Oceanic
Popular Culture Association
2008 Conference
Schedule
Friday--
May 23, 2008
8:30-9:00 A.M.
Continental Breakfast/Registration
9:00-10:30 A.M.
Panel 1A: Workshop
Session on Dialogics of American Literature
Moderator:
Amy Nishimura, University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu
Aimee
Ilac, University
of Hawai’i, West O’ahu
Kristopher
Dung, University
of Hawai’i, West O’ahu
10:45-12:15 P.M.
Panel 2A: Asian
Popular Culture
Moderator:
Jayson Chun, University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu
Roy
Huff, University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu
Perceptions
of the Hawaiian Nissei in 1937
Christine
Cynn, Columbia University
“The
Prostitute, the Gambler and the Sodomite: Chinese Laborers as Unproductive
Labor in the Early Exclusion Era United States”
Chitta
Unni, Chaminade University of Honolulu
“The
Cinematic Look of Chinese Women”
Comments
by My Liu Rui Hong
Panel 2B: Film Studies
Moderator: David Arnold, University of
Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Alan
Lindsay, New Hampshire Technical Institute
“Teaching
and its Dissed Contents: Reflections on Hollywood’s Cult of the Teacher”
Camilla
Fojas, DePaul University
“Hollywood
in the Shadow of 1898”
Megan
Lloyd, King’s College
“Shakespeare
or Schlokspeare?: Marketing the Bard in the 21st Century”
David
W. Norton, Rio Hondo College
“Becoming
a Princess: Culture, Gender and Latina/o Sexuality in Quinceanera”
Lunch (On Your
Own)—12:45-2:30 P.M.
2:30-4:00 P.M.
Panel 3A: Food and
Popular Culture
Moderator:
Larissa Schumann, Brigham Young University, Hawai’i
Monique
Mironesco, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
“Food,
Intersectionality and Location”
Mark
Hanson, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
“Binge
and Purge: An Explanation of the American Drug Intolerance that Emerged after
Three Mass Epidemics”
Panel 3B: Transitions
in Science Fiction
Moderator:
Jill Dahlman, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Heather
Rolufs, University of Northern British Columbia
“The
Representations of Manichaeism Delirium in the New Battlestar Galactica”
Jill
Dahlman, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
“Star Trek and Intertextuality: Literature Meets SF on the Television Set”
John
Trowbridge, Assistant Editor, Journal of
Chinese Philosophy
"First
Contact with the 'Children of Tama': Narrative and Analytic' Styles of
Rationality' in Star Trek and Comparative
Philosophy"
James
Trowbridge, Mid-Pacific Institute
"A
Fifth Grader's Perspective on Sci Fi TV"
4:00-5:30
P.M.
OPCA
2008 Reception
Saturday--
May 24, 2008
7:30 A.M. Continental
Breakfast
8:00-9:30 A.M.
Panel 4A: Senior
Culture: Activity and Retirement Among Seniors
Moderator:
Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr., Library of Congress
Timothy
J. Schoepke, Enoch Pratt Library
“
Changing Ideas of Aging in the United States During the 21st
Century”
Edith
Thomas, Independent Scholar
“
Minority Senior Singers”
Hiromi
Ochi, Hitotsubashi University
“The
Transformation of the Meaning of Retirement in Japan in Terms of Neo Liberalist
Discourse”
Frederick
J. Augustyn, Jr., Library of Congress
"Reflection on the Return of Seasoned Politicians--Case
Studies of Adenauer, Churchill, De Gaulle, and Peron"
Panel 4B: Nineteenth
Century “Pop” Cultures
Moderator:
Beth Ptalis, University of California, Riverside
Beth
Ptalis, University of California, Riverside
“Not
‘one of the Populace’: Burnett’s Sara
Crewe”
Jenni
Keys, University of California, Riverside
“Crisis
in Empire: White Women, Brown Men, and the Imperial Gothic in Fin de Siècle
Zenana Fictions”
Ana
Savic, University of California, Riverside
“The
Dark Side of the Self: Dracula and the
Balkan Crisis
9:45-11:15 A.M.
