Cohousing-L Mailing List: Fwd: Last Call for WisCon 28 Program Participant Signup!

[Sara Bogdanove (sjb]

Wiscon is the world's only feminist science fiction convention held
annually on Memorial Day weekend in Madison Wisconsin. They
are looking for participants in discussion panels. I noticed that there
are a couple of panels that might be of interest to cohousers.

Political, Economic, and Social Issues
Our place in this world is often heavily shaped by the economic and  
political climate around us. What fiction have you read that deals with  
such issues especially well or poorly? What issues affect your life as  
a feminist? What effect do current events have on your writing or  
reading?


An Unsustainable World (0000001062)
What do we think we are doing?
Suggested by Eleanor A. Arnason 02/11/2004
      Do you think we should run this panel?        
Please! Yes     Maybe   No      No Opinion

Community: The Darker Side (0000001345)
Fans tend to speak of community with romanticism bordering on  
reverence. Granted, community is what many of us lack in our urban,  
21st-century existences. There are things that community can give us  
that we desperately need: fellowship, a social safety net, a feeling of  
belonging, a set of values with which to structure our lives, a sense  
of continuity with the past and future. But when people leave small  
towns and head for the big city, it's often for very good reasons.  
Communities enforce norms (sometimes very strictly), exclude or  
scapegoat people, conflict with the desire for privacy, and sometimes  
erupt in feuds. And being a member of a community, even a strong and  
healthy one, even the "right" community for a particular person, may  
not meet all of that person's needs. What are some of the drawbacks of  
community? How can we recognize these drawbacks as we build community?  
What do we expect from community that it can't deliver?
Suggested by Janet M. Lafler 03/03/2004
      Do you think we should run this panel?        
Please! Yes     Maybe   No      No Opinion

To view the complete idea list for programs and to vote, visit:
http://216.39.144.179/WisConWeb/(o31fogf2rxj51t45yuqunbry)/ 
ProgramIdea.aspx#category_Political_Economic_and_Social_Issues.

If you are interested in participating in these or other panels, follow
the instructions in the e-mail below.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: betsy lundsten <kallisti [at] visi.com>
> Date: March 27, 2004 12:26:17 AM CST
> To: kallisti [at] visi.com
> Subject: Last Call for WisCon 28 Program Participant Signup!
>
> Hello!
>
> There is one week left to sign up to be on panels at WisCon!
>
> If you'd like to sign up to be on a panel or three at WisCon, please  
> go to http://www.sf3.org/wiscon/programming.html and click on the link  
> for the Participant Sign Up form, and do it before Sunday, April 4th.
>
> We hope to see you at WisCon 28, we hope to be able to put you on  
> panels there, and if you can't make it, we hope to see you next year!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Betsy Lundsten
> WisCon 28 Program Head
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