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Anime Boston 2010 Panels Preview

This past weekend was the deadline for panel applications at Anime Boston 2010. After spending the past few weeks brainstorming and cutting down ideas, I finalized 9 panels for this year. Hopefully a bunch of them will be accepted into the official schedule, but for now, here’s a preview of what might be in store [...]

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Otakon 2009: Success +2

Otakon, aka. Animation Fastival 2009
The Department of Alchemy met with another great success at Otakon 2009 this past weekend. We had large audiences come out for all of our panels: Impact of Evangelion (Saturday morning), Anime/Manga Studies (Saturday late morning), The Problem with Otaku (Saturday evening), and Without Watching the Anime: Opening & Ending Themes [...]

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Otakon Panel Updates!

No, really, I love Yutaka Yamamoto-san to death.
So, if you’re going down to Otakon this weekend, you might as well stop by a Department of Alchemy panel! As of about 10 minutes ago, one more of our panels has been added to the official schedule. Our new program looks like this:
The Impact of Evangelion – [...]

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  • Department of Alchemy


    Connecting the dots between popular media and social culture.

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    The Department of Alchemy approaches American, Japanese, and international digital culture from a critical, analytical (and sometimes quite academic) perspective.
    The blog provides commentary, news, essays, reviews, reports, presentations, audio/video, and general thoughts for a mainstream audience, with intended respect to the context of the works and the broader society that encompasses them.

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    See me speak at Ignite Boston 7 at Microsoft NERD in Boston, MA, on 4 March 2010.


    See me speak at Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston, MA, from March 26th - 28th, 2010.


    See me speak at the Popular Culture Association National Conference in St. Louis, MI, from March 31st - April 3rd, 2010.


    See me speak at Anime Boston in Boston, MA, from April 2nd - 4th, 2010.


    Meet me at ROFLcon II in Boston, MA, from April 30th - May 1st, 2010.


    Meet me at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, CA, from July 1st - 4th, 2010.


    Meet me at Otakon in Baltimore, MD, from July 30th - August 1st, 2010.

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