2008 World Picture Conference
Dates:24-25 Oct 2008
Locations:Oklahoma State University
Friday 24 October, 2008
9.30 - 11.15 (Instability)
Jones Seminar Room
John David Rhodes (Chair)
University of Sussex
Drew Ayers
Georgia State University
“Modern Hybrids in Popular Discourse: The Visuality of Global Climate Change”
Michael Gillespie
The New School
“My father always promised me that we would live in France”: Dead Reckoning Through Civil Rights America”
Bhaskar Sarkar
UC Santa Barbara
“Plasticity and the Popular: Bombay Cinema’s Ecstatic Secularism”
Meghan Sutherland
Oklahoma State University
“With a Thousand I’s”
11.30 - 1.15 (Institution)
Jones Seminar Room
Martin Wallen (Chair)
Oklahoma State University
Zach Campbell
New York University
“Hollywood, and the Use and Abuse of Agonistic Pluralism”
Robert Cavanagh
Northwestern University
“The Quality of Journalism”
Brian Price
Oklahoma State University
“On Compromises”
John David Rhodes
University of Sussex
“Otiose Modernism”
3.00 - 4.30 (Imaginaries)
Jones Seminar Room
Scott Krzych (Chair)
Oklahoma State University
Bishnupriya Ghosh
UC Santa Barbara
“Looking Through Coca Cola: Global Icons and the Politics of the Popular”
Alessandra Raengo
Georgia State University
“The Popular as Vernacular “We”: Looking at Katrina from the Frog’s Perspective”
Jim Zeigler
University of Oklahoma
“Poor Metaphor: St. Francis and the Multitude of Hardt and Negri’s Empire”
5.00 - 6.30 (Keynote)
Jones Seminar Room
Ernesto Laclau
Northwestern University/University of Essex
“Articulation and the Limits of Metaphor”
Wednesday 14 December, 2008
10.30 - 11.30 (P.R.)
Noble Research Center Room 108
Meghan Sutherland (Chair)
Oklahoma State University
Ben Fink
University of Minnesota
“Taking Back the Legitimate: Where Austin and Adorno Meet to Talk Politics”
Rolien Hoyng
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
““Holland is Here”: The Aesthetics of Intimacy and Publicness in the Dutch Blogosphere”
10.30 - 11.30 (Nation)
Noble Research Center Room 207
Melissa Hussain
Oklahoma State University/Washington State University
“Fire, Earth, and Water: Elements Under Western Eyes”
Stacy Kim Schmitt
Georgia State University
“How “Mexican” Do You Have to Be? Lucha Libre’s El Santo as National Icon”
11.45 - 1.30 (Rude)
Noble Research Center Room 108
Linda Austin (Chair)
Oklahoma State University
Elena Gorfinkel
Bryn Mawr College
“Scent and Sentimentality: Notes on Cinema’s Least Popular Sense”
Hugh Manon
Oklahoma State University
“Rude Aesthetics in the Digital Mainstream”
Christian Sorace
University of Texas at Austin
“Freud, Rilke, and Leth: Examining the Myth of Exception”
Laurel Westrup
UCLA
“Toward an (Un)popular Music Lover’s Discourse”
11.45 - 1.30 (Regrouping)
Noble Research Center Room 207
Rich Cante (Chair)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“From Pleasure to Enjoyment: The Popularity of Sex”
Sindhu Zagoren
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“From Access to Accessibility: The Productivity of Media Infrastructure”
Grant Bollmer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“From the Social to the Network: Invention, Ontology, Idea”
Josh Smicker
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“From Affect to the State: Militarization’s Extensions”
2.45 - 4.30 (Missing)
Noble Research Center Room 108
Hugh Manon (Chair)
Oklahoma State University
Scott Durham
Northwestern University
“The Fossil’s Gaze: The Missing People of Lamerica”
Soumitra Ghosh
Oklahoma State University
““Kya Pyaari Baatein Karti Hain”: Beautiful Voices, Beautiful Faces, and the Seduction of Bollywood Cinema”
Scott Krzych
Oklahoma State University
“Margin of Error”
Angelo Restivo
Georgia State University
“Third Cinema: Fabulation, Free Indirect Discourse, the People”
5.00 - 6.30 (Keynote)
Noble Research Center Room 106
Lauren Berlant
University of Chicago
“After the Good Life, the Impasse: Human Resources, Time Out, and the Precarious Present”