First Annual

Boss Baby Symposium

January 3, 2022 2 pm EST / 7 pm GMT

2:00 EST Opening Remarks

7:00 GMT
Tore Levander, Fordham University
Jaime McCaffrey, University of Kentucky

1st Panel: Situating The Boss Baby in Myth and Media

Moderator: Jaime McCaffrey

2:20 EST The Boss Baby as Παῖς-ἄναξ

7:20 GMT
Catherine Clement, Northeastern University
2:45 EST
‘Cookies Are For Closers’: The Boss Baby and Intertextuality in Late-Period DreamWorks
7:45 GMT
Dr. Sam Summers, Middlesex University
3:10 EST
10 Minute Break
8:10 GMT
2nd Panel: Personal and Professional Growth: Work and Play in The Boss Baby
Moderator: Tore Levander

3:20 EST The Land of Milk and Money: Lactic Capital in The Boss Baby
8:20 GMT
Sam Warren-Miell and Georgie Newson-Errey, University of Cambridge

3:45 EST Imagination and Authenticity: Sartre’s concept of Play in the Movie ‘The Boss Baby’
8:45 GMT
Robin Pawlett-Howell, University of York, England.

4:10 EST The Cradle of Crisis: Erik Erikson, Identity Formation, and the Paradox of The Boss Baby
9:10 GMT
Rennie Burke, MD, San Mateo County Psychiatry Residency Training Program

4:35 EST
10 minute Break
9:35 GMT

3rd Panel: “Not enough love for the two of us”: Birth, Motherhood, and the Lack Thereof
Moderator: JP Karliak

4:45 EST Dodging the Question: Childbirth in "The Boss Baby" and American Attitudes Towards Sexuality
9:45 GMT
Aura Irving, Washington State University

5:10 EST Mothering/Othering in Boss Baby: A Psychodynamic Formulation Of The Role Of Mother In Infant Development
10:10 GMT Using A Relational Perspectives Model
Joshua Poole, MD, UC Riverside School of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience
5:35 EST
10 Minute break
10:45 GMT
5:45 EST A Conversation With:
10:45 GMT JP Karliak, the voice of TV’s Boss Baby
Brandon Sawyer, Writer and Executive Producer of The Boss Baby: Back in Business
Closing Remarks
Tore Levander and Jaime McCaffrey