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Make Reservations NOW for the fabulous forty-fourth annual meeting of the Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.
The meeting will feature the release of Border States, No. 12, the first issue under new editors, Ellen Donovan and Mary Hoffschwelle, Middle Tennessee State University. The meeting includes an evening with Steven Weisenburger, author of Modern Medea, A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South, a scholarly work explaining the events which inspired Toni Morrison's novel, and the subsequent movie, Beloved.
Mention American Studies Association when you make your LODGING reservations by April 1 ($60 single/$70 double) with:
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Friday, April 16, 1999
11:00 Registration 1:00 Welcome West Lot
Chapter President 1:10 Session I Outsiders and the South Ellen Donovan, Middle Tennessee State University, Presiding
"Appalachian Otherness: Lee Smith's Oral History"
"Heralds of Freedom: Kentucky Women in the Civil Rights Struggle, 1930-1970"
"Nashville Battle Monument: Symbol of National Reconciliation and Peace"
2:40 Session II Understanding the Wilderness Michael F. Dunne, Middle Tennessee State University, Presiding
"Sources of Kentucky and Tennessee History: The Draper Papers"
"Panic in the Republican Wilderness: Robert M. Bird, Early National Literature and the Crisis of Liberation"
3:45 Session III Driving Toward a New South Michael Birdwell, Tennessee Technological University, Presiding
"Marketing the Merry Oldsmobile in the MidSouth"
4:20 Attitudinal Adjustment 5:30 Dinner Trustees' Office Dining Room After Dinner Program Anne-Leslie Owens, President, Metro Historical Commission, Presiding
"Margaret Garner, Beloved, and Legend-Making"
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Saturday, April 17, 1999
7:30 Breakfast 8:45 Business Meeting Anne-Leslie Owens, Metro Historical Commission, Presiding 9:00 Session IV Saturday Morning Cartoons Melissa McEuen, Transylvania University, Presiding
"The Pleasure(s) and Power(s) of Television; Or, Can Cartoons Change the World?" 9:40 Session V Life and Culture in the Antebellum Border States Calvin Dickinson, Tennessee Technological University, Presiding
"The White, Black, Town, and Country Families in Ante-Bellum Kentucky"
"German American Log Houses of Lawrence County, Tennessee"
"Life and Culture in Antebellum Southcentral Kentucky as Seen in the Reflections of Silverware"
11:10 Session VI Reactions to the Agrarian School Todd Coke, Georgetown College, Presiding
"The Big Ballad Jamboree: Donald Davidson and the Southern Folk"
"All the King's Men Today" 12:00 Adjourn |
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