2012 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Saturday, March 31

8:30-9:20a: Registration and Catered Breakfast — AJB Lounge

9:30-10:30a: Keynote Speech — AJB E105
"Comix: The Possibilities of a Revolution in Popular Culture"
Corey Creekmur, University of Iowa

10:45–12:15p:

1. National and Environment Revolutions — AJB E120

chair: Clint Peters, University of Iowa

"Revolutionary Ethics: Natasha Trethewey's Levinasian
Meditation"
Eloisa Valenzuela-Mendoza, University of Iowa

"Bodily Reform and Upheaval of the Nineteenth-Century
American Sensibility: A Rhetoric of Corpses"
Aileen Farrar, University of Louisiana

2. Feminist Revolutions — AJB E126

chair: Lauren Rosales, University of Iowa

"Revolutionizing the Pink Aisle: A Critical Rhetorical
Analysis of Toys that Promote the Sexualization of Girls"
Danica Stith, Iowa State University

"PRACTICE MORE PRAXIS: Performing the Feminist Art
Praxis of Telling Positively Nasty Stories"
Lauren Cullen, University of Toronto

Title TBA
Timothy Robbins, University of Iowa

2:00–3:00p: Keynote Speech — AJB E105
"Romancing the Revolution: Jefferson's Declaration"
Betsy Erkkilä, Northwestern University

3:15-4:45p:

3. Digital Technology and Revolutions in (Post)Humanity — AJB E120

chair: Elizabeth Lundberg, University of Iowa

"See Change?: Pattern Recognition, De-Massification, and the
Ubiquitous Media Image"
Nicholas M. Kelly, University of Iowa

"Upgrading the Self: Technologia, Human Labor, and the
Production of Social Critique"
John C. Murray, Curry College

"Timeline: Facebook and the (Remediated) Self "
Benjamin Kirbach, University of Iowa

4. The Aesthetics of Revolution — AJB E126

chair: Aaron Ellis, Florida State University

"Still Shrugging: Revolution, Art, and the Ayn Rand
Resurgence"
Zachary King, University of Iowa

"Aesthetics, Politics, and the "Unfinished Work" of Davis's
Life in the Iron Mills"
Paul Baggett, South Dakota State University

"Crafting Revolution: Conflicting Creative Identities in
Arnold Schoenberg's Harmonielehre (1911)"
Scott Strovas, Claremont Graduate University

6:30-7:30p: Film Screening and Installation, "Reclamations" —
Gerber Lounge, 304 English-Philosophy Building

"Origins: Digital Reclamation of Kiowa Storyscapes"
Jeff Palmer, University of Iowa

"Cyprus: Reclamations of Wholeness, Located"
Sofia Karatza, University of Iowa

Please join the filmmakers immediately following the
screening for a discussion of their work.

8:00-10:00p Welcome Reception — Prairie Lights Bookstore

 

Sunday, April 1st

8:30-9:00a: Breakfast — AJB Lounge

9:00–10:20a: Presentation, "Reading White Pines" — AJB E120

Katie Hargrave, University of Iowa

10:15–11:45a:

5. Animals in Revolution — AJB E120

chair: Joshua Miner, University of Iowa

"On the Move: Assisting the More-Than-Human"
Clint Peters, University of Iowa

"Leslie Marmon Silko's The Turquoise Edge: Memoir as
Companion Species Revolution"
Jennifer Evans Loman, University of Iowa

"Anti-Imperialist Animals: Visualizing Revolutionary
Empathy"
Katherine Bishop, University of Iowa

6. Occupy the Revolution — AJB E126

chair: Timothy Robbins, University of Iowa

"Toward a Revolutionary Political and Self-Critical Aesthetic"
Aaron Ellis, Florida State University

"Occupy Chicago: The Rhetoric of Body and Place"
Joseph Klein, DePaul University

1:45–3:15p:

7. Revolutions in Sports and Technology — AJB E126

chair: Benjamin Burroughs, University of Iowa

"The ESPN Revolution?"
Dan Faltesek, University of Iowa

"Brains and Bravado: The NFL Safety Revolution and
Discourses of Masculinity"
Adam Rugg, University of Iowa

"Revolutions in Statistical Analysis and Baseball Fandom:
The Case of Sabermetric Communities"
Benjamin Burroughs, University of Iowa

8. Reading: "Revolutions in the Works" — AJB E120

chair: John Witte, University of Iowa

Justin Blackwood, University of Iowa

Carmen Machado, University of Iowa

Joshua Miner, University of Iowa

Russell Jaffe from Strange Cage