Fat Studies Panels at the PCA do in New Orleans

Here's the list of Fat Studies Panels at the Pop Culture Association conference in New Orleans at the end of April. It looks AMAZING.

http://www.pcaaca.org

Fat Studies I: Making a Big, Fat Difference: Fat Activism

Chair: Sheana Director, Bowing Green State University

The Story of the Chubsters
Charlotte Cooper, University of Limerick

Identity and Inclusion: Expanding Fat Activism
Meghan Griffin, University of Central Florida

(E)Rac(e)ing the Movement: Intersections of Race and Fat in Contemporary Fat Rights Activism
Sheana Director, Bowing Green State University

Fat Therapist, Fat Activist
Kari Petersen, counselor, activist

Fat Studies II: Fatness as It Informs Other Identities

Chair: Lesleigh Owen, Chaffey College

Gender Anxiety and Abject Bodies
Kyla Bender-Baird, researcher, activist

Are We What We Eat?: The Representation of Fatness in Czech Media Contents from a Gender Perspective
Iva Baslarova, Masaryk University

Fat, Young Femininity and Other Slippery Identities
Lesleigh Owen, Chaffey College

Fat Studies III: Encountering and Coping with Anti-Fat Bias

Chair: Elena Levy-Navarro, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

From Individual Coping to Collective Action: Stigma Management in an Online Community
Daiane Scaraboto, York University
Eileen Fischer, York University

“And Of Course She was Fat”: The Presentation and Consumption of Mary Seacole’s Body
Alison McMonagle, The George Washington University

Toward a More Liberal Society: The Dangers of Conversion Therapies and Dieting Programs
Elena Levy-Navarro, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

Fat Studies IV: Tight Fit: The Mental and Physical Experiences of Being Fat

Chair: Lesleigh Owen, Chaffey College

“The Women’s Sizes are in the Back”: Exclusion and Invisibility of Fat Female Bodies in Retail Space [filler title for now]
Barb’ra-Anne Carter, University of Oklahoma

A Difficult Fit: Space, Fatness and the University
Amy Gullage, University of Toronto

Fatness as a Liminal Experience
Hannele Harjunen, Umeå University Centre for Gender Studies

Fat Studies V: Examining Visual Representations of Fatness

Chair: Zeynep Atayurt, scholar, activist

The Voluptuous Art of Beryl Cook
Zeynep Atayurt, scholar, activist

GEORGE DINHAUPT EXHIBITION
George Dinhaupt, California State University, Long Beach

Mind/Body Duality and the Ubiquitous Fat Butt Shot
Bernadette Bosky, Olympiad Academia

Expanding Laughter? Shame(lessness) and Body Image Incongruity in FAT ACTRESS
Katariina Kyrölä, University of Turku

Fat Studies VI: Reading the Fat Text: Fatness in Popular Media

Chair: Julia McCrossin, The George Washington University

Socializing Young Readers: A Content Analysis of Body Size Images in Caldecott Winners
Linda Wedwick, Illinois State University
Nancy Latham, Illinois State University

Tracing the Roots of Kit Reed’s Pro-Fat Body Ideals: An Examination of “The Food Farm” and “The Last Big Sin”
Barbara Risch, University of Texas at El Paso

Blues Legacies and Punk Politics: How Beth Ditto Envoices the Fat Body
Alexandra Apolloni, University of California, Los Angeles

The Future is Fat: WALL*E and the Fear of a Fat Planet?
Julia McCrossin, The George Washington University