March 2023 Quick Flashback: San Diego Who Con 2022 Post 3

Delores Fisher at San Diego Who Con 2021 (Photo permission by photographer)

Convention season is starting here in San Diego California. Downtown stores, restaurants, art galleries, and conference rooms will serve thousands of in-person conventioneers this summer! Add to that the ZOOM workshops, breakout sessions, podcasts and webinars, and it almost seems ai if business is back to pre-COVID heights. ALMOST....but-we'll talk about that at a later date. One of the smaller conventions that has returned to in-person attendance and continues to expand is the San Diego Dr. Who Convention.

San Diego Who Con is really fun and informative for fans of hard science presentations as well as the soft and speculative. Anything that has to do with dimensional explorations, robots, and time travel for an Afrofuturist like me, has got to be fun.

San Diego Who Con 2022 photo by delores fisher

Of course, I still have Dalek issues and wow, this display really sent me thinking about future convention presentations to explore current highly controversial scholarly and popular discussions centering around the possibilities of AI sentient consciousness, androids, and cyborgs.

Dalek San Diego Who Con 2022 Photo by Delores Fisher

Which reminds me, I gotta read "The Dalek book." According to Good Reads, this book about Daleks was published in 1964 by Terry Nation, David Whittaker, and illustrated by Richard Jennings, John Woods and A. B. Cornwell.1

"The Dalek Book" from 1964 also includes a comics section and we all know my ongoing engagement with graphic artists and comic studies. https://comics.sdsu.edu/people

And of course, cosplayers always liven up atmosphere and the panel discussions at San Diego's Dr. Who Convention. Here's only a few.

San Diego Who Con 2022 River Song Cosplayer photo by delores fisher

San Diego Who Con 2022 Staff Cosplayer photo by delores fisher

San Diego Who Con 2022 4th Dr Who cosplayer photo by delores fisher

Aeion Solar and my presentations/discussions continued to be very much fan oriented in 2022 with select examinations of social issues of race, gender, agism, political dynamics of who controls corporeal existence as well as personal and global narratives, aspects of music on a multi-planar aesthetics and functionality, and the spiritual/philosophical/ implications of time, dimension, and space.

Hope to meet you at various conventions and workshops in the coming months.

delores fisher

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1. Several other books were published in the David Nation series. And recently, renewed interest in the Daleks has resulted in additional sources that discuss the history of Dalek creation as well as their importance to the Dr. Who series.

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