Four Days
Schedule
Four days of panels, lectures, readings, and screenings across the Cal-State Fullerton campus and the Marriott event space. Draft schedule — subject to change.
Parking
Parking is free on Saturday, August 22. On the other campus days you’ll need a Cal-State Fullerton visitor parking permit — buy one in advance. To purchase: open the parking site, click “Parking Portal” then “Guest Login,” and complete the guest-login form. You’ll receive an email where you can log in and buy your permit(s).
LecturePanelSocialPremiere / ScreeningSpecial Event
Thursday
August 20
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Opening Meet & Greet
Marriott Bar
6:00 - 7:30 PM
Live Dickheads Podcast & PKD in Orange County Trivia
Marriott Bar
- —With Langhorne J. Tweed, Anthony Trevino, and David Agranoff
6:15 PM
Pop-Up Museum Opening & Opening Remarks
Campus
- —Opening remarks from the Cal-State Fullerton hosts
9:00 - 10:30 PM
Social Hour
Marriott Bar
Friday
August 21
9:30 - 10:15 AM
Publishing Panel
Campus
- —Keith Giles (Quoir / Pink Beam)
- —Lord Running Clam (Wide Books)
- —Drew S. Burk (University of Minnesota Press)
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Lectures
Campus
- —Eric Canin — Techno-Animism in PKD’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: An Anthropological View
- —Cat Celebrezze — Delicious Garbage: Language, Neologisms, and Reality in Philip K. Dick
- —Raj Chandarlapaty — Narcotheorist Projections in the Science Fiction Era
- —Nikita Alligire — Ideology on Mars: A Comparative Reading of Bogdanov’s Red Star and Dick’s Martian Time-Slip
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Fullerton Student Paper Presentations
Campus
- —Jeffrey Sithi-Amnuai — “Are Electric Sheep Just AI Slop? On Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Generative AI”
- —Alli Dubin — “Taking Donna Back: Gender and Sexuality in A Scanner Darkly”
- —Hector Arzola — “Pink Light Visions and Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism: Breaking out of PKD’s Black Iron Prison”
- —Rodrigo Barwick — “What Does a Scanner See? Althusser’s Ideological State Apparatus and A Scanner Darkly”
- —Yahir Gonzalez — “I’ve Seen Things You People Wouldn’t Believe: Lyotard’s Differend and Blade Runner”
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Lectures
Campus
- —William Sarill — Inside Dick’s Head: A Psychospiritual Portrait
- —Keith Giles — PKD and Quantum Theology
- —Ted Hand — QueryPat: A Digital Humanities Resource for the Study of PKD
- —Blake Wilson — The Conquest of Death and the Divine Afterlife
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Sarah Langan — Guest of Honor Interview
Campus
7:30 PM
Radio Free Albemuth — Play Table Read
Marriott
- —With playwright Lisa Morton
8:45 PM
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch — TV Pilot Table Read
Marriott
- —TV pilot by David Agranoff & Anthony Trevino, with full cast
Saturday
August 22
9:30 - 10:30 AM
Panel: The Man in the High Castle & Subjective History
Campus
- —Getting Unreal in Post-Truth America — moderated by David Agranoff, featuring Jonathan Lethem and Howard Rodman
- —SFAM / WorldCon Preview with Patrick Sharp and William Morton
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Short Film Screening & Director Q&A
Campus
- —The Gun (based on the PKD story) — director Randall Christopher
- —IO (co-written by Lavie Tidhar) — director Nir Yaniv
1:30 - 2:15 PM
Panel: Tim Powers & Phil’s Orange County Friends
Campus
- —On PKD’s time in Orange County, featuring his friends Tim Powers, Linda Castellani, Maer Wilson, Merry Lou Staylor, and Jim Blaylock
- —Moderated by David Sander
2:30 - 4:30 PM
Lectures
Campus
- —David Gill — PKD in Point Reyes Station
- —Tom Scholte — Dickian Intimations of the Human/Android in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me
- —Drew S. Burk — Processing the Future: VALIS and Visions of Horselover Fat
- —Gregg Rickman — On the Empathy Box
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Brian Evenson — Guest of Honor Interview
Campus
8:00 PM
Pink Beam Awards
TBA
Sunday
August 23
10:00 - 11:30 AM
“It’s About Time” — William Sarill & Gregg Rickman
Campus
- —A dialogue on PKD’s understanding of temporality, between a PKD biographer and an independent scholar who briefly lived with Phil and talked with him about the universe
11:30 AM
Closing Address
Campus
1:00 PM
Orange County PKD Sites Caravan
Orange County
- —Group tours of the Orange County sites where PKD lived and wrote
Note: This is a working draft — times, sessions, and participants are subject to change as the program is finalized.
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