PROGRAM

Friday April 7

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7:00 pm- 8:00 pm     Keynote: Dr. Courtney Morris, Penn State (CLA 1.302B)

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8:30 pm- 10:00 pm   Dinner for participants at Clay Pit

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Saturday April 8

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9:00 am-9:15 am         Opening note and breakfast  (CLA 1.302B)

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9:15am -11:00 am         Panel: Forging subjectivities and the nation(CLA 1.302B)

Discussant: Dr. Kamran Asdar Ali   

Keeping Politics Moral: Legitimizing Israel's Conscientious Objectors, Angela Tripp

Intangible Heritage in the Sakha Republic and Conflict within UNESCO’s “Framework of Safeguarding”, Kari Andreev

The Saudi Nation: Maintaining a Cohesive Identity with National Programs, Robyn Morse

Transcending Global and Local with Palestinian Diaspora Hip-hop, Garrett Shuffield

Alcohol and the Social Fabric: Prohibition and the Ezhava Caste Uplift Movement, Siddharth Sridhar

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11:15 am -12:30 pm       Panel: What remains (CLA 1.302B)

Discussant: Marybeth Tomka

In search of Demonic Grounds at Kingsley Plantation,  Ayana Omilade Flewellen

Integrated Macrobotanical and Pollen Results from a Classical Greek Trading Port, Thrace, Emily Dawson, Ally Mitchem, Fabian Toro, and Chantel White

The impacts of cattle introduction in Colonial Puerto Rico, Lara M. Sánchez-Morales

In Proximity of Ruins: The Generative Potential of the Deteriorating Space and Utopian Visions, Vasilina Orlova

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12:45-1:30                      Lunch

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1:30pm -3:15 pm           Panel: Cataloguing experience (CLA 1.302B)

Discussant: Dr. Craig Campbell 

Examining the Acculturation Process of Transfer Students of Campus using Cultural Anthropology: A Practice and Interpretive Theory approach, Catherine Hartman

Shaping the Discourse of Syrian Experience in France, Kate Maddox

Cruising in the Repertoire of the Everyday, Nelson Yang

Meaningful Activism on the ‘Virtual Rez’: Reflections on Videogames and Smart Apps for Language & Cultural Revitalization, Raul Martinez/Quichi Patlan

Bodily Knowledges: Toward a Queer Ethic of Postdisciplinarity, Sam Archer & Rick Smith

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3:15pm -5:00 pm          Panel: Making place, sharing space (CLA 1.302B)

Discussant: Dr. Sofian Merabet

Dem is Drunk Through the Ears: Sound, Space, and Listening in Alevi Collective Worship Ritual, Alex Kreger

Walking the City in Pain, Chris Farrell

Chicana/o/x Environmental Justice in Barrio Logan, Manuel Guadalupe Galaviz

"In the Town of Love, Music and History": Maintaining a Place-Space Dialectic in Msafiri Zawose's "Karibu Bagamoyo", Peter Breithaupt

Everyday Practices if Football and the Month of Ramadan, Veena Mani
 

7:00pm -10:00pm       Storytelling Night and dinner at 4524 Avenue G, Austin, 78751