A Celebration of Time Travel
May 20, 2023!
We’re thrilled to welcome our keynote speakers for 2023!
Jana Sinyor is the creator of Being Erica.
“We Are All Time Travellers: Repeated patterns that wreck your life. Where they come from and how to change them.”
Dr. Ron Mallett, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Connecticut
“The Real Science of Time Travel”
Caroline M. Yoachim, author of Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World.
“The Psychology of Time Travel Stories: Understanding Our World by Changing the Rules”
We’re happy to support Inside Circle, a group that builds transformative environments for justice-involved youth and adults to heal, find purpose, and build meaningful lives of service.
Conference schedule
A Celebration of Time Travel
8:30am
Conference registration opens.
Silent Auction to benefit Inside Circle.
9:00am – 10:00am
1A. Doctor Who and Star Trek: Icons of Time Travel.
*Allison Broesder – “The Present Butterfly Effect”
Jim Iaccino – “The Multiple Doctor Who Team-Ups: Meeting Up with Oneself is the Ultimate Time Travel Experience”
Christine Myers – “‘Is there Scotland in space?’ Using Time Travel to Critique Brexit in Doctor Who”
Kristin Noone – “Dinosaurs, Cosmic String, and the ‘Great Big Wrong’: Time Travel and Morality in Star Trek: First Frontier”
Karma Waltonen – “To Boldly Go When No One Has Gone Before (or After)”
1B. Time Travel in Education.
*Jesus Magallon – “(With Regards To Bill & Ted…) Edutainment’s Excellent Adventure: Exploring Point-and-Click Edutainment Gaming Via Comparative Time Travel Narratives”
Dylan Pank and John Caro – “‘I suggest you don’t worry about those things and just enjoy yourself.’: Time Travel, the Scientist and the Evolution of Narrative Conventions”
LaTiana Ridgell – “Time Traveling Through the PhD: An Autoethnographic Study of Reflexivity in Doctoral Studies”
10:15am – 11:15am
2A. Literary Keynote.
Caroline M. Yoachim. “The Psychology of Time Travel Stories: Understanding Our World by Changing the Rules”
11:30am – 12:30pm
3A. Writing and Reading Time Travel.
*Rebecca Johns-Trissler
Mary Anne Mohanraj
Nancy McCabe
3B. Queering Time Travel.
*Jes Klass – “Time Travel in Animal Crossing: Is it Queer Play?”
Lauren O'Connor – “Dream, Hope, Forward...Backward? Time Travel in the Bangtan Universe”
3C. The Dynamics of Time Travel on Television.
*Gordon Dymowski – “Time Travel, Paradox, and Transgenerational Trauma in Dark Shadows”
Tatyane Larrubia – “"‘De Volta aos 15’ - A Study Case of a Brazilian Series about Back in Time in High School”
Lisa Macklem – “Monkeying Around With Time: Terry Matalas Brings Order to Chaos in 12 Monkeys”
Walter Podrazik – “Peter Jackson's Time Machines: Taking History and Making It Better, Better, Better ...”
Drew Wright – “Time Moves in a Jeremy Bearimy: Conceptions of Chronology in The Good Place”
1:00pm – 2:00pm
4A. Professional Keynote.
Jana Sinyor - “We Are All Time Travellers: Repeated patterns that wreck your life. Where they come from and how to change them.”
2:15pm – 3:15pm
5A. Time Travel Tropes.
*Steve Clairmont – “You’ve Turned Jules Verne into a Hood Ornament” – Disney’s The Timekeeper
Dominick Grace – “Real-Time Travelling”
Lisa Rothman – “What's The Point Of Time Traveling If You're Not Having Fun? (An Exploration of Legends of Tomorrow, Doctor Who, and Hob Gadling)”
Owen Smith – “The Once and Future Jungle: Interrogating Time Travel from a Mythical Perspective”
5B. Romance, Animation, and Fandom.
*Alena Karkanias – “Let’s Do the Time Loop Again: Time Loops, Temporary Character Death, and Fix-It Fandom”
Abby Kirby – “Rewatching, Rewinding, Revisiting: The Audience as Time Traveler in Gravity Falls”
Annika Pallasch – “Forever a Sassenach: Outlander as Metaphor for Immigration”
5C. DEFUNCTION (2023) (10 min). Short Film.
A discussion of Time Travel in Cinema. Filmmaker Alexander Eberhage will premiere his new short film DEFUNCTION and discuss his thoughts on time travel presented in the film as well as theories of time travel presented in cinema.
Alexander Eberhage – Filmmaker
3:30pm – 4:30pm
6C. Scientific Keynote.
Dr. Ronald Mallett - “The Real Science of Time Travel”
4:45pm – 5:45pm
7A. Real-Life Issues in Time Travel.
*Stacey Lantagne – “Owning Time Travel, Real and Fictional”
Leiya Lee – “Towards a Philosophy of Time Travel”
Victor Monnin – “Paleontologists: The Lost Pioneers of Time Travel”
Mark Parsons – “Occult Time Travel, or Crush Your Way to Thrilling Metatemporal Adventure With My 25 minute Magick Love Language Workout!”
7B. Time Travel Vid & AMV Show.
*Samantha Close
Anne C. Smith
7C. Time Travel in Film.
*Samuel Crider – “Second Chances: Time Travel Wish Fulfillment in Avengers: Endgame”
Kara Kvaran – “Going Back in Time: Race, Gender, and the Lure of Cinematic Nostalgia”
Katie Utke – “The Future Is What You Make of It: The Legacy of Back to the Future”