Schedule for Thursday, April 18

Music 9: Jazz, Hip Hop, and More

Areas: Music

Session chair: Eric Abbey, Ph.D.

	Presenters	Presentation type
Identity Crisis: The Intersection of Jazz and Queer History	Tara-Duncan Lawrence McLeod	Paper
Western Rock Stars in Eastern Bloc Stores: Capitalist Music Production and Communist Record Consumption	Sven Kube	Paper
“If I Say ‘Fuck’ Two More Times, That’s Forty-Six Fucks in This Fucked Up Rhyme”: Trends in the Occurrence of Taboo Language in Popular Music	Richard Henkle	Paper

Fifty Plus Years of Influence: Star Trek #2

Areas: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Session chair: Margaret Mendenhall

	Presenters	Presentation type
History, Mystery, or Gift? The verisimilitude of time travel with Star Trek and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Part 1.	Rabecca L Connors	Paper
History, Mystery, or Gift? The verisimilitude of time travel with Star Trek and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Part 2.	Luke Leonard	Paper
Has Winter come to Star Trek?	Margaret Mendenhall	Paper

Fairy Tales VIII: (Roundtable): Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?: The 80th Anniversary of The Wizard of Oz Film

Areas: Fairy Tales

Round table

Presenters: Joan S Monk, Amanda Boyd

Radio: Orson Welles, Impact on Literary Form, and Radio Drama’s Idiomatic Music

Areas: Radio and Audio Media

Session chair: Marguerite Rippy

	Presenters	Presentation type
An Eye for Sound: The Cinematic Radio of Orson Welles	Marguerite Rippy	Paper
All Things Reconsidered: 20 Years of Research on Public Radio	Peter P. Nieckarz, Jr.	Paper
Live from WMUC Studios: Broadcasting, Mediatization, and Memory	Leah J Bush	Paper

Gay, Lesbian & Queer Studies IV: Coming Out and Friends With Benefits

Areas: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies

	Presenters	Presentation type
‘I don’t fit there either’: Monogamous bisexual women’s experience of the UK bisexual community.	Dr Sarah Jane Daly	Paper
Friends with Benefits	Edward Joseph Ingebretsen	Paper
Renegotiating Coming Out Through Humor: Tumblr Coming Out Narratives	Misha Grifka	Paper

Dance and Dance Culture Lunch at Open City

Areas: Dance & Dance Culture

Get-together

Session chair: Celeste Landeros

Queer Culture: Drag, Camp & Death Drops

Areas: Body and Culture

	Presenters	Presentation type
Camp as Gaietie de Couer: Burlesquing Gender in World Famous Bob’s “One Man Show”	Lynn Sally	Paper
Mass Marketing Drag: Notes on RuPaul’s DragCon	Carl Schottmiller	Paper
Archiving the Death Drop: An Autoethnographic Digital Queer Embodiment Performance	Zachary Taylor	Creative work

Comics and Comic Art 8: Heroes

Areas: Comics and Comic Art

	Presenters	Presentation type
The Hero Divergent - Binary Paths on the Quest for Self-discovery in Mage: The Hero Discovered	Wayne Wise	Paper
The Legacy of the American Frontiersman and the Domestication of the Superhero	Jonathan Hunter Walsh	Paper
Matt Murdoch’s Ill-fitting Catholic Faith in Kevin Smith’s “Guardian Devil” and Netflix’s Daredevil	DANIEL D CLARK	Paper
Dreaming Kin: Neil Gaiman, G. K. Chesterton, and Sandman	Nick Katsiadas	Paper

Fashion Potpourri

Areas: Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption & Design

Session chair: Anne Frances Peirson-Smith

	Presenters	Presentation type
It’s a t-shirt. What’s the big deal? America’s Obsession with the T-Shirt	Rudy H Lopez	Paper
Examining Cats: Cute versus Interesting	Thorsten Botz-Bornstein	Paper
Fashion Knowledge: How recombined fashion fields create a new fashion reality	Ellen Anders	Paper
Back to the Future: The critical role of fashion archives in preserving, curating and narrating fashion stories	Anne Frances Peirson-Smith Ben Oscar Peirson-Smith	Paper

Travel & Tourism VIII

Areas: Travel and Tourism

Session chair: Matthew Donahue

	Presenters	Presentation type
“Slouching towards Belfast to be born: apolitical street-art in Belfast”	Gavin Keulks	Paper
Heritage Tourism in Daxu Ancient Town, China	Li Yang	Paper
The Amsterdam T-Shirt Project	Matthew Donahue	Creative work

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