CAS Colloquium – Thursday

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

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