CAS Colloquium – Thursday
March 24, 2011 |
MUC, Goshen Lounge
12:00-1:00pm | SIUE Steel Presents Music by American Composers
Dan Smithiger, Music
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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
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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
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12:00-2:00pm | Community in Culture
Anthony Cheeseboro, Historical Studies Entertainment and Leisure in East St. Louis 1950-1995
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Gerald Jackson, English Language & Literature
SimHumanities
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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
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Debbie Mann, Foreign Languages & Literature
American Identity with a French Accent: Re- Presenting Québec History in the works of Jacques Poulin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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4:45-5:15pm | Storm Chasing in the American Heartland –
Poster Session Christiana Ciampoli
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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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