192. Brokering power and identity in Asian America Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Eiichiro Azuma, University of Pennsylvania Negotiating the boundaries of race and citizenship: Nisei cultural brokers in occupied Japan
Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware To broker rebellion
Lisa Rose Mar, University of Maryland, College Park Fixers, Brokers, and Professional Trouble-Shooters: Ethnic Leaders' Attempts to "Manage" the Chicago School of Sociology
Mae Ngai, University of Chicago "A slight knowledge of the barbarian language":
COMMENT:
Donna R. Gabaccia, University of Minnesota
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
193. Mark Twain Abroad Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Hilton Obenzinger, Stanford University
PAPERS:
Tracy Wuster, University of Texas, Austin "Our Fellow Savages": Mark Twain and Hawaii
Cansu Özge Özmen, University of Heidelberg Innocents Abroad and Orientalism
Lotfi Ben Rejeb, University of Ottowa Mark Twain, the Ottoman Empire and Palestine
Richard M Koch, University of Hartford Bringing Europe Home: The 'Curious House that Mark Built' in Hartford, Connecticut
COMMENT:
Hilton Obenzinger, Stanford University
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
194. The Possibilities and Limits of Black Internationalism Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
Cedric Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara
PAPERS:
Gaye Theresa Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara "Waltz Over the Waves": the Mexican Genesis of Borderlands Jazz
Cynthia Ann Young, Boston College Afro Brits Remake the Nation State
Alex Lubin, University of New Mexico Locating Afro-Arab Internationalism
COMMENT:
Cedric Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
195. Roundtable Discussion: Black Pacific? Considering and Problematizing Blackness and Other Racial Formations in the Pacific World Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Matthew Basso, University of Utah
PAPERS:
Matthew Basso, University of Utah All Blacks: The U.S. and Racial Construction in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Adrian Gaskins, University of Colorado Double Occupation: Black Americans and Colonial Contestation in the Philippines
Hokulani K. Aikau, University of Hawaii From Black Face to Golden Men: The Gendered Racialization of Hawai'i in 1959
Yuichiro Onishi, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York The Workings of Black Masculinity in Occupied Okinawa during the Vietnam War Era
Marie-Therese Cecilia Sulit, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities "The White Man's Burden": The Racial Othering of Filipinos During the Philippine-American War
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
196. Roundtable Discussion: Contemporary Slavery: Theory, Practice and Literary Representation Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
CHAIR:
Zoe Trodd, Harvard University
PAPERS:
Atashi Chakravarty, Executive Director, Narika Combating Human Trafficking
Norma Hotaling, Founder & Executive Director, SAGE Project—Standing
Against Global Exploitation Human Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Kavitha Sreeharsha, Staff Attorney, Asian Pacific Islander (API)
Legal Outreach Human Trafficking and Immigration
Zoe Trodd, Harvard University The Long Juneteenth: New Slave Narratives and the Abolitionist Protest Tradition.
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
197. Roundtable Discussion: Where Does Latin American Studies End and American Studies Begin? Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Deborah Cohn, Indiana University
PAPERS:
Vera M. Kutzinski, Vanderbilt University Should American Studies Become Studies of the Americas?