Panel 5A: Children’s
Literature
Moderator:
Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Stephen
Hancock, Brigham Young University, Hawai’i
“Sum Patronus: The Psychology of the
Fatherless in The Prisoner of Azkaban”
Monique
Storie, University of Guam
“That’s
SO Chamorro: Chamorro Teachers’ Responses to Contemporary Realistic Children’s
Literature Set in Guam”
Gabrielle
Halko, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
“The
Enemy’s Shifting Face: Reflections of History and Patriotism in Contemporary
Young Adult Literature”
Panel 5B: Philosophy
and Film
Moderator:
James Sage, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
James
Sage, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
“Evolution
and Creationism in Popular Culture”
William
T. Irwin, King’s College
“‘Truth Matters’ in The Golden Compass”
Paul
Booth, Manchester Metropolitan University
“Dance
of the Dead: Allegory in 28 Days Later”
David
Isaacs, California Baptist University
“There
Be Whales Here”: Sacred Spaces in Niki Caro’s Whale Rider”
11:30-2:00 P.M.
KEYNOTE
ADDRESS
Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
Don't Call Us
Cannibal: Two Generations of Pacific Family Writing
Victoria
Nalani Kneubuhl is a well-known Honolulu playwright and author. She holds a
master’s degree in drama and theatre from the University of Hawai`i. Her many
plays have been performed in Hawai`i and the continental United States and have
toured to Britain, Asia, and the Pacific. An anthology of her work, Hawai`i
Nei: Island Plays, is available from the University of Hawai`i Press. Ms.
Kneubuhl’s mystery novel Murder Casts a
Shadow, will be published in the fall of 2008 by the University of Hawaii
Press. She is currently the writer and co-producer for the television series Biography Hawaii. In 1994, she was the
recipient of the prestigious Hawai`i Award for Literature and in 2006 received
the Eliot Cades Award for Literature.
KEYNOTE FOLLOWED
BY BUFFETT LUNCH
2:00-3:30 P.M.
Panel 6A: Creative and
Critical Voice in Popular Music
Moderator:
Fumiko Takasugi, Honolulu Community College
Andrew
Burt, University of Wisconsin, Steven’s Point
"An
Original Aesthetic: Tracing Lester Bangs' Influence on Music
Criticism"
Megim
Parks, California
State University, San Bernardino
"Raspberry
Swirl: Feminine Voice/Style/Linguistics in the Lyrics of Tori Amos"
Meric
Sobutay, Halic
University, Istanbul
"A
Poetic Journey in Music: Tracing the Tracks of Sufism in Turkish Rap”
Panel 6B: Marking
Time: Tattooing in Literature and Popular Culture
Moderator:
Stanley Orr, University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu
James
Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles
“A
Few American Tattoos: Literary Variations”
Mandy
Treagus, University of Adelaide
“The
Tattoo, the Contemporary Pacific and Academic Approaches”
Heidi
Owens, Luzerne Community College
"Tattooing
and Cultural Identity"
3:45-5:15 P.M.
Panel 7A: The Coen
Brothers’ Revisionary Cinema
Moderator:
Stanley Orr, University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu
David
L. G. Arnold, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
“Ladies,
Killing, and the Ethics of the Remake”: The Coen Brothers do The Ladykillers”
Stanley
Orr, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
Confidence
Men in Blood Simple and The Man Who Wasn’t There
Matthew
Snyder, University of California, Riverside
“Not
a Whore, Not a Nun: Fargo's Frances
McDormand with a Gun”
Panel 7B:
Epistemologies of Place
Moderator:
Anna Marie Christiansen, Brigham Young University, Hawai’i
Cara
Chang, University of Hawaii, Manoa
“Orality
and Literacy at Kukaniloko”
Patrice
M. Wilson, Hawai’i Pacific University
“Land
and Relationships in Oceanic Literature”
Shanda
Adams, San Jose State University/Bethany University
“Characteristics
of Murayama's Characters of All I Asking
for is My Body: How America's Birth Order Affects Japanese Filial Piety”
Philip
Heldrich, University of Washington, Tacoma
“The
Challenges of Public Poetry: The Fate of William Stafford’s Methow River Signs”
Sunday
May 25, 2008
7:30 A.M. Continental
Breakfast
8:00-9:30 A.M.
