Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses Gordon College, Barnesville, GA May 25th-28th, 2006 Co-Conveners: Rhonda V. Wilcox, Gordon College David Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University Program

Abbreviation Code: RB: Russell Building | IC: Instructional Complex | SCA: Student Center Auditorium | SC: Student Center

SC2 at a Glance

Thursday, May 25, 2006

q 8:00: Opening Reception (IC Lobby); Greeting: Dean Robert Vaughan

Friday, May 26. 2006

q Breakfast 815-900 (SC)

q 900-1030—Opening Session; Greeting: Dr. Lawrence Weill; Keynote 1: Michael Adams

1045-1215

1—Featured Speaker: Lynne Edwards (RB1)

2—The Whedonverse in Theory (RB2)

3—American Studies (IC1)

4—Buffy and Books I (IC2)

q 1215-145: Lunch

145-315

5—Gender I (RB1)

6—Firefly and Serenity I (RB2)

7—Buffy and Books II (IC1)

8—Fandom

330-500

9—Featured Speaker: Lorna Jowett

10—Gender II

11—Genre and Intertextuality

12—Buffy Summers

13—Coordinates of the Buffyverse

515-645

14—Willow (RB1)

15—The Patriarchy (RB2)

16—Pedagogy (IC1)

17—Locating the Hero (IC2)

18—Into the West: Western Inspirations and Conventions in Joss Whedon's Firefly

q 700—Conference Banquet; Keynote 2: Nancy Holder

Saturday, May 27, 2006

q Breakfast 815-900 (SC)

q 900-1030: Opening Session; Keynote 3, Roz Kaveney

1045-1215

19—Featured Speaker: Rhonda V. Wilcox (RB1)

20—Memory and Identity (RB2)

21—Firefly and Serenity II (IC1)

22—Season Seven of BtVS (IC2)

23—Morality / Ethics (IC3)

q 1215-145: Lunch

145-315

24—Fanfic (and Poetry too) (RB1)

25—Philosophy I (RB2)

26—Family and Community (IC1)

27—Heroes and Heroism (IC2)

28—Firefly and Serenity III (IC3)

330-500

29—Living on the Hellmouth (RB1)

30—The Whedonverses (RB2)

31—Philosophy II (IC1)

32—“Once More with Feeling" (IC2)

33—The Politics of Firefly and Serenity (IC3)

515-645

34—Television / Media Studies (RB1)

35—Vampires, Werewolves, and Monsters (RB2)

36—Wesley (IC1)

37—Serenity Roundtable (IC2)

Sunday, May 28, 2006

q Breakfast 815-900 (SC)

q 900-1030: Opening Session: Keynote 4: Stacey Abbott

1045-1215

38—Featured Speaker: David Lavery (RB1)

39—The Whedonverses Across the Curriculum I (RB2)

40—Xander, Anya, Faith (IC1)

41—That Is the Question: Moral Perspectives in BtVS (IC2)

q 1215-145: Lunch

42—“I’m a Slayer: Ask Me How” (RB1)

43—The Whedonverses Across the Curriculum II (RB2)

44—Race and Class (IC1)

45—Narrative (IC2)

330-500

46—Angel (RB1)

47—Myth (RB2)

48—Transformations of Buffy (IC1)

q 515-645 Closing Session: Buffy Bookers

Thursday, May 25, 2006, 800 p.m., Opening Reception: IC Lobby

Welcome—Dean Robert Vaughan, Gordon College

Friday, May 26, 2006

730-815—Shuttle from Hotels | 815-900—Breakfast (SC)

900-1030—Opening Session (SCA)

Greeting—Dr. Lawrence V. Weill, Gordon College President

Keynote: Michael Adams, The Matrix of Motives in Slayer Style

	RB1	RB2	IC1	IC2
1045-1215	[1A] Session 1: Featured Speaker: Lynne Edwards, The Other Sunnydale: Representations of Blackness in BtVS	[1B] Session 2: The Whedonverse in Theory: Agnes Curry, Chair Leigh Clemons (LSU), The Buffyverse and Heterotopic Space Diane E. Wilson (Independent Scholar), Multidimensional Law Firms, Dialogism, and the Limits of Perception: Reconstructing the Buffyverse as a Medieval Carnival Greg T. Erickson (Mannes College), 21st Century Theory and Cultural Studies: A View from the Edge of the Hellmouth	[1C] Session 3: American Studies: Christine Jarvis, Chair Tamy L. Burnett (U Nebraska Lincoln), For Justice, the Safety of Puppies, and Christmas: American Colonization in the Works of Joss Whedon DeNara Hill (U Nevada Las Vegas), The Myth of American West the Was: Terraforming the Psyche in Firefly and Serenity	[1D] Session 4: Buffy and Books I: David Fritts, Chair Gayla Byerly and Mary Durio (U North Texas), Book Structures and Decorative Bindings that are Represented in Demonology Books Used in BtVS Barbara Maio (U Roma Tre), Watching the Watcher: Analyzing the character of Rupert Giles Amie Sharp (Pikes Peak Community College), Buffy and the Bard: Shakespearean Dramatic Elements in the Whedonverse

