I could conceivably attend a panel in EVERY session, which is rather terrifying. I don't know if I will, but I'll certainly try. Friends are bolded.
Thu, March 6 12:00 noon -1:45 pm Session A
A7: Theories of the Digital
Tami Williams (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Sounding the Cyberspace Alarm: A Historical Look at Paul Virilio’s Gaze, from Architectural Trans-appearance to the Globalized Virtual Perceptron"
Zachary Blas (University of California Los Angeles), "TransCoder: The softQueerBody"
Daniel Morgan (University of Pittsburg), "Bazin in the Digital World"
Thu, March 6 2:00 -3:45 pm Session B
B11: Uses of Ethnography and Anthropology
Paula Amad (University of Iowa), "The Beginning of Ethnographic Film at the Ends of Postcolonial Theory: The Films of Father Aupiais in Dahomey 1929-1930"
Katherine Groo (Cornell University), "Mysterious Unkillable Something: Rereading Josephine Baker and the Surface of Ethnographic Cinema"
Pooja Rangan (Brown University, Modern Culture and Media), "Media Education as Auto-ethnography: BORN INTO BROTHELS"
Kathryn Ramey (Emerson College), "Anthropologists, Animators and 'Actions': The Organic Machine in SAKAMAPEAP and the Films of the Quay Brothers"
Thu, March 6 4:00 -5:45 pm Session C
C4: The Business of Science Fiction Television
Shawn Shimpach (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "'No Flights, No Tights': Doing Business with Superman"
Bob Rehak (Swarthmore College), "Strange New Worlds: The Incorporated Narratives of Science Fiction Transmedia"
Ina Hark (University of South Carolina), "The Business of Resurrecting Dead Science Fiction Television Shows"
Barbara Selznick (University of Arizona), "Distributing the Future: Science Fiction and Television Distribution"
Fri, March 7 8:00 -9:45 am Session D
D3: Color Coding: Race, Technology and Daily Life
Tara McPherson (University of Southern California), "Understanding McLuhan: Electronic Media, Race and Mid-century Culture"
Curtis Marez (USC), "Star Wars and the Chicano/a Critique of Neoliberalism"
Jennifer Gonzalez (University of California, Santa Cruz), "The Face and the Public: Racial Formations in Digital Art"
Respondent: Wendy Chun (Brown University)
Fri, March 7 10:00 -11:45 am Session E
E3: Film Theory and Marxism: New Approaches
Jane Gaines (Duke University), "Film Theory: How Many Marxisms?"
Philip Rosen (Brown University), "Eisenstein’s Marxism, Marxism’s Eisenstein"
Masha Salazkina (Colgate University), "Early Soviet Film Theory in Latin American Radical Film Theory and Practice"
John MacKay (Yale University), "Did Vertov Have a Theory of Spectatorship?"
E14: Closets and Other Places: Mapping Queer Media
Christian Gay (University of Miami), "Urban Spaces and Queer Places in John Cameron Mitchell’s SHORTBUS"
Amy Villarejo (Cornell University), "TALES OF THE CITY, or Stairway to Heaven: Television’s Queer Cartographies"
Hollis Griffin (Northwestern University), "Out of the Closet and on the Road: Identity, Mobility, and Geography in Gay-themed Cultural Production"
Kevin Ohi (Boston College), "Voyeurism and Annunciation in Almodóvar’s TALK TO HER"
Fri, March 7 1:15 -3:00 pm Session F
F4: Not Your Average Couch Potato: Television Fandom
Suzanne Scott (University of Southern California), ""Authorized Resistance: Is 'Battlestar Galactica' Fan Production Frakked?""
