Best of 2015: My Academic Life

Best of 2015

March

SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference, Montreal, 25-29 March

Plaridel journal, special issue (as guest editor), late March 2015. (complete title: "The Bad, The Worse, and The Worst: TheSignificance of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies". Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society, Volume 1, Issue No. 2; 2014)

A Talk at Harvard University, 30 March

May
Student Award UEA Engagement Award , 15 May

July
Public Engagement Prizes, UEA Graduate School Prizes 2015, 14 July

August
Henry Jenkins’s Talk, IKJ, Jakarta, 5 August (as co-organizer and chair)

September
Finished writing the first draft of my doctoral thesis, early September 

October

Workshop on Indonesian Cinema as SOAS, University of London (as co-organizer and presenter), including as a chair for Mondomacabro's Pete Tombs Talk, 3-5 October

 Resolution of 2016:

1. Viva (thesis defence)
2. Publish a proper scholarly paper(s) in, at least, one Scopus-indexed journal.

Thank you, everyone! Alhamdulillah.

YES! SCMS! See You in Montreal!

I just received a great news.

About 2 months ago, some colleagues asked me to join their panel titled "Global Exploitation Cinemas: Travel, Translation, Taste" for SCMS 2015. And the panel got accepted!

I am going to discuss about Prokjatab Prosar (Kelompok Kerja Tetap Promosi dan Pemasaran Film Indonesia di Luar Negeri ,   Permanent Working Group of Indonesian Film Promotion and Marketing Abroad), an official body that started the phenomenon of Indonesian transnational exploitation cinema a.k.a. Crazy Indonesia.
   
See you in Montreal , 25-29 March 2015 !