Pitt Panel at Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference

May 30, 2014 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Pitt is well represented at the Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, on the campus of the University of Utah.  

Friday, May 30, 4:00 – 5:30 pm, E
Location: Bonneville Room, UGH
Changing Media Ecologies of Film around the World
Chair: Ronald Zboray, University of Pittsburgh
 
Panelists:
Felipe Pruneda Senties, University of Pittsburgh
Spectral Ecology: The Viewer as Environment in Latin American Film Criticism of the Silent Era (1896­1927)
 
Martina Wells, University of Pittsburgh
Reconfiguring Ecologies of Difference: The “Oriental Jew” in Recent German Film
 
Birney Young, University of Pittsburgh
Translating Nothing Across Cultures: Ecologies of Cultural Noir in Three Adaptations of Oldboy (1996­-2013) 
 
See these other Pitt papers:
Friday, May 30, 9:00 – 10:30 am, D
Location: West Room, OC
Coding Culture: Power in Digital Spaces
Chair: Robert W. Gehl, University of Utah
Panelists include:
Jocelyn Monahan, University of Pittsburgh
Reimagining the Social Life of Code
 
William Upchurch, University of Pittsburgh
Eat. Play. Belong.: Socially Responsible Transactions in Chipotle’s “Scarecrow” Campaign
 
Friday, May 30, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm, C
Location: East Room, OC
New Directions in Ontology and Epistemology
Chair: Casey Boyle, University of Utah
Among the Panelists:
Sarah Bishop, University of Pittsburgh
“I Speak from Experience”: Revisiting Dewey’s Experience and Education to 
Consider Embodied Encounters as Privileged Knowledge
 
Friday, May 30, 2:00 – 3:30 pm, G
Location: Lassonde House
Media Interventions Working Group: Trash, Toxicity, Transmission
Chair: Jamie “Skye” Bianco, New York University
Among the Panelists:
Jocelyn Monahan, University of Pittsburgh and Jeff Curran, Independent Scholar
Topographies of Interference
 
Saturday, May 31, 9:00 – 10:30 am, B
Location: South Room, OC
Activism and Representation
Chair: Amy Riddle, UC Davis
Among the Panelists: 
Christopher Nielsen, University of Pittsburgh
Object­-Oriented Ecological Resistance to Narco­Sovereignty in Contemporary Mexican Literature and Online Video Testimonies
 
Saturday, May 31, 9:00 – 10:30 am, G
Location: West Room, OC
New Interventions in the Neoliberal Era
Chair: S. Charusheela, University of Washington Bothell
Among the Panelists: 
Sarah Bishop, University of Pittsburgh
“Let America Do its Work”: Portrayals of Involuntary Immigration in American News Journalism
 
Saturday, May 31, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm, 
Location: East Room, OC
Working Group on Culture and War: Re­fabricating War’s Artefacts
Chair: Howard Hastings, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Among the Panelists:
Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray, University of Pittsburgh
The Bullet in the Book: Ecologies of Race, Violence, and Print Matter in Civil War Colorado
 
Saturday, May 31, 4:00 pm ­ 5:30 pm, C
Location: Bonneville Room, UGH
Digital Ecologies
Chair: Chris Richardson, Young Harris College
Among the Panelists:
William Upchurch, University of Pittsburgh
“It Isn’t a Female Specific Topic”: The Masculine Power of Public Speech in an 
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