Caroline Field Levander, Rice University Hemispheric Texts and Latin/American Studies
Jose Limon, University of Texas, Austin Y, ¿México qué?: A Critique of Borderlands Theory
Sophia McClennen, Penn State University Reframing the Question: Area Studies Beyond Ontology
Christine M. Skwiot, Georgia State University The Americas: Within, Not Between, the Atlantic and Pacific
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
198. American Studies and the Transnational Classroom: A K-16 Discussion Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Kathleen Marie Stoker, Westborough High School, Westborough, MA
PRESENTERS:
Lois Rudnick, University of Massachusetts, Boston Adam Golub, Guilford College, Greensboro Maryellen Janeiro, Lawerence High School, Lawerence, MA Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
199. Transnationalizing U.S. Prison Studies Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Margo Okazawa-Rey, San Francisco State University
PAPERS:
Julia Sudbury, Mills College The Global Prison: Mapping Women's Criminalization and Resistance
Michael Hames-Garcia, University of Oregon From Oz to Abu Ghraib: Homophobia, Masculinity, and the Globalizing of the U.S. Prison-Industrial Complex
Zoe Hammer-Tomizuka, University of Arizona The Sonora/Arizona Border-Prison System: Remaking the Boundaries of Nation, Incarceration, and Abolition
Linda Evans, All of Us or None All of Us or None: Former Prisoners Organize for Justice
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
200. From Mao Suits to Saris, From the Terno to Chinoiserie-Gone-Chic: National Vestments and Globalization Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
CHAIR:
Dorinne Kondo, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Sean Meztger, Duke University Mao a la Mode: Costume, Communism and Contestation in Asian/ American Theatre
Sansan Kwan, California State University, Long Beach Made By Chinese: Toward a Theory of Critical Consumerism
Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, University of California, Los Angeles Your Terno's Draggin': Costume Metaphors and Filipino American Performance Art
Priya Srinivasan, University of California, Riverside Saris Sweat: Diasporic Gender Formation in Bharata Natyam Classrooms
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
201. Whose Music? Sounding Out the Color Line Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland
CHAIR:
Maureen Mahon, University of California, Los Angeles
PAPERS:
Grace Wang, University of California, Davis Constructing an Asian American Practice through Western Classical Music
Tamar Barzel, Wellesley College Free Jazz? Jews, Race, and the Price of the Ticket
Kevin Fellezs, University of California, Berkeley Between Black & White?: Hiroshima and the Politics of Fusion
COMMENT:
Maureen Mahon, University of California, Los Angeles
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
202. A Usable Past and the Transnational Turn: Conflict or Congruence? Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
PAPERS:
Nick Bromell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Transnational Turn, a Usable Past, and the Figure of Abraham Lincoln
Patricia Jane Roylance, Stanford University The Nineteenth-Century U.S. Practice of Critical Patriotism
Stephanie Y Evans, University of Florida Anna Julia Cooper's Use of International Scholarship to Serve a National Agenda
James Green, University of Massachusetts, Boston Finding a Usable Past in the American Radical Tradition
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
203. Eating Out: Food and the Performance of Transnational Identity Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
Lori Baptista, Northwestern University
PAPERS:
Catherine Kudlick, University of California, Davis Disability and the Limits of Ethnic Food
Sara Victoria Komarnisky, University of Manitoba "We put chile on everything" - Mexican Migrant Workers in Alaska
Lori Baptista, Northwestern University Bombarding the Senses with a Vibrant Foreignness:Performances of Inclusion in Newark's Ironbound
Chloe Johnston, Northwestern University The Mayor's Mouth: An Intersection of Politics, Identity, and Dinner
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
204. Both Inside and Out: American (Indian) Studies and Critical Transnationalism Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Philip J. Deloria, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Jill M. Doerfler, University of Minnesota Transnational Identities: Lessons from Gerald Vizenor's Postindians
Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, University of Minnesota Nations Within: Native Peoples, Treaties and the (De)Construction of Borders
Joseph Karl Bauerkemper, University of Minnesota Alter/Native Nationalisms: American Indian Stories, American Studies, and the Transnational Imperative
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
205. This session has been moved to 164A. Sounds and Movements in Latina/o
American Culture
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
206. Black Paris Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
Adalaine Baneek Holton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
PAPERS:
Naomi Silver, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor "The Great Commerce of All the Continents": Labor and the Cosmopolitan Body in Banjo and Le tumulte noir
Diarapha Helene Diallo-Gibert, University of Aix-Marseille Tragic Mulattoes or Tragic Society? The Métis Character in Hollywood Passing Films (1930-1960).
