Category: Conference Submissions
Apophenia and Alien Love: UFO Abduction Narratives as Technologies of the Self
Day 3 of our asynchronous content begins with Wayne State University’s own Hunter Tuinstra presenting on the truth that is out there. Check out the video here.... Read More
At the Ruins of Pop Culture: Trauma, Disruptions, Voids, and the Show-Me Power of Visual Narrative
On Day 2 of the #WaynePop2021 asynchronous content, Elisabetta Di Minico, Vanessa Hintz, J. Scott Jordan, and Dylan Trigg discuss Lovecraft Country, Stranger Things, WandaVision, and X-Men. Check out ... Read More
Mumbai’s ‘The Warli Revolt’: Swadesi voicing the concerns of the Tribal Community – Jaya Wathare
The topographical formation of the present-day Mumbai is a result of its colonial past wherein after several land reclamation projects, an archipelago of seven islands, turned into a unified landmass ... Read More
Zombies, Blips, and the Apocalypse: Why Write Stories about Disruptions?
Scholars J. Scott Jordan, Stanford W. Carpenter, Victor Dandridge, Jr., Eric Wesselmann, and Alex Simmons engage in a roundtable discussion for Day 1 of our asynchronous #WaynePop2021 Conference conte... Read More
The Farce of the Revolution: The Théâtre du Soleil’s 1789; Heidi Collins
In May 1968, student protests in Paris quickly transformed into a revolutionary call to completely transform society, remove economic inequities, and overturn the government run by elites. Collaborati... Read More
Using Informal Facebook Archives: Lessons from Greece; Panagiotis Zestanakis
Social media has transformed the mediascape in the last few years and plays a crucial role in the contemporary public sphere. This situation developed from technologically advanced societies (e.g., th... Read More
Rewriting Martyrdom: Variations on Japan’s Most Famous Christian Martyr: Amakusa Shirō; Patrick Drazen
Powerpoint Slides: Full Text: The historical facts about Amakusa Shirō are well-known in Japan and are indisputable. An adolescent at the time of the extreme and debilitating Shimabara tax revolt of ... Read More
Will the Real Steve Rogers Please Stand Up?: Conflicting Nationalist Narratives in Captain America Comics, Whitney Thompson
Captain America, despite his name, has never been a simple symbol of American patriotism — something that’s probably obvious to anybody who’s studied him or read his comics. Much of Steve Ro... Read More- 2 of 3
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