2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

FRIDAY
2:30 – 4:00 P.M.
3144 Motorcycling Culture & Myth III: Writing and Performing the Ride
Chair: Katherine Sutherland, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
"Combatting Genre Fatigue: The Case of the Modern British Biker Travelogue"
Jeff Morrison, National University of Ireland
"Moving or Parked Motorcycles, Or the Cultural Logic of Cover Art (a True Tale)"
Matthew Biberman, University of Louisville
"Speed Freak"
Celeste Fraser Delgado, Barry University
"The Soundtrack of our Rides: Motorcycle Music"
Suzanne Ferriss, Nova Southeastern University
Galvez (5th Floor)
3145 Material Culture II: The Culture of Resistance
Chair: Ella Howard, Armstrong Atlantic State University
"AfroBrazilian Female Slave Dress: A Material Culture Analysis where Material
Objects Do Not Exist"
Kelly Gage, University of Minnesota
"The Community Empowerment and Cultural Heritage—The Example of
Traditional Handicraft in Lukang"
Zu-Chun Liao, National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan
"Crafting Communities, Crafting Selves: Re-Conceiving Do-It-Yourself as a
Politics of Sustainability"
Doreen Piano, The University of New Orleans
Bacchus (4th Floor)
3146 Popular American Authors II:
Chair: David Sabrio, Texas A&M University, Kingsville
"A New Breed of Miscegenation: Education, Race, and Ernest Gaines’s Catherine
Carmier"
Jude Meche, Louisiana State University, Eunice
"Point of View in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird"
Stanley Coleman, Nicholls State University
"Josephine Lawrence, Self-Help, and the Great Depression"
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