Conference Schedule

POP PRAXIS: SOCIAL JUSTICE & THE MEDIA
FRIDAY, APRIL 8TH, 2011
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI (TANGEMAN UNIVERSITY CENTER)


8:30am-9:20am: Welcome & registration. Come to room 400B for some coffee and bagels!

9:30am-10:20am: Session 1

TUC 403:

“Black Stereotypes and Resisting White Hegemony in Good Times” Wonda Baugh

“The Power in the Silence: The Lack of Soundtrack in Queer as Folk as a Means to Convey Social

and Political Activism” Elisabeth Woronzoff

TUC 417A:

“Postfeminist Math Barbie: Danica McKellar’s Provocative Education Advocacy”

Sarah Mitchell

“30 Rock and Feminism in Flux” Lee Serbin

TUC 417B:

“Making It or Breaking Down: Eating Disorders and Body Image in a Teen Gymnastics

Drama” Rachel Nickens

“Queering the Aesthetics of Sex/uality and Body in Queer-Feminist Erotica” B. Carbonara

TUC 417C:

“True love and happiness: Sexuality and romance on The Bachelorette” Krysten Stein

& Nancy Jennings

“Queer Sex in a Straight City: Gender, Bisexuality, and Heteronormativity in Sex and the City”

Jayme Hughes

10:30am-11:20am: Session 2

TUC 403:

“‘Now You Can Run and Tell Dat’: Antoine Dodson and Creating Visibility around New

Masculinity in the Black Community” Brandon Manning

“Outsider Within: Homosexuality and the Black Church” India Pierce

TUC 417A:

“Freak of Culture: A Feminist Analysis of Lady Gaga’s Postmodern Disability Drag”

Krystal Cleary

“Using Foucault to Deconstruct Ableism in Film” Mark O’Hara

TUC 417B:

“Subversive Sexualities in Fandom: Dialogue Between Fan and Text” Natalie Kirk

“Women Creating Desire for Themselves: Slash Fanfiction, Boys’ Love Manga, and Expanding

the Possibilities of Pornography” Caroline Hyatt

TUC 417C:

Workshop: “Hot Hoops: from ‘String Cheese’ to Wii Fit” Katie Dreyer

11:30am-12:20pm: Keynote speech in room 400B

Andi Zeisler is the co-founder and editorial/creative director of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop

Culture.

12:30pm-1:20pm: Lunch on your own. Please see “Welcome” section of your conference

packet for a list of conveniently located eateries!

1:30pm-2:20pm: Session 3

TUC 417A:

“Disco Stick: Lady Gaga and the Phallus” Anna Huelefeld

“No Homo: An Analysis of the Anti-Queer Bias in Pop Music” Christopher Campbell

TUC 417B:

“Queering Primetime: Portrayals of Gay Men and Lesbians in Popular Network

Television” John Freml

“All Is Not Glee-ful: How Glee’s Representation of Marginalized Groups Has Informed the Public

Imagination and Perpetuated Harmful Stereotypes” Katie Lambing and Rachel Berman

TUC 417C:

 “Consuming Buffy: Embracing the Darkness and Female Empowerment in the Buffyverse” Jamie

Pond

2:30pm-3:20pm: Session 4

TUC 403:

 “Batman and the Cultural Construction of Masculinity Ideals” Ryan Back

“Skinny Jeans, Studded Belts, and Long Bangs: Alternatives to Hegemonic Masculinities Or Just

The Same Song to a New Tune?” Rachel Deel

TUC 417A:

 “‘I Just Can’t Be With You Like This’: Lady Gaga’s ‘Alejandro,’ Queer Futurity, and the Horizons of the Lifeworld” Brock Webb

“The Gaga Manifesto: Gender, Sexuality and Cyborg Mythmaking” Christina Black

TUC 417B:

“Are We Still Down?: Femininity and Womanhood Explored through the Lyrics of

Tupac Shakur” Donnae Wahl

“‘All of the Men Are Dead’: Performative Gender and the Gaze in Y: The Last Man and Ōoku:

The Inner Chambers” SF McGinley

TUC 417C:

Video: The Image of Women in Film Noir (2002), 22 min.  Followed by presentation, “The Picture Gets the Final Word: Conflicting Narratives of Image, Word, and Philosophy in the Depictions of Women in Film Noir “ H. Michael Sanders and Matt Bennett

3:30pm-4:20pm: Session 5

TUC 403:

“Disney Live-Action Films as Cheesy Clichés of Consumerism” Dr. Eric Jenkins

“An Intersectional Analysis of Dora the Explorer” Sierra Moore

TUC 417A:

“Guns: Problem in Society or Society as the Problem?” Tyler DeLaet

“Bill’s Boogeymen: A look at media theory and ideology in The O’Reilly Factor” Stephanie Talbot

TUC 417B:

“Race Illusionists: Pop Culture Minstrels of the Modern Day” Key Beck

"Lost in Otherness: Toward a Feminist Viewership Practice" Angela Zippin

TUC 417C:

Workshop: “Student Development as Feminist Activists” Kim Fulbright and student activists

4:30pm-???: Please join your conference organizers for a networking and socializing happy

hour at UC’s Catskeller Campus Pub!