Date: Friday, May 22, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: MIT Building 10, Room 250
Street: 222 Memorial Drive
City/Town: Cambridge, MA

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The second annual Julius Schwartz Lecture brings J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of the cult science fiction hit Babylon 5.

The Julius Schwartz Lecture is an annual event held to honor an individual who has made significant contributions to the culture, creativity and community of comics and popular entertainment.

The lecture is hosted by the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and was founded to honor the memory of longtime DC Comics editor Julius "Julie" Schwartz, whose contributions to our culture include co-founding the first science fiction fanzine in 1932, the first science fiction literary agency in 1934, and the first World Science Fiction Convention in 1939. Schwartz went on to launch a career in comics that would last for well over 42 years, during which time he helped launch the Silver Age of Comics, introduced the idea of parallel universes, and had a hand in the reinvention of such characters as Batman, Superman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman and the Atom.

The event is typically structured as a short lecture presented by the honored speaker, followed by a question-and-answer discussion between the speaker and the head of the Comparative Media Studies program, media scholar Henry Jenkins III. This will be followed by an open question-and-answer session between the lecturer and the audience. The inaugural speaker for the series was New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.

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My latest on Grist.

Eat the rich with organic greens: Let millionaires pay to solve our twin environmental and economic crises - by Gar W. Lipow

We are BS consensing on the hotel for the F2F 2009 - hie thee to F2F5 if you wish to get in on the action, as they say. juliana "F2F5: I forget that everyone isn't us" Apr 15, 2009 2:36:20 pm PDT

My monthly parenting column continues in the Stevens Point Journal.

I have launched a new blog.

Living Without a God

It's about atheism and my experiences as an atheist.

A new essay is up on my teaching blog, Little but Fierce: Merit Pay Without Merit. I abandon humor this week in favor of righteous political indignation. Please share with anyone who you think might be interested. Thanks!

I haven't been properly promoting the online journal that I created a few years ago, AngeLingo. Every semester we publish a new issue. The latest issue has just come out.

If you are interested, go check it out: [link]

There are some great articles, art, even a movie on video game narratives--all written by undergraduates. Enjoy!