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CONFERENCE PROGRAM THE IMAGE OF TECHNOLOGY in Literature, Media, and Society Sponsored by The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery and Colorado State University - Pueblo Antlers Hilton Hotel Colorado Springs, Colorado March 12-14, 2009 Registration: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m., March 11 (Hotel Lobby) 8:30 - 5:00 p.m., March 12-14 (Conference Rooms) Organizers: Will Wright

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

THE IMAGE OF TECHNOLOGYin Literature, Media, and Society

Sponsored by The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery

and Colorado State University - Pueblo

Antlers Hilton HotelColorado Springs, Colorado

March 12-14, 2009

Registration: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m., March 11 (Hotel Lobby)

8:30 - 5:00 p.m., March 12-14 (Conference Rooms)

Organizers:

Will Wright Colorado State University - Pueblo

Steven KaplanUniversity of New Haven

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Thursday, 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.coffee, tea, pastries(at meeting rooms)

Thursday, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Session 1: Science Fiction - Fremont

Moderator: Edward T. Potter, Mississippi State University

Passive Resistance to the Perilous Age of Technology: Sam Lundwall’s 1973 Science Fiction Comic Antihero Bernard the ConquerorWilliam Walker, Bradley University

‘Soft radiance’ and ‘a foolish heaping’: Images of Technology in The Time MachineMichael Johnson, Buffalo State College

Fast Forward: Science Fiction as a Postmodern Response to Runaway Technology Mark Giese, University of Arkansas - Little Rock

The Internet as Fantasy in the Work of Charles de LintMajel Campbell, Pikes Peak Community College

Session 2: Twitter: What’s the Point? - Carson

Moderator: Jennifer Mullen, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Twitter: Microblogging for the MassesSam Ebersole, Colorado State University - Pueblo Justin Bregar, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Using Twitter: Emergencies, Activism, and MediaSam Lovato, Colorado State University - Pueblo

The Twit in TwitterRichard Joyce, Colorado State University - Pueblo Leticia Steffen, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Twitter and Reputation: Branding in 140 charactersJennifer Mullen, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Session 3: Culture - Heritage B

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Moderator: Andrea F. Trocha-Van Nort, United States Air Force Academy

New Technology in Accident Investigation with Ramifications on the Expectations of the Constituents and the Legal SystemWilliam A. Bloxsom, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Auto Thrill Shows, Demolition Derbies, and Bumper Cars: The Cultural Logic and Aesthetics of the Intentional Car Crash in AmericaItai Vardi, Boston University

Technology and Marketing: The Image of ’Tweens and Cell PhonesCheryl Pawlowski, University of Northern ColoradoDiane Matuschka, University of North Florida

New Technology - New Laws? The Manipulation of Children’s Images by the Pornography IndustryDiane Matuschka, University of North Florida Erika S. Wilson, University of North Florida

BREAK(coffee and tea)

Thursday, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Session 4: Developments - Fremont

Moderator: Itai Vardi, Boston University

Somewhere between Profit and Aesthetics: The Contradictions of Edward Moxon, London PublisherRoy Bearden-White, Southern Illinois University

Technology and Expanding Opportunities for International Scholarly PublishingStephen Boss, University of Wyoming

Technological Impediments in Literary TranslationAnalisa Delvecchio, University of Ottawa

A War of Papers: The Printing Press in the Catalonia of 1640-1652Conxita Domènech, University of Colorado - Boulder

Session 5: Politics - Carson

Moderator: Ralph Buechler, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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The Real “Picnic for Buster”: How the Obama Campaign Forever Changed the Role of Family in PoliticsSherilyn Marrow, University of Northern Colorado

The Historic Use of the Internet, in the Obama Campaign, as a Function of the Shift from Fixed to Fluid Perceptions in the Intersections of Race, Gender, and ClassCecelia Baldwin, San Jose State University

Presidential Image for Sale: A Rhetorical Criticism of Obama’s Historical Purchase of a 30-minute Advertising SpotKelly C. Scott, University of Northern Colorado

