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American Culture Association
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American Culture Association
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Schedule for Friday, November 7, 2014
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
Check-in Friday |
2497|2495 |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Death in American Culture |
From Computers and Television to Literature |
Friday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Theater) | |
| Internet Culture |
Literature and Language |
Friday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Hanover Suite A) | |
| Latino/a Studies |
A Room of An/Other: Dis/Placing, and Dis/playing Our Cultural Dis/Positions in Latino Popular Culture and Literature |
Friday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Hanover Suite B) | |
| Novels and Book History |
Pearl S. Buck: Artist, Writer, Believer |
Friday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Salon A) | |
| Music |
Genre and B(r)ands |
Friday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Salon B) | |
| Children and Childhood Studies |
Media Discourses: Children and their Parents |
Friday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Salon D) | |
| Language and Popular Culture |
Language and Identity in Music Lyrics |
Friday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Salon E) | |
| Television |
TV Visual Effects, Motorcycles, and Meth |
Friday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Royal Board Room) | |
| Film Studies |
Cinematic Spaces: Real and Imagined |
Friday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Federal Hill Suite) | |
| Detective Fiction |
Archetypal Detectives and Niche Sub-Genres |
Friday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Caswell Suite) | |
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Domestic Designs |
Friday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Royal Conference Foyer) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
Coffee Break |
2474|2495 |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Death in American Culture |
Literary Connections |
Friday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Theater) | |
| Horror and Paranormal Studies |
Happy 25th MAPACA! Silver Solutions and Silverbird Zombies |
Friday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Hanover Suite A) | |
| Religion and Culture |
Entertaining Religious Belief with Religious Experience That Entertain: Pagans, Psychics, and Christians |
Friday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Hanover Suite B) | |
| Food and Culture |
Gender and the Great Culinary Divide |
Friday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Salon A) | |
| SF/Fantasy |
The Power of Sex |
Friday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Salon B) | |
| Children and Childhood Studies |
Pop Culture Pedagogies |
Friday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Salon D) | |
| Language and Popular Culture |
Language and National Identity |
Friday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Salon E) | |
| War Studies |
Guerrillas, Revolutionaries, and Warriors |
Friday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Royal Board Room) | |
| Sexuality and Erotica |
Exploring and Theorizing BDSM |
Friday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Federal Hill Suite) | |
| Women’s and Feminist Studies |
Of Mothers and Nerds: Deconstructing Television Archetypes |
Friday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Caswell Suite) | |
| American Studies |
Communal Stories |
Friday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Royal Conference Foyer) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
MAPACA BOARD MEETING |
Friday, November 7, 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm (Board Room) | |
| Urban Culture |
Writing the Urban Workshop |
Friday, November 7, 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm (Hanover Suite B) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Death in American Culture |
From Style to Photo to Disguise |
Friday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Theater) | |
| Internet Culture |
Visual Culture and Communication Technologies |
Friday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Hanover Suite A) | |
| Urban Culture |
Belonging or Not: Personal and Professional Trajectories through Cities |
Friday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Hanover Suite B) | |
| Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming |
Animation and Imagined Realities |
Friday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Salon A) | |
| Music |
Lyrics, Performativity, and Depictions |
Friday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Salon B) | |
| Children and Childhood Studies |
There and Back Again: The Evolution of Children’s Stories in the Age of Media |
Friday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Salon D) | |
| Language and Popular Culture |
Language and Scripted Speech |
Friday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Salon E) | |
| Television |
“The Show Must Go All Over the Place:” Glee and Off-Screen Cultural Transformations |
Friday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Royal Board Room) | |
| Horror and Paranormal Studies |
Blurring The Lines |
Friday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Federal Hill Suite) | |
| Fashion, Style and Consumer Culture |
Fashion, a Cultural Mirror of our Time |
Friday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Caswell Suite) | |
| Art & Visual Culture |
Commerce and Culture |
Friday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Royal Conference Foyer) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
Coffee Break |
2472|2495 |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Death in American Culture |
Looking at Urban Violence and Ways to Stop It |
Friday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Theater) | |
| SF/Fantasy |
Neuromancer at Thirty: Examining the Digital, Mechanical, and Virtual |
Friday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Hanover Suite A) | |
| Urban Culture |
Resistance, Riot, and Reform: Claiming Urban Space and Community |
Friday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Hanover Suite B) | |
| Activism |
Activism on Screen |
Friday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Salon A) | |
| Music |
Innovators of Rock |
Friday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Salon B) | |
| Children and Childhood Studies |
Schools and Rules |
Friday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Salon D) | |
| Language and Popular Culture |
Language Change through Popular Culture |
Friday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Salon E) | |
| War Studies |
Icons, Bodies, and Ghosts |
Friday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Royal Board Room) | |
| Sexuality and Erotica |
Redefining Sex and Sexualities |
Friday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Federal Hill Suite) | |
| Women’s and Feminist Studies, Professional Development |
Emerging Scholarship in Gender Studies |
Friday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Caswell Suite) | |
| American Studies |
Power, Politics and Public Policy |
Friday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Royal Conference Foyer) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies |
Nuancing TV’s Queer Reception in Modern Family, In the Flesh, and Looking |
Friday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Theater) | |
| Horror and Paranormal Studies |
Horror Through Time |
Friday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Hanover Suite A) | |
| Urban Culture |
Mega- and Mini-Remodeling of Cities, Identities, and Policies |
Friday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Hanover Suite B) | |
| Novels and Book History |
Fictionalizing the Past Century in the Modern Novel: O’Dell, Boyle, and Fleming |
Friday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Salon A) | |
| Music |
Punk Studies |
Friday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Salon B) | |
| Medieval & Renaissance |
“Twice-Told Tales”: Reimagining the Medieval and Early-Modern in Postmodern Works |
Friday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Salon D) | |
| Language and Popular Culture |
Language and Health/Fashion |
Friday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Salon E) | |
| Television |
TV and Social Media: #cosmos, Walking Dead, Jimmy Fallon, and Company Freaks |
Friday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Royal Board Room) | |
| Film Studies |
Silver Anniversary Panel: “Dead Poets Society” |
Friday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Federal Hill Suite) | |
| Travel and Tourism |
Domesticating the Exotic and Exoticizing the Domestic |
Friday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Caswell Suite) | |
| Disability Studies |
Disability and Identity in the Media |
Friday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Royal Conference Foyer) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
Dinner |
Friday, November 7, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm (Salon C) |