Call For Papers
First Annual International Crime, Media & Popular Culture Studies Conference: A Cross Disciplinary Exploration
October 5th, 6th & 7th 2009
Conference Registration Table will be Open in Conference Hotel Lobby
Sunday, October 4th, 2009 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, Indiana
Sponsored by:
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Indiana State University
Conference Chair:
Franklin T. Wilson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Indiana State University
Conference Administrative Assistant:
Ericka Schneider
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Indiana State University
Conference Goals
The Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference was established to encourage an international cross-disciplinary exchange between both academic scholars and practitioners who are engaged in research, teaching and practices associated with crime, media and popular culture. The conference serves as a forum for the dissemination of knowledge associated with these areas of study in an effort to engender further growth of the discipline among students, academicians and practitioners.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Wednesday, September 2, 2009
*Early abstract submission is recommended
REGISTRATION/PAYMENT DEADLINE: Wednesday, September 9, 2009
*Everyone planning on attending the conference, whether presenting or just attending, must register and pay a registration fee in order to gain access to conference presentations.
*If you are presenting, failure to register and to pay registration fee by this date will result in removal from program.
*If you are from ISU you only need to register if you are presenting.
*If you are just attending you must show your ISU ID Card at the door.
Keynote Speaker
Taylor Mali
Featured Speakers
| Jeff Ferrell, Ph.D. Texas Christian University |
Victor E. Kappeler, Ph.D. Eastern Kentucky University |
| David L. Altheide, Ph.D. Arizona State University |
Frankie Bailey, Ph.D. University at Albany |
| Brett A. Mervis University of South Florida |
Gregory Snyder, Ph.D. Baruch College, CUNY |
| Nickie Phillips, Ph.D. St. Francis University |
Staci Strobl, Ph.D. John Jay College |
| Robert D. Weide New York University |
Vikas Kumar Gumbhir, Ph.D. Gonzaga University |
REGISTRATION FEES
*Includes free access to lunch time and panel session snacks, Taylor Mali’s evening performance and any other on campus
performance that may be scheduled as part of the conference.
Registration Categories
Presenter - $120.00
Non-Presenter Attendee - $140.00
Student Not from ISU (Presenter or Non-Presenter) - $70.00
ISU Faculty and/or Graduate Student Presenter - $40.00
REGISTRATION/PAYMENT DEADLINE: Wednesday, September 9, 2009
*Failure to register and to pay registration fee by this date will result in removal from program.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
All abstracts and payments must be submitted on-line through the International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference website. A submission does not guarantee that your paper or poster will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Please retain hard copies of both abstract acceptance confirmations and registration/payment confirmation. On the website you will be asked to indicate the type of submission you wish to make. Your choices are the following:
- Individual Paper Presentations (Panel Presentation): Submissions for a regular session presentation must include a title and abstract (approximately 200 words), with author information including contact information.
- Poster Presentations: Submissions for poster presentations must include a title and abstract (approximately 200 words), with author information including contact information. Posters should display data, policy analysis, or theoretical work in a visually appealing poster format to encourage interactive communication. All poster sessions will be held late Monday afternoon.
GUIDELINES FOR ONLINE SUBMISSIONS
When you submit your paper through the abstract submission, you will need to select one of the 14 primary categories listed below as well as one of the 5 subcategories. Your choice will be important in determining the kind of panel on which you are placed, and it will also aid in avoiding time conflicts for panels on similar topics when possible.
Only original papers may be presented; papers that have been published or presented elsewhere may not be presented. Submissions are interpreted as meaning that the proposed presentation satisfies these conditions.
Here are a few guidelines that may help you in selecting the most appropriate category and subcategory:
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1. Category: In making your selection, focus on the aspect of your paper that you would describe as your primary
concern in selecting the broad category. For example, if you would like to present a paper titled, “Bob Dylan and Social Justice”
you might submit under: Music Categories:
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2. Subcategory: When choosing your subcategory select the category that best fits your paper. For example, if you would
like to present a paper titled, “City Ordinances and the Death of the Street Musician” you might choose the subcategory of
Policy or Legal depending on the focus. The sub-categories will be used to help better determine the fit for panels. Subcategories
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ABSTRACTS: All submissions must include abstracts limited to 200 words and should describe the general theme of the presentation and, where relevant, the methods and results. All submissions must include complete contact information and the aforementioned category and subcategory selection.
SUBMISSION and REGISTRATION PAYMENT DEADLINE:
Wednesday September 9, 2009
(Failure to register by this date will result in the removal of your paper from the program)
APPEARANCES ON PROGRAM
The Conference will be held three full days and nights, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Conference Registration Table will be Open in Conference Hotel Lobby Sunday, October 4th, 2009 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Conference organizers cannot honor personal preferences for day and time of presentations.
