{"id":1725,"date":"2008-06-06T22:54:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2008-06-06T22:54:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T02:54:10","slug":"next-conference-is-on-wallace-and-gromit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"Next Conference is on Wallace and Gromit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henderson State University is holding an <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/academic-conference-examines-b.html\">academic conference on &#8220;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&#8221;<\/a> and other works by scholar and all-around nice guy Josh Whedon.  No joke. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the papers: &#8220;Buffy and Feminism,&#8221; &#8220;Buffy and Identity,&#8221; &#8220;Gender Stereotypes and the Image of Domesticity in &#8216;Firefly,'&#8221; &#8220;&#8216;Firefly:&#8217; The Illusive Safety of Big Damn Heroes&#8221; and a Durand favorite by a British scholar, &#8220;Hero&#8217;s Journey, Heroine&#8217;s Return: Buffy, Eurydice and the Orpheus Myth.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have the conferenced on Harry Potter, I&#8217;d like to know?  How about &#8220;The Simpsons?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henderson State University is holding an academic conference on &#8220;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&#8221; and other works by scholar and all-around nice guy Josh Whedon. No joke. Among the papers: &#8220;Buffy and Feminism,&#8221; &#8220;Buffy and Identity,&#8221; &#8220;Gender Stereotypes and the Image of Domesticity in &#8216;Firefly,&#8217;&#8221; &#8220;&#8216;Firefly:&#8217; The Illusive Safety of Big Damn Heroes&#8221; and a Durand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1725\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Next Conference is on Wallace and Gromit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}