Geoffrey Long: Scholar: Lectures and Presentations

Lectures & Presentations

Below is a list of recent lectures and presentations, with downloadable Keynote or PowerPoint decks wherever possible. As a transmedia producer at Microsoft, I lectured whenever I could in a variety of courses and at a number of different conferences – but the nature of corporate America meant a drop-off in listed talks in 2010. Once I returned to academia in 2013, I dialed up my lecturing again, primarily at the University of Southern California. The second lull in 2017-2018 was due to my concentrating more on completing my PhD, and transitioning into full-time teaching. (See Teaching.)

2017	2017 Story/Forward Conference participant Story/Forward Conference May 2017 \| Indonesia
2016	The Future of the Franchise panel Digital Hollywood Conference October 2016 \| Los Angeles, CA Presented with Flint Dille IndieCade October 2016 \| Los Angeles, LA Transmedia Storytelling and Worldbuilding Kiki Benzon's transmedia course August 2016 \| USC \| Los Angeles, CA Transmedia Storytelling Old Dominion University (teleconference) April 2015 Transmedia Storytelling and Worldbuilding John Tarnoff's entertainment industry course March 2016 \| Carnegie Mellon \| Los Angeles, CA Transmedia Storytelling and Worldbuilding Peggy Weil's World Building seminar January 2016 \| USC \| Los Angeles, CA
2015	Transmedia Storytelling and Worldbuilding Alex McDowell's World Building course October 2015 \| USC \| Los Angeles, CA The Edison Project and the Future of Advertising Havas NextGen Summit October 2015 \| New York, NY Keynote Speaker Media Mutations 7 May 2015 \| Bologna, Italy Hollywood Does Cutting Edge panel Digital Hollywood Conference April 2015 \| Los Angeles, CA Storytelling and the New Screens panel South by Southwest March 2015 \| Austin, TX Transmedia Storytelling and Branding Henry Jenkins and Burghardt Tenderich's Transmedia Branding course February 2015 \| USC \| Los Angeles, CA Transmedia Storytelling Lipscomb University (teleconference) January 2015 Innovations in Storytelling & Media panel Second Screen Summit at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) January 2015 \| CES \| Las Vegas, NV
2014	Transmedia Storytelling Jeff Watson's Survey of Interactive Media course Nov. 17, 2014 \| USC \| Los Angeles, CA Design Thinking at Microsoft Susan Resnick West's Change Management course Nov. 12, 2014 \| USC \| Los Angeles, CA Geek Speaks: The Future of Comics with Henry Jenkins, Scott McCloud, Hank Kanalz, Joe LeFavi, Dan Burwen, Patrick Chappatte and Diana Williams Event Co-Organizer and Panel Moderator University of Southern California Oct. 23, 2014 \| USC \| Los Angeles, CA Video of the event USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and The Edison Project: Reimagining The Entertainment Business Digital Hollywood Oct. 23, 2014 \| Los Angeles, CA Original Internet TV: The Cross-Platform Explosion Digital Hollywood Oct. 23, 2014 \| Los Angeles, CA Mind Control Video Games in 25 Years Oct. 2, 2014 \| CNBC \| Los Angeles, CA The YouRift Podcast Sept. 15, 2014 \| Los Angeles, CA Transmedia Storytelling Danube University Krems June 28, 2014 \| Los Angeles, CA and Krems, Austria East Coast vs. West Coast Transmedia Storytelling with Erin Reilly Transmedia LA June 4, 2014 \| Los Angeles, CA Futurecomics with Joe LeFavi Henry Jenkins' Comics course Apr. 30, 2014 \| Los Angeles, CA Transmedia x The New Screens Jon Taplin's Media Industries course Feb. 10, 2014 \| Los Angeles, CA Transmedia x The Future of Storytelling Interactive Media Division Lecture Series Jnauary 2014 \| Los Angeles, CA
2013	Transmedia Storytelling x The New Screens Nanocon 2013 Nov. 8-10, 2013 \| Dakota State University \| Madison, SD Transmedia and The Future of Comics Billy Ireland Cartoon Research Library & Museum Grand Opening Festival of Cartoon Art Nov. 14, 2013 \| OSU \| Columbus, OH The Future of Storytelling Nov. 13, 2013 \| Kenyon College \| Gambier, OH
2012	Storyworld panelist October 2012 \| Los Angeles, CA Comics and Transmedia Transmedia Hollywood 3 April 2012 \| Los Angeles, CA Entertainment After Transmedia South by Southwest Interactive March 2012 \| Austin, TX
