04/15/2016
Or how to spend a Saturday...
3rd Annual Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies / Cultural Studies:
Research, Theory, & Practice in Arts & Humanities
Teachers College, Columbia University
When: Saturday April 16th, 2016
Where: 306 Russell Hall (the Gottesman Library)
How much: There is no registration fee for the conference
By whom: Co-sponsored by the Gottesman Libraries, the Department of Arts and Humanities, the Film & Education Research Academy, and the TC online journal Cultural Formations
9.00 Breakfast (no charge)
Introduction – Jennifer Govan, John Broughton
9.30 Ryan Goble - Media Literacy, Cultural Studies, and Making Curriculum Pop
10.00 Panel on Poetics and Epistemology
Barbara Duarte Esgalhado – ‘Scribo Ergo Nosco: Poetics of Theory’
Niki Nedeljkov – ‘Inn the Hearth of Mediation: By Virtue of Poisenous Poetics’
10.40 Panel on Gender and Sexuality
Kenya Crawford – ‘The Sexuality, Women and Gender Project’
Nandita Mathur – 'Walking on Machoistic Streets: Women's Experiences with Catcalling'
11.15 Invited address
Jorge Pina – ‘Psychoanalysis and Metalanguage: The Sources of the International
Metapoetry Movement’
11.50 Panel on FERA Outreach: Immigrant Video Autobiographies
Jordi Torrent -- ‘The Plural Plus Video Project’
Regina Casale -- ‘Digital Narratives of 1.5 Generation Ecuadorian Youth’
12.20 Lunch Provided (no charge)
12.30 Panel on Philosophy
Alaina Hammond – ‘Set Yet In Motion: Integrating Western Philosophy and
Contemporary Theater’
Chris Moffett – ‘A is for Education: A Primer of Received Wisdom’
1.10 Panel on Education/Teaching:
Michael Ramsey - ‘Education Mingling: Exploring Relationships between Formal and
Community Education’
Sophia McKinnon - ‘Internet Literacy: Are Social Media Platforms Valid Learning
Tools?’
Blake Seidenshaw – ‘Cause and Affect: The Aesthetics of Technology as Inter-
Disciplinary Ethic’
2.00 Panel on Art:
Heather van Uxem Lewis – ‘Body of Work: Art Censorship. Gender Bias, & the Media’
Steve Lane - ‘Right Here, Right Now’ (powerpoint)
Richard Jochum – ‘When Art Meets Design. Creative Technologies for Artists and Educators’
2.50 Panel on Photography and Film:
Laia Sole-Coromina – ‘The “Too-Many-Images” Problem: Photography in Contemporary
Times’
George Cavalletto – ‘Apprenticeship in Art Photography’
Carl Jones – ‘Laughter at a Comedy Film’
3.45 Panel on Literary Narrative
Kari Adelaide Razdow – ‘The Land Full of Wonder But Not of Information: Encountering
Fairyland Under Circumstances of Enchantment’
Lakshmi Bandlamudi – ‘The Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata, and Culture: The History
of Understanding and the Understanding of History’
4.25 Panel on Popular Culture:
Yasuyo Fukunaga – ‘Women, Gaze and Monstrosities in Zombie Movies’ (video)
Judith Lewis – ‘Negotiating Popular Culture, Self, and World: Young Children's Critical
Engagements with Popular Music’
5.00 Reflections: Charles Zorn
5.15 General Discussion and Future Directions
