2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

"Zaftig"
Elizabeth Young, Ball State University
"Gender Anxiety and Abject Bodies"
Kyla Bender-Baird, researcher,activist
FRIDAY
4:30 – 6:00 P.M.
"Are We What We Eat?: The Representation of Fatness in Czech Media Contents
from a Gender Perspective"
Iva Baslarova, Masaryk University
"Fat, Young Femininity and Other Slippery Identities"
Lesleigh Owen
La Galerie 5 (2nd Floor)
3174 Baby Boomer Culture II: Baby Boomers: From Pre-Boomers to Obama
Chair: James Von Schilling, Northampton Community College
"The War Babies: The Vanguard of the Baby Boom"
James Von Schilling, Northampton Community College
"The Day the Music Died: Radical Youth Movement of the 1960s and 1970s"
Theresa Richardson, Ball State University
" ‘Long Walk Home’ to ‘Thunder Road’: Springsteen’s Cultural Chronicle"
Victoria Clements, College of Southern Maryland
"Sixties Sensibilities in Post-Obama America"
Mark Rubinfeld, Westminster College
Bacchus (4th Floor)
3175 Popular American Authors III:
Chair: Michael Alleman, Louisiana State University, Eunice
"Befriending Botticelli: The Life and Art of the Italian Renaissance Painter in Anne
Rice’s Blood and Gold"
Deborah Cibelli, Nicholls State University
"Hawthorne’s Philosophical Evolution as Evidenced by His Four Novels"
Olivia Pass, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
"The Devil You Know: I. B. Singer and the Magic of Jewish Folklore"
Joyce Moser, Stanford University
257