PAST SYMPOSIUM PAPER SCHEDULE
Wednesday, 8 April
A. Librarians: Mission, Service, and Collections
1. Book Stores and Public Libraries
2. Readers= Advisory Service in the American Public Library: An Estimate
of Its Value
3. Law in Popular Culture: A Special Collection
B. Sustenance and Style
1. Culinary Mysteries
2. Epicurism and Genre Fiction
3 Freaky Protagonists in Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
Wednesday, 15 April
C. Dreams, Political Satire, and Novel Endings
1. A Butterfly=s Dream: When Dream Becomes Reality in Genre Fiction
2. Fantasy as a Vehicle for Political Satire: A Look at Mikhail Bulgakov=s
Heart of a Dog
3. Millenium in Genre Fiction
D Gossip, Spying, Wit, and Meow Mix: Women-Authored Mysteries
1. Women-Authored Women Detectives (Sue Grafton; Sara Paretsky; P.D.
James; Katharine V. Forrest)
2. Woman-Authored Woman Detective: Agatha Christie=s Miss Marple
3.The Cat Characters of Lilian Jackson Braun
E. Razor Girl, Nymphomaniac, and Goin= Out West
1. The Portrayal of Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy
2. Future Females
3. Images of Children in Genre Fiction: Pioneer Children and Native
Americans
Wednesday, 22 April
F. The Influence of Place: Geography in Genre Fiction
1. Two Faces of the South: New Orleans and Miami Detective Fiction
2. James Lee Burke=s Louisiana
3. The Spirit of Australia
G. The Search for Faith: Religious Belief in Genre Fiction
1. Future of Religion in Science Fiction
2. American Indian Religious Thought in the Western Genre
3. The Presence of God and the Evidence/Use of Religion in Science Fiction
and Fantasy Fiction
H. Genetic Engineering and the Threat of War
1. Tom Clancy: The U.S. vs. The Soviet Union
2. Technology and the Human Body in Science Fiction and Related Genre
Literature
Wednesday, 29 April
I. Public Library Service to Genre Readers
1. Reading Groups
2. Librarians in Mystery Fiction
3. Recommenders
J. AThe Pale Shadow of Killing=: Vampires, Witches, and Eroticism in Anne Rice
1. Homosexuality in Anne Rice=s The Vampire Chronicles)
2. The Witch in Late 20th Century Genre Fiction: Anne Rice=s The Mayfair
Witches
3. Eroticism and Gender in Anne Rice=s The Vampire Chronicles
K. Romance, Bad Girls, and Media Transformation
1. Lines of Romance: Cover Art and Mixed-Race Romance
2. Girls Gone Wrong: Prostitutes in Crime Fiction
3. From Book to Film