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First CONTACT · April 8-10, 1983 · Santa Cruz, CA

DAY 1

10:00-10:30 Welcome/Opening Ceremonies

10:30-12:30 THE SCIENCE FICTION/ANTHROPOLOGY CONNECTION

Reed Riner - "Materialists and Mentalists"

Paul Bohannan - "Premises and Science Fiction"

Larry Niven - "Specifics"

2:00-4:00 SCIENCE FICTION AS CREATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY

Michael Bishop - "Fictional Mirrors of Contemporary Human Societies"

C. J. Cherryh - "Regul: Case Study in Alien Creation"

Mischa Adams & Ruby Rohrlich - "In Search of Utopia: Mavericks and Mythmakers"

4:00-5:30 BATESON PROJECT: Open Session

7:00-9:00 RECEPTION: No Host Bar

9:00-11:00 FILM PROGRAM - Discussants Peter Beagle and Vivian Sobchack

DAY 2

10:00-12:00 MONKEY BODIES AND OTHERS

Robert N. Tyzzer - "Biological Factors in Species Contact"

Richard D. Johnson - "Looking Forward"

Paul Preuss - "Stranger Than We Can Imagine"

1:30-3:30 MONKEY MINDS: THEORY AND METHOD

Jerry Pournelle - "Data and the Voodoo Sciences"

Jim Funaro - "Science and Other Magick"

Charles F. Urbanowicz - "Culture, Anthropology and Science Fiction"

3:30-5:00 BATESON PROJECT: Open Session

DAY 3

10:00-12:00 BRUNCH

12:00-2:00 THE BATESON PROJECT

Major Discussants: Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

"Gamemaster" - C.J. Cherryh

Participants: Darrel Anderson, Michael Bishop, Paul Bohannan, C.J. Cherryh, Jim Funaro, Pamela Lee, Paul Preuss, Joel Hagen