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September 12, 2008 - Delaware Mensa Regional Gathering - Newark, DE: Guest speaker: I presented a one-hour talk titled "Translating the Sitcom: U.S. Remakes of British TV Series." This presentation, built around video clips from the 1970s to the present, traced cultural and "moral" adaptation trends in these American remakes, All in the Family to The Office. October 2007 - Annual conference of the American Studies Association - Philadelphia, PA: Presented a paper titled "Embracing Mental Illness: The Homophile Movement's Crisis over the 'Sickness Model' of Homosexuality, 1964-1969." It's part of a panel called "Queering the Regime: Challenging America's Legal and Medical Notions of Sexuality and Masculinity." June 3, 2007 - A presentation for students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison: A talk with video clips about LGBT images on American television from the 1950s to 1970s. The students are taking a "mobile" course about LGBT issues in the mid 20th century. The class is taught on a bus as they travel around, meeting with pioneering activists and LGBT scholars. May 1, 2007, 12:30 p.m. - University of Delaware - Newark, DE: A 75-minute version of my "Alternate Channels" talk: a video-illustrated lecture that traces the evolution of LGBT images in prime-time TV from the 1950s to the present. Part of a lecture series presented by the human sexuality program. November 1, 2006 - William Way Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Library - Philadelphia, PA: The first session of the Library's monthly Authors Series featured novelist Fred Shelley and media historian Steven Capsuto. April 22, 2006 - Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference - Baltimore, MD: The theme of the 2006 MARAC conference was "Archives on the Edge." I was on a panel called "Issues in Organizing and Sustaining LGBT Community-Based Archival/Historical Groups." October 20, 2005 - Suffolk University - Boston, MA: A 90-minute version of my "Alternate Channels" talk. Cosponsored by the university's LGBT student organization and the Journalism Department. October 22, 2005 - HiTOPS conference - Princeton, NJ: A 50-minute presentation about how TV's depiction of gay teenagers has evolved since the 1970s. July 8, 2005 - DignityUSA Convention - Philadelphia, PA: A 90-minute version of my "Alternate Channels" talk, at the national convention of DignityUSA (an organization for LGBT Catholics). January 16, 2005 - Haddon Township High School - Haddon Township, NJ: I spoke at a meeting of the school's Gay-Straight Alliance. Topic: How TV's depiction of gay teenagers has evolved since the 1970s. October 25, 2004 - Illinois State University - Normal/Bloomington, IL: A video-illustrated after-dinner talk about LGBT regular characters on TV series, 1970s-2000s. May 24, 2004 - Museum of Television and Radio - New York, NY: I was on a panel with producers, writers and performers from the Showtime series Queer As Folk and The L Word. It was part of the Museum's 2004 screening series about sexual minorities. May 10, 2004 - Friends Central School - Wynnewood, PA: A special, 35-minute talk and video presentation looking at how television's depiction of gay and bisexual teenagers has evolved since the 1970s. April 28, 2004 - Bournemouth University Media School - Bournemouth, United Kingdom: A new lecture with video clips: "Cloning British Television: American Remakes of U.K. TV Series, from TW3 to Queer as Folk and Coupling." It was part of a lecture series for graduate students in media production. April 17, 2004 - SUNY-Potsdam - Potsdam, NY: Full version of the "Alternate Channels" lecture, built around video clips tracing fifty years of LGBT images from U.S. television. April 9, 2004 - University of Florida - Gainesville, FL: Full version of the "Alternate Channels" lecture. January 14 to February 11, 2004 - Wednesdays, William Way Community Center - Philadelphia, PA: Multi-week seminar tracing the history of LGBT images on TV in the United States, Great Britain and other countries. November 14, 2003, COGAM lgbt community center - Madrid, Spain: "Alternate Channels" lecture in Spanish, with subtitled clips that trace a half-century of LGBT images in American television. October 27, 2003, St. Joseph's University - Philadelphia, PA: Full version of the "Alternate Channels" lecture. April 7, 2003, Coe College - Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Full version of the "Alternate Channels" lecture. May 7, 2003, Bournemouth University - Bournemouth, United Kingdom: Full version of the "Alternate Channels" lecture. November 8, 2002, COGAM lgbt community center - Madrid, Spain: "Alternate Channels" lecture in Spanish, with subtitled video clips. June 12, 2002, Free Library of Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA: A short, informal talk with video clips, about the development of "queer" images on television. April 4, 2002, San Francisco State University - San Francisco, CA: "Alternate Channels" talk/video. Later the same day, a new lecture with video clips: "Double Invisibility: LGBT Characters of Color on TV." Sponsored by the SFSU Queer Alliance. April 3, 2002, Hormel Center / San Francisco Public Library - San Francisco, CA: "Alternate Channels" talk/video. March 11, 2002, Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ: Talk/video presentation tracing how prime-time television has portrayed gay couples, gay marriage and same-sex weddings. Sponsored by Rutgers' GLB student organization, the BiGLARU. November 3 and 4, 2001 - Greater Palm Springs Pride - Palm Springs, CA: Book reading/informal talk, Saturday afternoon. Panel about LGBT trends in publishing and the mass media, Sunday afternoon. Signing books in the "Authors' Village" throughout much of the weekend October 24, 2001 - Barcelona International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival - Spain: Spanish-language version of my standard, two-hour "Alternate Channels" lecture. July 7, 2001 - "Console-ing Passions" Television Studies Conference - University of Bristol, U.K.: Multimedia lecture, "Lesbian and Gay Characters in Prime-Time Television: A Comparison of the British and American Models," as part of an international panel on GLB television characters. April 28 and 30, 2001 - Miami International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: "Alternate Channels" talk/video. Also served on the panel "Mainstream Gaze," sponsored by the Wolfson Media History Center. April 18, 2001 - University of Delaware: Two-hour "Alternate Channels" lecture with video clips. Dozens of earlier venues for the "Alternate Channels" lectures include: Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, a production meeting of Testing The Limits (documentary producers), Boston University, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, National Museum & Archive of Lesbian & Gay History, University of North Carolina, Temple University, Southeast Missouri State University, as well as various museums, community centers, film festivals, and conferences. |
