Battleground States 2008

FRIDAY SCHEDULE Registration Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5 Mixer Session 6 9:00 am – 5:00 pm 9:30 am – 10:50 am 11:00 am – 12:20 pm 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Outside Room 309 Panel AA Panels T, V Panels G, R Panels Q, A, S Panels X, D, Z, I Outside Room 308 Roundtable Battleground States 2008 graduate student conference “The Body & Culture” SATURDAY SCHEDULE Registration Session 7 Session 8 Session 9 Session 10 Session 11 Mixer Session 12 9:00 am – 5:00 pm 9:30 am – 10:50 am 11:00 am – 12:20 pm 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Inside Room 309 Panels H, J, W Panels M, E, F Panels B, P, Y Panels U, K, N Panels C, O, L Outside Room 308 Keynote Address 3rd Annual Battleground States Conference Bowling Green, Ohio February 22-23, 2008 BattlegroundStates.org Proudly presented for the second year in a row by Culture Club: The Cultural Studies Scholars’ Association, an interdisciplinary & interdepartmental graduate student organization devoted to the preservation & continued pursuit of the study of culture at Bowling Green State University. Thank you from S,C,J,M,M. See everyone February 27-28, 2009. Culture Club: The Cultural Studies Scholars’ Association would like to thank: Dr. Philip Auslander All Presenters, Moderators, Participants, & Attendees Bowling Green State University Bowen-Thompson Student Union Graduate College College of Arts & Sciences Department of Theatre & Film American Culture Studies Program Department of Popular Culture School of Communications Studies Department of Ethnic Studies Graduate Student Senate Cornslaw Industries Matthew Barbee, Dan Shope, Mike DuBose Meredith Guthrie, Stephen Swanson, Karen Weber Brett Wynn, Don McQuaire, Gloria Pizaña Vicki Patraka, Donald Neiman, Ray & Pat Browne All Committee Heads and Members Tuesdays at the Gish Film Theater Presented by Culture Club & the Department of Theatre and Film February 26 March 11 March 18 March 25 April 1 Felicia’s Journey (Atom Egoyan 1999) Native Documentarians (Various) The Punks Are Alright (Douglas Crawford, 2006) An Evening of Addiction (Various) April Fools! You’re a Fascist! (Various, including Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, 1935) All dates: Free, Tuesdays, 7:30 pm. The Gish Film Theatre is located on the 1st floor of Hanna Hall, BGSU. Popular Culture Colloquium Series Presented by Department of Popular Culture Jeremy Wallach (Asst. Professor, Popular Culture) "Genre, Authenticity, and Hybridity in Indonesian Popular Music" March 13, 2008, 11am-1pm 207 Bowen-Thompson Student Union, BGSU “Spring 2008 Department of Popular Culture Master's Degree Candidates Presentations” April 17, 2008, 11am-1pm 207 Bowen-Thompson Student Union, BGSU Provost Lecture Series Presented by The Institute for the Study of Culture and Society W.T. Mitchell (Univ. of Chicago) “Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9-11 to Abu Ghraib” Thursday, February 28, 7 pm 206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union, BGSU E. Patrick Johnson (Northwestern University) “Performance of Pouring Teas: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales” Wednesday, March 19, 7pm 202 Bowen-Thompson Student Union, BGSU Congratulations to Jenna & Steve on the birth of Henry. Map Panel AA Room 314 Session 1 FRI 9:30-10:50 ---------Embodiments on Stage: Representations and Placements in Theater and Musical Theater ---------“’Let my death live’: Eric Ehn’s Two Altars, Ten Funerals (All Souls)” Vanessa Baker (BGSU) “’Ugh-a-wug, Ugh-a-wug-Wah!’: Native American (Mis)Representation in the American