{"id":1906,"date":"2011-09-08T19:45:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T02:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2011-09-08T19:45:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T02:45:23","slug":"the-fall-2011-lecture-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1906","title":{"rendered":"The Fall 2011 Lecture Circuit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn 2011 is going to see me on a lot of planes.  On October 4th, I&#8217;ll be a guest lecturer in Henry Jenkins&#8217; transmedia storytelling class at USC (see Henry&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/henryjenkins.org\/2011\/09\/back_to_school_special_2_sylla.html\">full syllabus here<\/a> &#150; I am <i>honored<\/i> to be among some amazing presenters, and I would <i>kill<\/i> to take that class), and then I&#8217;ll be presenting for the second time at <a href=\"http:\/\/henryjenkins.org\/2011\/09\/back_to_school_special_2_sylla.html\">GDC Online<\/a> (which used to be GDC Austin) in the Game Writing track October 10-13.  Then, at the end of the month, I&#8217;ll be part of a panel discussion at the first-ever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyworldconference.com\/\">Storyworld Conference<\/a> in San Francisco, which is shaping up to be <i>amazing.<\/i>  November&#8217;s much more tentative, but it looks like I might be giving another talk in Vancouver, and perhaps flying up to Boston to hang out at the Futures of Entertainment 5 conference if time allows.  Come say hello if you&#8217;ll be around!<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the new car (which we named Samwise, since it&#8217;s small, reliable, and the best traveling companion anyone could hope for) is absolutely amazing, and we&#8217;ve put over 2000 miles on him in the month-and-change that we&#8217;ve had him around.  The day job has me hopping, working on things that I can&#8217;t tell anyone about but are going to turn some serious heads in the next couple of years. All this and I&#8217;m still trying to steal time to write and do other creative work during my long commute and in any spare moments I can carve out.  In short, life is good &#150; intensely busy, but very, very good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn 2011 is going to see me on a lot of planes. On October 4th, I&#8217;ll be a guest lecturer in Henry Jenkins&#8217; transmedia storytelling class at USC (see Henry&#8217;s full syllabus here &#150; I am honored to be among some amazing presenters, and I would kill to take that class), and then I&#8217;ll be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[41,61,72,73,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-geoffrey-long","category-henry-jenkins","category-microsoft","category-transmedia","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-uK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}