Slayage Conference Starts Next Week at Henderson State U, Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Beginning a week from today, the Conference features over 40 sessions of Whedon discussion--including 4 keynotes, one of whom will be Whedon's professor Jeanine Basinger (yay!).
Anyone who is interested is welcome to come (though there is a charge to pay for expenses such as speakers' travel costs). The discussions after the paper presentations are always fun, and this only happens every two years. People should contact HSU prof Kevin Durand for shuttle info; see Slayage for more details.
May 30 2008
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About membership.
Sharon Sutherland (U of British Columbia Faculty of Law) and Sarah Swan (Harper Grey LLP)—“Sometimes you have to . . . compromise: Lilah as Lawyer”
From some of our discussions here, members might find this pretty relevant:
Leigh Clemons (Louisiana State U)—“The Liminal Season Eight: Genre Change and Its Impact on Character/Story in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Eight"
And then there's this provocatively-titled session:
David Lavery (MTSU)—“The Real Hell Dimension: Joss Whedon’s Film Career”
Hope some of us can go and report back.
(ETA: My oops that I didn't delete for self-linkage - got a bit carried away in the material I guess.)
[ edited by SoddingNancyTribe on 2008-05-31 09:17 ]
SoddingNancyTribe | May 30, 23:18 CET
Look forward to seeing some of you there.
Haunt | May 30, 23:27 CET
BandofBuggered | May 31, 00:04 CET
Please ask before posting if you aren't sure. It's a simple rule, really. If you are in any way involved (creating, presenting, organising, building, etc) in the material you link to, you cannot post it.
Caroline | May 31, 01:40 CET
dreamlogic | May 31, 07:24 CET
It may be too early in the morning for my brain to be working, but is this suggesting the move to comics is a genre change rather than a change of delivery medium? I suppose the argument could be made that its both given the bar raising as far as magickal goings on and such. Not sure that I'd start from that position, but should be interesting.
zeitgeist | May 31, 08:57 CET
shambleau | May 31, 09:52 CET
Harmalicious | May 31, 09:53 CET
But what the hell do I know? I'm a mouthy rebel without a clue. ;)
Rhonda, I look forward to talking with you again this year.
Haunt | May 31, 12:26 CET
zeitgeist | May 31, 13:40 CET
Also Arkadelphia is probably the best name ever for an American town.
Simon | May 31, 13:54 CET
Haunt | May 31, 18:38 CET
Harmalicious | May 31, 19:14 CET
And Simon, does that mean if I could ever convince my friend Andy Owens to set foot on the ol' interwebs that HE would get VIP status? That might actually make him think it's not such a bad place after all. ;)
Haunt | May 31, 19:35 CET
Many years ago, I worked at the Hot Springs Sentinel-Record. (I also worked for the Arkansas Democrat.) It will be fun to stay just down the road in Malvern. There's plenty to see in the area. Hot Springs, with its historic district and mountain scenery, is just half an hour from Arkadelphia. L.R. is an hour north, and it's become quite charming.
Suzie | May 31, 22:12 CET
rhonda_w | June 01, 16:51 CET
Haunt | June 01, 19:52 CET
zeitgeist | June 01, 21:12 CET
Two years ago, at SC2, the conference was in Barnesville, GA--where is that, you may well ask? South of Atlanta. In a dry county. We still had a fabulous time. I expect much the same in Arkadelphia.
Maeve | June 02, 08:46 CET
Also, I felt like I was the only Whedon fan in Mountain Home. There isn't a North Central Arkansas Browncoat Yahoo! group when I was there.
crazygolfa | June 02, 09:51 CET
i have ALWAYS wanted to go to one of these...but i am poor grad student with very little transportation and financial resources, argh...perhaps someday when i write the "great american novel" or some such thing, i can go to a Buffy conference and die happy lol.
buffyfanatic18 | June 02, 14:45 CET