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7:00AM - 9:00 AM Grand Ballroom South
Breakfast for Women in American Studies
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Meet at K Street Entrance
The Back Alleys of Capitol Hill Tour
8:00AM - 12:30 PM Renaissance East
Student Hospitality Lounge &Breakfast with Champions Series
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Transnational Studies Theresa Delgadillo (Notre Dame University)
John Carlos Rowe (University of California, Irvine)
9:45 AM - 11:00 AM Surviving the Job Market Sarah Schrank (California State University, Long Beach)
Tiffany Lopez (University of California, Riverside)
Allison McCracken (Depaul University)
Peniel Joseph (Stony Brook University)
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-8
The National Humanities Center's Teacher
Professional Development Program
CHAIR:
Richard Schramm, Vice President
for Education Programs, National Humanities Center
PANELISTS:
Robert Smith, Department of
History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Kathy White, History Teacher,
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-9
Obliging
Fictions: Mapping Moral Responsibility in the Nineteenth Century
CHAIR:
Cecelia
Tichi,
English Department, Vanderbilt University
PAPERS:
David Zimmerman, English Department, University of
Wisconsin, Madison Conspiracy's Implications: The Case of Arthur Mervyn
María Carla Sánchez, English and Women's
Studies Departments, University of Michigan Lying in Order to Tell Truths: Fiction, Financial Crises and American Exceptionalism,
circa 1837
Greg Jackson, English Department, University of Arizona "What Would Jesus Do?": Pragmatism, Practical Christianity, and the Homiletic
Novel
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-11
Native
Places and Contested Spaces: Museums, Multiculturalism, and Interpretive
Authority
CHAIR:
Michèle
Gates Moresi,
National Center for Cultural Resources, National Park Service
PAPERS:
William Walker, American History Program, Brandeis
University "A Midway on the Mall": The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife and
the Concept of the Open Museum
Elizabeth Hutchinson, Art History Department, Barnard
College & Columbia University "A Native Place": The National Museum of the American Indian and Multiculturalism
Catherine Lewis, History Department, Kennesaw State
University The Changing Face of Public History: The Chicago Historical Society and
the Transformation of an American History Museum
Stéphanie Béreau, History Department, European
University Institute, Florence Demystifying African Art and Cultures: African Cultural Traditions and the
American Museum of Natural History
COMMENT:
Michèle
Gates Moresi
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-10
Keywords
in the New Southern Studies I: Power and Media in Space and Place
CHAIR:
Hosam
M. Aboul-Ela,
English Department, University of Houston
PAPERS:
Scott Romine, English Department, University of North
Carolina, Greensboro Consumption
John T. Matthews, English Department, Boston University Colonialism
Martyn Bone, American Studies Department, University
of Copenhagen Capital
Alfred Lopez, English Department, University of Mississippi Hegemony
Katherine Henninger, English Department, Louisiana
State University Visual Culture
Judith Jackson Fossett, English Department, University
of Southern California Plantation
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-15
Styling
Latina Butch/Femme: Cultural Politics and Representations
CHAIR:
Alicia
Arrizon,
Women's Studies Department, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Alma Lopez, Independent Artist Boi Hair
Deborah Vargas, Chicano/Latino Studies Department,
University of California, Irvine
¡Papi Chula!:The Guayabera and Latna Butch Style Politics
Stacy Macias, Women's Studies Department, University
of California, Los Angeles
Haciendo Caras, Haciendo Femme
COMMENT:
Yvonne
Yarbro-Bejarano,
Spanish and Portuguese Department, Stanford University
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-14
Modern
Views: Regulating Monument, Theatre and Print in the United States, 1870-1920
CHAIR:
Francis
Couvares,
History and American Studies Departments, Amherst College
PAPERS:
Amanda Frisken, American Studies Program, State University
of New York, College, Old Westbury Tabloidization and Its Discontents: Sex Radicals, Censorship and "Sporting
News," 1870-90
Alison Kibler, American Studies and Women's and Gender
Studies Departments, Franklin and Marshall College Censoring the Clansman and the Playboy in Philadelphia in the Early-Twentieth
Century
Barbara Balliet, Department of Women and Gender Studies,
Rutgers University Women and Artists Have the Right to Choose Their Own Heroes": Privacy, Publicity,
Monuments and Scandal at the Turn of the Century
COMMENT:
Helen
Horowitz,
American Studies and History Departments, Smith College
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-13
Layering the Groundwork for Teacher Certification
in American Studies: Nation, State, and School
CHAIR:
Deborah Schmalholz, English
Department, Elgin High School
PAPERS:
Mark Rice, American Studies
Program, St. John Fisher College American Studies and Social Studies Certification
Lois Rudnick, English and American
Studies Departments, University of Massachusetts, Boston Adapting to New Realities: When the State Changes Its Certification Areas
Dianne Ashton, Philosophy and
American Studies Departments, Rowan University American Studies and Elementary Education
Sue Tretter, American Studies
and English Departments, Lindenwood University American Studies and the Masters in Education
Mary Lease, National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards Certifying Interdisciplinarity
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-12
Everywhere: Activism, Art, Academia
CHAIR:
Amy
Villarejo,
Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, Cornell University
PAPERS:
David Attyah, Art Department, Scripps College THINK AGAIN
S. A. Bachman, School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston THINK AGAIN
Keeling Kara, Department of Communication Studies,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill I=Another: Digital "Identity Politics?"
COMMENT:
Amy
Villarejo
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Grand Ballroom Central
Black Cultural Production
I: Animating Race
CHAIR:
Richard
Schur, Interdisciplinary Studies
Center, Drury University
PAPERS:
Nicholas Sammond, Media and Society Program, Hobart
and William Smith Colleges The Minstrel Vanishes: Race, Space and Desire in the Formation of American
Animation
Erik Dussere, Literature Department, American University Pulp is Beautiful: The Black Panther Meets the Seventies
COMMENT:
Arturo
Aldama, Department of Ethnic Studies,
University of Colorado
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-2
K-16 Workshop: Challenge Dances - Staging
1840s American Culture
FACILATATOR:
April Masten, Department of
History, State University of New York, Stony Brook
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-5
Twentieth Century
Masculinities
CHAIR:
Priscilla
Wald, Department of English, Duke
University
PAPERS:
Timothy Barnard, American Studies Program,
College of William and Mary Queer Aficion: Hemingway, Spain, and Transgressive Cultures of Empire
Phil Tiemeyer, Department of American Studies, University
of Texas, Austin Male Stewardesses?: Ending Anti-Male, Anti-Gay Bias in the Flight Attendant
Corps of the 1970s
COMMENT:
Priscilla
Wald
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Renaissance West A
Forgotten
Memories of Forgotten Colonial Sites: The Philippines, Hawai`i and Puerto Rico
CHAIR:
Lisa
Marie Cacho,
Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PAPERS:
Margaret Fajardo, Department of Literature, University
of California, San Diego
"But They Look Like Indians": Fantasies of the "Native" Philippines in Hagedorn's
Dream Jungle
Ryan Canlas, English Department, Cornell University The Intelligibility of History: Marlon Fuentes' Bontoc Eulogy
Dean Saranillo, Program in American Culture, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor Kewaikaliko's Benocide: Reversing the Imperial Gaze of Rice v. Cayetano
Faye Caronan, Department of Ethnic Studies, University
of California, San Diego Memories of a Forgotten Empire in Filipino American and US Puerto Rican
Spoken Word Poetry
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Renaissance West B
Games of Dominion: Currents in Antebellum Thought
CHAIR:
Mary
Kelley, Program in American Culture,
University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Maurice Lee, Department of English, University of
Missouri, Columbia Placing Bets, Moving Spaces: Whist versus Chess in the Antebellum Era
Guenter Leypoldt, Department of English Language and
Literature, Neuphilologie Universität Tübingen, Germany Spatial Constructions of Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Philosophical
Transcendentalism
Adam Haile, Department of English, Duke University Melville's Empire: Democracy and Dominion in Battle-Pieces
COMMENT:
Mary
Kelley
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-17
Ethnic Studies in Public Spaces
In keeping with this year's theme, "Groundwork:
Space and Place in American Cultures," the Committee is interested in the work
being done "on the ground" in our nation's capital and in other urban spaces.
More specifically, we are intrigued by the role of museums in staging exhibits
that discuss race or present the history of specific ethnic or racial groups.
CHAIR:
Danille Taylor, Division of
Humanities, Dillard University
PANELIST:
Charles McGovern, American
Studies & History Departments, College of William & Mary
Luben Montoya, Smithsonian Center
for Latino Initiatives
Deborah Mack, Independent Museum
Consultant
Lonnie Bunch, National Museum
of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
Abel Lopez, GALA Hispanic Theatre
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-16
Layering Literary Geographies
CHAIR:
Mishuana Goeman, English Literature and Native American
Studies Programs, Dartmouth College
PAPERS:
Yael Ben-zvi, Department of Foreign Literatures,
Ben-Gurion University Domestic Spaces of Periodization: Representations of Native Americans across
the Colonial/National Literary Border
Audra Simpson, Department of Anthropology, Cornell
University Enunciating Citizenship and Nationhood: Mohawk Border-Crossing, the Jay
Treaty of 1794 and the Terrific Meaning of Iroquois Inconvenience
Rick Monture, Department of English, McMaster University "In the Free and Independent Manner Natural to Indians": Joseph
Brant and the Iroquois
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Grand Ballroom North
Groundwork:
Landscapes in American Studies
Addressed
to the so-called spatial turn, this roundtable examines the place of special
theory and geography with/in American Studies, and cultural studies more
broadly; with/in traditional humanities and social science disciplines; as well
as other interdisciplinary programs and departments. It further articulates and
explores the means and venues for placing such scholarship—the various
journals, websites, and other new media for forwarding these discussions and
arguments, including locations well outside the academy.
CHAIR:
Catherine
Gudis,
Honors College, University of Oklahoma
PANELISTS:
Dolores
Hayden,
School of Architecture, Yale University
Allen Tullos, Graduate Institute of
Liberal Arts, Emory University
Patricia Yaeger, Departments of English
and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
The panel, solicited by President-elect
Karen Halttunen, takes advantage of this year's Washington venue to gather scholars
and teachers for a workshop at Ford's Theater on Abraham Lincoln's death and
subsequent recasting as a national icon. Ford's Theatre National Historic site
is at 517 10th Street, NW (just 6 blocks from the convention hotel).
FACILITATORS:
Richard Fox, Department
of History, University of Southern California
Shirley Samuels, Department
of English, Cornell University
Jeffrey Pollard, Natomas Charter
School, Performing and Fine Arts Academy
National Museum of the American Indian is at 4th Street and Independence Ave., SW,
next to the Capitol building on the Mall (just 14 blocks fromt he convention Hotel or 2 blocks south of the Judiciary Square
Metro Station's southern exit on the red line.
FACILITATORS:
Philip Deloria, Program in American
Culture, University of Michigan Teaching with Cross-Cultural Objects
Camille Leonhardt, American
Women's History Program, American River College, Sacramento Classroom Materials and Pedagogies
Jolene Rickard, Departments
of Art and Art History, State University of New York, Buffalo A Curatorial Perspective on Teaching and the NMAI
Frederick Douglass Historic Site is at 1411 W Street, SE. Transportation to and from the
site will be provided at the front of the hotel 30 minutes before the start of the workshop.
FACILITATORS:
Trudier Harris, Department of
English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Kenyatta Graves, Woodrow Wilson
Senior High School
Kevin Gaines, Department of
History, University of Michigan
COMMENT:
Audience
9:00AM - 11:00 AM MR-6
Business Meeting of the Task Force on
Graduate Education
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-8
Teaching the Urban: Space and Place in
Interdisciplinary Pedagogy
CHAIR:
Shannon Mattern, Department
of Media Studies & Film, New School University
PAPERS:
Elizabeth Ellsworth, Department
of Media Studies & Film, New School University Media Space | Public Space
Damon Rich, The Center for Urban
Pedagogy Big Plans & Little People
Kathleen Hulser, Public Historian,
The New York Historical Society Channeling Noted and Notorious Women of Lower Manhattan: A Walking Tour
of the Erased
Therese Quinn, Department of
Art Education, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago What Do Museums Teach? Reading Culture through Social Justice
Patrick Roberts, Department
of Foundations and Inquiry, National-Louis University What Do Museums Teach? Reading Culture through Social Justice
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-9
Cities
of the Dead, Revisited
Sponsored
by the Performance of the Americas Caucus, this roundtable reflects on Joseph
Roach's Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance, on the eve of its
10-year anniversary. This roundtable will consider the major arguments of the
book and its methodological tools in order to illuminate their relevance in a
range of disciplinary and transdisciplinary contexts, and to put them in
dialogue with other writers and work that has emerged since the book's
publication.
CHAIR:
Jill
Lane,
Theatre and American Studies Department, Yale University
PANELISTS:
Jennifer
DeVere Brody,
English and Performance Studies Departments, Northwestern University
Daphne Brooks, English Department,
Princeton University
Rebecca Schneider, Department of Theatre,
Speech and Dance, Brown University
Carol Smith-Rosenberg, History Department,
University of Michigan
Julie Stone Peters, English Department,
Columbia University
COMMENT:
Joseph
Roach, English Department, Yale
University
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-11
Roundtable
- Mapping Pacific Islander Social Movements in/on/outside American Academia: Chamorros and Chamorro Studies around
America
Featuring
a mix of venerable pioneers of Chamorro Studies, this roundtable asks the
participants to draw on intellectual and political challenges that their
disciplinary, professional, political, and geographic "locations" have posed
for their respective commitments to Chamorro social causes in order to help
"map" a research and action agenda for Chamorro Studies in relationship to
American academic inquiry.
