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Sessions
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
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Welcome to your First Con Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutes
- So you've managed to make it to your first SwanCon and you have no idea what to do, what the rules are and what you should do next. Stick around fo...
- 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
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- A writer's view of the pandemic Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
- How will the COVID-19 affect you, the writer? Have to throw away a script that was "Too soon"? More familiar with the effects of isolation? Did the...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- 1950s science fiction films Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- This presentation looks at the famous, the forgotten and the unusual sci films of 1950s from US, UK and Japan.The films that made afternoons at...
- Talk
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...
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Keeping the love alive Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 1 hour
- How to keep the spark alive in the long term relationship between you and your book series. Authors talk about how they have sustained narratives o...
- Panel
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- Indie Computer Games of Australia Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 1 hour
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
- The Obligatory End of Supernatural Discussion Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 1 hour
- Supernatural and its fandom has had a huge impact on our media landscape and fandom history and culture. Let's look at the tension between the show...
- Discussion
9:30 PM
9:30 PM
- Obsolete Technologies: Gasification Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 9:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Gasification was the process used to turn coal into natural gas. It was the light source and heat source for the early days of the Industrial Re...
10:00 PM
10:00 PM
- Whoah! An appreciation of Keanu Reeves Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM | 1 hour
- As a young actor, Mr Reeves was often seen as a bit wooden, maybe a bit fluffy.These days, however...There will be discussion of John Wic...
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 ...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Unreliable narrators: a subjective and uncertain discussion Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Unreliable narrators: a subjective and uncertain tour through the story-telling options for introducing biased narrators, not limited to accidental...
- Panel
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- A Guide to Romance Writers of Australia writing competitions. Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- RWA runs writing competitions for members and non-members, where entrants receive feedback on their submissions. The panel will guide the audience ...
- Panel
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
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Writing 001: Help and assistance for new Writers Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Are YOU a new writer, or want to become a writer? Are YOU looking for guidance and/or information about where to go with your "Work in Progress"...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Classic Who Season 14- From Journalist to Savage Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- This classic season we farewell beloved Sarah Jane Smith and welcome Leela. It is a season full with influences and from the scenes in Renaissance ...
- Panel
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...
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
- Tin Ducks Awards Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM | 30 minutes
- Panel
- The great big pyjama party Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 3 hours
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
- People of Colour and Indigenous Authors writing in Australian SF Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 1 hour
- Our panelists discuss the importance and impact of Indigenous voices, and those of People of Colour on explorations of the present and future. The ...
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
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...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Those that passed:Karen Babcock and others Duxton Hotel - Duxton 1
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- This year, we lost a very valuable part of the SwanCon community, with Karen Babcock passing from COVID related illness.She will be missed. This...
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