Skepticon would like to apologize to Concerned Student 1950, our attendees, and others affected by recent events at the University of Missouri. We hosted an event over lunch today that was billed as a onstage interview and audience Q&A with Mark Schierbecker about his clash with protestors. The release we Read more…
Hello Skepticoners! Today’s the day! We here at Skepticon HQ have recently (as in the past 12 hours) gotten the opportunity to add a super special session on top of our programming this year. Here is the Press Release for all the details: Springfield, Missouri—Skepticon, the annual skeptic & atheist Read more…
Hello, all! Due to a family emergency, workshopper extraordinaire Lucien Greaves will be skyping in at 5pm rather than hosting a workshop in person at 11am. It will still be hosted in the Coco room. We’ve updated our schedule on lanyrd with the changes. Here’s more about Lucien: “Lucien Greaves Read more…
Skeptiladies and gents, it’s time to reveal the winner of our “Room Upgrade” contest: Steven Solomon!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS, STEVEN! You now get to live like royalty for the weekend in the Executive Suite of the Ramada Oasis Hotel! We’ve already requested that the Ramada change over your room, but please let Read more…
Skepticontown! Due to a group activists, it has come to our attention that our Color Communication Badge system we were planning to use is not sensitive to those with Red/Green color blindness. We have since updated our policy to reflect that, here are the changes: Showing a green sticker means that Read more…
Skepticonville! We’re happy to announce that Skepticon 8’s workshop schedule is now ready! Click here to see our updated schedule on lanyrd! Thank you to all of our awesome workshoppers who are going to make this year great. Special thanks to the ladies over at Secular Women Work Conference who Read more…
Hello Skepticontown! There are less than two weeks left to pre-register for Skepticon 8 to get these sweet perks: Check in faster! Each Skepticon attendee must register with us to participate Make the organizers excited you’re coming! We see every name that registers and squee over each and every one (true Read more…
Skepticoners! We are beyond excited to announce that we will be screening Thunderdome: Face Your Fears, Build Your Dreams on Friday, November 13th at 2pm on the main stage at Skepticon! Thunderdome is a feature length documentary that follows the true story of Rob Lehr, a man haunted by death who Read more…
Hello Skepticonville! We’re going to be doing something a little bit different for Fallon Fox’s talk this year at Skepticon 8, we’re going to do it Q&A style! In order to get the most questions in possible, we’re going to go ahead and solicit some now. Go ahead fill out the Read more…
Skeptionites, Every year, we do our darndest to make sure that our convention is as welcoming to as many people as possible. This year, we’ve upped the ante! Here’s a full run down of the new features we will have at SK8 to make the weekend more awesome for all: Read more…