SEMINARS, COLLOQUIA, ETC.
August 2005, Children’s Learning in a Digital World Conference, Brock College, Saint Catherines, Canada.
June 2005, “What Media Educators Need to Know About Games and Learning,” National Media Education Conference: Giving Voice to a Diverse Nation, San Francisco, CA.
June 2005, Video Games, Learning and Society Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
June 2005, Moderator and Organizer, “International Perspectives in Game Studies,” Plenary Event, Digital Games Research Association, Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
June 2005, Keynote Speaker, “Media Literacy—Who Needs It?,” New Media Conference, Honalulu, Hawaii.
June 2005, Keynote Speaker, Shattering the ‘Bounds of Difference’: Genre, Popular Memory, and Silver Age Comics,” Holy Men in Tights: A Superheroes Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
May 2005, Keynote Speaker, Intimate Technologies Conference, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
May 2005, Co-organizer and Host, The Education Arcade Conference, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles, CA
May 2005 “Politics and Popular Culture,” Department of Treasury Lunch Series, Washington DC
May 2005, Co-organizer, Media in Transition 4: The Work of Stories Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
April 2005, “Why Video Games Are Good For You,” Virtual Learning? Conference, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
April 2005, “Shattering the ‘Bounds of Difference’: Genre, Popular Memory, and Silver Age Comics,” Society for Cinema Studies, London, UK
March 2005, “What in the World is Media Convergence,” Facing Global Challenges conference, Tokyo, Japan.
March 2005, “The Young Artist Project,” Casey School of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
March 2005, Moderator, “Serious Games Five Years Out”, Serious
Games Conference, San Francisco, CA.
March 2005, “The War Between Effects and Meaning,” Yale University,
New Haven, CT.
February 2005, “Enter the Education Arcade,” University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
February 2005, Panelist, “Game Power - as Games Crossover into Music, TV, Movie, Mobile, Advertainment & Custom Branded Experience,” Digital Hollywood Media Summit, New York, New York.
January 2005, “Searching for the Origami Unicorn: Media Convergence, Transmedia Storytelling, and the Matrix,” Institute of Technology-Coppenhagen, Coppenhagen, Denmark.
January 2005, “Spoilers, Bloggers, Modders, and Thieves: Participatory Culture in the Age of Media Convergence,” Humlab, Umea University, Umea, Sweden.
January 2005, “Enter the Education Arcade,” Nokea Corporation, Hellsinki, Finland.
January 2005, “Spoilers, Bloggers, Modders, and Thieves: Participatory
Culture in the Age of Media Convergence,” Nokea Corporation, Hellsinki,
Finland.
January 2005, “Enter the Education Arcade,” MIT Club of Norway,
Oslo, Norway.
January 2005, “War Between Effects and Meanings,” Tampeire University, Tampiere, Finland.
November 2004, “A Revolution in Education,” Wellsley College, Wellsley, MA
November 2004, “What The Apprentice Can Teach Us About Media Convergence,” Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, MA
November 2004, “Media Convergence, Brand Integration, Participatory Culture – Why Can’t We All Get Along,” Branded Entertainment Forum, New York, NY.
November 2004, “Defining Media Literacy” and “Youth and Participatory Culture,” Briefing for the Board of Directors of the MacArthur Foundation, San Francisco, CA
October 2004, “Photoshop for Democracy: New Media and Popular Culture in Campaign 2004,” MIT Salon, San Francisco, CA.
October 2004, “Photoshop for Democracy: New Media and Popular Culture in Campaign 2004,” MIT Club of Texas, Houston, TX.
October 2004, “Photoshop for Democracy: New Media and Popular Culture in Campaign 2004,” MIT, Cambridge, MA
September2004, Panelist, “Impacting Young Minds,” MIT Alumni Leadership Conference, Cambridge, MA.
August 2004, Panelist, “The Future of Entertainment,” Noreastcon,
Boston, MA.
July 2004, “The War Between Effects and Meaning,” Digital
Generations Conference, University of London, London, UK.
June 2004, “Enter the Education Arcade,” Simon Frasier University, Vancouver, Canada.
