Friday, April 24, 2015
2:15 to 3:30 pm
Panel: Visuality, Physicality & Pedagogy
Envisioning Medieval Culture: Methods of Pedagogy & Practice
Amy Austin
Leveraging the Visual: Critical Thinking Through Comics
Nakia S. Pope
Photo Essays & Systematic Observations: A Group Exercise
Robert Kunovich
3:30 to 4:00 pm
Reception
Keynote Presenters
José Montelongo (Ph.D. in Spanish, Washington University, St. Louis) is the author of the
novel Quincalla (2005), and the award-winning children¹s book Mi abuelo fue agente secreto (2012), a photo-biography. He is currently the Mexican Materials Bibliographer for the
LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. He administers the Benson Latin
American Collection's renowned Mexican materials at the University of Texas Libraries. Dr.
Montelongo has taught Mexican and Latin American culture at Tulane University, Bard College and Gettysburg College. He has published in peer-reviewed journals and literary magazines both in Mexico and the United States.
Ritu Khanduri (Ph.D. in Anthropology, UT Austin) is a cultural anthropologist whose research, publications and teaching focus on globalization and South Asia, specifically in the
contexts of colonial and contemporary India, and the Indian Diaspora. Over the past few
years, her research has advanced in three inter-related directions: visual culture
(newspaper cartoons, comic books and Hindu images), the public perception of Mohandas
Gandhi's politics and philosophy, and gender and science. Dr. Khanduri¹s publications include the book Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World,
published by Cambridge University Press in 2014, and numerous articles published in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals, such as South Asian Popular Culture, Visual Anthropology,
Contemporary South Asia and the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.
Cultural Constructions Biannual Conference
Cultural Constructions Biannual Conference is an interdisciplinary, student-centered event
that has been held four times since its inception in 2007.
Each conference is themed around a general topic that encourages the participation of
undergraduate and graduate student research projects in a variety of academic disciplines. Previous themes for the conference have been: Power, Memory and Culture (2007);
Connections (2009); War (2011); and Twenty-First Century Pedagogies (2013).
Department of
Modern Languages &
UT Arlington Libraries
Cultural Constructions:
Image/Text/Meaning
April 23 & 24, 2015
UT Arlington Central Library, Sixth Floor
Thursday, April 23, 2015
9:00 to 9:30 am
Breakfast
9:30 to 10:50 am
Vision, Bodies and Culture
Friday, April 24, 2015
9:30 to 10:00 am
Breakfast
10:00 to 10:50 am
Panel: Portraying Language, Identity & Conversion
The Visual Language of Khalil Gibran
Seeing & Nothingness: Vision & Visuality in Huis closHuis
Najia Alameddin
Visions of Female Panamanian Identity in “Short Stories” by
Melanie Taylor Herrera
Helen Hulme
Erased & Replaced: The Absence of Fat Bodies on the Covers of Young Adult Novels
Sarah Shelton
Sonja Watson
Bodies & Souls: The Sociopolitical Mechanism of Religious Conversion & Its
Representation in the Medieval Spanish Manuscript the Cantigas de Santa Maria
Visualizing Madness in Medieval Art and Pilgrimage
Trevor Engel
Robert Phillips
10:50 to 11:00 am
11:00 to 12:20 pm
Break
10:50 to 11:00 am
Break
11:00 to 11:50 pm
Werewolves, Ghouls & Zombies, Oh My!
A Discussion on the Comics Code Authority
Posthuman Moves and Abstract Locations
Posthuman Visions: Speculative Imagination & Unreal Aesthetics
Sean Farrell
Ludic Textuality, Immersion & Character Representation as a Mirror:
Ludonarrative Identity & Player Identification in Watch_D0gs
Johansen Quijano
Reciprocal Redaction
UT Arlington Comic Book Club
11:50 to 1:00 pm
Lunch
12:30 to 1:00 pm
Optional tours of Special Collections and FabLab
1:00 to 1:50 pm
Apocalyptic Visions: Real and Imagined
The Book of Revelations: Ephemeral Images & Apocalyptic Fears in the Films Take
Shelter and Melancholia
Morgan Chivers
12:20 to 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:00 to 1:30 pm
Optional tours of Special Collections and FabLab
1:30 to 3:00 pm
Keynote Presentations
Rachael Mariboho
Naivete as an Imagery of Survival of the Tragic Childhood of
the Infant Protagonist in Ana Maria Matute’s Los ninos tontos
What’s with this Picture? Cultural Constructions of the Visual
Karily Cruz
Breaking the Silence: Unveiling Latin America’s Government
Corruption against Human Trafficking
Jose Montelongo
Ritu Khanduri
Jazmin Chinea Barreto
3:00 to 3:30 pm
Reception
1:50 to 2:15 pm
Break