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Friday's Featured FilmThis Distorted Island: Heavy Metal & Community in Puerto Ricofollowed by Q&A with the film's Producer, Dr. Nelson Varas-Díaz.

 

11:00 – 11:45: Brad Johnson Jennifer Johnson, Megan Fraser, The Book Shop (PANEL): Solid Foundations in Heavy Metal: Collecting the source material to support the study and teaching of heavy metal.

 

11:50 – 12:15: Anna Chilewska, University of Alberta: Teaching Writing with Metal Music: How Therion, Samael and Sabaton Inspired My Students to Become Better Writers

 

12:20 – 12:50: Roundtable: Teaching Metal in the Classroom. Facilitator: Shamma Boyarin, University of Victoria

 

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1:20 – 1:45: Charlotte Naylor Davis, Independent Scholar: Becoming Death Itself: What Heavy Metal Offers Biblical Scholarship

 

1:50 – 2:15: Shamma Boyarin, University of Victoria: Death metal to the unbelievers:  Orphaned Land and Manrabbuka’s intertextual engagement with Iron Maiden and Nile 

 

2:20 - 2:45: Addison Herron-Wheeler, Naropa University: Wicked Woman: Women in Metal From the 1960s to Now

 

2:50 – 3:15: Dolev Zaharony, Independent Scholar: The Exclusion of the Israeli Heavy Metal Scene from the Israeli Culture by the Local Media and the Tools to cope with it

 

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4:00 –5:30: The Distorted Island

 

 

11:00 – 11:25: Jeremy Wayne Wallach, Bowling Green State University: What Color is Metal? A Polemic
 

11:30 – 11:55: Edward Banchs, Journalist: Metal Hearts, Metal Minds, and African Realities: Finding Common Identities in Dispute. The Metal Fans of Kenya and Madagascar

 

12:00 – 12:25: David M Mollica, Indiana University of Pennsylvania: “Who Did You Come Here With?” Gender and Authenticity in Heavy Metal

 

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12:40 – 1:55: Bay Area Thrash Panel  

Andy R. Brown, Bath Spa University: Metal Thrashing Methodology: Etymology vs. Genealogy approaches to the naming of the SF Bay Area style

Kevin Ebert, Xavier University: The Thing That Should Not Be: Pedagogical Interactions in the Creation of Thrash

Kevin Fellezs, Columbia University: Lords of Heavy Metal Soul: Stone Vengeance and the Racial Politics of Heavy Metal

 

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2:40 – 3:05 Amanda DiGioia, Southern Connecticut State University: Lechery, Lycanthropy, and Little Red Riding Hood in Type O Negative’s “Wolf Moon" (including Zoanthropic Paranoia)

 

3:10 - 3:35: Esther Clinton, Bowling Green State University: The Horror and the Allure: Multisubjectivity in Metal Music and Gothic Literature

 

3:40 – 4:05: Janet Silk, Independent Scholar: Open a Vein: Suicidal Black Metal and Enlightenment

 

4:10 – 4:35: Keleigh Black, Independent Scholar: Subterrestrial Black Metal - A Journey Into Darkness

 

 

 

 

Academic Conference Schedule at 924 Gilman

 

Friday, October 23rd & Saturday, October 24

11:00am - 5:30pm

FREE & Open To The Public

Featuring scholars from around the world

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