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Kentucky-Tennessee 
American Studies Association
 

2010 Conference Program

Scheduled Program for Kentucky-Tennessee ASA Annual Conference

Friday May 21 and Saturday May 22, 2010

Murray State University, Murray, KY

Friday sessions: Curris Center

Saturday sessions: Faculty Hall


downloadable pdf of program


9:45

Opening Remarks, John Dougan, Executive Director, KTASA

 

 

Session 1 Barkley Room in Curris Center

 

10:00-11:15

Moderator:

 

Permeable Borders: The Cultural and Physical Boundaries of the Altamaha River in Colonial Anglo-Creek Relations

Lisa Crutchfield, LaGrange College

 

Indian Water Rights to the Colorado River

April Summitt, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

 

The Eastern Band of Cherokee and Geography's Homeland Concept

Doug Heffington, Middle Tennessee State University

 

11:15-11:30

Break

 

 

Session 2 Barkley Room in Curris Center

 

11:30-12:30

Moderator: Ellen Donavan, Middle Tennessee State University

 

“There Was Water Everywhere” in the Novels of Thomas King

Martha Viehmann, Independent Scholar

 

Maria Thompson Daviess: The Making Of a Writer

Kay Baker Gaston, Tennessee historian and writer

 

Sula and Huck: Orphans and the River

Judith Hatchett, Western Kentucky University

 

 

12:30-1:30

Lunch

 

 

Session 3a Barkley Room in Curris Center

Session 3b Mississippi Room in Curris Center

1:30-2:30

Moderator: Martha Viehmann

 

Up the Down River: The Illusion of Freedom in Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson

Bernard Lewis, Murray State University

 

Mark Twain, Rivers, and the Critics

John Butwell, Middle Tennessee State University

 

Moderator:

 

Teaching Children in National Parks

 

Susan B. Hawkins, Fort Donelson National Battlefield

 

Gilbert Backlund, Stones River National Battlefield

 

2:30-2:45

Break

 

 

Session 4a Barkley Room in Curris Center

Session 4b Mississippi Room in Curris Center

2:45-4:00

Moderator: John Dougan

 

Roll on Forever: Rivers in the Songs of the Grateful Dead

Randall Clark, Clayton State University


‘It rained five days and the skies turned dark as night’: The 1927 Mississippi Flood and Blues Music

T. DeWayne Moore, Middle Tennessee State University

 

Crossing Over: The Mississippi River and the Diffusion of Jazz

Matthew Sutton, College of William and Mary

Moderator: Mary Hoffschwelle

 

The Revival of American Quilting

Catherine E. Lewis, Murray State University

 

Western Rural Women and Education, 1900-1950

Jennifer McPherson, Murray State University

 

Session 5a Barkley Room in Curris Center

 Session 5b Mississippi Room in Curris Center

4:15

Moderator:

 

William Whitley House

Carol Crowe Carraco, Western Kentucky University

 

Is Kentucky a Southern State?

Leah D. Pritchett, Western Kentucky University

Moderator: Van West

 

Micki Y. Kaleta, “Changing Views of Race Through the Pages of De Bow's Review, 1865-1867."

 

Adam Meredith, "Wizard or Devil: The Controversial Image of Nathan Bedford Forrest."

5:30

Reception (traditionally known as the Attitude Adjustment) Murray State University Faculty Club

 

6:30

Dinner

 

7:30

Keynote speaker: John Guider, The River Inside

 

Saturday

 

 

 

Session 6 Faculty Hall, Rm. 201

 

9:00-10:15

Moderator: Doug Heffington, Middle Tennessee State University

The River Meets Its Master: A Yankee Engineer Remembers the Taming of the Caney Fork

Lynn Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University

 

“A World in Miniature”: Life aboard the steamboat Heroine, 1832-1838

Heather Jones, Texas A&M University

 

Reclaiming Underwater Structures in Kentucky Lake

Tiffany Goldhamer, University of West Florida

 

 

Session 7 Faculty Hall, Rm. 201

 

10:15-11:30

Moderator: Bill Mulligan, Murray State University

 

Documenting the Cultural Landscape of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in Macon County, Alabama

Carroll Van West, Center for Historic Preservation & Middle Tennessee State University

 

Cotton-picking Monkeys and Hypercivilized Apes: American Anxieties in Popular Accounts of Richard Garner’s Monkey Stories, 1892-1920

Jeremy McMaster Rich, Middle Tennessee State University

 

Black Women in Kentucky during World War II: Voices for Democracy

Bruce Tyler, University of Louisville

 

 

Session 8 Faculty Hall 201

 

11:30-12:15

Moderator: Antoinette Van Zelm, Middle Tennessee State University

 

Are We Having Fun Yet? Self-Improvement and Hard Work in American Family Vacations on the Road, 1945-1965

Amy Rohmiller, Middle Tennessee State University

 

The Commercialization of Wilderness and the Formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Virginia Wallace-Falck, Middle Tennessee State University


Between the Rivers into Legend: Robert Penn Warren's "The Ballad of Billie Potts"

Jacque E. Day, Murray State University





 
 
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