2013 FANS Conference Program
Organizing Committee:
Chair: J. Holder Bennett, Collin College
Vice Chair: Dr. Michael Vandehey, Midwestern State University
Committee Members: Helen McCarthy, Independent Scholar and Author; Brett Burkett, Collin College; Shannon Burkett, Collin College; Jonathan Davis, University of North Texas
Friday
12:00pm
Registration Table opens in front of the Coral Room
7:00pm
Informal socializing and drinks at Media Bar
Saturday
8:00am
Registration Table and Coral Room open
9:15am
J. Holder Bennett, Collin College, Opening Remarks from the Chairman
9:30am
Dr. Margo Collins, DeVry University, “Why Would Anybody Want to Watch Our Lives?”: Metatextual Mediation of Fan Desire in Supernatural
10:00am
Jennifer Fu, FUNimation, For Love and Money: Professionalism and Community in Anime and Manga Artists’ Alleys
10:30am
Melissa Lum, Public Relations Committee of the State Bar of Texas, What Is Intellectual Property?
11:00am
Jonathan Tarbox, CEO Arashi Productions, The Destruction of Tokyo
11:30am: Keynote Presentation
Helen McCarthy, Independent Scholar and Author, No Final Frontier: The Scholar as Explorer
12:30pm
Lunchbreak
2:00pm
Chelsea Murdoch, University of Kansas, “Draw a Circle”: An Examination of World Englishes in Hetalia Fandom
2:30pm
Anthony Brownrigg, Executive Producer at Cashel Entertainment, How to Win Fans and How Not To
3:00pm
Hamed Nouri, University of North Texas, Muslim Manga
3:30pm
Lauren Levitt, New York University at Steinhardt, “The Green Priestess and the Cosmic Computer”: Star Trek and the Aesthetics of Camp
4:00pm
Afternoon Break
4:30pm
Dr. Darren-Jon Ashmore, Akita International University, The Real O(taku)-G: Murder, Suicide, and Product Placement in Edo’s Kabuki Theatres
5:00pm
Poe Johnson, University of Texas at Dallas, Cultural Memory as Fan Ideology in the Remediated World
5:30pm
Cory Barker, Indiana University, Rewarding Viewing: Television Check-In Social Networks and Fan Activity
6:00pm
Dr. Kimberly Springer, University of Michigan, Beyond the H8ter: Theorizing the Anti-Fan
6:30pm
James Bales, University of Texas at San Antonio, Who You Want to Be: Video Games as Identity-Reflective Texts
7:00pm
End of Day
Sunday
9:00am
Coral Room opens
9:30am
Jerome Dent, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Fantasy and Fandom: Race, Desire, and the Libidinal Economy
10:00am
Scott Caddy, University of Michigan at Flint, Fandom Assemble: Joss Whedon’s The Avengers in Fandom
10:30am
James Bales, University of Texas at San Antonio, Secret Agent Shepard: An Examination of the Role of Agency in the Mass Effect Franchise
11:00am
FANS Committee, How Did We Do?
11:45am
Dr. Michael Vandehey, FANS Vice Chair, Closing Remarks
12:00pm
End of Day
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