MAPACA Mid-Atlantic Popular &
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American Culture Association
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Schedule for Thursday, November 7, 2019
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| MAPACA | Check-In | Thursday, November 7, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm (Grand Foyer) |
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| MAPACA | Book Exhibit | Thursday, November 7, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (Grand Foyer) |
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| MAPACA | Publishers' Exhibit Coffee & Tea Break | Thursday, November 7, 9:00 am to 11:15 am (Grand Foyer) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| Native American Studies, SF/Fantasy | Indigenous Storytelling-A Roundtable: Surviving Apocalypses and Imagining Decolonial Futurisms | Thursday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (City Center A) | |
| Horror and Paranormal Studies | Zombies! | Thursday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Marquis Ballroom A) | |
| Television | Is local TV throwing away its last niche? Rigorous, actionable, hyper-local news | Thursday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Marquis Ballroom B) | |
| Children and Childhood Studies | The Radical Potential of Young Adult Literature Roundtable | Thursday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Monongahela Room) | |
| American Studies | Taking it to the Streets: Youth Movements, Drugs, & Generational Change | Thursday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Ohio Room) | |
| Internet Culture | Political Memes and Speech | Thursday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Pittsburgh Room) | |
| Women’s and Feminist Studies | New Spaces of Resistance | Thursday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Salon 1 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Film Studies | Surveillance and Fear in Contemporary American Cinema | Thursday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Salon 2 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming | Exploring War and the Inter/Multicultural | Thursday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Salon 3 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Rhetoric and Composition in a Global World | Reconnecting Rhetoric in the Classroom | Thursday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Salon 4 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Sexuality and Erotica, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies | Co-Sponsored Panel: Sexuality, Presence, and Performance | Thursday, November 7, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Salon 6 Grand Ballroom) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| SF/Fantasy | The Perpetuation of Female Disempowerment in Science Fiction and Fantasy and a Ray of Hope? | Thursday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (City Center A) | |
| Horror and Paranormal Studies | Animated Horror | Thursday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Marquis Ballroom A) | |
| Television | TV Stereotypes | Thursday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Marquis Ballroom B) | |
| Children and Childhood Studies | Questions of Morality in Narratives for Children | Thursday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Monongahela Room) | |
| American Studies | Identity Making in 19th-Century America, Personal & Cultural | Thursday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Ohio Room) | |
| Internet Culture | Emerging Media and Forms | Thursday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Pittsburgh Room) | |
| Women’s and Feminist Studies | The New Superhero | Thursday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Salon 1 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Film Studies | The intersection of Literature and Film | Thursday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Salon 2 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming | Representation and Marginalization in our Escapism | Thursday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Salon 3 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Rhetoric and Composition in a Global World, Professional Development | Elements of Contemporary Rhetoric: Visual, Oral, and Written | Thursday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Salon 4 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Native American Studies | Representations of Indigeneity in Art and Popular Culture | Thursday, November 7, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Salon 6 Grand Ballroom) |
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| Urban Culture | Writing the Urban: A Writing Workshop | Thursday, November 7, 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm (Monongahela Room) |
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| Horror and Paranormal Studies | Horror in A Dark Light | Thursday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Marquis Ballroom A) | |
| Television | TV Women, Queerness, and Tomboys | Thursday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Marquis Ballroom B) | |
| American Studies | Creating Meaning & Community: From Infinite Jest to Digital Gatekeeping | Thursday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Ohio Room) | |
| Music | On Modernity | Thursday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Pittsburgh Room) | |
| Women’s and Feminist Studies | Emerging Scholars | Thursday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Salon 1 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Film Studies | Race in Cinema | Thursday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Salon 2 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming | Engaging With the Game: Ethics and Digital Entertainment | Thursday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Salon 3 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Art & Visual Culture | Design as History | Thursday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Salon 4 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Religion and Culture | Religious Resources in Popular and American Culture | Thursday, November 7, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Salon 6 Grand Ballroom) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| MAPACA | Publishers' Exhibit Coffee & Tea Break | Thursday, November 7, 2:30 pm to 3:15 pm (Grand Foyer) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| SF/Fantasy | Corporealizing Fantastic Landscapes: Enriching or Demeaning the Imaginative Experience? | Thursday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (City Center A) | |
| Horror and Paranormal Studies | Creepy Connections | Thursday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Marquis Ballroom A) | |
| Medieval & Renaissance | Medieval Undead/Undead Medievalisms | Thursday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Marquis Ballroom B) | |
| Children and Childhood Studies | Entertainment and Mortality: Contested Young Bodies | Thursday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Monongahela Room) | |
| Working Class Culture | Roundtable: Contemporary Representations of Class and Labor in Television and Film | Thursday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Ohio Room) | |
| Music | Social Movements, Aesthetics and Perception | Thursday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Pittsburgh Room) | |
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies | Queer Representation and Media Audiences | Thursday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Salon 1 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Sports | Selected Topics in Baseball: Pop Culture, Invisible Work, and Sports Venues | Thursday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Salon 2 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Religion and Culture | Religion in Pittsburgh Post-Tree of Life Shooting | Thursday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Salon 3 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Art & Visual Culture | Photography's Allure | Thursday, November 7, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Salon 4 Grand Ballroom) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| Disability Studies | Superheroes and Disability | Thursday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (City Center A) | |
| Rhetoric and Composition in a Global World, Play Studies | Pedagogy, Performance, Writing, and--Superheroes! | Thursday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Marquis Ballroom A) | |
| Medieval & Renaissance | Retold Myths: Ancient and Medieval | Thursday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Marquis Ballroom B) | |
| Law and Popular Culture | Stranger than Fiction: The Lasting Impact of Legal Legends | Thursday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Marquis Ballroom C) | |
| Language and Popular Culture | The Language of Comedy and Clothing, Linguistic Landscapes, and Poetic Propaganda | Thursday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Monongahela Room) | |
| Working Class Culture | The Poetics of Labor and Class: Reading, Seeing, and Writing about Working Class Culture | Thursday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Ohio Room) | |
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies | The Cultural Impact of Queerness and LGBT Identity | Thursday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Salon 1 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Sports | Selected Topics in Sport: Celebrity Revival Story, Fight Club, and A Network Approach to Sport Communication | Thursday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Salon 2 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Natural and Built Environment | The Rhetoric of Architecture: How Buildings Serve as Markers of Cultural Realities | Thursday, November 7, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Salon 6 Grand Ballroom) |
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| MAPACA | Divine Impact Award Speaker | Thursday, November 7, 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm (Salon 4&5 Grand Ballroom) |
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| MAPACA | Reception | Thursday, November 7, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm (Salon 4&5 Grand Ballroom) |
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| MAPACA | Graduate Student Social | Thursday, November 7, 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm (Offsite) |