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Humanities Landscapes/Human Rhythms

2003 Conference of the

National Association for Humanities Education

March 6-8, 2003

San Antonio, Texas

Conference Headquarters: Hyatt Regency San Antonio

Sponsored by:

The National Association for Humanities Education

The Ferris State University Department of Humanities

National Association for Humanities Education

University of Wisconsin – Whitewater

800 Main Street

Whitewater, WI 53190

Attn: Winther Hall 4052

NAHE Officers

President: Donald Metz, University of Cincinnati – CCM

President-Elect: Alma Bennett, Clemson University

Past-President: Carolyn Craft Leech, Jefferson Community College

 

Board of Directors

Marcia Green, San Francisco State University

Donald Larsson, Minnesota State University

Fred Thompson, Peninsula College

Lee Ann Elliott Westman, Ferris State University

Cole Woodcox, Truman State University

Tim Vincent, Shadyside Academy

 

2003 Conference

Program Chair: Lee Ann Elliott Westman

Conference Coordinator: Michael D. Phillips

NAHE Membership Chair

Bill Chandler

University of Wisconsin – Whitewater

800 Main Street

Whitewater, WI 53190

Attn: Winther Hall 4052

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Darrell Bourque, Editor

Editorial Offices

University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Department of English

P.O. Drawer 44691

Lafayette, LA 70504

NAHE CONFERENCE AGENDA AT-A-GLANCE

Thursday, March 6, 2003

2:00 – 7:00 p.m.       Conference Registration          Los Rios Foyer

4:00 p.m.                         Board Meeting                                 Chula Vista

7 p.m.                             Opening Plenary Session                   Regency West 1/3

               Welcoming Reception                 Rio Grande Ballroom

 

Friday, March 7, 2003

8:00 a.m.– 4:00 p.m.     Conference Registration/Book Exhibits Los Rios Foyer

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.            Breakfast on NAHE                            Los Rios Foyer

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.          Concurrent Sessions                            Rio Grande E, W, and                                                                                                 Center Chula Vista

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.         Break and Refreshments                     Los Rios Foyer

11:00 – 12:30 p.m.        Concurrent Sessions                           Rio Grande E, W, and Center                                                                                                 Chula Vista

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.          Lunch (on your own)

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.            Concurrent Sessions                            Rio Grande E, W, and Center

3:00 – 3:30 p.m.            Break and Refreshments                      Los Rios Foyer

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.            Concurrent Sessions                            Rio Grande E, W, and Center

5:30 p.m.                      Interdisciplinary Humanities Caucus  Room TBA

Saturday, March 8, 2003

8:00 a.m. – Noon          Conference Registration and Book Exhibits   Los Rios Foyer

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.            Breakfast on NAHE                             Los Rios Foyer

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.          Concurrent Sessions                             Rio Grande E, W, and Center                                                                                                  Chula Vista

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.         Break and Refreshments                      Los Rios Foyer

11:00 – 12:30 p.m.         Concurrent Sessions                            Rio Grande E, W, and Center                                                                                                  Chula Vista

12:30 – 2:00 p.m.           Lunch on NAHE                                 Garden Terrace           


Day 1: Thursday, March 6, 2003

2:00 – 7:00 p.m.            Conference Registration                     Los Rios Foyer

4:00 p.m.                       Board Meeting                                  Chula Vista

7:00 p.m.                      Opening Plenary Session               Regency West 1/3

Welcome:                       Donald Metz, President

                                      Lee Ann Elliott Westman, Program Chair

NAHE Business:            Donald Metz, President

Passing of the gavel

Election Results:             Alma Bennett, newly-installed President

Plenary Speaker:           Gerry Donald Scott, III, PhD

                                     Curator of Ancient Art

                                     San Antonio Museum of Art            

                     Welcoming Reception           Rio Grande Ballroom

 

Day 2: Friday, March 7

8:00 – 4:00 p.m.            Conference Registration and Book Exhibits Los Rios Foyer

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.             Breakfast on NAHE                   Los Rios Foyer

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.    SESSION I

                         Section A: Landscape (and) Design

Rio Grande East                 Chair: Alma Bennett

“Rhythms of Reading and Writing as Design Tools: A Process for the Undergraduate Landscape Architecture Design Studio”   Frances Chamberlain, Clemson University     

“Finding Indiana: Our Search for Place”   Pam Harwood, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana     

“Rituals, Rites and Reclamation: ‘Reweaving the Context of Community Development Through Active Art”   E. Ashley Kyber, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

                Section B: Is Cultural Research Scientific Research?

