{"id":8794,"date":"2019-03-28T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2019-03-28T09:14:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:14:53","slug":"late-notice-long-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=8794","title":{"rendered":"Late Notice, Long Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been head down lately: writing a story to accompany an upcoming art installation on Hypersonic Glide Vehicles, gearing up for a class talk at York University, and\u2014 weighing most heavily\u2014 preparing for a symposium\/workshop over in Hungary, under the auspices of the Institute for Advanced Studies, K\u00f6szeg<\/a> (iASK for short). The title of the whole shindig is “Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science Fiction: Coping with a Complex Future<\/a>“. It kicks off with a one-day symposium in which a physicist, a biologist, a couple of social scientists and an SF writer walk into a bar and take turns monopolizing a podium[1]<\/a>. (I appear to have the first slot: working title is “Delusional Optimism at the End of the World”.) Afterward, the lot of us sit around and have a panel discussion.<\/p>\n

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No connection with Apple, as far as I know.<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course, it’s Hungary. If none of you make it, I won’t hold it against you. I’ve been told, though, that the symposium is going to be streamed. I don’t know any details, but if you’ve got nothing better to do on a Saturday, you might want to look into that.<\/p>\n

There’s also a two-day writing workshop. April 8-9. I’m running that one on my own. I’ve never done one of those before. I suppose I should probably get started on that.<\/p>\n

Oh, and for those of you checking out the flyer\u2014 no, I have not lost the beard or started dying my hair. The organizers just opted for a ten-year-old picture, instead of the more-current shots I sent.<\/p>\n

Maybe they just don’t like cats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[1]<\/a> Don’t be fooled by the rudimentary poster or the preliminary schedule; I am, indeed, only one of five participants and I am, in fact, giving a talk in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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