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Schedule for Saturday, November 8, 2014

Sat, 11/08/2014 - 08:00 to 16:00
Areas	Session	Session chairs
MAPACA	Check-in Saturday		2498\|2495

Sat, 11/08/2014 - 09:00 to 10:15
Areas	Session	Session chairs
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies	Performing and Subverting Heteronormativity in Hollywood and Beyond		Saturday, November 8, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Theater)
Internet Culture	Social Media and Social Practices		Saturday, November 8, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Hanover Suite A)
Art & Visual Culture	Representation and Power		Saturday, November 8, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Salon A)
Novels and Book History	Arendt, Hurston, and Calvino’s “Cosmos”: creating a common world in fiction		Saturday, November 8, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Salon B)
Children and Childhood Studies	Warriors and Dangerous Women: An Examination of Female Role Models for American Girls in Print, Film, and Television		Saturday, November 8, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Salon D)
SF/Fantasy	SFF’s Prophetic Fragments		Saturday, November 8, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Salon E)
Television	Mad Men		Saturday, November 8, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Royal Board Room)
Native American Studies	Performing Indians, Performing Indianness: Truth and Consequences		Saturday, November 8, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Federal Hill Suite)
Fashion, Style and Consumer Culture	Branding, Positioning, and Marketing Strategy		Saturday, November 8, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Caswell Suite)
Working Class Culture	Sitcoms and Hollywood Films		Saturday, November 8, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Royal Conference Foyer)

Sat, 11/08/2014 - 10:15 to 10:30
Areas	Session	Session chairs
MAPACA	Coffee Break		2475\|2495

Sat, 11/08/2014 - 10:30 to 11:45
Areas	Session	Session chairs
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies	Digital Irruptions: Queering Facebook, Justin Bieber in Bondage on Tumblr, and House of Night Fandom Reception		Saturday, November 8, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Theater)
Latino/a Studies	YA Chica! Hip Hop and Do the Conga! Latinidad and Fusion in Latino Popular Music and Literature		Saturday, November 8, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Hanover Suite A)
Music	Pedagogy, Iconography, and Research		Saturday, November 8, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Salon B)
Decorative Arts and Design	Decorative Arts and Design		Saturday, November 8, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Salon D)
SF/Fantasy	Reading Science Fiction and Fantasy		Saturday, November 8, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Salon E)
Film Studies	Technology and Politics in Recent Cinema		Saturday, November 8, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Federal Hill Suite)
Travel and Tourism	Negotiating the Personal		Saturday, November 8, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Caswell Suite)
Working Class Culture	Class Mobility, Education and Gender		Saturday, November 8, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Royal Conference Foyer)

Sat, 11/08/2014 - 11:45 to 13:15
Areas	Session	Session chairs
Professional Development	High-Density Popular Culture Crash Course		Saturday, November 8, 11:45 am to 1:15 pm (Theater)
Food and Culture	Lexington Market		Saturday, November 8, 11:45 am to 1:15 pm (Salon C)

Sat, 11/08/2014 - 13:15 to 14:30
Areas	Session	Session chairs
Performance Studies	Inter-Performance		Saturday, November 8, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Theater)
Internet Culture	Do-It-Yourself, Gifting and Archiving		Saturday, November 8, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Hanover Suite A)
Art & Visual Culture	Surface and Subtext: Public Images		Saturday, November 8, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Salon A)
Music	History and Politics		Saturday, November 8, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Salon B)
Decorative Arts and Design	Decorative Art and Design		Saturday, November 8, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Salon D)
SF/Fantasy	Vampires, Werewolves, and Negotiating a Feminine Identity		Saturday, November 8, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Salon E)
Television	TV and Race		Saturday, November 8, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Royal Board Room)
Film Studies	Teenagers on Film		Saturday, November 8, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Federal Hill Suite)
Fashion, Style and Consumer Culture	Fashion gender and Social identity		Saturday, November 8, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Caswell Suite)
Working Class Culture	Law, Politics and Documentary Films		Saturday, November 8, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Royal Conference Foyer)

Sat, 11/08/2014 - 14:30 to 14:45
Areas	Session	Session chairs
MAPACA	Coffee Break		2473\|2495

Sat, 11/08/2014 - 14:45 to 16:00
Areas	Session	Session chairs
Performance Studies	Alluring Presence(s)		Saturday, November 8, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Theater)
Internet Culture	Race and Relationships		Saturday, November 8, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Hanover Suite A)
Religion and Culture	Vin Diesel, the Duggers, and a Hallmark Christmas: Negotiating a Religious Message in a Secular World		Saturday, November 8, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Hanover Suite B)
Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming	Social and Performance Dynamics in Video Games		Saturday, November 8, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Salon A)
Professional Development	Gender and the Academy		Saturday, November 8, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Salon B)
Children and Childhood Studies	African-American Childhood in Life and Letters		Saturday, November 8, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Salon D)
SF/Fantasy	Other Bodies in SF: Post-Colonialism, Race, and Disability		Saturday, November 8, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Salon E)
Television	Television Structure: The Wire, Sharktank, the CW, and the WWF		Saturday, November 8, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Royal Board Room)
Film Studies	Planet of the Apes		Saturday, November 8, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Federal Hill Suite)
Travel and Tourism	The Built Environment		Saturday, November 8, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Caswell Suite)
Working Class Culture	Across the Great Divide Workshop		Saturday, November 8, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Royal Conference Foyer)

Sat, 11/08/2014 - 16:00 to 18:00
Areas	Session	Session chairs
MAPACA	Area Chair Meeting		Saturday, November 8, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm (Board Room)