Program 56

Culture Jamming and the Art of Subversion: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Panel 1: Fairy Tales and Sub-Culture

8 – 9:30 am PST (UTC 3-4:30 pm)

Location: Anatol Center. 

Moderator: Dr. Pravina Cooper, CSULB

1. The Big Bad Red: Subversive representations of Little Red Riding Hood in contemporary caricatures and campaigns

Loaay Wattad, Tel Aviv University (Israel)

2. Analyzing the Prankster and Trickster in Unveiled: The Intersectionality of Gender and Privilege in Iliza Shlesinger’s Comedic Critique of the Wedding Industrial Complex

Dejah Rodriguez, CSULB

3. Subculture is the new S-word: Creating a Culture of Hope in communities of color

Desiree Rodrigues, CSULB

 

Panel 2: Dissidents Speak Up

9:30 – 11 am PST (UTC 4:30-6 pm)

Location: Anatol Center. 

Moderator: Amy Desuza-Riehm, CSULB

1. Intermediality of Ukrainian Dissident Art: Revealing Inconvenient Truths through Philosophical and Religious Symbols

Dr. Julia Sabadash and Dr. Natalia Marakhovska, Mariupol State University (Ukraine)

2. Holy Hole in Chinese Patriarchal Culture—Going Pop and South

Dr. Sheng-Mei Ma, Michigan State University

3. Linguistic Jamming of Kurdish Teachers in Iran  

Dr. Amir Sharifi, CSULB, and Dr. Ali Ashouri, San Diego State University

4. The Meaning of the American Dream in an Imperfect World

Marianna Garcia, CSULB

 

Panel 3: Protests and Politics I

11 – 12:30 pm PST (UTC 6-7:30 pm)

Location: Anatol Center. 

Moderator: Dr. Kathryn Chew, CSULB

1. Paying the Dues: Early Black Documentary Film and the Quest for Truth

Manar Ellethy, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies & Leiden University (Netherlands)

2. Lasting images from the Levitation at the 1967 March on the Pentagon

Dr. Ann Johnson, CSULB

3. Questioning the Narrative: The Underground Press and Its Role In Subverting Mainstream Media

Armando Hernandez, CSULB

 

Plenary Talk and Workshop

2 – 4:15 pm PST (UTC 9-11:15 pm)

Location: Anatol Center. 

Moderator: Dr. Elizabeth Dahab, CSULB

Never Lie, Little One: The Use of Humor in Telling the Truth

Jacques Servin, Co-Founder of the Yes Men

 

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Panel 4: Dystopia

8 – 9:30 am PST (UTC 3-4:30 pm)

Location: Anatol Center. 

Moderator: Dr. Christopher Shaw, CSULB

1. Sleeping and Isolating As Subversive Literary Practices. On Passivity, Culture Jamming and Millennial Resistance in Late Capitalism

Dr. Olga Szmidt, Jagiellonian University (Poland)

2. A Bleak Future: Exploring Reflections of Modern Capitalism within Science Fiction

Marvin Palencia, CSULB

3. The Rise, Success, and Downfall of Young Adult Dystopian Literature

Evelyn Vasquez, CSULB

 

Panel 5: Protest in Pop Culture

9:30 – 11 am PST (UTC 4:30-6 pm)

Location: Anatol Center. 

Moderator: Dr. Crystal Lie, CSULB

1. The Good Guy as an Ethical Performance of Civil Disobedience in Hitman’s Wife’s Body Guard and Free Guy: An Analysis of Subversive Identity, Intentionality, and Agency in Contemporary Film

Dr. José Rodriguez, CSULB

2. Pop references, inside jokes, and cultural jamming: Márkomeannu posters as an expression of (Márka-)Sámi decolonizing artivism 

Dr. Erika De Vivo, University of Turin (Italy)

3. Stolen Identity Schemes in Igbo Trickster Tales and Nigerian Cybercrime Prose Narratives

Dr. Uchechukwu Evelyn Madu, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike (Nigeria)

 

 

Panel 6: Roundtable: From Comics to Cosplay: How Creators and Fans are Reclaiming Identity

11 – 12:30 pm PST (UTC 6-7:30 pm)

Location: Anatol Center. 

Moderator: Amy Desuza-Riehm

Panelists: John Jennings, UC Riverside

Henry Barajas, author of La Voz De M.A.Y.O.: Tata Rambo

Bernie Bregman, Pop Culture Event Producer

 

Panel 7: Cultural Products in the Contemporary Marketplace

11 – 12:30 pm PST (UTC 6-8 pm)

Location: English Conference Room (MHB 315). 

Moderator: Dr. Vlatka Velcic, CSULB

1. From Wallet to Closet

Fiona Hang, CSULB

2. “Work” or “Text”?: Debussy’s Claire de Lune

Amelia Lamorin, CSULB

3. The Western Gaze of Asian Women in M. Butterfly

Pearl Pham, CSULB

4. Xxxtentacion’s Music in the Mass Market

Nico Ray, CSULB

 

Panel 8: Subversion in Subtle Places

12:30 – 2 pm PST  (UTC 7:30-9 pm)

Location: Anatol Center. 

Moderator: Dr. Katherine McLoone, CSULB

1. Blockchain Crypto Jamming: Subverting the Instrumental Economy

Dr. Melanie Swan, University College London (England)

2. ‘‘A naked man a bow bare’’: Dress, Signification, and Genre in Late Middle English Popular Texts

Benjamin Hoover, CSULB

3. Toxic Positivity: Addressing The Social Crisis on Mental Health

Maggie Brown, CSULB

4. Dethroning the Masters of Go: Peoples, Nations, and Artificial Intelligences

Victor Tran, CSULB

 

Panel 9: Culture Jamming and Art

2 – 3:30 pm PST (UTC 9-10:30 pm)

Location: Anatol Center. 

Moderator: Kelsey Bright, CSULB

1. Space Jamming: Tino Seghal and the De-Banistering of Museum Spaces

Dr. Tom Jacobs, New York University

2. Indecline’s Culture Jamming of Evangelical Propaganda Sites: Billboards and The Great Passion Play 2020/2021

Courtney Thomas, University of Texas at Austin

3. Artists’ Political Responsibility in El Paro Nacional

Alegria Zuluaga, CSULB

 

Panel 10: Protest and Politics II

3:30 – 5 pm PST (UTC 10:30 pm-12 am)

Location: Anatol Center. 

Moderator: Dr. Rajbir Judge, CSULB

1. Play Activism and the Post-Trump Playground

Dr. Jenna Altomonte and Todd Rowan, Mississippi State University

2. Digital Fascism and the Contested Ground of Countercultural Aesthetics

Ryan Prewitt, Saint Louis University

3. Not Left, Not Right, But Backward: A Marxist Comparative Analysis of Sunrise Movement, The Republic of Cuba, and La Via Campesina

Queenie Mendez, CSULB