I-CON 32: Full Schedule

6:00pm EDT

What in the Universe? - Steven Universe Meetup

Friday March 17, 2017 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
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Fandom, Meetup

7:30pm EDT

3 Guys with Beards Podcast with special guest Dan Knauf

Christopher Golden, James A. Moore & Johnathan Mayberry(via Skype) interview Dan Knauf

Guest

Christopher Golden

Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling author of SNOWBLIND, ARARAT, TIN MEN, and many other novels. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of two cult favorite comics series, BALTIMORE and JOE GOLEM: OCCULT DETECTIVE. As an editor, his anthologies include SEIZE THE... Read More →

Daniel Knauf

Mr. Knauf created and served as Executive Producer of his Emmy Award-winning series, “CARNIVÁLE” (HBO). Mr. Knauf has since written episodes of “SUPERNATURAL” (The CW) and “FEAR ITSELF” (NBC). He served as a Consulting Producer on “STAND OFF” (FOX) , “MY OWN WORST... Read More →

James A. Moore

JAMES A. MOORE is the author of over forty novels, including the critically acclaimed Fireworks, Under The Overtree, Blood Red, Blood Harvest, the Serenity Falls trilogy (featuring his recurring anti-hero, Jonathan Crowley) Cherry Hill, Alien: Sea of Sorrows and the Seven Forges series... Read More →

Friday March 17, 2017 7:30pm - 8:30pm EDT
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Comics, podcast | Literature, podcast

8:30pm EDT

'TRANSFORMERS: 1984 to Bayformers!'

After 33 years worth of Transformer toys, shows, comics and movies what did they get right? What did they get wrong? What IS going on with Transformers 5?

Guest

Paul Guadagnino

Associate Adjunct Professor at Nassau Community College

Friday March 17, 2017 8:30pm - 9:30pm EDT
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Fandom

9:30pm EDT

3D Printing in Cosplay

Learn how to use new technology to make your Cosplay the best it can be. Join an experienced 3D printer and discuss the process and details of how to use your printer for your cosplay.

Friday March 17, 2017 9:30pm - 10:30pm EDT
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Fandom

10:00am EDT

Lolita 101

Curious about Lolita? Join a local Lolita and have all your questions answered!

Saturday March 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
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Fandom

11:00am EDT

Better Learning Through Minecraft

While there has been a trend for education-as-entertainment in computer software for as long as there have been home computers, most games considered educational are blatantly so, stressing the educational aspect hard enough that the entertainment is often lost. In recent years, however, the block-construction-and-destruction game "Minecraft" has attained an unexpected potential as an educational tool, both through the ability to add modifications and extensions, and through the ability to use those modifications and extensions in a wide variety of ways. The panel will explore the ways in which Minecraft can be used as a tool for teaching and learning, while still retaining its flavor of being a game.

Guest

Mike Tresca

Programming Participants

George Berger

Saturday March 18, 2017 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
HSEC A113

Gaming

12:00pm EDT

Reading - Cory Doctorow

Author Reading

Guest

Cory Doctorow

Science Fiction Author, Activist and Journalist

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to many magazines, websites and newspapers. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier... Read More →

Saturday March 18, 2017 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
HSEC A113

Literature, Reading

1:00pm EDT

The Living Mysteries of Gravity Falls

Are you sad that Gravity Falls is over? Still have unanswered questions that linger beyond the grave!? Well it's your lucky day human! We've assembled some of the town's finest denizens to answer your questions LIVE in the flesh (and blood). Hop on down to the Shack and get the lowdown from Mister Mystery first hand

Saturday March 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
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Fandom

2:00pm EDT

Zombies!

Multi-Media Panel-Zombies!
The interest in the undead spans both the art and literary world. Discover how rotting reanimation inspires artists and authors to scare the hell out of us!
(Not crazy about this description. I’m more of an expert on the evolution of the mythos. Where it came from and where its going)

Guest

Scott Grimando

Grim Studios

Award winning illustrator Scott Grimando will be showcasing many of his iconic book covers as well as his personal, Art of the Myth, series. His first book, The Art of the Mythical Woman, Lucid Dreams, from SQP has become an art students standard for insights into the modern creative... Read More →

Programming Participants

D Carter Jr.

Saturday March 18, 2017 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
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Literature, Art

3:00pm EDT

Off the Rails: When Players Don't Follow the GameMaster's Plan

While many role-playing games tend to follow the plan that the Game Master (or module creator) set out for the players, it is a common occurrence for the players to do something the Game Master did not predict, let alone plan for, which the Game Master must then find a way to work with or around. The panel will discuss the various ways that players are likely to defy Game Master expectations, and how a Game Master can leverage these detours, rather than fight the players on them, to improve both the game and their players' experience.

Programming Participants

Jason Macagnone

Middlehaven

Mike Tresca

Saturday March 18, 2017 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
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Gaming

4:00pm EDT

From Pumped-Up to God-like: Superhero Games and the Balance of Powers

Whether in comics or movies or novels or games, superheroes have some kind of powers beyond the abilities of regular beings. The scope of these powers range from subtle to world-shattering, and can vary widely, not only between different settings but within a setting. But unlike comics or movies or novels, in games it is imperative that, whatever the power level, it is balanced across all heroes. For a superhero game to be fair, the powers and abilities of any playable hero must contribute in an equally (or at least evenly) meaningful way, or risk the stigma of characters having an unfair advantage or disadvantage compared to others. And because most superheroes' powers are somewhat unique, this presents a greater challenge to the games' creators and to Game Masters than other genres would typically present. While the effects of this are most strongly felt in competitive video games such as Overwatch, they are no less important in role-playing games such as Mutants & Masterminds. This panel explores the unique challenges involved in balancing the powers of a group of superheroes so that, despite the distinctiveness of their abilities, each character's powers, strengths, and vulnerabilities make them of roughly even value to their side or team.

