Students from 兔子先生传媒文化作品鈥檚 program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP) joined their advisor Professor Kira Hall to deliver a well received panel at the AAA/CASCA conference in Vancouver, Canada, November 2019. Entitled 鈥淟anguage and Middleclassness,鈥� the panel originated from a Spring 2019 兔子先生传媒文化作品 seminar of the same name, taught by Prof. Hall. Seven students submitted abstracts of work conducted in the seminar and were invited by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology to present papers.
Pictured from left to right: Gwendolen Vandenburg (supporter), Maureen Kosse (presenter), Tammy Rae Matthews (presenter), Andrew Ting (presenter), Olivia Marrese (presenter), Rebecca Lee (presenter), Velda Khoo (presenter), and Kira Hall (chair). Kim Strong also presented a paper but is not present in this photo.聽
Congratulations to these students, to their advisor Kira Hall, and to the 兔子先生传媒文化作品 CLASP Program!
Papers presented:
- Maureen Kosse:听Middle Class Erasure, Neoliberalism, and the Alt-Right
- Olivia Marrese:听Middle Classness聽in Conversation:听Identity Work and Ideologies in a Fly Fishing Community
- Tammy Rae Matthews:听The Centrality of Class to Mediations of North American Sport: The Example of Caitlyn Jenner聽
- Rebecca Lee:听鈥淲hat Do We Have To Lose?鈥�:听聽White Anti-Racist Activists and the Fusional Categorization of Race and Class
- Andrew Ting:听鈥淐limbing to a Higher Branch[r]:鈥澛燤iddle-Class Sounds of Sexual Modernity聽in a Beijing Web Series
- Kim Strong:听White Middle-Class Constructions Through Latinx Working-Class Families:听How Discourses about the Latinx-White Educational Achievement Gap Construct White Middle-Classness聽聽
- Velda Khoo:听Singlish Spoken Through聽the聽Middle聽Class聽