Technology and RitualHarald Zils, Binghamton University

Session 6: Web 2.0, Literature 2.0, Students 2.0 - Heritage B

Moderator: Jesse Stommel, University of Colorado - Boulder

World of Warcraft: a Literary CommunitySean Michael Law, University of Colorado - Boulder

Students 2.0, Shakespeare 2.0R. L. Widmann, University of Colorado - Boulder

“Infection in the Sentence Breeds”: Grammar and the Student 2.0Jesse Stommel, University of Colorado - Boulder

LUNCH BREAK(on your own)

Thursday, 2:15 - 4:00 p.m.

Session 7: Dilemmas - Fremont

Moderator: Harald Zils, Binghamton University

Sonar Training: A Rhetorical Analysis of Winter, Secretary of the Navy, et al., v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., et al.Lin Allen, University of Northern Colorado

Technological Disaster, Environmental Tourism, and the Rebuilding and Rebranding of New Orleans

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Mark Hutter, Rowan UniversityDeMond Shondell Miller, Rowan University

Vats and Fences: Biopolitics at the BorderMark Jones, Colorado College

Mountain Mafia: Organizational Structure as TechnologyBetty Alt, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Session 8: Portrayals - Carson

Moderator: Jenifer Sunrise Winter, University of Hawaii - Manoa

Anesthetized Action and Titillating Technology: Avoiding Identity in Edith Wharton’s Twilight SleepMax Despain, United States Air Force Academy

Life and Technology in Alberto Arbasino’s Mirror of my cravings (1974)Paolo Matteucci

Found!—Mark Twain’s Fingerprints on Pudd’nhead Wilson and EveKatherine E. Woodville, Wichita State University

Addiction and Cure: Technology in Kevin Brockmeier’s “The Year of Silence”Jesse Goolsby, United States Air Force Academy

Session 9: Technology as Trace: The Failure to Represent Technological Evil - Heritage A

Moderator: Joel Harrison, University of Northern Colorado

“Battle Not With Monsters”: Technology and the Necessity for Paranoia in Alan Moore’s Watchmen Joel Harrison, University of Northern Colorado

A Wordless Death: The Production of Writing and Dahl’s “The Great Automatic Grammatizator”Kyle Gustafson, University of Northern Colorado

“Who Am I To Blame Now?” Sono Sion’s Suicide Club and Technology’s Monstrous InexistenceJoshua Cohen, University of Northern Colorado

Session 10: Learning - Heritage B

Moderator: Daniel Worden, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

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Effects of Expanded Intonation on Recall of Events/Facts by Adult Classroom Spanish LearnersElena Kurinski, St. Cloud State University

Everything but the Croissants: Online Access to French Culture in the ClassroomChristelle Rolland, Pomona College

Credo as a Way of Knowing How to Begin ResearchLynn Kay, Colorado State University - PuebloSandy Hudock, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Innovations in Education: Colorado On-line Distance EducationDana Rocha, University of Colorado - Colorado SpringsBarbara Borland, Colorado State University - Pueblo

BREAK

Thursday, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Session 11: Contours - Fremont

Moderator: Joel Harrison, University of Northern Colorado

Cyrano’s Right Stuff: Rockets to the Moon Were Just the BeginningRichard W. Lemp, United States Air Force Academy

Cyrano de Bergerac’s The Other World (1657-1662): Philosophical Tale and/or Science FictionHarold Neemann, University of Wyoming

Technology and the Social Character of Molière’s Dom JuanTed Weaver

Weighing Justice in Faerie Queene VKatherine Wolfe, Catholic University of America

