FRIDAY,
JUNE 11

Opening

8:20-8:30
4070 Vilas

Conference Opening Remarks

Ron Becker, Miami University, OH

Session 1

8:30-10:00
4070 Vilas

Agency in the Age of Obama

Darrell Newton, Salisbury University, MD
"They Want Their Country Back, but I Want My Leader Black: Obama and the Illusion of Post-Blackness"
Chris Smith, University of Southern California
"Popular Discrimination in the Obama Era: The Case of BET"
Jennifer Fuller, University of Texas--Austin
"The Two Drops Rule: The Refusal to See "Black" Bodies as Hybrid"
John Fiske, Respondent

Session 2

10:15-11:45
4070 Vilas

Politically Fisky

Michael Mario Albrecht, University of New Hampshire
"The 'Tea Party' Movement as Media Event"
Kevin Glynn, University of Canterbury, NZ
"9/11, Media Spectacle and Image Insurgency in a Global Visual Culture"
Dan Marcus, Goucher College
"John Fiske's Late Work on Media and Politics: What Works and Matters in 2010"

Session 3

1:00-2:30
4070 Vilas

Accessing Fiske

Ken Hillis, University of North Carolina
"Google and the Political Economy of Metaphysics"
Lisa Parks, University of California--Santa Barbara
"Spotting the Satellite Dish: Populist Approaches to Infrastructure"
Josh Sheppard, University of Wisconsin--Madison
"Flows and Counterflows: Fiske on the 'Discourse Event' and Counterhegemonic Media Analysis"

Session 4

2:45-4:15          
4070 Vilas  

Teaching Fiske: The Next Generation (roundtable discussion)

Pam Wilson, Reinhardt College, organizer

Keynote 1

4:30-5:30
4070 Vilas    

John Fiske

"The Rise of the Individual in Early Modern Europe: Cultural Studies Tangles with Antiques"

Keynote 2

5:30-6:30
4070 Vilas

Henry Jenkins

"'Technostruggles' Revisited: Participation, Resistance, Digital Media and Cultural Politics"

Reception

6:30-8:00

University Club

803 State Street

SATURDAY,
JUNE 12

Session 5a

8:30-10:00
4008 Vilas  

Edutainment a la Fiske

Julie Cupples and Kevin Glynn, University of Canterbury, NZ
"Fiske's Development Geography: The Mediation of Africa in Contemporary TV Drama"
Olaf Hoerschelmann, Eastern Illinois University
"The Quizzical Pleasure of Millionaire: Popularity and Hierarchies of Knowledge"
Eggo Mueller, Utrecht University
"Fiske's Politics of Recognition: Reading the Popular Revisited"

Session 5b

8:30-10:00
4028 Vilas 

Teaching Fiske

Black Hawk Hancock, DePaul University
"Learning How to Fiske"
David Tetzlaff, Independent Scholar
"Let's Get Fisked Up: Toward a Manifesto for Teaching Media Studies"
Jason Mittell, Middlebury College
"Updating Television Culture for the Digital Era: From Hart to Hart to YouTube"

Session 6a

10:00-11:45
4008 Vilas 

Fiske International

Youngchi Chang, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
"Global Intertextuality: An Analysis of Sex and the City in East Asia"
Andrew Kirk, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"Fiske Online (And I'll Take Fries with That)"
L. Meghan Pierce, Ohio University
"Botswana's Edutainment Soap, Makgabaneng: A Fiske Genre  Analysis"
Yingchun Xu, Zhejiang University
"Culture Struggle Between 'Black' and 'White,' 'Them' and 'Us': A Study of China's 'Unlicensed Cab"

Session 6b

10:00-11:45
4028 Vilas  

Disciplining Fiske

Colleen E.Y. Barker, DePaul University
"Fiske: Theoretical Bridge Between Cultural Studies and Sociology"
Sam Ford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Rethinking the Anthology"
Mark Hayward, American University of Paris
"Publishing Cultural Studies: Rethinking Academic Journals"
Bill Kirkpatrick, Denison University
"Play, Power, and Policy:  Putting John Fiske Back into Media Policy Studies"

Session 7a

1:30-3:15   
4008 Vilas  

Fisking Fandom

Rhiannon Bury, Athabasca University
"More Moments of Television"
Abigail De Kosnik, University of California-Berkeley
"Fiske, Feminism, Folk Culture, Fandom: From a Defense of Television Viewing to an Aesthetics of Digital Literacy"
Myles McNutt, Acadia University
"Critical Conduits: Television Criticism as Hybrid Fan/Intellectual Engagement with Television Studies and the Work of John Fiske"
Jonathan Gray, University of Wisconsin--Madison
"What About Hate?: Expanding Notions of the Active Audience"

Session 7b

1:30-3:15
4028 Vilas

Poetry and Popular Culture

Mike Chasar, Willamette University
"The Arbiters of Paste: Poetry Scrapbooking and Participatory Culture"
Catherine Keyser, University of South Carolina
"Light Verse, Magazines, and Celebrity: Edna St. Vincent Millay and Dorothy Parker"
Melissa Girard, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
"Poetry for Pleasure: Hallmark, Inc., and the Business of Emotion at Mid-Century"
Angela Sorby, Marquette University
"Poetry vs. Paris Hilton: Who's On Top?"

Session 8

3:30-5:15 
4070 Vilas

From Television Culture to Game Culture

Derek Johnson, University of North Texas
"New Battlegrounds: Modding Cultural Studies"
Ben Aslinger, Bentley University
"Proper Pleasures?: Cultural Studies and the Game Studies Project"
Liz Ellcessor, University of Wisconsin--Madison
"Gamers, Geeks, Gender & The Guild: Felicia Day and Changing Meanings of Gaming Culture"
Sean Duncan, Miami University, OH
"Struggling for Meaning in World of Warcraft Fan Communities"

Keynote 3

5:30-6:30
4070 Vilas

Herman Gray

"Incitement to Visibility and the Politics of Recognition"