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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2013 LL2 LL3 204 301 302 303 10:00 AM Turning Your Art into Women in Gaming: A Geek Etiquette Helen of Troy We Are Fandom, Deconstructing the an Online Business New Frontier Unlimited Hear Us Roar Mary Sue Myth 10:30 AM Everything I Thought 11:00 AM Labor of Love: Why Strong Female Geek Girl Style: De- Octobriana, the Race in Costuming I Knew about Fashion Women Make Trans- Characters in Young manding Recognition Black Heroine, and and Performance History Was Made Up by 11:30 AM formative Works Victorians Adult Literature in the Fashion World Wonder Woman: A Comic History 12:00 PM Geeks in Education Best of Both Worlds: Edible Astronomy You and Your Witches, Princesses, Careers Where STEM Connected Kid and Warrior Maidens 12:30 PM Meets the Humanities Divas, Dames, & Daredevils 1:00 PM Making Giant Robots Hiding in Plain iSight Craft Explosion!: Kids of the New Changing Culture Go Craft Books and Kits Normal in Mainstream and 1:30 PM by becker&mayer! Ask The Astronomers Alternative Spaces 2:00 PM Female Characters Ouch! It Hurts Home Geek Home Making Science Fun: Anything That Loves: in Game Design Where?!? For Girls, Boys, and Comics Beyond 2:30 PM Everyone SuperMOOC: Explor- “Gay” and “Straight” ing Gender through 3:00 PM Playing God: What Creating Inclusive- Intro to Costume The Psychology of Comic Books When Music, It Takes to Create a ness in the Geek Craft and Cosplay Cosplay Gender, & Disability 3:30 PM Universe Community Black, Latina, Girl, Intertwine and Geek: A Tale of 4:00 PM Let's Make a Game Making Your Website GeekGirlCon Craft Comics for Social Acceptance RIGHT NOW a Hate-Free Zone Wars Change 4:30 PM Toward a Universe of Equals 5:00 PM Girl Power: When the 20 Years of Myst Getting Cheeky: The Costume Contest Ladies Team Up Making of Husbands 5:30 PM Wigs 101 Fan Studies: Past, Present, and 6:00 PM Crowdfunding Beyond Tomorrow: Fat Girl: Fan Girl Future(s) without Losing Your Empowering Female 6:30 PM Mind Makers and Fans Interaction Design: Is Star Trek a Make Your World Feminist Utopia? 7:00 PM You Should Make The New Female Easier to Use Laugh Riot: Comedy Ready-to-Wear Games! Fantasy Hero as a Tool of Social Superhero 7:30 PM Rule 63 Costuming: Change Inside The Lizzie The Whys and Hows Bennet Diaries 8:00 PM More than Skin-deep: A Dignified Reading of Genderbending Geeks for Poetry, Where No Man Has Fandom, Women, from Needles & Poetry for Geeks Gone Before: The 8:30 PM and Geek Tattoos Artifice Yuri Anime/Manga Standard Action the Show Battle! Webseries: Season 2 9:00 PM Show Me How to Screening and Panel Imaginary Friends Nerdlesque Screening and Panel 9:30 PM Geek Seekers Screening and Panel 10:00 PM The Gamers: Hands of Fate—Screening 10:30 PM and Panel 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM for women in games. presence in film and television, from early cin- TURNING YOUR Art INTO AN ONLINE Adrien Piro, Allison Bilas, Jen Pearce, Kelsey ema to Xena: Warrior Princess. BUSINESS [LL2] Wesley, Megan Marie Lau, Sarah Dicken, Ruby Blondell Do you make art? Has someone told you they Stephanie Bayer would pay money for art you make? Learn what WE ARE FANDOM, HEAR US ROAR [RM302] you need to know to start an online business, GEEK ETIQUETTE [RM204] Through the power of Twitter, Tumblr, and oth- including licensing, targeting your audience How should you act at conventions? What er similar applications, fans have developed through advertising and social media, protect- do you do when your friend doesn’t get your strong relationships with actors, writers, pro- ing your designs, and opening an online shop. references? How will you handle that internet ducers, and each other. This has given fangirls Panelists discuss these topics and more when troll? These questions and more will be dis- direct influence over their fandoms. Our age starting your art-based small business. cussed in this lively look at etiquette in geek of social media has seen the rise of fandoms; Amanda Nuckolls, Wendy Buske culture. Learn how to be a well-mannered people are starting to notice. This panel will in- geek and get answers to all of your burning clude a short presentation displaying various WOMEN IN GAMING: A NEW FRONTIER etiquette questions! examples of the use of social media in fangirl [LL3] Ana Visneski, Marian Call, Sharon Feliciano, culture followed by open discussion. More and more women are identifying them- Tara Theoharis Amber Lena-Miller selves as gamers, and they are taking new gaming platforms by storm. What does this HELEN OF TROY UNLIMITED [RM301] DECONSTRUCTING THE Mary SUE MYTH mean for the gaming industry? Success in this Helen of Troy is the mythical embodiment of fe- [RM303] new frontier of gaming requires more than the male beauty and its devastating consequences Explore the idea of the “Mary