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
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