Kelly A. Parker
Professor of philosophy, environmental studies, and liberal studies at
Grand Valley State University
Grand Valley State University
What Ought We to Sustain?
A Pragmatic Framework for the Question
Friday, March 22, 2013
JUB 304
JUB 304
Flyer for Kelly Parker's talk
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Agenda for 18th Annual
Conference
Baseball in Literature and Culture*
April 5, 2013
April 5, 2013
7:45-8:15 Registration and Breakfast
8:15-8:30 Welcome Warren
Tormey, Conference Coordinator
Dr.
Brad Bartel, University Provost
8:30-9:15 Keynote Address: Dr. Andrew Hazucha, Ottawa
University
“A Jim Bouton
Retrospective: Zen and the Politics of
the Kuckleball”
9:20-10:20 Concurrent
Sessions A
Session A1: “Negro
League Contexts”
Location: Hazlewood Chair:
Stephanie Liscio, (Need
affiliation): “Race and Baseball in
Cleveland”
Will Boone,
Winston-Salem State University: “Black
Babe Ruths: Major League Baseball, Hip
Hop Icons, and the Birth of the Uncool”
Dan Anderson,
Dominican Univ., “’Sensational War of Words’: Cultural Ideals, the African-American Press,
and the Formation of the Negro Leagues”
Session A2: “Baseball as Muse”
Location: Dining Rm. C Chair:
David Cicotello,
Murfreesboro TN: “New Developments
in McFarland’s Historical Ballparks
Series”
Mark Sickman,
Baseballbard.com: “Caught in a
Run-Down: The Perilous Position of an
Online Poetry Publisher”
Brian Steverson,
Knoxville TN: “Negro League Baseball
in Verse”
Session A3: “19th Century Baseball”
Location: Faculty Senate Chambers Chair:
Bob Barrier, Kennesaw
State: “’The Great Match’ and ‘Our
Baseball Club’: Two Early Baseball
Novels”
Josh Howard, Middle
Tennessee State University: “Amateur
Baseball in Alleghany County, VA, During the Late-Nineteenth Century”
Warren Tormey, Middle
Tennessee State University: “August
23rd, 1860: The Day Baseball
Fell”
10:30-11:30 Concurrent
Sessions B
Session B1:
“Baseball and Locality”
Location: Hazlewood Chair:
Amanda Bales, Lincoln
University: “Why I Want The Cubs to
Win the World Series”
Michael Pagel,
Northeastern State CC: “William
Heuman’s ‘Brooklyns Lose’ (1954): Dodges
Tragedy with the Goodwill of Neighbors”
Bill Gruber, Emory
University: “Jocks, Herbs, and the
1936 Yankees”
Session B2:
“Baseball in Film and TV”
Location: Dining Rm. C Chair:
Ginger Stelle,
Morthland College: “’E.T. Steal
Home’: Baseball on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and
The X-Files”
Nick Bush, Motlow
State CC: “’Mookie Wilson. That’s a Thing, Right?’—Pitching, Parody, and
Perfection in How I Met Your Mother’s
‘Perfect Week’ Episode”
Ron Briley, Sandia
Prep.: “A New Beginning for the
Baseball Film Genre: Bang the Drum Slowly (1974)”
Session B3: “Seeing Stars: Baseball Heroes”
Location: Faculty Senate Chambers Chair:
Stephen Andrews,
Grinnell College: “On Leanne Howe’s Miko Kings:
An Indian Baseball Story”
R Dean Johnson,
Eastern Kentucky University: “All-Star
Treatment”
Gina Logue, Middle
Tennessee State University: “Hank
Aaron: My Childhood Hero”
11:40-12:05 Concurrent Sessions C
Session C1:
“Sports Business”
Location:
Hazlewood Chair:
Don Roy,
Middle Tennessee State University:
“MLBAM: ‘Trampling Snow’ to
Bridge America’s Pastime and the Digital Future”
Session C2:
“Creative Fiction I”
Location:
Dining Rm. C Chair:
Craig Albin, Missouri State University: “Judgment Call”: A Short Story
Session C3:
“Winding Up…”
Location:
Faculty Senate Chambers Chair:
Crosby Hunt, Middle Tennessee State
University: “Something on Ball Four”
12:15-2:00
Luncheon and Jim Bouton Talk
Tennessee Room
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-1:30 Jim Bouton Talk (~20 min. talk + 10 min.
Q&A)
Book Signing in James
Union Lobby to follow talk
2:00-3:00 Concurrent Sessions D
Session D1: “Hall of Fame Decisions and
Other Ethical Matters”
Location: Hazlewood Chair:
Sarah Bunting,
tomatonation.com: “Facing Reality
(TV): Pet Rose’s Biggest Obstacle to the
Hall Isn’t that He Bet on Baseball”
Ben Morrill, Middle
Tennessee State Univeristy: “The
Baseball Hall of Fame’s Influence in the Development of Private Sports Museums
and Halls of Fame”
* Phil Oliver, Middle
Tennessee State University: “Right
When They’re Wrong: Fallible Umpires and
Infallible Rules”
Session D2: Baseball Creative Fiction II
Location: Dining Rm. C Chair:
Thomas Luckie, Butler
University: “Rain Delay”
Steven Walker, Middle
Tennessee State University: “Civil
War”
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