200, 2,000, or 12,000.

Dr. Christopher Bell is a highly trained and dynamic speaker with a gift for connecting with audiences. His vast and authentic knowledge of popular culture combines with his years of study in the areas of media effects and textual analysis to create a unique blend of information and delivery that speaks to the hearts of academics and non-academics alike. 

Part university professor, part animation industry executive.
All entertaining.

Whatever size crowd you anticipate, Dr. Bell can captivate your guests and leave their brains feeling filled right up to the brim.

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Dr. Bell will open the minds of your audience to the ways in which popular culture shapes how we feel about ourselves, how we treat other people, and how we see the world. In this signature keynote, Dr. Bell will reveal to your guests the roots of public pedagogy - how media perform the function of teaching us to be members of our society. Using examples from everything from popular culture - Star Wars, Disney films, the NFL … it’s all fair game - Dr. Bell weaves an intricate and compelling tapestry of media messages to help attendees become more savvy media consumers. 

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Dr. Bell’s signature keynote speech is

Scalable from 30 to 90 minutes

Not quite what you had in mind?

Let’s talk about the specifics of your event and how Dr. Bell can tailor something special, just for you. Custom keynotes specifically designed for you and your event are always an option. Whatever type of event you are planning, Dr. Bell can come up with a dynamite keynote speech that will blow your audience away!

No time for a full keynote?

Dr. Bell has prepared an enormous variety of talks that range from 20 to 60 minutes - perfect for an afternoon breakout session, lunchtime lecture, training session, or employee enrichment. Just choose your category, then look through the offerings and see what excites you!

  • Alexander Hamilton

  • Christmas! (Where do Christmas traditions come from?)

  • Dystopia/Dystopian Societies

  • Generations

  • A variety of topics about Harry Potter:      
    Harry Potter as Racial
    Construction

    Harry Potter and Moral
    Disengagement
    Harry Potter and Privilege

    Harry Potter and Symbolism
    Harry Potter and Feminism

    Harry Potter and Trinity Archetype

    Harry Potter and Transmediation

  • Hasbro, Marvel, and Toy Franchising

  • Hopepunk

  • Leadership and Popular Culture

  • Professional Wrestling topics: Gender, Wrestling-as-Superhero-Story, Masculinity, Geopolitics, Race

  • Reality Television

  • Visual Rhetoric/Visual Argumentation

Pop Culture Education Topics

  • Consumerism/Consumerist Culture

  • Cultural Construction/What Makes a Culture

  • Cultural Criticism

  • Cultural Persuasion

  • Implicit Bias

  • “White Gaze”/“Male Gaze”

Diversity and Inclusion Topics

  • Animation and Sexualization

  • Art in the Age of Mechanical
    Reproduction

  • Art, Popular Culture

  • “Big Bads” in Popular Culture

  • Celebrity/Commodification of Identity

  • Character Development

  • Cults in Popular Culture

  • Deconstructing a Narrative

  • Fandom

  • Hero’s Journey

  • How a Superhero Narrative Works

  • Media and Identity

  • Media Literacy

  • Media Tropes

  • Metaphysics and Comic Books

  • Military Industrial Complex and Media

  • Modern Monsters

  • Myth in Popular Culture

  • Privilege and Popular Culture

  • Representation Theory: Masculinity in media, Femininity in media, Race, Socioeconomics

  • Representation, Appropriation, and Misappropriation

  • Rhetoric in Popular Culture

  • The Meaning-Making Process/Purposeful Storytelling

  • Violence in Animation

Film Industry Topics

  • A Crash Course in Public Speaking

  • Communicating Across Generations

  • How to Engage in an Argument

  • How to Have Important Conversations

  • How to Humblebrag Properly

Communication Skills Topics

Contact Dr. Christopher Bell and let’s discuss how we can bring his knowledge to your audience!