Ashley Moss (University of Arizona), "Courting the Interactive Audience: Integrating Fan Videos into Network Marketing Campaigns"
Julie Russo (Brown University), "The Shape of Things to Come: Online Promotions, Fan Videos, and Other Queer Technologies in the Progeny of 'Battlestar Galactica'"
Kirsten Pullen (University of Calgary), "Evaluating Without Pity: SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE and the Terrain of Television Talent Show Fandom"
Fri, March 7 3:15 -5:00 pm Session G
G4: Television as a Cultural Center; the Future of the Public Sphere
Shanti Kumar (University of Texas, Austin), "Redefining the 'Public' in Indian Television"
Yeidy Rivero (Indiana University, Bloomington), "Public Television for the ‘Other’ Publics: ESAA-TV (1972-1980)"
Henry Jenkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "The Public Sphere in a 'Hybrid Media Ecology': YouTube, Network Television, and Presidential Politics"
Jostein Gripsrud (Universitetet i Bergen), "Television and the Digital Public Sphere"
G5: Media Subcultures
Josh Guilford (Brown University), "'The Differences You See Are the Differences between the Future and the Past': Bones Brigade Skateboard Videos and American Subculture"
Robert Jones (New York University), "Machinimateur Wanted: The Professionalization of Machinima Software"
Amanda Fleming (Indiana University), "Looking at the Monstrous Human: Serial Killer Fans Online"
Katie Mills (Occidental College), "Viral Mobility: Lowrider Videos on YouTube"
Fri, March 7 5:15 -7:00 pm Session H
H4: Paratextual Architectures and the Shifting Boundaries of Television
Jonathan Gray (Fordham University), "Where is(n’t) Springfield? Placing THE SIMPSONS and Television"
Louisa Stein (San Diego State University), "Hailing the Fan: Diegetic and Extradiegetic Expansion in Official Online Interfaces"
Jason Mittell (Middlebury College), "Architectures of Participation: Wiki Fandom and the Case of LostPedia"
Kristina Busse (n/a), "Paratextual Commentary as Writer Response Theory"
Sat, March 8 8:00 -9:45 am Session I
I3: Women, Modernity and Cinema
E. Ann Kaplan (Stony Brook University), "Women, Affect and 'Late' Modernity: Duras’ and Sontag’s 1970s Cinema"
Mary Ann Doane (Brown University), "Modernity and the Faces of Women"
Veronica Pravadelli (Universita Di Roma Tre), "The Modern Woman and Visual/Sexual Display in Early Sound Cinema"
Respondent: Patrice Petro (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
I5: Republic of Users
Lindsay Fullerton (Northwestern University), "Read/Write Web: Architectures of Participation in Web 2.0"
Brett McCracken (University of California, Los Angeles), "Filler Upload: User-generated Fuel for the Internet Economy"
Joshua Green (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "The People Formerly Known As: What happens to the Audience When We’re All ‘Users’?"
Patricia Lange (University of Southern California), "The Return of the Unruly Active Audience: Structuring Feedback on YouTube"
Sat, March 8 10:00 -11:45 am Session J
J4: Copyright
Peter Decherney (University of Pennsylvania), "'Legally Unique': Chaplin, Copyright, and the Beginning of the End of Participatory Culture"
Abigail Derecho (Columbia College Chicago), "License to Remix: Structuring a Creativity-Copyright Balance by Reviving Fair Pay Proposals for Fan Productions, Sampling, and Other Digital Appropriations"
Patricia Aufderheide (American University), "Pirates of the Remix Universe: Online Video Practices on the Frontier of the Copyright Wars"
Lucas Hilderbrand (University of California, Irvine), "Focus on the Family: The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act and Personal Censorship"
Sat, March 8 12:00 noon -1:45 pm Session K
K9: Workshop: Scholarly Writing in the Digital Age
Chair: Avi Santo (Old Dominion University)
Co-chair: Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College)
Henry Jenkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Tara McPherson (University of Southern California)
Jason Mittell (Middlebury College)
Alexandra Juhasz (Pitzer College)
Christian Keathley (Middlebury College)
Sat, March 8 2:00 -3:45 pm Session L
L19: Three Warhols and a Deren
Sarah Keller (University of Chicago), "Maya Deren and Poetic Cinema: Image, Influence and Metaphor"
Erika Balsom (Brown University), "An Aesthetics of Prattle, A Riot of Detail: The Early Films of Andy Warhol"
Eric Crosby (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Paroxysmal Poetics: Strobe Cutting in Warhol’s Films, 1966-1969"
Nadia Bozak (University of Toronto), "Andy Warhol's Empire: The Cinematic Pyramid"
Sat, March 8 4:00 -5:45 pm Session M
M9: Workshop: The Future of Television Studies
Chair: William Uricchio (MIT)
Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
William Boddy (Baruch College/City University of New York)
Anna Everett (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham)
Máire Messenger Davies (University of Ulster)
Sun, March 9 8:00 -9:45 am Session N
N14: (Re)Constructing Bisexual Spaces
Caryn Murphy (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "'Going Through a Phase': Bisexuality and Adolescence as Liminal Identities in Teen Television Drama”"
L. Ayu Saraswati P. (Emory University), "Foreplay or For Play?: Making Love and Remaking Bisexual Identities in Cyberspace"
Jennifer Moorman (University of California, Los Angeles), "The Game of (SECOND) LIFE: Bi/Sexual Identities in Online Gaming"
Respondent: Alexander Doty (Lehigh University)
Sun, March 9 10:00 -11:45 am Session O
O16: The Device at Hand
Richard Cante (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Redesigning the World with the Medium in Collapse (and the Device on the Rise)"
Paige Sarlin (Brown University), "Illuminating Obsolescence: Dialectics at Stand Still & Eastman Kodak's Carousel Slide Projector"
Angela Dancey (The Ohio State University), "Digital Switchblades: Cell Phones, Gangsters and Going Undercover in THE DEPARTED"
Marc Furstenau (Carleton University), "Designing the User: Video Technology and the Structures of an Expanded Cinematic Space"
Sun, March 9 12:00 noon -1:45 pm Session P
P4: So Say We All: Watching BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
Lisa Nakamura (University of Illinois, Urbana), "Yellow Fever: Artificial Asian Woman and the War on Terror in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA"
Elspeth Kydd (University of the West of England), "The Look and Feel of Humanity: Cylons and the 'Passing' Narrative in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA"
Ewan Kirkland (Bucks New University), "BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and its Media"
Bambi Haggins (University of Michigan), "Moral Ambiguity & Quality Television or Why I Love & Hate Gaius Baltar"
Robin Roberts (LSU) and Geoffrey Clayton (Louisiana State University), "Gender, Leadership and Reproduction in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA"
folks whose panels I won't be able to attend due to scheduling, SORRY!
Ford, Samuel A17
Thain, Alanna B6
Furuhata, Yuriko C16
Siegel, Michael E18
Tierney, Matthew H13
Richmond, Scott J14
Steinberg, Marc J2
White, Patricia K10, M7
Takahashi, Tess M3
Brinkema, Eugenie P11
Kompare, Derek P13
Thu, March 6 12:00 noon -1:45 pm Session A
A7: Theories of the Digital
Tami Williams (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Sounding the Cyberspace Alarm: A Historical Look at Paul Virilio’s Gaze, from Architectural Trans-appearance to the Globalized Virtual Perceptron"
Zachary Blas (University of California Los Angeles), "TransCoder: The softQueerBody"
Daniel Morgan (University of Pittsburg), "Bazin in the Digital World"
Thu, March 6 2:00 -3:45 pm Session B
B11: Uses of Ethnography and Anthropology
Paula Amad (University of Iowa), "The Beginning of Ethnographic Film at the Ends of Postcolonial Theory: The Films of Father Aupiais in Dahomey 1929-1930"
Katherine Groo (Cornell University), "Mysterious Unkillable Something: Rereading Josephine Baker and the Surface of Ethnographic Cinema"
Pooja Rangan (Brown University, Modern Culture and Media), "Media Education as Auto-ethnography: BORN INTO BROTHELS"
Kathryn Ramey (Emerson College), "Anthropologists, Animators and 'Actions': The Organic Machine in SAKAMAPEAP and the Films of the Quay Brothers"
Thu, March 6 4:00 -5:45 pm Session C
C4: The Business of Science Fiction Television
Shawn Shimpach (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "'No Flights, No Tights': Doing Business with Superman"
Bob Rehak (Swarthmore College), "Strange New Worlds: The Incorporated Narratives of Science Fiction Transmedia"
Ina Hark (University of South Carolina), "The Business of Resurrecting Dead Science Fiction Television Shows"
Barbara Selznick (University of Arizona), "Distributing the Future: Science Fiction and Television Distribution"
Fri, March 7 8:00 -9:45 am Session D
D3: Color Coding: Race, Technology and Daily Life
Tara McPherson (University of Southern California), "Understanding McLuhan: Electronic Media, Race and Mid-century Culture"
Curtis Marez (USC), "Star Wars and the Chicano/a Critique of Neoliberalism"
Jennifer Gonzalez (University of California, Santa Cruz), "The Face and the Public: Racial Formations in Digital Art"
Respondent: Wendy Chun (Brown University)
Fri, March 7 10:00 -11:45 am Session E
E3: Film Theory and Marxism: New Approaches
Jane Gaines (Duke University), "Film Theory: How Many Marxisms?"
