Tag Archives: Conferences

Transmedia narrative and zombies

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Dan Hassler-Forest

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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The Dude goes to Istanbul

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Dan Hassler-Forest

I’m off to Constantinople for the next few days to give a paper on the two film adaptations of Charles Portis’s novel True Grit, the first of which somehow made the novel seem less literary, while the more recent Coen … Continue reading →

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NECS 2011: Fun around London Town

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Dan Hassler-Forest

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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San Antonio’s Walking Dead

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Dan Hassler-Forest

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 Dan Hassler-Forest

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 Dan Hassler-Forest

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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Theorizing superheroes

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Dan Hassler-Forest

With the upcoming Yale symposium at the end of this month, I’m starting to try to organize some thoughts and ideas that have been circulating in my mind, and in some cases taking shape in recent lectures, articles, reviews and … Continue reading →

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Superheroes @ Yale

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Dan Hassler-Forest

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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