CONTACT VI · April 28-30, 1989 · Phoenix, AZ

Friday

9:00-10:20 Symposium 1. SolSys Council

COOK, RICK

LEWIS, JOHN

VAN PRAET

10:30-11:50 Symposium 2. Southwest 2039

BRAUN

FOSTER, ALAN DEAN: Cyberway +

GROFF

1:00-2:20 Symposium 3. Anthropology and the Future

MOORE, JIM: Anthro-Plans for the Future: Where to look, what to look out for

KLASS, MORTON: Give Us Your "Huddled Masses": Prolegomenon to the Human Colonization of Space

JOANS, BARBARA: Homo Sapiens Stay Home

2:30-3:50 Symposium 4. Anthropology and Science Fiction

NIEHOFF, A.H.: Takeover: The Last Ethnography

ADAMS, MISCHA: The Living Gods of Cyberpunk: "There are Things in the Net..."

KLASS, PHIL (WILLIAM TENN): The Verneian Age

4:00-5:30 Anthropologists as Artists

Saturday

9:00-10:20 Symposium 5. Ethics and the Future

BARR, GREG: Cult of the Parallel Universes

SCHWALL, RICK: A Speculative Metaphysics

STOVITZ, CHUCK: Laws, Aliens and the Constitution *

10:30-11:50 Symposium 6. Analogues for Life in Space

HARRISON, AL: Terrestrial Laboratories for Humans in Space

FUNARO, JIM: Undiscovered Treasure: Ethnographic Analogues for Offworld Colonies

JONES, ERIC: Getting the First Space Settlement Started

1:00-2:20 Symposium 7. Ethnographic Analogues

DeVITA, PHIL: The Japanese and American Cultural Models: Contrastive Analogues forHuman Habitation in Extended Space Exploration and Settlement

ROBBINS, RICHARD: Utopian and Other Planned Communities: Models for Extended Space Habitation

ARMSTRONG, JAMES: The Early Kibbutz: An Interactional Model for Extended Space Habitation

2:30-3:50 Symposium 8. Human Settlements in Space

ANDERSON, POUL: Cultural Variations in Space

ZANE, TOM: Structuring the Space Society for Maximum Enjoyment and Productivity

BEACH, SCOTT: A Paradigm for Space Settlement

4:00-5:30 Symposium 9. Alternative Realities

STONE, SANDY: How Robots Grew Gonads: A Cautionary Tale

DON "BANDIT" GANGWERE: Kinesthetic Motion Detectors and Virtual Realities

VICTOR, LARRY: Feedpast Bootstrapping

Sunday

9:00-10:20 SOLSYS COUNCIL

10:30-12:00 SOUTHWEST: 2039

1:00-4:00 CULTURES OF THE IMAGINATION

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