In 2001 the Campbell Conference will be held July 7-8, as the concluding event of the Writers Workshop in Science Fiction and the beginning of the Intensive English Institute on the Teaching of Science Fiction. The Conference takes place around a large conference table in the University's Alumni Center, with free-form discussion of a single topic. Frederik Pohl will be present, as usual, and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Hull, past president of the Science Fiction Research Association and a Campbell Award juror, and perhaps other jurors as well as the Award winners and Hall of Fame inductees if arrangements can be made for them to attend. The awards will be presented at a dinner in the Alumni Center on Friday, July 6, and the winners, and other writers present, will have an opportunity to discuss their methods and current projects at an informal session the following morning. Lawrence in the Summer Lawrence, the location of the University of Kansas, is a pleasant college town of about 90,000 situated forty miles from Kansas City and twenty miles from Topeka.
Summers can be hot, but all classrooms and housing are air-conditioned.
Sports and recreational facilities are nearby. The nearest major airport is Kansas City International, about 55 miles from Lawrence. The west interchange is closer to the campus.