess the ...
- Workshop
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- Travis and Grant go to the Movies Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 1 hour
- Film critics Travis Johnson and Grant Watson have a lot of opinions about science fiction, fantasy, and horror cinema, and they are not afraid to s...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- The Authentic Climate Future Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Whatever humanity’s future actions, it now seems all-but-guaranteed that the Earth of 2100 is not going to resemble the Earth of 2019. Science fict...
- Panel
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Swancon 2020 Launch Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Crowns and Swords: The Intertwined Worlds of Fantasy and Monarchy Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- With so many fantasy novels based in a setting drawn from medieval Europe, it’s no surprise to see so many stories based around monarchies - kings ...
- Panel
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Doctor Who: Time for change, change for time Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- In 2018 Doctor Who returned for its 11th 21st century season, with a change of aesthetic, a change of executive produc...
- Panel
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- A Survivor's Guide to the Apocalypse Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Star Trek: Discovery, and the future of the final frontier Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- The Star Trek franchise, which has fractured and transformed in recent years due to the separation of CBS and Paramount, has been back on te...
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Grading Blade Runner: The art of predicting the future Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner was set in the year 2019. Now that the real world has caught up with the fictional, how accurate was t...
- Panel
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- A Matter of Context Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Ever wandered how Macgyver sees the world, what it feels like to endure starvation, jump from a plane, suffer from frostbite and so forth? Now try ...
- Panel
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Closing Ceremony Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote