Pippi to Ripley4: Gender and Sexuality in Fantasy, Science Fiction, Children’s Lit. and Comics. April 21 & 22, 2017. Ithaca College’s Feminist Pop Culture Conference is FREE and open to the public. Join geek scholars of all ages and stages to talk about texts that range from The Wizard of Oz to The Walking Dead. Keynote speaker: Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo/Sammus.
Friday, April 21
9am-10am Plenary (Clark Lounge, Campus Center)
Marlene Barr (Fairy Godmother Invocation) and Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo /SAMMUS
Marleen S. Barr is the founding mother of Feminist Science Fiction Criticism. She teaches at the City University of New York and has won the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement.
10:15-11:15 Panel Session 1
Dystopia (Clark Lounge)
Atwood, Mad Max, The Road
Queer Texts (Taughanock Falls)
Lumber Janes, Archie, Steven Universe
11:30-12:30 Teaching Fairytales in the College Classroom
(Taughanock Falls)
Teri Doerksen
Lynn Pifer “Grimm Variations First Year Seminar”
Katharyn Machan “Gingerbread: Poems of the Dark Forest”
Julie Fromer "Undoing Disney”
2:00-3:00pm
Session 2:
Ecofeminism (Clark Lounge)
Mushroom Planet, As the World Burns, Stepford Wives
Film and TV(Taughanock Falls)
Miyazaki, Lemony Snicket, Trans Horror
3:15-4:15 Surviving and Thriving in Graduate School
(Taughanock Falls)
Maya Thornton, English Literature (Murray State)
Al Valentín, Women’s and Gender Studies (Rutgers)
Anna Lawrence, Library & Information Science (Simmons)
Danielle Carr, English Literature (CUNY)
Friday, 8 pm Sammus in Concert (Emerson Suites)
Sammus is the stage name of Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, an Ithaca-based Nerdcore rapper/producer who is also a graduate student at Cornell. Her work “weaves raw confessions, pro-weirdo anthems, and clever musings on modern life into a unique story about black womanhood.” For more information see https://sammusmusic.com/
Saturday, April 22
9-10am Session 3
HBO’s Westworld (Textor 101)
Masculine Anxiety & Fembots
Superheroes (Textor102)
Wonder Woman, Whedon, Early Comics
Artficial Intelligence(Textor103)
Black Mirror, Ready Player One, Matrix
10:15-11:15 am Session 4
Video Gaming (Textor 101)
Queerness, Zelda, YouTube
Jessica Jones (Textor 102)
Comics to Netflix; PTSD
Young Scholars (Textor 103)
Potter, Game of Thrones, House of Cards
11:30-12:30 Keynote (Textor 102)
BLACK & GEEKY:
A Conversation about Nerdcore, Race, and Representation
Moderator: Kyra Skye
*Isaiah Horton/”Yvng Pluto”
*Enongo Lumumba-
Kasongo/”Sammus”
*Dillon C. Randolph/ “Magnetic the Shaman”
2pm-3pm Session 5
Stranger Things (Textor 101)
Weirdo, Monster, Final Girl
Intersectional Feminisms (Textor 102)
Jenelle Monae; *censored* Planet
Children’s Texts (Textor 103)
Wizard of Oz; Alice; Harry Potter
3:15-4:15pm Panels Session 6
Horror Television (Textor 101)
Stranger Things, Walking Dead, Supernatural
Vampire Worlds (Textor 102)
Buffy, Angel, Anne Rice
Young Adult Fantasy Literature (Textor 103)
Hunger Games, Sara J. Maas, Ella Enchanted
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Katharine Kittredge at kkittredge@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-1575. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
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