MAPACA Mid-Atlantic Popular &
American Culture Association
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American Culture Association
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Schedule for Friday, November 8, 2019
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| MAPACA | Book Exhibit | Friday, November 8, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (Grand Foyer) |
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| MAPACA | Check-In | Friday, November 8, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm (Grand Foyer) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| MAPACA | Publishers' Exhibit Coffee & Tea Break | Friday, November 8, 9:00 am to 11:15 am (Grand Foyer) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| Disability Studies, SF/Fantasy | Superhero Team-Up!: A Roundtable on Disability Representation | Friday, November 8, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (City Center A) | |
| Horror and Paranormal Studies | Identities | Friday, November 8, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Marquis Ballroom A) | |
| Television | TV and Philosophy | Friday, November 8, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Marquis Ballroom B) | |
| Rhetoric and Composition in a Global World | Digital Sherlock: Baker Street Irregulars, Mind Palaces, Deep Fakes—Unconventional Comp/Rhetoric Pedagogies | Friday, November 8, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Marquis Ballroom C) | |
| Performance Studies | Kyd, Paul Taylor, Zombies Performance Studies | Friday, November 8, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Monongahela Room) | |
| Death in American Culture | Stories in Stone | Friday, November 8, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Ohio Room) | |
| Internet Culture | Community, Content, and Art | Friday, November 8, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Pittsburgh Room) | |
| Women’s and Feminist Studies | Feminism and Film | Friday, November 8, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Salon 1 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Film Studies | Documentary Films | Friday, November 8, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Salon 2 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming | The West and Romanticizing the Homogenized. | Friday, November 8, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Salon 3 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Religion and Culture | Sacred Texts | Friday, November 8, 9:30 am to 10:45 am (Salon 6 Grand Ballroom) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SF/Fantasy | Reanimation and Identity: Mummies, Revenants, and Faceless Men | Friday, November 8, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (City Center A) | |
| Horror and Paranormal Studies | Screaming for Equality | Friday, November 8, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Marquis Ballroom A) | |
| Television | New Elements of Television: Musical episodes, Binge-watching, and history | Friday, November 8, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Marquis Ballroom B) | |
| War Studies | Wars: Metaphorical and Symbolic | Friday, November 8, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Marquis Ballroom C) | |
| Food and Culture | Recipe for Authenticity and Intrigue | Friday, November 8, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Monongahela Room) | |
| Death in American Culture | Addressing Profound Loss | Friday, November 8, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Ohio Room) | |
| Internet Culture | Bodies | Friday, November 8, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Pittsburgh Room) | |
| Women’s and Feminist Studies | Feminism and TV | Friday, November 8, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Salon 1 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Film Studies | Undergraduates in Film Studies | Friday, November 8, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Salon 2 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming | Where We're Going We Don't Need Humans! | Friday, November 8, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Salon 3 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Religion and Culture | Hegemonic Religion and its Others | Friday, November 8, 11:00 am to 12:15 pm (Salon 6 Grand Ballroom) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| Food and Culture | Almost Famous Lunch Meet-up | Friday, November 8, 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm (Offsite) | |
| MAPACA | MAPACA Board Meeting | Friday, November 8, 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm (Executive Board Room) | |
| MAPACA | MAPACA Board Meeting | Friday, November 8, 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm (Executive Board Room) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SF/Fantasy | The Trope of the Beast: The In/Un Human in SF Film | Friday, November 8, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (City Center A) | |
| Horror and Paranormal Studies | Something Scary in The Air | Friday, November 8, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Marquis Ballroom A) | |
| Television | TV Disasters: Man-made and Natural | Friday, November 8, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Marquis Ballroom B) | |
| Music | All Things Metal | Friday, November 8, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Marquis Ballroom C) | |
| Detective Fiction | Detective Fiction and Society | Friday, November 8, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Monongahela Room) | |
| Death in American Culture | Memorialized in Stone | Friday, November 8, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Ohio Room) | |
| Play Studies | Playing to Learn: Learning to Play | Friday, November 8, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Pittsburgh Room) | |
| Women’s and Feminist Studies | Resistance Practices in History and Fiction | Friday, November 8, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Salon 1 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Film Studies | Examining Film in Popular Culture | Friday, November 8, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Salon 2 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Comics, Cartoons, and Video Gaming | Agency, Omission, and the Plight of Easy Mode | Friday, November 8, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Salon 3 Grand Ballroom) | |
| Religion and Culture | Religion: To Survive and Thrive | Friday, November 8, 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm (Salon 6 Grand Ballroom) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| MAPACA | Publishers' Exhibit Coffee & Tea Break | Friday, November 8, 2:30 pm to 3:15 pm (Grand Foyer) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| SF/Fantasy | Education, Place, and Trauma: Destructive Influences on Identity | Friday, November 8, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (City Center A) | |
| Medieval & Renaissance | Shakespeare in Film and Television | Friday, November 8, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Marquis Ballroom B) | |
| Music | The Middle-Aged Metal-Heads Podcast: Old Music, New Media | Friday, November 8, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Marquis Ballroom C) | |
| Detective Fiction | Classic and Contemporary Detective Fiction | Friday, November 8, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Monongahela Room) | |
| Death in American Culture | The Final Journey | Friday, November 8, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Ohio Room) | |
| Play Studies | Gaming: Rules, Players, and Cognition | Friday, November 8, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Pittsburgh Room) | |
| Novels and Book History | Teaching the Novel: Non-Traditional Approaches to Novel Pedagogy | Friday, November 8, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Salon 1 Grand Ballroom) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| Disability Studies | Space, Place, and Monstrosity | Friday, November 8, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (City Center A) | |
| Fan Studies and FanFiction | Fan Response and Refashioning | Friday, November 8, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Marquis Ballroom A) | |
| Medieval & Renaissance | Forgetting, Remembering, and Representing Women in Medievalism | Friday, November 8, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Marquis Ballroom B) | |
| Music | Dylan, Springfield and Springsteen | Friday, November 8, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Marquis Ballroom C) | |
| Play Studies | Parlor Games! | Friday, November 8, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Pittsburgh Room) | |
| Novels and Book History | Death, Nostalgia, Translation, and Trump: The Novel's Place in Private and Public Spheres | Friday, November 8, 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm (Salon 1 Grand Ballroom) |
| Areas | Session | Session chairs | |
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| MAPACA | Dinner and Annual Meeting | Friday, November 8, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm (Salon 4, 5&6 Grand Ballroom) |