June 2004, Keynote Address, “Spoilers, Bloggers, Modders, and Thieves: Participatory Culture in the Age of Media Convergence,” New Media Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
June 2004, “Spoilers, Bloggers, Modders, and Thieves: Participatory Culture in the Age of Media Convergence,” The Photography Workshop, New York University, New York, NY
June 2004, Plenary Speaker, Interaction Design and Children Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
May 2004, “Hogwarts and All: Mapping Media Literacy in The Potter Wars,” Console-ing Passions conference, New Orleans, LA
May 2004, Moderator, Host, Speaker, and Organizer, The Education Arcade Conference, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles, CA.
May 2004, Pleniary Speaker, “Personas and Popular Culture,” Cultural Studies Association Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
April 2004, ”The War Between Effects and Meaning,” New England Media Literacy Conference, Hartford, CT
April 2004, “From Zion to Permutation City: The Urban Imagination in The Matrix,” Filming the City Conference, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
March 2004, “Viva the Third Rail,” Closing Remarks, Serious Games Conference, San Jose, CA.
March 2004, Panelist, “Re-examing Audience Studies”, Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA.
March 2004, “Enter the Education Arcade,” Consortium for
School Networking, Washington DC
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February 2004, “Living in a Global Culture,” Neiman Foundation,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
February 2004: “Spoilers, Bloggers, Modders, and Thieves: Participatory Culture in the Age of Media Convergence,” The Intersection of Media, Education, and the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
February 2004: “Searching for the Origami Unicorn: Media Convergence, Transmedia Storytelling, and the Matrix,”Communication Arts and Education Departments, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
January 2004: "Searching for the Origami Unicorn: Media Convergence, Transmedia Storytelling, and the Matrix," MIT, Cambridge, MA
January 2004: Participant, panel on online gaming, Cybersymposium, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
October 2003: "Is Reality Television the Killer App of Media Convergence" and "Searching for the Origami Unicorn: Media Convergence, Transmedia Storytelling, and the Matrix," presented at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
March 2003: "Mutant Beauty and Ghostly Perception: Horror in the Art of Paul Pfeiffer and Matthew Barney," List Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA
March 2003: Workshop participant, "Teaching September 11," Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Minneapolis, MN
January 2003: "Why Superheroes Will Survive the Digital Revolution?: Comics and Convergence," Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
January 2003: "Captain America Sheds His Mighty Tears: Comics and September 11," Vericon, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
January 2003: "Shakespeare as Science Fiction Writer," "Science Journalism," "In the Groves of Academia," and "Slash" workshops, Arisia science fiction convention, Boston, MA
December 2002: "Contested Categories: Vernacular Art in the Digital Age," Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
November 2002: "Captain America Sheds His Mighty Tears: Comics and September 11," Burchards Scholars Dinner, MIT, Cambridge, MA
November 2002: "Planet Soup: Tracking Media Flows in an Age of Media Convergence," workshop on globalization and education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
October 2002: "Games, the New Lively Art," Humanities Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
October 2002: Moderator, "Good and Evil in the Digital Age," Pop!Tech conference, Camden, ME
October 2002: Moderator/Organizer, Race and Digital Spaces conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
October 2002: "Captain America Sheds His Mighty Tears: Comics and September 11," Center for 21st Century Studies, “911: Reconstructions” Conference, Milwaukee, WI
August 2002: "Games to Teach," Microsoft Summer Research Summit, Redmond, CA
July 2002: "Media Convergence: The Dynamism and Destiny of a Global Culture," Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China
July 2002: "Media Convergence: The Dynamism and Destiny of a Global Culture," Beijing University, Beijing, China
June 2002: "Media Convergence: The Dynamism and Destiny of A Global Culture," Singapore Economic Development Council, Singapore
June 2002: With Stacey Kerner and Alex Chisholm, "From Attention to Interaction: Pathways Towards Rethinking Audience Measurement," World Association for Audience Measurement, Cannes, France
