Oceanic
Popular Culture Association
Fourth
Annual Conference
Chaminade
University of Honolulu
Conference
Organizers: Dr. Cheryl Edelson and Dr. Stanley Orr
Mahalo
nui loa
This conference would not have been
possible without the support of a generous grant from the National Popular
Culture Association/American Culture Association.
Profound thanks to Chaminade
University of Honolulu for hosting the conference.
We would also like to recognize the
University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu for support in organizing and preparing the
OPCA conference.
Special thanks to:
Dr. David
Coleman, Dean of Humanities
Steve
Downey, Technical Support
Cassandra
Sakamoto, Administrative Assistant
Paula
Manz, Administrative Assistant
Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference
2011 Program Schedule
Friday
May 27, 2011
9:00-9:30 a.m.
On-site registration
and check-in
Continental Brunch
Available
(Loo Student Center)
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Session 1A: Popular
Culture and the Military I
(Henry Hall 225)
Moderator:
Scott Anderson
Joint
POW/MIA Accounting Command
Joint
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam
“Forensic
Investigation: It’s More Than Just Crime Solving”
Wendy
Coble
Joint
POW/MIA Accounting Command
Joint
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam
“Evolution
of United States Nose Artwork 1914-Present”
Andretta
Schellinger
Joint
POW/MIA Accounting Command
Joint
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam
“Making
WACs and WAVES: Fashioning the Proper World War II Feminine War Heroines”
Nicole
Rhoton and Jeffrey Johnson
Joint
POW/MIA Accounting Command
Joint
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam
“’Stop,
Hey What’s That Sound’: Popular Music’s Effect On a Society at War”
Scott
Anderson
Joint
POW/MIA Accounting Command
Joint
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Session 1B: Uncovering
the Apocalyptic
(Henry Hall 227)
Moderator:
Stanley Orr, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
“‘Dante’s
Surprising Afterlife’: The Transmogrification of Dante’s Divina Commedia into Dante’s
Inferno: An Animated Epic
Melissa Conway”
University
of California, Riverside
“The
Profit of Doom”: Herbert W. Armstrong and the Commodification of the
Apocalypse”
Scott
Lupo
California
State University, Sacramento
“Suzanne
Collins’ Hunger Games: A Dystopian
Sociopolitical Commentary”
Patricia
Kirtley
Independent
Scholar
11:15-12:45 p.m.
Session 2A: Popular
Culture and the Military II
(Henry Hall 225)
Moderator:
Gregory Kupsky
Joint
POW/MIA Accounting Command
Joint
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam
“From Bombs to Books: The ‘American Invasion’ of East Anglia & the
continuing social & cultural legacy of the 2nd Air Division, USAAF”
Glenn Gray
Joint
POW/MIA Accounting Command
Joint
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam
“Names for the Unknowns: The 25th Infantry Division Cemetery at Masan,
Republic of Korea”
James Rose
Joint
POW/MIA Accounting Command
Joint
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam
“The
Bataan Death March and Public Perception"
Gregory Kupsky
Joint
POW/MIA Accounting Command
Joint
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam
11:15-12:45 p.m.
Session 2B: Art and
Revolution
(Henry Hall 227)
Moderator:
Stanley Orr, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
“Herbert Marcuse’s Aesthetic Theory: From
Criticism of Marxian Aesthetics to the Margins of Subculture Activism”
Tim
Luther
California
Baptist University
“A Cinematic Critique of West German
Counter-terrorism: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum”
Alan
Rosenfeld
University
of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
12:45-1:15 Lunch (on
your own)
1:15-2:45 p.m.
Session 3A:
Interrogating Hawaii Five-0
(Henry Hall 225)
Moderator:
Stanley Orr, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
“A Fleet of Ships: Hawaii as Military Space in
Hawaii Five-0”
Kelsey
Amos
University
of Hawai‘i, Manoa
“Utopic
or Dystopic? Hawaii as depicted in the New Hawaii
Five-0 and Alexie Melnick’s novel Tweakerville”
Andy
Godefroy
Independent
Scholar
“Go Nuts: Hawaii
Five-0 2010 and the Kukui High School Project”
Valentino
Valdez
University
of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
1:15-2:45 p.m.
