PCA/ACA
Schedule for Saturday, April 20
11:30am to 1:00pm
Masculinities, News, and Power
Men and Men’s Studies
Lisa Naomi Konigsberg
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Romancing: Misandrous Media Reactions? | Don Corrigan | Paper | |
| Oh Yeezy!: Kanye West, Race, Masculinity and the American Presidency | Cherise Pollard | Paper | |
| Is Satire a Men’s Sport? Parody, Fake News, and Late Night “News.” | Victoria Tischio | Paper | |
| Disarming: The Rhetoric of Masculinity, Power, and Gun Culture in America | Lisa Naomi Konigsberg | Paper |
Sites of Memory
Memory & Representation
Paige Gibson
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Public Memory and Neo-Confederate Kitsch: Understanding Nostalgia for the Confederacy Through Local Memory Sites | Ryan Marie Kor Sins | Paper | |
| Anne-Marie Schwarzenbach’s Trip to Mount Eagle (Tennessee): The Political Geography of America in the 1930’s | Catherine Mavrikakis | Paper | |
| I Wish I Was in Dixie: Mythmaking, Stereotyping, and Nostalgia in the Construction of Southern Identity | Kayli Reneé Rideout | Paper | |
| Imaginative Encounters: An Autoethnography of Memoryscapes in Dresden, Berlin, and Munich | Paige Gibson | Paper |
GAME STUDIES 22: Designing Games in/for the Classroom
Game Studies
Lauren Ashley Malone
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Is there a Game Dev in the House? Developing Serious Games In-House in Academic Settings | Joshua Peery Kuan Chen | Paper | |
| The Sage on the Stage behind The Curtain: Alternate Reality Gaming and Business Communication | Eric Allen Holmes | Paper | |
| Game Jamming in the Classroom | Lauren Ashley Malone | Paper |
Shakespeare III
Shakespeare on Film and Television
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| “An individual who knows what he is about”: Maurice Evans’ 1953 Live Telecast of Hamlet | Nicholas Utzig | Paper | |
| Don’t Drink the Toxic Masculinity: Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing | Peter Babiak | Paper | |
| Ophelia as an Assertive Victim in Asian Films | Alexa Alice Joubin | Paper | |
| Luke Skywalker as Prospero: Magic as Redemptive Force in The Tempest and The Last Jedi | Jeffrey Paul Pietruszynski | Paper |
1:15pm to 2:45pm
XXIII. Blurred Worlds & Identity in Horror
Horror (Text, Media, Culture)
Michelle Kay Hansen
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghosts as Memory Linking Mortality and Immortality Through Fluid Identity | Vanessa Doerpinghaus | Paper | |
| Beyond One Narrative of Silent Hill(s): Dealing with Trauma by Killing the Monster | Mildred Marie Vargas Astacio | Paper | |
| Horror for the Xennial Generation: Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World | Michelle Kay Hansen | Paper |
Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics III: Dialects, Lyrics, and Gender
Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics
Justin Paz
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Aretha’s Language of Think and Feel | Milford Astor Jeremiah | Paper | |
| Gender and Prescriptivism | Deborah Schaffer | Paper |
GAME STUDIES 23: Ecology and Environment
Game Studies
Melissa Bianchi
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pixelated Frontiers: Zelda’s Gamic Cartography | Bridget Leigh Sellers | Paper | |
| The Strange Case of Pollution and Environmental Change in the Sid Meier Civilization Series | Will Morris | Paper | |
| Antonin Artaud and the Violence of Alternative Worlds n BioShock Infinite | Katya Gorecki | Paper | |
| Ocean Ecologies and Dinosaur Zoos: How Games Make Arguments about Nature | Melissa Bianchi | Paper |
Philosophy as Pedagogical and Popular
Philosophy and Culture
Corey R. Horn
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rise of Public Philosophy: Bringing Philosophy Out of the ClassroomThe Rise of Public Philosophy: Bringing Philosophy Out of the Classroom | Corey R. Horn | Paper | |
| “Wonder Woman: Female Empowerment in a Man’s World” | Dr. Isadora Mosch | Paper | |
| The Long Con of the Enlightenment: From Hobbes and Locke to Kanye and Harold Hill | H Peter Steeves | Paper | |
| Jordan Peterson’s Conservativism in Context | Michael Ventimiglia | Paper |
Film XXIII–Cinematic States of Mind: Unstable Realities, Death Anxiety, Ephemerality & Loss, and Happiness
Film
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| What is Reality? What Constitutes an Authentic Human Being? | Victor Benning | Paper | |
| Phantoms of Past Futures: Nostalgia and the Living Death of Cinema | Eric Hahn | Paper |
Fifty Plus Years and Still Going Somewhere: Star Trek #3
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Michael Cornelius
| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Star Trek’s “New Frontiers”: Gender, Biology, and Conventionality in Science Fiction | Michael Cornelius | Paper | |
| Star Trek Discovery: Back to the Future | Kathleen Marie Heath Ann Carlisle | Paper | |
| The Mycelial Network and the Borg: Connectivity, the Rhizome, and Posthumanism in Star Trek | Lisa Dorothea Meinecke | Paper |