EQUIPMENT
LCD projectors will be available for all panel presentations to facilitate computer-based presentations (especially Power Point). While presenters do not need to bring their own personal computers Power Point presentations should be saved on either a CD or portable Jump/Flash Drive. Further, Power Point presentations should be formatted in MS Windows 2003 or 2007. In addition, all panel sessions will have overhead projector access. If you will require MAC applications please indicate this when you submit abstract.
CONFERENCE HOTEL RESERVATIONS
Primary Conference Hotel
The Conference Hotel will be the Hilton Garden Inn. The conference rate will be $ 109.00 per night. In order to receive the conference rate please let the Hilton personnel that you will be attending the International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Conference in October of 2009.
Parking at the Hilton Garden Inn is FREE. Please keep in mind that the Hilton Garden Inn is within comfortable walking distance of the conference facilities at Indiana State University and numerous pubs, restaurants and coffee houses in downtown Terre Haute. Taxi service is also available from either of these locations.
Hilton Garden Inn, Terre Haute, IN (812) 234-8900 ($ 109.00 per night)
Secondary Conference Hotel
The Candlewood Suites Hotel will serve as the Secondary Conference Hotel. The conference rate at the Candlewood will be $99.00 per night plus tax. The Candlewood is located directly across the street from the Hilton and has free parking as well.
FOOD
Near the conference area one can find a variety of restaurants to choose from located in
Hulman Memorial Student Union
One can also find a variety of restaurants throughout the Terre Haute, Indiana area http://www.terrehaute.com/restaurants.aspx
DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO CONFERENCE
Indiana State University is conveniently located less than 1 hour from Indianapolis International Airport traveling west on Interstate 70. Indiana State University is also within 3-5 hours driving time from Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; Columbia, Missouri; Louisville, Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky; Cincinnati, Ohio; Toledo, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; and Nashville, Tennessee.
Please Note that the map links provided may need to be printed in order to read:
Terre Haute Wide Area Map
Terre Haute Close Area Map
From Interstate 70: Use Exit 7 to 3rd Street (US-41) northbound. Proceed north on 3rd Street to Wabash Avenue (US-40). Turn right onto Wabash Avenue. Continue east on Wabash Avenue past 4th Street. You will be turning north onto 5th Street [one way north]. Take 5th Street north into the ISU campus. See the campus map for parking and building information.
From US-41 Coming North from Evansville: Proceed north on 3rd Street to Wabash Avenue (US-40). Turn right onto Wabash Avenue. Continue east on Wabash Avenue past 4th Street. You will be turning north onto 5th Street [one way north]. Take 5th Street north into the ISU campus. See the campus map for parking and building information.
From US-41 Coming South from Chicago: Proceed south on 3rd Street to Ohio Street. Turn left onto Ohio Street. Continue east on Ohio Street past 4th Street. You will be turning north onto 5th Street [one way north]. Take 5th Street north into the ISU campus. See the campus map for parking and building information.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Taylor Mali
A poet and a teacher, Taylor Mali is generally considered to be the most successful poetry slam strategist of all time, having won the National Poetry Slam a record four times. He was also one of the original poets on HBO’s Russell Simmons presents "Def Poetry". Taylor is also the curator of the Page Meets Stage series that takes place at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. And since June of 2000, when he said goodbye to his last sixth grade homeroom class, Mali has made a living as a poet, traveling the country and the world reciting, reading, teaching, and lecturing about poetry.
Because of his dynamic performance style and practiced articulation, it comes as no surprise to many that Mali attended drama school (at Oxford University). And this poet has never strayed too far from the theater. His one-man show “Teacher! Teacher!” won the jury prize for best solo performance at the U. S. Comedy Arts Festival in 2002. Taylor Mali is a tenth-generation New Yorker with an M.A. in English literature who loved teaching math at a private school in Manhattan. “There is a poetry in numbers unlike any that can be found in words,” he says. Mali spent nine years in the classroom and has performed and lectured for teachers all over the world.
Taylor Mali has released one book of poetry (What Learning Leaves), one DVD (Taylor Mali & Friends: Live at the Bowery Poetry Club), and four CDs of spoken word, most recently Icarus Airlines. A YouTube video of his performance of “What Teachers Make” has been viewed almost one million times. He was also the "golden-tongued, Armani clad villain" of Paul Devlin's documentary film "SlamNation," which chronicled the National Poetry Slam Championship of 1996.