Musical Theatre” David S. Sollish (BGSU) “Have You Met the Altered Operatic Body?: Mid-Century Cultural Representation in Lukas Foss’ Introductions and Goodbyes” Adam Booth (Shepherd University) “The Curve of Nature: Exploring Modes of New Historicism, Feminism/Queer Theory, and the Body in Shakespeare’s As You Like It” Nicole Mancino (BGSU) Moderator: Ron Shileds (Theatre & Film) Session 2 Panel T FRI 11:00-12:20 ---------Marketing Popular Culture ---------“Marketing to the Masses and Going Beyond Hardcore Gaming” Erica Kubik (BGSU) “Controversy, Canonicity, and Brian De Palma’s Body: A Case Study” Mark Bernard (BGSU) “For Best Results: Barbasol's Ad Campaign of the Late 1940s” Eric Weeks (BGSU) “Advertising Dead Celebrity Bodies” Sean Watkins (BGSU) Moderator: Rob Sloane (American Culture Studies) Panel V FRI 11:00-12:20 ---------Radical Separation: Politics of the Destructive Body ---------“Staging detachment: The politics of separation and Side Show” Stephen Harrick (BGSU) “Penectomy and Abjection in Roadrnnr99’s ‘Once It Comes Off, All You Can Do Is Regret It’” Jason Zeh (BGSU) “Cloverfield & Thanksgiving: Decapitation and American Ideology” Ora McWilliams (BGSU) “Ecstatic Piece: The Joy of Self-Fragmenting” Isaac Vayo (BGSU) Moderator: Susana Peña (Ethnic Studies) 3 Room 315 Room 314 Notes 14 Session 3 Panel G Room 314 FRI 12:30-1:50 Keynote Room 308 ---------Feast of Flesh: Gender, Power, Desire and the Consumable Body ---------“Edible Women: The Consumer and the Consumed in Cannibalism Pornography” Angie Fitzpatrick (BGSU) Cheryl Cash (BGSU) “Consuming Desires: Representations of Female Cannibals” Kelly L. Watson (BGSU) “Indelible Blackface: Class, Tattooing, and Neo-Primitives” Aisha McGriff (BGSU) Moderator: Tim Messer-Kruse (Ethnic Studies) Panel R FRI 12:30-1:50 ---------‘Wow, Look at Me': Mediating the Gaze, Performing Gender ---------“Girls Who Wear Glasses: Body, Gaze, and Spectatorship in Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World” Daniel Manco (BGSU) “Parker Posey, Body Double: Performing Gender, Inverting the Gaze” Sarah Tebbe (BGSU) “’Pam 6.0’: The Office’s Portrayal of the Every Woman” Benjamin Phillips (BGSU) Moderator: Becca Craigin (Popular Culture) Room 315 Session 12 SAT 6:00-8:00 “Liveness Redux: The View From 2008” Philip Auslander Philip Auslander is Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech. His research and writing focus on performance theory and the relationship of performance to media and technology. He is author of Session 4 Panel Q Room 314 FRI 2:00-3:20 ---------Space is the Place: Communities, Corsets, and the Classroom ---------“The Diverse Body: Why Can’t We Be Friends?” J.L. Murdoch (BGSU) “Imagination and the Spaces of the Corseted Body: Gaston Bachelard and the Images of Home” Hope Davis (BGSU) “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Katie Barak (BGSU) Moderator: Don McQuarie (American Culture Studies) numerous books, including Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and Liveness: Performance in Mediatized Culture (Routledge, 1999; soon to be released in a second edition), winner of the 2000 Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre. He has also published essays in Performing Arts Journal and TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. 