Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Joanna Demers

Jason King, "Don't Hate on Us, We're Fabulous: Notes on the History and Culture of Black Glam"

Tim Lawrence, "''Do You Wanna Fu-k?'' Sylvester, Crossing and the Strange Case of Disco"

Sharon Mesmer, "''It Gives You That Lift'': Class, Rock and Roll, and Breasts"

Steve Waksman, "Is It My Body? Alice Cooper and Glam Performance"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Darek Mazzone

Susan Harewood, "Mas' Publics of the Transnation: Soca Music Practices and the Gendering of Caribbean Cultural Citizenships"

Megwen May Loveless, "Penetrating the Appeal of LAMBADA!: Undressing the Transnational Edification of a Brazilian National Product of Authenticity"

Monica Rojas, "The 2004 Son de los Diablos: Reconfiguring an Afro Peruvian Carnival Dance"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Jasen Emmons

Ben Givan, "Ray Charles Hits the Road"

Allen Lowe, "I Play Therefore I Am – Authenticity and Performance in American Pop"

David Sanjek, "Accidentally, Like A Mensch: The ''Good'' Death of Warren Zevon"

Yuval Taylor, "T.B. Blues"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Charles Cross

Krin Gabbard, "Autobiography as Transformation: The Case of Miles Davis"

Eric Lott, "''You Make Me Feel So Young'': Sinatra & Basie & Amos & Andy"

Julianne Shepherd, "The Bad Sister Does Self-Defense: How Courtney Love Turned Her Yellow Wallpaper into a Room of Her Own"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Judith Halberstam

Judith Halberstam, "Queer Covers: Lesbians on Ecstasy and the Recycling of Political Culture"

Heather Lukes, "Downward Diva: Rufus Wainwright''s Aria of the Gay Sublime"

Stephan Pennington, "Flawless, Real and the Performance of Naturalization"

Karen Tongson, "Faux-''mo Crooners and the Straight Girls Who Love Them"

Leslie Mah, "Comments"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Jacob McMurray

Charles Kronengold, "How Not to be Mistaken for a Pop Song"

Georgia Roberts, "His Ambitionz as a Reader: Teaching the Textual Appeal of Tupac Shakur"

Eric Martin Usner, "Live More Musically: The Sounds of Starbucks' Siren Songs"

James Hannaham, "Girl You Know It's Fake: Lip-sync and ''live'' performance"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Michaelangelo Matos

Geeta Dayal, "Online and Under the Masks: Pop Music and Blogging Roundtable"

Tom Ewing, "Online and Under the Masks: Pop Music and Blogging Roundtable"

Jess Harvell, "Online and Under the Masks: Pop Music and Blogging Roundtable"

Jay Smooth, "Online and Under the Masks: Pop Music and Blogging Roundtable"

Venue: Level Three

Following the presentation, this multimedia installation will continue to play for the remainder of the day.

Ronald Nameth, "The Velvet Underground & Punk – Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable and Postmodern Culture"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Dylan Hicks

Hua Hsu, "''Going Oriental'': Duke Ellington Visits the East"

Josh Kun, "Abie the Fishman: Notes on Jewish Masquerade"

Jody Rosen, "''Yankee Doodle Abie'': Tin Pan Alley Sings ''Hebrew''"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Robert Fink

Larry Birnbaum, "The Train Kept A-Rollin; or, Who Was That Masked Machine?"

Michaelangelo Matos, "All Roads Lead to 'Apache'"

Douglas Wolk, "The (Soda) Pop Explosion"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Jeff Warren

Daphne Carr, "Dancing, Democracy and Kitsch: Poland's Disco-Polo"

Nate Harrison, "Can I Get An Amen?"

Fred Maus, "Mourning and Identity in a B-52''s Song"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Laura Veirs

Drew Daniel, "How To Act Like Darby Crash"

Greil Marcus, "Death Letters"

David Thomas, "Datapanik in the Year Zero"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Lynne d Johnson

Jalylah Burrell, "The ''Mystery of Enmity'': Kanye West and the Scapegoated 'Bougie Broad'"

Cynthia Fuchs, "Higher Anarchy: Performance, Identity, and Anti-war Hip-hop"

Philip Gentry, "Queers Hear This: Translating Eminem"

Ernest Hardy, "Un(w)rapping the Faggotry in Hip-Hop"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Kurt B. Reighley

Rachel Devitt, "Girl on Girl: Bio-Queens, Fat Femmes, and Re-radicalizing the Gender-Fuck"

Simon Warner, "All cut up? The pandrogynous transformation of Genesis P-Orridge"

Jessica Wood, "Poop As Hard As Rock: Putting the 'Anal' in Analysis"

Venue: JBL Theater

Moderated by: Dave Dederer

Dan Crane, "Air Guitar: There's No ''There'' There. Or Is There?"

Ted Widmer, "Monarchy in the USA"

Edie Sedgwick, "''We Are Gathered Here in Praise of Me…'': Edie Sedgwick's Five-Point Plan to Save the Human Race"

Sara Sherr, "Wig in a Box"

Venue: Learning Labs

Moderated by: Shannon Dudley

Raul Fernandez, "Curatorial Issues in Latin Music"

Michelle Habell-Pallan, "? and the Mysterians: Early Punk''s Hidden Identity"

Deborah Pacini Hernandez, "The Name Game: Locating "Latin," Latinos and Latin Americans in the US Popular Music Landscape"

Venue: Demo Lab

Moderated by: Janet Sarbanes

Theo Cateforis, "American Nervousness, 1979"

Tavia Nyong'o, "Astral Glamour: Queer Theory Masquerading as Punk Rock"

Jennifer Lena, "Racial Tourism in Rap: Voyeurism and Authenticity"

Miles White, "Affecting the Racial Presence: Race as Performativity and Blackness as Authenticity in the Rap Game"