DAY ONE

Friday, 7 March 2008

All sessions are in Tango 3 & 4, 7th Floor

7:00-9:00      Continental Breakfast, Skyline Atrium, 7th floor

8:00-12:45    Late Registration; Early registrants can pick up materials, Tango 3 Hallway

8:00-6:00      Book Exhibit, Skyline Atrium

8:45-9:00      Opening Remarks and all sessions in Tango Rooms 3 & 4, 7th floor

Session 1: AAWL and Self, Family, and Community Identity

Chair:  Marcheta Evans, U Texas-San Antonio

9:00-9:20      Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, N Carolina State U, & Adrienne Dixson, Ohio State U

                     ÒFrom Jezebels to Nappy Headed Hos: African American Women, Language and IdentityÓ

9:20-9:40      Alicia Beckford-Wassink, U Washington

                     ÒGrowing up with Two ÒBlack LanguagesÓ: Kinship and Attitudes toward Jamaican Creole and African American EnglishÓ

9:40-10:00    Peggy Jones, U Nebraska-Omaha

                     ÒMy Mother Tongue: A Linguistic AutoethnographyÓ

10:05-10:35  Discussion

10:30-11:00  Morning Snack Break, Skyline Atrium, 7th floor

Session 2: AAWL from Girls to Women

Chair:  Sonia Sald’var-Hull, U Texas-San Antonio

11:00-11:20  Lisa Green & Tracy Conner, U Massachusetts-Amherst

ÒRhetorical Markers in Developing African American English-Speaking GirlsÕ LanguageÓ

11:20-11:40  Elaine Richardson, Ohio State U

                     ÒGender Ideologies in Hip Hop Feminism and Performances of Black WomanhoodÓ

11:40-12:00  H. Samy Alim, U California-Los Angeles

                     ÒWe Just Doin Our Sista ThangÓ: Styling African American WomenÕs Language in InteractionÓ

12:05-12:35  Discussion

12:35-2:30    Lunch Break (on your own)

2:00-4:30      Late Registration; Early registrants can pick up materials, Tango 3 Hallway

Session 3: AAWL and Regional Variation

Chair:  Bridget Drinka, U Texas-San Antonio

2:30-2:50      Iyabo Osiapem, College of William & Mary

                     ÒLanguage and Identity among Black Bermudean WomenÓ

2:50-3:10      Jennifer Bloomquist, Gettysburg College

                     ÒPeople Say I Speak Proper, but Girl, IÕm Ghetto! Regional Dialect Use and Adaptation by African American Women in PennsylvaniaÕs Lower Susquehanna ValleyÓ

3:10-3:30      Shelome Gooden, U Pittsburgh

                     ÒAuthentically Black, Bona Fide Pittsburgher: A Prosodic Description of African American WomenÕs Speech in PittsburghÓ

3:35-4:05      Discussion

4:00-4:30      Afternoon Snack Break, Skyline Atrium, 7th floor

Session 4: AAWL in Educational Contexts

Chair: Kelly Rogers, U Texas-San Antonio

4:30-4:50      Christine Mallinson, U Maryland-Baltimore County

                     ÒThe Way I Can Speak for MyselfÓ: The Social and Linguistic Context of Interviews with African American Girls in Washington, D.C.

4:50-5:10      Anne Charity, College of William & Mary, RenŽe Price, St. CatherineÕs School

                     ÒVariation in African American Secondary School Girl's Language and EducationÓ

5:10-5:30      Angela Rickford, San Jose State U

                     ÒSix Deep Teaching Strategies for Engaging Struggling K-12 Students in Literary and Literacy DevelopmentÓ

5:35-6:05      Discussion

6:05              Adjourn for the day

 

 

DAY 2

Saturday, 8 March 2008

All sessions are in Tango 3 & 4, 7th Floor

7:00-9:00      Continental Breakfast, Skyline Atrium, 7th floor

8:00-12:45    Late Registration; Early registrants can pick up materials, Tango 3 Hallway

8:00--5:00    Book Exhibit, Skyline Atrium, 7th floor

8:30-8:35      Opening Remarks

Session 5: AAWL Representations in Literature and Film

Chair:  Norma Cantœ, U Texas-San Antonio

8:35-8:55      Joycelyn Moody, U Texas-San Antonio

ÒBlack Intimacy and White Interlocution in 19th-Century Mediated Love LettersÓ

8:55-9:15      Calaya Reid, Clark Atlanta U/U Georgia

                     ÒFrom Bitch to Baby: Struggles Dealing with AAWL and Character Dialogue in Take Her ManÓ

9:15-9:35      Grisel Acosta, U Texas-San Antonio

                     ÒSilencio Re‡l: Silences and Voices in Afro-Latina Language in ÒI Am CubaÓ and ÒAnne B. RealÓÓ

9:35-9:55      Tani Sanchez, U Arizona

                     ÒDiscourses of the Black Female Messiah in Contemporary FilmÓ

10:00-10:30  Discussion

10:30-11:00  Morning Snack Break, Skyline Atrium, 7th floor

Session 6: AAWL from the Kitchen to the Amen Corner

Chair:  Larry Williams, U Texas-San Antonio

11:00-11:20  Lanita Jacobs-Huey, U Southern California

                     ÒTalking about (and Beyond) Hair:  Negotiating Expertise and ÒRealnessÓ in Black WomenÕs Hair CareÓ

11:20-11:40  Angela Kortenhoven, Calvin College/Stanford U

                     ÒPentecostal Women TestifyinÓ

11:40-12:00  Charles DeBose, California State U-Eastbay

                     ÒChurch Lady Talk: African American Female Language in/and the ChurchÓ

12:05-12:35  Discussion

12:35-2:30    Lunch Break (on your own)

2:00-5:00      Late Registration; Early registrants can pick up materials, Tango 3 Hallway

Session 7: AAWL Discourse and Grammar

Chair:  Howard Smith, U Texas-San Antonio

2:30-2:50      Arthur Spears, City University of New York

                     ÒTheorizing AAWL: Toward a Theory of Grammar and UseÓ

2:50-3:10      Terry Meier, Wheelock College

                     ÒStand Up and Speak Out: ÒOppositional TalkÓ in the Discourse of African American GirlsÓ

3:10-3:30      Denise Troutman, Michigan State U

                     ÒSignifying and Black WomanÕs ÒPlaceÓÓ

3:30-3:50      John R. Rickford & Mackenzie Price, Stanford U

                     ÒGirls II Women: Foxy Boston and Tinky Gates RevisitedÓ

3:55-4:30      Discussion

4:30-5:00      Afternoon Snack Break, Skyline Atrium, 7th floor

Session 8: Where Do We Go From Here in AAWL Research?

Chair:  Sonja Lanehart, U Texas-San Antonio

5:00-6:00      Speakers: All conference presenters

                     Conference speakers will field questions from audience members (PBS format)