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Schedule
2024
Friday, March 15th
12:00 PM

Meet and Greet & Library tour

Bowling Green State University

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM

Opening Remarks: Past, Present, and Future of Cultural Studies

John King, Bowling Green State University

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Noted Speaker: Ray Browne and the New Humanities, 50 Years Later

Haley Shipley, Bowling Green State University

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM

2:15 PM

Beneath the Sightlines: Unearthing a Midwestern Eerie

Phil Dickinson, Bowling Green State University

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM

Indiana University Graduate Student Bargaining Committee Roundtable

Zara Anwarzai
Anne Kavalerchik

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

5:00 PM

Public Class: “Why We Need Socialism”

Bryce Howard, Bowling Green State University

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Saturday, March 16th
10:30 AM

Opening Remarks

Bowling Green State University

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM

Changing Class Composition of Heavy Metal Fans, 1970-2023

Jeremy Wallach, Bowling Green State University

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

11:00 AM

Just Cos’ You Got the Power … Motorhead … Eat the Rich

Matthew Donahue, Bowling Green State University

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

11:45 AM

Hard Travelin’ Heroes

Charles Coletta, Bowling Green State University

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

11:45 AM

Spider-Man Cultural Icon

Madeline Main, Bowling Green State University

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

11:45 AM

The Kid, The Crown, and Buster Brown: Class Consciousness within Richard Outcault’s Newspaper Comic Strip Character The Yellow Kid (1895 to 1898)

Alan Jozwiak, University of Cincinnati

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM

Class Con 2024 Hammer Down Award

Bowling Green State University

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

1:45 PM

Keynote Introductions

Adam Rensch, Bowling Green State University

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM

Keynote: The Educated Underclass

Gary Roth, Rutgers University

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM

From Empire to "Umpire": A Re-reading of A Passage to India in the Pakistani Context

Zulfgar Hyder, University College of the North

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

3:00 PM

The Political Economy of Left Obstructionism

Daniel Burnfin, University of Chicago

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

3:45 PM

Class Consciousness in Kate Beaton’s Ducks

Tyne Lowe, Bowling Green State University

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM

3:45 PM

(On Not) Eliding Class: Working Class-Consciousness, Rock & Roll Culture, and Narrative Self-Referentiality in the Fiction of Denis Johnson

David Buehrer, Valdosta State University

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM

3:45 PM

Write What You Know: Creative Writing and the Decline of Working-Class Fiction

Adam Rensch, Bowling Green State University

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM

AI in HigherEd: Hero or Villain?

Kristine Ketel, Bowling Green State University

4:30 PM - 5:15 PM

4:30 PM

Capitalist Realism as Rhetoric: r/teachers as an Online Case Study

Will Walton, Bowling Green State University

4:30 PM - 5:15 PM

5:15 PM

From Cold Calls to Power Calls: Dehumanization and Class Struggle in Sorry to Bother You

Ahmad Bilal, Bowling Green State University

5:15 PM - 6:00 PM

5:15 PM

Performance as Politics in the Roseanne Revival

Becca Cragin, Bowling Green State University

5:15 PM - 6:00 PM

5:15 PM

Uncle Sam Goes to Hollywood: Culture Industries and Capitalist Imperialism in the American Century 1941-2020

Ben Thomason, Bowling Green State University

5:15 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM

Time Capsule Workshop

Bowling Green State University

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM