b.  Ideology and the Photographic Frame, Union 207

1. "See Spot: True Crime Photography and the Ambiguous Cells of Film Noir," Hugh S. Manon, Oklahoma State University
2. "The Mythic Personae of George W. Bush," Mickayla Fink, Kansas State University
3. "Faces of Repression--Reflections on the Visual Representation of Jailor and Victim," Mathias Nilges, University of Illinois, Chicago

c. Scrapbooks, Archives, and Collections, Union 209 (16mm projector; laptop projector)

1. "Scrapbook Autobiography: Envisioning Identity," Jill Deans, Haverford College
2. "Redefining Memorial Time and Space: The Digital FSA-OWI Photographic Archive," Catherine Preston, University of Kansas
3. "Tiki Cufflinks–Was Your Father Cool Enough?," Stephen Canham, University of Hawaii, Manoa

5:30-7: Dinner break

8:00 pm: Keynote: "Freaky Fables from the Foothills," Tom Huck, Union Main & West Ballrooms

9:30 pm:  Reception for Tom Huck, Cat’s Pause Lounge 

Friday 9 am

1. "Sirens and their Songs: What do Women Really Want," Andrew Miller, University of South Carolina Upstate
2. "Opera and the Medieval Other," Robert Clark, Kansas State University
3. "Empire, Opera, and the Exotic Body," Robert Sturges, University of New Orleans, Empire

b. Issues in Children’s Literature, Union 207 (laptop projector)

1. "Snow White and the Seven 'Dwarfs'—Queercripped," Santiago Solis, Teachers College, Columbia University
2. "Images in the Classroom(?): Preservice Teachers Talk About Texts," Stergios Botzakis, University of Georgia
3. "How Red is the Red Playground? The Child Narrator in Extreme Situations of Violence," Debasmita Majumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 

Fri 10:30 am

1. "The 'Superhero Industry' as Oral Culture: Reconciling the Cultural Critique and the Mythic Approach to Modern Comic Book Studies," Terrence Wandtke, Judson College
2. "The Representation of Male Homosexuality in the American Superhero Comic Book:  An Interpretive Textual Analysis of Green Lantern Brother’s Keeper," Robert Colicchia, University of Windsor, Canada
3. "Amazing Fantasies: Trauma, Affect, and Superheroes," Phil Sandifer, University of Illinois at Chicago

b. Theorizing Interpretation, Union 207 (TV/VCR)

1. "Encode/Decipher," Kurt Hartwig, University of Wisconsin, Milwaulkee
2. "Visual Capital:  Emerson’s Eyeball, Marx’ Camera Obscura, and Human Head-Space," Andrea Engelken, Kansas State University

c. Photographs, Identity, and the State, Union 209

1. "Seeing People, Reading Documents: The Emergence of the Passport in the 1920s," Craig Robertson, Babson College
2. "Identity Performance and the Presentation of Self: Exploring the Image Making Practices of Youth," Jessica Poser, Harvard University

12-1: Lunch Break

Fri 1:00

Plenary Session:  Documentary Films and Edmund Carpenter, Union Big 12 Room (TV/VCR/DVD)

1. “Oh What a Blow that Phantom Gave Me!” Harald Prins, Kansas State University
2. "That Phantom Still Lurking: The Effects of Media on Rural Paupa New Guinea 35 Years after Carpenter," Michael Wesch, Kansas State University, Respondent

Fri 2:30

1. "Visible and invisible world on the present maps," Maria Antonietta Mariani, Censis-Center for Social Studies, Rome, Italy
2. "Insider Trading: an alternative look at the Tropaeum Traiani at Adamklissi," Álvaro Ibarra, University of Texas, Austin
3. "The map is not the territory, but then again, what is? Conquering Geography in Sir Walter Ralegh’s 'Discoverie of … Guiana'," Kimball Smith, Kansas State University

c. Image, Icon, and Book, Union 209 (slide proj)

1. "House of Leaves as Digital/Textual/Typographical Ontology," Zach Whalen, University of Florida
2. "Medieval Iconicity in Pearl," Mirona Magearu, Emporia State University
3. "Reading Lu Xun Reading Masereel: The Chinese 'Translation' of Die Passion eines Menschen," David Ihrman, Grand Valley State University
4. "Dismantling Montage, Documentations in W.G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz," Gundela Hachmann, Harvard University

Fri 4 pm

1. "Agency and Motive of Droids and Cyborgs in Star Wars," Paul Brown, Kansas State University
2. "Seductions of Caissa:  The Great Chess Scene in The Thomas Crown Affair," Bill Martin, DePaul University
3. "Chess and Constructive Self-Doubt, from Alice in Wonderland to Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone," Leslie E. Jones, William Jewell College

b. Graphic Novels, Union 207 (laptop proj)

1. "Animated Feelings:  Melodramas of Sex and Labor in Gilbert Hernandez’ Heatbreak Soup Series," William Orchard, University of Chicago
2. "The Graphic Novel and the Teenaged Body," Beth Younger, Drake University
3. "PIXY: the graphic novel as an allegory of economy," Lia Yoka, Aristotle University of Tessaloniki, Greece
4. "Building a New Narrative Universe, London 1898: The Re-Ordering of Victorian Fiction Under the Guise of the Graphic in Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neil’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," Shawn Gilmore, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

5:30-7: Dinner Break 

8:00 pm: Keynote: "The Design Challenges of Online Comics," Scott McCloud, Kedzie 106 

9:30 pm: Reception for McCloud and Hatfield, home of Phillip Marzluf