- "To watch Mali is to watch a full-body poetic assault-with humor as his central weapon.” (The Portland Phoenix)
- “Not since Taylor Mali, has there been a poet of the likes of Taylor Mali—which is to say he is a man of unique properties. He is tagged as a performance poet, but his performances, rather than being frontal assaults, are leavened by charm and wit and could survive happily on the page" (Billy Collins)
- "Taylor Mali speaks of the world of the teacher with power and grace. His work is filled with the energy, joy, pathos and humor of everyday life in the classroom. Strong and compassionate, his voice is our voice. He's been there." (Michele Forman, National Teacher of the Year 2001)
“I want to reform education in America from top to bottom. I want to be the individual responsible for making an entire
generation of college graduates consider teaching before business or law school. I want to get America ready for an Education Tax
if that's what it's going to take. But most of all, I want to be the spokesman for teaching's nobility, the poet laureate of
passion in the classroom.”
—Taylor Mali
Taylors' Website and Other Links:
http://www.taylormali.com/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNIBV87wV4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azu8XWcHzFM
Stephen Belber
Acclaimed playwright, screenplay writer and director Stephen Belber will speak at 4 pm Wednesday October 7th, 2009. His plays include Geometry of Fire, (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Fault Lines, (Naked Angels/Cherry Lane), A Small, Melodramatic Story, (LAByrinth Theater Company), McReele (Roundabout), Match (Broadway, Tony nomination for Frank Langella), Tape (Naked Angels--NYC/LA/London), The Laramie Project (Associate Writer), Carol Mulroney (Huntington Theater), One Million Butterflies (Primary Stages), Drifting Elegant (Magic Theater), The Transparency of Val (Theater Outrageous, NYC), The Wake (Via Theater, NYC), Through Fred (Soho Rep) and The Death of Frank (Araca Group, NYC). As a screenwriter, he wrote Tape, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke (Sundance; Berlin); The Laramie Project (Associate Writer) for HBO Films, (Sundance, Emmy nomination for screenwriting); and Drifting Elegant, directed by Amy Glazer. He also wrote and directed his first feature, Management, starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson, which premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival and is due out this spring. Among other projects, he is currently developing a screenplay based on McReele, for Will Smith’s Overbrook production company. TV credits include Rescue Me and Law & Order SVU, (staff writer). He has received commissions from Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, The Huntington Theater, Arena Stage and Philadelphia Theater Company.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Jeff Ferrell, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Texas Christian University
and
Visiting Professor of Criminology
University of Kent, UK
"Crisis Culture: Shaking the Social Order"
Jeff Ferrell earned his PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Crimes of Style (Garland, 1993; Northeastern University Press, 1996), Tearing Down the Streets (Palgrave/Macmillan/St. Martin’s, 2001/2002), Empire of Scrounge (New York University Press, 2006), and, with Keith Hayward and Jock Young, Cultural Criminology: An Invitation (SAGE, London, 2008). He is also the co-editor of the books Cultural Criminology (Northeastern University Press, 1995), Ethnography at the Edge (Northeastern University Press, 1998), Making Trouble (Aldine de Gruyter, 1999), and Cultural Criminology Unleashed (Routledge/ Cavendish/Glasshouse, 2004). Jeff Ferrell is the founding and current editor of the New York University Press book series Alternative Criminology, and one of the founding and current editors of the journal Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal (SAGE, London), winner of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers’ 2006 Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal. In 1998 he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the Division of Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology.
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal
New Cultural Criminology website
Victor E. Kappeler, Ph.D.
Foundation Professor & Chair
Department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky University
"Cultural Criminology, Popular Culture and Media Studies: “Where have all the Marxists Gone?”"
Victor E. Kappeler earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University and is currently Foundation Professor and Chair of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author and co-author of numerous books including: The Mythology of Crime and Criminal Justice (Waveland Press, 2005) and Constructing Crime: Perspective on Making News and Social Problems (Waveland Press, 2006) and the former editor of Justice Quarterly.
Dr. David L. Altheide
Regents' Professor
School of Justice and Social Inquiry
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Arizona State University
Web Page:
http://www.asu.edu/clas/justice/faculty-staff/profiles/david-altheide/david-altheide.html
"Terrorism and Fear Post 9/11"
David Altheide, PhD, is Regents’ Professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, where he has taught for 35 years. His work has focused on the role of mass media and information technology in social control. Dr. Altheide received the Cooley Award three times, given to the outstanding book in symbolic interaction, from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction: In 2007 for Terrorism and the Politics of Fear (2006); in 2004 for Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (2002); and in 1986 for Media Power (1985). Dr. Altheide received the 2005 George Herbert Mead Award for lifetime contributions from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and the society’s Mentor Achievement Award in 2007.
