Schedule
Thursday, April 24, 2025
4:00-7:00 Art Gallery Exhibition Reception International Arts Center, Room 207
4:30-4:45 Dr. William Michael Thrasher, Dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts. Popular Arts Conference Welcome Address International Arts Center, Room 207
4:45-5:15 Richard Scott Nokes-“Humanities Scholarship on Popular Culture: Study of the People, By the People, For the People” International Arts Center, Room 207
5:15-6:15 Chris Stagl and Stuart Blake -“Ethically Leveraging Artificial Intelligence as a Creative Designer” International Arts Center, Room 207
Friday, April 25, 2025
9:00-11:45 and 2:30-7:00 ongoing, Art Lab Gallery Exhibition International Arts Center, Room 207
10:00-10:30 Daniel Amrhein-“Punishing Powerful Women: Gender Power Politics in American Superhero Comics” HAL Hall
10:30-11:00 Jillian Marie Browning- “Yes You Can Watch Me, But You Can’t Touch Me: Visual Storytelling in K-Pop Incorporating Art Historical Motifs HAL Hall
11:00-11:30 Ella Waddel “Good Luck, Nana: The Sapphic Love and Identity Struggles of Nana Komatsu and Nana Osaki in NANA” HAL Hall
11:30-12:00 John N. Harris “Games and Gaming as Tools in College Classrooms” HAL Hall
12:00-1:00 BREAK FOR LUNCH
1:00-2:00 Lt. Colonel Alon “War Games” HAL Hall
2:00-2:30 Jill Magi “Parataxis on Steroids! Comics as a Door to Poetry and a Window into Past Ways of Reading” HAL Hall
2:30-3:00 Adam Eddy “Liminal Perspective” HAL Hall
3:00-4:00 Undergraduate Panel Session Madeline Birge “Wordsworth and Ecocinema: “The World is Too Much with Us” and the Fantasy Genre’s Relationship with Nature HAL Hall
Anais Shelley “Mary Shelley Reimagined: How Creation Versus Creator has Evolved in Cinematic Retellings” HAL Hall
4:00-4:30 Erin Gordon be “Symbolism, Foreshadowing, and the Museum of Great Britain in Black Panther” HAL Hall
4:30-5:00 Kari Neely “Wishing for Mental Health: Magical Realism in Deena Mohamed’s Shubeik Lubeik” HAL Hall
5:00-5:30 Courtney Bliss “Rap is Revolution, The Revolution is Rap: How Hamilton Brings Together Then and Now through Hip-Hop” HAL Hall