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Africana Studies (Hall)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
2001	Africana Studies 1	Panel	Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 4:45pm - 6:15pm	Enchantment A

Alfred Hitchcock (Howarth)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
4001	Alfred Hitchcock 1		Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 8:30am - 10:00am	Enchantment B
4002	Alfred Hitchcock 2		Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 10:15am - 11:45am	Enchantment B

American History and Culture (Mohsene)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
4003	American History and Culture 1: Characters Welcome		Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 8:30am - 10:00am	Enchantment C
4004	American History and Culture 2: Identity in America		Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 10:15am - 11:45am	Enchantment C

American Indian/Indigenous Film (Adah et al)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
1001	American Indian/Indigenous Film 1: Negotiating Presence		Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm	Enchantment D

American Studies (Haven)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
2002	American Studies 1: Changing Representations of America and Americans	This panel will question the evolving concepts of the American citizen, the American community...	Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 8:00am - 9:30am	Fiesta I
2003	American Studies 2: Borders and (Post) Borderlands	This panel will investigate both metaphoric borders (of race) and physical borders delineating...	Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 9:45am - 11:15am	Fiesta I
3001	American Studies 3: Neohumanism in America	This panel attempts to explore the interconnectedness between various media as they...	Friday, February 10, 2012 - 9:45am - 11:15am	Fiesta I
3002	American Studies 4: Investigating American Narratives	This panel will explore muscular, exceptionalist and life narratives used to rhetoricize...	Friday, February 10, 2012 - 1:45pm - 3:15pm	Fiesta I

Arab Culture in the U.S. (Hussein)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
1002	Arab Culture in the U.S. 1		Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm	Fiesta III
1003	Arab Culture in the U.S. 2		Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm	Fiesta III

Asian Popular Culture/The Asian American Experience (Scally)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
3004	Asian Popular Culture/The Asian American Experience 1: The Asian Media Experience		Friday, February 10, 2012 - 5:15pm - 6:45pm	Enchantment C
4005	Asian Popular Culture/The Asian American Experience 2: Anime & Manga Culture		Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 8:30am - 10:00am	Enchantment D
4006	Asian Popular Culture/The Asian American Experience 3: Asian Identity		Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 10:15am - 11:45am	Enchantment D

Atomic Culture in the Nuclear Age (Zeman)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
4007	Atomic Culture in the Nuclear Age 1: Nuclear Storytelling in Film and Beyond	This was submitted as a complete panel:	Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 8:30am - 10:00am	Fiesta III
4008	Atomic Culture in the Nuclear Age 2		Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 10:15am - 11:45am	Fiesta III

Beats and Counterculture (Carmona)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
1004	Beats and Counterculture 1: All About Jack! Talking About Jack Kerouac	This is a panel dedicated to the life and work of Jack Kerouac.	Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm	Fiesta II
1005	Beats and Counterculture 2: Beat Works in Film and Literature	The influence of Beat and Counterculture Literatures	Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm	Fiesta II
1006	Beats and Counterculture 3: The Beat World: Exploration of Countercultural Influences	This is exploration of other Beat and Countercultural influences on literature.	Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 5:00pm - 6:30pm	Fiesta II

Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative (McBee)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
2004	Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative 1		Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:15pm - 2:45pm	Grand Pavilion VI
2005	Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative 2		Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm	Grand Pavilion VI
4036	Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative 4		Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 10:15am - 11:45am	Grand Pavilion VI

Captivity Narratives (Allen)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
1007	Captivity Narratives: Film Screening - "INK: A Tale of Captivity"		Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 8:00pm - 9:30pm	Fiesta I
2007	Captivity Narratives 1: Food for Thought		Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 9:45am - 11:15am	Grand Pavilion V
2008	Captivity Narratives 2: Abduction in Text and Context		Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:30am - 1:00pm	Grand Pavilion V
2009	Captivity Narratives 3: Early American Captivity Tales from New England and North Africa		Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:15pm - 2:45pm	Grand Pavilion V

