The Wire Convention

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/nov/27/the-wire-conference-leeds

• A Man Must Have a Code: The Masculine Ethics of Snitching and Non-snitching – Thomas Ugelvik, University of Oslo

• The Writers' Room as Fiction-making Laboratory: The Wire as Sociotechnical Translation – John Farnsworth and Terry Austrin, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

• Non Text-based Sociology: The Wire and its Relationship to Public Sociology and Progress – Rowland Atkinson, University of York

• Ethics of the Real: Screening Masculinity, Violence and the Racial Everyday in The Wire – Ashwani Sharma, University of East London

• Music Supervision and The Wire: A Case Study in Ambient Naturalism – Jon Stewart, Lancaster University

• What The Wire Showed by Not Showing: The Invisibility of Domestic Violence in Disordered Neighbourhoods: Enrique Garcia, University of Valencia

"Kersten Mueller from the University of London, Goldsmiths, having presented her paper arguing that the streets of Baltimore present the homosexual thief Omar with a canvas on which his performative identity can be projected, said season four was her favourite."

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Wtf oh no.

Academics discuss works of fiction as they relate to social science all the time.

What's teh big deal?

It's a conference not a convention

I imagined a bunch of overweight people in Omar and Brother Mouzone cosplay walking around saying Sheeeeit and This-Is-Bullshit to each other

no

I love the show, but no.