fall 2003 Scholars Seminar on Science Fiction

fall 2003 Scholars Seminar on
Science Fiction: A Cultural Perspective

Seminar Leader: Dr. David G. Fisher, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Scholar Program Director: Dr. Michelle Briggs, Associate Professor of Biology

Meetings are Tuesdays at Noon, Heim Biology and Chemistry Building room G-11,
occasional Monday/Wednesday evenings at 7:00 pm, also in Heim G-11.

Partial Schedule of Tuesday Meetings

8/26 - Introduction to Science Fiction with Dr. David G. Fisher

9/2 - Alien Life: Is there anybody out there, and, if so, what will it do to culture here on Earth when and if we find it? Faculty panel - Erickson, Fisher, Griffith, Newman, Ross
Dr. Darby Lewes on the concept of "the alien" in utopian literature of the Victorian era

9/9 - "The REAL Science Fiction" with Dr. Peter Goldstein, Juniata College English Department

10/21 - "Sci-Fi Wars: Thirty Years in the Trenches" - Science Fiction Author F. Paul Wilson discusses his craft

11/11- "Close Encounters of a Musical Kind" with Christopher Woodruff

11/18 - "Cold War Politics and the Sci-Fi Film" with Dr. Ernest Giglio

11/19 - Creative Forum - Student Posters, Presentations, Poetry Reading, etc.

Some classic Sci-Fi movies worth discussing:

	Forbidden Planet
	The Day the Earth Stood Still
	Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
	The War of the Worlds
	It Came from Outer Space
	Them
	Colossus: the Forbin Project
	The Time Machine
	This Island Earth
	Creature from the Black Lagoon
	When Worlds Collide
	The Incredible Shrinking Man
	The Beginning of the End

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