Car Culture and the Road (Rusnak)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
2010	Car Culture and the Road 1: The Road as Cultural Marker of American Identity	This panel investigates the contradictory role of the Road in defining American culture. Not...	Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 4:45pm - 6:15pm	Enchantment B

Chicano/a Literature, Film, and Culture (Sanchez)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
2011	Chicano/a Literature, Film, and Culture 1: Borders and Gender	Exploring the impact of the U.S. Mexican border and issues related to gender roles and identity...	Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 8:00am - 9:30am	Sendero Ballroom III
2012	Chicano/a Literature, Film, and Culture 2: Chicano Artists	Chicano artists addressing identity through various mediums: film, novels and activism.	Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 9:45am - 11:15am	Sendero Ballroom III
2013	Chicano/a Literature, Film, and Culture 3: Machos: An Exploration of Masculinity		Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:30am - 1:00pm	Sendero Ballroom III
2014	Chicano/a Literature, Film, and Culture 4: You Are What You Eat: Food in Latino Literature and Plays for Young Audiences	This panel will explore the use of food in novels written for young audiences and the use of...	Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:15pm - 2:45pm	Sendero Ballroom III

Children in Film (Olson)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
2015	Children in Film 1	Critical examinations of the child image in film	Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:15pm - 2:45pm	Grand Pavilion I-II

Children's/Young Adult Literature and Culture (Dominguez)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
2016	Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture 1: Dystopian Worlds	An exploration of dystopian worlds in The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, City...	Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:15pm - 2:45pm	Sendero Ballroom II
2017	Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture 2: Being Hungry	An exploration of what "being hungry" can mean in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games	Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm	Sendero Ballroom II
2018	Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture 3: Looking Back with New Eyes	A new look at juvenile literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries	Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 4:45pm - 6:15pm	Sendero Ballroom II
3006	Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture 4: New and Resistant Readings	New and resistant readings of classic children's literature	Friday, February 10, 2012 - 8:00am - 9:30am	Sendero Ballroom II

Classical Representations in Popular Culture (Day)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
3007	Classical Representations in Popular Culture 1		Friday, February 10, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm	Sage Room (First Floor)
3008	Classical Representations in Popular Culture 2		Friday, February 10, 2012 - 5:15pm - 6:45pm	Sage Room (First Floor)

Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections (Dodds)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
2019	Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections 1		Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:15pm - 2:45pm	Grand Pavilion III
2020	Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections 2		Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm	Grand Pavilion III
2021	Collecting, Collectibles, Collectors, Collections 3		Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 4:45pm - 6:15pm	Grand Pavilion III

Computer Culture (Chen et al)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
2022	Computer Culture 1: Online Social Movements		Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 8:00am - 9:30am	Grand Pavilion VI
2023	Computer Culture 2: Apps, Blogs, and Social Networks		Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 9:45am - 11:15am	Grand Pavilion VI
2024	Computer Culture 3: Peer Production and Dystopia		Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:30am - 1:00pm	Grand Pavilion VI
3009	Computer Culture 4: Theory and Vision		Friday, February 10, 2012 - 1:45pm - 3:15pm	Enchantment A
3010	Computer Culture 5: Roundtable: Computer Culture: Present and Future	In this round table, a variety of scholars from within the area of Computer Culture will discuss...	Friday, February 10, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm	Grand Pavilion VI

Consumer Culture and Advertising (Kaiserlian)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
4009	Consumer Culture and Advertising 1: Shaping Identity through Consumption		Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 8:30am - 10:00am	Fiesta IV
4010	Consumer Culture and Advertising 2: Persuasive Language and the Consumer Experience		Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 10:15am - 11:45am	Fiesta IV

Cormac McCarthy (J. Bell)
Session Number	Title	Body		Room
4011	Cormac McCarthy 1		Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 8:30am - 10:00am	Sendero Ballroom III