May 2002: "Interactive Audiences?: The Collective Intelligence of Media Fans," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Denver, CO
May 2002: Keynote Address, "On Beyond Zebra: Expanding the Mission of Media Studies," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Denver, CO
May 2002: Participant, "Teaching Porn" workshop, Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Denver, CO
May 2002: Moderator and participant, "Designing Next Generation Educational Games," Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles, CA
May 2002: Respondent/Organizer, Media in Transition 2: Globalization and Convergence, MIT, Cambridge, MA
May 2002: Graduation Speaker, "Watching Television in Your Underwear," New England Institute of Art and Communications, Boston, MA
April 2002: "Interactive Audiences?: The Collective Intelligence of Media Fans," Middlebury College, Middlebury, VA
March 2002: Moderator, Academic Summit, Game Developers Conference, Los Angeles, CA
January 2002: Participant/Moderator, World Economic Forum, Manhattan, NY
January 2002: Panelist, Media and War Forum, MIT, Cambridge, MA
January 2002: Moderator, "New Media and Comics," Vericon, Harvard, Cambridge, MA
January 2002: "The Aesthetics of Comics," Vericon, Harvard, Cambridge, MA
January 2002: "It's The Only Thing I Have Complete Control Over': Teen's Use of the Web," Communications Department, Boston College, Boston, MA
November 2001: "Media Responses to September 11," FCB Advertising Briefing, New York, NY
November 2001: "It's The Only Thing I Have Complete Control Over': Teen's Use of the Web," Princeton Center for Cultural Policy, Princeton University, Trenton, NJ
November 2001: "'It's The Only Thing I Have Complete Control Over': Teen's Use of the Web," National High School Scholastic Press Association Conference, Boston, MA
November 2001: "Interactive Audiences?," Radio-Television-Film Colloquium, New York University, New York, NY
November 2001: "Media in Time of National Crisis," Society for the Social Study of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
October 2001: "The Star Wars You Wanted to See," Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
October 2001: "From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Afterthoughts," Playing By the Rules: The Cultural Policy Challenges of Video Games," Center for Cultural Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
October 2001: Panelist, "Games and Civil Society," "Playing By the Rules: The Cultural Policy Challenges of Video Games," Center for Cultural Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
October 2001: "'It's The Only Thing I Have Complete Control Over': Teen's Use of the Web," MIT Communication Forum, Cambridge, MA
October 2001: "'It's The Only Thing I Have Complete Control Over': Teen's Use of the Web," Media Lab's 10/10 Conference on "Id/Entities," MIT, Cambridge, MA
September 2001: "The Aesthetics of Comics," Somerville Comics Festival, Somerville, MA
September 2001: "Interactive Audiences?," CMS Colloquium, Creativity and Commerce, MIT, Cambridge, MA
September 2001: "Media Response to Sept. 11," MIT-Sponsored Dinner, Los Angeles, CA
September 2001: "Media Coverage of Terrorist Attacks," MIT, Cambridge, MA
July 2001: "Games and Storytelling," Siggraph 2002, Los Angeles, CA
July 2001: "Games to Teach," Microsoft Research Summit, Redmond, WA
July 2001: Keynote, "Video Games on the Threshold of Art," Game Cultures conference, The University of the West of England, Bristol.
July 2001: Participant, "TV and Digital Media Workshop: New Feminist Practices, The Oxygen Media Research Project and Digital Media Texts", Console-ing Passions, Bristol
June 2001: "Contested Categories: Vernacular Art in the Digital Age", 5th Annual Summer Cultural Policy Meeting, Little Switzerland, NC.
June 2001: With Henry Jenkins IV, "The Monsters Next Door': A Father-Son Conversation about Buffy, Moral Panic, and Generational Differences," University of Technology, Sydney; Melbourne University.
June 2001: "Video Games and Moral Panic," Hawke Center, Adelaide.
June 2001: "Video Games on the Threshold of Art," University of South Australia, Adelaide; Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
June 2001: "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence and Participatory Culture," Canterbury College, Christchurch.
May 2001: Conference Organizer, Race in Digital Spaces conference, MIT
May 2001: "It's The Only Thing I have Complete Control Over': Teen Use of the Web," Maine Librarians Association Conference, Portland.
May 2001: Organizer and participant, "Open Your Mind to the Creative Possibilities," Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles.
May 2001: Respondent, "Science Fiction and Politics," Society for Cinema Studies, Washington DC.
