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SESSION I: Friday, 11:00am – 12:15pm

Colonized History, Colonized Identity
Moderator: Steven Burr, Loyola University

  •  Hussain Al-Ismail, University of Birmingham
    De-Colonizing History: Global Approaches & Interdisciplinary(ness)

  • Caroline Stasulat, Stanford University
    The Banality of Genocide: A Textual Analysis of Settler Colonialism in Gold Rush California

  • Lynette Yetter, Reed College
    Cannibal Identity: It depends on who is telling the story

SESSION II: Friday, 12:30 - 1:45pm

Native and Indigenous Heritages and Histories
Moderator: Tara Kee, University of Delaware

  • Angela Turpin, Indiana University South Bend
    The American Conquest of Hawaiian Lands

  • Milannee St. Hill, NC State University
    Indigenous Hawaiians' Perspective on Collections, Collectors, and Collecting

  • Ashley Riley, Dartmouth College
    Blood Quantum and Indigeneity in the U.S.: A Fraught and Complex Relationship

SESSION III: Friday, 2:00 - 3:15pm

Histories and Identities in War
Moderator: Steven Burr, Loyola University

  • David Knight, University of Oklahoma
    Unlikely Heroes: The Navajo Code Talkers of World War II

  • Bryon Garner, Union Institute and University
    Her Brave Black Soldiers: Black Veterans, Patriotism, and the Soldier-Athlete Archetype

  • Tobi Oloyede, East Tennessee State University
    The Rhetoric of Tribal Spokesmanship in Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra

SESSION IV: Friday, 3:30 - 4:45pm

Local Histories and Heritages
Moderator: Wendy McCredie, Mount St. Mary’s University

  • Jill Leroy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University
    A new totality of living: An Appalachian Ethics of Care in Wilma Dykeman's The Far Family

  • Michele Lynn, NC State University
    Scratched Records: Silences in the North Carolina State University Archives

  • Lori Townsend, NC State University
    History's Hidden Landscapes: Gilbert Town Historic District

SESSION V: Friday, 5:00 – 6:15pm

History, Heritage, and Identity in Literature and Art
Moderator: Christopher Pastore, University of Pennsylvania

  • Jessica Ingle, University of Texas at Dallas
    Reframing Institutional Identity: The Women of the Dallas Museum of Art

  • Taqdees Mahmood Mela, Dartmouth College
    Museums in Pakistan: Constructing a National Identity

  • Supriya Goswami, Georgetown University
    Recasting British Imperial History: The First Anglo-Afghan War in Children's Literature

SESSION VI: Friday, 6:30 – 7:45pm

Racial and Religious Identities
Moderator: Jennifer Coleman, Western New Mexico University

  • David Brewer, Mount St. Mary's University
    Legacy of Freedom & Leadership: The Black Church & Malcolm X

  • J.T. Hill, University of Texas at Dallas
    Fred Hampton in 2020: A theoretical examination of critical literacy and beloved community

  • Mary Tribble, Wake Forest University
    Pious Ambitions: A Vermont Woman's Mission South in a Time of Religious Expansion, Slavery, and Regional Divide

SESSION VII: Friday, 8:00 - 9:30pm

Heritage and Identity as Aesthetic Performance

Moderator: William Nericcio, San Diego State University

  •  Susan Callahan, Reed College
    Parading as A Means of Joyfully Choreographing a Future: Úumbal and Second-Lining

  • Ivan Fernandez, San Diego State University
    A Meditation On Association Football as Global Aesthetic

  • Katelyn May, San Diego State University
    And Now I'm in this Dream Place: An Analysis of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive through the Lenses of Cultural and Fantasy Ideology

  • Gina Weber, Southern Methodist University
    Latinx Theater: Updating Cultural Diversity in the U.S. to Create New Models of Engagement

SESSION VIII: Saturday, 11:00am – 12:15pm

Mis-taken Identities
Moderator: Tara Kee, University of Delaware

  • Stacey Bryant, Southern Methodist University
    The Wounded Identities of Domestically Trafficked Minors

  • Aneeq Ejaz, Dartmouth College
    Rotherham, Multiculturalism and the Structure of Silence

  • Ashlea Palladino, Southern Methodist University
    Real Life with a Transgender Teen

SESSION IX: Saturday, 12:30 – 1:45pm

Personal Heritages and Histories
Moderator: Thomas Cook, Rollins College

  • Ann Sieber, University of Memphis
    Family as the Ultimate Liberal Studies Subject
    Kristina Kwacz, SUNY Empire State College
    Amerykanki x 3: Locating Identity in the Paths of Our Predecessors
    Angela Giron, Arizona State University
    ¡Somos españoles! Intra-familial Colorism in the American Southwest

SESSION X: Saturday, 2:00 – 3:15pm

Histories of Inclusion, Heritages of Exclusion
Moderator: Jennifer Coleman, Western New Mexico University

  • Carolyn Luttrell, University of Delaware
    Settlement Houses and How They Helped Immigrants
    Diane R. Miles, Southern Methodist University
    Are the Children Well? Three Prongs of Knowledge to Assist Black/African American Parents in Parenting Young Children to Navigate Through Systemic Racism in America
    Alicia Johnson, NC State University
    Navigating the White City While Black: Exclusion at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

SESSION XI: Saturday, 3:30 – 4:45pm

Crafted Identities
Moderator: Christopher Pastore, University of Pennsylvania

  • Antoinette von dem Hagen, Stanford University
    Reflections of Female Discourse: Embroidered Samplers as Visual Rhetorical Documents

  • Simona Laiu, Stanford University
    The Fabric of Identity

  • Jeanine Powell, Southern Methodist University
    Language, Deceit, and Letters to Illicit Lovers

SESSION XII: Saturday, 5:00 – 6:15pm

Dramatic Identities
Moderator: Amy Danzer, Northwestern University

  • Michele Elchlepp, Southern Methodist University
    Luke Cage and the Harlem Renaissance Or How a Marvel SuperHero is reimagining the Harlem Renaissance.
    Kehan Mei, University of Texas at Dallas
    Obsession with Home and Homeland: the Haunting Ghost in Chinese American Writers' Writing Career
    Clare Shaffer, Texas Christian University*\
    Intersections of feminist identity in poetry and translation

SESSION XIII: Saturday, 6:30 – 7:45pm

Heritages of Progress and Struggle
Moderator: Jill Leroy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University

  • Emmeline Miles, Southern Methodist University
    The Voice in the Wind: The Native American Flute in Construction, Culture, and Performance

  • Marcia Brewer, Mount St. Mary's University
    Pride, Power, and Uplift: Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley and Annie Turnbo Pope Malone

  • Geoffrey Ramirez, University of West Florida
    They are Way Behind the Times: Maintaining Social Progress for Women in Pensacola, Florida, 1927-1939

SESSION XIV: Saturday, 8:00 – 9:15pm

Sounds of Identity
Moderator: Thomas Cook, Rollins College

  • Michael Breger, Stanford University
    Through Being "Cool": Hard Bop at the Crossroads of Stylistic Evolution and Social Revolution

  • Trisha Spence, Texas Christian University
    Unconventional Fashion for Unconventional Musicians

  • Neil Ramiller, Reed College
    Hi-fi in Suburbia: Technology, Music, and Adult Male Identity in Cold War America