Bart Keeton, Duke University The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes, French Publishing, and Harlem-Paris Crime Fiction
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
207. The Return of Tocqueville Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Yale University
PAPERS:
Thomas Walter Clark, University of Kassel In the Transatlantic Hall of Mirrors: Cooper, Tocqueville and the Problem of Democracy
Robert Fanuzzi, St. John's University The Foreignness of Americanist Discourse: Tocqueville and French Colonialism in the United States
Jennifer Greiman, State University of New York, Albany "The Thing is New": Subjection and Domestic Tyranny in Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Jean A. Libby, Allies for Freedom Arinori Mori, the Japanese deTocqueville
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
208. Breakfast for Women in American Studies Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
209. Breakfast: Material Culture-Students' Committee Sponsored Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Ami Sommariva, University of California
at Davis
PAPERS:
Carolyn Thomas de la Pena, University of California
at Davis
Shirley Wajda, Kent State University
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
210. Tour around Oakland Tour Around Oakland (SRC) Tour Around Oakland
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
211. Breakfast: Early America-Students Committee Sponsored Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Chris Phillips, Stanford University
PAPERS:
Jay Fliegelman, Stanford University
Sandra Gustafson, University of Notre Dame
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
212. Roundtable Discussion: Teaching In or About Prison Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Quentin Miller, Suffolk University
PAPERS:
Sarah Haley, Yale University Carceral Community: A Historical Trajectory of Prison Studies From Within the Prison Industrial Society
David Rice, The College of Saint Rose Victim/Criminal or Neoslave Narrator? Narrative Authority and Teaching Prison Literature
Peter Caster, University of South Carolina, Upstate Millions Hidden in Plain Sight: Imprisonment, Racism, and Concealment in the United States
Jeremy Bearer-Friend, Brown University Going Inside to Get Everyone Out: Teaching as a Mode of Prison Abolition
Tobi Jacobi, Colorado State University Teaching Incarcerated Women Writers: Conflicting Paradigms of Prison Reform and Social Justice
Donna Hunter, Stanford Unviersity Outside, Inside, and Back Again: What Prisons and Prisoners Teach
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
213. Contesting the Dream: California Politics in Black and Brown Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Laura Pulido, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Luis Alvarez, University of California, San Diego Race, Rape, and Riots in the Summer of 1943: Violence and the Struggle for Dignity in the Wartime U.S.
Jason Ferreira, San Francisco State University "Our Frontiers Are In The Realm of Ideas": Identity, Solidarity, and the Meaning of Raza Radicalism in Late 20th Century America
Daniel Widener, University of California, San Diego All of Our Tomorrows: Interethnic Organizing in Contemporary Los Angeles
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
214. Nation and Globe: New Practices of War, Policy, and Patriotism Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
CHAIR:
David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University
PAPERS:
Ichiro Takayoshi, Columbia University Globalizing the Civil War: Robert Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois and the U.S. Foreign Policy, 1938-1941
Leerom Medovoi, Portland State University Global Society Must Be Defended: Biopolitics Without Boundaries
Tomo Hattori, Loyola Marymount University Patriot Act: Sly Civility and Asian American Dissidence
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
215. In Transit - Re-imagining Spaces of Exile, Migrancy, and Diaspora Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
David Serlin, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
Mabel Wilson, California College of the Arts Exhibiting the New American Negro - Du Bois, Washington, and the World of Fairs
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, University of Michigan Writing (African) America from the 'Erotic Margin': James Baldwin's Turkish Decade
Justyna M. Pas, University of Michigan From Kielce to Kansas: The Diasporic Imaginary in Jadwiga Maurer's Literature
of the Holocaust
Jayna Brown, University of California, Riverside In the Net: Flesh, Flight and Translocation in Speculative Fiction
COMMENT:
David Serlin, University of California, San Diego
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
216. Women of Color and Transnationalism Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland
CHAIR:
Gabriela F. Arredondo, University of California, Santa
Cruz
PAPERS:
Lili M. Kim, Hampshire College Multiple Belongings and Identity Formations: Korean Argentine Immigrant Women in the United States, 1965-Present
Dayo Gore, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "To Live and Work in Africa:" African American Women, Cold War Travels and Transnational Politics in Ghana, 1957-1963
Shirley Jennifer Lim, State University of New York, Stony Brook Anna May Wong and Josephine Baker in Transnational Performance
COMMENT:
Gabriela F. Arredondo, University of California, Santa Cruz
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
217. Roundtable Discussion: The Specter of the Archive Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
Dwight A McBride, Northwestern University
PAPERS:
Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia Haunting Jamestown
Vincent Woodard, University of Colroado, Boulder Blood Magic and Sorcery in the State Formation Archive
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of Califronia, Santa Cruz Language Competency in/and the Archive
John-Michael Rivera, University of Colorado, Boulder Whither Archive
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
218. Crossing Boundaries: Interpreting Transnational Modes of Memory Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Rüdiger Kunow, Potsdam University
PAPERS:
Ingrid Sabine Gessner, University of Regensburg Liberating Dachau: Transnational Negotiations of Holocaust Memory This paper will be presented by Rüdiger Kunow.
