• Special SIAT Colloquium: Henry Jenkins - Friday Oct 19 - 5:30 PM - SFU Downtown

• Friday Oct 19 - 5:30 PM
• SFU Harbour Centre - Downtown (Room 2510) (Limited Space - RSVP)

• Title: Retrofuturism in Comics and Contemporary Culture + Open Discussion

Bio:

Henry Jenkins (Professor and Director, Comparative Media Studies Program, M.I.T.)

is one of the world's finest new media scholars, and is also an excellent speaker. Jenkins's range of expertise is very broad - including games studies, convergence culture, transmedia storytelling, new media literacy, media and gender, film studies, fan cultures, and many other areas.

Abstract:

Jenkins will present on "Retrofuturism in Comics and Contemporary Culture", but he is also eager to engage with the SIAT grad student community on a wide range of topics. See the list above for some of his areas of interest. Think in advance if you have any questions of your own in any of these areas.You can also check out the following sites to get more information about his interests and expertise:

Jenkins' MIT webpage:

Go here and you can literally pick his brain....

http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/

Henry's blog: "Confessions of an Aca-Fan"

Check out the Archives to see his breadth of interests and expertise:

http://www.henryjenkins.org/

http://www.henryjenkins.org/archives.html

"Convergence Culture Consortium"

One of his department's research initiatives, with weblog:

http://www.convergenceculture.org/

http://www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/

The Future of Entertainment

A brief description of an upcoming MIT conference he is organizing:

http://convergenceculture.org/futuresofentertainment/2007/

• The colloquium will be held downtown at SFU's Harbour Centre or Downtown Segal Centre (room TBA).

• Since we are serving food and seating is limited, please RSVP to Robin Oppenheimer by noon on Thursday.