4 13 Session 11 Panel C Room 308 SAT 3:30-5:00 Panel A Room 315 ---------From the Towns and the Tanks (with thanks to Karen Finley): A Devised Script Exploring the Politicized Body ---------This presentation is a devised theatre script that brings together and juxtaposes various ways in which the body is politicized. Darin Kerr (BGSU) J.L. Murdoch (BGSU) Scott Boston (BGSU) Elizabeth Zurn (BGSU) Moderator: Cynthia Baron (Theatre & Film) Panel O SAT 3:30-5:00 ---------Medical Marvels: Representations of Death and Disease ---------“The Geek Syndrome: Re-formatting High-functioning Autism for the 21st Century” Neil Shepard (BGSU) “Incorporating the Medical Gaze in Queer Life Writing and Video” Nicholas de Villiers (University of Minnesota) “African AIDS Narratives: Understanding HIV/AIDS Representations in the Media” Phyllis Dako-Gyeke (BGSU) Moderator: Bill Albertini (English) Panel L SAT 3:30-5:00 ---------Duplicating (Bodily) Alterity: Exploring the Affective and Political Nature of Photography ---------“Explorations of Female Athlete Photographs” Julie Rowse (BGSU) Kristy Ganoe (BGSU) “World War II Survivor Photographs: The Grotesque Body in Collective Memory and Mourning” Jeff List (University of Kansas) “Evidence of the Body: Contextualizing the ‘Freak’ Body” Melinda Lewis (BGSU) Moderator: T.B.A. Room 315 Room 314 Session 4 (cont.) FRI 2:00-3:20 ---------The Girl in the Mirror ---------“Representations: Questioning feminine stereotypes in technological landscapes” Julie Platt (Michigan Technological University) & Meredith Graupner (BGSU) “Pushing Limits: Engaging young cyborg women” Erin Dietel-McLaughlin (BGSU) Jen Almjeld (BGSU) “Reflections: Making feminine voices visible online and off” Kristine Blair (BGSU) Moderator: Radica Gajjala (Communications) FRI 2:00-3:20 ---------Anatomies of Excess: Age, Height, Weight ---------“Kudzu Kills: Jessica Tandy and notions of the crumbling body” Stephanie Plummer (BGSU) “Big Girls, Don’t Cry: The Development of ‘Fat Voices’ in American Theatre” Andie Markijohn (BGSU) “Frankenstein and Paramedics: Medical Intervention to Human Body and Life and Death” Yuya Kiuchi (Michigan State University) “‘That’s a Huge Bitch!’: Resistance, Recuperation, and the Body of the Tall Woman” Laura Butera (BGSU) Moderator: Esther Clinton (Popular Culture) Panel S Room 318 Session 5 FRI 3:30-4:50 ---------(Male) Bodies as Sites of Violence in Fiction ---------“Absent Bodies and Embodied Absence in William Faulkner’s Soldier’s Pay” Jessica Alexander (BGSU) “Modern Monsters: The Use of the Gothic in Walter Dean Myers’ Monster” James Schurrer (BGSU) “‘My God, I See It!’: Counter-Evolutionary Impulses and Preparatory Guidance in The Magic Mountain”” Justine Lutzel(BGSU) Moderator: Maisha Wester (American Culture Studies & English) 5 Panel X Room 308 12 Session 5 (cont.) FRI 3:30-5:00 ---------Your Body is a Battleground: Feminist Examinations of Corporeality ---------“Whose Body, Whose Choice?: The Abortion Patient’s Body as Absent Presence” Jeannie Ludlow (BGSU) “Constructing the Fat Body: Intersections of Fat and Other Identity Markers” Heather Surface (BGSU) “Whose Streets? Our Streets! : Trans Bodies as Agents of Revolutionary Change” Joelle Ruby Ryan (BGSU) Moderator: Adrienne Hill (American Culture Studies) Panel Z FRI 3:30-5:00 ---------Fan Culture, Authenticity, and Audience Reception: What Fans Do With a Body of Work ---------“’She can still walk!’: Fan Discourse and Humor in 24” Mike Lewis (BGSU) “Pandora is not a Suicide Girl: Alt-Porn, Third Wave, and the Commodification of Radical Subjects” Brian M. Blitz (BGSU) “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die and Why We Should Care That It Didn’t” David Pratt (BGSU) Moderator: T.B.A. FRI 3:30-5:00 ---------Ways of Viewing the World: Versions of the Tourist ---------“Foreign ‘Bodies’: A Presentation of the Reoccurringly Forgotten Films of Watson K intner ” Colin Helb (BGSU) “Anticipating the Archive: Balinese