Locating Social Class
Geography, Home, and Mythologies of Place
A Day-long Conference
This conference will look into how class ideologies can be (or have been) projected into physical spaces, and how mythologies local to a specific time and place come to bear on the lived experiences of working class people. Locations of class that will be discussed include American Appalachian communities, the Mexican-American border, and the theaters of early-modern London.
Organized by the English department’s “Theory and Social Class” graduate course
Presenters include MA students and PhD from Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s English Department
Schedule
Wednesday, May 6th (Reading Day)
All panels take place on the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Campus in Baker Hall, in the Erwin Steinberg room, Baker Hall A53. All meals and coffee breaks will take place outside the classroom, in the Baker Hall A53 lounge.
9:00 AM to 9:30 AM
Bagels and coffee in the Baker Hall Lounge outside of A53 Baker Hall
Panel 1: Literature, Nation and Sexuality
9:30 AM to 10:45 AM
Arianna Garofalo, "Angelheaded Hipsters and the Machinery of Capitalism: A Marxist Reading of Allen Ginsberg"
Aqdas Aftab, “Reading the Subaltern Body in Saadat Hasan Manto’s Short Stories”
Anneke Snyder, “Malinche's Legacy: A Continuing Class Struggle among Mexican-American Women”
10:45 AM to 11:00 AM
Coffee Break in the Baker Hall Lounge outside of A53
Panel 2: Identity on Display
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Karla Reid, “Digital Depictions of the 1%: A Critique of the Meritocracy”
Lorena Madrigal, “Response to a Stereotype: How 'Maria Poppins' Addresses Labor Issues on ABC's Latino sitcom Cristela”
Souri Somphanith, “Modeling Minorities: Portraits of Faking Success and Making Success in ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat”
William Johnson, “4chan, Anonymous and Structural Considerations of Popular Digital Activism”
12:30 PM to 1:00 PM
Lunch in the Baker Hall Lounge outside of A53 Baker Hall
To register for the lunch email knewman4@gmail.com
1:00 PM Keynote Address
Professor Sara Appel, a post-doc at the University of Pittsburgh and a recent graduate of Duke University, “Intersectionality, Media, and the Place of Class”
2:15 PM to 2:30 PM
Coffee Break in the Baker Hall Lounge outside of A53 Baker Hall
Panel 3: Time, Place and Space
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Nathan Pensky, “The Importance of Being a Groundling: The Dramaturgical Significance of Working Class Reception in Early-Modern Theaters ”
Marah Nagelhout, “Myth Making and Commodity Fetishism in Fracking Ads”
Ira Werner, “Buck Wild and the Modern Hillbilly Caricature: Classism in Reality Television”
Larissa Briley, “Winter’s Bone, Social Class, and the Real World of Methamphetamine Production in the Missouri Ozarks”
Sponsors: the Â鶹¹ÙÍø English Department, the Literary and Cultural Studies Colloquium,
the Center for the Arts in Society, and the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Graduate Assembly.
This event is free and open to the public