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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Session 5A: Cinematic
Oceania
Clarence T. Ching Hall--Room 254
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
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
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
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
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'
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
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)