Session 12: Variations - Carson

Moderator: Carl Pletsch, University of Colorado - Denver

Technology in the WorkforceAmanda Swanson, Colorado State University - PuebloThe Transcendent Steam Engine: Industry, Nostalgia, and the Romance of SteampunkMichaela Sakamoto, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Technology Gone Bad: The Science and Ethics of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Jené Fletcher, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Communities, Racism, and Ethnocentrism: Technology as the New EtherJason Martinez, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Grab Yer Bullthrower: Mountain Man Technology and Fur Trade EquipmentSam Fletcher, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Session 13: Losing Control: Gothic Technology - Heritage A

Moderator: Max Despain, United States Air Force Academy

The Sins of the FatherKerry Linfoot, United States Air Force Academy

Fear of "Aliens" in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs and Charles Brockden Brown's WielandKristen Loyd, United States Air Force Academy

Impending HorrorGretchen Koenig, United States Air Force Academy

Technology and Impotence in Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinThomas Vargish, United States Air Force Academy

Session 14: Popular Culture - Heritage B

Moderator: Carrie O’Connor, Louisiana State University

More (or Less) Than Human: Images of Humanity along the Man/Machine InterfaceMark Giese, University of Arkansas - Little Rock

Automata and Automobiles: The Image of Technology in The Twilight ZoneLeslie Feldman, Hofstra University

MacGyver or Dilbert? Images of Technical Experts in Popular CultureMarj Rush Hovde, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

The Human Technological Spirit - Heideggarian Technological Frameworks Applied to “Galaxy Express 999”Michael Plochmann, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

DINNER BREAK(on your own)

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The Learning Center8:00 - 9:30 pm

Postmodern Technoscience: From Atomic Bombs to Sub-Prime Mortgages

Raphael SassowerUniversity of Colorado - Colorado Springs

Author:Confronting Disaster: An Existential Approach to Technoscience

Political Blind Spots: Reading the Ideology of ImagesPopper's Legacy: Rethinking Politics, Economics and Science

Technoscientific Angst

Reception to follow*******************************

Friday, 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.coffee and tea

(at meeting rooms)

Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Session 15: Simulations - Fremont

Moderator: John S. Turner, II, Goucher College

Maschinen-Menschen – Mensch-Maschinen: Androids in LiteratureElisabeth Jütten, University of Tübingen

L'Eve future or RealDoll? Sexualized Simulacra at the Fin-de-siècle and TodayErin E. Edgington, Indiana University

Technological Fetishism and Alienation: Villiers’s Android in L’Eve FutureCarrie O’Connor, Louisiana State University

Postmodern Rape: Deconstructing the Cyborg Female with Metal Nipples and Steel Breasts

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Judith Fodor, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Session 16: Film I - Carson

Moderator: Rachel Linville, State University of New York - Brockport

Post-Apocalyptic Nostalgia: Wall-E, Garbage, and TechnologyChristopher Todd Anderson, Pittsburg State University

Beyond the Binary: Must I Choose? The Portrayal of the Intersex in the Film XXYMichel Mallet, McGill UniversityNatalie Duchesne, Université du Québec à Montréal Technological Spectacle and Liberal Angst in Iron Man and The Dark Knight: Blockbuster Filmmaking as Hegemonic Pro-Techno-MilitarismCharles Soukup, University of Northern ColoradoChristina Foust, Denver University

Simulacra of Sound in Contemporary FilmAili Zheng, Willamette University

Session 17: Commitments - Heritage A

Moderator: Mark Giese, University of Arkansas - Little Rock

A Twilight of the Forms: Religion, Metaphysics, and the Image of Science in the Dover “Intelligent Design” CaseSeth Long, California Polytechnic University - Pomona

High-tech Return to Nature: The Yaoyorozu Metaphor and Images of the Emerging Ubiquitous Computing Society in JapanJenifer Sunrise Winter, University of Hawaii - Manoa

Star Trek: The Religious PhenomenonAlison Marrelli, University of Utah

Writing the Self, Ascribing Islam – Islamic Teen Fiction: Reforming the Moslem IdentityLatifah, University of Hawaii - ManoaAry Budiyanto, University of Gadjah Mada (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Session 18: Digital Ruins: Aesthetics, Technology, and History - Heritage B

