Thursday May 22, 2008 (7pm)
Friday May 23, 2008 (8am–6pm)
Saturday May 24, 2008 (8am–7pm)
Sunday May 25, 2008 (10am)
If the names "Jacques Derrida" and "Paulie Walnuts" are equally meaningful to you, then the Sopranos Symposium is for you. Fordham University hosts a three-day postmortem of the seminal drama, where you can witness discussions of such academy-friendly topics as Ethnic Identities and the Italian Question and Family, Society, and the American Way. The weekend winds down with a Sopranos bus tour to New Jersey (gabbagool from the pork store not included). Revel in the dorkiness, but know this: if Paulie ever caught you dissecting a TV show, he'd ridicule you for your intellectualism.
– Benjamin Hart