2016 OPCA Conference Program

Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference
Honolulu, HI
May 27-28, 2016
Chaminade University of Honolulu


Program Schedule

Friday

May 27, 2016

Friday 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

On-site registration and check-in
Continental Breakfast Available
(Loo Student Center)




Friday 9:00- 10:20 a.m.
Session IA: Asia Pop: Mass/Popular Culture Negotiations
Wesselkamper 120

Moderator: Brooke Carlson, Chaminade University of Honolulu

Novel by Design: Reverse Engineering Pop Songs in the Early Twentieth Century Asia Pacific
Pat Patterson, Honolulu Community College

The Kkonminam (Flower Boy) Syndrome: Attaining New Masculine Beauty
Colby Miyose, University of Hawai‘i, Hilo

 Bubble Pop: K-Pop Stars, Fans, and Gender in America
Jayson Chun, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu


Friday 9:00 a.m.- 10:20 a.m.
Session IB: Place, Space, and Power in Hawai‘i
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Room 254

Moderator: Stan Orr, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

 Phantasms of War:  Constructions of Terror and Japanese American Internment
Amy Nishimura, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

Encountering Island Hotels
Kelema Moses, Occidental College

Forgetting Hawai‘i: Amnesiac Images/Queer locations/Counterfeit cultures
Eleanor Byrne, Manchester Metropolitan University UK

Friday 10:30 a.m- 11:50 p.m.
Session 2A: Japanese Pop Culture
Wesselkamper 120

Moderator: Veronica Popp, Texas Woman’s University

Pride without Narrative? Towards a Theory of Japanese Pop Nationalism
Christopher Smith, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa


Kiss of Death: Gendered Japanese Popular Culture Representations
Veronica Popp, Texas Woman’s University

Symbolic ethnicity and the role of trauma and assimilation in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms
Jolene Armstrong, Athabasca University


Friday 10:30 a.m- 11:50 a.m.
Session 2B: Modern(ist) Uses of Popular Culture
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Room 254

Moderator: Stan Orr, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

Author Photos, with some Polynesian Views
James Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles

Loss, Desire, and the Family Romance in the Works of Randall Jarrell
Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Another Country as a Machinic Assemblage
David Odhiambo, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

Friday 10:30 a.m- 11:50 a.m.
Session 2C: Revisiting the Pacific
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Black Box Theater

Moderator: Justin Wyble, Chaminade University of Honolulu

Cosmos and Chaos in the Views of Ancient Religions in the Pacific
Lilia Castle, Chaminade University of Honolulu

Unsettling the Mapping of Settler Ideologies:  How Mo'olelo Can Disrupt Settler Effacement of Indigenous Land
Koreen Nakahodo, Chaminade University of Honolulu


12:00-1:00
OPCA Conference Luncheon
Loo Student Center 

2016 OPCA Special Event

Film Screening: 1:00 p.m.- 2:30 p.m.

 Hao Wela: The Untold Story of Hot Rodding in Hawai'i (2016)

The "rough cut" of this  film will be followed by a Q & A with filmmakers 
Wojciech Lorenc and Mark Hanson



Friday 2:40 p.m. -4:00 p.m.
Session 3A: Cinema and Gender
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Black Box Theater

Moderator: Kelema Moses, Occidental College

Airing Our Dirty Linen in Public:  Women and the Voice of Disgust
Deborah Ross, Hawai‘i Pacific University

Becoming Batman: Dean Trippe’s Something Terrible and the Subversion of Masculine Narratives of Suffering
Nicole Kurashige, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

"If I Die Young": Heroism, Romance, and Death in Film Adaptations of Young Adult Fiction
Karin Beeler, University of Northern British Columbia

Friday 2:40 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Session 3B: Representing Subcultures
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Room 254

Moderator: Eleanor Byrne, Manchester Metropolitan University UK

Real World Interpretive Communities: An Innovative Theoretical and Methodological Approach
Paul Cook, Northumbria University


Taking Cuckolding Fetish Out Of The Closet: Examining The Nature of Contemporary Heterosexual Deviance
Orlando Garcia-Santiago, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

