Fulbright Conferences:Home | List of Participants | Schedule
| Conference Program | Saturday 21 May / Sunday 22 May |
PLEASE NOTE: Unless otherwise indicated, all events will be in Room 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong.
| Sunday, 22 May 2016 | ||
| 9:00 - 9:35 | Min Kyung (Mia) Yoo (Freie Universität Berlin) “Obama’s ‘Just War’: Violence in the Hero’s Journey in Popular TV Series” |
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| 9:40 - 10:15 | Stacy Takacs (Oklahoma State University) “Exceptional Soldiers: Imagining the Privatized Military on U.S. TV” |
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| 10:15 - 10:40 | Coffee and Tea Break |
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| 10:40 - 11:15 | Penny Von Eschen (Cornell University) “Black Ops Diplomacy: The Foreign Policy of Popular Culture” |
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| 11:20 - 11:55 | Tony Shaw (University of Hertfordshire) “The Perfect Cold War Movie for Today? Smoke and Mirrors in Steven Spielberg’s Vision of the Cold War” |
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| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 - 2:05 | Ross Griffin (Qatar University) “Humanity’s Greatest Hope: The American Ideal in Marvel’s The Avengers” |
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| 2:10 - 2:45 | Tim Gruenewald (The University of Hong Kong) “Superhero Films after 9/11: Mitigating ‘Collateral Damage’ in the Marvels Cinematic Universe” |
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