Dianne De Bellis
Sessions in which Dianne De Bellis attends
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Sundowner Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Esplanade Park, across the road
- 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM | 3 hours 30 minutes
- This year Swancon will kick off with a Sundowner Social in the park. The formal programming will start on Friday, so this will be an ...
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
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
- Cyberpunk outside the city Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- The city seems an integral part of the cyberpunk genre – but how necessary is it? What are the core tropes and themes of cyberpunk, and how might t...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Charlie Jane Anders Reading and Q&A Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
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
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Jonathan Strahan in Interview Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Since the development of the spec fic journal Eidolon through literally dozens of collections and anthologies and a string of Hugo Award nomination...
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
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
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- The best literary science fiction of 2018 Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Soon it will be time for nominations to be submitted and votes decided for this year’s speculative fiction awards. What were the best novels and sh...
- 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
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
- Screening: Top Knot Detective Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 2 hours
- Narrated by Des Mangan, this documentary feature reveals the true story of the making of cult Japanese hit Ronin Suiri Tantai - released in Aust...
- Screening
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
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Closing Ceremony Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote