Conferences

Research Roundtables: Saturday, October 29 1:30-3:30

LaTrese Adkins, Wellesley College
Ante-Bellum Slave Funerals: Culture or Conspiracy?
Thabiti Asukile, Coe College
Intellectual biography of Joel Augustus Rogers
Andrea Estepa, Juniata College
Taking the White Gloves Off: Women Strike for Peace and the Transformation of Women's Activist Identities in America, 1961-2000
Adrienne Petty, Swarthmore College
Small Farm Owners in North Carolina's Tobacco Belt, 1925-1982

Eva Copeland, Dickinson College
The 19th-Century Peninsular realist novel and gender
Jonathan Kidd, Pomona College
Shakespeare and Social Death
Timothy Robinson, Southwestern University
History, Culture, and the Literary Imagination in African-American Fiction
Sonia Sabnis, Vassar College
Apuleius' Metamorphoses
Leslie Wingard, Haverford College
From Sacred to Secular and Back: Crossing the Line in 20^th Century African-American Literature

Agnes Bertiz, Hamilton College
The Image of Garden and Landscape in the Late 14th-Century Illuminated Tacuinum Sanitatis Manuscripts
Carlos Carillo, DePauw University
Lei Ouyang Bryant, Macalester College
Songs and Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Elizabeth Moran, DePauw University
The Sacred as Everyday: Food and Ritual in Aztec Art

Ayani Good, University of the South
Naughty or Nice?: Adolescent Girls of Color Examine Female Representation in Hip Hop Music
Sarita Gregory, Macalester College
Improvising Politics: Jazz, Democracy, and Challenging the Politics of Mutual Respect
Carla Shedd, Bryn Mawr College
Race, Perception of Social Injustice and Legitimacy of/Compliance with the Law: the Case of Chicago Public School Youth
Terah Venzant, Carleton College
African-American High School Students' Experiences in High-and Low-Track Math and English Courses

Emily Lee, Haverford College
Meaning, Creativity, and the Visible Differences of the Body: A Phenomenological Reading of Race
Carlos Reyes, Saint Olaf College
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Diaspora in Spinoza, Proust, and Joyce
Melvin Rogers, Carleton College
The Undiscovered Dewey: Identity, Democracy, and the Meaningfulness of Experience

Lisa Alexander, Willamette University
Race on First, Class on Second, Gender on Third, and Sexuality Up to Bat: Intersectionality, Power, and Major League Baseball
Monica Hulsbus, Grinnell College
Virtual Bodies, Chaotic Practices: Complexity in the Popular Imaginary. The reception of computer technologies and their incorporation into everyday life
Antonio Tiongson, Jr., Mt. Holyoke College
Filipino American youth cultural politics

Julio Javier Aguayo, Denison
The Role of the Legislature in the Fall of the Fujimori Regime in Peru in 2000
Glenn Chambers, DePauw University
Foreign Labor and the Struggle for an Afro-Honduran Identity: Race, Nation and Identity in a Banana Republic, 1876-1954
Ousman Kobo, Gettysburg College
A Comparative Sociohistorical Study of Ahl-As-Sunna Islamist Movements in Ghana and Burkina Faso, 1950-2000
Kathleen Lopez, Hamilton College
Migrants Between Nations: The Chinese in Cuba, 1874-1959