2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

FRIDAY
6:30 – 8:00 P.M.
Chair: Sue Richardson, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
"Everywhere and Nowhere: The City and the "Town-in-a-Box" in Colson
Whitehead's Apex Hides the Hurt"
Daniel Hartley, University of Maryland, College Park
"The Bomb, Deterrence, and Post-Oedipal Narrative in Cold War America"
Denis Jonnes, The University of Kitakyushu
"The Return of the Repressed: Witchcraft, Mothering, and Ecological Crisis in Tar
Baby"
Elizabeth Gruber, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
"Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and the Contemporary Wilderness Debate"
Robert Myers, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
Mardi Gras C (3rd Floor)
3206 Fashion, Appearance, & Consumer Identity X: New Fashion Cities,
Advertising, PR & Retailing
Chair: Heather Osgood, Drexel University
"Turning Washington DC into a Fashion Destination"
Evelyn Bandoh, EAB Creative Planning Services, LLC
"A Misunderstood Fashion Consumer Generation Could Mean Advertising Gold"
Tierra M. Wilson, Fashion Blogger & Social Media Optimizer
"From Style to Strategy: An Exploratory Investigation of Public Relations Practice
in Fashion Industry"
Crosby Noricks, President, PR Couture.com
"Retail Training: The Same As It Ever Was?"
Heather Osgood, Drexel University
Mardi Gras A (3rd Floor)
3207 Latin Americans & Latinos: Identity Issues and Cultural Stereotypes III:
(Re)Writing US Latin@ Identities: On the Page, Online, On the Stage
Chair: Eliana Rivero, The University of Arizona
"From Exile to Transnational: The Evolution of Cubanidad in Two US Latino
Plays"
Carolina Caballero, Tulane University
"Latinitas: Finding Empowerment and Cultural Identity through Media and
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