CHAIR:
Vincente
M. Diaz,
Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
PANELISTS:
Honorable
Robert A. Underwood,
Former Member of Congress and Professor Emeritus, University of Guam
Faye Untalan, Health Sciences and
Epidemiology Program, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai`i
Michael P. Perez, Sociology Department,
California State University, Fullerton
Keith L. Camacho, History Department,
University of Hawai`i
Laura M. T. Souder, Souder and Betances Associates
COMMENT:
Christine
Delisle,
History and Women's Studies Departments, University of Michigan
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-10
Keywords
in the New Southern Studies II: Subjects in Space and Place
CHAIR:
Kathryn
McKee,
English and Southern Studies Departments, University of Mississippi
PAPERS:
Jon Smith, English Department, University of Montevallo Hybrid Cultures
Tara McPherson, Critical Studies Program, School of
Cinema-Television, University of Southern California Feeling
Melanie Benson, English Department, Pennsylvania State
University Worthington Scranton Nativism
Riché Richardson, English Department, University
of California, Davis Abjection
Leigh Anne Duck, English Department, University of
Memphis Affiliation
Jennifer Greeson, English Department, Princeton University Nationalism
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-15
Location,
Location, Location: Radio Space(s) and the Problem of the Local
This
"Dialogue Format" roundtable, comprised of junior and senior scholars, and one
current radio practitioner, will pose a number of questions concerning the
shifting relationships among local, regional, national, and transnational
institutions, programs, regions and locales, and audience publics that inform
meanings ascribed to radio as a "local" phenomenon.
CHAIR:
Michele
Hilmes,
Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison
PANELISTS:
Derek
Vaillant,
Communication Studies Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ari Kelman, Department of
Communications, University of Chicago
Inés Casillas, American Culture
Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Anthony McCarthy, Radio host, WYPR
Jason Loviglio, American Studies
Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-14
Nineteenth-Century
Medical Cultures
CHAIR:
Michael
Sappol,
Historian-Curator, National Library of Medicine
PANELIST:
Benjamin Reiss, English Department, Tulane University Transcendental Lunacy: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jones Very, and the Politics
of the Insane Asylum
Linda Przybyszewski, History Department, University
of Notre Dame Dr. Holmes and the Divine Father at the Breakfast Table
Rachael DeLue, Department of Art and Archaeology,
Princeton University Diagnosing Pictures: The Science of Looking in Late-Nineteenth-Century America
COMMENT:
Michael
Sappol
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-13
Pedagogy and Ethnic Studies
This roundtable will explore the pedagogical
challenges at various institutions and how those issues are theoretically and
historically relevant to the fields of Ethnic Studies and American Studies.
CHAIR:
Matthew Guterl, Afro-American
Studies Department, Indiana University
PANELIST:
Thomas Philip Abowd, Department
of Anthropology, Wayne State University
AnaLouise Keating, Women's Studies
Department, Texas Women's University
Amal Amireh, Department of English,
George Mason University
Gregory Jay, Department of English,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-12
Mexican
Interiors/American Exteriors: New Reflections on the Spaces where Mexico meets
the United States
CHAIR:
Steven
Weisenberger,
English Department, Southern Methodist University
PAPERS:
Tace Hedrick, Department of English and Center for
Women's Studies and Gender Research, University of Florida My Grandparents get Mexicans from the Gas Station: Mexicans and Labor in
Home Improvement
Laura Lewis, Department of Anthropology, James Madison
University Memory, Migration and Making It Home: Old and New Dwellings on Mexico's
Costa Chica
Laura Hernández-Ehrisman, Clements Center for
Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University Danny's Place: Loss and Reconciliation in D’a de los Muertos
Suzanne Bost, Department of English, Southern Methodist
University Feeling beyond the Body's Borders: Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa's
Shape-shifting Interiors
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Grand Ballroom Central
Black Cultural Production
II: Writing and Staging Race
CHAIR:
Anna
Everett, Department of Film Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara
PAPERS:
Nicole Stanton, Program in American Studies, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor Parables of Promiscuity: Black Women and the Sexual Politics of Racial Betrayal
Michael Hanson, Department of Communication, University
of California, San Diego Blackness Staged: The Aural and Spatial Economy of Civil Unrest in Wattstax
Kinohi Nishikawa, Program in Literature, Duke University Black Book Production and the Culture of Conglomeratized Print
Miriam Petty, Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and
the Modern Experience, Rutgers University, Newark Pearls or Swine?: Black Evangelicals, Politics and the Power of the Contemporary
"Chitlin' Circuit" Theater
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-2
Capturing Silver Spring: Documentary Video,
the Classroom, Public Sphere
"As Silver Spring embarks on a new era of re-development
and re-vitalization, what will remain of its old character and former landscape.
. . its sense of place?" Walter Gottlieb asks i his 2002 PBS documentary,
Silver Spring: Story of an American Suburb. Our workshop's panelists
- a public school instructor, an undergraduate major, a newspaper columnist,
and representatives form activist, nonprofit organizations - will comment
on how an exploration of Gottlieb's film, with its account of the recent restoration
of the Silver Theatre, the construction of the Discovery Communication's headquarters,
the emergence of chain restaurants and retail stores, may prove instructive
to high school teachers and students by offering: 1) practical advice for
pursuing internships, video design, and public services; 2) a forum for discussing
such pivotal issues as the role of the documentary in contemporary society
and the challenges of gentrification encountered in cities and the suburbs
throughout the United States.
CHAIR:
Myron Lounsbury, American Studies
Department, University of Maryland, College Park
PANELISTS:
Walter Gottlieb, Final Cut
Productions, Silver Spring
John Daves, Department of American
Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
James Cooney, Department of
American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Richard Jaeggi, Silver Spring
Voice
David Fogel, Gateway, Silver
Spring
Frankie Blackburn, IMPACT, Silver
Spring
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-5
Pu-Pu Platters, Pistachio,
and Pierogies: Food and the Performance of Place
CHAIR:
Amy
Bentley, Department of Nutrition, Food
Studies & Public Health, New York University
Liz Rohan, English Department, University of Michigan,
Dearborn Place as Archives: Citizens as Curators: The Role of Nostalgia in the Preservation
of 1950s Ice Cream Walk-ups in One Detroit Suburb
Jeffrey Makala, Thomas Cooper Library, University
of South Carolina Consuming Paradise: Polynesian Restaurants in Postwar America
COMMENT:
Amy
Bentley
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Renaissance West A
Groundwork:
Local Black Freedom Movements in America
CHAIR:
Jeanne
Frances Theoharis,
Department of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
PAPERS:
Donna Murch, Department of History, Rutgers University The Urban Promise of Black Power: African American Political Mobilization
in Postwar Oakland the East Bay
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Department of History and Kirwam
Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University Heart of Dixie: The Black Freedom Struggle in Lowndes County, Alabama
Karen Miller, Department of History and Urban Studies,
LaGuardia Community College Civil Rights or Labor Rights: Detroit's Predominantly-Black Unions and Black
Labor Militancy in the Early 1930s
Rhonda Y. Williams, Department of History, Case Western
Reserve University Black Women, Nonviolence and Urban Activism
COMMENT:
Komozi
Woodard,
American History Program, Sarah Lawrence College
Jeanne
Frances Theoharis
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Renaissance West B
From
Dissertation to Book
The
ASA Graduate Students' Committee proposes a roundtable intended to make the
process of turning a dissertation into a book less obtuse. The participants of
this roundtable, made up of professors who have recently gone through the
process and an academic press editor well versed in these matters, have
generously agreed to share their experiences and tips for turning a
dissertation into a successful book.
