CONTACT III · September 27-29, 1985 · San Jose, CA

Friday

9:15-11:15 THE UNIVERSE AND US

Poul Anderson - Science, Logic and Imagination

Greg Benford - Galactic Center: A Cultural Sargasso Sea *

Dave Brin - Where the Hell is Everybody? *

Reed Riner - The Contact Hypothesis

11:15-12:00 Workshop: WORLD BUILDING - Anderson, Benford, Niven

12:15-1:15 Bateson Project: THE WORLD - Anderson, Niven, Pournelle

1:30-3:30 FROM SCIENCE TO IMAGINATION

Mary Mason - We Only Believe OUR Senses

C J Cherryh - The Caliban: Case Study in Alien Creation III

Larry Niven - Meet the Chaptisk Fithp

Paul Bohannan - Science Fiction Cultures: Real and Ethereal

3:30-4:15 Workshop: ALIEN BUILDING - Cherryh, Hagen, Tyzzer

4:30-5:30 Bateson Project: THE ALIEN - Benford, Cherryh, Hagen, Mason

7:00-9:00 ART AND SCIENCE

Loren & Rachel Carpenter - Computer Graphics

Joel Hagen - Contact in Art

Saturday

9:15-11:15 CREATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY

Mischa Adams & Devyani Smith - Multiplex Models

Greg Bear - Reality Management in Culture

Jim Funaro - Science as Play and Play as Science

Jerry Pournelle - Science versus Social Science

11:15-12:00 Workshop: CULTURE BUILDING - Bear, Funaro, Riner

12:15-1:15 Bateson Project: THE CULTURE - Adams, Bear, Bohannan, Funaro, Smith

1:30-3:15 UNIVERSES IN CONTACT

Barbara Joans - The Fast Field Approach Meets the Alien

Bob Tyzzer - Metalegal Principles, Anthropology and Science Fiction

Ben Finney - From Sea To Space

3:30-4:15 Workshop: CONTACT BUILDING - Bohannan, Finney, Pournelle

4:30-5:30 Bateson Project: CONTACT - Brin, Finney, Joans, Riner, Tyzzer

8:00-10:00 HUMAN AS ALIENS: Ethnographic Films

Trobriand Cricket, Les Maitres Fous, Holy Ghost People

Sunday

10:00-12:00 BRUNCH

12:00-2:00 Bateson Project Team: THE CONTACT SCENARIO

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