Program 56
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Panel 1: Fairy Tales and Sub-Culture
8 – 9:30 am PST (UTC 3-4:30 pm)
Location: Anatol Center.
Moderator: Dr. Pravina Cooper, 911Թϱѹۿ
1. The Big Bad Red: Subversive representations of Little Red Riding Hood in contemporary caricatures and campaigns
Loaay Wattad, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
2. Analyzing the Prankster and Trickster in Unveiled: The Intersectionality of Gender and Privilege in Iliza Shlesinger’s Comedic Critique of the Wedding Industrial Complex
Dejah Rodriguez, 911Թϱѹۿ
3. Subculture is the new S-word: Creating a Culture of Hope in communities of color
Desiree Rodrigues, 911Թϱѹۿ
Panel 2: Dissidents Speak Up
9:30 – 11 am PST (UTC 4:30-6 pm)
Location: Anatol Center.
Moderator: Amy Desuza-Riehm, 911Թϱѹۿ
1. Intermediality of Ukrainian Dissident Art: Revealing Inconvenient Truths through Philosophical and Religious Symbols
Dr. Julia Sabadash and Dr. Natalia Marakhovska, Mariupol State University (Ukraine)
2. Holy Hole in Chinese Patriarchal Culture—Going Pop and South
Dr. Sheng-Mei Ma, Michigan State University
3. Linguistic Jamming of Kurdish Teachers in Iran
Dr. Amir Sharifi, 911Թϱѹۿ, and Dr. Ali Ashouri, San Diego State University
4. The Meaning of the American Dream in an Imperfect World
Marianna Garcia, 911Թϱѹۿ
Panel 3: Protests and Politics I
11 – 12:30 pm PST (UTC 6-7:30 pm)
Location: Anatol Center.
Moderator: Dr. Kathryn Chew, 911Թϱѹۿ
1. Paying the Dues: Early Black Documentary Film and the Quest for Truth
Manar Ellethy, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies & Leiden University (Netherlands)
2. Lasting images from the Levitation at the 1967 March on the Pentagon
Dr. Ann Johnson, 911Թϱѹۿ
3. Questioning the Narrative: The Underground Press and Its Role In Subverting Mainstream Media
Armando Hernandez, 911Թϱѹۿ
Plenary Talk and Workshop
2 – 4:15 pm PST (UTC 9-11:15 pm)
Location: Anatol Center.
Moderator: Dr. Elizabeth Dahab, 911Թϱѹۿ
Never Lie, Little One: The Use of Humor in Telling the Truth
Jacques Servin, Co-Founder of the Yes Men
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Panel 4: Dystopia
8 – 9:30 am PST (UTC 3-4:30 pm)
Location: Anatol Center.
Moderator: Dr. Christopher Shaw, 911Թϱѹۿ
1. Sleeping and Isolating As Subversive Literary Practices. On Passivity, Culture Jamming and Millennial Resistance in Late Capitalism
Dr. Olga Szmidt, Jagiellonian University (Poland)
2. A Bleak Future: Exploring Reflections of Modern Capitalism within Science Fiction
Marvin Palencia, 911Թϱѹۿ
3. The Rise, Success, and Downfall of Young Adult Dystopian Literature
Evelyn Vasquez, 911Թϱѹۿ
Panel 5: Protest in Pop Culture
9:30 – 11 am PST (UTC 4:30-6 pm)
Location: Anatol Center.
Moderator: Dr. Crystal Lie, 911Թϱѹۿ
1. The Good Guy as an Ethical Performance of Civil Disobedience in Hitman’s Wife’s Body Guard and Free Guy: An Analysis of Subversive Identity, Intentionality, and Agency in Contemporary Film
Dr. José Rodriguez, 911Թϱѹۿ
2. Pop references, inside jokes, and cultural jamming: Márkomeannu posters as an expression of (Márka-)Sámi decolonizing artivism
Dr. Erika De Vivo, University of Turin (Italy)
3. Stolen Identity Schemes in Igbo Trickster Tales and Nigerian Cybercrime Prose Narratives
Dr. Uchechukwu Evelyn Madu, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike (Nigeria)
Panel 6: Roundtable: From Comics to Cosplay: How Creators and Fans are Reclaiming Identity
11 – 12:30 pm PST (UTC 6-7:30 pm)
Location: Anatol Center.
Moderator: Amy Desuza-Riehm
Panelists: John Jennings, UC Riverside
Henry Barajas, author of La Voz De M.A.Y.O.: Tata Rambo
Bernie Bregman, Pop Culture Event Producer
Panel 7: Cultural Products in the Contemporary Marketplace
11 – 12:30 pm PST (UTC 6-8 pm)
Location: English Conference Room (MHB 315).
Moderator: Dr. Vlatka Velcic, 911Թϱѹۿ
1. From Wallet to Closet
Fiona Hang, 911Թϱѹۿ
2. “Work” or “Text”?: Debussy’s Claire de Lune
Amelia Lamorin, 911Թϱѹۿ
3. The Western Gaze of Asian Women in M. Butterfly
Pearl Pham, 911Թϱѹۿ
4. Xxxtentacion’s Music in the Mass Market
Nico Ray, 911Թϱѹۿ
Panel 8: Subversion in Subtle Places
12:30 – 2 pm PST (UTC 7:30-9 pm)
Location: Anatol Center.
Moderator: Dr. Katherine McLoone, 911Թϱѹۿ
1. Blockchain Crypto Jamming: Subverting the Instrumental Economy
Dr. Melanie Swan, University College London (England)
2. ‘‘A naked man a bow bare’’: Dress, Signification, and Genre in Late Middle English Popular Texts
Benjamin Hoover, 911Թϱѹۿ
3. Toxic Positivity: Addressing The Social Crisis on Mental Health
Maggie Brown, 911Թϱѹۿ
4. Dethroning the Masters of Go: Peoples, Nations, and Artificial Intelligences
Victor Tran, 911Թϱѹۿ
Panel 9: Culture Jamming and Art
2 – 3:30 pm PST (UTC 9-10:30 pm)
Location: Anatol Center.
Moderator: Kelsey Bright, 911Թϱѹۿ
1. Space Jamming: Tino Seghal and the De-Banistering of Museum Spaces
Dr. Tom Jacobs, New York University
2. Indecline’s Culture Jamming of Evangelical Propaganda Sites: Billboards and The Great Passion Play 2020/2021
Courtney Thomas, University of Texas at Austin
3. Artists’ Political Responsibility in El Paro Nacional
Alegria Zuluaga, 911Թϱѹۿ
Panel 10: Protest and Politics II
3:30 – 5 pm PST (UTC 10:30 pm-12 am)
Location: Anatol Center.
Moderator: Dr. Rajbir Judge, 911Թϱѹۿ
1. Play Activism and the Post-Trump Playground
Dr. Jenna Altomonte and Todd Rowan, Mississippi State University
2. Digital Fascism and the Contested Ground of Countercultural Aesthetics
Ryan Prewitt, Saint Louis University
3. Not Left, Not Right, But Backward: A Marxist Comparative Analysis of Sunrise Movement, The Republic of Cuba, and La Via Campesina
Queenie Mendez, 911Թϱѹۿ
