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Conference Program

This schedule is current as of 9/13/09 and is subject to change. Printed programs will be available on-site at the Texas Union on 9/25/09. Printed programs will include information on social events and further details about on-site programming and events.

Thursday, September 24

Keynote Address by Dr. Eric Lott (7 p.m. in Gearing 105)
Back Door Man: Howlin' Wolf and the Sound of Jim Crow

Friday September 25

Panel Session 1 (9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. at the Texas Union)

1A) Manhood and Display: Reflections on Race, Masculinity, and Citizenship (Chicano Culture Room)
John De Carlo, “1968 Remembered: The Changing Representation of Tommie Smith and the 1968 Olympic Protest”
Irene Garza, “G.I. Juan: Latino Citizen-Soldiers in the US War on Terror”
Mabel Rosencheck, “Is This Beyond Race?: Major League Baseball and the Civil Rights Movement”

1B) Finding Harmony: “Belonging” Through Music (Eastwood Room)
Emma Bertolaet, “‘Will the Circle be Unbroken’: Attempting to Reconnect a Divided Nation Through Song”
Sam Sousa, “Till the Last Shot’s Fired: Entrenching Whiteness in Country Music”

1C) Barack Obama: Redefining Rhetoric and Righteousness (African-American Culture Room)
Dionne Blasingame, “The Hour of American Division: The Social and Economic Conditions Underlying Religious Congregations”
Adam Gaffey, “Rhetorical Traditions of ‘Change’ in Barack Obama’s Pre-Presidential Rhetoric”
Connie Johnson, “Driving While Black and Other Misdemeanors: Living on Division Street”

1D) The XY Factor: Race, Class, and Sexuality in Feminist Politics (Asian Culture Room)
Anne Gessler, “Ambivalent Producers: Women, Sexism, and College Radio in the 1950s and 1960s”
Robin Morris, “The Conversion of Eliza Paschall: One Woman’s Conservative Shift Challenges the Atlanta Feminist Scene”
Molly Slattery, “The L Word, Political Praxis, and Pragmatic Ethnocentrism in the Mass Media”

Panel Session 2 (10:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. at the Texas Union)

2A) Interwebs: Technology, Race, and Cultural Networking (Chicano Culture Room)
Robert Gillespie, “‘Become a Fan’: Obama’s Facebook Feed and the Refutation of the Postracial Presidency”
Racquel Gonzales, “Fighting the Good Fight in a Post-Race America: Division and Conflict in Fallout 3”
Jessica Guidry, “WEBQ and Human Worth: Art of the Subaltern”
Vanessa Paugh, “‘Black Bride and White Groom,’ a Short Film”

2B) Inner and Outer Spaces: The Weird Science of Michael Jackson (Eastwood Room)
Andrew Busch, “Urban Wasteland and the Thriller Album: Gary, Indiana and Jackson’s Early Years”
Eric Busch, “Red Leather Jacket: Beat It’s Mall-Bound Fantasies”
Jeremy Dean, “Urban Violence and Black and White: Jackson’s Global Anger

2C) Geographies of Power: Resistance, Affirmation, and Activism in Public Spaces (African-American Culture Room)
Carlos Martinez, “Community Gardens in Urban America: Unifying Practice in Diverse Areas”
Sarah Scripps, “Personal Memory in the Public Landscape: The Creation of the Savannah Slavery Monument”
Jinny Turman-Deal, “‘Hooray for the Outsiders!’: Anti-Strip Mining Activism and the Outsider/Insider Dynamic in Lincoln County, West Virginia”

2D) Crime and Capital: (Di)Visions of the Now (Asian Culture Room)
Jongmook Choe, “Social Capital and Crime in the United States”
Celia James, “Educational Divisions in Segregated South Carolina”
Trent Kays, “Prop 8 and Civil Rights Denial: The Rhetoric of Contradiction and Convenience”

Panel Session 3 (1:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. at the Texas Union)

3A) Making Space Into Place: Immigration, Assimilation, and Alternative Environments (Chicano Culture Room)
Rebecca Baird, “The Los Angeles Times and Japanese Immigration to California After World War I”
Jaehyun Jeong, “Transformations from Dilapidated Bachelor Community to Exotic Tourist Spot: Reading Narratives of New York City Chinatown Development in the 1950s”
Andrew Rosenblatt, “‘Making the Deserts Bloom’: The Water for Peace Program and American Development, 1964-1969”
Colin Rutherford, “Behind the Silence: Arab American Political Activism in the 1940s”