April 2001: Panelist, "A Public Forum on Media, Youth, and Violence," Technical College of British Columbia, Vancouver
April 2001: Participant, "..." Workshop, Coca-Cola, NYC.
March 2001: "The Future of News," Knights Journalism Fellows Program, MIT
March 2001: Panelist, "Game Design and Game Culture", Game Developers Conference, San Jose.
March 2001: Panelist, "The Future Of Games and Digital Entertainment," Game Developers Conference, San Jose.
March 2001: Panelist, "Bonfire of the Humanities: Long Term Research in the Soft-Sciences," Game Developers Conference, San Jose.
February 2001: Conference organizer and keynote speaker, "We've Wired the Classroom-- Now What?, MIT.
January 2001: Speaker, "Entertainment in the Interactive Age" Conference, USC.
December 2000: "Participatory Culture and Media Change," Broadercasting Sponsers Meeting, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA.
November 2000: "The New Media Literacy," Keynote Address, MassCue Conference, Boston, MA.
November 2000: "What Congress Doesn't Want to Hear About Media Violence and Youth Culture," MassCue Conference, Boston, MA.
November 2000: "The Future of Humanities Education," MassCue Conference, Boston, MA.
November 2000: "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars?: Parody and Appropriation in an Age of Digital Convergence," MIT Conference on Digital Cinema, Cambridge, MA.
November 2000: "Will the Digital Revolution Be A Cultural Revolution?," British Broadcasting Corporation Briefing Session, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
October 2000: "'It's The Only Thing I Have Total Control Over': Teen's Use of the Web," Media Research Group of Chicago.
October 2000: "Games: An Artform for the Digital Age," Boston, MA.
October 2000: "Will the Digital Revolution Be A Cultural Revolution," British Telephone Company Briefing Conference, MIT.
October 2000: "Will the Digital Revolution Be A Cultural Revolution?," MIT On The Road, New York, New York.
September 2000: "Roger Corman: The Man and His Movies," Cityscape School, Boston, MA.
September 2000: "'It's The Only Thing I Have Total Control Over': Teen's Use of the Web," Casey School of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
July 2000: "Lessons From Littleton: What Congress Doesn't Want to Hear About Youth and Media," American Library Association, Chicago, IL.
July 2000: "Computer and Video Games: The Next Generation," SIGRAPH, New Orleans, LA.
June 2000: Participant, "Hop on Pop" Workshop, Cultural Studies at the Crossroads Conference, Birmingham, UK.
May 2000: Participant, "Thinking Outside the Toybox," MIT Media Lab Conference, Cambridge, MA.
May 2000: "Responding to the Littleton Shooting Public Intellectualism, Moral Panic, and Digital Communication," Console-ing Passions Conference, Chicago, IL.
April 2000: "Popular Culture and Media Convergence," MIT On The Road, Seattle, WA.
April 2000: "Popular Culture and Media Convergence," MIT Campus Preview Weekend, Cambridge, MA.
March-May 2000: Comparative Media Studies Educational Outreach Program, Overlake Academy, Redmond, WA; Framingham High School, Framingham, MA; Gould Academy, Bethel, ME; Chittenden-Champlain Valley Schools, Burlington, VT; Milton Academy, Milton, MA; and Rye Academy, Portsmouth, NH.
March 2000: "Return to the Hell mouth: A Conversation with Jon Katz and Henry Jenkins," MIT, Cambridge, MA.
March 2000: Beyond Littleton: Confronting the Roots of the Moral Panic About Electronic Entertainment Game Developers Conference, San Jose, CA.
March 2000: Workshop Participant, "New Directions in Media Studies," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Chicago, IL.
March 2000: "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Parody and Appropriation in an Age of Cultural Convergence," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Chicago, IL.
February 2000: "A Person's A Person, No Matter How Small The Democratic Imagination of Doctor Seuss," University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
February 2000: Chair and Keynote Speaker, Video and Computer Games Come of Age Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
February 2000: "Popular Culture in an Age of Media Convergence," Exploding Cinema Series, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
January 2000: Organizer, "Adopting Traditional
Media into Nonlinear Storytelling," MIT, Cambridge, MA.
