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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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