We wanted to thank all our attendees, presenters, chairs, and organising committee for helping us make a wonderful #DisNet24! We can't wait to see you all for #DisNet25 🌟
The final panel of the 2nd Annual #DisNet24 conference is “Exploring the Digital Frontier: Tech and Gaming” moderated by @charlottedurham.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone who has joined us this week! Don’t forget our social after this panel!
It’s the final day of #DisNet24 and we are starting off with presentations on Frozen and fairytales with “Disney as Adaptation Machine” moderated by @Rebecca_L_Rowe
Who teaches who? “Teaching Disney, Disney Teaching” is our final panel of Day 4 of #DisNet24 and is chaired by Dori Koehler
Our next panel digs into the business end of things and "To Make Money Is Our Only Objective": Disney as a Business is being chaired by @charlottedurham.bsky.social #Disnet24
The next panel of the day, “Practically Perfect?: Maintaining Disney's Reputation,” is chaired by Rebecca Rowe, who discusses Disney’s reputation from multiple angles. #DisNet24
First up is Evan Nooe of the University of South Carolina Lancaster taking us to Disney Springs with “Florida, History, and Architecture at Disney Springs' Town Center Neighborhood” #DisNet24 #DisneyStudies
The first panel of the day, chaired by @charlottedurham.bsky.social takes us around the world - “All the World's a Showcase: Disney's Themed Spaces” starts now! #DisNet24
Up next, we have our fourth panel of the day, which discusses #Disney and its connections to religion in “Disney and/as Religion”. #DisNet24 #DisneyStudies
Starting now is an exciting roundtable with Meredith Guthrie,
@pcbryan.bsky.social of Clemson U., and Antares Leask with Northern VA CC discussing “Watching and Dreaming: Representation in Post-Renaissance Disney Television” #DisneyStudies #DisNet24
Our last presenter for this panel is John Wills of the University of Kent, presenting on Disney satire with “Satirizing Disney, Killing the Mouse?: Los Disneys, Dismaland and Mickey’s Mouse Trap” #DisneyStudies #DisNet24 #MickeyMouse #Dismaland
The next panel of #DisNet24 is “It’s Kind of Fun to Do the Impossible”: Whimsical Disney and is chaired by Hannah Helm
Next up is Audrey Louckx from UMONS - Universite de Mons presenting on “The Wish Their Heart Made? Disney Canon, Referentiality and Textual Transcendence in Wish” ✨ #DisNet24
Starting off our day is @charlottedurham.bsky.social from the University of Leeds discussing mobility within Disney’s utopia with her presentation, “When You Wish Upon a Global Media Conglomerate: The Limits of Mobility Within Disney’s Enacted Utopia” #DisNet24 #WishMovie
The final panel of Day 2 of #DisNet24 is chaired by Rebecca Rowe and will examine “Hegemony of White Culture in Disney”
Our first presenter is Evripidis Karavasilis from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki discussing “Homosociality and Belonging in Enrico Casarosa’s Luca (2021)” #Luca #DisNet24
We begin Day 2 of #DisNet24 with our panel “Reimagining Relationships” chaired by @charlottedurham.bsky.social . This panel features presentations spotlighting relationships in Luca and Pinocchio, and highlights the new family restoration narrative and representations of dwarfism.
Up next is “I Wanna Be Like Other Girls”: Gendered Disney chaired by @charlottedurham.bsky.social and features presentations on female representation and ecofeminist toons. #DisNet24
Calling all DisNeteers! Our annual general meeting for members begins in 15 minutes! #disnet24
Cody Havard from the University of Memphis is now speaking on “Welcome to the Clubhouse: Understanding Disney as a Common Interest and its Place as a Potential Catalyst to Shared Perspectives” #DisNet24