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Appearances
2026
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- Worldcon 83 (Aug 27-31, Los Angeles CA)
- Fourth Street Fantasy 2026 (June 19-21, Minneapolis MN). Schedule.
2025
- Worldcon 82 (Aug 13-17, Seattle WA)
2024
- Worldcon 81 (Aug 8-12, Glasgow, Scotland)
2023
- Archon 46 (Sep 29 – Oct 1, Collinsville IL)
- Flights of Foundry 2023 (April 14-16, online). Panelist (recording TBA)
- Fourth Street Fantasy 2023 (June 16-18, Minneapolis MN). Schedule.
2022
- Dice Geeks podcast, “Writing Science Fiction”
- Archon 45 (Sep 31 – Oct 2, Collinsville IL). Schedule.
- Worldcon 80 – ChiCon 8 (Sep 1-4, Chicago IL). Schedule.
- Fiction Writing for Philosophers (July 14-15, St. Louis MO). Speaker.
- Fourth Street Fantasy 2022 (June 18-20, Minneapolis MN). Panel schedule.
- Flights of Foundry 2022 (April 8-10, online). Panelist (sadly, was not recorded)
2021
- Worldcon 79 – DisCon III (Dec 15-19, Washington DC). Schedule.
- FIYAHCON 2021 (Sep 16-19, online). Office hours.
- SFWA Nebula Conference 2021 (June 4-6, online). Office hours.
- Fourth Street Fantasy 2021 (June 18-20, online). My role.
- My panel “Kinging is Hard, but Not Kinging is Harder” is available to all on YouTube
- Flights of Foundry 2021 (April 16-18, online). My schedule.
- My panel “AI in the Real and Imagined Future” is available to all on YouTube
2020
- FIYAHCON 2020 (Oct 17-19), office hours only
- Worldcon 78 – CoNZealand (July 29 – Aug 2, online) My schedule.
Science Guest of Honor at FenCon 17 (September 19-21, Dallas/Fort Worth TX)(postponed due to COVID-19; I will not be appearing at 2021 FenCon)- Fourth Street Fantasy: The Podcast Edition, with me on one panel.
- Flights of Foundry (May 16-17, online). My schedule. Neuroscience talk slides here.
2019
- Archon 43 (October 4-6, outside St. Louis MO). Lo, a panel schedule.
- Worldcon 77 (August 15-19, Dublin Ireland). Panels and talks and other scheduleybits here.
- Readercon 30 (July 12-15, Quincy MA). And lo, a panel schedule!
- Fourth Street Fantasy (June 14-16, Minneapolis MN), with one panel.
2018
- Archon 42 (October 12-14, outside St. Louis MO). Panel schedule, where art thou.
- Worldcon 76 (August 16-20, San Jose, CA). Behold thy panel schedule!
- Readercon 29 (July 12-15, Quincy MA). Panel schedule here!
- Fourth Street Fantasy (June 22-24, Minneapolis MN). Panel schedule here!
- Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology (SoCIA) 2018 (April 13-14, Reno NV). Presentation title: “A selfish case for a non-interference principle.”
- ConFusion 2018 (January 18-21, Detroit MI). Panel schedule here!
2017
- Archon 41 (Sep 29-Oct 1, outside St. Louis MO). Panel schedule here!
- Worldcon 75 (Aug 9-13, Helsinki, Finland). Panel schedule here!
- Fourth Street Fantasy 2017 (June 16-18, Minneapolis MN).
- SFWA Nebula Conference 2017 (May 20-21, Pittsburgh PA), I presented the talk “Understanding Neuroscience: The Evolved Brain.”
2016
- Fourth Street Fantasy 2016 (June 17-19, Minneapolis MN)
- Worldcon 74 – MidAmeriCon II (August 29-21, Kansas City MO) Panel schedule here.
- Archon 40 (September 30-October 2, outside St. Louis MO). Panel schedule here.