SCHEDULE FOR CHATS, ENGLISH DEPT.,
EGSO CONFERENCE

FRIDAY, APRIL 15TH

4:30 REGISTRATION OPENS- DINNER ON YOUR OWN

7:00 DESSERT RECEPTION

7:30 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION with Vivien Ng, PhD, Women’s
Studies, Jennifer Greiman, PhD, English, Charles Tarleton, Ph.D,
Political Science, and Morton Schoolman, PhD, Political Science.
Moderator: Mike Hill, PhD, Interim Chairman, English Dept.

SATURDAY, APRIL 16TH

8:00 – 9:00 REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9:00-10:45 All that Seen and Unseen: The Unknown in Hitchcock’s Films
Hitchcock in the Labyrinth: Matthew Pangborn

The Case of Citational Reality or Reels of the “Real”: Aidan Thompson
Angelic Images in Spellbound: Redefining Religion: Paula Yablonsky
Moderator: Mary Valentis, PhD

Intellectual Pedagogical & Virtual Space: Structuring an Online Curriculum: Lucy Appert, PhD, Nancy Reale, PhD, and Robert Squillance, PhD
Moderator: TBA

Info Science – Science of Meta Science: Wei-Song Wang and Julio Pontes
Moderator: TBA

10:45-11:00 BREAK

11:00-12:30 Recursion in Deconstruction and 2nd Order Cybernetics:
Kelly Lockmer.

Virtual Haunts- “To learn to live finally”: Alex Reid.
Moderator: TBA

Structuring Stardom: Spacement & the Transmigration of Images in David Bowie’s Music Videos: Dr. Matthew Pateman

Virtual Artaud – Computer Virus as Performance Art: Jason
Farnaud

Improbably New: Exploring The Event in Sam Shepard’s Early Plays:
Raymond Malewitz.
Moderator: TBA

Web Blogs & Emergence: Opening Gestures in Networked Spaces:
Madeline Yonker, Derek Mueller
Moderator: TBA

12:30-1:30 LUNCH – PROVIDED

1:30 – 2:45 Opening Remarks and Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Dean of The College of Arts & Sciences, Joan Wick-Pelletier

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Glenn McGee: Making Babies: Cloning Genetics, Enhancement and the Death of Modern Childhood

3:00-4:30 Auschwitz & the Sacrifice of Genetics: Sarah Hyatt

Death, Discipline Discourse, Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year and Novelism: David Jury

Cylinder S&M-Temporal Economies of Nuclear Waste Containment & Conversion: Michael Jonik
Moderator: Professor Rick Barney

Quasi-Sculpture & Architecture: Tony Robbins.

Structure & Organization of Space through Sculpture: Professor Edward Mayer
Moderator: TBA

Playing with Gender in Digital Games: Alison Kenner, Erin Mulrooney, and Honghong Tim.

The Texts of Tamriel: On-line Gaming Projects from Playing to Writing: Matthew Johnson
Moderator: TBA

DINNER ON YOUR OWN

RECEPTION AND PERFORMANCE BY PROFESSOR JUDY JOHNSON
What ‘Is’ Is When there is no ‘There’ There

8 p.m. at DeJohn’s

SUNDAY, APRIL 17TH

8:30 – 9:00 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9:00-10:30 Gothicism, Neo-Gothicism, & Techno-Subjectivity in the Films of David Lynch: Rick Barney, PhD
Moderator: TBA

Taste of the Spanish Past – Railroads, Missions & Ramona: Defining the West: Courtney Carmel-Elkin

Architecture, Economics and Ritual Processions through High Ceilings, Seductive Shrines: Inside Starbucks: Tara Needham

What Do The Cameras Mean?: Professor Kate Boyer
Moderator: TBA

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Civil Space & Its Influence on Received meaning in Medieval
Drama (Group Performance): Karen Williams
Moderator: TBA

Approaching New Spaces: Textual Game-Playing & The Fourth Dimension (based on the work of mathematician
Charles Howard Hinton): Elizabeth Throesch

Using the Villa Lante at Bagnia to Conceptualize Augmented Reality Games:
Karen Lori Schrier
Moderator: TBA

12:30 FINAL REMARKS and CONFERENCE WRAPS-UP