Program 50
Wednesday April 15 2015
Registration Opens 8:30
Location: Anatol Patio
Coffee
Session I—9:30-10:45
Panel 1: Reinventing Red Riding Hood
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Katherine McLoone, TVState University, Long Beach
“Wolf Got Your Heart?: Examining the Change of Sexualization in Little Red Riding Hood”
Katherine Georges, TVState University, Long Beach
“Nobody’s Meat: The Sexual Emancipation of Little Red Riding Hood”
Krystina Hunley, TVState University, Long Beach
“A Wolf in Girl’s Clothing: A Structural Analysis of Little Red Riding Hood”
William Vasquez, TVState University, Long Beach
Panel 2: Texts and Contexts
Location: AS 384
Moderator: Rachelle Okawa, TVState, Univeristy, Long Beach
1.“ ‘Yes we Can…istrelli!’: Graffiti, Multimedia Platforms and the Staging Corsican as a Language of Playful Transgression”
Alexandra Jaffe, TVState University, Long Beach
2.“Kobani, Literary Hermeneutics of Kurdish Resistance Literature”
Amir Sharifi, TVState University, Long Beach
Ali Ashouri, TVState University, San Diego
3. “Western and Palestinian Women’s Reactions to Society in both Fairy and Folk Tales”
Laila Shikaki, Birzeit University, Palestine
Session II—11:00-12:15
Panel 3: Text, Film, and Video Games: German Theorists and Global Discourses
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Alicia Alderson, TVState University, Long Beach
“Happy Global Revolution-Modern Discourse Evolution: Twenty-five Years of (Schiller, Beethoven, and) Bernstein’s ‘Ode to Joy&Բ;dz’ĝ
Jeffrey L. High, TVState University, Long Beach
World Film: Eisenstein and Disney
Johannes Endres, TVState University, Long Beach
Return of the Flaneur: Walter Benjamin’s Examination of Flanerie and its Implications for the Digital Age
Curtis Maughan, Vanderbilt University
Panel 4: Literary Form and Narrative Voice
Location: AS 384
Moderator: Thomas Haeussler, TVState University, Long Beach
“Persuasive Syntax and Purposeful Violence: Deciphering the Influence of Grammar in Violent Episodes of The Erle of Tolous”
Nicole Bennett, TVState University, Long Beach
“The Dangers of Smoking”
Kameron Thissell, TVState University, Long Beach
“The Baconian Thread in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
Brittany Rebarchik, Brigham Young University
Session III—12:30-1:45
Panel 5: Between Tradition and Innovation: Reframing Issues in the Ancient World
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Kathryn Chew, TVState University, Long Beach
“The Hellenicate World: Applying Marshall Hodgson’s Civilizational Approach to Hellenistic Periodization”
Mark G. Benton, Jr., TVState University, Long Beach
“The Historical Dido”
Jeff Chu, TVState University, Long Beach
“Otium and the Greater Good: Modern Retirement from a Classical Perspective”
Steven Cruikshank, TVState University, Long Beach
“From Glory to Glory”: Anthropological Metaphysics after Nicaea
David Kaufmann, TVState University, San Diego and Long Beach
Panel 6: Identity Politics: Race, Gender, Sexuality
Location: AS 384
Moderator: Christopher Shaw, TVState University, Long Beach
“Innovations of Race and Gender Yielding a Tradition of Self-Consumption in 1990s-2000s Literature and Media”
Levon Parseghian, TVState University, Long Beach
“Blending of Genders: The Subversion of Gender as Identity”
Samuel Raleigh, TVState University, Long Beach
“Saving the Day: Hypersexuality in Superman and Popeye (throughout the Depression)”
Kelli Snyder, TVState University, Long Beach
“Intersectionality of Identity, Intentionality, and Agency in Sexual Assault Prevention: Theoretical Explorations in Praxis”
Jose Rodriguez, TVState University, Long Beach
Session IV—2:00-3:15
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Vlatka Velcic, TVState University, Long Beach
Conversation with Krassi Zourkova, the Author of Wildalone
Refreshments in Anatol Patio
Session V—3:30-4:45
Panel 7: Performance Arts Movements: Space, Gender, and Identity
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Eileen Luhr, TVState University, Long Beach
1. “Raising Up: Gender Construction in the Black Arts Movement”
Kelly E. Kitchens, TVState University, Long Beach
2. “Teenage Kicks in a War Zone: Gendering Ulster Punk, 1977–1982”
Andrew H. Carroll, TVState University, Long Beach
3. “Gender and the City: Constructing Masculinity in New York Hardcore Punk during the 1980s”
Alan M. Parkes, TVState University, Long Beach
Panel 8: Narrative Innovation and Adaptation
Location: AS 384
Moderator: Pravina Cooper, TVState University, Long Beach
