Talks . Lectures . Panels . Interviews

April 4-6, 2008 (Friday - Sunday)
I-Con 2008
Stony Brook University, NY

Sat, 11am, room S309
Pursuing Perfection: The Art of Revision:
from tinkering to practically re-writing the whole story
Doyle(M), Durst, Henriksen, Collins, Delmater

Sat, 2pm, room S309
I Am Not My Character… or Am I? How much of the writer’s life,
experiences and opinions turn up in characters?
Collins(M), Castro, Parris, Freedman, Lang

Sat, 3pm, room S311
SF Kaleidoscope: SF as a Lens on the Past and Future
Bacigalupi(M), Malzberg, Collins, Kyle, Videbaek

Sun, 12noon, room S309
The Use of Animals in SF
Emshwiller, Gordon(M), Collins

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9/9/07
Books, Brushes, Jazz & Blues Festival
New London, CT
Reading NeuroGenesis

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4/19/96
Northeast Modern Language Association
ML Studies panel session, paper "The Alternate Woman"

6/23/96
Science Fiction Research Association
Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA
Panel discussion: "World-building and alien-building"

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8/6/95
East End Gay Organizaton, Authors' Day
East Hampton, NY
Reading Mutagenesis

9/29/93
Chamber's Street Bookstore Manhattan, NY
Reading and signing

7/22/93
"The Friends of the Library" - Long Beach, NY
Reading and talk: Genetic engineering and the clash of cultures

6/17/93
S/S Tribune - Samantha Kinsley

5/18/'93
NCC - Nassau Community College
"Here Be Dragons: Mapping The Structure of Life"
Colloquium theme: Genetic Engineering
Talk: The Science in Fiction"

5/4/93
NCC - Creative Writing Project - Reading

4/14/93
NCC - College Union Ballroom
Reading and Talk:
Genetics, surrogate motherhood, gender manipulation

3/27/84
NCC - Liberal Arts Lobby
Lecture: The relationship of Orwell's 1984 to the
dystopian tradition in Science Fiction

10/15/83
Contradiction 3, Niagara Falls, NY,
Talk: The Cooperative Vision: Communes in Science Fiction

Feb/Mar 1983
Communities/journal of cooperation
"The Cooperative Vision in Science Fiction"

7/26/79
NCC - "Faculty Forum" WMPC-FM college radio lecture

Spring 1976
Nassau Review
"The Nature and Power of Hawthorne's Women as
Seen Through A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales."

"Science Fiction: Ursula LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness"