Elaine Walker (Ariaflame)
Physicist, SF&F fan, crafty. Critter
Sessions in which Elaine Walker (Ariaflame) 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
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- XY and I know it Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- Panel
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
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
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
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...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Using science fiction and fantasy texts to teach thinking skills and philosophy in primary and secondary schools Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Current trends in education, coming out of Harvard University’s Project Zero, emphasise the importance of ‘visible thinking’ routines and practices...
- Panel
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
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- 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
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Pushing the Limits: Extreme Biology Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Life finds a way. Sometimes that way isn't the obvious or easiest way.The panelists discuss some of the oddities of biological life...
- Panel
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
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
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
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
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Trends in children's and young adult SFF Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- Gina Goddard takes you through a survey of what’s moving and shaking in SF/F for young people: including diversity, multi-modality and the wild wor...
- Talk