Are you heading to WisCon for Memorial Day Weekend? If so, be sure to connect with the Carl Brandon Society. Our schedule is posted below. You can also chat with steering committee members Candra K. Gill, Claire Light, Victor Raymond, Nisi Shawl, and Bryan Thao Worra. The steering committee will be wearing pins that say, “Color Me SF!”
Official Carl Brandon Society Events at WisCon 32
Friday, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WisCon Opening Ceremonies
The Carl Brandon Society is hosting the Opening Ceremonies this year, so come help us kick off WisCon.
Friday, 10:30 p.m – Party
Join us on the sixth floor for our party with our co-host, the Speculative Literature Foundation. Talk with Carl Brandon Society steering committee members, make a crown, renew your membership, and check out the new Carl Brandon Society buttons.
Saturday, 10:00 – 11:15 a.m., Conference Room 5
Carl Brandon Society Update
Come to this panel to get a comprehensive update on the Awards and the Butler Memorial Scholarship. We’re also looking for your input, so come ready to brainstorm with us.
Saturday, 2:30 – 3:45p.m., Conference Room 4
Carl Brandon Society Sponsored Panel. Program Description: You’ve heard of Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, and Nalo Hopkinson as people of color who write SF/F. Let’s talk about other writers of genre fiction who are people of color. Who are your favorites that everyone should be reading?
Sunday, 4 – 5:15 p.m., Conference Room 5
Some of Us Are Brave: Identity Intersections in an Election Year
Carl Brandon Society Sponsored Panel. Program Description: With the Clinton and Obama candidacies, there has been a great deal of discussion in the press about race and gender. Unfortunately, this discussion is often framed in terms of which is the so-called bigger issue. Black women in particular have been singled out as facing a perceived dilemma in terms of identity framed as an either/or situation. This panel will look at identity intersections – ands instead of ors – using the discourse around the Clinton and Obama candidacies as a framework.
Sunday, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
CBS Invitational Dinner/Mixer
Dinner with the steering committee and ongoing & prospective volunteers
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