[H-verkko] Turku, “What if They Are All Us? Star Trek and the Universalization of the American Imaginary”

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“What if They Are All Us? Star Trek and the Universalization of the American
Imaginary”

Turku, Kaivokatu 12
2.11.2015 klo 12:15 – 2.11.2015 klo 13:45
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Star Trek, originally broadcast on NBC from 1966 to 1969, was a ratings failure
as originally broadcast. Its low viewership made it vulnerable to cancellation
at the end of each of its seasons. Given its status as a low-rated television
series, there was no reason to suppose the Star Trek franchise would go on to
become a global pop culture powerhouse. Whatever its beginning, however, the
franchise now spans five television series, twelve motion pictures, uncountable
numbers of novels and magazines, the entire “Trekkie/Trekker” fan convention
phenomenon and even dictionaries of “Trek” languages like Klingon — in
which it is possible to enact William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” if one
desires to do so. The continuing popularity of Star Trek derives from its
linkage of American political cultural values to a global — indeed a galactic
— scale. Star Trek offers its fans the promise that the future will be global,
ethical, rights respecting, and democratic. Humanity's future will, in other
words, be the best parts of the “American way”: American culture made
manifest on a galactic scale.

 

Chair

Dr. Kari Kallioniemi, Researcher and Director, Kone Foundation project
“Thatcherism, Popular Culture, and the 1980s” & Vice-Director, International
Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC), University of Turku

Speakers

Dr. Austin Lane Crothers, Professor of Politics and Government, Illinois State
University

Dr. Martha Horst, Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition, Illinois
State University

 

The event is free and open to the public. Organized in collaboration with the
International Institute for Popular Culture.

 

Artium Building can be found as T53 from the University of Turku Campus map:
http://www.utu.fi/en/university/map/Pages/home.aspx

Tiedustelut: John Morton Center for North American Studies (jmc at utu.fi)
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