Category Archives: Conferences

Transmedia narrative and zombies

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

While the Capitalist Superheroes book launch has basically overshadowed everything else in recent weeks, life quite obviously does still go on, and so does research. Having undertaken the effort to rebrand myself as “the zombie guy” in an almost certainly pointless attempt … Continue reading →

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Upcoming lecture events

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

Since the start of the new semester last week, I’ve been a little too busy for substantial updates to the blog of late, but I’ll pass on the news at least that I have two lectures on superheroes coming up … Continue reading →

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NECS 2011: Fun around London Town

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

This year’s European Network of Cinema Studies (NECS) conference -my first- was great fun, taking place at three (!) college campuses around central London: King’s College, Birkbeck, and Regent’s College. As much walking as this entailed, it was good to … Continue reading →

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Synecdoche: just say it!

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

I’m heading off to London later today for the annual NECS conference, where I’ll give a paper on Synecdoche, New York, one of my all-time favorite films. A surprising number of people I talk to aren’t quite sure how to … Continue reading →

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San Antonio’s Walking Dead

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

With the flurry of excitement and press coverage that accompanied my recent PhD defense now finally a thing of the past, the repeated promise of more frequent blog updates is now frustrated by the upcoming conference papers I have committed … Continue reading →

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Yale conference – the rest

Posted on February 24, 2009 by

A long-overdue update following the terrific ‘Politics of Superheroes’ conference I attended at Yale a few weeks ago. All the start-of-semester activity got the better of me since my return, and robbed the planned update to this blog of some … Continue reading →

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Yale conference – day 1

Posted on January 31, 2009 by

So the first day of the graduate conference at Yale mostly lived up to my high expectations: most papers that were presented during the two longish panels this morning and this afternoon were solid efforts, with a few standout contributions, … Continue reading →

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Superheroes @ Yale

Posted on November 30, 2008 by

Meanwhile, our main news item for this month is the announcement of a graduate symposium on post-9/11 superhero movies organized by Yale University’s Film Studies department. The deadline for the Call for Papers is December 19th, and I certainly plan … Continue reading →

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Lecture report

Posted on May 30, 2008 by

My lecture at the Jewish Historical Museum last night went very well, with 70-80 people crowding into the modest basement auditorium, where the heat was unrelenting, and where I tried my best to pack as much information and insight as … Continue reading →

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