CAS Colloquium – Thursday

March 24, 2011

 

MUC, Goshen Lounge

 

12:00-1:00pm SIUE Steel Presents Music by American Composers

Dan Smithiger, Music

 

MUC, Oak/Redbud Rooms

 

9:00-10:30am W(h)e(a)ther America: Environment, Climate, Society

 

Francis Odmerho, Geography; Shunfu Hu, Geography

Thinking About the Long-term Downstream Impacts of the Locks and Dams of the Mississippi River on Channel Patterns

 

Mark Hildebrandt, Geography

Impacts of Global Climate Change on Extreme Weather Events in the United States

 

Cynthia Bateman, English Language & Literature

Overlooking Environmental Injustice in America: A Marxist Interpretation of the Distracting Power of Capitalism

 

10:45-11:45am Thinking About America From Abroad

 

Nathaniel Dell, Philosophy

Authentic Experience, Nationalistic Categories, and Philosophical Travelogue: The Instanblues

 

 

 

 

Sara Sullivan, Historical Studies

International Standards and Local Crimes in Times of War: The Internment of Japanese Americans in the 1940s US as Viewed from the Geneva Convention

 

Lauren Gibson, Historical Studies

Room for the Heart to Grow: Pamuk’s Istanbul and Immigrants’ Learned Love of America

 

12:00-2:00pm Community in Culture

 

Anthony Cheeseboro, Historical Studies

Entertainment and Leisure in East St. Louis 1950-1995

 

  Aminata Cairo, Anthropology; Cassaundra Sampson, Political Science; Dometi Pongo, Business Economics & Finance; Jonathan Sterns, Anthropology; Kim Claus, Anthropology; William Scudere, Anthropology

Drumming for Well Being: Lessons Learned About Race, Community & Cultural Heritage

 

2:15-3:30pm Thinking About Native America I – Redressing the Past in the Present: Challenges and Issues

 

Julie Holt, Anthropology

Putting the Native Back into the American Bottom

 

Greg Vogel, Anthropology

Caddo Past and Caddo Present: The Archaeology and Identity of the Caddo Nation

 

 

Anne Flaherty, Political Science

A Losing Hand: The Media and Portrayals of American Indian Claims and Tribal Gaming

 

Rowena McClinton, Historical Studies

Missionary Writings about Indians: Problems, Confusions, and Solutions

 

 

3:45-5:00pm Thinking About Native America II – Redressing the Past in the Present: Collaborative and Indigenous Initiatives

 

Gypsy Murphy, Anthropology

Red Power-Red Pedagogy

 

Ceara Horsley, English Language & Literature

NAGPRA Quantified: What Empirical Analyses of Artifact Repatriations Can Tell Us

 

Cory Willmott, Anthropology

Collaborative Research and Digital Circulation: The GRASAC Database of Great Lakes Aboriginal Culture

 

Greg Fields, Philosophy

Songs in Epic Stories of the Pacific Northwest and Prospects for Recovery of The Samish Language

 

5:30-6:30pm Ways of Knowing

 

Clay Michael Awsumb, Sociology

Power of Knowledge and Power Over Knowledge: Incorporating Foucault and Bourdieu to the Cultural Study of Music

 

  Gerald Jackson, English Language & Literature

SimHumanities

 

MUC, Maple/Dogwood Rooms

 

9:30-10:30am American Culture(s)

 

Aminata Cairo, Anthropology & Weedie Braimah, Professional Musician from St. Louis, Mo.

Being African in America

 

  Debbie Mann, Foreign Languages & Literature

American Identity with a French Accent: Re- Presenting Québec History in the works of Jacques Poulin

 

12:30-1:30pm The Long Struggle for Civil Rights 1870-1965

 

Bryan Jack, Historical Studies

The Struggle to Desegregate the St. Louis Public Transportation Mainly Through the Efforts of Carlton Tandy and his Wife

 

Jasmine Coleman, Historical Studies

Charts of Early Race Riots at the Turn of the Century in Illinois

 

Rich Binning, Historical Studies

Change and Crisis, 1954-1965

 

Rowena McClinton, Historical Studies

Understanding the Struggles Faced by Civil Rights Activists

 

 

 

1:45-2:45pm

 

 

Representations of Americanness in Book Designs for Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World

Jessica DeSpain, English Language & Literature; Kelly Walsh, Wendy Simpson, English Language & Literature Students

 

3:00-5:15pm Thinking About America the Beautiful: Sustainability in the Face of Environmental Degradation

 

Richard Brugam, Biological Sciences

Legacy Lead Contamination in Metro East

 

Christopher Theodoraski, Biological Sciences

Potential Hazards of Nanoparticles to Human Health and the Environment

 

Zhi-Qing Lin, Biological Sciences

Selenium and Human Health

 

Richard Essner, Biological Sciences

Bird Biodiversity

 

Elaine Abusharbain, Biological Sciences

American the Beautiful

 

MUC, Hickory/Hackberry Rooms

 

3:30-4:45pm Becoming American – Poster Session

Anne Flaherty and Political Science Students: Erika Johnson, Gabriel Bowden, Cecilia Ramirez, Moncharo Webb, Amanda Berry, Nolan Sharkey, Joseph Stosberg, Brian Wheeler, Lucas Hanner, Mariah Young, Erica Szewczyk, Alexander Steiger, Marielyn Vogel, Laura Lambert

 

4:45-5:15pm Storm Chasing in the American Heartland –

Poster Session

Christiana Ciampoli

 

 

MUC, Meridian Ballroom

 

  Arts and Issues Feature Presentation – 7:30 p.m.

 

The Langston Hughes Project: A Multimedia Concert Performance of Langston Hughes’ “Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz”

 

(Note: The Langston Hughes Project is a ticketed event, contact Arts and Issues, 618-650-5774)

 

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