Looking at Nikhilesh' example (http://niki4810.github.io/blog/2013/05/26/building-modular-apps-using-backbone-and-geppetto/) this would pull lines 34-37 into a javascript object:

    contextEvents: {
      'loadResultsSuccessEvent': this.handleSearchResultsLoaded,
      'loadResultsErrorEvent': this.handleSearchResultsLoadError
    }

Although it's not any shorter (in lines), I think it's a bit cleaner and more standardized. Similar lines will be in pretty much every view, after all.