05
Apr
2024
A Facebook Concert
04-05-2024 8:00 PM
-9:00 PM
Presidential Suite
Coordinator: Lisa Ossian
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Affiliation: Indian Hills Community College
The Kinkaider's Song: A Homesteader Ballad from the Nebraska Sandhills
- Tom Isern, North Dakota State University
The family of prairie folksong tracing lineage to the gospel hymn, “Beulah Land,” is prolific. “Beulah Land” is about a place, the blissful afterlife. Prairie singers borrowed its melody and motifs to localize them to their own places on the plains, sometimes as joyful paeans to a bountiful country, other times as sardonic commentaries on a hard land. “The Kinkaider’s Song” is exceptional in that it is traceable to a particular time and place: the Kinkaider picnic of 16 August 1911, a gathering of homesteaders at the Will Davis grove, a seven-year-old tree claim near Anselmo, in northern Custer County, Nebraska. Fourteen-year-old Matilda Matthews was there and wrote for a regional newspaper, the Atkinson Graphic, “We composed a song, ‘The Kinkaider’s Song,’ and sang it.” The song resounding through the Davis grove in 1911 arose from the historical circumstances of the Kinkaid Act of 1904, which allowed homesteads of a full section, 640 acres, rather than a quarter-section, 160 acres. Its sponsor and heroic proponent, Congressman Moses P. Kinkaid, was present when the Kinkaiders sang their anthem in his honor. From there the song passed into oral tradition and the mysterious canon of Great Plains balladry. Recently discovered, the original text and circumstances of “The Kinkaider’s Song” illustrate the capacity of digitized source materials to move ballads previously anonymous into the realm of known authorship and context--an important development in the interpretation of Great Plains folksong.
06
Apr
2024
AFIT-12 Perspectives on Industry Structures
04-06-2024 8:00 AM
-10:30 AM
Blanco
Coordinator: Benjamin Wilson
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Affiliation: SUNY Cortland
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Are Capitalist System of Sports Truly Self-Organising?
- Mu-Jeong Kho, University College London
Permanency of Business Manufacturing Conglomerates in Colombia during 1991-2022: An applied model of the Veblenian heterodox theory of the firm
- Jairo Parada, Universidad del Norte and Universidad Nacional-Manizales
- Luis Rosado, Universidad Nacional-Manizales
The Epidemiologic Imperative: Limiting Opportunism and Exploitation in The Delivery of Pharmaceuticals in the USA
- Robert J Kemp, KempHE
The Neo-Polanyian Critique of Environmental Economics: Limits and Possibilities
- Marc Triller, The New School For Social Research
06
Apr
2024
AFIT-05 Mandates, Budgets, and Codes
04-06-2024 9:45 AM
-11:15 AM
Blanco
Coordinator: Benjamin Wilson
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Affiliation: SUNY Cortland
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External Code Violations as a Weapon for Neighborhood Change
- Ely Fair, Knox College
Neoliberal Fascism?: Power or Money in Higher Education Reform
- Barbara Hopkins, Wright State University
Opposing What You Want: Rational Hard-lining when the Slope is Slippery
- Zachary Schaller, Colorado State University
06
Apr
2024
AFIT-13 Panel Discussion on Daphne Greenwood’s Work, Pay, and Sustainability: A New Economics of Labor
04-06-2024 11:30 AM
-12:50 PM
Blanco
Coordinator: Benjamin Wilson
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Affiliation: SUNY Cortland
Chairperson: Jack Reardon, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Moderator: Daphne Greenwood, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Panel Discussion on Daphne Greenwood’s Work, Pay, and Sustainability: A New Economics of Labor
- Daphne Greenwood, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
- Kevin Capehart, California State university Fresno
- Paula Cole, University of Denver
- Liudmila Malyshava, Skidmore College
- Zachary Schaller, Colorado State University
06
Apr
2024
WSSA President’s Reception
04-06-2024 6:30 PM
-8:00 PM
Garden Terrace
All Attendees Invited
WSSA Recepción del presidente
Se invita a todos los asistentes