Maureen Elizabeth Reed, Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR Bridging a Gap? Kay Bennett, Pablita Velarde, and Transnational Identity for American Indian Women
Birgit Margret Bauridl, University of Regensburg Fusing the Different: Contemporary Black Slam/Performance Poetry as a Site of Transnational Memory
Birgit Däwes, University of Würzburg On Contested Ground (Zero): Literature and the Transnational Challenge of Remembering 9/11
COMMENT:
Rüdiger Kunow, Potsdam University
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
219. Theorizing Sexuality in Transnational Filipino and American Studies: Imperialism, Intimacy, and Queer Eroticism Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIR:
Theodore Sanchez Gonzalves, University of Hawaii, Manoa
PAPERS:
Tera Maxwell, University of Texas, Austin "Let the Dead Bury the Dead": Remembering the Unspeakable during the American and Japanese Occupations
Victor Mendoza, University of California, Berkeley Little Brown Brothers and the Transnational Erotics of "White Love"
Martin Joseph Ponce, Ohio State University The Queer Villa: Exile, Eroticism, Experimentalism
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
220. What is Blackness?: Multiple and Contested Constructions of Racial Difference in the 20th Century U.S. Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Lisa Ze, Wayne State University
PAPERS:
Lucia Beatrice Trimbur, Vera Institute of Justice "In Search of 'Authentic' Identities: White-Collar Clients, Boxing Trainers, and the Commodification of Black Masculinity"
Aisha D. Bastiaans, Yale University "Replicating Racial and Gender Difference: Blackness as Subtext in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner"
Renu Cappelli, University of California, Berkeley "On the Road with the Black Factory: Re-imagining and Re-materializing Blackness in William Pope.L's Art"
Rebecca Peabody, Yale University "Racing Visual Culture: Cinematic Uses of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Late 20th Century"
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
221. Roundtable Discussion: Keywords for Transamerican Times Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIRS: Susan Gillman, University of California,
Santa Cruz Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin, Madison
PAPERS:
Susan Gillman, University of California, Santa Cruz, Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin, Madison Spatiotemporal
Elisa Tamarkin, University of California, Irvine Anachronism
Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago Black Atlantic
Vicente L. Rafael, University of Washington, Seattle Translation
Sandra Gunning, University of Michigan Gender
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
222. The Antebellum South and the Problem of Slavery: A K16 Workshop Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Karen Halttunen, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Camille Leonhardt, Sierra College "The Expansion of American Slavery"
Clarence E. Walker, University of California, Davis "The Many Faces of African-American Slavery"
Letty Kraus, University of California, Davis "The Power of the Word: Literacy and Rebellion in the Antebellum South"
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
223. Roundtable Discussion: Fresh Approaches to Discovering Imagined Communities: Incorporating Ethnic and Diasporic Media into Teaching and Research Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Christopher A. Vaughan, Santa Clara University
PRESENTERS:
Sandy Close, New America Media Greg B. Macabenta, Minority Media Services, Inc. Raj Jayadev, Silicon Valley Debug
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
224. The Postnational Asia-Pacific: Works in Translation Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Christina M Chia, Duke University
PAPERS:
Shuang Shen, Rutgers University Translation as Necessary Failure: the Encounter between the Chinese writer Lu Xun and American Internationalists in the 1930s
Staci Ford, University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Film as 'Post and Pro National' American Studies
Xiaohong Liu, Yunnan University Imagined Chinese America---In the Diaspora Consciousness of Chinese American Women Writers
Jeongsuk Joo, State University of New York, Buffalo The Eastern Connection: Hollywood Turns to East Asian Films
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
225. The Underside of American Exceptionalism Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Lee Bebout, Purdue University
PAPERS:
Susan Zieger, University of California, Riverside Pioneering Inner Space: Manifest Destiny in Ludlow's _Hasheesh Eater_ and
_Heart of the Continent
Karen Beavers, University of Southern California Star-O: Harry Belafonte Performs the Diaspora.
