2009 National Conference Program - PCA/ACA

Wednesday, 6:30 P.M. – 8:00 P.M.
Jackson (5th Floor)
1089 Appalachian Studies
Chair: Leslie Harper Worthington, Gainesville State College
WEDNESDAY
6:30 – 8:00 P.M.
"Life, Death and Rebirth of a Piedmont Mill Town: Ware Shoals, South Carolina"
Robert Barnes, Bowling Green State University
"The Land is Our Main Character: Growth, Development, and the Constructions of
‘Place’ in Gatlinburg, Tennessee"
Hope Amason, University of Arkansas
"Women in the Mountains: Kathryn Stripling Byer’s Appalachia"
Wendy Galgan, St. Francis College
Balcony M (4th Floor)
1090 Hip Hop Culture I: Hip Hop as Technology, Culture, and Education
Chair: Angela M. Nelson, Bowling Green State University
"The Anxiety of Death: Microphone Fiends and the Boulevard Eulogy"
Wilfredo Gomez, Bucknell University
"Student Success and Convergence of Hip-Hop Culture in Higher Education"
Carlton A. Usher, Kennesaw State University
"Introducing…the End of the Turntablist?"
Joseph P. Fisher, George Washington University
"Hip Hop Technology: The Leader of the Pack"
Prince Charles Alexander, Berklee College of Music
Bacchus (4th Floor)
1091 Eros, Pornography & Popular Culture I: Eros and Porn in Practice
Chair: Ralph McKenna, Hendrix College
"A Capstone Seminar for American Studies: Development and Critique"
Ralph McKenna
"Pedophilia as Legitimate Sexuality"
Todd Schroer , University of Southern Indiana
"Backyard Pornography: Genre and Sex in Zack and Miri Make a Porno"
Caitlin Collins , University of Texas-Austin
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