Culture, Tourism, and the Guidebook” Jennifer Goodlander (Ohio University) “Local Food, Local Culture: Defining German-American Identity in Ohio at the Bucyrus Bratwurst Festival” Nathan Crook (BGSU) “Alternative Celestial Bodies: A Case Study of Major Tom” Michael Lupro (North Carolina A&T State University) Moderator: Lucy Long (International Studies & American Culture Studies) Panel I Room 318 Room 315 Panel D Room 314 Panel U Room 308 Session 10 SAT 2:00-3:20 ---------Contemporary issues in Women's Rights ---------“Electoral Quotas in Developing States: Do quotas for women enhance democracy?” Melodee M. Baines (Old Dominion University) “Janie’s Abused Body: Hurston’s Documentary of Abuse in Their Eyes Were Watching God” Candice Pipes (The Ohio State University) "Recasting Mary: Motherhood and the Pregnant Body in Children of Men" Justin Philpot (BGSU) “Female Effigies and Performances of Desire: A Consideration of Identity Performance and Embodiment in Lars and the Real Girl” Kate O’Neill (University of Calgary) Moderator: Leigh Ann Wheeler (American Culture Studies & History) SAT 2:00-3:20 ---------(De)mystifying the Body: Historical, Scientific, and Theoretical Considerations ---------“The Earthly Nature of Justice and the State in Plato’s Republic” Audrey L. Anton (The Ohio State University) “The (impossible) body” Traci Kelly (University of Reading) “Dis-covering the Material: Embodiment, Semiotics, and Science Studies” Charles P. (Chip) Linscott (Ohio University) Moderator: T.B.A. Panel N SAT 2:00-3:20 ---------Subcultural Subjectivities in Performance and Ritual ---------“Performance Animals, Performing Animals, or Animal Performers?: Audiencing the World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions” Season Ellison (BGSU) “Animating the Promise Keepers: Bodily Devotion” Josh Brahinsky (University of California, Santa Cruz) “Music for the Ritual Chamber” Ben Olson (BGSU) “Chicks Dig Body Damage: Identity Expression Through Off-Road Vehicles” Callie Clare (Indiana University) Moderator: Jeremy Wallach (Popular Culture) Room 315 Panel K Room 314 6 11 Session 9 SAT 12:30-1:50 ---------Writing the Body: Feminist Creative Writing Projects ---------This panel of four feminist creative writers will briefly discuss the way the female body is represented and politicized in fiction and poetry and read from their own collections. Beth Kaufka (North Carolina A&T State University) Kate Lane (BGSU) Melissa Engberg (BGSU) Raegen Pietrucha (BGSU) Panel B Room 308 Roundtable Room 308 Session 6 FRI 6:00-7:30 ---------From Student to Faculty: Leaving Grad School… ---------The culminating event of the first day of Battleground States is an informal roundtable discussion with several recent PhDs from the American Culture Studies Program who have all followed distinct paths from grad school to faculty. Matthew Mace Barbee (Instructor, Ethnic Studies, BGSU) Mike S. DuBose (Lecturer, English, University of Toledo) Stephen Swanson (Lecturer, English, Penn State University, Erie) Meredith Guthrie (Lecturer, Media/ Communication, University of Pittsburgh) Dan Shope (Instructor, Sociology, BGSU) Moderator: Colin Helb (American Culture Studies) SAT 12:30-1:50 ---------Privilege and Identity in Youth Culture ---------“Spelling Out Racial Difference: Akeelah and the Bee as Black and White Melodrama” Kathryn Linder (The Ohio State University) “Feminist Icon or WASP Idol? (Re)-reading Nancy Drew’s Whiteness” Rachel Dean-Ruzicka (BGSU) “Duduk Solos and Mini Skirts: Armenian Youth Culture in the Age of Youtube” Katie Casey (University of Chicago) Moderator: Khani Begam (English) Panel Y SAT 12:30-1:50 ---------Absent From Lived Experience: Some Problems With Presence ---------“The Disembodied Vernacular of Jimmy the Assistant” James Paasche (Indiana University) “The Question of Instant Replay” Seth Vannatta (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) “Bodies and Voices in the Cinema: Some Unexpected Problems of Presence” Cynthia Baron (BGSU) Moderator: Scott Magelssen (Theatre & Film) Room 315 Panel P Room 314 This is a Female Athlete Photographic Installation by Lindsay Akens Room 318 SAT 9:30 – 5:00 Photographic representation of female athletes often reflects stereotyped gender roles, placing athletic ability secondary to hair and makeup. Questioning these traditional media representations, researchers at BGSU asked elite female athletes how they would prefer to be photographed. Ms. Akens was one of several photographers to work with these athletes; this photo exhibit is the product of her work. 10 7 Session 7 SAT 9:30-10:50 ---------Alternate bodies: from werewolves to cat suits ---------“The Dread of Difference and the Monster Within: Essentializing Gender Through Representations of the Female Werewolf” Rosalind Sibielski (BGSU) “The Body, Musidora, and Black Latex: Resignifying Orientalist Discourse in the Shadow of Lesbian Desire in Irma Vep” Sue Brennan (The Ohio State University) “Treacherous Whores: The Costumed Bodies of Feline/Female Hybrids in the Superhero Genre” Michael J. Lecker (George Mason University) Moderator: Jeff Brown (Popular Culture) Panel J Room 314 SAT 9:30-10:50 Panel H Room 308 Panel M Room 308 Session 8 SAT 11:00-12:20 ---------Performing Culture, Race, and Gender: Dance from the Stage to the Internet ---------“The Dancing Dasein” Kathryn Enright (The Ohio State University) “Now Watch Me OOOOOH: Net Dance From Soulja Boy and Beyond” Gavin Meuller (Independent Scholar) “Freaks and Cheeks: Neoburlesque, The Pussycat Dolls, and the Commodification of the Female Body” Jenn Brandt (University of Rhode Island) “Cultural Choreography” E.M. Rooney (BGSU) Moderator: Nancy Spencer (Human Movement, Sport, and Leisure Studies) SAT 11:00-12:20 --------Bodies of Work, Works of Body: A Reading of Creative Writings ---------Angie Gentry (BGSU) Joe Celizsc (BGSU) Megan Ayers (BGSU) Priscilla Wysong (BGSU) Aimee Pogson (BGSU) Brandon Jennings (BGSU) Dustin Hoffman (BGSU) Brad Modlin (BGSU) Moderator: Wendell Mayo (English) Panel F SAT 11:00-12:20 ---------Audience, Style and Surface Aesthetics in the Plays of Oscar Wilde ---------This panel proposes to consider the questions of physical fragmentation, audience preference, and style debates that continue to make Oscar Wilde’s plays as elusive and admired now as they were in Victorian England. Hephzibah Dutt (BGSU) Darin Kerr (BGSU) Vanessa White (BGSU) Moderator: Kim Coates (English) Room 315 Panel E Room 314 ---------The Medieval Body: Three Morality Plays ---------“Sphere of Influence: The Genealogy of Everyman” John Paul Staszel (BGSU) “Climate and Social Ecology in The Second Shepherd's Play” Timothy Schaffer (BGSU) “Are iconic sheep worth anything? A cultural materialist examination of The Second Shepherd’s Play” Carl Walling (BGSU) Moderator: Erin Labbie (English) SAT 9:30-10:50 ---------Artistic Representations and Entertainments ---------“Slaying Judith: The Dynamics of Bio-Power in Public Sculpture During the Florentine Renaissance” Erin M. Schwartz (Ohio University) “The Compound Gallery of Desire” Ryan Johnson (Kent State University) “The Function of Violence in Contemporary Artistic Entertainment” Stewart Hawley (BGSU) Moderator: Eileen Cherry-Chandler (Theatre & Film) Panel W Room 315 8 9