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This <\/span>virtual one-day conference<\/span> seeks to draw together interdisciplinary presentations to create a generative and multidisciplinary understanding of popular culture. Presentations of 15 minutes will be organized in round tables followed by a Q&A and discussion to encourage collaborative and cross-disciplinary thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elloit Cardozo <\/strong>is an MPhil research scholar at the Department of English, Jadavpur University\u00a0 and a fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies in Kolkata, India. He\u00a0 also teaches the module on hip hop and research for the University of Mumbai\u2019s certificate\u00a0 course on hip hop.<\/p>\n Pradnya Waghule <\/strong>is currently pursuing a PhD at St. Joseph\u2019s University, Bengaluru, India.\u00a0 She is interested in areas of cultural representation. Her work on cultural texts has been\u00a0 published in online and print publications.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Dr. Catherine Wild completed her PhD in 2019 at the University of Winchester with her thesis focusing on the girls\u2019 comic Misty<\/em> (1978-1980). Catherine writes about the darker side of life, her areas of expertise including: the Carnivalesque; the Uncanny; the Gothic; horror; terror; elements of Hauntology; social history; comics structure, function and creation; threshold concepts; and textual intervention. She creates comics scripts and fictional texts, often using a format generated through collaboration with 2000AD<\/i> creator Pat Mills. Catherine takes inspiration from her experiences and perceptions of her own life, as well as the style of Mills\u2019 Misty <\/i>comic and the content of the many British girls\u2019 annuals that she has collected over the years. <\/i>She has worked as a lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature at the Universities of Winchester and Bournemouth for ten years and teaches English and Literacy to people seeking asylum on a voluntary basis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Aydin Karasapan is a student pursuing his MA in Philosophy with a specialization in the\u00a0Digital Humanities at Carleton University, where he works as a teaching assistant. His research\u00a0focuses on the capacity of interactive digital technology to disrupt, augment, or displace\u00a0conventional means of producing and communicating information. His current research project\u00a0focuses on the prospects for improving the educational value of student textual engagement\u00a0through digital innovation of the written text as a medium. His project involves in depth\u00a0examination of digital educational applications, social media platforms and video games to better understand the way that differences in the designs and implementation of interactive digital technologies affects the quality and outcomes of people\u2019s engagement with those technologies. His research interests span the domains of social epistemology, cultural informatics, aesthetics, and game and user experience design theory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Onur Karak\u00f6se currently works as a Research Assistant in the Department of\u00a0American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University. He obtained his BA in Political\u00a0Science and International Relations in 2013 from Yeditepe University with a double major in\u00a0English Language and Literature in 2015. He finished his M.A. in English Language and\u00a0Literature at Ankara University with a thesis on Post-1990s Contemporary British Drama. His\u00a0research interests are American Drama, Life Writing, Fantasy and Science Fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nPanel 1:\u00a0Cultural Forms of Representation<\/h2>\n
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8:45 AM \u201410:15 AM EST Moderator: Maki Salmon<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Elloit Cardozo\u00a0<\/span>(Jadavpur University)\u00a0& Pradnya Waghule St. Joseph\u2019s University)<\/span><\/h3>\n
\u201cTrend bana yaha pe MC Stan ko hate karte\u2019: Reading online discourses of gatekeeping popular culture in India\u201d<\/h3>\n
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Catherine Wild\u00a0 <\/span>(University of Winchester)<\/u><\/h3>\n
\u201cMisty<\/em> as a reflection of 1970s Zeitgeist\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
Aydin Karasapan\u00a0<\/span>(Carleton University)<\/span><\/h3>\n
\u201cWhere do video games as an art form fit?\u201d<\/h3>\n
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Panel 2: Narrative and Artistic (Re)Imaginings<\/h2>\n
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10:30 AM \u201412:00 PM EST Moderator:\u00a0<\/span>Victoria Hawco<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Onur Karak\u00f6se\u00a0<\/span>(Hacettepe \u00dcniversitesi)<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
\u201cMorphing Hopepunk into Queer Futurism as Multiplicative Speculation in Becky Chambers\u2019 A Psalm For The Wild-Built\u201d<\/h3>\n
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Valeria Giudici (Sorbonne Universit\u00e9)<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
\u201cThe (in)formal in art. Breaking the wall of institution with JR’s works\u201d<\/h3>\n