{"id":155,"date":"2026-06-02T16:27:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/?p=155"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:27:49","slug":"women-in-science-fiction-and-fantasy-navigating-gender-and-genre-conference-at-newcastle-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/06\/02\/women-in-science-fiction-and-fantasy-navigating-gender-and-genre-conference-at-newcastle-university\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Navigating Gender and Genre&#8217; conference\u00a0at Newcastle University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NUCUSP members will be taking part in a roundtable at next week&#8217;s conference on Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Roundtable on <em>Gender and Genre Beyond Literary Studies<\/em>, will be chaired by Stacy Gillis, and will feature Aislinn Fanning (Newcastle), Lisa Garforth (Newcastle) &amp; Nikki Godden-Rasul (Newcastle)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dates:\u00a0<\/strong>June 11-12th 2026<br><strong>Location<\/strong>: Percy Building, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU<br><strong>Contact<\/strong>: sciencefictionfantasyncl@gmail.com\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organisers<\/strong>: Abi Hockaday &amp; Aparna Sivsankar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy (SFF) continue to offer new ways of considering the relationships between gender and genre. This conference is interested in how women &#8211; writers, characters, fans &#8211; use, negotiate, and operate SFF.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1d4ZwbWNjj4wq5RMw_2pQRdCBBkG6UXIX\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=117811368784136066313&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\">The programme is available here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NUCUSP members will be taking part in a roundtable at next week&#8217;s conference on Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy. The Roundtable on Gender and Genre Beyond Literary Studies, will be chaired by Stacy Gillis, and will feature Aislinn Fanning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/06\/02\/women-in-science-fiction-and-fantasy-navigating-gender-and-genre-conference-at-newcastle-university\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}