Rio Grande West               Chair: William Frey

"Ethical Landscapes in Puerto Rico: Resituating the Ethics Bowl"    William J. Frey, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

“Re-searching the Humanities Landscape: Trans-Textual Expansions”   Dorothy L. Stegman, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

“Campus Architecture: A Landscape in Teaching Humanities”   Lydia-Margarita Gonzalez-Quevedo, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

                       Section C: Intersections in/on the Landscape

Rio Grande Center             Chair: Terry Tomascek

“Ekphrasis: A Twinning of Experience”   Denise Rogers, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

“Taoist Rhythms/Chinese Landscapes”   Doug Sjoquist, Lansing Community College, Lansing, Michigan

“Waikiki’s Historical Landscape: Engaging the Past in the Present”   Andrea Feeser, Clemson University

                                  Section D: Panel Discussion:

  Thinking Between the Boxes: Interdisciplinary Learning Communities                                          at Del Mar College

Chula Vista                             Co-Chairs: Brian Hart and Deenie Roper

Mike Anzaldua, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas

Brian Hart, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas

Cheryl Pfoff, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas

Deenie Roper, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas

             Section E: Performance in the Pedagogy: The Educator as                                        Artist in the Classroom

Pecan                                      Chair: Tim Threlfall

 “All the World’s a Stage”   Tim Threlfall, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

“The Power of Play”   Christine Tanner, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan

“To Be or Not To Be!”   Laurie Harrop-Purser, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

“Let me ‘Edutain’ You: Teaching General Education Humanities”   Megan Sanborn-Jones, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.                        Break

11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.                   SESSION II

                             Section A: Modern Global Inquiries

Rio Grande East                 Chair: Daniel Brooks

“The Literature, Culture, and Film of Modern South Africa”   Elnora Rigik, Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania

“Contemporary Maya Voices”   Paula Heusinkveld, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

“Terrorism in the Humanities: Why Do Some Muslims Hate Us So Much?”   Jim Kim Young, Grambling State University, Grambling, Louisiana

                           Section B: Landscapes in Literature

Rio Grande West               Chair: Donald Larsson

“’Loopholes of Retreat:’ The Cultural Context of Parks and Gardens in Woolf’s Life and Work”   Elisa Kay Sparks, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

“The Metaphor of the Garden in Autobiographical Writing”   Judy Melton, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

“’Hellhound on My Trail’: Tramp[ing] a Perpetual Journey’ through the American Cultural Landscape”   Geoffrey Green, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California

                        Section C: The Gendered Landscape

Rio Grande Center             Chair: Joana Owens

“Nationalism and Masculinity: EuroAmerican Male Historians at the Fin de Siecle”   Andrew Walzer, Cal Poly Pomona, California

“Women in Tombstone: Re-Inscribing Domesticity onto the Western Landscape”   Lee Ann Westman, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan

“Queerscapes: Deborah Bright’s ‘Dream Girls’ Photographs”   Cole Woodcox, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri

                       Section D: Teaching in the Liberal Arts

Chula Vista                             Chair: Tim Vincent

        “The Creative Experience: Non-Traditional Approaches to                                 Reaching Your Students”

Elaine Gardner-Morales, Brookhaven College, Farmer’s Branch, Texas

Edleeca Payne Thompson, Brookhaven College, Farmer’s Branch, Texas

“A New Liberal Arts Education”   Jack Simmons, Savannah State University, Savannah, Georgia

                   Section E: The Ekphratic Poem: A Reading

Pecan                                      Chair: Darrell Bourque

Darrell Bourque, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Alice Derry, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, Washington

Jay Karr, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Denise Rogers, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.                 Lunch (on your own)

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.                 SESSION III

                  Section A: Revitalizing Teaching Strategies

Rio Grande East                 Chair: Paula Heusinkveld

“Technology and Self-Identity”   Darien Ripple, South Texas Community College

“In the Footsteps of Dante: An Interactive Enrichment Experience”   Beth Camp, Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, Oregon

“Using the Teacher/Scholar Model to Enhance Student Research”   Virginia M. da Costa, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania

         Section B: “Ancient” and “Modern” Rhythms in the Arts

Rio Grande West               Chair: Lee Ann Westman

“Requiem for the Dead: Gregorian Chant and 2Pac”   David Linebarger, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma

“’Images, Images, Images’: The Contemporary Landscape of Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet”   Joana Owens, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida

“American Metamorphoses: Two, Radical Ovids Take to the Stage”   Alma Bennett, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

                 Section C: Poetry/the Landscape and Poetry/Art

Rio Grande Center             Chair: Jon D. Green

“Richard Hugo’s Apocalyptic Landscapes, Apocalyptic Rhythms”   Bill Woolum, Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon

“I borrowed a landscape: A Reading of Landscape of Traveling in T’ang Poetry”   John Harvey, University of Houston, Texas

“Jealous Rivals or a Marriage of Two Minds: Poetry and Painting”   Alice Derry, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, Washington

3:00 – 3:30 p.m.                 Break

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.                 SESSION IV

                Section A: Rhetorical and Linguistic Interpretation

Rio Grande East                 Chair: Fred Thompson

“Fact and Fib in 19th-Century British Travel Literature: Forensic Lie Detection in the Narratives of Sir Richard Burton and Mary Kingsley”   William Tell Gifford, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada

“Frederick Douglass: Elements of Rhetorical Analysis for Social Change”   John H. Green, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida

“American Triptych: Nancy Till, Harriet Jacobs, and Hannah Crafts – Their ‘Dangerous Journeys’ from Slavery to Freedom”   Grace Crawford, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, Washington

