Trashy Epistemologies Symposium: The Reach of the Popular and What to Do with It

May 21 2025, Building 260-216

* Breakfast: 10- 10:30 am

- Graduate Panel 1, "Platonic Low: Dating and Shipping in Media": 10:30 -11:30 am
        Shuwen Yang (Stanford EALC), "An Unseen World Behind a Mediated One: A Glance at Chinese Dating Reality Shows"
        Rebeca Oliva Peralta (Stanford ILAC), "Shipping Wars: What some popular fandom pairings tell us about diversity"
        
- Book Launch Lunch (Prof. James Reichert, Stanford EALC), Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction, 1913-1941: 12:00- 2:00 pm (hybrid)
 
- Graduate Panel 2 (Joao, Kelly, Eunkyo), "Epic Plastic: Civilization and Garbage": 2:30-4:00 pm
        João G. L. Viana (Stanford ILAC), “On the “Culture” in Pop Culture: Towards an Ideological Critique of Baldur’s Gate 3 (2023) and Sid Meier’s Civilization 7 (2025)"
        Kelly Fu (Stanford History), "Ghost Nets and Plastic Dreams: A case of nylon fishnets in Maoist China"
        Eunkyo Kang (Stanford EALC), "Rewriting Reality: Cultural Hybridity and Fan Fiction in DJUNA’s The Shadow of Aquilla"

- Keynote session (Prof. Maite Zubiaurre, UCLA Spanish & Portuguese): 4:30-6pm

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