January 2000: "Popular Culture in an Age of Media Convergence,"
MIT On the Road, San Francisco, CA.
November 1999: "Popular Culture in an Age of Media Convergence," Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
October 1999: "A Person's A Person, No Matter How Small The Democratic Imagination of Doctor Seuss.," Research in Childhood: Sociology, Culture and History, International Conference, Odense, Denmark.
October 1999: Keynote Address, Camden Technology Conference, "Peptic," Camden, ME.
October 1999: Co-organizer and Keynote Speaker, Media in Transition Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
October 1999: Panelist, "Violence and Contemporary Cinema," Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA.
September 1999: Presentation on Media Violence, Free Expression Network, Freedom Forum, Washington, DC.
September 1999: "Lessons from Littleton: What Congress Doesn't Want to Know about Children and Media," Kid's Screen Conference, New York City, NY.
July 1999: Panelist, "Has Hollywood Finally Got A Clue?," Readercon, Waltham, MA.
June 1999: Respondent, Interactive Frictions Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
May 1999: Testimony, United States Senate Commerce Committee, Hearings on "Marketing Violence to Children," Washington DC.
May 1999: Co-organizer and keynote speaker, "We've Wired the Classroom--Now What?" conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
April 1999: "Will the Digital Revolution Be a Cultural Revolution?," MIT On the Road, Cambridge, MA.
February
1999: "The Future of Popular Culture," University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison, WI.
November 1998: "The Poacher and the Stormtrooper: Popular Culture
in the Age of Cultural Convergence," University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA.
September 1998: "You Can't Bring this Game to School! Pleasure, Play, and Pedagogy," Keynote Address, Foreign Language Conference, MIT.
September 1998: "From Homer to the Holodeck: New Media and the Humanities," Keynote Address. Post-Innocence: Narrative Textures and New Media Conference, Transforming Cultures Program, University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia.
September 1998: "Tales of Manhattan: Mapping the Urban Imagination through the American Cinema," in Imaging the City Lecture Series. Urban Studies Program, MIT, Cambridge, MA
July 1998: "Complete Freedom of Movement, Video Games as Gendered Playspaces," Console-ing Passions Conference. Sydney, NSW, Australia.
July 1998: "Teletubbies and Childhood Innocence: A Response," Console-ing Passions Conference. Sydney, NSW, Australia.
May 1998: "Towards a more Democratic Culture," Closing remarks, Digital Media and Democracy Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
April 1998: Demonstration, Workshop participant, Digital Pedagogy and Cinema Studies. Society for Cinema Studies Conference, San Diego, CA.
March 1998: "The Poachers and the Stormtroopers: Popular Culture in the Digital Age," Media and Technology Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
February 1998: "Raising Children in the Digital Age," MIT Family Resource Center, Cambridge, MA.
February 1998: "The Aesthetics of Transition," MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Fall 1997/Spring 1998: "Five Things Everyone Should Know About Popular Culture," presentations before MIT alumni groups in Miami, Florida and New Hampshire.
Spring 1997: "O.J. Vs. Clinton: Media in an Age of Transition" -- featured speaker for the MIT Humanities Visiting Committee, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Summer 1997: "Henry and Sarah: A Romance of the Digital Age" -- featured speaker at salon hosted by Robert Metcalfe; later repeated for Burchard's Scholars Speakers Event, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Spring 1997: "Putting Boy Culture Back in the Home: Gender and Computer Games" -- keynote speech for From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games conference hosted by MIT Women's Studies Program MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Spring 1997: Organized "From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games Conference," with Justine Cassell, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Fall 1997: Organized "Media and Imagination: Readings in Science Fiction," Lecture series with Joe Haldeman, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Spring 1997: "I Can Feel Your Pain!: Presidential Politics as Masculine Melodrama," Console-ing Passions Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Spring 1997: Participant, Workshop, "Problems in Media History," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
Spring 1997: "No Matter How Small: The Democratic Imagination of
Doctor Seuss," Panel on Children's Media, Society for Cinema Studies
Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
Spring 1997: Plenary Session participant, "The Future of Media Studies," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
Fall 1997: "Cultural Convergence," The Camden Conference on Telecommunications, Camden, ME.
