Escapade Con

Below is the list of panels that–based on attendee voting–have “made the cut” and will be placed on the main program schedule at Escapade 2018, Also see below over a dozen tech/alt/workshop/other panels or programming items that that will also be scheduled. (In a couple of cases topics were transferred here from the meta track to make sure they would be included)

Emails have gone out to panel mods to confirm their availability and schedule constraints. If you think you’re modding one of these panels below and you haven’t received an email, please let us know right away (info@escapadecon.net).

If a panel you suggested (or were dying to attend) isn’t listed below, never fear! Once the main program schedule is posted, we will be opening up more than 30 hours in the tech/alt/workshop rooms for pre-con sign-up. Priority will be given to panels already voted on, then write-ins and last minute suggestions. Any remaining spots will be available for sign-up during the convention for spontaneous programming. We’ll let you know the logistical details when sign-ups are opened.

General/Meta

• Anonymity in Slash Fandom: Choosing to Hide


• Canon vs. Subtext


• Confronting the Tensions Between Slash and Queer Representation


• Fanvid Feels


• Help! Men Have Ruined Everything I Love


• Literature 101:  Let’s Discuss the Literary Merit of our Fan Fiction


• Living in the Mirrorverse


• Not Gay if it’s a Threeway?


• One Fandom, Many Canons


• Prudery and License from Ancient Times through the Internet Age


• Representing Slashers


• Utopian Fiction Recommendation Party


• What is that Unfamiliar Itch? When You Get the Het


• Where Have All the Good Girls Gone?


• Why Slash?


• Wildcard Panel

Fandom-specific

• Avengers: Infinity War


• Black Panther


• Dresden Files: Not-So-Empty Nights


• due South: Do Slash


• Ghostbusters (2015)


• GotG: Dysfunctional families on crack


• Pros: Domestic Bliss: The Pros at Home


• RPS: The State of Real Person Slash in 2018


• Sentinel: It is still the fandom you knew?


• Sherlock BBC v Holmes ACD: are the fanboys out of control, or is it just modern AU?


• Sherlock: Watson: is He As Dumb As He Looks?


• ST: K/S: Grand-Daddy of Slash–Time to Retire or Time to Reboot & Refresh?


• ST: McCoy: Star Trek’s Man of Mystery


• Stargate: Ten Years On


• Stranger Things: Queerer Things


• SW: A Galaxy without Jedi?!?


• Thor: Ragnarok:  All the meta, all the missing scenes that fangirls love.

Tech/Alt/Vid/Other

• Alternate Slash Card Deck


• Art Show – Gallery Walk


• Book Club


• Escapade: The Website


• Fan/Scholar Meetup


• Fandom Dating Game


• Fandom Tarot Deck


• Future of Publishing


• Game: Slash: Romance without boundaries


• Game Night


• General Fandom Pictionary


• How to GIF


• How to Tumblr


• Longfic Recs Exchange


• Transformative Works in 3D – Crafting Your Fandom

We are still looking for moderators for a number of popular panels.  Without mods, these panels won’t be on the final schedule!

Go here to see which orphan panels have already been claimed and which will not make the cut unless somebody claims them today:

Panels in Need of Mods!

Deadline to step up and claim one of these panels is midnight PST tonight, 1/27!

You have one more day to vote for Escapade panels and volunteer to moderate them! The deadline is midnight PST tomorrow, January 15.

Log in to the website and vote the following ways:

1) button on the home page

2) button on the Panels page

3) your “My Account” dashboard via the “My Panel Suggestions” link

4) via the following link if you are already logged in to the website:

Panel Ballot