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
- XY and I know it Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- 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
- Craft time Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Abrolhos Room
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- Console Gaming Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Orion Room
- 10:30 AM - 11:55 PM | 13 hours 25 minutes
- Board Games Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Pleiades
- 10:30 AM - 11:55 PM | 13 hours 25 minutes
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
- 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
- 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
- Super Hero capes and costumes Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Abrolhos Room
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Lunch Friday
- 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Closed
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
- Junior board games Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Abrolhos Room
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
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
- 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
- Nature crafts (outside) Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Abrolhos Room
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
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
- Haunted Places: The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- In the world of Japanese horror cinema, Kiyoshi Kurosawa remains one of the most respected and critically acclaimed writer/directors. His powerful ...
- Panel
- My Little Pony artwork Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Abrolhos Room
- 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Workshop
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Story time Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Abrolhos Room
- 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 30 minutes
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
- Weird Nature for Weird Fiction Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- Our planet hosts an incredibly diverse population of plant and animal life, and at the margins things can become really unexpected and dizzyingly w...
- Panel
- Quiet activities Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Abrolhos Room
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Dinner Friday
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Closed
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
- You Win or You Die: The End of Game of Thrones Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - King Sound
- 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Within just a few weeks, HBO's groundbreaking and phenomenally successful fantasy Game of Thrones will broadcast its final episode. Now that we are...
- A few good cons Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Prince Regent
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
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...