Schedule for Saturday, April 18

Areas: Law and Popular Culture

	Presenters	Presentation type
Is Yoga Religious Under the First Amendment?	Sejal Singh	Paper
The Devil in Recent American Law	L. Joe Dunman	Paper
Death By Text	James Vines	Paper

Areas: Horror (Text, Media, Culture)

	Presenters	Presentation type
Jordan Peele’s Us Through the Lens of the Voodoo Zombie	Natalie Kate Wilson	Paper

Areas: Asian Popular Culture

	Presenters	Presentation type
It’s Like You’re There: Experiencing Sounds, Giongo, and Gitaigo in Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-San	Kay Krystal Clopton	Paper
Strange Romance: Female Desire for Gender-Crossing Men in Shojo Manga	Keiko Miyajima	Paper
Japanese Graphic Medicine: Essay Manga, Mental Illness, and Disability	CJ Suzuki	Paper
Boys and Their Robots: The Mechanized Boy in Anime	Wendy Goldberg	Paper

Areas: Film

	Presenters	Presentation type
The Male Gaze and Motherhood: How Film Language Values Women’s Bodies Before, During, and After Motherhood	Alexis Romero Walker	Paper
Practical Magic: A Movie Made for the Female Audience	Megan Rutter	Paper
Road Trips: Women at the Wheel in Coppola’s and Scorsese’s New Hollywood	James Osborne	Paper
Elvira is Patriarchy’s Unpleasant Dream	Nicole Batchelor	Paper

Areas: Vampire Studies

Session chair: Kristin L. Bone

	Presenters	Presentation type
Crafting Dracula’s Future	Christine McDaniel	Creative work
Crafting Dracula’s Future	Kristin L. Bone	Creative work

Areas: Body and Culture

	Presenters	Presentation type
Soldiers, Sailors, and Surgical Specimens: A History of Tattoo Collections in America	Karly Etz	Paper
Parkour’s platforming: Productions of body and environment across media landscapes	Fidelia Lam	Paper
IMPROVING SIZING & FIT: PLUS SIZE BASIC DRESS SLOPERS FOR THE “NEW” AVERAGE AMERICAN WOMAN	ChaCha N Hudson Kelly Cobb (not registered)	Creative work

Areas: Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture

Session chair: Thomas Albritton

	Presenters	Presentation type
Winnie-The-Pooh as a Model of Growth Mindset	Thomas Albritton	Paper
How to Be A Really Forking Good Person: Education and The Good (Place)	Jordan Corson Daniel Friedrich	Paper
Reshaping the Intention of Teaching: Recognizing the Canonical History of Harm and Teaching Healing Writing.	James Crawford	Paper
How the personal implementation of the principals found in Isaac Newton’s, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, leads to increased scholarly productivity for American undergraduate students	Zachary Tanner Reyna	Paper

Areas: Music

Session chair: Eric Abbey, Ph.D.

	Presenters	Presentation type
Fresh Sounds: Indie Electronica in 1980s Kansas	Fran Connor	Paper
Lights, Cables, Noise: The Eurorack Synthesizer’s Rise to Fame	Gavin Fox	Paper
Voice of the People: Jamaican Music Collection and the Digital Collective Archive	Heather Augustyn	Paper
The New Sound: Dub in England and the spread of culture.	Eric Abbey, Ph.D.	Paper

Areas: Memory & Representation

Session chair: Terry Cochran

	Presenters	Presentation type
Unwoke Edith Wharton: Reading The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence in the current times	Maxime Blanchard	Paper
Mythological Figures of Care in Literary Aids Writings	Catherine Mavrikakis	Paper
Literary Thinking about the Programmed Obsolescence of Memory	Terry Cochran	Paper
Back to the (Gendered) Future: Nostalgia and the Feminist Impulse of Netflix’s Stranger Things and G.L.O.W.	Ann Ciasullo	Paper

Areas: Mystery & Detective Fiction

	Presenters	Presentation type
Conventional Wisdom: The Power of Genre Formula in the Detective Novel	Phyllis Betz	Paper
“I Figured, If I Worked Harder Than They Did …”: The Many Servant/Service Roles of Columbo’s Dogged Detective	Brennan McKinney Thomas	Paper
Nancy Spain’s Crime Fiction: Queer Pop Culture in the Pre-Stonewall Era	Rosy Mack	Paper
The case “Janet Evanovich”: what future lies ahead for the Stephanie Plum series?	Solange Garnier-Fox	Paper

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