Spring 1997: "Meaningful Interactivity: The MIT Experience with Humanities Computing," Booz-Allen-Hamilton Conference on Knowledge Management, Miami, FL.
Spring 1997: "Comparative Media Studies: A New Approach," University of Michigan, conference on Media and Democracy, Ann Arbor, MI.
Spring 1997: "Fear of Flying: Comic Representations of Aviation," Chicago Art Institute, Introduction to Airplane, Chicago, IL.
Spring 1996: "Her Suffering Aristocratic Majesty: The Sentimental Value of Lassie," Console-ing Passions Conference, Madison, WI.
Spring 1996: "Will the 'Revolution' Be Digitized?: Campaign 96 and the Web," MIT Communication Forum, Cambridge, MA.
Spring 1996: "Things that Think and Things With a Mind of Their Own: Commodities and Culture," Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Spring 1996: "Meaningful Interactivity: Basic Principles," Booze, Allen, and Hamilton, VA.
Winter 1996: "The Virtual Screening Room," (Demonstration with Ben Singer. Society for Cinema Studies, Dallas, TX.
Winter 1996: "Before the Holodeck: Tracing Star Trek Through Digital Media," (With Janet Murray). Society for Cinema Studies, Dallas, TX.
Winter 1996: "Out of the Closet and Into the Universe: Queers and Star Trek," University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
Winter 1996: "Out of the Closet and Into the Universe: Queers and Star Trek," Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Fall 1995: "Webs, Nets and Scapes: The Future of Media Studies," The Future of Media Studies Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Fall 1995: "Is There a Zine in This Class?: Pedagogy, Fandom and Politics," Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
Fall 1995: Chair and Key note Speaker, "The Future of Media Studies Conference," MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Summer 1995: "Is There a Zine In This Class?: Pedagogy, Fandom and Politics," MacQuarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Summer 1995: "Out of the Closet and Into the Universe: Queers and Star Trek," MacQuarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Summer 1995: "Is There A Zine in This Class?: Pedagogy, Fandom and Politics," Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
Summer 1995: "Out of the Closet and Into the Universe: Queers and Star Trek," Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia.
Summer 1995: "'This Keaton Fellow Seems to Be the Whole Show': The Interrupted Performance in Buster Keaton's Films," LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Summer 1995: "What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic," LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Summer 1995: "Out of the Closet and Into the Universe: Queers and Star Trek," Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia.
Summer 1995: "Is There a Zine in This Class?: Pedagogy, Fandom and Politics," Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia.
Summer 1995: "Out of the Closet and Into the Universe: Queers and Star Trek," University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
Summer 1995: "Is There A Zine in This Class?: Pedagogy, Fandom and Politics," Murdoch University, Perth, Australia.
Summer 1995: "Out of the Closet and Into the Universe: Queers and Star Trek," Murdoch University, Perth, Australia.
Summer 1995: "A Person's a Person, No Matter How Small: The Permissive Imagination of Doctor Spock and Doctor ," Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.
Summer 1995: "Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture," Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.
Summer 1995: "Never Trust a Snake!" WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama." University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, and Griffith University. Brisbane, Australia.
Summer 1995: "Is There a Zine in This Class?: Pedagogy, Fandom and Politics," University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Summer 1995: "'A Person's A Person, No Matter How Small': The Permissive Imagination of Doctor Spock and Doctor Seuss," Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Summer 1995: "Rethinking Popular Culture," Nickelodeon Network,New York City, NY.
Winter 1995: "The Feminist Critic As Fan," Workshop, Console-ing Passions Conference, Seattle, WA.
Winter 1995: "Poisoned Milk, Poisoned Love: Monstrous Masculinity, Suspicion and In A Lonely Place," Society For Cinema Studies Conference, Staten Island, NY.
Winter 1995: "From Bigger Than Life to The Incredible Shrinking Man: The Crisis of Masculinity in Post-War American Cinema," List Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Winter 1995: "'This Keaton Fellow Seems to Be the Whole Show': The Interrupted Performance in Buster Keaton's Films," Loyola University, New Orleans, LA.
