MAPACA Mid-Atlantic Popular &
American Culture Association
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American Culture Association
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Schedule for Friday, November 4, 2016
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
Conference Check-in |
Friday, November 4, 8:00 am to 7:00 pm (Havana Tower 4th Floor Foyer) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
Book Exhibit |
Friday, November 4, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (Mambo 3 & 4) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music |
Rock ‘n’ Roll and its Subgenres |
Friday, November 4, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Bongo 1) | |
| Detective Fiction |
Detective Fiction in Italian and Brazilian Settings |
Friday, November 4, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Bongo 2) | |
| Sports |
History and Making History |
Friday, November 4, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Bossa Nova 1) | |
| Journalism and News Media |
How News Stories are Constructed and Conveyed |
Friday, November 4, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Bossa Nova 2) | |
| Religion and Culture |
X-Men and Vampires Left Behind (in the) Purple Rain: Pop Culture Expressions of Religious Attachments |
Friday, November 4, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Bossa Nova 3) | |
| Death in American Culture |
Death As Components in Literature |
Friday, November 4, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Castanet 1 & 2) | |
| Novels and Book History |
Chronicles of Change |
Friday, November 4, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Castanet 3) | |
| SF/Fantasy |
The Building Blocks of Stories: Tropes and Identify in SF/Fantasy Narratives |
Friday, November 4, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Castanet 4) | |
| Disability Studies |
Constructions of Disability and Nationalism |
Friday, November 4, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Mambo 1) | |
| American Studies |
Black Bodies/Black Voices: Politics, Agency, and Personhood |
Friday, November 4, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Mambo 2) | |
| Internet Culture |
Health and Education |
Friday, November 4, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Mariachi) | |
| Film Studies |
Stanley Kubrick, Philosophy, and Bad Movies |
Friday, November 4, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Tambora) | |
| Children and Childhood Studies |
Broadcasting and Receiving: Children’s Television and Child Viewers |
Friday, November 4, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Tango) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
Coffee & Tea Break |
Friday, November 4, 10:30 am to 11:15 am (Mambo 3 & 4) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medieval & Renaissance |
Medieval Studies on TV |
Friday, November 4, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Bongo 1) | |
| Play Studies |
Transformation Through Performance Play |
Friday, November 4, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Bongo 2) | |
| Native American Studies |
Constructions and Borrowings of Native American Identities and Histories: Who Shapes the Narrative? |
Friday, November 4, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Bossa Nova 1) | |
| Food and Culture |
Our American Foodway |
Friday, November 4, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Bossa Nova 2) | |
| Professional Development |
Revising Your Dissertation into a Book |
Friday, November 4, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Bossa Nova 3) | |
| Death in American Culture |
Funeral Home to Grave |
Friday, November 4, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Castanet 1 & 2) | |
| Art & Visual Culture |
Visual Identities: Ambivalent, Negotiated, and Lost |
Friday, November 4, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Castanet 3) | |
| Activism |
Constructing View: Framing as Transformation |
Friday, November 4, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Castanet 4) | |
| Fan Studies and FanFiction |
Fruits Beyond The Fictions |
Friday, November 4, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Mambo 1) | |
| SF/Fantasy |
Things Fall Apart: The (Moral) Center Then Must Hold |
Friday, November 4, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Mambo 2) | |
| Internet Culture |
Transnational Identities |
Friday, November 4, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Mariachi) | |
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies |
GLBTQ Representation in Dr. Who, Yaoi, and Such |
Friday, November 4, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Tambora) | |
| Children and Childhood Studies |
The Child in the Marketplace: Children as Real and Imagined Consumers |
Friday, November 4, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Tango) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
Board Meeting |
Friday, November 4, 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm (Off-site) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medieval & Renaissance |
Not Very Ladylike!: Gender and the Medieval |
Friday, November 4, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Bongo 1) | |
| Detective Fiction |
New Approaches to Stories of Iconic Detectives: Holmes, Marlowe, and Columbo |
Friday, November 4, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Bongo 2) | |
| Sports |
Of Gender, Poetry, and Social Theory |
Friday, November 4, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Bossa Nova 1) | |
| Journalism and News Media |
Journalism, Politics, Crime, and Celebrity |
Friday, November 4, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Bossa Nova 2) | |
| Women’s and Feminist Studies |
The Discourse of Violence: Rape, Murder, and Feminism |
Friday, November 4, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Bossa Nova 3) | |
| Death in American Culture |
Final Residences |
Friday, November 4, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Castanet 1 & 2) | |
| Art & Visual Culture |
Art & Visual Culture Open Session |
Friday, November 4, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Castanet 3) | |
| War Studies |
Frontiers and Civil Wars |
Friday, November 4, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Castanet 4) | |
| Horror and Paranormal Studies, Disability Studies |
Perceptions of The Body |
Friday, November 4, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Mambo 1) | |
| SF/Fantasy |
Beneath A Surface: Uncanny Truths |
Friday, November 4, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Mambo 2) | |
| Television |
Masculinity, Aging, and Sexuality |
Friday, November 4, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Tambora) | |
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies |
Queering Music and Dance: From Cowboys to Pointe |
Friday, November 4, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Tango) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
Coffee & Tea Break |
Friday, November 4, 2:30 pm to 3:15 pm (Mambo 3 & 4) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medieval & Renaissance |
Re(Presenting) The Middle Ages and Early Modern |
Friday, November 4, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Bongo 1) | |
| Latino/a Studies |
Latinidad(es): Intersections, Representations or From Television to the Campus |
Friday, November 4, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Bongo 2) | |
| Native American Studies |
Mythological Figures and Hard Realities in Native American Culture, Past and Present |
Friday, November 4, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Bossa Nova 1) | |
| Professional Development |
Popular Culture in the College Writing Classroom |
Friday, November 4, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Bossa Nova 3) | |
| Death in American Culture |
Lasting Monuments |
Friday, November 4, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Castanet 1 & 2) | |
| Art & Visual Culture |
Form and Fluctuation: The Shifting Purpose and Patronage of 21st Century Museums |
Friday, November 4, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Castanet 3) | |
| Activism |
Media as Means |
Friday, November 4, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Castanet 4) | |
| Horror and Paranormal Studies |
Creepy Casino: Odd and Even Outcomes |
Friday, November 4, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Mambo 1) | |
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Making Sense of the World |
Friday, November 4, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Mambo 2) | ||
| Internet Culture |
The Real and the Imagined as Contexts for Communication, Media, and Technology |
Friday, November 4, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Mariachi) | |
| Children and Childhood Studies |
The Child on Screen: Youth, Adaptation, and Film |
Friday, November 4, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Tango) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
Area Chair Meeting |
Friday, November 4, 4:30 pm to 6:15 pm (Castanet 1 & 2) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
Dinner and Annual Meeting |
Friday, November 4, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm (Salon 3 & 4) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Culture |
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll Film Screening and Q&A with Associate Producer & Lead Researcher LinDa Saphan |
Friday, November 4, 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm (Tambora) |