Official LaffCon2 Schedule

June 10th, 2017. LaffCon2. 

9am-10am Arrival & Registration

10am-10:45am: Cookies & Eyes: Character and Plot Development in Fourth Mansions Through Repeated Memes

Featuring Kevin Cheek

Lafferty: “Lately, however, he had been learning to see with other sorts of eyes, with Harvester eyes, with patrick eyes, with falcon eyes, with toad eyes. A man misses so much if he uses only one set of eyes.”

11am-11:45am: Dwelling Places, Fountains, and Serpents: Teresa of Avila in Fourth Mansions

Featuring Gregorio Montejo

Lafferty: “For there are all these obstacles for us to meet and there is also the danger of serpents.”

(Yes, I know this is a Teresa quote, but Lafferty owns it.)

12pm-1pm: Lunch Break -- FREE LUNCH!!!

Lafferty: “The members were eating a hard-times lunch of bloody giant bread and flamed duck.”

1pm-1:45pm: Documenting Lafferty

Featuring Andrew Mass

“The accounts are entrancing, intriguing, adventurous, romantic, and largely fictional.”

2pm-2:45pm: Interpreting Lafferty Visually

Featuring Lissanne Lake, Gregorio Montejo, Anthony Ryan Rhodes, & Yakov Varganov

Lafferty: “Ah, well, what is art, seedling or otherwise?”

3pm-3:45pm: Translation & Reception of Lafferty Outside the States

Featuring Gregorio Montejo, Tairiku Ronin, & Yakov Varganov

Lafferty: “Nutty as a peach tree orchard boar.”

4pm-Closing: Planet-fall: Thieving Bear Planet, Pani Planet, and Our Planet.

Featuring Kevin Cheek, Darrell Schweitzer, and Everyone (open discussion)

Lafferty: “And yet the experience of planet-fall is a daily thing, one that never grows stale.”