6th Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference: A Cross Disciplinary Exploration, 22 to 24 September 2014

6th Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference: A Cross Disciplinary Exploration
22nd to 24th September 2014
Terre Haute,Indiana United States of America

This is a multidisciplinary conference for those engaged in research, teaching and practices associated with the intersection between crime, deviance, social justice, and/or law with that of media and popular culture. Completed paper is not required. Each evening conference attendees go to local restaurants for dinner and live music performed by some of the conference attendees.

Enquiries: cmpc@indstate.edu
Web address: http://www.indstate.edu/ccj/popcultureconference/index.htm

Featured Speakers:

Jeff Ferrell, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Texas Christian University

SpearIt, Ph.D., J.D.
Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Texas Southern University
"Sonic Jihad: Muslim Hip Hop in the Age of Mass Incarceration"

Travis Linnemann, Ph.D.
Department of Justice Studies
Eastern Kentucky University
"Capote's Ghosts: Violence, Media and the Spectre of Suspicion"

Michael Chemers, Ph.D.
Department of Theater Arts
University of California
"Call a Wolf, Invite the Pack'; Monstrous Jurisprudence and the Legal Werewolf"

Emily Satterwhite, Ph.D.
Department of Religion and Culture
Virginia Tech
"Fearing and Celebrating the Rural as Deviant in Horror Movies"

Tukufu Zuberi, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania

Jon Simons, Ph.D.
Department of Communication and Culture
Indiana University Bloomington
"Happy are those who act justly': Visual representations of the crimes of occupation through social media"

Jen Schradie
Department of Sociology
University of California Berkeley
"The Seven Myths of the Digital Divide: How Class, Race and Ethnicity Clash with Internet Utopia"

Kishonna Leah Gray, Ph.D.
School of Justice Studies
College of Justice and Safety
Eastern Kentucky University
"Punishing Blackness in Xbox Live: Exploring the Significance of Race in a Virtual Gaming Community"

Additional Event

By Appointment Only
TOUR OF THE EUGENE V. DEBS HOME AND MUSEUM
http://debsfoundation.org/
http://debsfoundation.org/tourhome.html