Ithaca College

 

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.

 

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.

10:15-11:15am 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 Panel 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)

Nadia Agha, Medical Degree

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

11:30-12:30pm 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”

2-3pm 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

3:15-4:15 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.