Schedule for Saturday, April 20

Music 20: David Bowie as Persona

Areas: Music

Session chair: Aaron Michael Kerley

	Presenters	Presentation type
Bowie’s Ch-Ch-Changes: From Persona-User to Persona-Critic Bowie’s Ch-Ch-Changes: From Persona-User to Persona-Critic	Garrett J Cummins	Paper
David Bowie 1980: Rock and Roll Suicide	Susan Naomi Bernstein	Paper
At The Center of It All: Life, Death and the Thematic Re-Intergration of David Bowie	kathleen c johnson	Paper
David Bowie IS Ziggy Stardust (?): The Art of Eliding and Eluding Persona	Aaron Michael Kerley	Paper

XX. Analyses of Get Out

Areas: Horror (Text, Media, Culture)

Session chair: Cassandra S Reid

	Presenters	Presentation type
The Sunken Place Massacre: Abjection, Black Trauma, and The Final Boy in Get Out	Mikal Gaines	Paper
Psychological Horror and the Consequences of Fulfilled Violence	Marissa A Maldonado	Paper
“I want those things you see through:” Voyeurism as Prejudice and Oppression in Jordan Peele’s Get Out	Cassandra S Reid	Paper

Collage, Influence, Graphics, and Irony

Areas: Art & Design Culture

Session chair: J Ken Stuckey

	Presenters	Presentation type
Where and When I Labor: The Black Worker in the Collages of Romare Bearden	J Ken Stuckey	Paper
Sideshow Acts and Queasy Invitations: Ironic Titles in the Work of Francis Picabia and Kara Walker	Hannah W. Wong	Paper
A Call to Presses: The Collective Graphics Workshop of the Creative Women’s Collective	Jennifer Noonan	Paper
Craft, Color, & Contours: The Influence of Pop in Contemporary Art	Meganne Rosen	Paper

Cozy Mysteries: Community and Catharsis

Areas: Mystery & Detective Fiction

	Presenters	Presentation type
Complicating Ideas of Community in Today’s Cozies	Marilyn Rye	Paper
Arts-Based Research and Mysteries: querying trauma, gender and genre	Susan Rowland	Paper
Cozy-Noir and Trauma in Riverdale Season 2	Deborah Leiter	Paper
Gender and Nostalgia in Agatha Christie’s Representation of War	Monica Lott	Paper

Science & Pop Culture VIII: Media Representations

Areas: Science & Popular Culture

	Presenters	Presentation type
Pseudosciencefiction: the Rise and Range of Docufiction	Jessie Casteel	Paper

Masculinities, Stereotypes, and Violence

Areas: Men and Men’s Studies

Session chair: Merry G Perry

	Presenters	Presentation type
The Big Sick: The Misrepresentation of Arranged Marriages in Middle Eastern Culture	YOUSEF Alhamoudi	Paper
*Phantom Pains: Metal Gear Solid V–A Model for Contemporary Masculinity*	Ryan James Wasser	Paper

Artificial Intelligence and Biopolitics

Areas: Philosophy and Culture

Session chair: Jason Eberl

	Presenters	Presentation type
*THE DAWN OF MEN AND THE DIGITAL AGE: 2001: SPACE ODYSSEY* REVISED**	Shai Biderman	Paper
Awake (and pissed off)—On a productive tension between Westworld’s first and second seasons	Trip McCrossin	Paper
CYLONS ARE PEOPLE TOO: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ON PERSONHOOD AND BIOPOLITICS	Jason Eberl	Paper
Replicant Birth; Moral Miscarriage	Brooke Rudow	Paper

GAME STUDIES 20: Constructing Community Through Play

Areas: Game Studies

Session chair: Matthew Schmalzer

	Presenters	Presentation type
What’s the big deal about Ninja? A Starting Point for Examining Rhetorical Power on Twitch	Alexandra Salome Cata	Paper
Gamifying the Asynchronous Online Classroom: Practice, Community, and Outcome	Beth Greene	Paper
We’re All Soldiers Now (Unless We Aren’t): Discourse Formation in Competitive Overwatch Communities	Matthew Schmalzer	Paper

Film XX–Adaptation: Lassie Come Home, Lolita, and Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Areas: Film

Session chair: McKenzie Caldwell

	Presenters	Presentation type
LassieCome Homeand its Legacy: Cognition and Ethics	Marwood Larson-Harris	Paper
False Recognition and the Erasure of Dolores Haze from Lolita	Angela Francis	Paper
The Girl on the Swing: An Analysis of Cues and Depression in Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice (2005)	McKenzie Caldwell	Paper

History of Popular Culture Studies I

Areas: History of PCA and the Popular Culture Movement

Session chair: Michael Marsden

	Presenters	Presentation type
Culture of/for the Masses: How Copyright Registration Has Saved Popular Song and Dance at the Library of Congress	Libby Smigel	Paper
The Desires of the Pit: Kenneth Burke as Critic of Popular Culture	Karen E. Whedbee	Paper
Kent State, Campus Unrest, and the Shift in the Basic Cultural Paradigm	Michael Marsden	Paper

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