Buffy conference in Nashville

[juldea]

This weekend in Nashville: the largest-ever academic conference devoted to a single television program. The program, of course, being Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The article claims that 190 papers will be presented, with some of the more interesting titles being:

Buffy Goes to War: The Introduction of Military Genre Conventions in the Seventh Season of BtVS

Actually, No Wheeling Is More My Specialty: Why Buffy Doesn't Drive (Answering the questions, "What does it mean to be masculine in contemporary culture? What's driving got to do with it? And why doesn't Buffy drive?")

Self Becoming or Becoming Self? A Comparative Study of Buffy and the Hindu Saint Antal on Identity and Self-Realization

I wish I could go. This sounds pretty awesome.

Comments

[gaffman.livejournal.com]

that sounds so nerdy it isnt funny :P

[caltren.livejournal.com]

yah. Nerdy. On some level, part of me thinks that it's a shame people have nothing better to do with their time--when I know there's a lot of useful things out there that need doing. *grin* LoL!

On the other hand, it does sound way cool, and there's some cool anthropology in studying things that had a large effect on a large group of people. :-)