Non-Academic Events

Past Events

Dublin2019 Kaffeeklatsch

Convention Centre Dublin (CCD) — 17:00 to 17:50

Level 3 Foyer (KK/LB) (CCD)   Follow DUBLIN 2019 – AN IRISH WORLDCON, THE 77TH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION August 15-19 (@Dublin2019)  

15 Aug
2019

Guest of Honor at Chessiecon 2017

Radisson North Baltimore Hotel

A delightful Baltimore-area science fiction & fantasy convention not far from my home town of Annapolis!

24 Nov
2017

Worldcon 75 in Helsinki

Helsinki, Finland

I will be attending the 2017 Worldcon!  I expect to have a “Sassafrass: Trickster & King” concert with Lauren Schiller, as well as panels.

9 Aug
2017

Reception Histories of the Future

Uppsala University, Sweden

Conference on Byzantinisms, Speculative Fiction, and the Literary Heritage of Medieval Empire, organized by the joint Paris-Uppsala Text and Narrative in Byzantium Collaborative Research Network

4 Aug
2017

Guest at Balticon

202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202

Always excited to return to my childhood home convention of Balticon, this time for writing panels and a Sassafrass concert!

25 May
2017

Guest of Honor at Penguicon

1500 Town Center Southfield, MI. 48075

Penguicon is an”Open Source” Science Fiction Convention full of amazing creators & copyright activists. Looking forward to discussing my project on the history of censorship and information control!

28 Apr
2017

Launch Event for “Seven Surrenders”

57th Street Books, Hyde Park, Chicago — 6:00 PM

A public launch celebration for “Seven Surrenders” featuring a dialog between myself and the excellent scholar/critic David M. Perry, hosted at 57th Street Books in Hyde Park, here in Chicago.

7 Mar
2017

Neighborhoods of the World Italian Festival

Navy Pier, Chicago — 12:00 to 2 PM

I will do a hands-on presentation on the history of printing at the Italy festival on Chicago’s Navy Pier, featuring real examples of antique books and manuscripts that you can touch […]

5 Mar
2017

Boskone 2017

Westin Waterfront Hotel, Boston

Boskone 2017 in Boston, including a half-hour “Sassafrass: Trickster & King” concert with Lauren Schiller, and panels including “Why Libraries are (Still) Important,” “Poetry and Performance,” “Words Have More Than […]

17 Feb
2017

"Warm, generous, and inviting," Inventing the Renaissance provides a witty and irreverent journey through the fantasies historians have constructed about the supposed Dark Ages and golden Renaissance, and exposes the terrible yet often tender reality beneath.