CHAIR:
Arthur
Knight,
American Studies and English Departments, College of William and Mary
PANELISTS:
Laura
Briggs,
Department of Women's Studies, University of Arizona
Catherine Ceniza Choy, Department of Ethnic
Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Mary Ting Yi Lui, Department of History,
Yale University
Ken Wissoker, Editor-in-Chief, Duke
University Press
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-17
A Roundtable in Honor of the Work of Daniel Horowitz
This
is one of three roundtables the program committee has asked us to organize on
the work of senior scholars in the fields we associate with American studies.
CHAIR:
T.
J. Jackson Lears,
History Department, Rutgers University
PANELISTS:
Jean-Christophe
Agnew,
American Studies and History Departments, Yale University
Lori Rotskoff, Independent Scholar
Annie Valk, History Department,
Southern Illinois University
Margaret Garb, History Department,
Washington University
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-16
Remaking
America's Geospiritual Ground: Mormonism, Mythmaking, and Morality
CHAIR:
Evan Heimlich, American Studies Department,
Kobe University
PAPERS:
Jaime Harker, English Department, University of Mississippi "Joseph Smith, Author": The Book of Mormon, Print Culture, and Tech-Savvy
Prophecy
Julia Ehrhardt, Honors College, University of Oklahoma "A Feast of Good Things in the Kingdom": The Physical, Spiritual, and National
Appetites of the Mormon Handcart Pioneers
Daniel Moos, English Department, Bowdoin College Vipers on the Hearth to Ur-Pioneers: A Twentieth-Century Shift in Mormon
Identity
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Grand Ballroom North
Environmentalism
between Place and Planet
CHAIR:
Norma
Tilden,
English Department, Georgetown University
PAPERS:
Ursula K. Heise, English Department, Stanford University Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: Environmentalism and the Challenge of
the Global
Stacy Alaimo, English Department, University of Texas,
Arlington Trans-Corporeal Feminisms and the Ethical Space of Nature
Jonathan Levin, English Department, Fordham University Bioregionalism: Natural Fact, Cultural Project, Spiritual Metaphor?
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00AM - 12:00 PM MR-7
Business Meeting of the Rocky Mountain American Studies Association
10:00AM - 2:00 PM Grand Ballroom South
Business Meeting of the 2006 Program
Committee
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM Meet at K Street Entrance
Historic Black Washington Tour
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM MR-8
Inhabiting the Classroom: Pedagogies of
Identity and Place
CHAIR:
Maxwell Leung, Cultural Studies
Department, Claremont Graduate University
PAPERS:
Jeanette Roan, Department of
English, George Mason University Geographies of Home: Dwelling in Northern Virginia
Tina Takemoto, Visual Studies
Department, California College of the Arts Rock, Scissors, Paper: Art School Orientalism
Karen Kosasa, American Studies
Department, University of Hawai`i Colonial Sights/Sites: Settlers, Natives, and Museum Studies in Hawai`i
COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM MR-9
Is
It Time to Jump Ship?: Rethinking the Waves Metaphor in Writing the History of
Feminism in the U.S.
This
intergenerational roundtable of historians explores the complicated process of
writing about the accomplishments of notable women washed away by the waves
metaphor, with the goal of revising standard assessments of the preconditions
of women's rights activism.
CHAIR:
Kathleen
Laughlin,
History Department, Metropolitan State University
PANELISTS:
Dorothy
Sue Cobble,
Labor Studies, History, & Gender Studies Departments, Rutgers University
Susan Hartmann, History Department and
Women's Studies Program, Ohio State University
Eileen Boris, Women's Studies
Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Julie Gallagher, History Department,
Antioch College
Stephanie Gilmore, Women's History
Program, Ohio State University
Premilla Nadasen, Department of History,
Queens College
COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM MR-11
Progressive
Childhood: Children, Reform, and Nation-Making
CHAIR:
David
Zonderman,
Department of History, North Carolina State University
PAPERS:
Richard Lowry, American Studies Department, College
of William & Mary Suffer the Children: Jacob Riis and Citizenship
Emily Mieras, American Studies Department, Stetson
University Teaching the Children: College Students, City Youth, and Training for Parenthood
Caroline Levander, Department of English, Rice University Selfless States/States of Self: W.E.B. Du Bois and Cuba
COMMENT:
David
Zonderman
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM MR-10
CANCELLED American
Samoa: Pacific Perspectives on Self-determination and Political Status
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM MR-15
Sites
of Suffering: Bodies in Pain,
Passions of Place, Rhetorics of Redemption
CHAIR:
Lawrie
Balfour,
Department of Politics, University of Virginia
PAPERS:
Lauren Berlant, Department of English, University
of Chicago Slow Death
Mark Reinhardt, Political Science and American Studies
Programs, Williams College American Photography and the Subject of Pain
George Shulman, Gallatin School, New York University Only Cans and Bottles Can be Redeemed: Suffering and Redemption in American
Political Rhetoric
Anna Siomopoulos, Department of English, Bentley College Passions of Place: Gendered Spaces of Suffering in Hollywood Melodrama
COMMENT:
Lawrie
Balfour
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM MR-14
Queer
Street: Urban Community and the Sexual Politics of Space and Race in San
Francisco History
CHAIR:
Judith
Halberstam,
Department of English, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Christina Hanhardt, American Studies Program, New
York University "The White Ghetto": Sexual Minorities, Police Accountability, and the War
on Poverty in 1960s San Francisco
Clare Sears, Department of Sociology, University of
California, Santa Cruz The Cell, The Street and The Freak-Show Stage: Spatial Management of Cross-Dressing
in 19th-Century San Francisco
Jen Reck, Department of Sociology and Women's Studies
Program, University of California, Santa Cruz Whose Mecca? Homeless Youth in the Castro Public: The MUNI Station, Sidewalks,
and "Private Spaces"
COMMENT:
Judith
Halberstam
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM MR-13
New
Latinos in NYC: Deterritorialized Identities and the Politics of Gender
CHAIR:
Maria Josefina Saldaña, English Department,
Rutgrers University
PANELIST:
Carlos Decena, American Studies Department, New York
University
Los Hombres No Mandan Aqu’: The Politics of Gender and Health among New Immigrants
in Urban, Suburban, and Semi-rural New York
Melanie Nicholson, Spanish and Portuguese Department,
Bard College Without Their Children: Rethinking Motherhood among Transnational Migrants
Alyshia Gálvez, Anthropology Department, Seton
Hall University
La Virgen Meets Eliot Spitzer: Articulating Labor Rights for Mexican Immigrants
Alex Rivera, Director A Discussion of Sexta Seccion
COMMENT:
Maria Josefina Saldaña
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM MR-12
Race
and Surveillance in the Age of Empire
CHAIR:
Rafael
Pérez-Torres,
Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
PAPERS:
Sarika Chandra, Department of English, Wayne State
University Disposable Bodies: Documentation and Risk Management in A Global Age
Laïla Amine, Department of Comparative Literature,
Indiana University A Pantomine of American and French Society: Race, Identity, and Surveillance
in Danzy Senna's Caucasia and Leila Sebbar's Sherazade
Lynn Itagaki, Department of English, University of
Montana Unmassing the Media, Securing the Suburbs: From the 1992 Los Angeles Uprisings
to Post-9/11
COMMENT:
Rafael
Pérez-Torres
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM Grand Ballroom Central
Immigrant
Dreams: Race, Class, and the
Cultural Production of Desire
CHAIR:
Deborah Wong, Department of Music, University of
California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Nhi Lieu, American Studies Department, University
of Texas, Austin Negotiating Pleasure and Desire: Identity, Niche Media, and the Commercialization
of Diasporic Vietnamese Culture
Grace Wang, Asian American Studies Program, University
of California, Davis Crossing Racial and Musical Boundaries in Jessica Hagedorn's The
Gangster of Love
Thuy Linh Tu, History of Art Department, Cornell University "Material Mao": Immigrant Histories, Global Icons, and Asian Fashion
COMMENT:
Deborah Wong
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM MR-2
Three Archives of
Domesticity
CHAIR:
Hans
Bak, Raboud University Nijmegan, The
Netherlands
PAPERS:
Alyosha Goldstein, American Studies Department,
University of New Mexico The Locations of "Underdevelopment": The National Congress of American Indians,
Puerto Rico, and the Economy of Place During the 1950s
Marci McMahon, English Department, University of Southern
California Neo-liberal Multiculturalism and the Domestic Sphere: Diane Rodriguez's
Direction of Migdalia Cruz's "The Have-Little" and Cherríe
Moraga's "Heroes and Saints"
COMMENT:
Hans
Bak
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM MR-5
Music, Place, and Politics
CHAIR:
Raul Fernandez, School of Social Sciences, University
of California, Irvine
PAPERS:
Mikiko Tachi, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Tokyo Music for the Dissenters: The Early Days of the Cornell Folk Song Club and
Grassroots Resistance to American Culture in the 1950s
Sara Dykins Callahan, Department of Communications,
University of South Florida (Em)bodied Florida: Music, Meaning-Making, and the Mofro Experience
Caroline O'Meara, Department of Musicology, University
of California, Los Angeles Downtown Borderland: The Bush Tetras in and out of New York City in the
1980s
Olivia Mather, Department of Musicology, University
of California, Los Angeles Taking it Easy: Country Rock and Southern Ascendancy in the 1970s
COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM Renaissance West A
Religion and the American Studies Classroom
(Sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)
Sponsored by the Religion and American
Culture Caucus, this roundtable will address the opportunities and challenges
of integrating the study of religion into the American Studies classroom.
CHAIR:
Paul Croce, American Studies
Department, Stetson University
PANELISTS:
Sara Patterson, History Department,
Claremont Graduate University
Matthew Hedstrom, American Studies,
Valparaiso University
Mary Cayton, History and American
Studies, Miami University
Sally Promey, Department of
Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland
Lauren Winner, History Department,
Columbia University
COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM Renaissance West B
Popular Youth Culture, Media Brands and
the Space of the Classroom: Problems and Possibilities
CHAIR:
Sarah Banet-Weiser, School
of Communication, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Rebecca Herr, School of Communication,
University of Southern California In-School Commercialization: Food Advertising
Sylvia Aquino, School of Education,
University of California, Davis Popular Youth Culture in K12 Classrooms: Problems and Possibilities
COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM MR-17
Junior
and Contingent Faculty in the Minefield of Diversity: A Roundtable
This
roundtable seeks to explore the implications of administrators' ownership of
diversity for those junior and contingent faculty who, as the most powerless
and vulnerable teachers, must daily negotiate the extent of our political
commitments. This panel's participants, all of us junior or contingent faculty,
propose to relate our own experiences and to create a forum in which audience
members may freely tell their stories and share their visions of a better
workplace.
CHAIR:
John
Streamas,
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Washington State University
PANELISTS:
Joyce
Barry,
English Department, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Kyoko Kishimoto, Ethnic Studies
Department, St. Cloud State University
Anne Lacsamana, Women's Studies
Department, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Jocelyn Pacleb, Comparative Ethnic
Studies Department, Washington State University
Yvonne Sims, Independent Scholar
COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
MR-16
A Distinctive Shade of Whiteness: Rethinking
Race and Class through the Lens of White Poverty
CHAIR:
James McCarthy, Department
of Geography, Pennsylvania State University
PANELIST:
Deborah Hicks, Education and
Women's Studies Programs, University of Cincinnati Life as a Girl on the Geographic Edge
Kirby Moss, School of Journalism
and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege
John Hartigan, Department of
Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin Placing Poor Whites in Discourses on Race in the United States
Matt Wray, Department of Sociology,
University of Nevada High Class, Low Class, and No Class at All: Las Vegas, Trash Culture, and
the New American Metropolis
COMMENT:
James McCarthy
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM Grand Ballroom North
National Place, Papal Space: Transnational Study and the Figure
of the "Catholic" in Memory of Peter D'Agostino, Department of
History, University of Illinois, Chicago
CHAIR:
John McGreevy, Department of History, University
of Notre Dame
PANELIST:
Elizabeth Fenton, Department of English, Rice University Ousting the "Pope of Canada": US Revolutionary Discourse Confronts
Quebec
COMMENT:
Anne Martinez, Department of History and Latina/Latino
Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM MR-3
Business Meeting of the Encyclopedia of
American Studies Editors
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM MR-8
Manipulating
Bodies in Geographical and Geopolitical Space: The Case of Air Travelers, Manly
Lumberjacks, and Menstruating Laborers
CHAIR:
Lee
Quinby,
Honors Academy, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
PAPERS:
Sharra Vostral, Department of Science and Technology
Studies, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Troublesome Bleeding Bodies: Menstrual Hygiene and Women's Labor during
WWII
Erik Loomis, Department of History, University of
New Mexico Gendered Bodies in the Pacific Northwest Forests, 1907-1920
Alan Nadel, Department of Language, Literature, and
Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "Wand Me!": Assuming the (Subject)Position of the Compliant Body in the
Age of Terror
COMMENT:
Lee
Quinby
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
MR-9
Disrupting Spaces: A Performance by the
DC Guerilla Poetry Insurgency
For this panel, the DC Guerilla Poetry
Insurgency will offer ASA members a sampling of their performative power by
demonstrating new ways to think about culture, poetry, and the re-occupation
of public space for political action as well as a discussion of their philosophy
guiding their work.
CHAIR:
Marcy Knopf-Newman, Department
of English, Boise State University
PANELISTS:
Laila Shereen, DC Guerilla
Poetry Insurgency
Shahid Buttar, DC Guerilla Poetry
Insurgency
Laurelle Blair, DC Guerilla
Poetry Insurgency
Leah Harris, DC Guerilla Poetry
Insurgency
COMMENT:
Kristen Hogan, English Department,
University of Texas, Austin
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM MR-11
Food
Factories: Exploring the Appeal of Technological Tourism
CHAIR:
Jeffrey Meikle, American Studies Department, University
of Texas, Austin
PAPERS:
Carolyn de la Peña, American Studies Department,
University of California, Davis Mechanized Southern Comfort: Tasting Technology at Krispy Kreme
Allison Marsh, History Department, Johns Hopkins University 35,000 Visitors Can't Be Wrong
Noelle Foster, Science and Technology Studies Department,
Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Behold the Cyborg Cow: A Brief History of Dairy Tourism in the US
Karen Axelrod, Author and Factory Tour Consultant Watch It Made in the USA: How to Create a Great Factory Tour
COMMENT:
Charlotte
Biltekoff,
American Studies Program, University of California, Davis
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM MR-10
The Convergence of Arts, Activism and
the Academy in Times of Crisis
Bringing together artists, community
organizers, and academicians, this roundtable discusses the multiple ways in
which arts, organizing and academic scholarship intersect. We will explore the
ways in which our bodies and our work are forced to grapple with the various
subject positionings we occupy as our locations shift and change. Using examples
from featured panelists, we will discuss how the work we produce becomes contested
spaces.
CHAIR:
Sylvia Hill, Department of
Urban Affairs, University of the District of Columbia
PANELISTS:
Jackie Velez, Youth Action
Research Group
Marga Fripp, Empowered Women
International, Inc.
Johonna McCants, American Studies Department, University of
Maryland, College Park
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM MR-15
The Art of the Library of Congress: Issues
in the Culture of Public Space
CHAIR:
Bailey Van Hook, Department
of Art and Art History, Virginia Tech University
PAPERS:
Sally Webster, Department of
Art, Lehman College, City University of New York Graduate Center Evolution and Civilization: Foundations of the Decorative Program for the
Library of Congress
Sarah Moore, School of Art,
University of Arizona "Our National Monument of Art": Constructing and Debating the National
Body at the Library of Congress
Thomas Somma, Museum Program,
Mary Washington College American Sculpture and the Library of Congress
Lisa Rindler, Fellow, US Capitol
Historical Society The Mosaics of the Library of Congress: Emulating the Humanist Tradition
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM MR-14
African-American
Vernacular Yard Environments
CHAIR:
Meredith
Moody,
Art History and Criticism, State University of New York, Stony Brook
PAPERS:
Charles Russell, Department of English, Rutgers University,
Newark Groundwork and Home Ground: The Cultural and Personal Meanings of the Yard
Show
Edward Puchner, Art History Department, Indiana University Leroy Person and Home Ground
Peter Schneider, College of Architecture and Planning,
University of Colorado, Denver Mr. Whittaker's Garden: Mnemonic Structure and the African-American Vernacular
Garden
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM MR-13
A Place in History, in the World, and
in the Mind: From One Journey To Vietnam
CHAIR:
Alexander Bloom, History Department,
Wheaton College, Massachusetts
PAPERS:
Beth-Marie Murphy, College
of Emmanuel, St. Chad, Saskatoon &
Heike Raphael-Hernandez,University of Maryland, Europe Women, War and Healing
Vu Tran, Department of English,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas A Stranger is a Sanctuary
Julie Thi Underhill, Photographer
& Filmmaker Crossing Fire: Vietnamese Women after War
Robert Cagle, Writer One Vet Remembers
Ed Martini, American Studies
Department, George Washington University Invisible Enemies
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM MR-12
Commemorating
Empire: Transnational and National Configurations of Militarisms and Memories
of "Asia" in "America"
CHAIR:
Lisa
Yoneyama,
Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
Mimi Nguyen, Women's Studies Department, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor "Operation Homecoming": Militarisms, Masculinities, and the Commemorative
"Origin" of the Vietnamese in America
Jeffrey Ow, Ethnic Studies Department, University
of California, Berkeley The Paper Descendents of Angel Island
Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, Global Studies Department,
St. Lawrence University Military Memories: Touring Corregidor Island and Bataan
COMMENT:
Lisa
Yoneyama
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom Central
Politics, Pedagogy, and
Public Practice
CHAIR:
Sarah
S. Lochlann Jain, Department of
Cultural Anthropology, Stanford University
PAPERS:
Jeanne Gazel, Intergrated Studies in Social Science,
Michigan State University A Social Justice Pedagogy in Transnational Spaces
Anita Gonzalez, Master of Liberal Studies Program,
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities The Perils of Public Practice: Multicultural Workers at Risk
COMMENT:
Sarah
S. Lochlann Jain
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM MR-2
Grounding Queers
CHAIR:
TBA
PAPERS:
Rhonda Jenkins Armstrong, American Studies Department,
St Louis University Standing Her Ground: The Rural Space in Lesbian Narratives
Patrick McCreery, American Studies Program, New York
University Children of the "Gay Imaginary": The Politics of Childhood in Debates Over
Gay Marriage
Kathryn Kane, Women's and Gender Studies Program,
DePaul University Performing Queer Spaces and Claiming Alternative Identities: Community Building,
Cabaret, and the Tension between Lesbian and Transgender Venues
Sarita See, American Culture and English Departments,
University of Michigan Decolonizing Figure and Horizon: Paul Pfeiffer's Queer Spaces
COMMENT:
The
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM MR-5
Family Viewing: Photography, Film, and
the Domestic Sphere
CHAIR:
A. Joan Saab, Art and Art History
Department, University of Rochester
PAPERS:
Catherine Zuromskis, Program
in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester Picturing the American Dream: Hegemony and Snapshot Photography in One
Hour Photo
Natalie A. Dykstra, Department
of English, Hope College Envisioning Domestic Spaces: Marian "Clover" Adams, Photograph Albums, and
Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
Katherine Henninger, Department
of English, Louisiana State University Anthropological Daughters: Photographing Family in the African American
South
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Renaissance West A
The
Underground Geographers
CHAIR:
Laura Y. Liu, Urban Studies Program, New School University,
Eugene Lang College
PANELIST:
Jenna
Loyd,
Geography Department, University of California, Berkeley
Trevor Paglen, Geography Department, University of
California, Berkeley Goatsucker
Clayton Rosati, Geography Department, Maxwell School,
Syracuse University The Terror of Communication: Critical Infrastructure, Property, and the
Culture of Security
Emily Forman, Independent Artist "The Department of Space and Land Reclamation" and Other Experimental Infrastructures
COMMENT:
Laura Y. Liu
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Renaissance West B
Translenguas:
Keywords in a Chicana/Latina (Feminist) Transnational Lexicon
As
part of an ongoing interdisciplinary conversation among Chicana/Latina feminist
scholars, the "translengua" ("between tongues/languages") roundtable seeks to
engage both participants and audience in a critical dialogue regarding the
unique positioning and contributions of scholarship that employs Chicana and
Latina/centric theories within the broader context of Ethnic and "American"
Studies.
CHAIR:
Jaime
Cárdenas,
History Department, Seattle Central Community College
PANELISTS:
Maylei
Blackwell,
César E. Chávez Center for Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Dolores Inás Casillas, American Culture
Program, University of Michigan
Laura Gutiárrez, Department of Spanish
and Portuguese, University of Iowa
Michelle Habell-Pallán, Department of American
Ethnic Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, University of California, Santa
Cruz
María Elena Cepeda, Latina/o Studies Program, Williams
College
COMMENT:
Jaime
Cárdenas
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM MR-17
Roundtable
Discussion: The Spaces and Places of US Intellectual Life
CHAIR:
Eric
Wertheimer,
Department of Languages, Cultures, and History, Arizona State University
PAPERS:
Jay Grossman, English Department, Northwestern University F. O. Matthiessen: Scholarship on the Line
Elizabeth McHenry, English Department, New York University Histories of Access; or, What We Can Learn from Failure
Gretchen Helfrich, Radio Host, WBEZ (Chicago NPR affiliate) Talk-Radio as a Medium for Ideas
Deb Nelson, English Department, University of Chicago Sontag and Her Circle
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM MR-16
Politicizing
Space in the Urban Landscape: Race and Immigration in the American City
CHAIR:
Arlene
Davila,
American Studies Department, New York University
PAPERS:
Julie Sze, American Studies Department, University
of California, Davis Environmental Justice Activism and Collective Memory in New York City
Kelly Main, Urban Planning Department, University
of California, Los Angeles The Remaking of MacArthur Park: Place-meaning, Control, and Contestation
in a Contemporary Ethnic Landscape
Stacy Harwood, Department of Urban and Regional Planning,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Unpacking Land-use Regulation in Multicultural Communities: Erasing or Embracing
Difference?
June Gin, School of Natural Resources and Environment,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Constructing Identities through Planning: San Francisco's Anti-Gentrification
Movement
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom North
Documenting
the Body in Antebellum U.S.
CHAIR:
Nancy
Bentley,
English Department, University of Pennsylvania
PAPERS:
Ivy Wilson, English Department, University of Notre
Dame Frederick Douglass' The Heroic Slave and the Boundaries of
Nationalism
Anthony Foy, English Department, University of Oregon Black Ideography in the Antebellum Narrative
Amina Gautier, English Department, University of Pennsylvania Painting the Body's Portrait
COMMENT:
Audience
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Meet at K Street Entrance
Remembering War: Walking Tour of the WWII,
Korean and Vietnam Memorials
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Grand Ballroom South
Business Meeting of All Chairs
4:00 PM - 5:30PM Renaissance East
Putting the Academy in Its Place: Community Engagement in the
Future of American Studies
FACILITATOR:
David Scobey, Harward Center for Community Partnerships,
Bates College The Cosmopolitanism of Community-based Work
COMMENT:
Audience
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-8
Displacing
the Mexican-American Southwest
CHAIR:
Ralph
Rodriguez,
Department of American Civilization, Brown University
PAPERS:
John-Michael Rivera, Department of English, University
of Colorado, Boulder "A Blood Stained Victory": Lorenzo de Zavala and the Space(s) of Colonialism
José Limón, Department of English, University
of Texas, Austin When Texas Meets Japan: Transnational Colonial Spaces in Americo Paredes'
Short Fiction
Anna Nogar, Department of Spanish, University of Texas,
Austin Iberian Bilocation to the US-Mexico Borderlands: Fray Alonso de Benavides
and Sor Mar’a de Agreda
Laura Padilla, Department of English, University of
Texas, Austin So Near the United States: Pastoralism and the Death of Memory in Ana Castillo's
So Far God
COMMENT:
Audience
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-9
Race,
Power, and Place and African-Americans in Native-American Country
CHAIR:
Joanne
Melish,
Department of History, University of Kentucky
PANELIST:
Tiya Miles, Program in American Culture, University
of Michigan "The Custom in This Country": Place, Power, and Social Worlds on a Cherokee
Plantation
Celia Naylor, History Department, Dartmouth College Indian Territory: Site of Slave Resistance and Rebellion in the Antebellum
Era
Barbara Krauthamer, History Department, New York University In the Territory: Blacks, Indians and the Meanings of Race, Place and Nation
COMMENT:
Joanne
Melish
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-11
Sea
Reflections: American Culture in the Maritime World
CHAIR:
Paul
Gilje,
Department of History, University of Oklahoma
PAPERS:
Bryan Sinche, Department of English, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill Revolutions at Home and Abroad in William Leggett's Naval
Stories
Hester Blum, English Department, Pennsylvania State
University A "Little Coterie" at Sea: American Sailors' Literary Culture
Ryan Schneider, English and American Studies Departments,
Purdue University Oceans, Immigrants, and Border Theory in Henry David Thoreau's
Cape Cod
COMMENT:
Paul
Gilje
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-10
In Honor of the Work of Gillian Brown: A Celebration on her
Work
CHAIR:
Emory
Elliott,
English Department, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Cindy Weinstein, English Department, California Institute
of Technology On "Domestic Individualism"
Christopher Castiglia, English Department, Loyola
University, Chicago On "Domestic Individualism"
Dana Nelson, English Department, Vanderbilt University On "The Consent of the Governed"
Catherine Gallagher, English Department, University
of California, Berkeley On "The Consent of the Governed"
Karen Sanchez-Eppler, American Studies Department,
Amherst College On "In the Name of the Child"
Horwitz Howard, English Department, University of
Utah A Brief Reading from the Unpublished Writings of Gillian Brown
COMMENT:
Frances Ferguson, Department of English,
University of Chicago
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-15
The
Queer Real: Sexuality and Documentation Since 1968
CHAIR:
Huey
Copeland,
Art History Department, Northwestern University
PAPERS:
Richard Meyer, Art History Department, University
of Southern California Gay Power circa 1970: Visual Strategies for Sexual Revolution
Jennifer Doyle, English Department, University of
California, Riverside The Realist Impulse in Contemporary Queer Art: Reading David Wojnarowicz
through the Lens of the Nineteenth Century
Emily Hobson, American Studies and Ethnicity Department,
University of Southern California "On This Other Side of 1968": Situating Gay Liberation in Anti-Imperialist
Politics
Ricardo Montez, Performance Studies Department, New
York University Radiant Lines: Tracing Desire in the Archive of Keith Haring
Dylan
Rodriguez,
Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, Riverside
PANELIST:
Tera Maxwell, English Department, University
of Texas, Austin Imperial Memories and Corregidor Island
Camilla Fojas, Latin American and Latino Studies,
DePaul University Cowboys on a Different Shore: Hollywood in the Philippines
COMMENT:
Audience
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-13
The Photographic Construction of Children
and Adolescents, 1940 to the Present
CHAIR:
Laura Lindenfeld, Department
of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
PAPERS:
Jay Mechling, American Studies
Program, University of California, Davis Children Are All Alike (In Photographs)
John Ibson, Department of American
Studies, California State University, Fullerton Picturing Boys: Found Photographs and the Transformation of Boyhood in 1950s
America
COMMENT:
Eric Spross, Instructional
Technology, Menlo School, Atherton, CA
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-12
Spatial
