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American Culture Association
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American Culture Association
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Schedule for Saturday, November 7, 2015
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
Exhibit Room |
Saturday, November 7, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm (Homer) | |
| MAPACA |
Saturday Check-in |
Saturday, November 7, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm (Wyeth Foyer) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
National PCA Board Meeting |
Saturday, November 7, 8:30 am to 12:00 pm (Benton) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decorative Arts and Design |
Materials, Spaces and Film |
Saturday, November 7, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Calder) | |
| Travel and Tourism |
Heritage Tourism: Methods and Meanings |
Saturday, November 7, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Cassatt) | |
| Film Studies, Women’s and Feminist Studies |
The Fantastic, the Heroic, and the Horrific: Women in Genre Films |
Saturday, November 7, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Hopper) | |
| SF/Fantasy |
Art in the Fantastic: Shakespeare, Comics, and Musical Comedy |
Saturday, November 7, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (O’Keefe) | |
| Disability Studies |
Performing Disability in Theater and Film |
Saturday, November 7, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Pollack) | |
| Art & Visual Culture |
Past Present |
Saturday, November 7, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Rockwell) | |
| Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming |
The Empowered, the Distressed, and the Manly: Supehero(in)es and Identity in Children’s Media |
Saturday, November 7, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Warhol) | |
| Children and Childhood Studies |
Children’s Health |
Saturday, November 7, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Whistler A) | |
| Music |
Hip Hop and Beyond |
Saturday, November 7, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Whistler B) | |
| Urban Culture |
Negotiating Encounters: New York City Public Spaces |
Saturday, November 7, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Wyeth A) | |
| Television |
TV, Advertising, Public Relations, and Media Attention |
Saturday, November 7, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Wyeth B) | |
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies |
Queering TV and Film: from Families in Space to Women in Prison |
Saturday, November 7, 9:00 am to 10:15 am (Wyeth C) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
2nd Floor Coffee & Tea Break |
Saturday, November 7, 10:00 am to 10:30 am (Wyeth Foyer) | |
| MAPACA |
8th Floor Coffee & Tea Break |
Saturday, November 7, 10:00 am to 10:30 am (8th Floor Coffee & Tea Table) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports |
Sport and Social Change |
Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Calder) | |
| Travel and Tourism |
Travel and the Exotic or Forbidden Other |
Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Cassatt) | |
| Film Studies |
Making and Marketing the Hollywood Blockbuster |
Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Hopper) | |
| SF/Fantasy |
Constructing Science Fictional Meaning |
Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (O’Keefe) | |
| Disability Studies |
Writing and Understanding Disability |
Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Pollack) | |
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Planetary Sustainability: Here and There and Everywhere |
Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Rockwell) | ||
| Working Class Culture |
Chronic Disease Roundtable |
Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Warhol) | |
| Activism |
Activism Through Media and Education |
Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Whistler A) | |
| Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming |
The Power Of The Graphic Adventure |
Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Whistler B) | |
| Urban Culture |
Gentrification Revisited |
Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Wyeth A) | |
| Television |
TV and Feminism |
Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Wyeth B) | |
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies |
Young Adult Literature, Good Gay Poets, and Lesbian Sleuthing |
Saturday, November 7, 10:30 am to 11:45 am (Wyeth C) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Culture |
Writing the Urban Workhop |
Saturday, November 7, 11:45 am to 1:15 pm (Wyeth A) | |
| Professional Development |
High Density Popular Culture Crash Course |
Saturday, November 7, 11:45 am to 1:15 pm (Wyeth C) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fashion, Style and Consumer Culture |
Brand Positioning and Repositioning |
Saturday, November 7, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Calder) | |
| Latino/a Studies |
Women and “Other” Outsiders in the Latino/a World |
Saturday, November 7, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Cassatt) | |
| American Studies |
The Making of a City |
Saturday, November 7, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Hopper) | |
| SF/Fantasy |
Identity Construction Through the Lens of Time-Travel and the Paranormal |
Saturday, November 7, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (O’Keefe) | |
| Sexuality and Erotica |
Negotiating Sex: Consent and Power |
Saturday, November 7, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Pollack) | |
| Women’s and Feminist Studies |
21st Century Mothers |
Saturday, November 7, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Rockwell) | |
| Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming |
Virtual Realities: Controlling The Now, Predicting The Future |
Saturday, November 7, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Warhol) | |
| Children and Childhood Studies |
Exploring the Artifactual Landscapes of Childhood Sentimentality |
Saturday, November 7, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Whistler A) | |
| Music |
\m/etal |
Saturday, November 7, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Whistler B) | |
| Urban Culture |
Adding Local to Global: A Precarious Urban Mix |
Saturday, November 7, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Wyeth A) | |
| Decorative Arts and Design |
Materials, Gender and Play |
Saturday, November 7, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Wyeth B) | |
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies |
(In)Corporeal Bodies from Strait Bait Porn to HIV/AIDS Literature |
Saturday, November 7, 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm (Wyeth C) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
2nd Floor Coffee & Tea Break |
Saturday, November 7, 2:15 pm to 2:45 pm (Wyeth Foyer) | |
| MAPACA |
8th Floor Coffee & Tea Break |
Saturday, November 7, 2:15 pm to 2:45 pm (8th Floor Coffee & Tea Table) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fashion, Style and Consumer Culture |
Fashion and Social Identity |
Saturday, November 7, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Calder) | |
| Native American Studies |
The Indigene/Foreigner in (Whose?) Native Land |
Saturday, November 7, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Cassatt) | |
| Sports |
Sport, Fetish, and Stigma |
Saturday, November 7, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Hopper) | |
| SF/Fantasy |
The Elusive Ideal: Utopia to Dystopia |
Saturday, November 7, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (O’Keefe) | |
| Music |
Special Session: State of the Music Industry Un-Conference |
Saturday, November 7, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Pollack) | |
| Women’s and Feminist Studies |
Gender and Media |
Saturday, November 7, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Rockwell) | |
| Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming |
The Animated And The Static: Villians, Messages, and Histories: |
Saturday, November 7, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Warhol) | |
| Children and Childhood Studies |
Children in Literature and Popular Culture |
Saturday, November 7, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Whistler A) | |
| Music |
British Rock Through the Decades |
Saturday, November 7, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Whistler B) | |
| Urban Culture |
Painted Cities: Memory, Art, and the Moment |
Saturday, November 7, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Wyeth A) | |
| Food and Culture |
A Nod to the Mod |
Saturday, November 7, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Wyeth B) | |
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Studies |
Questions of (In)Visibility in Comics, the News, and Spoken Word Poetry |
Saturday, November 7, 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm (Wyeth C) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAPACA |
Area Chairs Meeting |
Saturday, November 7, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm (Whistler A) |