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Pfeil International Lectures
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International Lectures in English

Current lectures in 2007 – among others:

Children’s humour in international comparison

Johannesburg (South Africa) March 25, 2007,
New York (USA) May 14, 2007
Sheffield (Great Britain) May 1 + 2, 2007
San Francisco (USA) May 28, 2007
Paris (France) July 23-25, 2007

Learning with television, how to make educational programmes attractive and effective

Damascus (Syria) April 28, 2007
Havana (Cuba) December 8, 2007

Television for Television beginners

Lucerne (Switzerland) May 5, 2007

Children watching war

Johannesburg (South Africa) March 28, 2007
Tacoma (USA) May 17, 2007

Hereos and Heroines of children

San Francisco (USA) May 26, 2007
Havana (Cuba) December 8, 2007Issues among the ones mentioned above:

Fantasy and media

"I was in my dreamland. Results of a multinational research on media and children's fantasies”.
London (United Kingdom) August 19-22, 2003,
"Gender in fantasies. Results of a multinational research on media and children’s fantasies." Conference of the (AIECS/IAMCR/AIERI). Barcelona (Spain) July 21-26, 2002

Soaps and Big Brother

"The significance of daily soaps for children and pre-teens".
"The significance of Big Brother for children and pre-teens".
51st Annual Conference of the ICA. Washington, DC (USA) May 24-28, 2001


The Teletubbies

"The secrets of the Teletubbies" among others:

General perspectives

"Television’s world perspective".
The Nordic Television Festival. Bergen (Norway) May 6- 7, 2004"Economy of attention in the children’s and youth market".
52th Annual Conference of the ICA. Seoul (Korea) July 15-19, 2002