Context is a friendly convention focused on speculative fiction literature and related games, comics and films.
If you enjoy manga, anime, science fiction, fantasy, or horror, you'll find plenty to entertain you at this convention.
Tanya Huff and Brian Keene are our author GoHs; there will be many other guests.
Context will be held September 26-28, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio, at The Ramada Plaza Hotel & Conference Center.
Our Science Guest of Honor is archaeologist Jeannine Davis-Kimball, who discovered the real-life Amazon warriors. Her research is fascinating, and we're very excited to have her as our guest this year.
Dr. Davis-Kimball works at the Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads. Along with Mona Behan, she authored Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines and edited Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes in the Early Iron Age.
Warrior Women is about female warriors and priestesses of the Iron Age from Ireland to China. As a result of her research, Dr. Davis-Kimball has been featured in on the PBS show Secrets of the Dead and NOVA's "Mysterious Mummies of China" episode. We plan to show these videos at the convention.
The Science and the Future Symposium will feature talks and presentations by a variety of scientists. In the past, the Symposium took place on Friday and Sunday, but this year, we're going to be offering weekend-long science programming.
If you want, you can take a look at the science presentations offered in the past.