34th Annual AJHA Convention
Oklahoma City | Oct. 8-10, 2015
Convention contacts Convention Coordinator Registration Coordinator David Vergobbi Convention sponsors | Thursday, October 8 (morning) Go to: Schedule at a Glance | Thursday p.m. | Friday | Saturday Grand Ballroom E-F Erika J. Pribanic-Smith, Texas-Arlington AJHA President, 2014-2015 9-10 a.m. Choice of two sessions PAPER SESSION: Photos, Photo Journalism and Crafting the Message Moderator: David Davies, University of Southern Mississippi Bruce Berman & Mary Cronin, New Mexico State UniversityDOCUMERICA: The Project that Would Be, But Wasn’t, the FSA W. Joseph Campbell, American University Picture Power? Confronting the Myths of "Napalm Girl" Erin Coyle, Louisiana State University, and Nicole Smith Dahmen, University of Oregon History Denied: An Historical Analysis of Photojournalists’ Access to Photograph the President of the United States GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL: Meg Lamme, University of Alabama William Thomas Mari, University of Washington Carrie Teresa, Niagara University Ken Ward, Ohio University 10:10-11:10 a.m. Choice of two sessions PAPER SESSION: Movies, Mortarboards and Motivators: Transformative Public Relations Moderator: Reed Smith, Georgia Southern University Two Seminal Events in Motion Pictures Public Relations History: How U.S. Court Decisions Twice Changed the Way Movies Are Publicized Tae Ho Lee, University of North Carolina Radical Reconstructionism in North Carolina, 1869-1871: A Case in the Public Relations History of the University of North Carolina, the Forgotten Ideal of the "People’s University" Cayce Myers, Virginia Tech University Publicists in U.S. Public Relations History: An Analysis of the Representations of Publicists in American Press 1815-1918 PANEL: Women in American Political History: Insights from a New Book Series Maurine Beasley, University of Maryland
PAPER SESSION: Advocate, Accused, Aspirant: Daily Dealings of the Black Press Moderator: Meta G. Carstarphen, University of Oklahoma Kim Mangun, University of Utah The National Newspaper Publishers Association: Seventy-five Years of AdvocacyPamela Walck, Duquesne University Danianese Woods, University of Southern Mississippi PANEL: Diverse Voices on the Plains Peggy Goertzen, Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies, Tabor College |