Readercon 2009

So, What's New? 
Paolo Bacigalupi, M. M. Buckner, Helen Collins,
Warren Lapine, Jean-Louis Trudel (L)

The Genre Roots of the Mainstream Tradition in American Fiction.  C. C.
Finlay with discussion by Michael A. Burstein, Helen Collins,
F. Brett Cox, Debra Doyle, Chris Nakashima-Brown

Mind From Matter: How Body Structure Shapes Intelligence. 
Helen Collins
The origin and nature of intelligence is a hot topic among both
Neuroscientists and sf writers and appears surprisingly often in pop
Culture.  Sf writers have speculated on how variations and differences in
Physical structure necessitate different perceptions of external and
Internal realities, which, in turn, determine "intelligence."  Collins
will discuss examples from classic and current sf, including works by Mary
Doria Russell, Octavia E. Butler, David Brin, and Joan Slonczewski, and
Her own novels Mutagenesis and NeuroGenesis, where these speculations
Constitute a major theme.

Broad Universe Group Reading
Inanna Arthen (host) with Helen Collins, Elaine Isaak,
Shira Lipkin, Jennifer Pelland, Joselle Vanderhooft

Altered Minds, Damaged Voices. 
John Clute, Helen Collins, Elizabeth Hand,
Barry B. Longyear, David G. Shaw (M), Howard Waldrop

Stony Brook University, NY

Pursuing Perfection: The Art of Revision:
from tinkering to practically re-writing the whole story
Doyle(M), Durst, Henriksen, Collins, Delmater

I Am Not My Character… or Am I?
How much of the writer’s life, experiences
and opinions turn up in characters?
Collins(M), Castro, Parris, Freedman, Lang

SF Kaleidoscope: SF as a Lens on the Past and Future
Bacigalupi(M), Malzberg, Collins, Kyle, Videbaek

The Use of Animals in SF
Emshwiller, Gordon(M), Collins

9/9/07
Books, Brushes, Jazz & Blues Festival
New London, CT
Reading NeuroGenesis

4/19/96
Northeast Modern Language Association
ML Studies panel session, paper "The Alternate Woman"

6/23/96
Science Fiction Research Association
Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA
Panel discussion: "World-building and alien-building"

8/6/95
East End Gay Organizaton, Authors' Day
East Hampton, NY
Reading Mutagenesis

9/29/93
Chamber's Street Bookstore Manhattan, NY
Reading and signing

7/22/93
"The Friends of the Library" - Long Beach, NY
Reading and talk: Genetic engineering and the clash of cultures

6/17/93
S/S Tribune - Samantha Kinsley

5/18/'93
NCC - Nassau Community College
"Here Be Dragons: Mapping The Structure of Life"
Colloquium theme: Genetic Engineering
Talk: The Science in Fiction"

5/4/93
NCC - Creative Writing Project - Reading

4/14/93
NCC - College Union Ballroom
Reading and Talk:
Genetics, surrogate motherhood, gender manipulation

3/27/84
NCC - Liberal Arts Lobby
Lecture: The relationship of Orwell's 1984 to the
dystopian tradition in Science Fiction

10/15/83
Contradiction 3, Niagara Falls, NY
Talk: The Cooperative Vision: Communes in Science Fiction

Feb/Mar 1983
Communities/journal of cooperation
"The Cooperative Vision in Science Fiction"

7/26/79
NCC - "Faculty Forum" WMPC-FM college radio lecture

Spring 1976
Nassau Review
"The Nature and Power of Hawthorne's Women as
Seen Through A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales."

"Science Fiction: Ursula LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness"