Boston 2007
National PCA/ACA Conference
April 4-7, 2007
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-2007):
A Century of Infinite Possibilities
Heinlein Studies I
Chair: Pete McCluskey,
Middle Tennessee State Univ.
Swiftian Echoes in Heinlein: Two Studies
Chris Brooks,
Wichita State University
Civil Disobedience Ad Astra:
Jefferson and Thoreau's Influence
on Robert Heinlein
Robert James,
West Los Angeles College
The Wife of Bath and the Man from Mars:
An Overview of Classic Literary Allusions
in Select Heinlein Works
Lisa D'Amico,
Wichita State University
'Ipse Dixit': Literary Allusion in Heinlein's Juveniles
Pete McCluskey, Middle Tennessee State University
Heinlein Studies II
Chair: Michael Kagan, Le Moyne College
Variable Star: The Collaboration
Marie Guthrie,
Western Kentucky University
Vedantic Anomalies and Arabic and
Hebrew Names in Stranger In a Strange Land
Michael Kagan,
Le Moyne College
‘Kill ’em all!’:
Starship Troopers and the Critical Stomach
Shane Rasmussen,
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Beyond Hypothesis: Thinking about the
Future from Heinlein to de Bono
John L. Quel,
Independent Scholar
Heinlein Studies III: Roundtable:
The Significance of the Heinlein
Centennial
Moderator: Bill Patterson,
Heinlein Biographer
Heinlein Studies IV
Chair: Bill Patterson,
Heinlein Biographer
Adult Heinlein and the Anthropological Imagination
Chris Leslie,
The Polytechnic University
Leadership and the Characters of Robert Heinlein
Rodger Oren,
Macon State College
Art and Rule in Job and 'Jonathan Hoag'
C. Herbert Gilliland,
U.S. Naval Academy
Robert A. Heinlein: Centennial Man
Bill Patterson,
Independent Scholar
Later that night . . .
Robert James, MIchal Kagan,
Marie Guthrie and Herb Gilliland at
dinner