Geoffrey Long: Presentations and Lectures

I don't honestly remember when I first decided I wanted to be a professor. I remember thinking as a kid that having the summers off forever was an awesome idea, of course, but it wasn't until I was older that I discovered the joy of getting up in front of a room full of people and attempting to make them as excited about something as I was. I love being able to show people how amazing these subjects can be, batting ideas back and forth and getting them engaged in real conversations about fascinating topics.

The vast majority of my teaching experience so far has been gained while a graduate student at MIT. As a transmedia producer at Microsoft, I lectured whenever I can in a variety of courses and at a number of different conferences. (Unfortunately, due to the nature of corporate America, I'm unable to include internal presentations here – hence the precipitous 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. Below is a list of my recent public appearances, with links to downloadable Keynote or PowerPoint decks wherever possible.

2014	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)