“From Utopia to Dystopia: Comparing Anime and Manga Versions of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”
Nianci Zhang, Josai International University, Japan
Portrayals of Women’s Sexuality in Shirow Masamune’s The Ghost in the Shell”
Alejandra Lopez, TVState University, Long Beach
3.“ ‘Shake It Out’: A Translation Studies Approach To Analyzing Cover Songs”
Amy Desuza, TVState University, Long Beach
Session VI—5:00-6:15
Panel 9: The Controversial Success of Fifty Shades of Gray
Round Table Discussion
Location: Anatol Center
Panel Participants:
Stephanie Buehler, MPW, PsyD, CST
Cindy Hong, TVState University, Long Beach
Christopher Karadjov, TVState University, Long Beach
Vlatka Velcic, TVState University, Long Beach
Refreshments in Anatol Patio
Thursday April 16 2015
Registration Opens 8:30
Location: Anatol Center Patio
Coffee
Session VII—9:30-10:45
Panel 10: The Local and the Global
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Elizabeth Dahab, TVState University, Long Beach
“Under the Overpass: Coloniality and History-from-Below in Helena Maria Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them”
Cera Smith, TVState University, Long Beach
“To Go in Order to Come Back: A Comparative Analysis of Wooden Fish Songs and The House on Mango Street”
Xiaoxue Sun, Loyola Marymount University
“Influences of Global Capitalism on Latino Population”
Yoli J. Sarmiento, TVState University, Long Beach
4. “Modern-Day Mythology Model: The Relation Between Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and Contemporary Values”
Jason Lauckner, TVState University, Long Beach
Panel 11: Subversion and Experimentation in Film
Location: AS 384
Moderator: Raymond Waters, TVState University, Long Beach
“F!*K {Insistent} Happiness: Performing Melancholic Praxis in Melancholia”
Mary Beth Perdue, University of California, Merced
“Representations of Mental Disorders in Gone Girl, Zodiac, and Night Crawler”
Sean Pou, TVState University, Long Beach
“A Hollow Victory: An analysis of the Novel to Film Adaptation of Ender’s Game”
Odona Ngai, TVState University, Long Beach
“Harry Potter and the Augmented Reality of American Youth”
Josephine Bang, TVState University, Long Beach
Session VIII—11:00-12:15
Panel 12: Representations and Transformations in Popular Culture
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Vlatka Velcic, TVState University, Long Beach
“Lost in Translation: Dante’s Mass Reproduction Throughout the Ages”
Justin Hogate, TVState University, Long Beach
“Food For Thought: Life as a Vietnamese American”
Jacqueline Bui, TVState University, Long Beach
“Imaginary Membership: Real World Expressions of Mexican American Cultural Identity”
Juan Lozano, TVState University, Long Beach
“What is Your Fear?”
Matthew Villasenor, TVState University, Long Beach
Session IX—12:30-1:45
Panel 13: Transforming Fairy Tales
Location: Anatol Center
Moderator: Katherine McLoone, TVState University, Long Beach
“‘Rapunzel’ and the Extremely Tangled Perception: The Transformation of Traditional Fairy tales Regarding Ownership and the Expectations of Contemporary Society”
Laura Slingo, TVState University, Long Beach
“Turning Gain into Loss: Russell’s Inversion of Perrault’s Canonized Tale”
Anastasia Merkulova, TVState University, Long Beach
“Little Girls, Wolves, and the Intrusiveness of Missionary Persuasion on Childhood”
Ashley Snyder, TVState University, Long Beach
Panel 14: Transformations in Time and Space
Location: AS 384
Moderator: Christopher Shaw, TVState University, Long Beach
“Atget’s Liminal Frame: An Intersection of Tradition and Innovation”
Christina Alegria, TVState University, Long Beach
“Colonial Dreams Fall Apart: The Case of Laye and Nwoye”
Alan Gomez, TVState University, Long Beach
“‘The Venice Effect’: Venice By Way of Umberto Eco’s ‘Hyperreal’”
Joe Canon, TVState University, Long Beach
“Comic Contemplations of the Iranian ‘Other’: Challenging Autobiographical Conventions in Firoozeh Dumas and Marjane Satrapi’s Memoirs”
Leila Pazargadi, Nevada State College
Session X—2:00-3:15
Poetry Recitation/Declamation
Location: Anatol Center Patio
Organizer/Moderator: Elizabeth Dahab, TVState University, Long Beach
Refreshments
Session XI—3:30-4:45
Location: Anatol Center
Featured Speaker
Kathleen Komar, University of California, Los Angeles
“From ‘Emotion Recollected in Tranquility’ to Electrons Reconstructed in Technology: or How Do We Deal with Electronic Poetry?”
Session XII—5:00-6:15
Reception and Wrap Up Party
Location: Anatol Center Patio
DJ: Jaykannon