        Section B: Daughters of Eve: The Fallen Woman in the Arts

Rio Grande West               Chair: Mary Ann Wilson

“Forbidden Knowledge: Reading and ‘The Fallen Woman’ In 19th-Century Literature and Art”   Lisa Graley, University of Louisiana Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana

“Are They or Aren’t They? Representing Prostitution in 19th-Century French Art”   Jessica Locheed, University of Louisiana Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana

“Making a Spectacle of Herself: Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and the Lure of the American Stage”   Mary Ann Wilson, University of Louisiana Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana

“On Her Way Down: Legends of the Fall in Contemporary Women’s Music”   Susanna Garcia, University of Louisiana Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana

   Section C: Panel Discussion: “HUMN 101: Let Me Count the Ways”

Rio Grande Center             Chair: Charles McAdams

“Telecourse Plus and Online Formats”   Charles McAdams, Brookhaven College, Farmer’s Branch, Texas

“Online Format and Honors”   Adrien Cuellar-McGuire, Brookhaven College, Farmer’s Branch, Texas

“Telecourse and Self-Paced Formats”   Ricky Reeves, Brookhaven College, Farmer’s Branch, Texas

“In-class Teaching Strategies”   Edleeca Thompson, Brookhaven College, Farmer’s Branch, Texas

5:30 p.m.                     Interdisciplinary Humanities caucus

                                    Editor: Darrell Bourque

                                    Room: TBA

              NAHE members who are interested in working on the journal of the National               Association for Humanities Education are invited to attend this informational               meeting                                    

 

Day 3: Saturday, March 8

8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  Conference Registration and Book Exhibits Los Rios Foyer

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.            Breakfast on NAHE                      Los Rios Foyer

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.   SESSION V

                 Section A: Dancing on the American Landscape

Rio Grande East                             Chair: Geoffrey Green

“Elegance on the Frontier Revisited: Music and Dance of Civility in the Pioneer Southwest”   Larry V. Shumway, Brigham Young University, Provo Utah

“The Seven Deadly Sins: The Dance Across America Tour”   Marcia Green, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California

“The Pulse of the Modern Dance Pioneers”   Kathie Debenham, Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah   Pat Debenham, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

                           Section B: Human(ities) Rhythms

Rio Grande West                           Chair: Bill Chandler

“The Forgotten Beat in the Rhythm of the Don Juan Legend: Chaucer’s Shipman’s Tale”   Raychel Reiff, University of Wisconsin-Superior, Superior, Wisconsin

“Rivers: Images, Policy, and Science: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Runs Through It”   Muriel L. Blaisdell, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

“Spa Culture: A Brief History of Spa and Health Resort Medicine in Civilization”   John Paul De Vierville, St. Philip’s College, San Antonio, Texas

                             Section C: Global Landscapes

Rio Grande Center                         Chair: Jim Kim Young

“The Global Village: An Emerging Humanities Landscape”   Daniel Brooks, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan

“West Meets East: Teaching Western Humanities in China”   Liping Zhang, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida

“An Innocent Abroad: Teaching American Society and Culture in China”   Terri Tomaszek, Davenport University, Grand Rapids, Michigan

        Section D: Panel Discussion: Cultivating the Crop: Growing   Humanities Programs through Interdisciplinary Learning Communities

Chula Vista                                        

Kim Chuppa-Cornell, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Chandler, Arizona

Bill Mullaney, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Chandler, Arizona

10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.                        Break

11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.                   SESSION VI

                       Section A: History, Politics, and Culture

Rio Grande East                             Chair: Larry Shumway

“Un-America in Three Acts: The House Un-American Activities Committee and American Arts and Literature”   Rita D. Costello, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

“Landscapes Writ Large: Theodore Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Culture”   Brian Adler, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia

“Military Structure in the Garden of Versailles”   Stephen Husarik, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, Arkansas

        Section B: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Theatre and Film

Rio Grande West               Chair: Donald Metz

“Plastic Intent and the Music in Selected Tennessee Williams’ Plays”   Darrell Bourque, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

“Modality in Sandrich’s Shall We Dance: A Linguistics-based Interpretation”   Brian O’Leary, Penn State, Erie, Pennsylvania

“Chiastic Structure in Chaplin’s The Gold Rush: The ‘Epic’ Design of a Film Classic”   Jon D. Green, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

              Section C: The Body in/and Cultural Construction

Rio Grande Center                         Chair: Marcia Green

“Body in Art”   Sydney Cross, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 
“Refining Health Assessment Skills: An Art Museum as Clinical Laboratory." Charles A. Walker, 
Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, TX  76129

“Judith Scott”   Jay Karr, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette

           Section D: Native Americans/The American Landscape

Chula Vista                                         Chair: Cole Woodcox

“Sketching the Savage: Melville’s Queequeg and the Phrenological Profiling of the 19th-Century American Indian”   Jason Huddleston, Navarro College, Corsicana, Texas

“Cabeza de Vaca: Model for Multiculturalism “   Stephen Petty, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California

“Wovoka, A Prophet Among Only His Own People”   Faun Dixon, Western Nevada Community College, Carson City, Nevada

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.            Closing Lunch on NAHE

                                                Garden Terrace