4 hours, 12 panelists, one baby: celizotte reports on the inaugural BossBaby symposium
The Boss Baby. Photo: Twentieth Century Fox “I guess my question is … can we even talk about the Boss Baby and the other employees of Baby Corp as babies?”
This was the unique magic of the first annual Boss Baby symposium. For nearly five hours on the afternoon of January 3, 12 panelists and 75 spectators gathered over Zoom for a day of reckoning with the meme-friendly children’s movie. The symposium was co-organized by two philosophy Ph.D. students, Jaime McCaffrey of the University of Kentucky and Tore Levander of Fordham University, who described the movie as an “interpretive nightmare” to the A.V. Club in 2021.
Photo: BBSymposium2022/YouTube The actual day dug into all things Boss Baby through seven 15-minute talks accompanied by ten-minute Q&As, which can be relived on YouTube. The range of approaches was inspired, and the PowerPoint visuals were breathtaking. Catherine Clement of Northeastern University proposed that the Boss Baby actually has a lot in common with child leaders in ancient mythology, as proven by a slide juxtaposing the “attempted infanticides” of the Boss Baby and Astyanax.
Photo: BBSymposium2022/YouTube Sharing Summers’s mind-expanding vision, the Boss Baby symposium understood that the most bizarre pieces of pop culture can unlock larger truths, if only we set down our self-protective shields of irony and taste. When we see a behemoth balloon of a Boss Baby careening over midtown in an annual parade sponsored by Macy’s, it’s perhaps very easy for us to shut our brains off as a defense mechanism.
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