Wiscon panel/event ideas

[firecat]

Hey, anyone want to help work up any of these ideas as Wiscon panel descriptions? They're listed with the name(s) of the people I talked to about them.

• there are several entirely different WisCons going on simultaneously (jesse the k)
• "The Structural Underpinnings of Social Isolation" (jesse the k)
• "a panel that isn't about picking people up for sex, but meeting folks one has an emotional/intellectual spark with" (possibly for dating in the future. ACE-friendly) (sophy)
• "carbon dating fairy": which books have aged well, how and why? Not so much about which books the various $suck and $fail fairies have visited, but which ones feel modern even after decades (Dune?), which ones are classics for every age (Tolkien?), and which ones remain attached to the era they were written but stand as great examples of that era's writing and concerns (PKDick?) * Is SF more likely to age badly than fantasy? * How much of a role does writing style play in the feeling of aging well or poorly? Some other books/authors: _War for the Oaks_, Piserchia, _God Stalk_, McCaffrey, Le Guin (the OH)

Comments

[jiawen]

Well, it's a mixed metaphor, but maybe that's appropriate here.

I like all of what y'all have mentioned, and would want to be on that panel.

I also think it has some overlap with the Social Isolation panel of last year, and discussions of how it feels like not only are there multiple cons going on in the same space, but it feels like some of them are definitely given more prestige (and maybe privilege) than others.

[firecat]

Yeah it definitely has some overlap with the Social Isolation panel. jesse_the_k proposed that panel and I was one of the panelists. And yes, differing prestige and privilege is part of what's going on here.

Tx for noticing the mixed metaphor; I hope we can work a comment about that into the panel description (see my reply to jesse_the_k).