(PROGRAM CORRECT AT 28MAY16) POPCAANZ: DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, 29 JUNE 2016
9.00 – 10.30 / REGISTRATION
9.00 – 10.30 / Coffee and Tea on Arrival
10.00 – 10.15 / WELCOMING REMARKS
Acknowledgement of Country / President’s Welcome / Vice-President’s Welcome
SESSIONS / Room 1 (Large Room) / Room 2 / Room 3
10.30 – 12.30 / Film 1: Self and Voice
  • Longing for Childhood: ‘What Maisie Knew’: Nonie May
  • ‘The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia: Olivia Oliver-Hopkins
  • Remembered Childhoods:
    John Stephens, Sung-Ae Lee and FengxiaTan
/ Biography Life Writing / Business / Radio & Audio Media: Diversity
  • Habeas Corpus and Steven Avery:
    Rachel Franks andKim D. Weinert
  • Soldier Memoires, Australia’s War in Afghanistan: Amanda Laugesen
  • Sylvia Ashby and the Ashby Research Service: Margot Riley
  • Margaret Kiddle: Radio Script Writer: Lisa Hay
/ Disability / Gender & Queer
  • Beauty Contests for Landmine Survivors:
    Fran Hassencahl
  • Mental Illness and Artistic Creation:
    Michaela Baker
  • Mental Illness in The X-Files:
    Kimberley McMahon-Coleman
  • Postracial Feminism, Reaffirmation of Whiteness: Holly Randell-Moon

12.30 – 1.30 / Lunch
SESSIONS / Room 1 (Large Room) / Room 2 / Room 3
1.30 – 3.00 / Film 2: Big Cinema
  • Sequential Multiplicity in Franchise Cinema:
    Tara Lomax
  • Exploded Views:
    Pansy Duncan
  • Seeing the Future of American Industry:
    Christian Long
/ Science
  • Social Construction of Target Populations, Social Housing Culture: Elizabeth Millar
  • Ex Machina and the “Immodest” Witness in AI: Thao Phan
  • Science and the Star Trek Franchise:
    Steven Gil
/ PopCAANZ Presents
+ + + Workshop + + +
  • Getting Published
Vicki Karaminas and Adam Geczy
3.00 – 3.30 / Afternoon Tea
SESSIONS / Room 1 (Large Room) / Room 2 / Room 3
3.30 – 5.30 / Television 1
  • You Are Not Alone: ‘Supernatural’ Fandom: JoyleenChristiansen
  • Hypercommercial Television: An Introduction: Rosser Johnson
  • ‘Game of Thrones’ Contemporary Recap Culture: Andrew Lynch
  • Geek Girls 2.0:
    Sky Marsen andSabrina K Pasztor
/ Fiction: Words on Paper
  • “It’s all in the detail”: Historical Crime Writing: Jean Anderson
  • Erlendur in the Novels of ArnaldurIndriðason: JilleneBydder
  • Beatrice Dahl: JG Ballard’s Hidden Heroine?: Tracey Clement
  • In Search of Australian Noir:
    Leigh Redhead
/ Indigenous
  • Reciprocity in Indigenous Cross-Cultural Exchange: Janelle Evans
  • The Aboriginal Flag as Art:
    Mathieu Gallois
  • The Aboriginal Tied-Bark Canoe:
    Mariko Smith
  • Radio Response to Incarceration:
    Clint Bracknell and Casey Kickett

5.45 for 6.00 / OPENING RECEPTION
Marly Bar, Marlborough Hotel,145 King Street, Newtown(opposite conference venue)
(PROGRAM CORRECT AT 28MAY16) POPCAANZ: DAY 2: THURSDAY, 30 JUNE 2016
SESSIONS / Room 1 (Large Room) / Room 2 / Room 3
9.00 – 10.30 / Performance 1
  • Tilda Swinton: Performing Fashion:
    Karen de Perthuis
  • Lorde, Lady Gaga and ‘Authentic’ David Bowie Tribute: Alison Blair
  • Costume, Counterfeit in Neil Armfield’s ‘King Lear’: Julie Lynch
/ Film 3: Technology and Cinematic Television
  • 4D: Extra Sensory Appeal and Expanded Spaces: Miriam Ross
  • HBO, Long-Form Television and the Woman’s Film: Jodi Brooks
  • True Crime for the ‘Quality’ Palate:
    Megan Nash
/ Gothic Horror 1
  • The Undead and the Unliving:
    Jason Archbold and Michaela Baker
  • Transgression and Subversion in ‘Murder Ballads’: Michaela Baker
  • Gothic Apocalypse:
    Sara Baker

10.30 – 11.00 / Morning Tea
SESSIONS / Room 1 (Large Room) / Room 2 / Room 3
11.00 – 12.30 / Performance 2
  • Anthony Weigh’s ‘2,000 Feet Away’: Ivan Cañadas
  • The Running Man, Encounter with Post-Dramatic Comic: Sue Field
  • ‘Material’ Performativity and the Stage Curtain: Melissa Laird
/ Film 4: Form
  • Exceptionally Exact Perceptions: Bruce Isaacs
  • The Anthropomorphic Ground for a Musical Uncanny: Angie Contini
  • The Splicer Falls at Midnight: The Cut in ‘Noir’: Daniel Binns
/ Gothic Horror 2
  • Dining at the Table of (Cultural) Horrors:
    Lorna Piatti-Farnell
  • The Gothic Heart of ‘Hinterland’: Emma Doolan
  • (Im)moralities of Style in ‘American Horror Story’: Samuel Finegan

