Conference Schedule
Conference Schedule – April 5, 2012
- REGISTRATION // 8:45 AM – Karl Anatol Conference Center
- WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS // 9:15 AM
Karl Anatol Conference Center
Session 1 // 9:30 am – 10:45 am
1A: Media, Arts, and the Politics of Representation
Karl Anatol Center
- “Participation > Product: Art, Politics, and Participatory Culture in McLuhan’s Electric Age”
Lisa Brown // California State University, Long Beach- “‘Viet rap’s leader’s revolutionary move’: Re-Occupying Saigon in Rapper Nah Nguyen’s Vietrap No1tuLoveR”
Jade Hidle // University of California, San Diego- “A Power Struggle in Print: Ricardo Flores Magon, Harrison Gray Otis, and the 1911 Revolution of Baja California”
Kevan Antonio Aguilar // California State University, Long Beach- “Contemporary Music Videos and the Preoccupation with Childhood”
Ashley Kramer // California State University, Los Angeles
1B: Economics and the Currency of British Social Environments
AS 384
- “Occupational Occupation in Early English Drama”
Jeremiah Allen // California State University, Long Beach- “Why Hitchens Mattered: Reappraising the Occupy Movement”
Joshua Bernstein // University of Southern California- “The Idealized East in Joyce’s ‘Araby'”
Amy Sandoval // California State University, Long Beach- “Education, Wealth, and Principle in 18th Century Literature by British Female Writers”
Daniella Soleimani // California State University, Northridge
Session 2: Keynote address // 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Occupational Hazards at Home and Abroad
Karl Anatol Conference Center
- From “Arab Spring” to “Occupy Wall Street,” a discussion on the recent global surge of radical movements, mass protests, and political revolts.
Dr. John Carlos Rowe // USC Distinguished Professor of American StudiesLunch // 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
- LOCATION: Karl Anatol Conference Center
Session 3 // 1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Challenging Hegemonic Occupational Practices in Education
Karl Anatol Conference Center
- “Redeeming a Lost Narrative”
Geghard Arakelian // California State University, Northridge- “Que Es Eso? Pluralistic Literacy and Changes in Social Justice”
Marissa Jenrich // California State University, Long Beach- “That They May Learn to Speak: Empowering Young Urban Poets through the Theory and Practice of the Post-Colonial Lens”
Mae Ramirez // California State University, Long BeachSession 4 // 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Borders, Liminality, and Hybridity
Karl Anatol Conference Center
- “Occupy Shakespeare! The Occupy Movement in Richard II“
Courtney Long // California State University, Fullerton- “Fundamental Universalism in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret“
Chris Kennison // California State University, Los Angeles- “That Is Life”: Hybridity in Ricardo Pigia’s The Absent City”
Mujib Tahir // California State University, Fullerton- “Scepter and Pow’r:” Political Structures and Subjectivity in Paradise Lost”
Emily Keery // California State University, Long BeachSession 5 // 4:30 pm – 5:45 pm
Identity and the Formation of Bodies
Karl Anatol Conference Center
- “Within the Butterfly’s Cocoon: The Hijras of India”
Irene Rose De Lily // Mount St. Mary’s College- “Game On! Identity Formation in Electrate Gaming Culture”
Erin Griesser // California State University, Long Beach- “Producing Slippage in Hegemonic Masculinity: A (FTM) Transgendered Experience of Occupying Gender”
Rusty Rust // California State University, Long Beach- “‘La Femme Ideale’: The Women of Naguib Mahfouz’s Adrift on the Nile“
Bennette Turpanjian // California State University, Long Beach- “Occupying the Third Space in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Finding a Fluid Identity in Other-Worldliness, Ugliness, and the Grandeur of Monstrosity”
Kacie Wills // California State University, Long BeachSession 6 // 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm
6A: Physical Places and Textual Spaces
Karl Anatol Conference Center
- “Spatial Practice and Place-Consciousness in Occupy Los Angeles: Symbolic Intersection on 4th and Figueroa”
Rebecca Avalos // California State University, Fullerton- “Engaging Textual Enclosures: The Politics of the Peritext and Their Functional Shifts Across Media”
Lisa Brown // California State University, Long Beach- “Marginal Experiences: Constructing Identity through Testimonial Narratives”
Jessica Cowing // California State University, Long Beach
6B: Creative Panel—Short Readings of Poetry and Fiction
AS 122
- “A Brief History of Rats”
Larry Duncan // California State University, Long Beach- “Letters to Acapulco, My Mother’s Home,” “Self-Portrait as Montebello,” and “I Am Not a Real Mexican”
Mae Ramirez // California State University, Long Beach- “Caring for Children”
Merica Teng // California State University, Long Beach- “Marine World”
Anna Mavromati // California State University, Long Beach