Saturday March 1, 2025
West Virginia University
Evansdale Crossing Building, Media Innovation Center (floor 4)

11:00–12:00pm Paper Session 1

Avery Faust (University of Pittsburgh)

The Shawshank Redemption: Hope and Reintegration Through Music

Richard Anatone (Prince George’s Community College)

Troping and Narrative Foreshadowing in Hitoshi Sakimoto’s Soundtrack to Final Fantasy Tactics (1997)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30–2:30pm Paper Session 2

Claire Weydt (West Virginia University)

Symbolist Continuities in Ravel’s La Valse: Hearing Post-War Symbolism in Parisian Salons

Jamie Blake (Capital University)

Remaking the Wedding: Bronislava Nijinska’s Le Noces and the Politics of Revival

2:30–3:30pm Chapter Business Meeting

7:30pm VOCES8 Concert, Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre

Hotel Options:

Hotel Morgan 

Hampton Inn

Euro Suites 

Marriott at Waterfront Place