Recorded Spring 2016.
Dr. Antoinette Miller Director, Partnering Academics and Community Engagement Professor of Psychology Calling all Whovians! Are you in withdrawal with the BBC’s recent announcement they are delaying New Who until 2017? Do you miss your favorite 2000 year old (or 4.5 billion year old…) time traveler? We may just have the thing for you…haul out your sonics and your jelly babies. In 1963 the BBC launched a semi-educational program known as “Doctor Who”. It involved an alien being known only as “The Doctor”, who to all accounts was a vagabond outcast from an advanced alien race and his “granddaughter” Susan whose teachers followed her home one night… and the rest as they say is history. After seven Doctors and a too-long hiatus from 1989 to 2005 (except that telemovie in 1996) it has since continued its run, adding five more Doctors (yes, we count the WAR Doctor!) to the roster, and has successfully “crossed the pond”.
But it isn’t just for entertainment…it can be educational too. Come and hear one professor own her nerdiness and share numerous applications of themes, story lines, and characters from the show to a wide range of concepts in the classroom.
But be prepared. This will be an interactive session – nerds love company. And fair warning: Dr. Miller has been a fan of the show since she first discovered it in the mid-1980s…