Conference Schedule
Kidding Around Film Festival: September 26-27
Representations of children in today's media intersect with contextual issues that demand scholarly consideration. As the academic and commercial markets' attention to children's literature and media increases, the need to explore how children are used, targeted, explored, and represented in books, films, games, and toys grows. This conference explores how different media, particularly film, deal with definitions of childhood, the place of the child in differing texts, and the connections scholars and critics have made with these various forms of media.
All panels are held in Bldg. 41/A-03
Concurrent panels TBA, go to conference help desk at Bldg. 41/A-03
All films are screened in the UDC auditorium Campus Map
8:00-9:00 |
Registration/Coffee and Pastries Served |
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9:00-10:30 |
Screening School, Education, and Child Development Stories About School: The Portrayal of School in Children's Literature and Media Who Do You Think You Are?: Representations of Teachers and Schools in British Films What Does the Child's Character Matter, If It's a Good Movie? American Child Development Literature and the Child Actor in a Mid-Century British Novel by Noel Streatfeild |
10:45-12:15 |
Film and Identity: Darker Views Taken Only a Child: Spectacles of Innocence in the Lolita Films Betwixt and Between: Reading the Child in M. Night Shyamalan's Films The Monstrous Masculine: Abjection and Todd Solondz's Happiness |
10:45-12:15 |
(Concurrent Roundtable) The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation David Whitley from the University of Cambridge discusses his book, The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation (Ashgate 2008). Moderated by Wynn Yarbrough, University of the District of Columbia. |
12:15-1:15 |
Lunch Break |
1:15-2:45 |
Illustrative Charms: From Cartoons to Picture Books Between Empathy and Exasperation: The Child in World War II American Soldier Cartoons Storyboards and Storytelling Using Comic Life Size Matters: Phallic Symbols in Children's Picture Books |
1:15-2:45 |
(Concurrent Panel) Children and Innocence: A Special Panel The Innocence in Our Century: Childhood in Cinema: Three Views, Three Cultures |
3:00-4:30 |
Views From Abroad: Children and Society in Film Childhood and Trauma through the Cinematic Lens: A Study of Gaddar and Earth 1947 From Christ's Blood to Nature's Mile: Aestheticizing Swedish Socialization in Lasse Bad Boys/Petits Frères: The Delinquent Child in Contemporary French Film |
3:00-4:30 |
(Concurrent Roundtable) The Child in World Cinema Moderators: Marita Golden, University of the District of Columbia Naseem Sahibzada, University of the District of Columbia |
4:30-5:00 |
Break |
5:00-7:00 |
Reception followed by Keynote address: Linda Simensky, Vice President of PBSKIDS. Prior to joining PBS, Simensky was Senior Vice President of Original Animation for Cartoon Network. She began her career with a nine-year tenure at Nickelodeon, where she helped build the animation department and launch such popular series as Rugrats, Doug and The Ren & Stimpy Show. Simensky is a past-president of ASIFA-East, and the founder of New York chapter of Women in Animation. She has written for numerous animation publications and has had several essays published in books including "Nickelodeon Nation" and "The Children's Television Community." Simensky holds a BA in Communications & History from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Media Ecology from New York University. Location: UDC Auditorium, 4200 Connecticut Avenue at Windom Place Attendance is by registration only: if you are interested in joining us please email devans-pritchard@udc.edu. All conference participants are automatically invited. |
7:15-8:45 |
Screening of Edges of the Lord (USA/Poland, 2001, 95 mins) DC Premiere |
9:00-10:45 |
Screening of Heavenly Creatures (USA, 1994, 108 mins.) |
8:00-9:30 |
Audience and Interpretation Tom Sawyer and the Crisis of Children's Talkies Disability and Difference: Adolescents' Interpretation Based on Television Viewing Imagination Helps |
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8:00-9:30 |
(Concurrent Panel) Sexuality, Children, and Society Black Sexual Politics and the Children's Narrative: How the Black Male Virginity Narrative is Constructed in Film, Music, and Media -Courtney Young, Independent Scholar The Paradox of Child as Saint and Sinner: Images of Child Morality in 1930s Hollywood -Sharron Greaves, Bronx Community College – City University of New York Queerly Made Kids: Mainstream Media's Portrayal of Children in Gay and Lesbian Families -Daniel Farr, SUNY Albany |
10:00-12:00 |
(Invited Panel) Mixed Messages: Consequences of Media Representations of Children Michelle Ann Abate, Assistant Professor of English, Hollins University Despina Kakoudaki, Assistant Professor of Literature, American University Ian Wojcik-Andrews, Professor of English Language and Literature, East Michigan University |
12:00-1:00 |
Lunch Break |
1:00-2:30 |
Animating Girls and Place Call of the Wild: Environmental Perspectives on Disney Animation "A Whole New Ocean": Disney's Teenage Girl Topography of Cinematic Gardens—The Third Nature as a Pedagogical Argument |
| 2:45-4:15 |
Growing Up Gothic: New Horrors in Children’s Film It Takes a Child to Raze a Village: Cold War Anxiety and Border Control in Village of the Damned Surreal Estate: Building Self-Identity in Monster House Children Who See Dead People: Creepy Kids in Gothic Horror Genre |
2:45-4:15 |
(Concurrent Panel) What's Inside That Head: Psychology and the Child A Cultural Failure—Adult Behavior and Adolescent Identity: the World According to Joe Dante Building a Mystery: The 1990's Autistic Thriller Jail Bait: Pedophiles and Retributive Justice in Popular Culture |
4:30-6:00 |
Identity and Uses of Children Go Out and Play, But Mean It: Using Frame Analysis to Explore News Media Coverage of the Rediscovery of Unstructured Play Making a Good Little Briton: Fiction, Games, and the 19th Century Commodities of Childhood and Citizenship The Kid Makes . . . The Media Takes: Relationships between User-Generated Content and Commercial Cooption |
4:30-6:00 |
(Concurrent Workshop) Teaching Media Literacy Workshop for Educators: Presented by Women in Film and Video of Washington D.C. Attendance is by registration only: if you are interested in joining us please email devans-pritchard@udc.edu |
4:30-6:30 |
Screening of Princess Mononoke (Japan, 1997, 134 mins.) |
6:00-6:30 |
Break |
7:30-9:30 |
Screening of I’m Not Scared (UK/Italy/Spain, 2003, 108 mins.) |