Philip Rosen (Brown University), "Eisenstein’s Marxism, Marxism’s Eisenstein"
Masha Salazkina (Colgate University), "Early Soviet Film Theory in Latin American Radical Film Theory and Practice"
John MacKay (Yale University), "Did Vertov Have a Theory of Spectatorship?"
E14: Closets and Other Places: Mapping Queer Media
Christian Gay (University of Miami), "Urban Spaces and Queer Places in John Cameron Mitchell’s SHORTBUS"
Amy Villarejo (Cornell University), "TALES OF THE CITY, or Stairway to Heaven: Television’s Queer Cartographies"
Hollis Griffin (Northwestern University), "Out of the Closet and on the Road: Identity, Mobility, and Geography in Gay-themed Cultural Production"
Kevin Ohi (Boston College), "Voyeurism and Annunciation in Almodóvar’s TALK TO HER"
Fri, March 7 1:15 -3:00 pm Session F
F4: Not Your Average Couch Potato: Television Fandom
Suzanne Scott (University of Southern California), ""Authorized Resistance: Is 'Battlestar Galactica' Fan Production Frakked?""
Ashley Moss (University of Arizona), "Courting the Interactive Audience: Integrating Fan Videos into Network Marketing Campaigns"
Julie Russo (Brown University), "The Shape of Things to Come: Online Promotions, Fan Videos, and Other Queer Technologies in the Progeny of 'Battlestar Galactica'"
Kirsten Pullen (University of Calgary), "Evaluating Without Pity: SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE and the Terrain of Television Talent Show Fandom"
Fri, March 7 3:15 -5:00 pm Session G
G4: Television as a Cultural Center; the Future of the Public Sphere
Shanti Kumar (University of Texas, Austin), "Redefining the 'Public' in Indian Television"
Yeidy Rivero (Indiana University, Bloomington), "Public Television for the ‘Other’ Publics: ESAA-TV (1972-1980)"
Henry Jenkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "The Public Sphere in a 'Hybrid Media Ecology': YouTube, Network Television, and Presidential Politics"
Jostein Gripsrud (Universitetet i Bergen), "Television and the Digital Public Sphere"
G5: Media Subcultures
Josh Guilford (Brown University), "'The Differences You See Are the Differences between the Future and the Past': Bones Brigade Skateboard Videos and American Subculture"
Robert Jones (New York University), "Machinimateur Wanted: The Professionalization of Machinima Software"
Amanda Fleming (Indiana University), "Looking at the Monstrous Human: Serial Killer Fans Online"
Katie Mills (Occidental College), "Viral Mobility: Lowrider Videos on YouTube"
Fri, March 7 5:15 -7:00 pm Session H
H4: Paratextual Architectures and the Shifting Boundaries of Television
Jonathan Gray (Fordham University), "Where is(n’t) Springfield? Placing THE SIMPSONS and Television"
Louisa Stein (San Diego State University), "Hailing the Fan: Diegetic and Extradiegetic Expansion in Official Online Interfaces"
Jason Mittell (Middlebury College), "Architectures of Participation: Wiki Fandom and the Case of LostPedia"
Kristina Busse (n/a), "Paratextual Commentary as Writer Response Theory"
Sat, March 8 8:00 -9:45 am Session I
I3: Women, Modernity and Cinema
E. Ann Kaplan (Stony Brook University), "Women, Affect and 'Late' Modernity: Duras’ and Sontag’s 1970s Cinema"
Mary Ann Doane (Brown University), "Modernity and the Faces of Women"
Veronica Pravadelli (Universita Di Roma Tre), "The Modern Woman and Visual/Sexual Display in Early Sound Cinema"
Respondent: Patrice Petro (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
I5: Republic of Users
Lindsay Fullerton (Northwestern University), "Read/Write Web: Architectures of Participation in Web 2.0"
Brett McCracken (University of California, Los Angeles), "Filler Upload: User-generated Fuel for the Internet Economy"
Joshua Green (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "The People Formerly Known As: What happens to the Audience When We’re All ‘Users’?"
