| Panel Day | Panel Time | Panel | Room | Panel Description | Panelist |
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| Friday | | | | | |
| | 5:00 PM | Star Wars & Star Trek | Isle Royale | With 2016 marking the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, and with the return of Star Wars to the big screen, come talk about the two fan favorite science fiction franchises that have had such a profound and wide-ranging impact on the genre. | Lawrence Schoen, Eric Distad, Jeannie Szarama, Christian Klaver |
| | 5:00 PM | Pop Up Media! Game of Thrones | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 6:00 PM | Pop Up Media! Ex Machina | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 7:00 PM | Star Trek Vid Show | Saugatuck | In honor of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, come watch some fantastic vids based on one of science fictions most beloved franchises. | Julie Winningham (M) |
| | 8:00 PM | Golden Year of TV, 50 Years Later | Manitou | Of the 36 hours of Prime Time TV programming in 1966, 17 hours of it was F&SF shows, including Trek, Batman and Lost in Space... Time for a good look back at it. | Bill Messner-Loebs, David M. Stein, Jeff Beeler, Matt Feazell |
| | 9:00 PM | Pop Up Media! Tomorrowland | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 10:00 PM | Pop Up Media! Adult Swim Cartoons | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| Saturday | | | | | |
| | 10:00 AM | Pop Up Media! The Martian | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 10:00 AM | The Show in Your Head vs. the Show on the Screen | Petoskey | Call it head-canon, fanon, or the viewer’s 50%, but we all have had those shows where the version you have in your head is very different than what’s actually shown. How does this impact your enjoyment of media? How do you reconcile the problems on the screen with the awesome version in your head? | Kristine Smith, Julie Winningham, Gordon Smith, Miriam Weinberg, Anna Carey |
| | 11:00 AM | Pop Up Media! Doctor Who | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 11:00 AM | Crossing the Streams | Ballroom A&B | Where are the lines in genre conventions and what happens when we cross them? What needs to happen to make something a crossover vs. a fusion? Do transmedia projects and genre fluidity benefit the genre? How does crossover in media experiences and production impact the kinds of stories we see on the screen? | Doselle Young, Kristine Smith, Andrea Phillips, Gordon Smith, Christian Klaver |
| | 11:00 AM | Podcasting Science Fiction and Fantasy | Interlochen | Talking about the popularity of podcasting in SFF fandom. What are the best podcasts out there? | Michael K. Elliott (M), Jonah Sutton-Morse, Jason Sanford, Dave Robison, Jeannie Szarama |
| | 1:00 PM | Pop Up Media! Sense8 | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 1:00 PM | Adapting Science Fiction and Fantasy | Charlevoix | Adapting beloved (and not so beloved) genre into other mediums (adapting books to screen, comics based on TV and media properties (Dr. Who, the new Star Wars comics, Mad Max, novelizations of films and tie-in novels) | David M. Stein, Michael R. Underwood (M), Lynne M. Thomas, Matt Pearson |
| | 2:00 PM | Kaffeeklatsch with Gordon Smith | Club Lounge | Join our Media Guest of Honor for coffee, tea, and conversation. Limited to 10 participants. Sign up at OPS. | Gordon Smith |
| | 2:00 PM | Pop Up Media! The Flash | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 3:00 PM | Superheroes on TV | Isle Royale | Superheroes are all over TV these days. How do Marvel and DCU differ in their small screen offerings? Do interactions between TV and films enhance, detract or not even register in your experiences? Is the small screen our best chance to see more diversity in superhero offerings? Have we reached peak cape? Is there more room for televised superheroes? | David M. Stein, Jim Mann, V.E. Schwab, Anna Carey, Christian Klaver |
| | 3:00 PM | Pop Up Media! Jessica Jones | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 4:00 PM | Pop Up Media! Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 5:00 PM | LOLCats, Wols, and Watch Me: Pop Culture in SFF? | Keweenaw | Pop-culture is ever evolving and fiction often hides behind a desire to be "timeless". However, pop-culture is an increasing influence on our lives, particularly among young people. How can these modern phenomena be used to make science fiction and fantasy more relevant to today's readers? Why don't we see more created popular culture within invented worlds? | Ferrett Steinmetz, Amy Sundberg, Michael Damian Thomas, Sunil Patel, Adam Rakunas |
| | 5:00 PM | Pop Up Media! Agent Carter | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 6:00 PM | Pop Up Media! Supergirl | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 6:00 PM | SciFi Disaster Movies | Keweenaw | What are the specific convention of science fiction disaster stories? What kind of stories can we tell with disaster tropes in SF? Does post-apocalyptic/dystopian SF count as disaster SF, and when does disaster SF become straight up horror? | Kentaro Toyama, Natalie Luhrs, Alex Kourvo |
| | 7:00 PM | Pop Up Media! The Expanse | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 8:00 PM | Pop Up Media! Orphan Black | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 9:00 PM | Explaining Social Media: Robert Jackson Bennett | Manitou | Writing wunderkind, Robert Jackson Bennett, presents his social media strategy and how it impacts his authorial career. He'll take us through the history of the Internet, the emergence of social media, and demonstrate the process he goes through to execut | Robert Jackson Bennett (M) |
| | 9:00 PM | Pop Up Media! The Walking Dead | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| Sunday | | | | | |
| | 10:00 AM | What's Wrong With Gendering Kids' Media | Petoskey | While sometimes well-intentioned, making and marketing toys and media just for girls is not diversifying or creating good representation. Boys need to see girls and women as active agents with genuine agency. Similarly, how does excluding girls from marketing in existing franchises hurt both boys and girls? How does this strict gendering impact and exclude queer and trans kids? | Cassy Sinke, Mari Brighe (M), Jen Talley, Julie Winningham, Suzanna Grossman |
| | 10:00 AM | Pop Up Media! The Librarians | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 11:00 AM | Pop Up Media! Outlander | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 12:00 PM | Pop Up Media! Sci-Fi Anime | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussion of some of the best (and worst) Sci-Fi or Fantasy anime around. We'll talk about why some translated well, why some just didn't work and some upcoming Sci-Fi anime as well as visiting the classics. | Cassy Sinke |
| | 12:00 PM | Watching SF&F with Your Kids | Petoskey | With the abundance of genre media we have today, what do you watch with your kids? What choices do you make as parents regarding appropriate SF&F media for your kids? Do you share the classics of your childhood with them, and how do they react? | Richard Herrell, Andrew Zimmerman, Jackie Morgan (M), Daniel Dugan, Melissa F. Olson |
| | 1:00 PM | Pop Up Media! Jupiter Ascending | Vogon Poetry Lounge | Science fiction and fantasy have taken over the airwaves! Come join fellow fans in (respectful!) round-table discussions of the awesome genre shows on television and the big screen today. | |
| | 1:00 PM | Are Steven Universe And Korra the Future? | Petoskey | Steven Universe is blazing a number of trails in animated SF&F, from its diverse characters and voice cast, to redefining issues of masculinity, and its emphasis on love, kindness and acceptance. Legends of Korra has made similar waves with its clear nod to a same-sex relationship in the finale and the outright confirmation of it by the creators. Are Korra and Steven Universe opening a new chapter in what we can do with family-friendly SF&F media? | Jason Sanford (M), Merrie Haskell, Carl Engle-Laird, Kimchi Zerbe, Navah Wolfe |