Bestest academic conference EVER!

I'm going to be going to the Popular Culture Association Conference in Atlanta next week. I'm going to be presenting with my dissertation director, 2 other PhD students from here, and one other person from Georgia State on using film in teaching composition. My presentation is "Aristotelian Appeals in Film: Applications for the Composition Classroom." I've done it already at the ACETA conference in Birmingham a little over a month ago, so I'm pretty good on preparation. However, as the conference nears, I decided to check out what other presentations will be going on so that I can plan which to attend. And holy freaking crap is this the best conference ever. My itinterary as it stands now:

Wed 2:30-4:00 - Film Adaptation I: Heroic Adaptations - "She’s so Sweet, He’s so Noble: Heroines and Heroes from Book to Screen," "Harry Potter and Signs of Omission," "Women of Valor, Women as Victims: Sexual Danger and the Female POW," and "Out of the Kitchen, Into the Battlefield: Looking at Women in Lord of the Rings"

Wed 4:30-6:00 - our presentations (Composition & Rhetoric III: Criticism and Instruction on the Screen: The Rhetoric and Composition of Film)

Thur 10:00-11:30 - Children’s Literature and Culture IV: English Fantasy (mainly Harry Potter) - "Old Wizard, Young Wizard: Mentor Relationships in British Story-Epic," "Harry Potter and the Witch Hunters: Social Context for the Attacks on Harry Potter," "A Child's Guide to Terrorism: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Equipment for Living," and "Faerie Wars and Artemis Fowl: Celtic Folklore in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature"

Thur 12:30-2:00 - Composition & Rhetoric V: Uses of Popular Media in First-Year Composition - "Cartman Goes to College: South Park and Rhetorical Analysis in the First-Year Composition Classroom," "Drawing on Demons: Teaching Writing with the Graphic Memoir," and "Making Muggle Magic: The World of Harry Potter and First-Year Composition"

Thurs 2:30-4:00 - British Popular Culture IV: Harry Potter: Patriarchy, Pottermania, and Making the Grade - "Boys will be Boys: Heroism in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," "Putting Potter in his Place: The Religious Right Refines its Reaction," and "Making the Grades, Making the Grade: Life at School and After"

Thurs 4:30-6:00 - Horror III: The Living Dead - "Racial Visibility in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead," "Undead Social Commentary: The Multi-Genre Pop Culture Canon of Zombies," and "A Study in Contrast: Challenging and Reinforcing Gender and Racial Stereotypes in Resident Evil: Apocalypse"

Thurs 8:15-9:45 - Science Fiction & Fantasy XII: Firefly and Serenity - "The Production of Space in Joss Whedon’s Series, Firefly," "'Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung': The Symbol of the Albatross in Joss Whedon's Serenity," "Doe-Eyed Dorks: Joss Whedon's Girl Geeks," and "Firefly and Serenity's Inara Serra, or a 'Good' Woman Speaking Well: Feminist Rhetoric in the ’Verse"

(Care to join me for dinner and the last 2, Will?)

SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE!!!!!