Frankie Y. Bailey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Criminal Justice
University at Albany
"Clothes, Crime, and Justice in American Culture"
Frankie Y. Bailey is an associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany. She does research on crime and American culture, focusing on crime history, and crime and mass media/popular culture. She has authored or co-authored books on detective fiction, African American responses to issues of crime and justice, and images of women, sexuality, and murder. She is the co-series editor (with Steven Chermak) of Praeger’s Crime, Media, and Popular Culture series. Her most recent books are African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study (2008), and Wicked Albany (2009, co-authored with Alice P. Green), a local history of Albany, New York during Prohibition. Currently, she is conducting research on urban street lit and on crime, clothing, and impression management. She is also the author of a mystery series featuring crime historian Lizzie Stuart.
Vikas Kumar Gumbhir, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Gonzaga University
"And All the Pieces Matter": The Reproduction of Urban Inequality in "The Wire"
Vikas K. Gumbhir completed his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Oregon, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Gonzaga University. He recently published his first book, "But is it Racial Profiling? Policing, Pretext Stops, and the Color of Suspicion", through LFB Scholarly Press.
Nickie Phillips, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology
St. Francis College
"Utopic imaginings: The comic superhero's quest to eradicate crime"
Nickie D. Phillips is an assistant professor in the Sociology and Criminal Justice Department at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, N.Y. She received her Ph.D. from City University of New York Graduate Center and holds an M.A. in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her academic interests include media representations of crime and justice, cultural criminology, and hate crimes. She recently co-authored “Cultural criminology and kryptonite: Constructions of crime and justice in comic books” published in Crime, Media, Culture and “Crime in Prime Time” appearing in the forthcoming book Race, Crime, and the Media.
Staci Strobl, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
"Utopic imaginings: The comic superhero's quest to eradicate crime"
Staci Strobl is an assistant professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her areas of specialization are women in policing in the Arabian Gulf, comic book portrayals of crime in the United States and alternative dispute resolution. Dr. Strobl completed her doctorate in Criminal Justice at the City University of New York's Graduate Center with a specialization in Comparative Criminal Justice and Criminology. She received her MA in Criminal Justice at John Jay and her BA in Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. Recently, she was the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Bahrain where she completed an ethnographic study of policewomen. Prior to joining John Jay as a faculty member, she was editor of the CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium's Compendium of Working Papers. Earlier in her career, she has worked as a U.S. Probation Officer and a crime journalist.
Gregory Snyder, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Baruch College
"Graffiti Lives: Youth Culture, Hip Hop and Beyond"
Gregory J. Snyder is a sociologist and ethnographer who works closely with urban subcultures, such as graffiti writers, skateboarders and musicians. His research aims revolve around the concept of urban space and issues of social justice. He joined the department of sociology and anthropology at Baruch College in the Fall of 2007, where the classes he teaches include Introduction to Sociology, Race and Ethnic Relations, and Urban Sociology. His first book, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground, was published in January of 2009 by NYU Press.
Brett A. Mervis
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of South Florida
"Rest In Peace T-shirts: An exploratory study of the phenomenon in media and music"
Brett A. Mervis is a doctoral candidate in the University of South Florida’s (USF) Department of Anthropology. Mervis holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University and a master’s degree in Criminology from USF. Mervis' doctoral dissertation research is of his former players that he coached in boys basketball and girls softball in a Tampa public housing complex prior to its demolition. The research aims to focus on youth's old neighborhood life, the transition process to new schools and neighborhoods along with displacement’s potential effect on school and neighborhood rivalries.
Robert D. Weide, M.A.
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Sociology
New York University
"Freight Train Graffiti: A Subculture within a Subculture"
Robert D. Weide recently earned his Master's Degree from the Department of Sociology at New York University and is currently doing research for his PhD dissertation for NYU on Black and Chicano gang relations in Los Angeles and California State prisons. He has also taught as an Adjunct Professor at NYU, Hunter College CUNY, and Pierce College in Los Angeles. Professor Weide has a strong personal attachment to the Hip Hop subculture, having been a hardcore gang member as a youth growing up in Los Angeles, and one of the most prolific graffiti writers in North America.
ISU SPEAKER SERIES
Bryan Burrough
Journalist and author Bryan Burrough will be speaking at Indiana State University at 7 p.m. Monday, October 5, 2009 to kick-off ISU’s University Speakers Series. His topic is “Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the F.B.I.” The event will be held in Tilson Auditorium on the ISU campus, and is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow.
Burrough, author of the best selling book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the F.B.I. 1933-1934, utilizes long-secret government files to chronicle the two-year war between J. Edgar Hoover’s nascent F.B.I. and a cadre of legendary American criminals, including John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly and the Ma Barker gang. Burrough illustrates how Hoover’s organizational genius transformed the F.B.I. from a band of amateurish federal agents without firearms or arrest powers into the vaunted G-Men of lore.
The movie, Public Enemies, scheduled for release in July 2009, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard in the incredible and true story of legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger.
No one could stop Dillinger, the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover’s fledgling FBI and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression.