Conference Program

THE IMAGE OF THE 20^TH CENTURY

(and the End of the Millennium)

in Literature, Media, and Society

Fearing the Millennium, or Why I Want to Join Mulder and Scully in Fighting the Future

Pascha A. Stevenson, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

The Image of Hope in the New Millennium: An Apologia of Media-Based Hysteria Anticipating the New Century

Willard A. Underwood, Oklahoma Panhandle State University

Janice M. Underwood, Oklahoma Panhandle State University

Aspects of Millennarism in History and Literature

Silvio Covi, University of Southern Colorado

Millennial Media and 20^th-Century Images of Disaster

Edward D. Miller, City University of New York - College of Staten Island

BREAK

(coffee and tea)

Thursday, 11:00 - 12:30 p.m.

Session 4:� The Image of the Twentieth-Century Library in Its Society - Fremont

�� Moderator:� Ann Kuntzman, University of Southern Colorado

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Cataloging and Circulation

Gayle Abrahamson, University of Southern Colorado

Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie Libraries: The Evolution of a Public Image

Rhonda Gonzales, University of Southern Colorado

The Role of Libraries in Supporting the Human Rights Movement

Sandy Hudock, University of Southern Colorado

Libraries in the 20^th Century

Ann Kuntzman, University of Southern Colorado

Lisa Janzer-Mott, University of Southern Colorado

Acquisitions and Collection Development

Daniel Sullivan, University of Southern Colorado

Session 5:� As the Twentieth Century Turns: Schools, Families, Education and the Raising of Children - Carson

�� Moderator:� Tamara Berger Prossdorf, Montana State University - Billings

The Evolution of a Family in Twentieth Century Germany: Class, Culture, War, and Consequences

Tamara Berger Prossdorf, Montana State University - Billings

The Twentieth Century: Impacting America�s Families and the American Educational System

Steven G. Symmes, Montana State University - Billings

The Image of Effective Teaching in the 20^th Century

Patricia Arnold-Meadows, University of Southern Colorado

Dialectic Pedagogy: The Student�s Self, Society, and Semiotics

Ron Bohannon, Weber State University

Chukuma Ahanonu, Weber State University

Session 6:� History - Heritage A

�� Moderator:� Gerd Steckel, University of Idaho

Historiography�s Premature Pronouncement: Problematizing the Image of the �Short Twentieth Century� and the �End of History�

Alexander Merrow, Georgetown University

The Other Side of History: The Use of Fiction as a Primary Source

Tara Perry, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

Time Out: Images of Time for the End of the Millennium

Anne Shifrer, Utah State University

A Walk through the Berlin Wall: Connecting Personal Experiences with History

Robert W. Reynolds, Weber State University

Session 7:� Colonialism - Heritage B

�� Moderator:� Mark A. Harvey, University of Kansas

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La Vie sur Terre: A Vision of the Millennium in Post-colonial West Africa

Paulette Hacker, University of Miami

The Construction of National Identity through the Anti-Colonial Struggle in Ireland

Jacqueline Kaye, University of Essex

Decolonization and the Formation of Postcolonial Identity in the 20th Century

Anitha Ramachandran, Georgetown University

Shedding Colonial Practices: Artistic Representation and Political Intent in Indochine and The Year of Living Dangerously

Thomas Santos, University of Northern Colorado

Session 8:� The 20^th Century, the German Century - Jackson

�� Moderator:� Duncan Smith, Brown University

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Deutsche Sprache - Tr�mmersprache? or German on the Rubbish Heap

Duncan Smith, Brown University

Women in Ruins

Ute Maschke, Vassar College

Oskar Schlemmer, August Snadler, Hannah H�ch, and Joseph Beuys: The End of Art

Roger Mayer, Brown University

LUNCH BREAK

(on your own)

Thursday, 2:15 - 3:45 p.m.

Session 9:� Poetry - Fremont

�� Moderator:� Genny Ballard, University of Kentucky

Bernstein�s Dysraphism: Dysfunction and Thrombolysis in 20^th-Century Language

B�a Aaronson, University of South Carolina

The Twentieth Century in Some English and Arabic Poems

Elham Al-Bassam, University of Kuwait

Poetry as Act: Yves Bonnefoy�s The Torches

Aaron Prevots, Brown University

Wilfred Owen and the First Modern War

Justin Parks, University of New Mexico��

Session 10:� Ruins of the 20^th Century - Carson

�� A follow-up discussion to the panel, The 20^th Century, A German Century

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�� Moderator:� Ute Maschke, Brown University

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Duncan Smith, Brown University

Ute Maschke, Brown University

Roger Mayer, Brown University

Session 11:� Gender I - Heritage A

�� Moderator:� Colleen M. Dooley, San Jose State University

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Family and Government in the 20^th Century

Joe Dickerson, University of Southern Colorado

Martha and the Many Loaves: The Savior of Domesticity at the End of the 20^th Century

Tiffany Magnolia, Tufts University

Simmel and Baudrillard on School-Girl Prostitution in Japan

Takuji Yoshida, Texas A&M University

Women Zinesters: Postmodern Recreations of the Everyday

Jessica Fritz, University of Maryland - College Park

Session 12:� Sculpture and Architecture - Heritage B

�� Moderator:� Victor Manuel Dur�n, Millikin University

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The Image of Humanity as Seen through Contemporary American Art: Bringing Postmodern Visions to a New Public

David J. Paterno, State University of New York - Albany

The 20^th-Century American City as Image and Icon

Samuel I. Bellman, California Polytechnic State University - Pomona

Icons of the Century: The Tallest Buildings

Reginald Dyck, Capital University

The New-Class Ideology of Modern and Postmodern Architecture

David Gartman, University of South Alabama

Session 13:� Issues I - Jackson

�� Moderator:� Nicole Aime Roux, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

The Medium Is the Message: Television and Social Policy

Wayne Busby, Pittsburg State University

Public Conception and Media Image of Mental Illness

Kaori Fujishiro, The Carter Center

Camp Following in the 20^th Century

Betty Alt, University of Southern Colorado

Kent State: Counter-Culture, Counter-Memory, Counter-Memorials

John O�Hara, University of Miami

BREAK

Thursday, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Session 14:� Culture I - Fremont

�� Moderator:� Jason P. Vest, Washington University

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21^st-Century America Trapped in an 18^th-Century Image

Caoimhin O�Fearghail, University of Northern Arizona

19^th-Century Frames, 20^th-Century Images

Page Richards, Boston University

Dogging Media

Randall Gleoge, Montana State University

Stradding the fin d�siecle, Again....

Richard Swaim, University of Baltimore

Session 15:� Difference - Carson

�� Moderator:� Stacey Margolis, Macalester College

The Right to Exist: What Narratives Are Allowed within the Black Experience?

Toiya Kristen Finley, Iowa State University

Cultural Displacement and Accommodation in Younghill Kangs�s East Goes West and Chang Rae Lee�s Native Speaker

Joonok Huh, University of Northern Colorado

The Genre of the Geographical Polemic: African-American Meta-Pastoral and Spatial Materialism

Michelle Lewis, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Black-Asian Relations in 20^th-Century America

�� Kavitha Ramachandran, Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Session 16:� Imagery - Heritage A

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�� Moderator:� Lucia Aranda, University of Hawaii

Who�s Afraid of Henry R. Luce? Photography and The Cultural Front

Kate Sampsell, Georgetown University

Visual Representation: The Fragmentation of/by the Image in the 20th Century in Michel Tournier�s La Goutte d�or

Richard J. Gray II, University of Texas - Austin

Hollywood Sublime and History: Benjamin and Fitzgerald�s The Last Tycoon

Phillip Beard, University of Maryland - College Park

Third View: A Rephotographic Survey of the American West

Bryon Wolfe, California State University - Chico

Session 17:� Popular Culture I - Heritage B

�� Moderator:� Marty Rapp Sayles, California State University - Northridge

Sex Sells

Niki Summers, University of Southern Colorado

Cyberpets: Kernel Images of the Tamogotchi in Japan and the U.S.

Akiko Fukumoto, University of New Mexico

B. H. Limary, University of New Mexico

�I�m the Face�: The British Mod Movement in the Image of Swinging London, 1962-1966

David Simonelli, Tulane University

Making the Shadow Conscious: The Enduring Legacy of a Rotten Writer

Kathryn E. Wildgen, University of New Orleans

Session 18:� Women I - Jackson

�� Moderator:� Alexandra Todd, Suffolk University

Transforming the Image of the 20^th-Century Feminine Archetype: From Molly Bloom to Ally McBeal

Colleen M. Dooley, San Jose State University

Individuation and the Creative Self in Wide Sargasso Sea and The Lover

Jason Foster, University of Northern Colorado

Femininity Homogenized and Normed: Constructing a Critical (Body) Image in Late 20^th-Century Fiction

Eva Ludwiga Szalay, Weber State University

New Century: Colette and the �Claudines,� 1900-1903

Janne Eblen Keller, University of Baltimore

DINNER BREAK

(on your own)

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PLENARY ADDRESS

The Learning Center

8:00 - 9:30 pm

Hysterical Misery and Ordinary Unhappiness

Ellen Willis

New York University

(Author: Don�t Think, Smile; No More Nice Girls; Beginning to See the Light)

Reception to follow

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Friday, 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

coffee, tea, and pastries

(at meeting rooms)

Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Session 19:� Theory - Fremont

�� Moderator:� Sonal Nalkur, McMaster University

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Multiculturalism and Aesthetic Judgment

Andreas Michel, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Nostalgia for the Modern: A Postmodern Poetics of Irony

Terry Donovan Smith, University of South Carolina

Re-Viewing Modernism: The Image and Experience of Consciousness

Louis Simon, Boise State University

What New World, Which Order? Suspicions and Conspiracy Theories of Globalization in the Millennial Era

Alasdair Spark, King Alfred�s College

Session 20:� Justice - Carson

�� Moderator:� John O�Hara, University of Miami��

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Violent Media: The News Media�s Coverage of Violence in the Late 20^th Century

Danielle Mauro, University of Southern Colorado

From Lizzie to O.J.: A Century of Murder

Ian Gomme, University of Southern Colorado

Notes on Working in Nigerian Prisons

Herbert O. N. Nnonyem, Deputy Superintendent of Prisons - Oji-River, Nigeria

Visions of Justice, Images of Judges

David R. Applebaum, Rowan University

Session 21:� Culture II - Heritage A

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�� Moderator:� James R. Abbott, Rowan University

�Garrulous with Bewilderment�: Back to the People in The Grapes of Wrath and Depression Era Travel Journalism

Tamara M. Teale

Parallel Travel and Canonical Inquiry: D. H. Lawrence�s The Plumed Serpent

Julianne Newmark, Wayne State University

America as Myth in the Late Twentieth Century: The Novels of Yves Berger

Audrey O�Brien, University of Alberta

Pop Goes the Weasel?

George A. Benedict, Montana State University

Session 22:� Latin Perspectives I - Heritage B

�� Moderator:� Ralph Berets, University of Missouri - Kansas City

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U.S. Latino Literature: A Re-Vision of Cultural Imagery

Lucia Aranda, University of Hawaii

Tango in Black and White

Marilyn Miller, Catholic University of America

Raising Our Antennas: A Critique of Morse�s Reclamation of Patrimonialsm

Michael R. Trice, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

Hispanic Influence in the 20^th Century

Blanca Caro, University of Southern Colorado

Session 23:� Making the World Safe for Poetry: High Modernist Poetic Theory and Practice

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�� Moderator:� Shawn H. Alfrey, University of Colorado - Denver

Gertrude Stein�s Pragmatic Muse

Sean Law, University of Colorado - Denver

Unraveling Elliot: A Look at His Dramatic Persona

Tracy McCormick, University of Colorado - Denver

Feminine Imagery in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot

David Reden, University of Colorado - Denver

The Waste Land: Eliot, Tradition, and the Mythic Method

Kimberly Kennedy White, University of Colorado - Denver

BREAK

(coffee and tea)

Friday, 11:00 - 12:30 p.m.

Session 24:� Images of Women in Health Care (in the 20^th Century) - Fremont

�� Moderator:� Doreen Ouellet, Toronto East General Hospital

Mediated Images of the Nurse in the 20^th Century

Doreen Ouellet, Toronto East General Hospital

Including Difference - The Place of Belonging in Nursing

Alicia Healey, Toronto East General Hospital

Gender and the Social Construction of Illness

Colleen Shelton, Toronto Hospital

Session 25:� Art - Carson

�� Moderator:� Samuel I. Bellman, California Polytechnic State University - Pomona

Tales of Jack the Dripper

Carl Jensen, University of Southern Colorado

Selections from the Kitsch Kollektion

Pam Chadick, United States Air Force Academy

Sensations: Art Controversies and the Politics of Rearticulation

Jennifer Friedlander, University of Pittsburgh

Blurring Boundaries: Manet�s Scandalous Nude

Sean Kelly, University of Pittsburgh

Session 26:� Military - Heritage A

�� Moderator:� Justin Parks, University of New Mexico

Sabotage

Donald Anderson, United States Air Force Academy

Images of World War II in the French Caribbean Novel

Debra L. Anderson, East Carolina University

Progress and War in the Twentieth Century: Henry Miller�s Opposition to the Second World War

Stephen Starck, Belleville Area College

Protest by Other Means: The Death of American War Literature at the End of the 20^th Century

Tucker Amidon, California Polytechnic State University - Pomona

Session 27:� East I - Heritage B

�� Moderator:� Kevin J. McKenna, University of Vermont

Postmodernism in Czech Culture I

Michaela Peroutkova, Ohio State University

Postmodernism in Czech Culture II

Jaroslava Gajdosova, New School for Social Research

Importing Images in Wartime: CNN and Network International Correspondents Report on Kosovo for American Audiences

Anelia K. K. Dimitrova, University of Northern Iowa

Sarajevo: A 20^th-Century Epic

J�rgen Heizmann, Universit� de Montr�al

Session 28:� Extremes - Jackson

�� Moderator:� Robert W. Reynolds, Weber State University

The Twentieth Century: The Age of Genocide

Michael F. Bassman, East Carolina University

Memory-Work and the Image of the Holocaust in Edgar Reitz�s Heimat

Anjeana Kaur Hans, Harvard University

Postmodern Winner: Holocaust Storyteller

Ester O�Fearghail, University of Northern Arizona

After-Image: Holocaust and Diaspora

Sue Wragg, University College - Northampton

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LUNCH BREAK

(on your own)

Friday, 2:15 - 3:45 p.m.

Session 29:� Religion - Fremont

�� Moderator:� Aaron Prevots, Brown University

Ancient Wisdom, Doom�s Day, and the Mystique of Calling God by Name

Tiziana Rinaldi Castro, New York University

Embracing a �New Age�: The Return of the Paleolithic Goddess at the Dawn of the 21^st Century

Damla Isik, Cochise College and Ege University

Mary in the Millenium: Mary in Mexico

Jackie Stroud, Winona State University

From the Sweat Lodge to the Groovy Little Wash Station: The New Multicultural Face of Grass-roots Environmentalism

Susan Rodgers, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

Session 30:� Places - Carson

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�� Moderator:� Anelia K. K. Dimitrova, University of Northern Iowa

