Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
5:30 pm |
Registration Opens |
7:00 pm |
Opening Remarks and Welcome |
7:15 pm |
Screening: BeetleJuice (1988) |
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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 |
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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 |
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Friday, October 24, 2025 |
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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 |
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4:30 pm |
Closing |
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