POPanimals | conference 2022

Animals in the American Popular Imagination virtual conference
September 13-16, 2022 | Powered by @PopMeC_research and AACCP #popanimals22

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Here you can find the playlist of our conference, with so many great presentations! Check them out if you missed any ⬇️
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#animal #AnimalStudies #AmericanStudies #PopCulture

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If you missed it, you can find here Christy Tidwell (@christymtidwell)'s great keynote talk on kids and families in the Jurassic Park franchise! 🦕

➡️ https://t.co/Pfw49kmL0B

[Lauren Collee @lacollee]

Happy to be part of @POPanimals_2022 with my video essay on rogue camera trap images & handy-cam horror, you can watch it here 👻https://t.co/SWJnb5gYa2

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If you missed it, you can still watch Brett Mill (@IAmBrettMills) original keynote talk on Jaws! 🦈

➡️ https://t.co/sKdfbYbSjZ

[HarmonyFigurations @HarmonyFigs]

On Wednesday, Jack also took part in the @POPanimals_2022 conference sharing his fascinating research on... mosquitos! 🦟 The title of his presentation was "Mosquito Musicality in American Film and Sound Installation" and it was absolutely fantastic! So proud! 💪 #research

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Well… that’s a wrap! Thank you very much to all the organisers, presenters and attendees of #popanimals22 for devoting so much time to making the conference happen. We hope you had a fruitful and fun time with us these past days 😊 See you soon!!

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Closing with Robert Donahoo discussing Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
**You can check out these four papers on their forthcoming publication Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction, edited by John Gruesser.

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John Gruesser chairs the last panel of the conference, Animals in Perennially Popular American Fiction. William E. Engel opens with a paper on “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.

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Followed by Anthony Reynolds's paper on Jack London's The Call of the Wild.

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We're back with Margo DeMello (@margobun) chairing the roundtable Popular Culture and Cryptozoology: A Discussion. Come join the conversation with Richard Fallon (@dr_r_fallon), Gregory Forth, Samantha Hurn (@SamanthaHurn1) and Darren Naish (@TetZoo)!

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Followed by Borbála László discussing “Finding the Real Paul Anka: A Critical Analysis of the Dog Character in Gilmore Girls”.
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Karli Brittz opens the panel TV Pets and Half-Human Monsters with the paper “Beyond the (Non)Human: Exploring Spirited Companion Species in Netflix’s Dogs”. Session chaired by Ester Díaz Morillo (@EsterDiazMo).

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Closing with Marta Miquel–Baldellou talking about “Of Cats and Dogs: Pets as a Trope for the Debacle of Family Life in Stephen King’s Fiction”.

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Evert Jan van Leeuwen opens the panel Human-Animal Relationships in Horror Fiction with the paper “If You Love Me, You’ll Let Me Go: Pet Possessions and Ecological Consciousness in American Horror”. Session chaired by Mónica Fernández Jiménez (@monfjimenez).

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Followed by Theo Campbell talking about “The Anxiety of Brom Bones: Animality and Whiteness in Washington Irving’s ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’”.

[HarmonyFigurations @HarmonyFigs]

Justyna (@juwlodarczyk) and Julia have just presented their findings at a fantastic conference @POPanimals_2022! This time they focused on "The Yearling" and the way the animal bodies function in the book vs its film adaptation. 🦌🧒📖➡️🎬 #research #conference #researchteam