Schedule
Four days of panels, lectures, readings, and screenings, split between the Pollak Library at Cal State Fullerton and the Fullerton Marriott. Draft schedule — subject to change.
Where to Go
Every campus event takes place inside the Pollak Library at Cal State Fullerton. The library is two connected buildings, and everything is in the north one — that is what PLN stands for in the room numbers below (Pollak Library North). PLN 130 and PLN 103 are both on the first floor, and the Salz-Pollak Atrium Gallery is just inside the north entrance.
The vendor area is on the first floor, in the promenade on the north side. Signs will point you from there to the rooms where sessions are held.
Evening events — the meet & greet, trivia, table reads, and the Pink Beam Awards — are at the Fullerton Marriott, listed as “Marriott.”
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).
- —Hosted by Langhorne J. Tweed and David Agranoff of the Dickheads Podcast
- —Keith Giles (Quoir / Pink Beam)
- —Lord Running Clam (Wide Books)
- —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
- —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”
- —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
- —With playwright Lisa Morton
- —TV pilot by David Agranoff & Anthony Trevino, with full cast
- —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
- —The Gun (based on the PKD story) — director Randall Christopher
- —IO (co-written by Lavie Tidhar) — director Nir Yaniv
- —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
- —David Gill — PKD in Point Reyes Station
- —Tom Scholte — Dickian Intimations of the Human/Android in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me
- —Cliff Jones Jr. — Parody, Pastiche, and the Pink Beam
- —Gregg Rickman — On the Empathy Box
- —Science Fiction in Pollak Library’s Special Collections
- —Overlaps the afternoon lectures and the Guest of Honor interview — drop in any time
- —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
- —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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