Ruth Turner
Sessions in which Ruth Turner attends
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Opening Ceremony Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour
- Welcome to Swancon 44: The Future is Now, featuring guests of honour Charlie Jane Anders, Jonathan Strahan, and Travis Johnson! Come along to the o...
- Keynote
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Party-pooping science: Why your favourite novel is probably impossible Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- As readers of science fiction we may love all of the tales of faster-than-light travel, hyperspace, anti-gravity, laser guns, time travel, and othe...
- Panel
- Miyazaki’s heir: Contemporary anime cinema Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- For several decades the director Hayao Miyazaki held a lofty position as the most pre-eminent filmmaker of animation in Japan. Now with him leaning...
- Panel
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Lunch Friday
- 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Closed
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Problems Houston never had Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Contingency plans of the space program, looking at some of the more odd answers to the question 'what if this thing goes horribly wrong' from the (...
- Talk
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- 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
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
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Tech Support Laughs and Mishaps Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Funny stories about what your IT support technician did (or didn't) do and other funny behind the curtains shenanigans. What happens ...
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...
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Remembering Vonda McIntrye's work Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- Moderated by Anna Hepworth, this is a ‘come along and discuss the impact of Vonda McIntyre’s work’ round table. McIntrye received Hugo, Nebula and ...
- Collaborative
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Kdrama: Kpop idol actors - don't underestimate them Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- Korean idols (popstars really doesn't do them justice) acting in Korean dramas. Are they just there because they are pretty and they bring ratings,...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- What Astronomy Teaches Us About Sustainability Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Our world is undergoing huge changes due to humankind's insatiable demand for resources. As a kid, I always assumed that by now we'd be terrafor...
- Panel
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Swancon 2020 Launch Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- The 2019 Tin Duck Awards Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Western Australia’s own SF/F/etc. Awards since 1982, the Tin Ducks are awarded each year at Swancon. (The name is a play on another WA award, the S...
- Keynote
- The Videogames Canon Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- A panel of gaming experts will gather with one task in mind: to assemble the 10 most important videogames of all time. If you had never encountered...
- Panel
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Isao Takahata: The underappreciated gems Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour
- Anime director Isao Takahata died in 2018, leaving behind a creative legacy of 12 films made between 1968 and 2013. With much of his output coming ...
- Panel
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- The Search for Exoplanets Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- In 1991, there were exactly nine known planets in the entire universe - the planets orbiting our Sun. Nobody knew for sure whether planets were inc...
- Talk
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
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Who Wants to Live Forever: Implications of Immortality Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Immortality is a common element in science fiction and fantasy, but what would it actually be like? What would you need to do and think abou...
- Panel
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- WASFF Annual General Meeting Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 2 hours
- NOTICE OF 2019 WASFF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGAt Swancon, at The Esplanade hotel in Fremantle on Sunday the 21st of April, 4pm.
- Panel
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- The Making of Top Knot Detective Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- In 2017 Dominic Pearce and Aaron McCann directed the acclaimed and ground-breaking documentary Top Knot Detective, detailing the surprising ...
- Panel
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Retro computing Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- 16 bits should be enough for anybody! Come meet several enthusiastic collectors of old computers and consoles. We discuss buying, repairing, main...
- Panel
9:30 PM
9:30 PM
- Speculative Fiction in Kpop Music Videos Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 1 hour
- Continuing the now annual tradition of showcasing speculative fiction video clips within the highly competitive Korean music market, and the earwor...