| 9:00-9:30 am | Complimentary Coffee, Bagels, etc. in the Gallery |
| 9:30-10:45 am | Session 1: Youth Culture and Film |
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They're
Young, They're in Love, and they Kill People! Brian Goss, University of Illinois Growing up Anxious: The Post-Modern Slasher Film Chris McGee, Illinois State University |
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| 11:00-12:00 am | Featured Speaker: Ian Wojcik-Andrews |
| 12:15-1:30 pm | Lunch (Provided) |
| 1:30-2:45 pm | Session 2: Girls Coming of Age |
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"Female
Adolescence and its Discontents" Angela Hubler, Kansas State University "Coming Out": A female Rite of Passage in Victorian Popular Culture Sarah Bilston, Oxford University Subjectivity in Sharon Creech’s Novels for Girls Melissa Juvinall, Illinois State University |
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| 3:00-5:00 pm | Session 3: Outside the Mainstream |
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The Una-Bomber's
Paul Goodman Bill McBride, Illinois State University Which Witch? Charges of Witchcraft in Child Sexual Abuse Cases Robin Markowitz, California State University A Cultural Critique of Skateboarding Robert Rundquist, University of Southern California |
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| 7:00-8:30 pm | Featured Speaker: Henry Giroux |
Friday, October 8
| 9:00-9:30 am | Complimentary Coffee, Bagels, etc. in the Gallery |
| 9:30-10:45 am | Session 4: Modern and Postmodern Childhood |
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Troubled
Child:
Barthes'
Imagined Youth Tim Scheie, University of Rochester Against the Bildungsroman Paradigm Katrien Vloeberghs, University of Antwerp Don't Send a Boy to do a Man's Job Bruce Hawkins, Illinois State University |
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| 11:00-12:00 am | Featured Speaker: Jerry Phillips |
| 12:15-1:30 pm | Lunch (Provided) |
| 1:30-2:45 pm | Session 5: African-American Youth Culture |
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The
Triple Consciousness of Jacqueline Woodson's The Dear One Wendy Rountree, University of Cincinatti To Be Young, Countercultural, and Black David Jones, University of Minnesota |
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| 3:00-5:00 pm | Session 6: Commodification of Childhood |
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Teletubbies
"R" Us:
Growing up with Tinky Winky, Laa-Laa and Po Jan Susina, Illinois State University Progressive Reform and the Marketing of Childhood Susan Pearson, University of North Carolina: Chris Van Allsburgh and Surrealism at the end of the 20th Century Phil Nel, The College at Charleston Growing up with Anne Frank Adrienne Kertzer, University of Calgary |
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| Session 7: Growing Up Smart and Female | |
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Defining
Smart Spaces in Rebecca Wells' Little Altars Everywhere Kimberly Ondreck, Mills College The Madwoman's Honey-Mad Double: Michelle Cliff's Clare Savage Dawn M. Formo, California State U--San Marcos Provocateurs in Petticoats: On Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age Richard Parent, Mills College |
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| 8:00 pm-? | The Party! |