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HSEC A114 [clear filter]
Friday, March 17
 

6:00pm EDT

GameMaster Master Class
For experienced RPG GameMasters, a chance to up their game (pun intended) by learning from the people for who create the games they run.
Guest
CH
avatar for Matt McFarland
BR

Programming Participants
JC

Friday March 17, 2017 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Gaming

7:00pm EDT

'Hey, why'd they change that?' ADR Scriptwriting for English Dubs
Guest
TG
BR

Friday March 17, 2017 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Anime

8:00pm EDT

The Job of Science
What do scientists do anyway? How does a real scientist's life compare to the ones in stories? (Also covering Careerist Scientists)
Moderators
JS

Guest
avatar for Pamela Gay

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 →
HT

Programming Participants
SC

Sebastian Cocioba

Biology undergrad, CEO & Founder at New York Botanics, LLC, an ornamental plant genetic engineering start-up located in New York City. He is also an independent researcher for the education-oriented biotech non-profit, Binomica Labs. His research focuses on the nutritional requirements... Read More →

Friday March 17, 2017 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Sci-Tech

9:00pm EDT

Tales of Con Horror
Guest
TG
KN
BR
avatar for Rikki Simons

Rikki Simons

Anime Guest of Honor
You know Rikki as the voice of the robot in a dog suit, GIR from Invader ZIM! And the pop culture scene does too, as fans embrace the chance to meet Rikki in person at his appearances worldwide. As a writer he is known for the science fiction and fantasy novel Hitherto a Lion.Original... Read More →

Friday March 17, 2017 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Anime
 
Saturday, March 18
 

10:00am EDT

Lovecraft and the age of Steampunk
Moderators
avatar for John Schindler

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.

Programming Participants
avatar for Heather Dawn

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 →
VC

Saturday March 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
HSEC A114
  Fandom   Literature

11:00am EDT

Mermaid Makeup and Costuming
Ever wondered what's a mermaid's secret to looking flawless underwater? How to dress in your “underwater best”? Miss Skellington and Mermaid Soluna will show you how to make you make up and wardrobe waterproof and fabulous!
Saturday March 18, 2017 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Fandom

12:00pm EDT

Government or Private Sector
Whose business is science anyway?
Moderators
avatar for Gary Shaw

Gary Shaw

Touro Law School
rofessor Shaw has been a member of the Touro Law Center faculty for thirty-two years. Professor Shaw served as Vice Dean of the Law Center from 2000-2008. From 1995-1997, he served as Internet Coordinator of the Law Center, in which position he played a major role in the creation... Read More →

Guest
JS

Saturday March 18, 2017 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Sci-Tech

1:00pm EDT

Giant Monsters Attack NYC – A History
Hey, giant monster movie fans, do you love seeing “King Kong” scale the
Empire State Building? Ever wonder why “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms”
and “Godzilla” love the Fulton Street Fish Market? Then this is the panel for
you! Learn about the cinematic destruction of New York City at the claws of
some well known (and not so well known) giant movie monsters. This is a
family friendly panel that will encourage discussion and audience questions
about this amazing film sub-genre. Join amateur animator, filmmaker hobbyist, monster movie historian, and longtime I-Con attendee Mark Bailey to see why the Big Apple is so ripe for destruction when it comes to giant monsters of the big screen. Hope to see you there!
Guest
avatar for Mark Bailey

Saturday March 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Fandom

2:00pm EDT

Writing For Gaming
Our panel talks about their extensive work in the gaming industry and how to create a world and write within an existing one.
Moderators
DV

Guest
CH
JA

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 →
BR

Saturday March 18, 2017 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Comics

4:00pm EDT

The Movies of H.P. Lovecraft
Moderators
avatar for John Schindler

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.

Programming Participants
avatar for Heather Dawn

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 →
VC

Saturday March 18, 2017 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Fandom   Literature

5:30pm EDT

Greatest Super Hero Martial Artists w/ Ric Meyers
Ric Meyers and Keith DeCandido discuss the best Karatekas of comicdom! From Shang Chi, the Master of Kung Fu to Richard Dragon and everyone in-between; we'll talk about super heroes that don't need powers or gadgets, because their bodies are weapons!
Moderators
PK

Guest
KR

Keith R.A. DeCandido

Keith R.A. DeCandido attended his first I-Con as a college student in 1988, where he got to meet Harlan Ellison for the first time. Over the years, he has attended the show as a fan, as press, as security, as a musical guest, and most commonly as an author guest. Keith's recent and... Read More →
RM

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 →

Saturday March 18, 2017 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Comics   Media

6:30pm EDT

Medieval Marriage and the Social Status of Women in Game of Thrones
Discussing the social status of women in Westeros and in the real Middle Ages, which inspired it. Differing marriage patterns had major effects on the social status of women (varying by region); how there has never been one “traditional definition” of marriage because it changed over time. Marriage is tied to inheritance patterns, which directly affected how often medieval women held political power. Also marriage-related topics of prostitution, contraception, abortion, bastardy, etc. -- How frequently do women in TV-Westeros hold political power compared to book-Westeros? Discussing gender-swapping, and why there is increased violence against women in the TV adaptation.
Programming Participants
TD

The Dragon Demands

Game of Thrones Wiki

Saturday March 18, 2017 6:30pm - 8:30pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Fandom

8:30pm EDT

The Fight for Star Trek Fan-Film: Axanar
CBS and Paramount have sued the Star Trek Fan-Film "Prelude to Axanar,"; and its creator Alec Peters, for copyright infringement, turning the fan-film world upside-down. Come see what all the fuss is about and what it means for fan-films!
Guest
PG

Paul Guadagnino

Associate Adjunct Professor at Nassau Community College

Saturday March 18, 2017 8:30pm - 9:30pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Fandom
 
Sunday, March 19
 

10:00am EDT

On the Brink
Science and technologies that are just about to make an impact on our daily lives. Examples include self driving cars, battery technologies, computer storage technologies, home automation, wearable computing, etc.
Moderators
SC

Sebastian Cocioba

Biology undergrad, CEO & Founder at New York Botanics, LLC, an ornamental plant genetic engineering start-up located in New York City. He is also an independent researcher for the education-oriented biotech non-profit, Binomica Labs. His research focuses on the nutritional requirements... Read More →

Guest
DC

David Carlos

I am the CTO of B&L Management, a 40-year-old residential construction and property management company that has built and managed thousands of apartments in Manhattan. Prior to joining B&L, I was the co-founder and CTO of Myhomepayge, an online communication platform for residential... Read More →
MN

Matthew Newhall

Long Island Linux User Group
Professional sysadmin Rockefeller University, Scifi author, open source advocate (LILUG, Linux as comp sci), inventor, originator of the civilization gene and legal distribution, dad of geeks! Let's make society psychopath proof together. Peaceful near anarchy is natural in a world... Read More →
avatar for Gary Shaw

Gary Shaw

Touro Law School
rofessor Shaw has been a member of the Touro Law Center faculty for thirty-two years. Professor Shaw served as Vice Dean of the Law Center from 2000-2008. From 1995-1997, he served as Internet Coordinator of the Law Center, in which position he played a major role in the creation... Read More →

Sunday March 19, 2017 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
HSEC A114
  Sci-Tech

11:00am EDT

Got something to publish?
Come ask questions and hear about writers quests to get published.
Guest
RC

Russ Colchamiro

Russ Colchamiro is the author of the rollicking space opera, Crossline, the zany SF/F backpacking comedy series Finders Keepers, Genius de Milo, and Astropalooza, editor of the SF anthology Love, Murder & Mayhem, and co-author of Murder in Montague Falls, all with Crazy 8 Press. Russ... Read More →
JH

Joseph Helmreich

Joseph Helmreich has contributed writing to Every Day Fiction and New York Press and is the author of The Return (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2017) and co-author of Warring Parents, Wounded Children, and the Wretched World of Child Custody (Greenwood Press, 2007). He is... Read More →
avatar for Roy Mauritsen

Roy Mauritsen

guest, Perseid Press and Padwolf Publishing
In a career spanning over two decades as a professional graphic designer, Roy Mauritsen is also an award-winning digital fantasy artist of the Chess Pieces series and author of the Shards of the Glass Slipper series. Presently, Mr. Mauritsen is an art director overseeing both Perseid... Read More →
IR

Sunday March 19, 2017 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Literature

12:00pm EDT

Reading - Joseph Helmreich
Guest
JH

Joseph Helmreich

Joseph Helmreich has contributed writing to Every Day Fiction and New York Press and is the author of The Return (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2017) and co-author of Warring Parents, Wounded Children, and the Wretched World of Child Custody (Greenwood Press, 2007). He is... Read More →

Sunday March 19, 2017 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Literature, Reading

1:00pm EDT

Emergency Braking
Car security, technology, risks, and ways to avoid potentially dangerous situations (in some cases, for the paranoid!)
Moderators
MN

Matthew Newhall

Long Island Linux User Group
Professional sysadmin Rockefeller University, Scifi author, open source advocate (LILUG, Linux as comp sci), inventor, originator of the civilization gene and legal distribution, dad of geeks! Let's make society psychopath proof together. Peaceful near anarchy is natural in a world... Read More →

Guest
TC
IF

Sunday March 19, 2017 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Sci-Tech

2:00pm EDT

What is a Furry? In Memorium: Lincoln Kliman
Programming Participants
CH
JC

Sunday March 19, 2017 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Fandom

4:00pm EDT

SaaJ - Security as a Joke
Discussion of IT security breaches at Yahoo, the US Government, and various other major breaches – what went wrong and what should have been done
(NOTE: Prefer to have on Sunday)
Moderators
IF

Guest
BS

Sunday March 19, 2017 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
HSEC A114
  Sci-Tech
 
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