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Event registration can be found here<\/a>. 
The Programme can be found here<\/a>.
Abstracts and Speaker Bios can be found here<\/a>. 
Workshops and Roundtables can be found here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workshop registration opens on May 3 at noon BST. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This document is updated as needed. All times listed are BST, British Summer Time<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Will Tattersdill<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Breathe Deep, Seek Peace\u2019: The Fantasy\/Science Boundary, Especially As It Applies To Dinosaurs<\/a><\/strong> <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Will Tattersdill (he\/him) is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Fantasy at Glasgow University, and the author of Science, Fiction, and the Fin-de-Si\u00e8cle Periodical Press <\/em>(Cambridge UP, 2016). He has taught and written on alternate history, museology, and animals in Star Trek<\/em>, and is currently editing H. G. Wells for the Oxford World’s Classics series. His first children’s choose-your-own-adventure book (co-written with Sarah Crofton) will be published by Usborne this July. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the 181 years since they were formally named, dinosaurs have become almost synonymous with genre fiction. To find one in a text is to understand that text as sci fi, fantasy, horror; so-called realist literature stays well away from them. This is curious because dinosaurs are <\/em>real – ideas extracted from the Earth, impossible without the methods and institutions of modern science. In this lecture, I’ll talk about how dinosaurs can be used to trouble the notion that fantasy always escapes, presenting the boundary between science and the imagination as pliable and generative rather than staunch and forbidding. My focal text with be Dinotopia<\/em>, James Gurney’s iconic 1992 vision of a world where humans and dinosaurs live in harmony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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