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Announcement by Roberta Brody (bobby brody) on 4/14/14

  • Posted by Roberta Brody (bobby brody) on April 14, 2014 at 7:38 pm

    CUNY at PCA: Presenters in Chicago this week. Here's a list of presenters extracted from the conference program with times indicated and locations omitted.

    Wednesday 4:45 PM
    The Tragedy of Melodrama: The Framing of U S Political Rhetoric after September 11th
    Alisa Roost – Hostos Community College

    Thursday 9:45 AM
    Research, Writing, and Fan Cultures: Using Fandoms to Teach Information Literacy
    Nancy Foasberg – Queens College

    From a Haunted House to Genocide in The Shining
    Dustin Freeley – Hunter College

    Thursday 11:30 PM
    "Time for a Research Montage!": The Missing Librarian in Pop Culture
    Mark Alpert – John Jay College

    Thursday 3:00 PM
    Fanning Hard: Understanding Desire and its Social Function in Fandom
    Ananya Mukherjea – College of Staten Island

    Friday 9:45 AM
    Living with Monsters: De-anthropocentrism in Mizuki Shigeru's NonNonBa
    Shige (CJ) Suzuki – Baruch College

    Technologies of Gender in Asimov's The Caves of Steel
    Scott Dexter – Brooklyn College

    The Unbearable Lightness of Bequeathing: "L’Heure d’été d’Olivier Assayas," Maxime Blanchard, Associate Professor of French, City College & Graduate Center
    Maxime Blanchard – City College & Graduate Center

    Friday 11:30 AM
    Superheroes' Serialized Crisis Narratives
    Roberta Brody – Queens College

    Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men: Piling Up Spectacles of Terror in a Post-9/11 World
    Jenny Kijowski – Graduate Center

    Friday 3:00 PM
    Yves Saint Laurent's Early Years 1957-1966: The Man, His Image and His Impact in the United States and France
    Veronica Manlow – Brooklyn College (with Ellen Anders)

    Friday 3:30 PM
    Moravian Cemetery: Staten Island and the Rural Cemetery Movement
    James Kaser – The College of Staten Island

    Friday 8:15 PM
    Harry Styles will you follow me?: One Direction, Directioners and Social Media Usage
    Christin Gest – Brooklyn College

    Saturday 11:30
    Justice in New York: An Oral History
    Jeffrey Kroessler – John Jay College

    The Endangerment of Creative Programming
    Mark King – LaGuardia CC

    "The Next Great Plague to Go": Scientific Progress, Modern Medicine, and the Cultural Meanings of Venereal Disease, 1936-1945
    Erin Wuebker – The Graduate Center

    Did I overlook anyone?

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