3B) When and Where I Enter: Intersectionality and the Queer Citizen-Subject (Eastwood Room)
Jacquelyn Arcy, “Obamaphilia: Disciplining America Through Media Representations of Obama’s Sexuality”
Brandon Mack, “Effeminophobia in the Black Gay Community”
John Wright, “Just Your Average Gay, Transracially Adoptive, (Christian) Soccer Dad: Implications and Issues for Teaching and Learning in Elementary Schools”

3C) Back to the Leftist Future: Fantasy, Sci Fi, and Leftism (African-American Culture Room)
Sean Cashbaugh, “A ‘Mutant’ Popular Front: The Michelist Movement and the Rhetoric of Radical Science Fiction Unity”
Thomas Darragh, “A Little Rebellion Now and Then is a Good Thing: Ramparts, The New Left Intelligentsia, Their Meaning of Citizenship, and Their Redefining of Liberalism, 1962-1969”
Katherine Klinefelter, “Presidential Perception vs: Public Opinion Regarding Sino-American Relations in the 1950s and 1960s”
Anthony Maganero, “Sparks of Knowledge: Black Able Burns in the City of Angels,” Short Story.

3D) Speaking and Authoring: The Placement of Identity (Asian Culture Room)
Alexander Corey, “Fair Material: What About the Birch-Bark in Pokagon’s Red Man’s Rebuke?”
Clare Daniel, “Remembering a Proper Homeland: The Reinforcement of Biopolitics in Hurricane Katrina Oral History”
Andi Gustavson, “The Truth According to Terkel: The Authoring of Oral History in Hard Times and The Good War”
Joseph Locke, “Dividing By Faith: How Politicized Religion Fractured the South, 1876-1918”

Panel Session 4 (2:30 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. in the Texas Union)

4A) Center Stage: Political Articulations Through Performance Art (Chicano Culture Room)
Philis Barragan, “Commercialism and Feminism: The Directing Workshop for Women”
James Moreno, “Brown Body of Work: The Choreography of Jose Limon”
Ashley Smith, “Politicking the ‘American Aesthetic’: The NEA’s Attempt at Choreographing Nationalism through its American Masterpieces”

4B) Metropolitan Vistas: Privilege, Design, and Spatial Metaphors of the City (Eastwood Room)
Jessica Guernsey, “A House Divided: The International Style in America”
Susan Quesal, “Frankie Machine in the Kitten Klub: Nelson Algren’s Depiction of Black Chicago in The Man With the Golden Arm”
Alyssa Ribeiro, “Citizen Participation or Manipulation? The Battle Over Resident Influence in the Model Cities Planning Process in Philadelphia”
Ioana Stamatescu, “Between Park Avenue and the Bronx: New York City and its Power Scapes in Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities”

4C) Daring to be Heard: Youth Advocacy and Juvenile Justice Initiatives (African-American Culture Room)
Lauren Farwell, “Racial Bias in Juvenile Justice: Intersections of Multicultural Training and Forensic Assessment Practice”
Kyle Denver McGaa, “American Indians, Economic Ground Zero, and Worst Child Well-Being Indicators”
Nicole Powell, “‘Little Gay Ghandis’: Providing a Safe Space and Empowering Sexual Minorities”
Cathy Setzer, “The ‘Youth Vote’ in American Elections, 1948-2008”

4D) Did You Hear?: Rhetoric and Social Discourse Across the Ages (Asian Culture Room)
Patricia Nelson, “‘Human Beings Do Not Give Birth To Litters’: Race and Gender in Media Discourses of the ‘Octomom’”
Anne Petersen, “Celebrity Gossip and ‘The Minivan Majority’: The Divided Politics of Pop Culture Taste”
Ben Wright, “Unity Through Division: Antislavery and the Congregationalist Clergy in Late Eighteenth Century Newport, Rhode Island”

Panel Session 5 (4:00 p.m. – 5.20 p.m. at the Texas Union)

5A) A Question of Ownership: Interrogating the Archive (Chicano Culture Room)
Stephanie Bordy and Patricia Galloway, “Constructing Specific Pasts: Promises and Problems of the Native American Protocols Document”
Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, “What is Cultural Policy?: Paying Philosophical and Political Attention to Institutional Archives”
Katie Feo, "The Public Life of Private Things: Personal Effects at the Harry Ransom Center"

5B) Fitting In: Race and Representation in Popular Youth Culture (Asian Culture Room)
Beverly Andrews, “Princess Politics: Multicultural Ambivalence in Disney’s Forthcoming The Princess and The Frog”
Lily Laux, “Welcome to Sweet Valley High: Division and Deviance in High School Literature”
Kisha Schlegel, “‘Kisha Klub’: A Short Story”