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Tentative Speakers for Humanities Mixtape: Rewinding the 1980s
Please note this agenda is subject to change.

 
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
 5:30 pm Registration Opens
 7:00 pm Opening Remarks and Welcome
 7:15 pm Screening: BeetleJuice (1988)
   
   
Thursday, October 23, 2025
7:30 am Check-in, Onsite Registration, Breakfast
8:30 am Welcome and Day 1 Opening Remarks
9:00 am Dan Gladden (Tentative) and Brad Balukjian
10:00 am The Farmer's Daughter - Sarah Vogel
10:45 am Break
11:00 am Gordon Kahl Panel (Title TBD)
12:00 pm Lunch (for paid participants)
1:00 pm Dave Thompson, Prairie Public
1:30 pm Dave Thompson and Lisa Napoli
1:45 pm 1980: The Dawn of the 24 Hour News Cycle -
Lisa Napoli
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm TBD
3:30 pm They Say to Never Meet Your Heroes; Are They Right? Brad Balukjian, Islephile LLC
4:30 pm Close, Day 1
   
5:30 pm Evening Social
6:30 pm Introductory Remarks 
6:45 pm Screening: The Terminator (1984)
8:30 pm Panel Discussion: The Terminator and the 1980s
   
Friday, October 24, 2025
   
7:30 am  Breakfast
8:30 am Welcome and Day 2 Opening Remarks
8:45 am Usman Malik (Virtual) and Josh Kern
9:30 am Gag Me with a Spoon: The Linguistic Legacy of Valley Girls - Kevin Moberg, Bismarck State College
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Revisiting the 1980s: Nostalgia, Place, and Cultural Memory (Virtual) - Melissa Vosen Callens, North Dakota State University
11:00 am Postapocalyptic Aesthetics: 1980s Pop Culture Takes on the Cold War - Holly McBee, Bismarck State College
11:30 am “Shall we play a game?” Expressions of Cyberculture in the 1980s (and ‘90s) and How They Align with Our Lives Now - Adam Tyma (Virtual)
12:00 pm Lunch (for paid participants)
1:00 pm Maya Angelou: The Power of Words in My Life  -
Becky Stone
Brought to BSC by the Humanities Council of
North Dakota
2:00 pm My Unplugged Eighties - Deb Marquart, Author, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere
3:00 pm The Future Has Been Cancelled -
Chuck Klosterman
   
4:30 pm Closing