FISKE Matters

Fiske Matters

 

Friday, June 11

Session 1                  Agency in the Age of Obama              

8:30-10:00              Darrell Newton, "They Want Their Country Back, but I Want My Leader Black:

4070 Vilas                                                     Obama and the Illusion of Post-Blackness"

                                    Chris Smith, "Popular Discrimination in the Obama Era: The Case of BET"

                                    Jennifer Fuller, "The Two Drops Rule: The Refusal to See "Black" Bodies as Hybrid"

                                    John Fiske, Respondent

 

Session 2                  Politically Fisky

10:15-11:45            Michael Mario Albrecht, "The 'Tea Party' Movement as Media Event"      

4070 Vilas                Kevin Glynn, "9/11, Media Spectacle and Image Insurgency in a Global Visual Culture"

                                    Dan Marcus, "John Fiske's Late Work on Media and Politics: What Works and

Matters in 2010"

 

11:45-1:00              Lunch

 

Session 3                  Accessing Fiske

1:00-2:30                 Ken Hillis, "Google and the Political Economy of Metaphysics"

4070 Vilas                Lisa Parks, "Spotting the Satellite Dish: Populist Approaches to Infrastructure"

                                    Josh Sheppard, "Flows and Counterflows: Fiske on the 'Discourse Event' and

Counterhegemonic Media Analysis"

 

Session 4                  Teaching Fiske: The Next Generation

2:45-4:15                 Roundtable discussion; Pam Wilson, organizer          

4070 Vilas                                 

 

Keynote 1                John Fiske, "The Rise of the Individual in Early Modern Europe:

4:30-5:30                                                     Cultural Studies Tangles with Antiques"

4070 Vilas                                                   

 

Keynote 2                Henry Jenkins, "'Technostruggles' Revisited: Participation, Resistance, Digital Media and

5:30-6:30                                                     Cultural Politics"

4070 Vilas

 

6:30-8:00                 Reception: University Club, 803 State Street

 

Saturday, June 12

 

Session 5a               Edutainment a la Fiske

8:30-10:00              Julie Cupples and Kevin Glynn, "Fiske's Development Geography: The Mediation of Africa in

4008 Vilas                                                    Contemporary TV Drama"

                                    Olaf Hoerschelmann, "The Quizzical Pleasure of Millionaire: Popularity and Hierarchies of

Knowledge"

                                    Eggo Mueller, "Fiske's Politics of Recognition: 'Reading the Popular' Revisited"

 

Session 5b               Teaching Fiske

8:30-10:00              Black Hawk Hancock, "Learning How to Fiske"

4028 Vilas                David Tetzlaff, "Let's Get Fisked Up: Toward a Manifesto for Teaching Media Studies"

                                    Jason Mittell, "Updating Television Culture for the Digital Era: From Hart to Hart to  

YouTube"

 

Session 6a               Fiske International

10:00-11:45            Youngchi Chang, "Global Intertextuality: An Analysis of Sex and the City in China"

4008 Vilas                Andrew Kirk, "Fiske Online (And I'll Take Fries with That)"

                                    L. Meghan Pierce, "Botswana's Edutainment Soap, Makgabaneng: A Fiske Genre  Analysis"

                                    Yingchun Xu, "Culture Struggle Between 'Black' and 'White,' 'Them' and 'Us': A Study

of China's 'Unlicensed Cab"

 

Session 6b               Disciplining Fiske

10:00-11:45            Colleen E.Y. Barker, "Fiske: Theoretical Bridge Between Cultural Studies and Sociology"

4028 Vilas                Sam Ford, "Rethinking the Anthology"

                                    Mark Hayward, "Publishing Cultural Studies: Rethinking Academic Journals"

                                    Bill Kirkpatrick, "Play, Power, and Policy:  Putting John Fiske Back into

Media Policy Studies"

 

11:45-1:30              Lunch

 

Session 7a               Fisking Fandom

1:30-3:15                 Rhiannon Bury, "More Moments of Television"

4008 Vilas                Abigail De Kosnik, "Fiske, Feminism, Folk Culture, Fandom: From a Defense of Television

Viewing to an Aesthetics of Digital Literacy"

                                    Myles McNutt, "Critical Conduits: Television Criticism as Hybrid Fan/Intellectual

Engagement with Television Studies and the Work of John Fiske"

                                    Jonathan Gray, "What About Hate?: Expanding Notions of the Active Audience"

 

Session 7b               Poetry and Popular Culture

1:30-3:15                 Mike Chasar, "The Arbiters of Paste: Poetry Scrapbooking and Participatory Culture"

4028 Vilas                Catherine Keyser, "Light Verse, Magazines, and Celebrity: Edna St. Vincent Millay and

Dorothy Parker"

                                    Melissa Girard, "Poetry for Pleasure: Hallmark, Inc., and the Business of Emotion at

Mid-Century"

                                    Angela Sorby, "Poetry vs. Paris Hilton: Who's On Top?"

 

Session 8                  From Television Culture to Game Culture

3:30-5:15                 Derek Johnson, "New Battlegrounds: Modding Cultural Studies"

4070 Vilas                Ben Aslinger, "Proper Pleasures?: Cultural Studies and the Game Studies Project"

                                    Liz Ellcessor, "Gamers, Geeks, Gender & The Guild: Felicia Day and Changing Meanings

of Gaming Culture"

                                    Sean Duncan, "Struggling for Meaning in World of Warcraft Fan Communities"

 

Keynote 3                Herman Gray, "Incitement to Visibility and the Politics of Recognition"

5:30-6:30

 

Closing