2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
12:30 – 2:00 P.M.
Bonaparte (4th Floor)
2092 Arthurian Legends III: Arthur in Contemporary Culture
Chair: Elizabeth S. Sklar, Wayne State University and Donald L. Hoffman
“Round Table Tactics: Arthurian Strategies and Contemporary Corporations”
Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University
“Runescape, or Athena meets the Lady of the Lake: Arthurian Legend in the
Electronic Era”
Rebecca Umland, University of Nebraska at Kearney
“When it’s the end of the world as we know it: Arthur at the Apocalypse”
Ann F. Howey, Brock University
“King Arthur Goes to Parliament: Quixotic Arthurian Figures in Contemporary
Political Culture”
Christine Neufeld, Eastern Michigan University
Preservation Hall Studio 8 (2nd Floor)
2093 The Body and Physical Difference IV: The Body in Art/Art and the Body
Chair: Lori Duin Kelly, Carroll College
"Tattoo as Baroque Art"
Dennis Hall, University of Louisville
"The Compound Gallery of Desire"
Ryan Johnson, Kent State University
"Tattoo Culture"
Halley Dickerson, Southeastern Louisiana University
"An Analysis of the Contemporary Signification of Social Public Nudity"
Raul Alaniz, University of Corpus Christi
Balcony N (4th Floor)
2094 Music VII: Location, Location, Location
Chair: Eric James Abbey, Oakland Community College
"Music on the Edge: Atlantic Canadian Music and the United States Border"
Eric Weeks, Bowling Green State University
"Memphis, Tennessee: A Metonym for Rock ‘n’ Roll, or the Child of the Blues"
Harry Sewlall, North-West University, South Africa
"Dusty in Memphis / Flaubert in Egypt: Orientalizing Tropes in American Pop
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