2009 Annual Meeting March 19-22, Baltimore, MD

Changing Lives, Resistant Institutions

101. Roundtable: "The Stratification of Cultural Objects"
Friday, March 20 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Session Organizer: Murray Milner

  • Jonas Hart - "Christmas trees, Apple Pie, and the Crescent and Star: Muslims and Holidays in an American Town"
  • Christina Simko - "Interpreting America: Continuity and Change in the American Literary Canon"
  • Megan Swanson - "The Changing Beliefs of American Evangelicals"
  • Christina Wright - "Conserving by Consuming: The Changing Cultural Status of Fuel-Efficient Vehicles"

118. Roundtable: "Globalization & Work"
Friday, March 20 1:45pm - 3:15pm

  • Simone Polillo - "Conservatives and Wildcats in Banking Fields: Processes of Elite Centralization and Struggle in Italy and the United States, 1850s-1910s."

122. Roundtable: "Social Capital, education & Civic Engagement"
Friday, March 20 1:45pm - 3:15pm

  • Jeffrey Dill - "Schooling Global Citizens: The Moral Purposes of Education in a Cosmopolitan Age"

130. Regular Paper Session: "Adolescent Behavior & Institutions "
Friday, March 20 3:30pm - 5pm

Discussant/Presider: Daniel Potter

210. Roundtable: "Development, Diseases & Disorders"
Saturday, March 21 12:00pm - 1:30pm

  • Daniel Potter - "The Self and Social Expecations: The Transition of Emotionally Disturbed Youth from Adolescence to Young Adulthood"

213. Roundtable: "Rhetorics of Nationalism"
Saturday, March 21 12:00pm - 1:30pm

  • Gulay Turkmen - "Religious Nationalism Dismantled: The Culture of Martyrdom in Palestine and Turkey"

223. Regular Paper Session: "Man-Power/Woman-Power: Positive & Negative Variations
of Gender in International Perspective"
Saturday, March 21 1:45pm - 3:15pm

Session Presider: Rae Blumberg
Session Organizer: Ryan Gruters

  • Rae Blumberg - "Gaia, Gender and the Golden Rule: Links Between Economic Empowerment and the Environment"
  • Bhavani Arabandi - "Crossing Lines, Changing Lives: Impact of Middle Class Women's Work Force Participation on the Family"
  • Fan Mai - "Money Matters? Relative Income, Household Labor Division, and Marital Satisfaction: The Case of Taiwan"
  • Ryan Gruters - "The Fathers' Rights Movement and Gendered Memory of Conflict"

232. Roundtable: "Publishing, Print & Narratives "
Saturday, March 21 1:45pm - 3:15pm

  • Christina Simko - "Taking Prozac and Telling Stories: Depression Memoirs and the Reconstitution of the Medical Narrative"

247. Regular Paper Session: "Visual Representation in Everyday Life"
Saturday, March 21 3:30pm - 5pm

  • Sarah Corse - "Everyday Art: Understanding Domestic Display"

248. Regular Paper Session: "Women's Environment in Global Economies"
Saturday, March 21 3:30pm - 5pm

  • Rae Blumberg - "The Consequences of Womens Economic Empowerment vs. Disempowerment: From the Magic Potion for Development to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"

298. Regular Paper Session: "Stress & Violence"
Sunday, March 22 12:00pm - 1:30pm

  • Justin Snyder - "The Modern Body, Violence, and PTSD"

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