Here’s our long-promised third behind-the-scenes video of my Fulbright research in Uganda. It has some disturbing images of extreme poverty among the Batwa Pygmies and some descriptions of difficult adult situations, so this one is 18+ only. I provide time stamps in the description for those who want to skip the more difficult scenes and just watch the more wholesome ones.
Speculative Futures Conference Schedule
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
The Kingdom of Bwamba, Its History and Its Culture
Artificial Intelligence in the Humanities
Library Tour
How Writing Teachers Should Think about AI Writing Tools
A Quick Plug
Beowulf in Comic Books and Graphic Novels is now available for pre-order!