1215-145 Lunch

	RB1	RB2	IC1	IC2
145-315	[2A] Session 5: Gender I: Brett Rogers, Chair Chestina Turner (Henderson Community College), Dying To Be: How Women in the Buffyverse Must Be Something More Jim Riser (U North Alabama), "A (Wo)Man's Got to Do What a (Wo)Man's Got to Do": The Western Hero as Paradigm in BtVS	[2B] Session 6: Firefly & Serenity I: Mary Alice Money, Chair Mary Alice Money (Gordon College), The Reavers' Origin in Serenity: Whedon's Mistake or Masterstroke? Deborah Monroy (Emory U), Seven Ways to View Serenity; Or, When Does the Dancer Become the War? Andrew Steeves (U Wisconsin Milwaukee), The Thing that Really Matters is the Spices: Misfits and Family Aboard the Transport Ship Serenity	[2C] Session 7: Buffy and Books II: Tamara Wilson, Chair Stephanie Dutchen (Boston U), Angel and Spike as complementary postmodern embodiments of the Byronic hero Anne Jamison (U Utah), Sense and Necrophilia Bronwyn Tarrant (LaTrobe U), Alice in Sunnydale or Buffy in Wonderland: The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Object Relations in Alice in Wonderland and BtVS	[2D] Session 8: Fandom: Hillary-Robson-Reeder, Chair Asim Ali (U Maryland), Religion in BtVS, Buffy as Religion: The Bronze as a Global Religious Community Mary Kirby-Diaz (Faringdale State U), The Fandom Project: What Keeps a Fandom Afloat? Report Two: 'Ships Patricia Pender (Pace U), "Why Can't You Just Masturbate Like the Rest of Us?”: Andrew and the Erotics of Fandom in 'Storyteller"

	RB1	RB2	IC1	IC2	IC3
330-500	[3A] Session 9: Featured Speaker: Lorna Jowett (U Northampton), Science, Power, and Gender in Buffy and Angel	[3B] Session 10: Gender II: David Kociemba, Chair Alicia Karoll (Towson U), From Betty to Buffy: The Evolution of Female Adolescence on Television Tanya Cochran (Union College), “There’s ‘Woo’ and, and ‘Hoo.’ And . . . It’s Complicated”: Cross-Media Images and Buffy’s Sapphic Lovers Elizabeth Rambo (Campbell U), "Queen C" Goes to Boys' Town, or, Killing the Angel in Angel's House	[3C] Session 11: Genre and Intertextuality: Ananya Mukherjea, Chair Wayne A. Chandler (Northwest Missouri State U), "Cool! I Mean--Nerds!": Courting Geeks for Fun and Profit in the Buffyverse Charles Lincoln (Independent Scholar), High Culture or Pop Culture? Joss Whedon & Richard Wagner vs. Giacomo Puccini & Barbara Hall: The High and the Low Mimetic in Opera and Television Chris Van Acker (Georgia Tech), Buffy as Cyberpunk	[3D] Session 12: Buffy Summers: Lisa K. Perdigao, Chair Lisa K. Perdigao (Florida Institute of Technology), "I'm All for Spurty Knowledge": Buffy and Academics Michael B. Smith (U East Anglia), "Do I Have Mom Hair?": Progressive Parenting in BtVS Jerry Stout (Texas Tech U), Buffy Summers is an Aristotelian Tragic Hero	[3E] Session 13: Coordinates of the Buffyverse: Greg Erickson, Chair Geraldine Bloustien (U of South Australia), "Trying to Talk Will Just Kill You Sooner": Silence as Recurring Motif in BtVS [delivered by Jennifer Stokes] Lori Del Rossi (Independent Scholar), Alleys, Path, and Choices in the Buffyverse Dvorah Simon and Patti Sisson (Independent Scholar), From Grace, Dark and Light: The Fall Into Humanity in the Buffyverse
515-645	[4A] Session 14: Willow: Jason Winslade, Chair Devlin Grunloh (Independent Scholar), Willow’s Arc in Seasons Four through Seven Maria Soledad Caballero (Allegheny College), To Choose or Be Chosen: BtVS and the Question of the Self-Made Witch	[4B] Session 15: The Patriarchy: Tamara Wilson, Chair Kevin Durand (Henderson State U), Let's Finish This: The First, Caleb, The Watcher's Council, and the Fight against the Patriarchal Forces of Darkness Monique Hyman (Pierce Community College), The Geography of Firefly and Serenity: Feminist Spaces on the Patriarchal Frontier Catherine Dutton (Texas Women's U), Development of Adolescent Identity in the Whedonverse	[4C] Session 16: Pedagogy: Elizabeth Rambo, Chair Jane Martin (U Saint Francis), Buffy in the Classroom: The Positive Outcomes of Adopting BTVS Across a Curriculum Kristina Pope Key (St. Andrews Presbyterian College), Proselytizing the Uninitiated . . . Or, You're Teaching What?: Teaching the Slayer, the Scoobies, and Post-Modern Mythology Patrick Shade (Rhodes College), Strange Slayer Pedagogy	[4D] Session 17: Locating the Hero: Tamy l. Burnett, Chair Tamy L. Burnett (U Nebraska Lincoln), Saving Humanity: Locating the Hero in Joss Whedon's Television (Okay, and Serenity, Too) Ami Comeford (U Nevada Las Vegas), Angel: A Series of Hellish Possibilities DeNara Hill (U Nevada Las Vegas), "This is a Great Day for You": Cultural Heroes in BtVS Melissa Swihart (Independent Scholar), "We Are Better. That's Right . . . Better": Finding the Hero in Buffy and Angel	[4E] Session 18: Into the West: Western Inspirations and Conventions in Joss Whedon's Firefly: Anissa Graham, Chair Jennifer C. Garlen (U Alabama Huntsville), Bushwhacked by the Nightmare Native: The Western Roots of Firefly's Reavers