CONTACT II
May 4-6, 1984 - Santa Cruz, CA


Friday
Symposium I
Mischa Adams & Devayani Smith - A Map: From ScarCity to SynchroniCity
Bob Tyzzer - Metalaw. Science Fiction and Anthropology
Larry Niven - The Smoke Ring

Symposium II
Reed Riner - Last Years' Alien: A Primer in Xeno-Axiology
C. J. Cherryh- The Majat: Case Study in Alien Creation II
Suzanne Engler & Lu Anne Hudson - A Game of Creation for Anthropologists
Bateson Project, closed session
Bateson Project, open session with audience
Ethnographic Films: Humans as Aliens - Peter Beagle, Phil Slater, Annice Jacobi

Saturday
Symposium III
Richard Johnson - The Role of Man in Space
Jim Funaro - Can We Ever Really Leave Earth? Some MacroEvolutionary Thoughts
Ben Finney - Two Space Cultures: Expansionary Colonizers and Sedentary Listeners

Symposium IV
Charles Urbanowicz - SF/SF or 1984 = .9915042
Jerry Pournelle - Science and Government
Paul Bohannan - Xeno's Paradox, 9850 AD: A Study in "Folk" Lore
Bateson Project, closed session
Bateson Project, open session with audience
Symposium V
Joel Hagen, Pamela Lee, Bill Bryner

Sunday
Bateson Project: Final Session, with audience
The Story of Contact: Storyteller Ruthmarie Arguello-Sheehan and friends

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