41st Annual AJHA Convention
Memphis, Tennessee | Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2022
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| Questions about the program should be directed to 2nd Vice President Tracy Lucht. Go to: Thursday morning | Thursday afternoon | Friday | Saturday Wednesday, September 28 1:30 p.m. Board of Directors meeting, Memphis 2 - 6 p.m. Conference Registration, Mezzanine 6 p.m. American Journalism Editorial Advisory Board meeting, Memphis7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast Buffet, Heritage Foyer 8 a.m. to noon Conference Registration, Mezzanine 8:30-9:30 a.m. Welcome and President’s Address, Heritage II and III Aimee Edmondson, Ohio University, AJHA President, 2021-2022 9-10 a.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Heritage Foyer 9:40-10:40 a.m. Choice of Two Simultaneous Sessions PAPER SESSION: Propaganda, Politics, and Popular Media Heritage IModerator: Erin Coyle, Temple University Presentations: PANEL DISCUSSION: Historical Reflections on the Integration of Ole Miss Nashville MODERATOR: Erika Pribanic-Smith, University of Texas-Arlington Panelists:
10:50-11:50 a.m. Choice of Two Simultaneous Sessions PAPER SESSION: Racism, Nationalism, and Social Change During World War II Heritage I Moderator: Jinx Broussard, Louisiana State University Presentations: William Anderson, Elon University, “How the War Refugee Board Used Public Relations in an Attempt to Change Attitudes About European Jews During World War II”PANEL SESSION: Teaching History that Matters, Outside of the Box Nashville Moderator: Jason Lee Guthrie, Clayton State UniversityPanelists:
12-1:30 p.m. Sidney Kobre and Teaching Awards Luncheon, Heritage II and III 2 to 5 p.m. Conference Registration, Mezzanine 1:40-2:40 p.m. Choice of Two Simultaneous Sessions PAPER SESSION: Myth and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Journalism Heritage I Moderator: Erika Pribanic-Smith, University of Texas at Arlington Presentations: W. Joseph Campbell, American University, “‘Proto-pack journalism’ in Gettysburg's Aftermath: Parsing the Extravagant Claims of the Confederacy's ‘Greatest’ War Correspondent”PANEL DISCUSSION: Hollering in the Broadcast Wilderness: Black Radio in the Deep, Deep South, 1940-1979 Nashville Moderator: Caryl Cooper (emerita), University of Alabama Panelists:
2-3 p.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Heritage Foyer 2:50-3:50 p.m. President's Panel, Nashville This session brings together a diverse group of noted scholars to discuss incorporating theory and interdisciplinary insights into the study of media history, offering concrete examples of how we might look outside of our field for ways to better understand our own research questions and help formulate new ones. This panel is designed to help attendees think more about the bigger “so what” in their research and how it fits into a broader body of knowledge beyond media history. This could include social and cultural history, legal history, and book history as well as a wide range of theoretical and conceptual frameworks to aid our study of communication and journalism in democratic societies. Panelists’ work suggests other historical forces and conceptual frameworks that help provide fuller, more viable explanations to substantive questions throughout American history. Panelists:
4-5:15 p.m. Local Panel, Nashville Moderator: Dianne Bragg, University of Alabama, former Teen Appeal coordinator Panelists:
5:30-7:30 p.m. AJHA Awards Reception, Magnolia Room 7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast Buffet, Heritage Foyer 8-11:30 a.m. Conference Registration, Mezzanine 8:40-10 a.m. Choice of Two Simultaneous Sessions Heritage I PAPER SESSION: Confronting Culture: Women’s Experiences and Responses to Patriarchy Moderator: Tracy Lucht, Iowa State University Presentations: PANEL DISCUSSION: American Journalism: Special Issue on Investigative Reporting Nashville Moderator: Nicholas Hirshon, William Paterson University Panelists:
9:30-10:30 a.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Heritage Foyer 10:10-11:25 a.m. Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize, Nashville Moderator: Dale Zacher, St. Cloud State University Winner: Meghan Menard McCune, dissertation completed at Louisiana State University Director: John Maxwell Hamilton “‘At the Service of the Government’: American Journalists in the Great War and the Agent Model of Government-Press Relations” Honorable Mention: Bailey Dick, dissertation completed at Ohio University Director: Aimee Edmondson “Historicizing #MeToo: The Systemic Devaluation of First-Person Accounts of Gender-Based Violence by the News Industry” 11:35 am-12:40 p.m. Donna Allen Roundtable Luncheon, Magnolia 1-4 p.m. Historic Tour of National Civil Rights Museum At The Lorraine Hotel Meet in hotel lobby at 1 p.m. 7-8 a.m. Breakfast Buffet, Heritage Foyer 8:10-10 a.m. Choice of Two Research-in-Progress Sessions (Re)presentation Matters: Practices and Portrayals in Journalism and