BREAKOUT SESSION 2
Saturday, October 3, 2009  //  2:45 - 4:00 PM

2A. All I Want Is …

With a Red Guitar … on Fire: The Convergence of Spiritual Longing and Sexual Desire in the Music of U2

Christopher West, Fellow, Theology of the Body Institute

‘O Can’t You See What Love Has Done?’ - U2, Paul Ricoeur, and the Hermeneutics of Personhood
Dr. Jeffrey Keuss, Associate Professor of Christian Ministry and Theology, Seattle Pacific University, and Dr. Sara Koenig, Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Seattle Pacific University

Not Afraid to Die: The Grave as a Groove
Henry VanderSpek, Youth and Campus Coordinator, World Vision Canada’s Advocacy & Education Department

2B. I Like the Sound of My Own Voice

Boy, (Achtung) Baby, and Bomb: Anti-Language in the Songs of U2
John Hurtgen, Dean, School of Theology, Campbellsville University

Vertigo-Event-Context: The Interpretive Lyric/Music Binary in the U2 Corpus
Grant Horner and Richard Pressley, The Master’s College

All That You Can’t Leave Behind: The Conservative Voice in the Songs of U2
Stephen Catanzarite, Managing Director, Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center

2C. Heaven Knows This Is A Heartland

A Preacher Stealing Hearts at a Traveling Show: Bono and North American Evangelicals
Dr. Paul Rowe, Associate Professor, Political and International Studies, Trinity Western University and Matthew A. Kerr, Associate Pastor, Worship and Small Groups, Faith Baptist Church Huntsville, Ontario

Desire: U2 and the American Dream: The United States as Imagined in Music and Activism
Kristina Shull, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of California, Irvine

2D. I Heard Opera In My Head

U2: Identities Covered and Revealed
Mark Mandarano, Artistic Director, Sinfonietta of Riverdale; Principal Guest Conductor, Moscow Chamber Orchestra; Adjunct Lecturer, Lehman College-CUNY

Deconstruction by Stratification: Vocal Layering as Commentary, Criticism, and Reinvention in the Music of U2
Christopher Endrinal, Assistant Professor of Music Theory, University of Massachusetts Lowell

U2 and Igor Stravinsky: Textures, Timbres, and the Devil
Dr. Dan Pinkston, Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition, Simpson University

2E. A River in A Time of Dryness

Water: Hope in the Name of H20
Diane Yoder and Rob Triaglet, The African Well Fund

BREAKOUT SESSION 3
Sunday, October 4, 2009  //  10:30 - 11:45 AM

3A. Live is Where We Live

U2 Live: Where Leitourgia Has No Name
The Rev. Beth Maynard, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Sampling and Reframing: The evolving live concert performances of ‘Bullet the Blue Sky’
The Rev. Dr. Steve Taylor, Laidlaw College, New Zealand

3B. Silver and Gold

Botanizing on Asphalt: Representations of Laissez Faire Inherent in U2’s Music
Paul Viotti, Professor of Political Science, California State University, Chico

Pro Bono: Translating and Transforming Africa for the Consumerist West
Bruce Edwards, Professor of English and Africana Studies, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

U2: An Elevated Brand
Michele O’Brien, Cawley Nea\TBWA, Dublin

3C. North and South of the River

Irish Identity and Utopianism in the Music of U2
Ann Morrison Spinney, Assistant Professor, Music Department, Boston College

From ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ to ‘Angel of Harlem’: Irishness, American Blackness, and U2’s Authentic Performativity
Kimberly Mack, UCLA, Ph.D student in English

U2’s ‘Sunday, Bloody Sunday’ as Public Song-Memorial
Brian Johnston, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication, University of South Florida

3D. Every Poet Is A Thief

‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’: U2, Salman Rushdie, and the Political Frontiers of Artistic Collaboration
Jordan A. Berard, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Ottawa

‘O may the moon and the sunlight seem / One inextricable beam:’ The Imaginative Experience in Yeats’ ‘The Tower’ and U2’s ‘Lemon’
Joe Bisz, Professor of English, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College

U2 and Bertolt Brecht: The Rock Concert as Political Theatre
Simran Karir, PhD candidate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto

BREAKOUT SESSION 4
Sunday, October 4, 2009  //  2:45 - 4:00 PM

4A. Of Science and The Human Heart

Strange Bedfellows: The Influence of U2 in Antiretroviral Drug Funding and Distribution for Sub-Saharan Africa David J. Kroll, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, and colleagues 

4B. If I Could, I Would

Teaching U2: The Classroom as Gathering Place
Tim Neufeld, faculty in Biblical and Religious Studies, Fresno Pacific University, California, and Jessica Mast, senior student, Fresno Pacific University, California

U2 in the Church - How it is Done in Denmark
Rev. Jens Moesgaard Nielsen, M.Th. and Rev. Joergen Lasgaard, M.Th., The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark

U2 as a Pedagogical Resource:  Faith Integration and Social Justice
Brian Porter, Professor of Management, Hope College

4C. But I Can Change the World in Me

When I Look At the World: Viewing the Impact of U2’s Music on Listeners’ Consciousness and Activism Through the Lens of Narrative Inquiry
Rachel Seiler, LMSW, Ph.D. Candidate, California Institute of Integral Studies

I’m Still Waiting: The General Admission Queue and Fan Self-Organizing Culture at U2 Concerts
Dr. Barbara LoMonaco, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky Sun

Sometimes Melodies Are Not Songs, They’re Ideas: The Creative Life of Bono and Implications for Talent Development
Jeff Danielian, The National Association for Gifted Children

4D.  I Saw You In the Curve of the Moon

U2: Fallen Angels
Deane Galbraith, University of Otago, New Zealand

Is this rock and roll?: Sources, Contexts, and Intertexts of U2’s ‘Until the End of the World’
Daniel Kline, University of Alaska Anchorage

 4E. We Get to Carry Each Other

Organization Presentations TBA