Moderator: Daniel Worden, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

Digital Fonts and Ancient Codes in Armand Schwerner’s The TabletsMikel Parent, Brandeis University

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Architecture, Memory, and the Slideshow in Ira Glass and Chris Ware’s Lost BuildingsDaniel Worden, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

Machinic Stutterings: Flarf Collective and Codework PoetryMelanie Doherty, Wesleyan College

BREAK(coffee and tea)

Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Session 19: Hollywood Fantasies Past and Future - Fremont

Moderator: Tim McGettigan, Colorado State University - Pueblo

A Street Fight in Tombstone: Heroes, History, Happenstance, and Hollywood Ian M. Gomme, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Out-Imagineering the Competition: Cinematic Agenda-Setting from the “Space Race” to Star Wars and BeyondTim McGettigan, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Movie Magic Wakes Up: Where Does Futuristic Phantasmagoria Leave Us When Its “Dream-by” Date Expires?Scott Whited, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Really Cool/Really Creepy Surveillance: Predator Sightings in Popular CultureJohn S. Turner, II, Goucher College

Session 20: Film II - Carson

Moderator: Aili Zheng, Willamette University

Soldiers of Salamis: Effects of a Hand-held Camera on MemoryRachel Linville, State University of New York - Brockport

Triumph of the Sci-Tech Will: German Transformations of the Early 1930sRichard Rundell, New Mexico State University

The Image of Technology in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Ernst Toller’s Hoppla, We’re AliveEdward T. Potter, Mississippi State University

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The Irony of Technology in Post-Socialist Chinese Popular CinemaYing Bao, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Session 21: Perspectives - Heritage A

Moderator: Erin E. Edgington, Indiana University

Means of Transport between the West and the East in the Arabic and French Medieval Literature of TravelHatem Akkari, University of Wyoming (University of Sfax)

Making Difficult Technological Procedures Simple: A Solution for the Traditional Peg-Jump PuzzleRichard Krinsky, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Technology, Greek Theater, and the Super BowlXanthe K. Farnworth, Brigham Young University

Responsive Teaching in Higher Ed.: How to Use Backboard to Meet the Needs of Diverse LearnersSue Pettit, Colorado State University - PuebloGeri Koncilija, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Session 22: Technology in the Classroom and Beyond - Heritage B

Moderator: Fulvio Orsitto, California State University - Chico

Revealing the Impact of Globalization on Higher EducationClaudia Peralta Nash, California State University - Chico

Learning Communities and Technology in the ClassroomRenato Ventura, University of Connecticut - Storrs

Using Visual Literacy to Teach Language and Culture Fulvio Orsitto, California State University - Chico

LUNCH BREAK(on your own)

Friday, 2:15 - 3:45 p.m.

Session 23: Convergence, Technology, and the People - Fremont

Moderator: Jon Westover, University of Utah

Media Convergence and SocietyNekehia Quashie, University of Utah

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Internet and Health: Increased Consumer Access to Health Information and Implications for Biomedical and Alternative TreatmentsSophie Nathenson, University of Utah

Convergence of Social Thought: Social Dialogue, a Graduate Student JournalDaniel Poole, University of UtahJayme Day, University of Utah

Convergence and Technology: The Role of Cell PhonesMarti Morris, University of Utah

Session 24: Trouble - Carson

Moderator: Seth Long, California Polytechnic University - Pomona

Downloading Battlefield EthicsJim Cook, United States Air Force Academy

Grotius and the Crucible of Just War TheoryCarl Pletsch, University of Colorado - Denver

Weapons Technology and Security Policy: The Pendulum between Deterrence and Defense DoctrinesMark Gose, Colorado State University - Pueblo

From Trinity to Otowi: Mythological Images of the Atomic BombJohn Nizalowski, Mesa State College

Session 25: Impacts - Heritage A

Moderator: Coleman C. Myron, Shippensburg University

Technology in the Literary Imagination: The Case of Digital LiteratureJoan-Elies Adell, University of North Carlonia - Charlotte [Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)]

From Printed Page to Webpage: Elfriede Jelinek’s Neid and the Creation of Virtual PlaceAnna Souchuk, DePaul University

“An Extinct Civilization”: W. G. Sebald’s Critique of Technology through Text and Image in The Rings of SaturnBrandon Lingle, United States Air Force Academy

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Technology, Access, and Popular Culture in Nick Hornby’s NovelsKeli Hibbert, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Session 26: “Outsider-Insider” Technologies: Labor, Liberalism, and Value - Heritage B

Moderator: Steven Wexler, California State University - Northridge

Who Put the "You" in YouTube? "User-Generated" Liberalism and ValueSteven Wexler, California State University - Northridge

Gender, Contingent Labor, and Our Virtual BodiesDesi Bradley, California State University - Northridge

William Blake, a Publishing Outsider: Print Technology and Anti-Liberalism in Blake's Illuminated WorksJames Rovira, Tiffin University

BREAK

Friday, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Session 27: Ideas - Fremont

Moderator: Danielle Magnusson, University of Washington

Competitive Apostles of a Single Creed: Salvation by Machinery Marc Pratarelli, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Wikipedia, Knowledge, and ErrorMark Nunes, Southern Polytechnic State University

Known Knowns and the Rest: Ignorance, Risk, and EthicsDarrell Arnold, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

Analog ImagesS. C. Kranc, University of South Florida

Session 28: Concerns - Carson

Moderator: Xanthe K. Farnworth, Brigham Young University

Technology in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and Cold War CultureAndrew J. Huebner, University of Alabama

Images of Industry in the Twenties: Photography, Film, and Political Ideology

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Kristen Oehlrich, Brown University

Until the Real Thing Comes Along: The Changing Depictions of African-Americans in the Role of U. S. President on Film and TelevisionStephynie C. Perkins, University of North Florida

Klaatu barada nikto, Version 2.0: Comparing and Contrasting the Messages and Machines in the 1951 and 2008 Versions of the Film The Day the Earth Stood StillThomas G. Endres, University of Northern Colorado

Session 29: Literature - Heritage A

Moderator: Andrés Lema-Hincapié, University of Colorado - Denver

The Rocket Sublime: Speed, Excess, and Paradox in Gravity’s Rainbow and BeyondMark Kaufman, Tufts University

Technocracy’s Arc: Henry Adams, the American Century, and Randomness Re-Figured in the Metafiction of Thomas PynchonWilliam Lansing Brown, Mesa State College

“Emblem of Motion and Power”: Whitman on Technology, Nature, and the PoetSara Erickson, Catholic University of America

The Art of Naturalness: Film and Its Specters in Quiroga’s LiteratureMariana Amato, New York University

Session 30: Weapons Technology and Power in Literature - Heritage B

Moderator: Alegría Ribadeneira, Colorado State University - Pueblo

The Poetics of Weaponry in LiteratureJuan Morales, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Situating Weapons Technology in Machiavelli and AriostoChristen Picicci, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Women in Arms: Gender Politics and Weapons Technology in La mujer habitadaAlegría Ribadeneira, Colorado State University - Pueblo

A Hrunting We Will Go: Beowulf's Sword and Norse Weapon TechnologyKaren Emanuelson, Colorado State University - Pueblo

DINNER BREAK(on your own)

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KEYNOTE ADDRESSThe Learning Center

8:00 - 9:30 p.m.

How the Media Cover Complexity -- A Personal View

Robert BazellChief Science and Health Correspondent

NBC Nightly News

Reception to follow

************************************Saturday, 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

coffee and tea(at meeting rooms)

Saturday, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Session 31: Complexities - Fremont

Moderator: Sixto E. Torres, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Western Technology under Erasure: Navajo Weaving after Bosque RedondoRoy Sonnema, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Looking Backwards: Digital Technology and the Bayeux TapestryDanielle Magnusson, University of WashingtonTechno-Twins: Privilege and Power in the Image of TechnologyStephen Wall, Institute of American Indian Arts

The Protocinema Invention of the Shadow Theater in Fin de Siècle FranceAnamaria Banu, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey

Session 32: Foundations - Carson

Moderator: Kerry Linfoot, United States Air Force Academy

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Manufacturing Identity: Creating the Postmodern SelfKim Kirkpatrick, Fayetteville State University

Animating Our Selves: Bridging the Communication Gap between the Natural World and HumansSandy Hudock, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Technology, the Protestant Work Ethic, and the Problem of CreativityColeman C. Myron, Shippensburg University

Technology: The Unsocial FutureLisa Moberly, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Session 33: Self-Reflexivity of the Digital Archive, Poem, and Social Network - Heritage A

Moderator: Lori Emerson, University of Colorado - Boulder

The Digital Poem as Against the Interface-Free: “Spawn” by Andy Campbell Lori Emerson, University of Colorado - Boulder

A Stand Alone Complex: Evolution of Social Organizations with TechnologyZachary Levitz, University of Colorado - Boulder

The Digital Archive as DisinhibitorBenjamin J. Robertson, University of Colorado - Boulder

Recursion as Incursion in Digital Film EffectsMark Winokur, University of Colorado - Boulder

Session 34: Connections - Heritage B

Moderator: Gene Burd, University of Texas

From Ethics to Media EthicsAchim Koeddermann, State University of New York - Oneonta

Technological Impacts of Maintaining Core Familial TiesChris Messer, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Image of an Attractive Mom: Technology’s Impact on Interpersonal Attraction, Communication, and Influence in Parent-child RelationshipsJarae L. Fulton, University of Northern Colorado

Statistical Research Methods in Comparative International SociologyJonathan H. Westover, University of Utah

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BREAK (coffee and tea)

Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Session 35: Strategies - Fremont

Moderator: Andreas Michel, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

What Do Dead Things Eat? Monstrous Machines, Automata, and the Zombie HordeJesse Stommel, University of Colorado - Boulder

Lightning, Electricity, and Lightning Rods: The Case of G. C. LichtenbergRalph Buechler, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Electricity as Communication Technology: The Seldom Studied, Explored, or Examined Role of Light and NightGene Burd, University of Texas

Ritual and Technology Harald Zils, Binghamton University

Session 36: Disruptions - Carson

Moderator: Stephen Wall, Institute of American Indian Arts

The Needle and the Damage Done: American Justice and the Technology of DeathIan M. Gomme, Colorado State University - Pueblo

More Shock Therapy: Examining the Debate over the Use and Deployment of Force Technologies by the PoliceBrian Wolf, University of Idaho

C.S.I - In Real LifeAmy Wren, Colorado State University - Pueblo

“All Necks are Created Equal!” – The Profound Meaning of the GuillotineWilliam H. Huseman, University of Oklahoma - Norman

Session 37: Social Problems and Technology - Heritage A

Moderator: Nekehia Quashie, University of Utah

Technological Advancement: Implications for Terrorism

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Daniel Poole, University of Utah

Globalization and World CitiesJonathan H. Westover, University of Utah

Social Problems and Technology - Green TechnologyMarti Morris, University of Utah

Globalization, Technology, and the Migration of Labor in the PhilippinesPeter Loebach, University of Utah

Perceptions of Environmental Problems and the Image of Technology as a SolutionJennifer Givens, University of Utah

Session 38: Technologies of the Word: Images in English Literature - Heritage B

Moderator: Doug Eskew, Colorado State University - Pueblo

The Technology of AuthorshipRick Sundermann, Colorado State University - Pueblo

A Bizarre Narrative: Structuralism, Dissonance, and Wilkie Collins' Broadway DebutDonna Souder, Colorado State University - Pueblo

The Pastoral Tradition in the Country and Western Truck-Driving SongDoug Eskew, Colorado State University - Pueblo

LUNCH BREAK(on your own)

Saturday, 2:15 - 3:45 p.m.

Session 39: Visions - Fremont

Moderator: Silia Kaplan, University of North Carolina

A Necessary Curse: Ambivalence toward Technology in Two Recent Post-Apocalyptic NovelsWilliam E. Sheidley, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Science Fiction and Visions of the Future in Antonio Buero Vallejo’s El TragaluzSixto E. Torres, Metropolitan State College of Denver

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Metempsychoses of Science Fiction: Travel, Totality, and Race in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis TrilogyErik Jaccard, University of Washington - Seattle

Machinism in Four Southern Cone Novels: Humankind at StakeAndrés Lema-Hincapié, University of Colorado - Denver

Session 40: Analyses - Carson

Moderator: Benjamin J. Robertson, University of Colorado - Boulder

The End of Cities: Walking Distance, Word of Mouth, and the Proportions of Mutual PresenceDavid W. Overbey, Bellarmine University

Technology in Modern Societies: A Conflict PerspectiveKaram Adibifar, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Is Poetry Still Poetry on the Internet?Emily Panzeri, Wichita State University

Jumping Jack Flash: Using Hypertext and Macromedia Flash to Introduce Students to Metaphysical Poetry Coleman C. Myron, Shippensburg University

Session 41: Television and Contemporary Italian Cinema - Heritage B

Moderator: Fulvio Orsitto, California State University - Chico

Television and Italian Cinema Fulvio Orsitto, California State University - Chico Renato Ventura, University of Connecticut - Storrs

Television and Italian Cinema during the 1970s Fulvio Orsitto, California State University - Chico

Cinema, Television, and the Image of Man and Masculinities in Contemporary Southern ItalyRenato Ventura, University of Connecticut - Storrs

BREAK

Saturday, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

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Session 42: Theory - Fremont

Moderator: Boyd Littrell, University of Nebraska - Omaha

Technological Metaphors in Husserl's 'Logical Investigations'John O'Connor, Colorado State University - Pueblo

Philosophy/Technology/Utopia: The Case of Gianni VattimoAndreas Michel, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Postcapitalism: Technological Transformation of the EconomyRaphael Sassower, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

Technology: Threat or MenaceStanley Aronowitz, City University of New York - Graduate Center

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Index(moderators in parenthesis)

Adell, Joan-Elies - 25Adibifar, Karam - 40Akkari, Hatem - 21Allen, Lin - 7Alt, Betty - 7Amato, Mariana - 29Anderson, Christopher Todd - 16Aronowitz, Stanley - 42Arnold, Darrell - 27Baldwin, Cecelia - 5Banu, Anamaria - 31Bao, Ying - 20Bazell, Robert - Friday, 8:00 p.m.Bearden-White, Roy - 4Bloxsom, William A. - 3Borland, Barbara - 10Boss, Stephen - 4Bradley, Desi - 26Bregar, Justin - 2Brown, William Lansing - 29Budiyanto, Ary - 17Buechler, Ralph - 35, (5)Burd, Gene - 35, (34)Campbell, Majel - 1Cohen, Joshua - 9Cook, Jim - 24Day, Jayme - 23Delvecchio, Analisa - 4Despain, Max - 8, (13)Doherty, Melanie - 18Domènech, Conxita - 4Duchesne, Natalie - 16Ebersole, Sam - 2Edgington, Erin E. - 15, (21)Emanuelson, Karen - 30Emerson, Lori - 33, (33)Endres, Thomas G. - 28Erickson, Sara - 29Eskew, Doug - 38, (38)Farnworth, Xanthe K. - 21, (28)Feldman, Leslie - 14Fletcher, Jené - 12Long, Seth - 17, (24)