Panel 8A: The Asian
Atlantic: Parallax Visions of American Modernity
Moderator: Jinah Kim, Northwestern University
“Hapas and Douglas: Asian/White and Indian/Black
Multiracial Identities in Hawai'i and Trinidad”
Neel
Ahuja, University of California, San Diego
“AW
Hitt’s Death Worlds: India, Hawai’i, and the Leprosy Portrait in Tropical
Medical Photography”
Jinah
Kim, Northwestern University
Atlantic Visions of the American “Lake” from Moby
Dick to Pirates of the Caribbean
Panel 8B: Film,
Television, and Popular Culture
Moderator:
Cheryl Edelson, Chaminade University of Honolulu
James
J. Lu, California Baptist University
“From
Walkman and MTV to iPod and YouTube: Allan Bloom’s Concerns Twenty Years Ago
and Now”
Berniece
L. Bruinius, California Baptist University
“New
Interpretations from Springfield and Homer Simpson: Television, Old Books, and Today’s Readers”
Cynthia
J. Miller, Emerson College
“‘Lights
Out!’ Cameras On!: Horror Comes to Television”
Clara
Pallejá-López, The University of Auckland
“Exploring
the Shadows: Spanish Writers of Horror”
9:45-11:15 A.M.
Panel 9A: Popular
Cultures and Subcultures
Moderator:
Cheryl Edelson, Chaminade University of Honolulu
Maureen
Salsitz, Claremont Graduate University
“Aura
and Commodification in the Hard Rock Café”
Timothy
Luther, California Baptist University
“The
Pirates of the Caribbean: International Relations and Foreign Policy”
Jeffrey
Schultz, Luzerne Community College
“Tragic
End: Death of the HMAS Sydney”
Panel 9B: Poetry,
Poetics, and Popular Culture
Moderator:
Richard Hishmeh, Palomar College
Sarah
Antinora, California State University of San Bernardino
“Issues
of Ecopoetics: The Appropriation of the Nature Conservation Movement for
Hawaiian Sovereignty”
Tim
Adams, University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu
“Myth
and Archetype in Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘The Fish’”
Cassandra
Batdorf, University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu
“Pursued's Noir Poetics Reverse Western
Creeds”
11:30-12:45 P.M.
Panel 10A:
Exotica/Exoticisms
Moderator:
Jason Spangler, Riverside City College
Elodie
Nowinski, Sciences Po Paris, Centre d’Histoire / Columbia University
“Exotic song and exotic trends in France: the case of
the French singer Antoine and trend settings in popular culture”
Gavin
Furukawa, University of Hawai‘i, Manoa
“I
can talk like one local: Uses of Local Language and Culture in Hughes's Surfing
Detective Series”
Craig
Svonkin, Metropolitan State College of Denver
“A
Jewish Boyhood in the Simu-Southland Shadow of the Tikis”
Panel 10B: Religion
and Popular Culture
Moderator:
Regina Pfeiffer, Chaminade University of Honolulu
Dustyn
Lai-Ragasa, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
“Anti-Catholicism
in 19th Century Hawai’i”
Steve
Derne, SUNY, Geneseo
“The Bhagavad Gita and Popular-Culture
Conceptions of Well Being in India”
Dmitrii
Sidorov, California State University, Long Beach
“Russian
Orthodoxy-Inspired Geopolitics of the Pacific”
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