2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

WEDNESDAY
2:30 – 4:00 P.M.
"...And How to Get It: The Knack, Transitional Youth Culture, and Aesthetic
Revival"
Kevin Flanagan
"Taking the 1960s Seriously?: Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe (2007)"
Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School
Balcony M (4th Floor)
1047 Black Music Culture I: Roundtable & Area Meeting
Chairs: William C. Banfield, Berklee College of Music and Angela M. Nelson,
Bowling Green State University
"Finding Me, Finding My Voice: Reaching Urban Youth through Music"
Krystal Prime Banfield, Berklee College of Music
"Beyoncé, Chris Brown, and Contemporary Black Music Culture"
Angela Nelson, Bowling Green State University
"Black Notes and Cultural Codes: Makings Of A Black Music Philosophy (An
Interpretive History of Black Music Culture from Griots, Blues to Hip Hop)"
William Banfield
Balcony L (4th Floor)
1049 Science Fiction & Fantasy II: Technological Tensions With and Among
Humanity and the Natural World
Chair: Keith Dorwick, The University of Louisiana, Lafayette
"Begging the Question: Ethical Issues in Nancy Kress’ Beggars Trilogy"
Anca Rosu, DeVry University
"Gully vs. the Android: The Mind’s My Destination"
Stephanie Shultz, Northwestern State University
"‘Reclaiming’ Middle-Earth: Tolkien’s Illustrations for The Hobbit and The Lord of
the RIngs"
Susana Brower, University of California—Riverside
"The Magical Manufactured Landscapes of Oz"
Keith Dorwick
Mardi Gras G&H (3rd Floor)
1050 Television II: Televising Nostalgia in Mad Men, True Blood, and John
Adams
Chair: Kate Cochran, University of Southern Mississippi
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