Program
Thursday, March 29, 2012
2pm-4pm: Workshop with Interview Producer Chris Zaluski (Documentary Film Program MFA '13), and videographers Cory McConnell (Communication '12) and Jawad Wahabzada (Communication '13), Wake Forest University
Annenberg Forum, 111 Carswell Hall
2pm-4pm: Lecture and Workshop with Angela Kocze, Central European University, Hungary, 'Gender, Ethnicity and Class: Romani Women Political Activism and Social Struggle.'
De Tamble Auditorium, Tribble Hall
5 pm: Opening Remarks, Kline Harrison, Associate Provost for International Affairs, Wake Forest University
Introduction of WAYF Production Team and Interviewees, Alessandra Beasley Von Burg, Wake Forest University
Annenberg Forum, 111 Carswell Hall
5:15pm-6:30pm Keynote Speech 1
Anne Demo, Syracuse University, "Citizenship.net: Immigrants' Rights, Interactive Documentary, and Participatory Culture"
Annenberg Forum, 111 Carswell Hall
Moderator: JD Oglesby (Communication, Dance ‘13)
6:30pm: Reception
7:00-8:30pm Panel 1: Where Are You From? WAYF Interviews and Beyond
Anneneberg Forum, 111 Carswell Hall
Moderators: Brigita Bercyte (Communication ‘14) and Tom Morrison (Anthropology, Communication ’12)
Presenters:
Pavel Guranda, American University in Bulgaria, ‘Emerging Citizenship: Post-Nationalism in Transnistria’
Mustafa Abdullah, CHANGE, Winston-Salem, NC
Scott Assenmacher, World Relief, High Point, NC
Qi Gu (Communication, MA ’13), Wake Forest University
Paul Loeser (Spanish and Biology ’12), Wake Forest University
Respondent:
Sally Barbour, Romance Languages, Wake Forest University
Friday, March 30, 2012
9:30 am-10:45 am Panel 2: Who Belongs? Dealing with Immigrants as ‘Others’
De Tamble Auditorium, Tribble Hall
Moderator: Adam Grob (Communication, Entrepreneurship & Social Enterprise ‘14)
Presenters:
Courtney M. Dorroll, University of Arizona, ‘Shining New Light on the Turkish Guestworker in Germany: Going Beyond the Concept of Integration.’
Svilen Trifonov, University of Colorado at Boulder, ‘Racism against Roma in Bulgarian Society.’
Marnie Ritchie, Syracuse University, ‘“Frontline Defense against Suspicious Activity”: Affective Labor and Anti-Terrorism Training in U.S. Hotels.’
Respondents:
Hana Brown, Sociology, Wake Forest University
Angela Kocze, Central European University, Hungary
Taylor Zacks (Communication, Entrepreneurship & Social Enterprise ‘13)
11:00 am-12:15 pm Panel 3: Where is ‘Home’? From Letters to Blogs
De Tamble Auditorium, Tribble Hall
Moderators: Rachel Handel (Philosophy ‘12) and Tiffany Newsome (English and American Ethnic Studies ‘13)
Presenters:
David Cisneros, Northeastern University (via WebEx), 'Rhetorics of Citizenship in Immigrant Protest Movements: Creating a Cosmopolitan "Home"'
Kathleen A. DeHaan, College of Charleston, ‘Corresponding Culture: Immigrant Letters and American Identity.’
Changsup Park, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, ‘Ethnic Identity, Political Engagement, and Social Networking Sites: An Analysis of Korean Americans’ Use of Social Networking Sites.’
Wanda Balzano, Women and Gender Studies, Wake Forest University, 'Refugees in Multicultural Ireland: Salad Bowl Ingredients or Pickles in a Jar?'
Respondents:
Ananda Mitra, Communication, Wake Forest University
Mary DeShazer, English and Women and Gender Studies, Wake Forest University
12:30 pm-1:45 pm Lunch
2:00 pm-3:15 pm Keynote Speech 2
Brad Vivian, Syracuse University, “Up from Memory: Epideictic Forgetting in Booker T. Washington’s Cotton States Exposition Address”
Annenberg Forum, 111 Carswell Hall
Moderator: Taylor Zacks (Communication, Entrepreneurship & Social Enterprise, ‘13)
3:30 pm-4:45 pm Panel 4: Interpreting the Words of Others: Citizenship and the Deaf Community
Annenberg Forum, 111 Carswell Hall
Moderators: Tiffany Newsome (English, American Ethnic Studies, and Education ‘13) and Emily Thomas (Psychology, American Ethnic Studies, and Entrepreneurship & Social Enterprise ‘12)
Presenters:
Rebecca McMillion (Interpreting and Translation Studies, MA ’13) Wake Forest University
Patricia Hauser, CSC, CI, CT, SC:Legal, Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
Kelle Owens, MPA, Executive Director, Communication Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. and Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Sam Parker, MFA, CSC, ASLTA Clinical Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Rachel Yaapoka Sulemanu, Ghana
Adiam Asrat, Ethiopia
