Honors College

    Popular/American Culture Association in the South

       Conference

On Thursday September 27, at 3:00 a.m. in the morning, twelve Honors Scholars (+ one recent graduate) left Johnson City to attend the 2007 Popular Culture Association in the South Conference in Jacksonville, Florida. All thirteen students presented papers at the conference, on panels such as “Religion and Pop Culture,” “ Surviving the Internet in the New Millennium,” “Retelling an Epic: A Multi-Perspective Interpretation of Zack Snyder’s Film 300,” and “Bob Dylan: Icon, Living Legend, and Timeless Master.” Participating Honors Scholars included Matt Brewer, Kathleen Cronin, Kacie Rowell, Shana Hartman, Ashish Javer, Courtney Garland, Michelle Hammett, Maleka Khambaty, Jennifer Snyder, Marie Porterfield, Meira Yasin, Colin Spaulding, and 2007 graduate Lindy Russell. Joe Rice accompanied the students and also presented at the Conference. This was the second straight year that ETSU students have presented at the PCAS Conference, and third time in last four years (nine students presented at the 2006 Conference in Savannah, and one student presented at the 2004 Conference in New Orleans).

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