Conferences I'm Attending

This year I am scheduled to present at 3 conferences. 

In November 2011, I'm presenting at the International Studies Association - NorthEast.  The conference theme is:  Continuity and Change in Global Politics.  I'll be presenting on this topic:  .Imagining America’s Distant Future: Apocalyptic Literature and the End of American Exceptionalism.  Here's a summary of my paper:
In recent years, American popular culture has developed a fascination with the apocalypse – or perhaps the end of the American empire. Today, we can entertain ourselves with a vision of America’s demise through Peak Oil, natural disaster, terrorist attack, plague, or even a plague of zombies – in film, television, and written form. Does our eagerness to imagine America’s end hold any lessons for the international relations community? Historic analysis suggests that British citizens had a similar fascination – towards the end of the British Empire. A comparison of US and British apocalyptic narratives provides a lens for considering imperial hubris, the ways in which the victims of disaster are Othered, and ultimately allows us to create a new ethic of international relations, through envisioning a world system in which America is on the bottom, looking up.

In November 2011, I'm presenting at the Centennial Conference for Marshall McLuhan in Brussels, Belgium.  The conference theme is:  McLuhan's Philosophy of Media.   I'll be presenting on this topic:  Marshall McLuhan meets the Internet Addict.  In this presentation, I draw upon some of the research I did for my book Threat Talk to  think about how McLuhan himself might understand and interrogate the notion of internet addiction.

In April 2012, I'm presenting at the International Studies Association conference.  The conference theme is:  Power, Principles and Participation in the Global Information Age.  I'll be participating in two panels:
Power in the Information Age:  A Theoretical Approach
and
Securing or Securitizing Cyberspace:  A Trans-Atlantic Discussion

I'd love to meet up with any of my readers at any of these events.