CAS Colloquium – Thursday

March 24, 2011

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

 

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