Dragon*Con Panel Scheduling Update

[wolven7]

[Edit: 12.30pm: Unfortunately, the Megan Goodwin piece is no longer a part of the panel I'm in. I was really looking forward to that.]

Change of time:

Friday, 5:30PM: Philosophical and Religious Themes in Comics
(Williams, Sylvia, Goodwin)

D*C Academic Mini-Conference Session 1: Philosophical and Religious Themes in Comics. At this panel, scholars from philosophy and religious studies discuss themes in comics. Damien Williams (Georgia State University) discusses the nature of title character's ethical egoism in Mike Carey's Lucifer. J. J. Sylvia argues that, although their are limitations, one can successfully teach classes in philosophy using comics about philosophy, such as Van Lente and Dunlavey's Action Philosophers! Megan Goodwin (UNC Chapel Hill) explores the extent to which Grant Morrison's The Invisibles is not only a comic about Morrison's belief system–Chaos Magic–but is itself an act of magic.

Sunday, 10:00AM: Comics, Culture, and Criticism (Starnaman, Curtis, Lenig)

D*C Academic Mini-Conference Session 1: Comics, Culture, and Criticism. In this session, three scholars provide critical discussions of comics and the comics medium. Sabrina Starnaman (University of California-San Diego) uses the theories of Althusser to examine how truth is constructed and power reified in Jonathan Hickman's The Nightly News. Brian Curtis discusses post-modern issues surrounding comic-books in our post-9/11 culture. Stuart Lenig (Columbia State) discusses how the boom of films based on comic book heroes may reflect millennial ennui in the face of overwhelming socio-political problems.

Sunday, 5:30PM: Scholarship on "Watchmen" (Brown, Keys, Wyatt)

D*C Academic Mini-Conference Session 3: New Scholarship on Watchmen. Three scholars present recent research based on the landmark graphic novel Watchmen. Matthew J. Brown (University of California, San Diego) explores the problem of vigilante justice in Watchmen in the context of the relationship between state authority, legitimacy, and personal morality. Jessica Lauren Keys (Georgia State University) traces the changes through time of the American heroic ideal and its reflection in the different eras portrayed in Watchmen. Nicole Wyatt (University of Calgary) discusses desire and objectification in Watchmen and argues that it presents not only an anti-porn view but also a sex-positive position

So. Now I go FIRST-first. Which is good, because I won't have had time to be drinking, by that point. ;)

Comments

[mendori.livejournal.com]

Good deal. Could you guys give me a little blurb about each panel? I'll hype them in my class if you'd like.

I'll hopefully be there.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

DAMNIT! I wanted to see that! I know what you're going to say! *ducks*

To be fair, I probably could've written that, but I don't have a 'scholarly' background, and talking in front of people gives me the Hiding and Hyperventilating.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well jumping in the deep end is the best way to get over that :)

[wacko1138.livejournal.com]

That schedule now comes with a little doubt on whether or not I'll be able to be there to film then. If I can indeed get off work that day, I'll be there. Should know by the beginning of that week so can update you then.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I hope it still all works...

[raoin.livejournal.com]

oh you'll have time to be drinking.

we're supposed to be in our room around noon-ish, i imagine that you could always drink some of last year's cthulade while we make the new year's batch... which is not to say we arent going to your panel, we are, its just to imply that we'll have all had to "taste" something prior to doing so.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Time, yes, but I should avoid doing so.

[toy-soldier85.livejournal.com]

Yo, I just wanted to let you know I added you to my Friends list. I'm one of Steve's friends and I met you at one of his parties. I was the guy you were talking with about melting and exploding things. :)

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Ah. Hello and Welcome.

Glad to have you.

[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

So I saw The Dark Knight at the IMAX today.

And saw a preview for Watchmen in IMAX. That looked hot.

"I want the world to look up at me and shout, 'Save Us!' And I will look down on them and whisper, 'No.'"

[wolven.livejournal.com]

It looks like it's going to be as awesome as it possibly could be, so I live in hope...

[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I'd actually be willing to hope on that one too (I don't hope for anything, really, in any situation).

It looks like it'll be pretty bad ass, regardless of what it is. Heh.

Also, this is grand. XD

AND~!~! AND~! AND~! LAST FREAKIN' TRACK!!!!!

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Picture=ROFLCOPTER OF JOY. XD

[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

XD I LOVE it.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

That is Perfect ^_^

[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

FINISHED!!!




FINISHED!!!!!!

I decided that "Lucinda / Ain't Going Down To The Well" and "Cause Of It All / Till the Money Runs Out" don't need to be separate tracks. Because they fit together so nicely, not even a break from Tom and clapping... also, why have 32 tracks when you can have a nice round 30 tracks?

Also... people are getting thirty fucking tracks. They can deal with a couple songs pushed together as one track, because that's how Tom Waits fucking sang it.

...Okay, I'm done now... I will proceed to make with the uploady/availability now.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a bummer about the Invisibles piece getting dropped -- one of my all time favorite comics! Maybe you could ask my mom to contribute, with some of her work on Transmetropolitan. :)

[(Anonymous)]

that was from Rachel, btw

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Oh man, if i had known, sooner, I could have probably gotten her into the program. Especially with the election, this year! Wow. That would have been awesome...

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Also, there's still an Invisibles presentation, just on a different topic: "Hannah Dame (University of Alabama) analyzes Grant Morrison's use of Buddhist teachings in his works, especially The Invisibles."