Conference Schedule

Saturday, November 2, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Jerome Library Pallister Conference Room

10:00 am: Opening Remarks, Coffe & Snacks

10:15: Taylor Swift

• Katie Cline: “‘Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first’”: Taylor Swift and the Embodiment of Girlhood
• Grace Heerdt: “‘I don’t belong, and my beloved, neither do you’”: an Analysis of Queer Subtext in Taylor Swift’s Eighth Studio Album, Folklore
• Davis Ritenour: “Mad Woman Feminism”
  

11:15am: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Vietnam

• Sarah Urbank: “‘Not evil…just ignorant:’ Iron Man’s Shifting Vietnam War Politics”
• Andrea Freimuth: “Putting Together the Fractured Pieces: Reconstructing Refugee Family Ties through the Print Archive in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do”

12:00pm: New Media and Technology Panel

• Taylor Bowles: “The History, Funding, and Revenue Streams of Game Developer Larian Studios”
• Caitlin Evans: “Children of TikTok: Influenced or Influencer?”
• Sean Cleland: “Stairs in the Woods: A Subgenre of Missing 411”
• Kristine Ketel: “In Whose Image? Exploring the Cultural Implications of Sex Robots”

1:15pm: Lunch

1:30pm: RBA Lifetime Achievement Award

2:00pm: Keynote

• Jeremy Wallach: “Class Struggle, Cultural Theory, and Popular Culture: The Case of Heavy Metal”

3:00pm: Vampires & Knights Panel

• Mike Alstaetter: “‘Ethereal Purity’: Rollin Jones’ Interview With the Vampire, Mortality, and Eating Disorders
• Sarah Webb: “Vampire Daughters in Interview with the Vampire and Byzantium”
• Aysenur Zaza: “Trauma and Chivalric Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”

4:00pm: Cake | Black Pop Culture Panel

• Chris Covington – Panel Moderator: “Merchandising of Black Characters”
• Lauren Bates: “The Evolution of Black Women in Entertainment”

4:45pm: Culture, Identity, and Politics

• Anastasia Rose Hyden: “Industrial Society and Its Future: The Unabomber, Thoreau, and the Freedom of Nature”
• Phoenix Ellison: “Not In Theory, Not In Practice: Fallacies within the Anti-Trans Movement”
• Samantha Imrie: “The Implications of Female Nudity in 15th Century Illuminations of Lisa from Bocaccio's”

5:45pm: Remakes and Revisions in Film and Television

• EJ Holly: “Studying the Dub as Remake Through Digimon: The Movie”
• Elizabeth Germann: “‘Those Associates, That’s Me:’ Iterations of Della Street in Perry Mason on CBS and HBO”

6:15pm: Culture and Society

• Haley Shipley: “Lights, Camera, Corn?: A Theoretical Introduction to a Dissertation”
• William Walton: “Blue No Matter Who?: Shifting Liberal Campaign Rhetoric and the 2024 Presidential Election”

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