Eaton Conference February 2011

[taras_wizard]

 Going back to 2008, I went to the Eaton Conference  http://eaton-collection.ucr.edu/TheEatonConference.htm at UC Riverside conference theme in 2008 was Chronicling Mars.  The conference's history extends back to the late 1970s and it attracts the likes of Fred

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[taras_wizard]

REplying to last comment. Well, an additional point used by Davis to illustrate the environment of his youth. During history classes it was part of the narrative that during Reconstruction the former Confederate states were pillaged, looted and otherwise heaped with injustices by carpetbaggers and scalawags. IME, a dominant fictional narrative of the same period, closely overlaps my own youth, was the American western, which has a subtext (maybe metatext) a Confederacy trying to regain its stolen honor through subjugation of the wild west and war on native Americans.

Reply to Constance.

[taras_wizard]

This last weekend, after a discussion of the U.S. invasion of the Soviet Far East in 1919, reminded me of another core of elementary school U.S. history instruction during the time I was in the system. The U.S. NEVER attacked any other country without provocation; for what it is worth, one might call this the 'naive' view of history. For everyone's information, any possible counter examples, were swept under the rug (Spanish American war, Mexican American war, and in the 1960s at least in the schools I attended there was no challenges to this point of view. Foundations like this are why Americans, in some general sense, are so ignorant of our own history.

science fiction conference goes academic

[gastax]

I'm saddened to hear that the Eaton Conference is moving to a biannual format, but understand the necessity considering budget limitations. Besides, an every-other-year event might be a more quality means of presentation, so I can sublimate that waiting nearly 18 months to attend my first one will be worth the wait. Has the 2013 theme been fixed as of yet

Re: science fiction conference goes academic

[taras_wizard]

Mike,
Thanks for praising my wholly inadequate recap of Eaton Conference; rereading makes it seems a little shallow and cursory.