A Pirate Looks Back at 60: An Aging Work Population, Escapism and the Jimmy Buffet Syndrome
Jack Hamlin and Shirley Rehkopf, National University


Friday 4:10- 5:30 p.m.
Session 4A: Channel Surfing-- The Pacific on TV
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Room 254

Moderator: Deborah Ross, Hawai'i Pacific University

Perils, Pits, and Prisoners: John Kneubuhl's Contributions to Adventures in Paradise
Stan Orr, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

"It Started from this Tropic Port, Upon this Tiny Ship:" Television’s Romance with the Desert Isle
Stan Beeler,  University of Northern British Columbia

The Island in Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Marla Arbach, Carleton University

Friday 4:10-5:30 p.m.
Session 4B: Poster Session
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Black Box Theater


Transformative Pedagogies: Using the Marianist Charism of Community and Collaboration to Respond to an Educational Crisis in Chuuk
Frank Bailey, Dave Coleman, and Koreen Nakahodo 
Chaminade University of Honolulu



 Saturday

May 28, 2016

Check-in and Continental Breakfast Available
(Loo Student Center)

Saturday 9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Session 5A: Cinematic Oceania
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Room 254

Moderator: Stanley Orr, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

Disillusioned in Paradise: Exploring Cultural Boundaries in La Habanera and Waikiki Wedding
Alan Rosenfeld, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

We were Once Warriors Too: Native Hawaiian Audiences and Māori Pop Culture
Kealani Cook, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

 Warriors Still?: Once Were Warriors Re-Examined
Andrew Howe, La Sierra University

Saturday 9:15-10:45 a.m.
Session 5B: Food Studies
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Black Box Theater

Moderator: Makana Mattos, Chaminade University of Honolulu

The Chef Memoir as Spiritual Autobiography
Doreen Saar, Drexel University

Cultural Representations of the Food System on Oahu: A Story in Moving Images
Monique Mironesco, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu


Saturday 11:00 a.m.- 12:20 pm
Session 6A:Gothic Slash Horror
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Black Box Theater

Moderator: Kimberly Jew, University of Utah

Women in Slasher Films
Jessica Robinson, Independent Scholar

Black. Angry. Monster. Dead. - African Americans as Failed Individuals in True Blood?
Verena Bernardi, Saarland University


Zombie Safe House: Dance Dance Zombie (DDZ)
Junghwa Suh, Chaminade University of Honolulu

Saturday 11:00 a.m.- 12:20 pm
Session 6B:Pedagogies of the Popular
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Room 254

Moderator: John Bratzel, Michigan State University

The Public Pedagogy of Captain America
Scott Wylie, Chaminade University of Honolulu

Drunk History as Public Pedagogy
David Kupferman, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

There and Back Again: Using Fairy Tales to Introduce the Research Project
Lara Hansen, University of Nevada, Reno


12:20 p.m. -1:20 p.m.
Luncheon

Saturday 1:25 p.m. -2:45 p.m.
Session 7A:Technology, Pedagogy, and Academia
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Black Box Theater

Moderator: James Kraus, Chaminade University of Honolulu

Detecting Publication Preferences in Academic Research: A Topic Extraction Approach
Konstantinos Zougris, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

Tweet That@unibcarlson: #criticalthinking#digped#bacen10216
Brooke Carlson, Chaminade University of Honolulu

Teaching Technē versus Teaching Technology and Its 'Fundamental Project'
James Kraus, Chaminade University of Honolulu

Saturday 1:25 p.m. -2:45 p.m.
Session 7B: Minding Childhood and Children’s Literature
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Room 254

Moderator: Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State University of Denver

The Unbecoming Child and Its Discontents
Carmen Nolte, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

The Adult Postcolonial Child: Images of Growing Up in the Pacific Islands
Kimberly Jew, University of Utah

POP! Goes the Theme: Children's Literature's Changing Focus
Jill Dahlman, University of Nevada, Reno


Post-Conference Reception 2:45-4:00
(Loo Student Center)