Sue” character average 10% of women employees—growth for men. The ancient Greeks used her story to and how it relates to the creation, interpretation, is necessary. With successful Twitter phenom- grapple with anxieties about female sexuality and reception of female characters in genre and enon #1ReasonWhy and EA’s #PlayAs1, the and autonomy, and she has remained a power- geek-centric works. What does the term mean, SATURDAY SCHEDULE SATURDAY conversation has started. Join in to keep it go- ful cultural presence ever since. This presenta- and why has it become so widespread? How ing and moving toward a positive experience tion will examine some manifestations of that does it relate to the idea of “strong female char- 8 SATURDAY SCHEDULE SATURDAY acters”? And how can creators and consumers of pop culture move beyond problematic terms CHECK IT OUT: like these to forge the best characters possible? Amber Benson, Andrea Letamendi, Cecil DIVAS, DAMES, & Castellucci, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Sarah Kuhn DAREDEVILS 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM [RM302] LABOR OF LOVE: WHY WOMEN MAKE Wonder Woman is always thought of as the first super- TRANSFOrmatIVE WORKS [LL2] heroine of comic books. In reality, a number of powerful Fanfiction readers and writers keep a fandom female heroes preceded her in the early days of com- alive online, whether the readers comment on an ics but have now been largely forgotten. From warrior existing story or make a request for a new story. queens to intergalactic explorers, goddesses to crafty The majority of people in the fanfiction world are reporters, these daring women were independent and educated, successful women in their mid-to-late brave, and lived lives of adventure. Why did they dis- 30s. What draws them to read and/or write these appear from comics for over two decades? We’ll look works of transformative fiction? Why do they at several “lost” heroines to trace the history of these keep writing, long after a movie, television show, forgotten comic book females. or book series is complete? Mike Madrid Julian Bliss, Rachael Vaughn, Tegan Mulholland, Torra Kimbul EVerythING I THOUGHT I KNEW ABOUT how recognizing geek girls in fashion empowers challenging, and rewarding careers that let you FASHION HISTOry was MADE UP BY fangirls in a predominantly male market. do both. This panel will focus on those places a VICTORIANS [LL3] Amy Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Giorgi, Jed Seigle, Jon geek girl can find interdisciplinary options. The only people who enjoy making up “facts” Kay, Kaitlin Stewart, Lisa Granshaw Hsiao-Ching Chou, Nazila Merati, Suzette Chan about customs more than Hollywood are turn- of-the-century Victorians. Unfortunately, ste- 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM EDIBLE ASTRONOMY [RM204] reotypes from both come up in the otherwise OCTOBRIANA, THE BLACK HEROINE, AND Bring the wonders of the wide universe down into delightful world of amateur costuming. This pre- WONDER WOMAN: A COMIC HISTOry IN your kitchen! Participate in hands-on demonstra- sentation cordially invites us all to recalibrate our THREE PRESENtatIONS [RM302] tions of craters, planets, and more using all kinds ideas of what is possible in places and times that Comic book heroines and their place in history: of edible things you probably have in your house. don’t directly mirror ours. There will be time for where do they come from? We’ll discuss the Learn about the formation of parts of the universe questions, but those with queries must be willing 1940s creation of the now-iconic Wonder Wom- through touch and model-sized representations, to share (or make up!) the story behind a piece of an; 60s-era Czechoslovakia and the twisted tale and feel free to get your hands a little messy while clothing they’re wearing. of Octobriana, including her convoluted emer- you do so. This session will bring the amazing Caroline Willis, Sarah Rocheleau gence to the world of comics; and the impacts of universe right down to you. Black superheroines on Black college students. Amy Davis Roth, Nancy Graziano, Nicole STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS IN Get set for a wild—yet informative—ride! Gugliucci YOUNG Adult LIterature [RM204] Erin Lovejoy-Guron, Grace Gipson, Jose Alaniz Strength in female characters comes in all levels YOU AND YOUR CONNECTED KID [RM301] and flavors throughout the history of myth and fic- 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM This workshop will cover safety, privacy, identity, tion. It is particularly important to portray strong GEEKS IN EducatION [LL2] and plagiarism while being media-positive and en- female young adult characters in today’s young How does your inner geek shine through when couraging everyone to use social tools for good.
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