2018 OPCA Conference Program

 Ninth Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference

Chaminade University of Honolulu
Ching Conference Center
Eiben Hall
Friday

May 25, 2018



8:30-9:50

Session 1A

Eiben 207



Critical Reflections on 1970s Film



Moderator: Cheryl Edelson, Chaminade University of Honolulu



Hegelian ‘Geist’ in Clint Eastwood Films: A Case Study

Tim Luther, California Baptist University



Adaptations of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Sarah J. Rudolph, University of Wisconsin-Marathon County



8:30-9:50

Session 1B

Eiben 202



Double Movement: Past and Future Representations of Black Cultures



Moderator: Koreen Nakahodo, Chaminade University of Honolulu



Nisi Shawl’s Everfair: Utopian Alternate History Against 21st-Century Land Grabs

Justin Wyble, Chaminade University of Honolulu



'All the tribes come': Genre, Gender and Androids in the Videography of Janelle Monae

Allison Paynter, Chaminade University of Honolulu







10:00-11:20

Session 2A

Eiben 202



Sounding (in) the Groves of Academe



Moderator: Justin Wyble, Chaminade University of Honolulu



Where Have You Gone, Billy Shakespeare? Pop Culture in the Crossfires of the 21st-Century Curriculum War

Alan Rosenfeld, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu



Communities of Scholars: A Conceptual Scheme of Knowledge Production

Konstantinos Zougris, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu



Depictions of Historians and History Teachers on Television

Ryan Madden, Oregon Tech



Ray Boynton's Mural at the Men's Faculty Club, Cal. Berkeley: The Architect, the Muralist, and the Literature of the Wall

Sandra Maresh Doe, Metropolitan State University of Denver



10:00-11:20

Session 2B

Eiben 207



The Gothic on Page, Stage, and Screen



Moderator: Cheryl Edelson, Chaminade University of Honolulu



The Gothic in Dark Heroic Fantasy: Karl Edward Wagner’s Kane the Mystic Swordsman in “’Reflections for the Winter of My Soul’

Gary Hoppenstand, Michigan State University



Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde: From theater to film

Richard Hill, Chaminade University of Honolulu and Laura Eidam, University of Oregon





Friday

11:20-1:00

Special Event and Lunch


Miss Ulysses From Puka-puka: A Reading with Johnny Frisbie



Introduction: Cheryl Edelson, Chaminade University of Honolulu



Author and traveler Florence “Johnny” Frisbie was born in Papeete, Tahiti, and grew up on Pukapuka in the Cook Islands. As a twelve year old, she started to write Miss Ulysses From Puka-Puka. Published in 1948, this memoir of Oceanic life would come to be recognized as the first book written by a Polynesian woman. Frisbie followed Miss Ulysses with The Frisbies of the South Seas in 1959. Frisbie is one of the most celebrated of Oceanic authors, and her return to the Cook Islands (alongside friend Amelia Borofsky) is the subject of the documentary Homecoming: A Film About Pukapuka (Gemma Cubero del Barrio, forthcoming).





1:00-2:20

Session 3A

Eiben 202



Panel Discussion: Giving Breath to Our Words| Enabling Indigenous Narratives

Moderator: Koreen Nakahodo, Chaminade University of Honolulu

Mary Therese Perez-Hattori, Chaminade University of Honolulu

Lisa Chow, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Caitlin Yamamoto, Chaminade University of Honolulu

Koreen Nakahodo, Chaminade University of Honolulu



1:00-2:20

Session 3B

Eiben 207



Superheroes!



