| Gaming Atrium 2 |
Art & Comics Atrium 3 |
Hot Dish Atrium 4 |
Literature Atrium 6 |
Science & Technology Atrium 7 |
Hot Dish 2 Atrium 8 |
Movies Bloomington |
TV Edina |
Krushenko's | LL | Mainstage | A/V Plaza 1 |
Sign | Projects Cabana 101 |
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| Thu 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Guests of Honor Photocall | |||||||||||||
| Thu 3:30pm - 4:30pm | Futuretech, Comic Style | CONvergence 101: Surviving a Four-Day Weekend | City as Character | Return of The Satellite of Love? | How to Play Matrix Tag | |||||||||
| Thu 5:00pm - 6:00pm | D&D: 4th Edition | Spectacular Spiderman | Otaku: Your Wacky Anime Neighbors | Emergent Genres And Movements | Ecology of Monsters | Fanzines Invented the Internet | 1.18.08: Marketing of a Film | Doctor Who by Decade: The Sixties | Where Do You Start? | Signing John & Peter | How to Play the Steam Century Mystery LARP | |||
| Thu 6:00pm - 7:00pm | Mark Time Awards | |||||||||||||
| Thu 7:00pm - 8:00pm | Opening Ceremonies | |||||||||||||
| Thu 8:00pm - 11:59pm | Krushenko's Silver Edition Party | |||||||||||||
| Thu 8:00pm - 9:00pm | Video Game Blogs and Podcasts | Censorship in Comics - The Past and Future | Closet Geeks... Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are! | 6 Impossible Things Before Breakfast | Dream Cast | Star Trek: The New Voyages and Beyond | Build Your Own Monster | |||||||
| Thu 9:30pm - 10:30pm | Not all Munchkins Live in Oz | Songwriting and Filking | Smackdown Panel | GLBT SF&F that Everyone Should Read | History of Local Twin Cities Fandom | What are the Most Influential Sci-Fi Films of All Time? | Supernatural: The Panel | Evening Reading with Larry | Design Workshop | Matrix Tag (All Ages) | ||||
| Thu 11:00pm - 11:59pm | Loving the Loathing | Match Game '08 | Slash-Fiction | Backyard Astronomy | Band Geeks! | Fantasy in Chinese Martial Arts Films | Paranormal Investigation as TV Journalism | Thursday Night Bedtime Stories with the 'Pods | ||||||
| Fri 9:30am - 10:30am | Casual vs. Hardcore | History of Manga | The "Geek" as an Ensemble Character | Influence of Joseph Campbell | Growing Up Geek | Thunderbirds are Go! | Morning Reading with Mercedes | Mechanics of an Image 101: Why Does It Work | Flip-Book Animation | |||||
| Fri 11:00am - 12:00pm | Homophobia and Racism in Online Gaming | Titan Tower under Crisis! | Secret Origins of CONvergence | If you walk through the cave entrance, turn to page 27. | Copyright: Ethics in Action? | Land of 10,000 Filmmakers | 3:10 to Serenity Valley | Open Discussion 1 | Animation All-Stars | Signing Robert & Daren | Facepainting and Hairbraiding | |||
| Fri 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Etiquette at the Gaming Table | How Comics Get Made | CONvergence 201: One of Us! One of Us! | Shadow Out of Lovecraft | Gadget Gossip! | How To Be a Geek in the Workplace | Globalization of Hollywood | Anime Essentials 101 aka "The First Hit Is Free!" | Open Discussion 2 | Gosh, Golly, Gee Whiz: Days of Rocket Summer | Superheroes Do Not Obey the Laws of Physics... | Signing Mercedes & Larry | Matrix Tag Special Event | |
| Fri 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Whither OGL? | Gargoyles: The Continuing Saga | Time Management 101: When Did Relaxing Become Stressful? | The Long View: The Future of the High Fantasy Epic | Where's My Flying Car? | Art Show Primer | Which Non-Genre Films Should You See? | Lost | Hulk Panel is Best One at Con! | Dana M. Baird Reading | Theremin Through the Future!. | Signing w/Trace | Paper Airplanes | |
| Fri 3:30pm - 4:30pm | Webkinz World | Costuming 101: Masquerades and Hall Costumes | Reptiles | Writing Folklore and Myth From Different Cultures | Care and Feeding of Your Home Library | Star Wars Prequels: Ten Years On | MST3K: The Local Legacy | Odyssey: Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008 | Afternoon Reading with David | Vidders' Delight | Signing w/ Mark & Bernie | Make Your Own Voodoo Doll | ||
| Fri 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Indie Games | Doll Making and Doll Collecting | Imperfect Heroes | Writing Contest Recpeption | How Do You Say That in Klingon? | Prop Building | July '07 - July '08 Films: Annual Review | Doctor Who by Decade: The Seventies | Twin Cities Speculative Fiction Writers Network Meeting | Art of Soundtracks | Signing w/ Wally & Greg | Steam Century Mystery LARP | ||
| Fri 6:30pm - 7:30pm | Game Design | Give those Nymphs Some Hooters: Anniversary Edition | Cell vs. Chip | Getting Published 101 | Digital Distribution Debate | Where to Shop? | Film Remakes: Exhuming the Past? | Doctor Who: Series Four | Joel Arnold Reading | Digital Video Production | Signing w/Mark & Marv | |||
| Fri 8:00pm - 2:00am | Tales of the Unanticipated Not-a-Publication Party | |||||||||||||
| Fri 8:00pm - 9:00pm | I Can Has Fluidic Beverage? | GLBT Comic Characters | Beyond "Weekend Update" | Philip Pullman - The Anti-Narnia | Martial Arts Demonstration | Trek on Film | Heroes: Volume Two | Local Filmmaker Film Clips | ||||||