Christopher Peterson, Claremont McKenna College Raging Against Death: American Exceptionalism and the "War on Terror"
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
226. Literature as Social Document: Aesthetics and Politics Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
Zina Rodriguez, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Kelly Wisecup, University of Maryland, College Park "The Progress of the Heat Within": The Tropics, Yellow Fever, and Cartographies of Citizenship
David Cantrell, University of Nevada, Reno Assumptions of the Storytelling Pitch: Southern Culture and Its Countertraditions in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Carter Mathes, Rutgers University "To be available to the waves from the source": Aesthetic and Political Commitment in the Novels of Toni Cade Bambara
Marcia Dawkins, University of Southern California, Annenberg What Scattered Ashes Leave Behind: Rhetoric of Passing in Piñero's "A Lower East Side Poem"
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
227. Business Meeting of the International Committee Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
228. Business Meeting of the 2007 Program Committee Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
229. Junior Faculty and Grad Student Breakfast II: "Women, Minority Teachers and Authority in the Classroom"-Students Committee Sponsored Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Laura Barraclough, Antioch University, Los Angeles
PAPERS:
Gaye Theresa Johnson, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Natalia Molina, University of California,
San Diego
Viet Nguyen, University of Southern California Ruby Tapia, Ohio State University
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
230. Roundtable Discussion: Julia Collins's Curse of Caste: Implications of the First Novel by an African American Woman Oakland Marriott City Center California
PAPERS:
Mitch Kachun, Western Michigan University Moderator
Dickson Bruce, University of California, Irvine Roundtable Discussant
Lois Brown, Mount Holyoke
Veta Tucker, Grand Valley State University Roundtable Discussant
Teresa Beacom, Southeast Community College Roundtable Discussant
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
231. Roundtable Discussion: Printing a Transcultural U.S. Feminism: California, 1969-present (Sponsored by the ASA Women's Committee) Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Kristen Hogan, University of Texas, Austin
PRESENTERS:
Judy Grahn, New College of California Carol Seajay, Books to Watch Out For Norma Alarcón, University of California, Berkeley Yolanda Venegas, University of California, Riverside Shay Brawn, Aunt Lute Books Irene Helen Reti, University of California, Santa Cruz
COMMENT:
Kristen Hogan, University of Texas, Austin
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
232. Roundtable Discussion: Perspectives on American Studies From Americanists Based Abroad Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Basem Ra'ad, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem Teaching American Studies in Jersulem, Palestine, and Lebanon
Wuming Zhao, Doshisha University Teaching American Studies in Japan
Tatiana Venediktova, Moscow University Teaching American Studies Summer Seminars in Russia
Youzhong Sun, Beijing Foreign Studies University Teaching American Studies in China
Manuel de Jesus Velazquez Leon, University of Holguin Teaching American Studies in Cuba
Sonia Torres, Universidade Federal Fluminense Teaching American Studies in Brazil
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
233. Positioning Black Identity in the World: Transnational Moments in African American History Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Kimberley L. Phillips, College of William and Mary
PAPERS:
Adam Craig Malka, University of Wisconsin, Madison The Haitian Evolution: Emigration and Diasporan Consciousness in Nineteenth Century America
Ikuko Asaka, University of Wisconsin, Madison The Malleable Fugitive Slave Subject: Race and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Canadian-U.S. Abolitionism
Fumiko Sakashita, Michigan State University "Remember Pearl Harbor, but Don't Forget Sikeston": Anti-Lynching Discourse and Transnational Politics of Race
COMMENT:
Hiroshi Kitamura, College of William and Mary
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
234. Transnationalism and the Hemisphere across U.S. American, Latin American, and Latino Studies Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Elizabeth Rosa Horan, Arizona State University
PAPERS:
María Helena Rueda, Smith College Conflictive Visions: Transnational Alternative Films and the Audiovisual Imagination Across the Americas
Robert McKee Irwin, University of California, Davis Memín Pinguín: Traveling Stereotypes and Racisms in the Americas
Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University Diaspora, Nationalism, and Globalization in U.S. American and Latin American Studies
Manuel Martín-Rodríguez, University of California, Merced Roots and Routes/Balsas and Pateras: The Trans/Hispanic Atlantic
COMMENT:
Elizabeth Rosa Horan, Arizona State University
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
235. Roundtable Discussion: California Stories: California Council for the Humanities' Community Oral History Project Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
S. Travis Silcox, Sacramento City College
PRESENTERS:
Alden Mudge, California Council for the Humanities Julie Caine, University of California, Berkeley Preston O. Rudy, San Jose State University Candacy Ann Taylor, Independent scholar
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