Moderator: Sandra Maresh Doe, Metropolitan State University of Denver



The Authority of Superheroes

Emma Chisolm, Chaminade University of Honolulu



Lessons from Wakanda: Formal and Hidden Curriculum in Marvel's Black Panther

Scott Wylie, Chaminade University of Honolulu



Deviance and Delinquency in Young Adult Dystopian Literature

Nicole Sagapolutele

Chaminade University of Honolulu





2:30-3:50

Session 4

Eiben 202



Narrating/Navigating the Pacific



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

Introduction to LJ Rayphand: Vidalino Raatior



“A Little Kolohe”: Duality in Don Ho’s TV Guest Spots

Yvonne Inciong, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu



Ééúchean Túúttúnnap Ngeni Uuruwon me Nóónómwun Chuuk: Using Digital Storytelling to Document, Preserve, and Pass on the History and Culture of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia

LJ Rayphand, Caroline College and Pastoral Institute & Chaminade University of Honolulu



Colony and Resistance: Hawai'i from The Brady Bunch to Beyond the Ideology of Adventure

H. Peter Steeves

DePaul University





Saturday

May 26, 2018



8:30-9:50

Session 5A

Eiben 207



Cultura Juris



Moderator: Tim Luther, California Baptist University



"How About a Haole Hotdog? The Impact of Matal v. Tam on Offensive Native Terms"

Harrison Rosenthal and Genelle Belmas, University of Kansas Law School



BullRun Away Jury and Reexamination of Peremptory Challenges

Jim Bishop, California Baptist University





8:30-9:50

Session 5B

Eiben 202



Cultural Contexts for Children’s Literature



Moderator: Sandra Maresh Doe, Metropolitan State University of Denver



Parentings from Pinocchio to Poppins

Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State University of Denver



“I be home”: Childhood Belonging in Hawai‘i

Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu



Samuel Shellabarger’s Captain from Castile, an adventure novel for young people through the lens of  WWII United States

John Bratzel, Michigan State University



10:00-11:30

Session 6A

Eiben 207



Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture



Moderator: Sarah J. Rudolph, University of Wisconsin-Marathon County



Atomic Postfeminist Fury: (De)Constructing the Fighting Fuck-Toy through Atomic Blonde and Mad Max: Fury Road

Jordan Luz, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa



Modern Transformation of Male Heterosexual Identity: The “Heteroflexible” Phenomena

Orlando García-Santiago, Jeremy Silva, and Nicholas Bailey

University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu



10:00-11:30

Session 6B

Eiben 202



Asia/Pacific Cultural Economies



Moderator: Cheryl Edelson, Chaminade University of Honolulu



GI Joe in Paradise: The American Soldier as Traveler in the Pacific during World War II

Mark D. Van Ells, Queensborough Community College



Navigating the Terministic Split Screen: Pokémon Sun and Moon and Asian Tourist Reflections of Paradise

Nicole Kurashige, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa



When K beat J: Japanese reactions to the K-pop boom of 2011

Jayson Makoto Chun, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu



Bollywood Filmsong and Transnational/Transcultural Consumption

Edward K. Chan, Waseda University



Saturday

12:00-1:30

Ching Conference Center

Plenary Session and Lunch

Kaʻa holo ʻā puʻu puʻu: Hawai‘i Motocross Gets Air



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



“Speed Demons:” Uncovering the Forgotten History of Kapiolani Park’s Motorcycle Racing Past, 1909-1916

Natalie Perez, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu



The Road to Hao Wela

Mark Hanson, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu



Reflections from the Flyin’ Hawaiian

John DeSoto



1:30-2:50

Session 7A

Eiben 207



Bodies Electric



Moderator: Orlando García-SantiagoUniversity of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu



Ingress: Augmented Reality Gaming as Cultural Resistance

Nanette Norris, Royal Military College Saint-Jean



Localization of Japanese popular culture in Taiwan: Personification in Taiwanese Anime, Comic, Game (ACG) field
Yen-Zhi Peng, University of Hawai‘i at 
Mānoa



How Do Young Adults Who Attend Raves/Electronic Dance Music Events

Describe Their Experiences?

Jeremy Silva, University of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu



1:30-2:50

Session 7B

Eiben 202



Roundtable Discussion: Disney’s Moana (2016)



Kawehiokekai Moefu, Chaminade University of Honolulu



Michael Meindl, Radford University



Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State University of Denver