Bob’s Thursday
April 21st, 2008 by NicoleSo, for those of you wondering what Bob was doing with his Thursday off, I present to you a conference (and here it is on Bob’s blog). I’m sure all of you who already follow his blog knew this, but I figured it was worth posting in the class blog too.
Bob’s going to be heading a follow up panel about gender and fandom in Santa Barbara that continues a discussion about Gender and Fan Studies (link goes to the initial post, here’s part the first) that Henry Jenkins hosted last summer. Bob’s going to be talking about how Blueprint Culture is gendered, touching on the recent Harry Potter Lexicon legal dispute. It seems like a lot of cool people (including Julie Levin Russo) will also be giving interesting talks about gender, fandom, vidding, soap opera, wresting, wizard rock (which, in a very simplified condensed explanation, means rock songs about Harry Potter), and the fanboy/fangirl terminology, all of which on the website. I’m excited, and I hope Bob’ll report back to us when the conference is over.
Also, we apparently made Bob comfortable with threaded comments. Go team us!
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Nicole, thanks for picking up on these news items. (Though I have to admit it feels a little odd to be written up in the class blog!)
I wish I didn’t have to miss a day of conversation with the class for it, but all the same I’m looking forward to Santa Barbara and the chance to workshop my project alongside other scholars whose work I deeply respect. (Plus, it’s in California. Plus, Console-ing Passions tends to be a fun conference no matter where it’s held.) I’ll definitely report back.
And yes, threaded comments rule!
No problem. I actually found out about your panel in a slightly sideways manner and figured that not only was it interesting, I personally would have posted it even if you weren’t the one running it, it also had some really nice short articles. Since you hadn’t brought it up in class, I thought I would in the blog.