Foundations: Yi-Fu Tuan and American Studies
CHAIR:
Michael
Steiner,
Department of American Studies, California State University, Fullerton
PAPERS:
Steven Hoelscher, Department of American Studies
and Geography, University of Texas, Austin Memory, Place, and the Photograph
Clarence Mondale, American Civilization Department,
George Washington University Migration and Region
Elizabeth Raymond, Department of History, University
of Nevada, Reno Yi-Fu Tuan in the Classroom: Modeling Interdisciplinarity
Patrick McGreevy, Center for American Studies and
Research, American University of Beirut Exceptionalism, American Studies, and the Disturbing Discipline of Geography
Anne Whiston Spirn, Landscape Architecture Department,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Landscape, Language, and Yi-Fu Tuan
COMMENT:
Yi-Fu
Tuan,
Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Grand Ballroom Central
Imagining
and Reimagining Black Power
CHAIR:
Yevette
Richards,
George Mason University
PAPERS:
Devorah Heitner, Department of Radio, Television,
Northwestern University Black Power Television: Reading Say Brother's Radical Pedagogy,
1968-1970
Peniel Joseph, Department of Africana Studies, Stony
Brook University Re-imagining the Black Power Movement, 1955-1975
Amy Ongiri, , English Department, University of Florida Black Power Iconography: the Politics of Representation
COMMENT:
Clarence
Lusane,
American University
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-2
Intimate
Traffic: Private Personhood and Public Persona in the Nineteenth Century
CHAIR:
Matt
Cohen,
Department of English, Duke University
PAPERS:
Eden Osucha, Department of English, Duke University The Intimate Bounds of Whiteness: Private Personhood between the Commodity
and the Color Line
Lara Cohen, Department of English, Yale University Mediums of Exchange: Privacy, Publicity, and Women's Authorship
Suzanne Schneider, Departments of Black Studies and
English, Amherst College "I Could. . . 'Moralize' This Spectacle for a Month to Come," Or, Agassiz
in America: Polygenesis, Pornography, and Other "Perfidious Influences"
COMMENT:
Matt
Cohen
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-5
Sight, Sound and Structure:
Women's Cultural Production
CHAIR:
Margaret
Ripley Wolfe, Department of History,
East Tennessee State University
PAPERS:
Laurie Blunsom, Music Department, Minnesota State
University, Moorhead A Woman's Place: Performance Space and Cultural Meaning in the Careers of
Boston's Women Composers, 1880-1925
Karen McNeill, Department of History, University of
California, Berkeley Constructing the California Women's Movement: Julia Morgan and Women's Institutions,
1910-1930
Frank Goodyear, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution Women Photographers in Turn-of-the-Century New York: The Case of Zaida Ben-Yusuf,
COMMENT:
Pamela
Fox, Women's Studies Program,
Georgetown University
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Renaissance West A
American
Culture in Arab Circulation
CHAIR:
Michael
Warner,
English Department, Rutgers University
PAPERS:
Becky Schulthies, Department of Anthropology, University
of Arizona Shrek or Miloudi? Cultural Transfigurations in Moroccan Media
Timothy Marr, Curriculum in American Studies, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Spectral Circulations of Osama bin Laden since 9/11
Brian T. Edwards, Department of English and Program
in Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University After the American Century: Final Understandings
COMMENT:
Ussama
Makdisi,
History Department, Rice University
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Renaissance West B
Mapping
a 21st Century without Guarantees: Strategies for Entering and Leaving
Postmodernity
CHAIR:
Madhu
Dubey,
English and African American Studies Departments, University of Illinois, Chicago
PAPERS:
Helen Jun, African American Studies and English Departments,
University of Illinois 9/11, Liberalism, and the New Face of US Nationalism
Randy Williams, Labor Union Research Analyst Anti-Unions, Immigrants at Work and Play in Indian Gaming, Gay NIMBYs, and
Other Postmodern Political Perils
Scott Heath, Department of English, Georgetown University Show and Prove: Actual Hip Hop and the Artiface of "Real"
COMMENT:
Audience
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-17
Creating Spaces for Collaboration
CHAIR:
Kreg Absire, Dana Hall School,
Wellesley, MA
PANELISTS:
Kathleen Stoker, English, Westborough
High School, Westborough, MA
Pearl McHaney, American and
Southern Literature Programs, Secondary English, Georgia State University
Bernadette May-Beaver, English,
Interim Co-Chair of American Studies Institute, Lovett School, Atlanta, GA
COMMENT:
Audience
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-16
Negotiating
Race, Class, and Nationhood: Social Movements and the Cultural Politics of Land
Use
CHAIR:
Miguel
de Oliver,
Department of Political Science and Geography, University of Texas, San Antonio
PAPERS:
Laura Barraclough, Program in American Studies and
Ethnicity, University of Southern California Rural Urbanism: Western Frontier Ideologies and The Preservation of Racial
and Class Privilege in Suburban Los Angeles
John Metz, American and New England Studies Department,
Boston University Architecture, Race, and Social Control: Slave Housing in Virginia, 1790-1860
Paul Rosier, Department of History, Villanova University "They Are Ancestral Homelands": The Cold War Politics of Space in 1950s
Native America
Amy Nathan, Department of American Studies, University
of Texas, Austin Claiming Sacred Space: The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 and the Construction
of Resurrection City, U.S.A.
COMMENT:
Miguel
de Oliver
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Grand Ballroom North
The Digital Classroom and American Visual
Culture
The institutions with which we work—universities,
museums, high schools and even the ASA—have begun demanding that scholars
of American visual culture incorporate digital technologies. How does this impact
our sense of the "place" of learning? How can image and content producers engage
with the broad archive of material available on the World Wide Web while maintaining
a sense of focus and identity? Organized by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus,
this roundtable brings together educators and content providers from a variety
of fields and institutions to explore these issues and inquiries.
CHAIR:
Vivien Green Fryd, Department
of Fine Arts, Vanderbilt University
PANELISTS:
David Jaffee, Department of
History, City College of New York
Meredith Davis, Department of
Fine Arts, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Cynthia Copeland, New York Historical
Society
Kathe Albrecht, Art History
Department, American University
COMMENT:
Audience
5:00PM - 6:00 PM MR-6
Business Meeting of the ASA Nominating Committee
5:00PM - 6:00 PM MR-7
Meeting of the Performance of the Americas Caucus
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Renaissance West A
CANCELLED - Reception
of the University of Texas, Austin, Center for Mexican-American Studies
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
MR-5
Reception of the University of Southern California
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM MR-5
Reception of the University of Iowa
6:30 PM
- 8:00 PM Grand Ballroom Central
Poetry Reading: Brenda Marie Osbey,
Poet-Laureate of Louisiana
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Grand Ballroom South
Reception of the University of Maryland
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM MR-2
Reception of the University of Minnesota
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Renaissance East
Reception of the New England American Studies Association &
the University Press of New England
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Grand Ballroom North
CANCELLED - Reception
of the Performance of the Americas Caucus