Rod Serling Conference

Translating theTwilight Zone: Recent Photography by Allie Ellis

Walking Distance

A series of black and white photographs offering a personal exploration of nine episodes of Rod Serling'sTwilight Zone; this exhibit will be located in the Handwerker Gallery.

Speakers are listed in alphabetical order. A complete schedule with times and descriptions will be available soon.

Conference Sessions

• War and Remembrance: Examining the Impact of War on Rod Serling’s Life and Work
  Tony Albarella
• Stark Humanity: Serling’s “Requiem for a Heavyweight”
  Barbara Audet
• What Goes Around: Comeuppance and Schadenfreude in The Twilight Zone
  Jeffrey J. Bianchine
• From Serling to Simpson
  Diana DePasquale
• Early Attempts at Science-Fiction and Fantasy
  Amy E. Boyle Johnston
• Don’t Assume the Current Norm Shall Be Your Norm
  John Keshishoglou
• “It’s a Cookbook!” Gender Anxieties in The Twilight Zone’s “To Serve Man”
  Adam Knee
• Adapting The Twilight Zone to Graphic Novel
  Mark Kneece
• How Parenting Is Represented in The Twilight Zone
  Douglas C. MacLeod Jr.
• Speak Your Mind
  Patricia Dawn MacLeod
• Underneath the Mask: Using Rod Serling’s “Eye of the Beholder” to Teach about Appearance versus Reality
  Timothy J. Madigan
• The Symbiosis of Rod Serling and Charles Beaumont
  Keith Muchowski
• Surviving The Twilight Zone: An Alternate Reality with Alternate Rules
  Samuel B. Prime and Dave Stinton-Czuprynski
• Divining Rod: Illumination and the Twilight Zone Experience
  Richard Rees
• Second Chances: Rod Serling, Redrafting, and Adaptation
  Andrew T. Smith
• Time Enough at Last: A Few Considerations on the Human Condition
  Ed Uszynski
• The Twilight Zone on Videotape: Is the Medium the Message?
  Gordon C. Webb
• Scriptwriting Competition Winners Panel
  Excerpts from this year's winning scripts will be read and discussed by some of the winning writers and members of the judge's panel.

Dinner Program

• Paying Homage: The Twilight Zone in Popular Media
  Ari Kissiloff

Bus Trip to Binghamton (Saturday)
Bus will leave from north entrance of Park Hall at noon and return at approximately 5:00 p.m. A walking/trolley tour of Serling sites, including the Forum Theatre at the Broome Center’s display of Day of a Playwright; the Binghamton High School’s Rod Serling School of the Arts, which will present a special gallery display; Serling’s boyhood home on Binghamton’s west side; a stop at the downtown Metro Center’s walk of fame; and a final visit to Recreation Park, the inspiration for The Twilight Zone episode “Walking Distance,” where visitors will have a chance to see the Serling Pavilion and ride the carousel while continuous viewings of “Walking Distance” will run throughout the day on large television monitors. Bus will feature video presentation:

• TZ or Not TZ: Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Soliloquies
  Steve Schlich