2011	Panelist Storyworld October 31, 2011 \| Los Angeles, CA Transmedia Franchise Design University of Washington Bothell Oct. 18, 2011 \| University of Washington \| Bothell, WA From Story to Universe: 10 Best Practices for Transmedia Franchise Design Game Developers Conference Online Oct. 11, 2011 \| Austin, TX A Transmedia Viability Toolkit University of Southern California Oct. 4, 2011 \| USC \| Los Angeles, CA On Future Unconventional Narratives FUN Conference (Beta) May 20, 2011 \| University of Washington \| Bothell, WA "We're Looking For Characters": Designing Personalities Who Play Across Platforms (Panel Discussion) Transmedia Hollywood 2 April 8, 2011 \| USC \| Los Angeles, CA
2009	Case Study: Purefold (Panel Chair) Futures of Entertainment 4 November 20, 2009 \| MIT \| Cambridge, MA Them's Playing Words: Video Game Adaptation Workshop With Matthew Weise October 15, 20 and 22, 2009 \| MIT \| Cambridge, MA Building Worlds Between Panels: Migratory Characters, Comic Books and Transmedia Storytelling Henry Jenkins' Transmedia class October 5, 2009 \| USC \| Los Angeles, CA Transmedia Tales to Teach: Vast Narratives as Educational Spaces Descolagem Lecture Series August 22, 2009 \| NAVE \| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Somewhat Rushed due to Translation) Video of the Event Play Chapter: Video Games and Transmedia Storytelling 2009 Games Education Summit June 16-17, 2009 \| Carnegie Mellon University \| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Convergence Culture Workshop Danube University Krems June 12-14, 2009 \| Krems, Austria The Future of Publishing (Plenary Panel Chair) MIT6: The Media in Transition Conference April 24-26, 2009 \| MIT \| Cambridge, Massachusetts Podcast of the Event (86.46MB MP3 file) "Opening Doors, Building Worlds": The Origins of the X-Men A Conversation with Chris Claremont MIT CMS Colloquium Series April 21, 2009 \| MIT \| Cambridge, Massachusetts Podcast of the Event (110MB MP3 file) Play Chapter: Video Games and Transmedia Storytelling MIT6: The Media in Transition Conference April 24-26, 2009 \| MIT \| Cambridge, Massachusetts PDFs of Paper and Presentation (27.8MB .zip file) From Horrorism to Terrorism: the New Weird, the New Horror and the War on Terror 2009 American Comparative Literature Association Conference March 26-29, 2009 \| Harvard University \| Cambridge, Massachusetts From Plot to Character to World: Some Aesthetics of Transmedia Storytelling 3rd Pictoplasma Conference March 17-22, 2009 \| Berlin, Germany Keynote Presentation and PDF (25.41MB .zip file) Them's Playin' Words: Game Adaptation Workshop With Matthew Weise MIT Independent Activities Period January 15, 2009 \| MIT \| Cambridge, Massachusetts
2008	Them's Playin' Words: Game Adaptation Workshop With Matthew Weise Austin Game Developers Conference September 15-17, 2008 \| Austin, Texas Them's Playin' Words: Game Adaptation Workshop (Lite) With Matthew Weise Boston GameLoop 2008 August 23, 2008 \| MIT \| Cambridge, Massachusetts Transmedia Storytelling Workshop 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH Sandbox Conference August 9-10, 2008 \| Los Angeles, California Keynote Presentation (3.29MB .zip file) Toys, Twentysomethings and Transmedia International Toy Researchers' 5th World Congress July 9-11, 2008 \| Nafplio, Greece Toys and Stories Guest Lecture: MIT Toy Design Course (2.00b) April 2, 2008 \| MIT \| Cambridge, MA Keynote Presentation (7.43MB .zip file) Transmedia Storytelling Sony Game Design Workshop at MIT January 2008 \| MIT \| Cambridge, MA
2007	Every Screen a Bonfire: Transmedia Theory, User-Generated Content and Interactive Narrative Part of a panel chaired by Stephen Jacobs FuturePlay 2007 November 15-17, 2007 \| Toronto, Canada Keynote Presentation (2.94MB .zip file) Radial Narrative Maps and Mike Mignola's Hellboy Media in Transition 5 Conference April 27-29, 2007 \| MIT \| Cambridge, Massachusetts Keynote Presentation (4.9MB .zip file) Transmedia Storytelling, Niche Media and the Jim Henson Company Part of a panel chaired by Henry Jenkins Society in Cinema and Media Studies Conference March 8-11, 2007 \| Chicago, Illinois Keynote Presentation (2.8MB .zip file)
2006	Transmedia Storytelling Part of a panel chaired by Stephen Jacobs 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH Sandbox Conference July 29-30, 2006 \| Boston, Massachusetts Keynote Presentation (828KB .zip file)