Session 3B:
Transnational Popular Cultures
(Henry Hall 227)
Moderator:
Jayson Chun, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
“Knowing
History Through Popular Music”
Justin
Whitney
California
State University, Sacramento
“The
Hip-Hop Pacific: Asian Popular Music Culture among Asian and Asian-American
Millennial Youth”
Jayson
Chun
University
of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
“Kaworu
Washiya’s Kodomo No Jikan as
Avant-Garde Kawaii”
Jessee
Lee
University
of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
3:00-4:30 pm
Plenary Session: A
Conversation with Al Harrington
Moderator: Stanley
Orr, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
(Loo Student Center)
Stanley Orr will interview Mr. Al Harrington, who played Detective Ben
Kokua on the classic Hawaii Five-0
television series. Mr. Harrington will speak on his years with the series
(1972-75) as well his appearances on the current Hawaii Five-0 reboot.
4:30-6:00
p.m.
OPCA
2011 Reception
(Loo
Student Center)
Saturday
May 28, 2011
8:30 Continental
Breakfast Available
(Loo Student Center)
8:45-10:15 a.m.
Session 4A: Surfing
Cultures
(Henry Hall 202)
Moderator: Ian
‘Akahi Masterson, Windward Community College
“He’e
Wahine i ka lani: Goddess in the Surf”
Ian
‘Akahi Masterson
Windward
Community College
“Sex,
Hawaiian Women, and the Technology of Surfing: The Journal of David Samwell”
Patrick
Moser
Drury
University
“The
Trestle’s Saga: A Case Study of sub-culture integration in the manipulation of
political, social and economic direction in preserving a natural resource”
Jack
Hamlin
National
University
“The
Surfing Phallus: Are Women in Surfing Still Getting the Shaft?”
Morgan
Andaluz
Maui
College
8:45-10:15 a.m.
Session 4B:
Representing Women
(Henry Hall 203)
Moderator:
Cheryl Edelson, Chaminade University
“The Humorous and Heartfelt Journeys of Bridget Jones’s Diary”
Michelle
Johansen
University
of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
“Fractured
Selves: The Dilution of Feminine Power Through the Archetypes of the Witch”
William
Given
University
of California, San Diego
“Navigating
a Sea of Identities”
Shannon
Cristobal
University
of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
10:30-12:00
Session 5A: Popular Culture and the Cinema
(Henry Hall 202)
Moderator:
Fumiko Takasugi, Honolulu Community College
“A Gold Fish Out of Water: Miyazaki’s Little
Mermaid”
Deborah
Ross
Hawaii
Pacific University
“What’s
Eating Leonardo DiCaprio: Intersections of Trauma and Hyperreality in Inception and Shutter Island
Aimee
Ilac
University
of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
“The
Challenges of Subtitling in Nollywood Movies”
Emmanuel
A. Adedun
University
of Lagos, Nigeria
10:30-12:00
Session 5B: Polynesian
Researches
(Henry Hall 203)
Moderator:
Koreen Nakahodo Schroeder, Chaminade University
"New World Conquerors and the Environmental
Crisis in W.S. Merwin"
Jane
Frazier
Lincoln University of Missouri
"Voicing Land: Cartographies of History
and the Performance of Memory in Rapa Nui"
Jacinta Arthur
University of California, Los Angeles
“Preserving Cultural Knowledge through Digitization”
Stacy Naipo
University of Hawaii, Manoa
“Island Beauties”
Catherine Ulep
University of Hawaii, Manoa
10:30-12:00
Session 5C
(Henry Hall 207)
Roundtable Discussion:
Pedagogies and Popular Culture
Moderator:
Tammy Jones, James Campbell High School
Participants:
Rachel
Armstrong, Hale Kula Elementary School
Kin
Shing Cheng, James Campbell High School
Laksmi
Diaz, James Campbell High School
Phyllis
Durante, Hale Kula Elementary School
Kelly
Gallagher, James Campbell High School
Richard
Jones, University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu
Cheri
Matsumoto, Hale Kula Elementary School
John
McCague, James Campbell High School
Lynele
Naval, Hale Kula Elementary School
Carmen
Pita, Hale Kula Elementary School
Amy
Rabago, James Campbell High School
Margaret
Sellers, James Campbell High School
Troy
Sueoka, James Campbell High School
Shanae
Ubando, James Campbell High School
12:00-2:00
p.m.
Keynote
Address and Luncheon
Boy:
Re-Imagining Popular Culture in Oceanic Cinema
Dr.
AnnaMarie Christiansen
(Loo
Student Center)
Dr. Christiansen’s talk
focuses upon New Zealand director Taika Waititi’s film, Boy (2010)— a coming of age film described by one critic as “a
Kiwi son of Rambo with Michael Jackson added.” Dr. Christiansen’s research
interests include Oceanic literatures, African literatures, cultural studies
and critical pedagogy. She was born in Australia and raised in the continental
U.S. Dr. Christiansen is of Maori heritage and is affiliated with the Nga Puhi
tribe.