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Schedule
2023
Friday, April 14th
12:00 PM

Pre-conference Meet and Greet

Phil Dickinson, Bowling Green State University

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM

Why We Need Class Studies in Academia

John King, Bowling Green State University

1:00 PM - 1:20 PM

1:20 PM

Burnout, Precarity, and the Illusions of Academic Life

Phil Dickinson, Bowling Green State University

1:20 PM - 2:00 PM

2:15 PM

Socialist Reconstruction and the Need for a Revolutionary Party

Nino Brown

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

2:45 PM

Roundtable Discussion on Unionization/Collective Bargaining in Academia

Andrew Schocket, Bowling Green State University
Jennifer Ashton
Walter Benn Michaels
Sara Kilpatrick
Candace Archer

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM

4:00 PM

Tenants' Rights in Wood County

Rodney A. Fleming, Bowling Green State University

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

5:00 PM

Meet and Greet

Bowling Green State University

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM

What’s Wrong with Capitalism?: A Public Class on Class Consciousness

Bowling Green Socialists

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Saturday, April 15th
10:00 AM

Meet and Greet

Haley Shipley, Bowling Green State University

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM

"Blue No Matter Who": Liberal’s Rhetoric of Fear, The Vampire Castle, and Abandoned Railway Workers

William Walton, Bowling Green State University

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

10:30 AM

Surveillance is a Privacy Issue, Oversurveillance is a Civil Rights Issue

Kristine Ketel, Bowling Green State University

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

10:30 AM

What Kind of Class Consciousness is there in the Anglosphere Today?

Daniel Burnfin, University of Chicago

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

11:30 AM

Cultures of Imperialism in US Democracy Promotion

Ben Arthur Thomason, Bowling Green State University

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

11:30 AM

FIRE Employment and Class Politics in the United States and the United Kingdom: 1980-Present

Jake Burchard, University of Chicago

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

12:15 PM

Humanities in a Corporation named University

Ahmad Bilal, Bowling Green State University

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

12:15 PM

"Leaping the Ivory Tower in a Single Bound": Ray Browne, Class Consciousness, and the Creation of Pop Culture Studies

Haley Shipley, Bowling Green State University

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

12:15 PM

Rust Belt Futures: Building the Rust Belt Humanities Lab at Ursuline College

Katharine G. Trostel, Ursuline College
Valentino L. Zullo, Ursuline College

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM

Lunch

Bowling Green State University

1:00 PM - 1:20 PM

1:20 PM

Conference Acknowledgments and Keynote Introduction

John King, Bowling Green State University
Haley Shipley, Bowling Green State University
Charles Coletta, Bowling Green State University
Adam Theron-Lee Rensch, Bowling Green State University

1:20 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Merit Raises and the Consciousness of the Professoriate

Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM

Lumberjacks, Lesbians, and Grunge: Flannel Shirts and Social History

Nancy Down, Bowling Green State University

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM

2:30 PM

The Servant’s Hand: The Addams Family Thing as a literal literary convention of the Domestic Worker in Popular Culture

Dana Nemeth, Bowling Green State University

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM

3:15 PM

Between Bedrock and Shifting Sands: Faulty Class Structures within Mark Russel and Steve Pugh's The Flintstones

Alan Jozwiak, University of Cincinnati

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

3:15 PM

Comics for the Gum-Chewers: Class Representations in Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy

Tyne Lowe, Bowling Green State University

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM

Archie Bunker: Television’s Red, White, and Blue-Collar Hero

Charles Coletta, Bowling Green State University

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

4:00 PM

Goobers at Your Wedding': Class Disidentification in the One Day at a Time Reboot

Becca Cragin, Bowling Green State University

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

4:00 PM

Good Times, The Evanses vs. The Robinsons, and Conflicts in Class Perspectives

Angela Nelson, Bowling Green State University

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

5:00 PM

Capitalism, Class, and the Fears of the Silent Generation in Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Shane Hesketh, Bowling Green State University

5:00 PM - 5:35 PM

5:00 PM

Courtesans and Streetwalkers: Sex, Class, and the Female Body in Pretty Woman and Moulin Rouge!

Taylor Bowles, Bowling Green State University

5:00 PM - 5:35 PM

6:00 PM

Beyond Body and Mind: Severance (2022) and Late Capitalism’s Wet Dream of an Ideal Laborer

Salman Rafique, Oklahoma State University

6:00 PM - 6:45 PM

6:00 PM

Rich People Behaving Badly, and the Disposable Staff on Season 1 of The White Lotus

Brittany Clark, Clemson University

6:00 PM - 6:45 PM

6:45 PM

Consumptive Habits in an All-Consuming Classist System: Close Reading Cuisine in Parasite

Jeffrey A. Schooley

6:45 PM - 7:30 PM

6:45 PM

Who Makes the Lights Go On: Class Structure & Alienation in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite

Adam Theron-Lee Rensch, Bowling Green State University

6:45 PM - 7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Closing Remarks

Haley Shipley, Bowling Green State University

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

8:00 PM

Post-Event Party

Bowling Green State University

8:00 PM - 9:00 PM