2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

4133 German Literature & Culture VI: Race and Performance
Chair: Corinna Kahnke, Cal Poly State University
SATURDAY
4:30– 6:00 P.M.
"From Urban Spaces to Imagined Spaces: Afro-German Transformation of Social
Space"
Renne Barlow, Indiana University
"Architectures of Race and Sexuality in the Films of Angelina Maccarone"
Faye Stewart, Georgia State University
"The Man Machine: Robotics and the Performance of White Masculinity"
Elizabeth Bridges, Hendrix College
Balcony K (4th Floor)
4134 The Vampire in Literature, Culture, & Film XII: Democracy, Intimacy,
Race and Mainstreaming the Vampire
Chair: Sarah Pierce, Pacifica Graduate Institute
"The Politics of Democracy and Intimacy in the Vegas Vampire"
Charlotte Tidy, Bowling Green State University
"Out of the Shadows: A Mythic and Depth Psychological Analysis of the
Mainstreaming of the American Vampire"
Sarah Pierce
"Judging Love: Justice and Intimacy in The Sasaki Couple's Merciless Battle"
Gary Kaochen Liao, National Taiwan Normal University
"True Blood as a Metaphor of Racial Tensions"
Marjolaine Boutet, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne
Balcony J (4th Floor)
4135 Literature & Science VI: Sci-ontology
Chair: Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State University
"One Book, Two Lenses: The Plausibility of the Science in Lois Lowry's The
Giver"
Patricia Austin Ivan Gill, U of New Orleans; U of California, San Diego
"Subsumptive Reasoning in Science Fiction Literature"
James M. Okapal, Missouri Western State University
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