Cult Conversations: Interview with Ekky Imanjaya

I am very honored to be featured in Prof. Henry Jenkins' Confessions of an Aca-Fan. I was interviewed by Dr. William "Billy" Proctor from Bournemouth University.

Original source: Part I  & Part II
Happy Reading.

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.

Henry Jenkins was Here!

As I mentioned earlier, i co-organized an event at 5 of August on Aca/Fans discourses, at School of Postgraduate Jakarta Art Institute (IKJ). And it was such a great honor to be a moderator for Prof. Henry Jenkins. He and Cynthia, his wife, are very humble and kind.

Thank you Prof Jenkins and Cynthia. I hope you enjoy Bali !


Hereby I post pictures of the event, and other occasion.

After the Event. With Buni Yani, Iwan (IKJ), and Hikmat Darmawan (Pabrikultur)

Before the event, I took them to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah

me, as the chair, and the legendary Henry Jenkins

Ondel-ondel as our background :)

from the front

the presentation

Henry Jenkins is coming to Jakarta! Calling all Aca/Fans!