Hey guys, I wanted to let you know about a cool event I heard about - NavyCon! This seems something that you guys would be interested in!
Details are below:
NAVYCON 2020 -- 04 June 2020, 7pm EDT
"Navies, Science Fiction, and Great Power Competition"
1) HOW TO REGISTER:
To register for NavyCon 2020, click on the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NHqSgd5ZREaEfW4FI9IemQ
2) PRESENTERS & TOPICS
CDR B.J. Armstrong, USN, PhD
Associate Chair, Department of History, U.S. Naval Academy
"Recognition of the Anniversary of the Battle of Midway"
Opening remarks:
CDR Claude Berube, USNR, PhD
Director, US Naval Academy Museum
"The Federation's Response to Coppelius in 'Star Trek: Picard'"
Keynote: Major General Mick Ryan
Commander, Australian Defence College
"Science Fiction and its Utility for the National Security Community"
Colonel Cory Hollon, US Air Force
"The Kaiju Should Have Won: Force Deployment and Strategy in Pacific
Rim"
Message from Dr. Kori Schake,
Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise
Institute
August Cole, co-author of "Ghost Fleet" and "Burn-In"
"When A Robot Has The Helm"
Jennifer Marland, Curator
NSWC-Carderock
"A Navy is Essential for your Planet: Wars Between Barrayar and
Cetaganda in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosiverse"
Message from CDR Salamander, navy blogger and co-host of Midrats
Clara Engle
Department of Commerce
"Babylon 5 and International Relations Theory"
Randy Papadopoulos, PhD
Historian for the Secretary of the Navy
"Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Why Space Warfare will be about
Fleets"
Message from Hugh Hewitt
Major Thomas Harper, USAR, JAG
"It's a Trap! The Intersection of the Battle of Endor & the Law of Armed
Conflict"
Captain Jonathan Bratten, USANG, Command Historian/Maine National Guard
"Perils of Joint Command: Imperial Disaster at Endor"
[[Message from NASA Astronaut LT Kayla Barron, USN, Naval Academy Class
of 2010]]
Ian Boley, Texas A&M
"Sidewinders, Sunbeams, and Negaspheres: Skunkworks and Rapid Innovation
in the Lensman Series."
[[Message from Star Trek: Deep Space 9 actor JG Hertzler]]
CAPT Jerry Hendrix, USN (Ret), PhD
Vice President, The Telemus Group
"Honorverse: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Weapons Development
Board"
Message from Congressman Mike Gallagher
David Larter
Reporter, Defense News
"Alien and the Operators"
CAPT Mark Vandroff, USN (Ret), Deputy Assistant to the President &
Senior Director for Defense Policy, National Security Council
"Engineering for Great Power Competition"
Message from science fiction author David Weber
Christopher Weuve
"Aircraft Carriers in Space!"
CDR Phil Pournelle, USN (Ret)
"Traveler's Trillion Credit Squadron Game and Future Fleet Architecture"
Closing - Claude Berube
Details are below:
NAVYCON 2020 -- 04 June 2020, 7pm EDT
"Navies, Science Fiction, and Great Power Competition"
1) HOW TO REGISTER:
To register for NavyCon 2020, click on the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NHqSgd5ZREaEfW4FI9IemQ
2) PRESENTERS & TOPICS
CDR B.J. Armstrong, USN, PhD
Associate Chair, Department of History, U.S. Naval Academy
"Recognition of the Anniversary of the Battle of Midway"
Opening remarks:
CDR Claude Berube, USNR, PhD
Director, US Naval Academy Museum
"The Federation's Response to Coppelius in 'Star Trek: Picard'"
Keynote: Major General Mick Ryan
Commander, Australian Defence College
"Science Fiction and its Utility for the National Security Community"
Colonel Cory Hollon, US Air Force
"The Kaiju Should Have Won: Force Deployment and Strategy in Pacific
Rim"
Message from Dr. Kori Schake,
Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise
Institute
August Cole, co-author of "Ghost Fleet" and "Burn-In"
"When A Robot Has The Helm"
Jennifer Marland, Curator
NSWC-Carderock
"A Navy is Essential for your Planet: Wars Between Barrayar and
Cetaganda in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosiverse"
Message from CDR Salamander, navy blogger and co-host of Midrats
Clara Engle
Department of Commerce
"Babylon 5 and International Relations Theory"
Randy Papadopoulos, PhD
Historian for the Secretary of the Navy
"Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Why Space Warfare will be about
Fleets"
Message from Hugh Hewitt
Major Thomas Harper, USAR, JAG
"It's a Trap! The Intersection of the Battle of Endor & the Law of Armed
Conflict"
Captain Jonathan Bratten, USANG, Command Historian/Maine National Guard
"Perils of Joint Command: Imperial Disaster at Endor"
[[Message from NASA Astronaut LT Kayla Barron, USN, Naval Academy Class
of 2010]]
Ian Boley, Texas A&M
"Sidewinders, Sunbeams, and Negaspheres: Skunkworks and Rapid Innovation
in the Lensman Series."
[[Message from Star Trek: Deep Space 9 actor JG Hertzler]]
CAPT Jerry Hendrix, USN (Ret), PhD
Vice President, The Telemus Group
"Honorverse: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Weapons Development
Board"
Message from Congressman Mike Gallagher
David Larter
Reporter, Defense News
"Alien and the Operators"
CAPT Mark Vandroff, USN (Ret), Deputy Assistant to the President &
Senior Director for Defense Policy, National Security Council
"Engineering for Great Power Competition"
Message from science fiction author David Weber
Christopher Weuve
"Aircraft Carriers in Space!"
CDR Phil Pournelle, USN (Ret)
"Traveler's Trillion Credit Squadron Game and Future Fleet Architecture"
Closing - Claude Berube
