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Friday, October 10, 2025
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Session I
11:00a – 12:15p
Moderator: Jennifer Curran,
Wesleyan University
Art, Design, and Digital Futures
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Designing Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Art and Design Education in a Changing World
Sophie Ying Chen, Southern Methodist University
Be a Body: AI Art, Digital Transhumanism, and the Body Politic
Carson Smith, San Diego State University
Session II
12:30p – 1:45p
Moderator: Laura Zientek,
Reed College
Narrating Climate: Media, Culture, Restoration
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The American Psyche Post 9/11: Disaster, Image, and Climate Disruption
Sydney Meeker Guerra, Reed College
South Park's Shift from Climate Change Denialism to Climate Change Nihilism or:
How Trey Parker and Matt Stone Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ManBearPig
Stephen Spanellis, North Carolina State University
What Is a Restored Everglades, and What Is a Healed Everglades?
Sarah Swiersz, University of Central Florida
Session III
2:00p – 3:15p
Moderator: Laura DeSisto, Johns Hopkins University
Narrative Transformations: Art, Algorithms, Lives
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Effective Art in an Absurd World: Vulnerability as Resistance
Marian Cuevas, San Diego State University
Turning Points: Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Americans
Heidi Boerstler, University of Pennsylvania
From Discovery to Computation: The Algorithmic Turn from Storytelling to Discourse
Julia Shiller, Georgetown University
Session IV
3:30 – 4:45p
Moderator: April Lidinsky, Indiana University South Bend
Commerce, Code, and Cultural Narratives
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At the Intersection of Code and Culture: Gender Bias in Online Advertising Algorithms and Their Impact on Consumer Perception
Ritika Debnath, University of Pennsylvania
Wilding Wall Street: The Emergence of Bear Markets in Gilded Age Imagery and Metaphor
Thomas E. Finser, Johns Hopkins University
Crafting Narratives in Business below and beyond the Tagline
Laurie Kraltchev, Southern Methodist University
Session V
5:00p – 6:15p
Moderator: Todd French, Rollins College
Time, Trauma, and Identity
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"How many hours could he spend marching? How many more days would it take to get something to change?" Time Work and Afro-Futurism in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing
Jill LeRoy-Frazier, Ph.D., East Tennessee State University
What Motivates Antisemitism in the U.S.?
Rodi Franco, Rice University
Session VI
6:30p – 7:45p
Moderator: Steven Burr, Confluence Editor
Beauty, Freedom, and Interdisciplinary Practice
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Approaching Liberty by Way of Beauty: Motorcycles and Transcendental Experiences
of the Sublime
David Carter Morreale, Loyola University, Baltimore
Articulating Pluriversal Futures: Critical Interdisciplinarity & Decoloniality
Austin Caldwell Haigler, North Carolina State University
To Teach Is to Respond: Toward a Phenomenology of Teaching as Communication
Ke Nie, Indiana University Southeast
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