12.30 – 1.30 / Lunch
SESSIONS / Room 1 (Large Room) / Room 2 / Room 3
1.30 – 3.00 / Design / Digital Ecologies 1
  • Picture Postcard Designing in New Zealand:
    Peter Gilderdale
  • 3D Printing and Traditional Animation:
    Tanya Marriott
  • An Exploration of Ephemeral Trends in Contemporary Video Art: Stefan Popescu
/ Television 2
  • Living with Zombiism in ‘I Zombie’:
    Kayleigh Murphy
  • Gender in ‘The Bachelor’ New Zealand:
    Ximena Smith
  • Utopic Spaces and the Rewritable West in Mad Men: Grace Torcasio
/ Gothic Horror 3
  • The Horror of the Eco-Material Monster:
    MortezaHajizadeh
  • What is Gothic about ‘Lolita’?:
    Kathryn A Hardy Bernal
  • Symbols of Hope and Terror:
    Kylee Hartman-Warren

3.00 – 3.30 / Afternoon Tea
SESSIONS / Room 1 (Large Room) / Room 2 / Room 3
3.30 – 5.30 / Digital Ecologies 2
  • Spectral Ecologies – Electromagnetic and Electrostatic Forces: Jade Boyd
  • Screening Bedtime: Stephen Burstow
  • Bodies at the Vanishing Point:
    John Di Stefano and Dorita Hannah
  • Present, Not Present:
    Sophia Bartholomew and Emma Hicks
/ History / Journalism / Religion:
  • Ritualistic Societies and the Neo-Victorian Perspective: Matthew Thompson
  • Knitting Needles as Weapons of War:
    Sue Green
  • The Dispute is Not About Oil: Michael Potts
  • Warhol’s Religio-Secular Iconograph:
    Jewell Homad Johnson
/ Gothic Horror 4 / Comics, Manga & Anime
  • Gothic Imaginings of Nurses in Popular Culture:
    MargaretMcAllister,DL Brien andL Piatti-Farnell
  • Haunting and Spectrality in the Work of Jack Kerouac: Erin Mercer
  • Tintin and the Secret of Food:
    Paul Mountfort
  • The Comics of Julie Doucet: Sarah Richardson

5.30 – 6.15 / ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
AGM of the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand: All Welcome
(PROGRAM CORRECT AT 28MAY16) POPCAANZ: DAY 3: FRIDAY, 1 JULY 2016
8.15 – 9.00 / AREA CHAIR MEETING
SESSIONS / Room 1 (Large Room) / Room 2 / Room 3
9.00 – 10.30 / Performance 3 / Biography & Life Writing
  • Scenography in Action: Burying the Narrative: EamonD’Arcy
  • The Performance Designer as Creative Agent: Stephen Curtis
  • A Backstage Biography of the Sydney Opera House: Simon Dwyer
  • Performance Area Meeting
/ Gothic Horror 5
  • Gothic Wedding Cake Decoration:
    Carmel Cedro
  • The Frankenstein Myth and Deals with the Devil: Naomi von Senff
  • Weird Tales and Monstrous Subversions:
    Cory R Walden
  • Gothic and Horror Area Meeting
/ Visual Arts 1
  • Performance Video Practice:
    MarkelaPanegyres
  • The Art of Chance and the Road Trip:
    Tamara Voninski
  • Hostile Nature in Art and Popular Culture:
    Paul Mumme
  • Textiles in the Healing Practice of Family Trauma: SofieDieu

10.30 – 11.00 / Morning Tea
SESSIONS / Room 1 (Large Room) / Room 2 / Room 3
11.00 – 12.30 / Performance 4
+ + + Workshop + + +
  • Performing Creativity: The ‘Sensorium’
Barbara Doran, Melissa Laird and
Suzanne Osmond / Fashion 1
  • 21st Century Dandysm: Fancy Lycra on 2 Wheels: TizianaFerrero-Regis
  • Two Waves of Arrival of Japanese Fashion:
    TetsKimura
  • Wearable Art: The History and the Phenomenon: Vishna Collins
/ Visual Arts 2
  • Socialist Realism: (Un)Popular Culture:
    RyszardDabek
  • Soda_Jerk’s Science Fictional Aesthetics:
    Andrew Frost
  • ‘Hurrah for Art!’: 20th Century Popular Culture: Eric Riddler
  • Arabic Appearance in a Predominantly Anglo Culture: CherineFahd

12.30 – 1.30 / Lunch
SESSIONS / Room 1 (Large Room) / Room 2 / Room 3
1.30 – 3.30 / Fandom
  • Fandom Identities and the Construction of Authenticity: Blair Speakman
  • Ryan Adams: Fandom as Symbolic Resistance: Alison Blair
  • Cosplayer’s Bodies as Sites of Resistence:
    Claire Langsford
  • Perceived Homophobia on an LGBT Internet Forum: Joseph Brennan
/ Fashion 2 / Textiles
  • Contested Vintage Fashion Revival:
    Anne Peirson-Smith
  • Fashioning Australia Again:
    Jennifer Craik
  • Adorned in Ambivalence:
    Harriette Richards
  • Craftivism:
    Tal Fitzpatrick
/ Biography & Life Writing / Girlhood
  • The Militant Suffragette:
    Anne Reddacliff and Rachel Franks
  • Hateful Eight Contains the Uncanny Power of Girlhood: Juliette Peers
  • Little Miss ANZAC:
    Anita Callaway
  • Hashtag Skater Girl: Pop Culture and Extreme Sports: Jessica Jackson