AND THEY SAY ACADEMIA DOESN'T PRODUCE ANYTHING USEFUL: Yes, Yale has hosted the first conference (that I know of) devoted to the study of Michael Jackson. I couldn't make up titles of the papers presented, which include "White Ambition: Michael Jackson, Racial Erasure, and Aesthetic Surgery," "Should Adults Be Allowed in Neverland?: Michael Jackson, Fantasy, and the Problem of Pedophilia," "Feeling Like a Woman, Looking Like a Man: Michael Jackson, Grace Jones, and the Transgendered Erotics of Voice," and, my favorite, "Call Me Kiki: Little Ricky Martin, Menudo, and the Legacies of Little Michael Jackson, 1983-1989," which bridges the emerging fields of Ricky Martin-ology and Jackson-ology.
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