Fall 1994: "Revenge of the Sponge Minions: Children's Television and Childhood Innocence," MIT Communications Forum, Cambridge, MA.
Fall 1994: "Rethinking Post-War Children's Culture," University of Texas, Austin, TX.
Fall 1994: "'Out of the Closet and Into the Universe': Queers and Star Trek," Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Austin, TX.
Fall 1994: "'Out of the Closet and Into the Universe': Queers and Star Trek," Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Summer 1994: "'Out of the Closet and Into the Universe': Queers and Star Trek," San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, San Francisco, CA.
Winter 1994: "'Out of the Closet and Into the Universe': Queers and Star Trek," Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
Winter 1994: "'Out of the Closet and Into the Universe': Queers and Star Trek," Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Winter 1994: "'Out of the Closet and Into the Universe': Queers and Star Trek," MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Winter 1994: "'Never Trust a Snake!': WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama," and "Culture that Sticks to the Skin: The Future of Popular Culture Studies," Visiting Scholar, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH..
Winter 1994: "'The All-American Handful': Dennis the Menace, Permissive Childrearing and the Popular Imagination," Consoling Passions Conference, Tucson, AZ.
Winter 1994: "'The All-American Handful': Dennis the Menace, Permissive Childrearing and the Popular Imagination," Radcliffe Women's Studies Program, Cambridge, MA.
Winter 1994: "'The Laughing Stock of the City': Male Dread, Performance Anxiety and Unfaithfully Yours," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Syracuse, NY..
Winter 1994: "How Not to Design a Cast-Iron Baby Doll: Television as Interactive Technology," Interval Computing Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Winter 1994: "Teaching Science Fiction," Panel Discussion, Arisa Science Fiction Convention, Boston, MA.
Winter 1994: "Feminism, Popular Culture and the Erotic Imagination," Panel Discussion, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Fall 1993: "Teaching Popular Culture," Panel Discussion at American Studies Association Conference, Boston, MA.
Fall 1993: "Film and Underground Comics," Panel discussion with J. Hotelman, "Comic Art" Exhibit, ExitArt Gallery, New York City, NY.
Spring 1993 "What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the
Vaudeville Aesthetic," Film and Lecture Series, American Museum of
the Moving Image, Astoria, NY.
Winter 1993: "'Out of the Closet and Into the Universe': Queers and Star Trek," Consoling Passions: Feminism and Television Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Winter 1993: "Fan Culture, Mass Culture, Folk Culture," Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
Winter 1993: "Fandom and Beyond" and "Star Trek and Its Audiences." Five-Con, Amherst, MA.
Winter 1993: "Fandom and the Academy," Escapade, Santa Barbara, CA.
Winter 1993: "Fandom and the Academy," Ardisia 1993, Boston, MA.
Winter 1993: "Who's on First?: Authors, Critics, Consumers," Mitsubishi Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA.
Winter 1993: "'A Person's A Person, No Matter How Small': Seuss., Spock and American Childhood," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Winter 1993: "'How Many Star Fleet Officers Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?': Star Trek at MIT," American and New England Studies Brownbag Lunch Discussion Series, Boston University, Boston, MA.
Winter 1993: "Second Annual Salute to Doctor Seuss," MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Fall 1992: "Aliens and Androgyny," Emerson College, Boston, MA.
Fall 1992: With Mary Fuller, "Nintendo and New World Narratives," Popular Cultures Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Summer 1992: "Academics Talk About Fandom," Gaylaxicon, Philadelphia, PA.
Summer 1992: "Ninja Turtles, The Macho King and Madonna's Navel: Taking Popular Culture Seriously," Summer Institute Course, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Spring 1992: "x Logic: Placing Nintendo in Children's Culture," Mitsubishi Research Group. Cambridge, MA.
Spring 1992: "Never Trust a Snake: WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
Spring 1992: "Welcome to Bisexuality, Captain Kirk: Slash and the Fan Writing Community," Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN.
Spring 1992: "Welcome to Bisexuality, Captain Kirk: Slash and the Fan Writing Community," Consoling Passions: Feminism and Television Conference. Iowa City, IA.
Jan 1992: "Seuss., Spock and Capra." M.I.T. Cambridge, MA.