Patricia Lange (University of Southern California), "The Return of the Unruly Active Audience: Structuring Feedback on YouTube"
Sat, March 8 10:00 -11:45 am Session J
J4: Copyright
Peter Decherney (University of Pennsylvania), "'Legally Unique': Chaplin, Copyright, and the Beginning of the End of Participatory Culture"
Abigail Derecho (Columbia College Chicago), "License to Remix: Structuring a Creativity-Copyright Balance by Reviving Fair Pay Proposals for Fan Productions, Sampling, and Other Digital Appropriations"
Patricia Aufderheide (American University), "Pirates of the Remix Universe: Online Video Practices on the Frontier of the Copyright Wars"
Lucas Hilderbrand (University of California, Irvine), "Focus on the Family: The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act and Personal Censorship"
Sat, March 8 12:00 noon -1:45 pm Session K
K9: Workshop: Scholarly Writing in the Digital Age
Chair: Avi Santo (Old Dominion University)
Co-chair: Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College)
Henry Jenkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Tara McPherson (University of Southern California)
Jason Mittell (Middlebury College)
Alexandra Juhasz (Pitzer College)
Christian Keathley (Middlebury College)
Sat, March 8 2:00 -3:45 pm Session L
L19: Three Warhols and a Deren
Sarah Keller (University of Chicago), "Maya Deren and Poetic Cinema: Image, Influence and Metaphor"
Erika Balsom (Brown University), "An Aesthetics of Prattle, A Riot of Detail: The Early Films of Andy Warhol"
Eric Crosby (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Paroxysmal Poetics: Strobe Cutting in Warhol’s Films, 1966-1969"
Nadia Bozak (University of Toronto), "Andy Warhol's Empire: The Cinematic Pyramid"
Sat, March 8 4:00 -5:45 pm Session M
M9: Workshop: The Future of Television Studies
Chair: William Uricchio (MIT)
Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
William Boddy (Baruch College/City University of New York)
Anna Everett (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham)
Máire Messenger Davies (University of Ulster)
Sun, March 9 8:00 -9:45 am Session N
N14: (Re)Constructing Bisexual Spaces
Caryn Murphy (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "'Going Through a Phase': Bisexuality and Adolescence as Liminal Identities in Teen Television Drama”"
L. Ayu Saraswati P. (Emory University), "Foreplay or For Play?: Making Love and Remaking Bisexual Identities in Cyberspace"
Jennifer Moorman (University of California, Los Angeles), "The Game of (SECOND) LIFE: Bi/Sexual Identities in Online Gaming"
Respondent: Alexander Doty (Lehigh University)
Sun, March 9 10:00 -11:45 am Session O
O16: The Device at Hand
Richard Cante (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Redesigning the World with the Medium in Collapse (and the Device on the Rise)"
Paige Sarlin (Brown University), "Illuminating Obsolescence: Dialectics at Stand Still & Eastman Kodak's Carousel Slide Projector"
Angela Dancey (The Ohio State University), "Digital Switchblades: Cell Phones, Gangsters and Going Undercover in THE DEPARTED"
Marc Furstenau (Carleton University), "Designing the User: Video Technology and the Structures of an Expanded Cinematic Space"
Sun, March 9 12:00 noon -1:45 pm Session P
P4: So Say We All: Watching BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
Lisa Nakamura (University of Illinois, Urbana), "Yellow Fever: Artificial Asian Woman and the War on Terror in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA"
Elspeth Kydd (University of the West of England), "The Look and Feel of Humanity: Cylons and the 'Passing' Narrative in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA"
Ewan Kirkland (Bucks New University), "BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and its Media"
Bambi Haggins (University of Michigan), "Moral Ambiguity & Quality Television or Why I Love & Hate Gaius Baltar"
Robin Roberts (LSU) and Geoffrey Clayton (Louisiana State University), "Gender, Leadership and Reproduction in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA"
folks whose panels I won't be able to attend due to scheduling, SORRY!
Ford, Samuel A17
Thain, Alanna B6
Furuhata, Yuriko C16
Siegel, Michael E18
Tierney, Matthew H13
Richmond, Scott J14
Steinberg, Marc J2
White, Patricia K10, M7
Takahashi, Tess M3
Brinkema, Eugenie P11
Kompare, Derek P13