Fletcher, Sam - 12Fodor, Judith - 15Foust, Christina - 16Fulton, Jarae L. - 34Giese, Mark - 1, 14, (17)Givens, Jennifer - 37Gomme, Ian - 19, 36Goolsby, Jesse - 8Gose, Mark - 24Gustafson, Kyle - 9Harrison, Joel - 9, (9), (11)Hibbert, Keli - 25Hovde, Marj Rush - 14Hudock, Sandy - 10, 32Huebner, Andrew J. - 28Huseman, William H. - 36Hutter, Mark - 7Jaccard, Erik - 39Johnson, Michael - 1Jones, Mark - 7Joyce, Richard - 2Jütten, Elisabeth - 15Kaplan, Silia - 39Kaufman, Mark - 29Kay, Lynn - 10Kirkpatrick, Kim - 32Koeddermann, Achim - 34Koenig, Gretchen - 13Koncilija, Geri - 21Kranc, S. C. - 27Krinsky, Richard - 21Kurinski, Elena - 10Latifah - 17Law, Sean Michael - 6Lema-Hincapié, Andrés - 39, (29)Lemp, Richard W. - 11Levitz, Zachary - 33Linfoot, Kerry - 13, (32)Lingle, Brandon - 25Linville, Rachel - 20, (16)Littrell, Boyd - (42)Loebach, Peter - 37Ribadeneira, Alegría - 30, (30)

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Lovato, Sam - 2Loyd, Kristen - 13Magnusson, Danielle - 31, (27)Mallet, Michel - 16Marrelli, Alison - 17Marrow, Sherilyn - 5Martinez, Jason - 12Matteucci, Paolo - 8Matuschka, Diane - 3 McGettigan, Tim - 19, (19)Messer, Chris - 34Michel, Andreas - 42, (35)Miller, DeMond Shondell - 7Moberly, Lisa - 32Morales, Juan - 30Morris, Marti - 23, 37Mullen, Jennifer - 2, (2)Myron, Coleman C. - 32, 40, (25)Nash, Claudia Peralta - 22Nathenson, Sophie - 23Neemann, Harold - 11Nizalowski, John - 24Nunes, Mark - 27O’Connor, Carrie - 15, (14)O'Connor, John - 42Oehlrich, Kristen - 28Orsitto, Fulvio - 22, 41, (22), (41)Overbey, David W. - 40Panzeri, Emily - 40Parent, Mikel - 18Pawlowski, Cheryl - 3Perkins, Stephynie C. - 28Pettit, Sue - 21Picicci, Christen - 30Pletsch, Carl - 24, (12)Plochmann, Michael - 14Poole, Daniel - 23, 37Potter, Edward T. - 20, (1)Pratarelli, Marc - 27Quashie, Nekehia - 23, (37)

Robertson, Benjamin J. - 33, (40)Rocha, Dana - 10Rolland, Christelle - 10Rovira, James - 26Rundell, Richard - 20Sakamoto, Michaela - 12Sassower, Raphael - 42, Thursday, 8:00 p.m.Scott, Kelly C. - 5Sheidley, William E. - 39Sonnema, Roy - 31Souchuk, Anna - 25Souder, Donna - 38Soukup, Charles - 16Steffen, Leticia - 2Stommel, Jesse - 6, 35, (6)Sundermann, Rick - 38Swanson, Amanda - 12Torres, Sixto E. - 39, (31)Trocha-Van Nort, Andrea F. - (3)Turner II, John S. - 19, (15)Vardi, Itai - 3, (4)Vargish, Thomas - 13Ventura, Renato - 22, 41Walker, William - 1Wall, Stephen - 31, (36)Weaver, Ted - 11Westover, Jonathan H. - 34, 37, (23)Wexler, Steven - 26, (26)Whited, Scott - 19Widmann, R L - 6Wilson, Erika S. - 3Winokur, Mark - 33Winter, Jenifer Sunrise - 17, (8)Wolf, Brian - 36Wolfe, Katherine - 11Woodville, Katherine E. - 8Worden, Daniel - 18, (18), (10)Wren, Amy - 36Zheng, Aili - 16, (20)Zils, Harald - 5, 35, (7)

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