Symposium Schedule
Friday, April 18
3:00 - 4:00 :: Registration
4:00 :: Opening Remarks by William Warner, Chair, English Dept.
4:15 - 5:45 :: The Elocution of Location
Richard G. Smith, Swansea University
"Baudrillard and the City"Simon Labrecque, Université Laval
"Radical Memory? Baudrillard Viewed from the Walls of Quebec City"Dimitri Papandreu, Cal State Fullerton
"Baudrillard, My Neighbor"
Saturday, April 19
8:30 - 9:00 :: Coffee & Pastries
9:00 - 10:50 :: Media Construction and the Body Politic
Peter Hulm, European Graduate School
"Baudrillard's Bastards: JB, JGB, JLB, JLG - Pataphysics after the Orgy'"Phillip Mahoney, Temple University
"'To Each His Own Bubble': Baudrillard and the End of the Social"Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, University of Nottingham
"Establishment of the '4th Estate Myth' in the USA and the UK"
10:50 - 11:00 :: Break
11:00 - 12:30 :: Meaning within the Vacuum
Michael Rennet, Moorpark College
"The Conspiracy of Reality: Elements of Baudrillard in The Joe Schmo Show"Drew Burk, European Graduate School
"Baudrillard and the Legacy of Pataphysics"Rebecka Molin, Blekinge Institute of Technology
"Meaninglessness in the Desert of the Real"
12:30 - 2:00 :: Lunch Break
2:00 - 3:30 :: Signage and Consumer Culture
Christoph Raetzsch, Technical University of Berlin
" Symbolic Exchange Revisited"Renae Bredin, Cal State Fullerton
"Jean and Martha: Advertising, Simulation, and the Domestic Body"William Pawlett, University of Wolverhampton
"HATE/CODE"
3:30 - 4:30 :: Keynote Speaker
Douglas Kellner, UCLA
"Reflections on the late Baudrillard with Special Attention to the Art Conspiracy"
4:30 - 5:30 :: Reception