Presentations

Some of the topics

Popular Culture

   *What’s It All About, Harry Potter?

     *The Changing Ethos of American Film and Television

   *Buffy the Vampire Slayer: More than Entertainment

   *Enchanting Oz: the Wizard and the Tarot Deck

     *How Superman Led to Civil Rights: the Power of Comics

General Anthropology

     *Stone Age Economics

     *Voodoo: an Adapting Religion

     *Uff-da! Regional US Dialects

     *Wicca, Neopagans, & Space Age Shamans: Cult in Cultural Context

     * The Real Transylvania

     *Mysterious Pohnpei

     *A World of Family Values

Mountain Region

*Keith and Melinda Blaylock: Civil War Robinhoods of the High Country

*Watauga in Crisis: the Great Flood of 1940

Native Americans

     *Hollywood Indians: from Stereotype to Artistic Control

     *The Trail of Tears

     *Powwow Etiquette

     *The Mound Builder Mystery

     *Tribal Politics

     *Indians for Writers: Don’t Stereotype—Research!

     *Religion of the Buffalo Hunters

Disaster Studies: “Be prepared” for Drama and Heroism

     *The City that Survived: Response in the Red River Valley Flood of 1997

     *Watauga in Crisis: the Great Flood of 1940

Basic programs all last an hour, with time for your questions at the end.