Jan 1992: Film and Lecture Series, "Learning to Laugh," MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Jan 1992: "The Living Room War Revisited: Media Coverage of the Gulf War," MIT, Cambridge, MA.
October 1991: "Fans, Poachers, Nomads," Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
July 1991: "Layers of Meaning: The Cultural Production and Social Circulation of Fan Music Video," International Television Studies Conference, British Film Institute,. London, UK.
July 1991: "Killing Time on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger Returns and Returns and..." East Anglia University Conference on the Gothic, Norwich, UK.
Spring 1991: "'Full of Secrets': alt.tv.twinpeaks, The Trickster Author and the Fan Metatext,." Society for Cinema Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
March 1991: "Hulk Hogan Battles Sadam Hussein: Media Coverage of the Gulf War," MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Feb 1991: "Can Television Be Interactive?: An Investigation of Science Fiction Fan Culture," Media Lab Lecture Series, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Jan 1991: Lecture Series, "Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture," MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Jan 1991: Film and Lecture Series, "Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema," MIT Cambridge, MA.
Jan 1991: "Deconstructing Sexuality in a Postmodern Era: The Rocky Horror Picture Show," MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Dec 1990: "Do Your Roughing Nicely: Epes Winthrop Sargent, Moving Picture World and the Social Construction of Laughter in Early Film Comedy," Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
Fall 1990: "Pleasures from the Past: New Approaches to Film Performance," MIT Communications Forum, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Fall 1990: "Same Bat Channel, Different Bat Times: Mass Culture and Popular Memory," Humanities Workshop, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Spring 1990: "Freddy Krueger, Teen Idol," Emerson University, Boston, MA.
May 1990: "'Don't Become Too Intimate With That Terrible Woman!'':Wild Women, Disorderly Conduct and Gendered Laughter in Early Sound Comedy," University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.
Feb 1990: Respondent, Presentation by Constance Penley, Columbia University, Film Studies Colloquium, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Jan 1990: "Born in Flames: Feminist Intervention in Science Fiction Cinema," MIT IAP Film and Lecture Series, Cambridge, MA.
Nov 1989: "Bat Brats and Innocent Children: Batman and the Myth of Childhood Innocence," Speech Communications Association, San Francisco, CA.
Spring 1989: Chair With Lynn Spigel, Panel on "Social History and Audience Research." Society for Cinema Studies. University of Iowa. Iowa City, IA.
Spring 1989: "Bombing in Geneva: Diplomaniacs, Anarchistic Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic," Society for Cinema Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
Spring 1989: Chair with Kristine Karnick, Panel on "Genre, Intertextuality
and Popular Reading," International Communications Association, San
Francisco, CA.
Spring 1989: "'Don't Become Too Intimate with That Terrible Woman!': Gender and Comic Performance in Early Sound Comedy," International Communications Association, San Francisco, CA.
Fall 1988: "'How Is It Possible for a Civilized Man to Live Among People Who Are Always Joking': Class, Comedy and Cultural Change in Turn-of-the-century America," WHIM Conference on Humor Research. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
Fall 1988: "'The Social Relations Between Heads': Towards a Cognitive Theory of Ideology," Midwest Regional Conference, Union for Democratic Communications, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
Summer 1987: "A Star is (Re)Born: The Cultural Assimilation of Eddie Cantor;" Society of Cinema Studies, Montreal, Canada.
Winter 1986: "The Amazing Push-Me/Pull-You Text: Cognitive Processing, Narrational Play and the Comic Film," Ohio University Film Conference, Athens, OH.
Spring 1986: "'What Made Pistachio Nuts?': Anarchistic Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic," Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mount Pleasant, MI.
Spring 1986: "The City of Atlanta v. The Atlanta Child Murders: Strategies of Intertextual Subversion," Society of Cinema Studies, New Orleans, LA.
Spring
1985: "I Only Laugh When It Doesn't Hurt: The Rhetoric of Comic Displacement,"
Inauguration, Communication Studies Facility, University of Iowa, Iowa
City, IA.
Spring 1985: "Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten," Iowa International
Symposium on Television Criticism, Iowa City, IA.
