Houston Day #3!

7-8am breakfast

8- 9:30am “Reframing Tibet for a Globalized World: Discursive Strategies and Frame Disputes in Social Media” by Dave Drissel, “Vietnam’s Unique Development State” by Joe Cannizzaro. Posters: “Applying Social Network Analysis to Disaster Research: A Case Study of Recovery from the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” by Candace Forbes, Michael Webb, Dr. David Butler, and Dr. Edward Sayre, “Is Famine a Respecter of Borders? Examining Misconceptions in the 2011 Somalia Conflagration” by Keith Newcomer

9:45-11:30am “More than ‘Just a Girl’: Feminism within the Buffy the Vampire and Angel Fandom” by Alexi Ingram

11am-1pm lunch

6:30pm dinner – Pappas BBQ

Another busy conference day. Great presentations by the IDV students and some great posters! Some people (whom shall remain nameless, but you know who you are) look down upon poster sessions, but I really like them. Perhaps its because my first poster session at the GIS conference in Minnesota years ago won 1st place, but whatever the reason they are a great excuse to combine scholarship and art in a unique and colorful way. Dinner was held at a BBQ place where we were given great quantities of meat products BBQ’ed, yes I could feel my arteries clogging. After dinner Madeline, J, and I played my new birthday The Big Bang Theory game! It was really fun, but some of the questions are very hard (yeah right, for ages 12 +). Madeline and J tied for 1st place before we quit. The day was also filled with lots of homework and watching the twitter feed @TitanicRealTime as they tweet down to the big event on the 15th. Iceberg ahead!