Culture Heritage I Moderator: Pam Parry, Southeast Missouri State University Presentations: Pamela Walck, Duquesne University, “A Different Kind of ‘Stunt Journalism’: Ray Sprigle, the Pittsburgh Courier, and Passing as a Black Man in the Jim Crow South” Patrick Walters, Washington and Lee University, “Social Media & Police Shootings: Considering the Ferguson Protests as a 'Critical Incident' that Transformed Journalism" Ashley Walter, Utah State University, and Karlin Andersen, Pennsylvania State University, “Portrayals of Newswomen in U.S. Film” Dana Dabek, Temple University, “Remembering the Flawed and Famous: How Journalists Address Sexual Misdeeds When Memorializing Male Icons” Eric Boll, Ohio University, “The Underreporting of the 2007 Chinese Anti-Satellite Missile Test by Major American Newspapers” Ali Noor Mohamed, United Arab Emirates University, “Charles Sumner and the Crafting of a New Public Morality on Race in the 19th Century” George L. Daniels, University of Alabama, “When Mary, MaryAnn and Marion Lead” A.J. Bauer, University of Alabama, “Right-Wing, Hyper-Local: The Birmingham Independent’s Conservative News” Charles Lewis, Minnesota State University-Mankato, "Picturing the War: The U.S. Government’s Use of Photographs During World War I" Thomas Mascaro, Bowling Green State University, “Academic ‘Imperialism’ in Journalism and Mass Communication: The Glacial Pursuit of Rampant Authoritarianism under the Guise of Critiques of Power” Will Mari, Louisiana State University, and Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen, University of Idaho, “Community Journalism and Newsroom Computerization” Influential Ideas, Vital Voices, Freedom Fighters: Expanding the Narrative of Media History Nashville Moderator: Pete Smith, Mississippi State University Presentations: Daniel Haun, Samford University, and Nia Johnson, Samford University, “Finding the Balance: Examining Paradigm Shifts in Journalism Curricula” John Ferré, University of Louisville, “Religion in American Newsreels, 1935-1951” Adam Schutz, Ohio University, “Beyond Nellie Bly: Undercover Reporting in Insane Asylums at the End of the 19th Century” Jason Lee Guthrie, Clayton State University, “Recorded History: Physical Albums, Material Culture, and Ritual Economy in Popular Music” LaTonya Taylor, University of Alabama, “‘The Voice of the Black Students Here’: The Black Chronicle as a Window into a Transitional Period at the University of Alabama” Dakotah Kennedy, Northeastern University, “Lost but not Forgotten: 90 Years Later, the Atlanta Daily World Kept the Strickland Women Alive” Claire Rounkles, University of Missouri, and Earnest Perry, University of Missouri, “Defiance of One Man: How the Atlanta Daily World Reported on the Denial of Julian Bond’s Elected Representative Seat in 1966” Rusudan Vashakidze, University of Georgia, Tbilisi, “Freedom of Press Under Attack: Georgia’s Case, the Road from Rustavi 2 Broadcasting Company to Mtavari TV Channel” Erin Coyle, Temple University; Elisabeth Fondren, St. John’s University; and Annette Masterson, Temple University, “Conceptualizing Press Freedom in Latin America and the Caribbean: Exploring Metajournalistic Discourse from Sigma Delta Chi in 1960s” Daniel Haygood, Elon University, “Black College Football’s Moment: The Story of the Grambling Football Network” Denise Hill, Elon University, “Public Relations, the NAACP and the Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard” Christopher Schaefer, University of Cambridge, “Race in the Washington Post Newsroom: A Longitudinal Case Study” 9-10:30 a.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Heritage Foyer 10:10-11:40 a.m. General Business Meeting. Heritage II and III 11:50-1:20 p.m. Working Lunch (Officers/Board) 1:30-2:30 p.m. Book of the Year Award, Nashville Moderator: Jane Marcellus, former professor, Middle Tennessee State University Winner: Kathy Roberts Forde, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Sid Bedingfield, University of Minnesota, Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America (University of Illinois Press) Finalists:
2-3:30 p.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service: Heritage Foyer 2:40-4 p.m. Choice of Two Simultaneous Sessions PAPER SESSION: Education, Advocacy, and Image Making in the Black Press Heritage I Moderator: Cathy M. Jackson, Norfolk State University Presentations: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Meet Us at the Corner Where Journalism, Race, and Gender Intersect Nashville Moderator: Brooke Kroeger (emerita), New York University Panelists:
4:10-5:10 p.m. Choice of Two Simultaneous Sessions PANEL DISCUSSION: Validating the Value of HBCU Newspapers in Journalism History and Media Industry Diversity: Four Perspectives Heritage I Moderator: Chalise Macklin, University of Memphis Panelists:
PANEL DISCUSSION: Graduate Student Panel: How to Get Your Research to Work for You Nashville Moderator: Cory MacNeil, University of Missouri Panelists:
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