For those of you near the University of Arizona:

Serge Tisseron, famous for the book “Tintin at the Physchoanalyst’s” is speaking at the UA on January 26 from 6-730 pm. Here are the details from the University’s site.

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Through Tintin’s adventures, speaker Serge Tisseron highlights the mechanisms of the family secret, 80 years after the first album appeared. While working as a hospital psychiatrist, he reread the graphic novels of his youth and hypothesized a Hergé family secret. Tisseron’s book “Tintin Chez le Psychanalyste” was published in 1985, two years before the secret was uncovered by journalists.

Now director of research at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, Tisseron, a scriptwriter, cartoonist and author of 30 books, continues to analyze the pathogenic effects of secrets over a number of generations. He also explores the physical impact from cartoons, photography, cinema, television and computer screens. He has advised the French government about the impact of violent images on children.

The illustrated talk is in French with a bilingual Q&A.

Tisseron’s tour of the United States and Canada is supported by the Délégation générale of the Alliance Française in Washington in partnership with Radio des cinq académies de l’Institut de France (Canal Académie).

The Tucson talk is co-sponsored by Alliance Française of Tucson and the University of Arizona College of Humanities and the department of French and Italian.

Just got this from the folks over at Tintinologist:

Just a quick heads up to those in the UK (probably not available elsewhere) that BBC7, the digital spoken word channel, have once again laid on the dramatizations of Tintin at Christmas (and beyond). The Black Island is currently on the iPlayer for listen again, and the next epsiode, The Secret of the Unicorn will be on Saturday the 2nd, at 09:00 and 19:00, with Red Rackham’s Treasure on the 9th at the same times.

That’s as far as the information on the site seems to run, so I don’t know if the Moon adventures then follow, but keep your eyes (and ears) open on the BBC sites if you want to listen to them.