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Alicia Manolas

GenghisCon

Sessions in which Alicia Manolas attends

Saturday 5 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Opening Ceremony
30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Keynote

Are you ready??? Meet this year’s team, meet the guests, and get the lowdown on all things Swancon 2020.Welcome to Country ceremony will be...
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30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Collaborative

Ms Margaret Watts Margaret (Panelist)

10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Frankenplushies
1 hour, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Panel

11:00 AM
11:00 AM
OH & S are NOT impressed with your Deathstar
1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

cheshirenoir@gmail.com (Panelist)

Shay Telfer (Speaker)

Seatbelts on the Enterprise, Handrails on the Deathstar, Mollyguards on pretty much every control surface, ever.What other (apparently) forgotte...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Plushie War
1 hour, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Collaborative

12:00 PM
12:00 PM
LUNCH DAY 1
1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
The Side Hustle Panel
1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Wuffie Levingston Wuffie, Wuffie's Fluffies (Panelist)

Helen Creagh (Panelist)

Sarah Parker (Panelist)

Getting started setting up a "side business" based on your loves and hobbies, for enjoyment and extra spending money (To spend on your loves and ho...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Michael Keady (Presenter)

2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Utilise until failure
1 hour 30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Collaborative

3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Cyberpunk 2020 in the rearview mirror
1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

David Cake (Panelist)

Stephen Gunnell (Panelist)

Cyberpunk 2020 is now not only retrofuturism, but also counter-history.Looking at what it got right (credsticks) and what it got wrong (neural i...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

David Horton (Panelist)

3D printers, LASER cutters and other maker machines are complex devices with various special needs that are often not clearly explained in the shin...

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

4:30 PM
4:30 PM
Space travel is rubbish
30 minutes, 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Panel

5:00 PM
5:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Ms Margaret Dunlop (Panelist)

Claire Coleman (Speaker)

Moss Wilson (Panelist)

Drhoz Drhoz (Panelist)

6:00 PM
6:00 PM
DINNER DAY 1
1 hour 30 minutes, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
7:30 PM
7:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Panel

Heather Salter-Purves (Panelist)

Mx Anna Hepworth (Panelist)

How we use story to preserve memories, and how quickly those memories can be removed if stories are suppressed. Panelisted will explore The Madolor...
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
Playtest: 3 Mersenne
2 hours, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4

Demonstration

Paul Simmons (Instructor)

Learn a new game: 7 Wonders
2 hours, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4

Teaching

Mark Sander Mark (Instructor)

8:30 PM
8:30 PM
Hamilton singalong
1 hour, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Collaborative

Desiree Heald Desiree (Purrdence) (Panelist)

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Discussion

Fans being represented inside TV and literature can range from outright offensive to lovingly on point. We discuss some good examples in both camps...
9:30 PM
9:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Discussion

How are we going to make ourselves feel good in the future? The panelists speculate about technological advances in sex toys, options for more plea...

Sunday 6 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
9:00 AM
9:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Leece (Panelist)

Robert Masters rdm (Panelist)

Are you confused by your boardgaming mates' latest babblings? Come to get the lowdown on what's trending in the boardgaming community. And what we ...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Guest of Honour Speech
1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Keynote

Claire Coleman (Speaker)

2:00 PM
2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Talk

Emma Hawkes Emma (Panelist)

2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Music afternoon
1 hour 30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Luke Chandler-Hopkins (Performer)

3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Climate Change: Adaptation
1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Chris Creagh, Retired (Panelist)

(my story: your story)Accepted that Climate Change is affecting our lives, how are we, perso...
Learning games that cost less than $30
1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4

Demonstration

Warrren Adams (Presenter)

On a tight budget? Short on space? Learn some classics of modern boardgaming that don't cost the earth, or consume a huge amount of space on the bo...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
The Geek Guide: An introduction
1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Helen Creagh (Presenter)

The Geek Guide is a freshly launched bi-annual publication made by geeks for geeks. We are working with the fandom community to provide a listing o...
5:00 PM
5:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

cheshirenoir@gmail.com (Panelist)

David Horton (Panelist)

While the technology has moved on, the laws of physics have not. A look at the various problems confronted in building a space plane and how they m...
LAUNCH: The Traitor's Reliquary - Chris Moss
30 minutes, 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Panel

Awaiting execution, Kestel is saved by a group of disgraced soldiers and swept up into a plot of gods, monsters and angels. Now Kestel must learn t...
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
LAUNCH: Dark Harvest
30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3

Panel

Cat Sparks (Panelist)

A collection from Cat Sparks.Dark Harvest gathers together Cat’s best short fiction of recent years, as selected by the author herself: fourteen...
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
The great big pyjama party
3 hours, 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

8:30 PM
8:30 PM
Obsolete Technologies: Steam Engines
1 hour, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Stephen Gunnell (Panelist)

Steam Engines are a lot more complex than you'd expect, deliver a level of performance that is phenomenal of the underlying required technology, an...
9:30 PM
9:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

David Cake (Panelist)

Monday 7 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
The Hydrogen Economy: a guide
1 hour, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Talk

A guide to the practical applications of hydrogen power storage and the hydrogen economy. Renewable Energy (RE) resources will play ...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Ian Nichols, Miskatonic University (Panelist)

Sarah McFarlane Sarah (Panelist)

You all know the scenario. You're watching a scene and you think "What the heck? That's not how it works?" and you find yourself sucked...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Cat Sparks (Speaker)

1:00 PM
1:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Panel

Damian Magee (Participant)

Mrs Heather Magee (Participant)

Christy Leitch (Participant)

Mr Aaron Creaser Aaron (Participant)

Mr Michael Cogan, Swancon (Participant)

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Emma Gill (Panelist)

Stephen Gunnell (Panelist)

Katherine Mcfarlane (Panelist)

Anne McCaffery is probably most famous for her "Pern" novels full of SF Dragons and interesting characters, but that's not the only stories she wro...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Stephen Dedman (Panelist)

Emma Gill (Panelist)

Claire Coleman (Speaker)

Far too many SF/F stores, particularly those of a certain age, often portray "empires" and "colonies" that seem awfully similar to a lot of the act...
Happy stories at the end of the world
1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Panel

Jonathan Strahan (Panelist)

Heather Salter-Purves (Panelist)

Cat Sparks (Panelist)

Cozy fiction centres domesticity, community and care but often we feel guilt for enjoying cozy media as the world burns. Can we balance self-care w...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2

Heather Salter-Purves (Panelist)

Take a standard story. Put in a recognisable trope, something that the readers/viewers are comfortable with and subconsciously understand. Then ...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Talk

Bec Handcock (Panelist)

Dr Bec Handcock will present a slide-show on her experiences as part of the largest ever expedition of women to Antarctica at the end of 2019 (ther...
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Closing ceremony
30 minutes, 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1

Collaborative

It’s three days later, your tiredness has reached the point where anything is funny, and you’re in a roomful of people you’ve shared the convention...