Friday's Featured Film: This Distorted Island: Heavy Metal & Community in Puerto Rico, followed 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