2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

"Bolossy Kiralfy’s Specs for Barnum & Bailey"
Michael Means, University of Dayton
THURSDAY
12:30 – 2:00 P.M.
Preservation Hall Studio 3 (2nd Floor)
2084 Ecology & Culture I: The Animal-Human Connection
Chair: Margaret O'Shaughnessey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Face in the Mirror: The Animal-Human Connection"
Margaret O'Shaughnessey
"Such Beastly Behavior: Predation, Revenge, and the Question of Animal Ethics"
Sarah McFarland, Northwestern State University
"’A Market for Meat’: The Commodification of Animals in Native American,
Colonial, and Trans-Atlantic Trade"
Melissa Dennihy, The Graduate Center, CUNY
"Farm Sanctuary: Entering the Unknown"
Jenny Grubbs, University of Cincinnati
La Galerie 1 (2nd Floor)
2085 Fat Studies I: Reading the Fat Text: Fatness in Popular Media
Chair: Lesleigh Owen, University of California, Santa Cruz
"The Future is Fat: WALL*E and the Fear of a Fat Planet?"
Julia McCrossin, George Washington University
"Blues Legacies and Punk Politics: How Beth Ditto Envoices the Fat Body"
Alexandra Apolloni, University of California, Los Angeles
"Tracing the Roots of Kit Reed’s Pro-Fat Body Ideals: An Examination of ‘The
Food Farm’ and ‘The Last Big Sin’"
Barbara Risch, University of Texas at El Paso
"Socializing Young Readers: A Content Analysis of Body Size Images in Caldecott
Winners"
Linda Wedwick, Illinois State University
Nancy Latham, Illinois State University
Audubon (5th Floor)
2086 Latin American Performance Studies I: Latin American Theater and
Musical Performance
Chair: Elsa Gilmore, United States Naval Academy
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