Alicia Manolas
GenghisCon
Sessions in which Alicia Manolas attends
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Opening Ceremony Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
- 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...
- Keynote
- Run through banner Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Collaborative
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Frankenplushies Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- Panel
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- OH & S are NOT impressed with your Deathstar Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Seatbelts on the Enterprise, Handrails on the Deathstar, Mollyguards on pretty much every control surface, ever.What other (apparently) forgotte...
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Plushie War Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- LUNCH DAY 1
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- The Side Hustle Panel Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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
- Roll for Growth: Roleplaying as an aid to mental health Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Utilise until failure Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Collaborative
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Cyberpunk 2020 in the rearview mirror Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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
- Caring for your Robot Army: Maker space maintenance from experience Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- 3D printers, LASER cutters and other maker machines are complex devices with various special needs that are often not clearly explained in the shin...
- Look around you...Can you fashion some sort of rudimentary lathe? Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 30 minutes
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Space travel is rubbish Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Panel
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- We're All Going To Die: Real-life apocalypses Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- DINNER DAY 1
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- The Remnants of Story: Story and human memory in free and oppressive societies Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
- How we use story to preserve memories, and how quickly those memories can be removed if stories are suppressed. Panelisted will explore The Madolor...
- Panel
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- Playtest: 3 Mersenne Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4
- 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 2 hours
- Demonstration
- Learn a new game: 7 Wonders Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4
- 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 2 hours
- Teaching
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Hamilton singalong Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Collaborative
- It's Fans all the way down: Representations of Fandom in TV and Books. Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Fans being represented inside TV and literature can range from outright offensive to lovingly on point. We discuss some good examples in both camps...
- Discussion
9:30 PM
9:30 PM
- The Future of Pleasure: What is going to happen at the intersection of culture, biology and technology? Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- What's new in boardgames for those who look in every now and then? Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- 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 Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Beyond Blinky Bill: Explorations on Early 20th century Australian Fantasy Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Music afternoon Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Climate Change: Adaptation Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- (my story: your story)Accepted that Climate Change is affecting our lives, how are we, perso...
- Learning games that cost less than $30 Duxton Hotel - Duxton 4
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Demonstration
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- The Geek Guide: An introduction Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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
- Space Trucks - lessons from the Shuttle Program in future and fiction Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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 Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 30 minutes
- 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...
- Panel
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
- LAUNCH: Dark Harvest Duxton Hotel - Duxton 3
- 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | 30 minutes
- A collection from Cat Sparks.Dark Harvest gathers together Cat’s best short fiction of recent years, as selected by the author herself: fourteen...
- Panel
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- The great big pyjama party Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 3 hours
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- Obsolete Technologies: Steam Engines Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- 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
- God in Our Image: representations of God/s in media: Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 1 hour
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- The Hydrogen Economy: a guide Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- A guide to the practical applications of hydrogen power storage and the hydrogen economy. Renewable Energy (RE) resources will play ...
- Talk
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Disaster Area: Correcting errors in Survival / Disaster movies and Shows Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- 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
- Closer Than Ever: Our World Out of Control—Horror Futures in 70s Science Fiction Cinema Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- New Who Season 12- who is the Timeless Child? Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Pern Free: Anne McCaffery outside of the Pern Universe Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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
- Reichmarked the Stars: Representations of Colonialism in Space Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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 Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Tropeside down. Turning 'tropes on their heads. Duxton Hotel - Duxton 2
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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
- Leopard-seals, penguins, and no polar-bears, oh my! It’s an iceberg out there! - a slideshow on Homeward Bound, the largest expedition of women to Antarctica Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- 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...
- Talk
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Closing ceremony Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 30 minutes
- 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...
- Collaborative