2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

THURSDAY
2:30 – 4:00 P.M.
"Red Roots, Radical Fruit: Red Diaper Babies in the Civil Rights Movement"
Elise Wagner, Michigan State University
"’The War Had Come to Roost in Our Own Backyard’: Black-Brown Relations and
the Vietnam Antiwar Movement in Los Angeles"
Brandon Ward, Texas A & M University
La Galerie 3 (2nd Floor)
2137 Tarot in Culture II: Film and Television
Chair: Emily Auger, Independent Scholar
"Tarot Reading, Truth-telling and the Technologies of Women's Knowledge"
Hannah Johnston, Emerson College
"Reading Tarot, Reading Film"
Gala Hingston, U of Melbourne
"On Myth and Meaning: The Tarot of Survivor as Modern Spectacle"
Alice Ferguson, U of Southern Mississippi
Balcony K (4th Floor)
2138 The Vampire in Literature, Culture, & Film VI: Here, There and Tween:
Vampires in Poetry, Chica Lit, Teen Texts and More
Chair: Courtney Huse Wika, University of South Dakota
"A Vampire on Contemporary Mexican Poetry: The Case of Vicente Quirarte"
Verónica Méndez Maqueo, Western State College of Colorado
"Una Mordedura, or, A Bite: Marta Acosta’s Casa Dracula Trilogy and the Vampire
in ‘Chica Lit’"
Lisa Nevárez, Siena College
"Vanishing Acts and Violent Spectacles in Richard Laymon’s The Traveling
Vampire Show "
Rebecca Brown, Texas A & M University
"This Home is No Longer My Own: The Uncanny in Adolescent Vampire Texts"
Courtney Huse Wika
Jackson (5th Floor)
2139 World's Fairs & Expositions IV: Fairs at Home
Chair: Anne C. Goodyear, Smithsonian Institution
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