Guest

Christopher Helton

Beth Rimmels

Saturday March 18, 2017 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
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Gaming

5:30pm EDT

A Bigger Table: Making Gaming More Welcoming

An exploration of ways that a GameMaster and players can make both their own gaming group and the hobby of gaming in general more appealing to a more diverse audience.

Guest

Christopher Helton

Beth Rimmels

Saturday March 18, 2017 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
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Gaming

7:00pm EDT

The Rise of D.Va

Among the many distinct characters in Blizzard Entertainment's "Overwatch", the character known as D.Va has developed a following and symbolism that reaches far beyond the game. With her backstory as a champion gamer who became a real-life hero, and as the youngest playable character in the game, she embodies defiance of several stereotypes, particularly in the often highly-chauvinistic (or worse) competitive video game community, so much so that her in-game emblems were worn by many protesters at the recent Women's Marches in Korea. The panel will explore D.Va's significance outside of the game, as a symbol and inspiration to girls and women in the gaming community, both in her home country of Korea, and around the world.

Programming Participants

Aziza Brown

Shaina Indovino

Saturday March 18, 2017 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
HSEC A113

Gaming

8:30pm EDT

Streaming for Beginners

With advances in the speed of home Internet access, a number of people in various fields have discovered the power of streaming video. Beyond recording and editing and posting to YouTube, a live online streaming service allows anyone to present nearly anything live to an audience. The two communities to embrace this most fervently have been video gamers and artists, who have discovered that there is a significant audience online, looking to watch a good player work through a game they find challenging, or the process by which a favorite artist creates the images they admire. Many of them, especially gamers, now earn enough through viewer donations to do so as their primary source of income. This panel provides an introduction to the services and technology used for streaming live video from a computer to the viewing public.

Programming Participants

Kassandra Leigh Purcell

Patrick Purcell

Shaina Indovino

Saturday March 18, 2017 8:30pm - 9:30pm EDT
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Gaming

10:00am EDT

Good Bad Guys & Bad Good Guys

A discussion of great anti-heroes, heroes that've turned bad and villains that have joined the side of the angels.

Moderators

Ric Meyers

Although Ric Meyers may be best known as one of the leading experts on martial art movies and kung-fu films in America, he is also considered one of the most experienced, versatile, and eclectic writers in media, having written science-fiction, horror, fantasy, action-adventure, espionage... Read More →

Guest

Peter David

Christopher Golden

Adam McGovern

Sunday March 19, 2017 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
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Comics

11:00am EDT

Vampires and Otherkin

Programming Participants

Heather Dawn

Executive Vice President; Vice Chair LI-CON; Vice Chair Programming I-CON 32, ICON Science Fiction Inc.

Heather Dawn is the Vice Chair and co-founder of LI-CON, a young convention held annually on Long Island. She studied Anthropology under Dr. John Shea, Dr. Elizabeth Stone, and Dr. David Hicks at Stony Brook University; minored in Art History and Medieval Studies. Her studies focused on world religions (past and present) and ancient arts... Read More →

John Schindler

Chicken Squadron, In Goth We Trust

Quiltbag community, Creative writing ( in particular Edward Gorey, Edgar Allan Poe, & H.P. Lovecraft), Local Radio, Speaker on Sex & Gender issues, Goth & Steampunk, Vincent Price and retro-Horror.

Virtual -Cynthya BrianKate

Cynthya BrianKate

Sunday March 19, 2017 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
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Fandom

Company 18 and Up

12:00pm EDT

From Page to Stage: Writing for the performer

Guest

Cecil Baldwin

Cecil Baldwin is the narrator of the hit podcast Welcome To Night Vale. He is an alumnus of the New York Neo-Futurists, performing in their late-night show Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, as well as Drama Desk-nominated The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene... Read More →

Sunday March 19, 2017 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
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Literature Media

1:00pm EDT

Harry Potter Problems, Plot holes and that Epilogue!

Panel Discussion. An honest discussion of things that should have been more developed in the Harry Potter series. Plot holes, and other annoying unanswered questions about the series, and about the Wizarding World, that we know and love.

Sunday March 19, 2017 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
HSEC A113

Fandom Media

2:00pm EDT

Fossil-Hunting on Mars

People have always wondered, "Is there life out there, beyond our solar system." A better question is, is there life in our solar system, but beyond our Earth?

Guest

Pamela Gay

SIUE / Astrosphere

I am an astronomer, writer, and podcaster focused on using new media to engage people in science and technology. My most well known project may be Astronomy Cast, a podcast I co-host with Fraser Cain (Producer of Universe Today). Each week, Fraser and I work to take our listeners... Read More →

Sunday March 19, 2017 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
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Sci-Tech

3:00pm EDT

Convention Attention Podcast: Crossover Appeal

What’s the secret to a good crossover? Which ones have succeeded and failed in Hollywood’s past? And what are your dream mashups? We’ll explore it all as universes collide in this live edition of the Convention Attention podcast.

Sunday March 19, 2017 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
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Anime, podcast

4:00pm EDT

Singing Your Way Through Voice Acting

Guest

Kristen Nelson

guest

Sunday March 19, 2017 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
HSEC A113

Anime

5:00pm EDT

An Hour with Bill Rogers

Guest

Bill Rogers

Sunday March 19, 2017 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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Anime