Re-imagined Taiwan: Hou Hsiao-Hsien�s 20^th Century Trilogy

Jeff Strabone, New York University

Sailing to Byzantium? Substance and Image of Constantinople/Istanbul in the 20^th Century

Caroline Sawyer, State University of New York - Old Westbury

Elusive Reconciliation: The Process of Nation Building in South Africa

Edward Ramsamy, Rutgers University

The Image of the Communist Period in South-East Europe

Robin S. Brooks, University of California - Berkeley

Session 31:� Latin Perspectives II - Heritage A

�� Moderator:� Caroline Woidat, State University of New York - Geneseo

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Mar�a Luisa Puga and Frida Kahlo: Two Women Re-creating Themselves in Their Work

Andrea R. Purdy, Colorado State University

The Sun Out There Unremembered

Bernice Zamora, University of Southern Colorado

Belize and Marxism: A Symbiotic Model

Victor Manuel Dur�n, Millikin University

Orientalism in Vargas Llosa�s Historia de Mayta

Jorge Barrueto, State University of New York - Albany

Session 32:� Women II - Heritage B

�� Moderator:� Esther N. Elstun, George Mason University

A Drama of German-Jewish Identity: Else Lansker-Sch�ler�s Ichundlch

Inca Rumold, De Paul University

Stereotypes of Jewish Women in American Literature

Martha Miller, University of North Carolina - Greensboro

Images of Women throughout the 20^th Century as Reflected in Maya Angleou�s Poetry

Dasha Jackson, Vanderbilt University

Nihilism and Classism in the African-American Community: A Feminist Perspective on the Problem and Solution

Nicole Aime Roux, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Session 33:� Gender II - Jackson

�� Moderator:� Sai Bhatawadekar, Ohio State University

Style, Gender, and Detectives

Kristi Derichsweiler, University of Southern Colorado

Teen Girls and Pop Culture Come of Age: Romantic and Realistic Alternatives to Powerless Sex

Sarah Hentges, Oregon State University

Double Jeopardy: The Sexual Dynamics of Blade Runner

Jason P. Vest, Washington University

Parents without Paddles: Loser Adults up Dawson�s Creek

Marty Rapp Sayles, California State University - Northridge

BREAK

Friday, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Session 34:� Issues II - Fremont

�� Moderator:� Jane Eblen Keller, University of Baltimore

Health Care in Transition: From Alternative to Integrative Medicine

Alexandra Todd, Suffolk University

The Good Life and Abnormal Leisure

Chris Rojek, Nottingham Trent University

Genocide and Human Rights

Boyd Littrell University of Nebraska - Omaha

Hybridization: The Cultural Logic of the Late 20^th Century

Friedemann Weidauer, University of Connecticut

Fearing the Millennium, or Why I Want to Join Mulder and Scully in Fighting the Future

Oskar Schlemmer, August Snadler, Hannah H�ch, and Joseph Beuys: The End of Art

Joe Dickerson, University of Southern Colorado

Women Zinesters: Postmodern Recreations of the Everyday

Icons of the Century: The Tallest Buildings

Public Conception and Media Image of Mental Illness

Kaori Fujishiro, The Carter Center

Kathryn E. Wildgen, University of New Orleans

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Session 23:� Making the World Safe for Poetry: High Modernist Poetic Theory and Practice

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Unraveling Elliot: A Look at His Dramatic Persona

Feminine Imagery in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot

Tales of Jack the Dripper

Pam Chadick, United States Air Force Academy

Sensations: Art Controversies and the Politics of Rearticulation

Sean Kelly, University of Pittsburgh

Postmodernism in Czech Culture I

Michaela Peroutkova, Ohio State University

Anelia K. K. Dimitrova, University of Northern Iowa

Robin S. Brooks, University of California - Berkeley

The Sun Out There Unremembered

Style, Gender, and Detectives

Jason P. Vest, Washington University

Marty Rapp Sayles, California State University - Northridge

Health Care in Transition: From Alternative to Integrative Medicine

The Good Life and Abnormal Leisure

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