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The Lebowski Cult: An Academic Symposium

Click here for the Symposium schedule.

PLEASE NOTE: The symposium requires separate registration. The roundtable on Sept 30th is free and open to the public (no registration required)

As part of the 5th Annual Lebowski Fest, there will be an academic symposium and roundtable discussion. The aim of the symposium is to gather cultural commentators, critics, theorists, and scholars of all stripes to invent a critical program equal to the tasks of interpreting The Big Lebowski (dir. Joel Coen, 1998) and addressing the fan cult that has quickly grown in its wake: the legions of “achievers” as well as the influence and implications of their fanaticism.

The roundtable discussion will be held on Sat., Sept. 30th from noon to 2 pm at The Executive West Hotel (830 Phillips Ln) in the Scots Room. It is free and open to the public.

Guest speakers include:

Alan Dale (film historian and author of Comedy is a Man in Trouble)
Joe Morgenstern (Pulitzer-prize winning film critic)
William Preston Robertson (author of The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film and TBL crew member credited with "giggles/howls/marmots")

Some of the papers include:

"Logjammin and Gutterballs: Masculinities in The Big Lebowski"

"I Hate the Eagles: The Big Lebowski Meditates on Musical Genre"

"Lebowski/Mnemosyne: Cultural Memory, Cultural Authority, and Forgetfulness"

Please visit the symposium web site for more information.

Thanks to the coordinators:

Aaron Jaffe, Assistant Professor of English, University of Louisville
Ed Comentale, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University