Schedule
Thursday, April 24, 2025
4:00-7:00 Art Gallery Exhibition Reception
4:30-4:45 Popular Arts Conference Welcome Address
4:45-5:45 Dr. Johnathan Flowers-“The Visual Language of a Future Yet Set”
5:45-6:45 Chris Stagl “Ethically Leveraging Artificial Intelligence as a Creative Designer”
Friday, April 25, 2025
9:00-11:45 and 2:30-7:00 ongoing, Art Lab Gallery Exhibition
10:00-10:30 Daniel Amrhein-“Punishing Powerful Women: Gender Power Politics in American Superhero Comics”
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
11:00-11:30 Ella Waddel “Good Luck, Nana: The Sapphic Love and Identity Struggles of Nana Komatsu and Nana Osaki in NANA”
11:30-12:00 John N. Harris “Games and Gaming as Tools in College Classrooms”
12:00-1:00 BREAK FOR LUNCH
1:00-2:00 Lt. Colonel Alon “War Games”
2:00-2:30 Jill Magi “Parataxis on Steroids! Comics as a Door to Poetry and a Window into Past Ways of Reading”
2:30-3:00 Adam Eddy “Liminal Perspective”
3:00-3:30 Madeline Birge “Wordsworth and Ecocinema: “The World is Too Much with Us” and the Fantasy Genre’s Relationship with Nature
3:30-4:00 Matthew J. Brown “The Nutty Professor and the Intrepid Explorer: Further Tropes in the Representation of Scientists”
4:00-4:30 Anais Shelley “Mary Shelley Reimagined: How Creation versus Creator has Evolved in Cinematic Retellings”
4:30-5:00 Erin Gordon “Exposing Ethics and Impartiality: Documentary Photography in Civil War”
5:00-5:30 Kari Neely “Wishing for Mental Health: Magical Realism in Deena Mohamed’s Shubeik Lubeik”
5:30-6:00 Courtney Bliss “Rap is Revolution, The Revolution is Rap: How Hamilton Brings Together Then and Now through Hip-Hop”
6:00-6:30 Kensley Fuller “The Impact of Popular Media on Student Engagement and Music Pedagogy”