| Fri 9:30pm - 10:30pm | Web Comics | Geek Speed Dating | Managing the Mega-Series | Dangerous Days: Dystopias | Torchwood | Star Trek Remastered | ||||||||
| Fri 9:30pm - 2:00am | Late Night Accoustic Music (Friday) | |||||||||||||
| Fri 11:00pm - 11:59pm | Sophisticated Sewing | The Pun-El | Guilty Pleasures | How to Take Over the World! | Sci-fi Saturdays | Rebirth of the Heroine | Friday Night Bedtime Stories with the 'Pods | Soylent Blue | ||||||
| Sat 9:30am - 10:30am | Drawing with Christopher Jones | Aerobics with Cleo | Young Adult Literature | Saturday Morning Cartoons Made Me Gay! | Art of Movie Posters | |||||||||
| Sat 11:00am - 12:00pm | Wii: The Changing Face of Gaming | Working in Comics | Return of the Clubs! | Living with a Writer | Parrots as Companions | High Level Creativity | Blurring of the Lines | Renaissance of Buffy & Angel | Open Discussion 3 | Michael Merriam Reading | Shiny New Anime | Signing w/ Len & Bernie | Science! | |
| Sat 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Women and Gaming | Secret Origins of Swamp Thing | Morris Dance Workshop | The Works of Mercedes Lackey | Not All FTL Drives Are Made the Same | Evolution of Social Networking | Pixar Panel | To Boldly Go: The History and Future of Star Trek | Writing Business: Cover letters, manuscripts, and rejections | Podcasting | Signing w/ Trace B. | Origami | ||
| Sat 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Corset-making | Puppetry! | Legion of the All-Stars | The Green Panel | Caring For Your Collection | Trilogy Limitations: What happened to the franchise? | Battlestar Galactica: Legacy | The Works of David Weber | Wonder Twin Science Powers Activate! | Reaper Miniature Demonstration | ||||
| Sat 3:30pm - 4:30pm | Console Wars II: The Sequel | Non-Superhero Comic Books | What Does Franchise Continuity Mean to You? | Influence of Classic Lit | Engineering Hollywood Robots | Fun Tai Chi Games for All Ages | Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Reimagining of TV Shows | Where Should We Go in Space? | Broad Universe Rapidfire Reading | Science of Effects | Signing w/Peter & John | Scrapbooking | |
| Sat 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Kovalic! | CLAMP | Raptor Center | The Good, the Bad, and the *SHUSH*! | Moonshot in '69: Wha' Happened? | Here Be Dragons... | Spoiler Alert: The Rumor Mill | Doctor Who by Decade: The Eighties | SF Writing Groups: The 2008 Scene | Ten Years with Connie: The Art of CONvergence | Signing w/David | Caped Wonder! | ||
| Sat 6:30pm - 9:00pm | Sci-Fi Summit: The Mega-Panel | |||||||||||||
| Sat 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Masqurade | |||||||||||||
| Sat 8:00pm - 2:00am | A Party for Readers and Viewers: The Silver Edition | |||||||||||||
| Sat 9:00pm - 11:30pm | Art Auction | |||||||||||||
| Sat 9:30pm - 10:30pm | Previously... in the Whedon-verse | Speculative Fiction and Sexuality | Biology of Aliens | Overuse of Iconic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Imagery? | Comics as Movies | Pushing Daisies | Matrix Tag (14 and Up) | |||||||
| Sat 9:30pm - 2:00am | Late Night Accoustic Music (Saturday) | |||||||||||||
| Sat 11:00pm - 11:59pm | Comics for Mature Audiences | Urban Fantasy | Cool Britannia | Saturday Night Bedtime Stories with the 'Pods | Killer B's Improv Movie Show | |||||||||
| Sun 9:30am - 10:30am | Game Mastering | Crafty Geek Meet Up | Kenpo Martial Arts | Hogwarts Graduation! | Yes Virginia, There Are Still Radio Hams! | In Through the Out Door: A History of Special Effects | Sarah Jane Adventures | Storytime | ||||||
| Sun 11:00am - 12:00pm | Local Gaming | Comics Through Their Ages | Anime: An Industry on the Brink | Sci-Fi and Fantasy Essentials | Current State of A.I. | Bollywood Sci-fi | I Miss You Cupcake! | Chick Flicks: A Confessional | Kelly McCullough Reading | Iron Artist | Signing w/Andrew & David | |||
| Sun 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Thrown a Controller or Manual Across the Room Lately? | Material Adaptation | Are Social Subcultures in Fandom Still Relevant? | Subverting Tropes | Weaponry of Star Trek | Star Wars with Peter Mayhew | The Venture Bros. | Gold Knight: The Lives of Iron Man | Geeks Read Panel | Signing w/ Larry & Mercedes | ||||
| Sun 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Everything Old is New Again | Women and Comic Books | At-Con Post Mortem | Books You've Thrown Across the Room! | Mythbusting! | Doctor Who by Decade: The Nineties | Specters, Shades and Ectoplasm | Karl Wolff Reading | Signing w/Dr. Jim & Greg | |||||
| Sun 3:30pm - 4:30pm | Are You Ready to Rock? | DC and Marvel Updates | Making The "Year-Round" Convention a Reality | Meet a Librarian! | Ultimate Home Theatre | TV Shows on DVD: Season Seven | Lizards, Reptiles, and Amphibians in Fact, Folklore, Fiction, and Film | Signing w/ Marv, Bernie, & Len | ||||||
| Sun 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Closing Ceremonies | |||||||||||||
| Sun 7:30pm - 1:30am | Diversicon Party | |||||||||||||
| Mon 12:00am - 1:00am | Michael Sheard Five Day Memorial Panel |
Unscheduled Panels:
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