The theme for this year’s event is Intelligences. For centuries, scientific discourses and speculative genres have used an array of assumptions about intelligence and sentience to create hierarchies of species, races, genders, and cultures. Speculative genres have also proven to be especially powerful in challenging these assumptions and hierarchies. Intelligence has served in stories to justify expropriating resources, to argue for equal rights, and to warn about threatening creations such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

The organizers welcome proposals for 12- to 15-minute presentations on intelligences in speculative genres of any medium (including art, music, comics, games, television, film, and literature). In keeping with the tradition of EagleCon, we also welcome proposals for 12- to 15-minute presentations on any aspect of diversity in speculative genres across media. In addition to proposals for individual presentations, we will consider proposals for panels of two to four people.