UPDATE May 19, 2026: PANELS CLOSED! The Panels Team has now finalized the schedule!
We need panelists and panel moderators!
On May 19, the WisCon Panels team will pare down the schedule based on what we have not been able to staff. That means, we need you to get the word out to all the cool people to come be part of this con and make it awesome.
Please email Panels@WisCon.sf3.org if you are able to participate! Also, get a Your WisCon Account so we can match you to your chosen panel!
We are particularly in need for people on the following:
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- Anarchist Tech (panelists and moderator needed) **This panel will be cut if we do not get at least one more volunteer**
- How Not to Do Copaganda (panelists needed; attendees who have studied the topic with an ACAB focus only)
- The Social Media Landscape: It’s Bleak! (panelists needed)
- What SpecFic Says about Resistance and Mutual Aid (panelists needed)
- You Got That Wrong (your expertise done wrong in fiction) (panelists needed)
- Premee Mohamed: Queering the Apocalypse (panelist needed)
- Horror in Color (additional fan panelist of color needed)
- Fantasy ER (panelists with medical background needed)
- Intro to Speculative Fiction in Translation (panelists needed)
- GoH Panel: Climate Change & Climate Fiction (moderator role open)
Filled:
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General Strike! (moderator & panelists who have studied the topic needed)FILLED!Where Are All the Asexual Voices (moderator needed; Ace-spectrum mod preferred)FILLED!Stepladder Speculative Feminism (moderator needed, panelists optional)FILLED!Liminal Spaces in Speculative Fiction (moderator needed)FILLED!Gender Neutrality In Gendered Languages (panelists needed; speakers of languages with grammatical genders only)FILLED!Androids and Cyborgs and Robots, Oh My! (science fiction vs. reality) (panelists needed)FILLED!The Man Wants You to Drink the GenAI Kool-Aid (mod needed, panelists optional)FILLED!Self-Publishing While Avoiding Kindle Unlimited (panelists neeeded)FILLED!Writing and Publishing in a Post-Microsoft World (panelists needed)FILLED!NEWCaremongering (panelists needed)Gender Diversity in D&D (mod needed)FILLED!!Darcie Little Badger: Multicultural Magic (panelists needed)FILLED!!Bug/Insect Tropes in Speculative Fiction (mod needed)FILLED!!Nested Storytelling(especially in GoH works; panelists needed) FILLED!!NEW Our Dreaded TBR Piles (roundtable, mod only)FILLED!!NEW The Impact of Good Representation (disabled panelists, queer panelists, & panelists of color especially)FILLED!!NEW Modes of Queerness in The Summer Hikaru Died (fan panelists)FILLED!NEW My Favorite Book When I Was Twelve (how did it hold up?) (panelists)FILLED!NEW Heated Rivalry and Other LGBTQI+ Sports Stories (queer fan panelists)FILLED!NEW Wicked From Page to Stage to Screen (fan panelists of any version)FILLED!Stand or Fall Together: Coop Games (can be roundtable, fan panelists optional)FILLED!!Liminal Spaces in Speculative Fiction (compared to myth) (panelists needed)FILLED!NEW Were the Luddites Right? (moderator needed)FILLED!
- In Your WisCon Account, you may also sign up to be a general substitute in case others can’t be on panels. Go to Participant View and select Yes from the drop-down menu next to “Do you want to be a panelist and/or moderator?” on the landing page.This list is subject to change as some panelists join and other panelists’ schedules change.
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