236. Racing the Nation: Insurgent Nationalism in Ethnic American Communities Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIR:
David Lloyd, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Kathy Glass, Duquesne Univeristy A "Daughter of Africa" Speaks in America: Maria W. Stewart's Discourse on the Nation
David James Vazquez, University of Oregon Zig-zagging through History: Ernesto Galarza, Jesús Colón and the Culture of Insurgent Consciousness
Catherine Ramirez, University of California, Santa Cruz Enduring Freedom: The Latina/o Soldier and the 'War on Terror'
Rosemary Marangoly George, University of California, San Diego Domestic
Chris Newfield, University of California, Santa Barbara Corporation
Nikhil Pal Singh, University of Washington Liberalism
COMMENT:
Glenn Hendler, University of Notre Dame
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
238. Transnational Activism Inside/Outside the US: Creating Communities Beyond States and Across Worlds Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland
CHAIR:
T.V. Reed, Washington State University
PAPERS:
Jeffrey Scott Juris, Arizonta State University Connecting the 'Battle in Seattle' to the World: Precedents and Antecedents in Transnational Networks of the 1999 Actions
Luis Fernandez, Grinnell College Shape Shifting: Anti-corporate Globalization, Anarchist Networks, and Relief Response in New Orleans
Randel Hanson, Arizona State University Global Indigenous Networking and Global Warming: Framing Ethnocidal Threats within the Climate Change Justice Movement
COMMENT:
T.V. Reed, Washington State University
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
239. Historical Witnessing and Transnational Gazes Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Patrice McDermott, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
PAPERS:
Meredith Raimondo, Oberlin College "What Conscience Demands:" Orphans, Terrorists, and the AIDS Pandemic
Lisa Lillian Lynch, Catholic University The G Word: American Media Coverage of Guantanamo and the "Gulag" Backlash
Wendy Kozol, Oberlin College Witnessing Genocide and the Challenges of Ethical Spectatorship
COMMENT:
Patrice McDermott, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
240. Evangelicalism, Insurance, and Indian Casinos: A Discourse of Futurity in the "New" American Studies Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
CHAIR:
Michelle Burnham, Santa Clara University
PAPERS:
Annie McClanahan, University of California, Berkeley "He who dies with the most toys is still dead.": 9/11, speculation, and actuarial time
Kara Thompson, University of California, Davis B17…G15…D4 to 21, 777, and Hard Eights: Speed, Risk, Speculation, and the 'Ceremonial' Time of Indian Casinos
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
241. Beyond the Islands: Haiti, Cuba, and the U.S. Imaginary Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Barbara Ladd, Emory University
PAPERS:
John Lowe, Louisiana State University Subversive Romanticism, Haitian Specters, in Yerby's The Golden Hawk
Susan Van D'Elden Donaldson, College of William and Mary Recovering Haiti: Silence, History and Trauma in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory
Keith Allen Cartwright, University of North Florida Simulacra of the Contact Zone: Representations of El Monte and the Igbodu from La Florida
COMMENT:
Barbara Ladd, Emory University
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
242. The Traffic in Disability: Cripping Transnational Desires Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
To be Announced
PAPERS:
Alison Kafer, Southwestern University Transnational Circuits of Desire and Disgust: Ambivalent Reflections on the Amputee-Devotee Community
Anna Mollow, University of California, Berkeley SM and the Disabled Nation
Robert McRuer, George Washington University Neoliberal Risks: Million Dollar Baby, Murderball, and Anti-National Sexual Positions
COMMENT:
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
243. From Assimilation to Transculturalism: Americanization At Home and Abroad: I Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, University of Texas, Austin
PAPERS:
Mark Rifkin, Skidmore College Indigenizing the "Foreign": Inserting Self-Determination into the Search for Transnationality
Katherine Ellinghaus, University of Melbourne Amalgamated Identities: Land, Assimilation and People of White/Indigenous Descent in Australia and the United States
Teresa F. A.. Alves, University of Lisbon Towards the Paradoxes of Americanization: Views from Inside and Out
Jeffrey David Montez de Oca, University of Southern California Immigrants from America: Native Challenges to Assimilation Theory
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
244. K-16 Collaboration Committee Luncheon Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
245. ASA-JAAS Project Advisory Committee Business Meeting Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
245A. ASA-JAAS Project Luncheon Oakland Marriott City Center AJ Toppers
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
246. Found in Translation: Globalization, Performance, and Identity in U.S.-Japan Relations Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
CHAIR:
Lisa Yoneyama, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
Christine R Yano, University of Hawaii Airborne Dreams: Japanese American Flight Attendants and the Development of Global Tourism
Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawaii From the Freighter to the Podium: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Western Classical Music
Yujin Yaguchi, University of Tokyo In Search of the "Real" Hawai'i: Hula Practitioners in Japan
COMMENT:
Lisa Yoneyama, University of California, San Diego
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
247. Roundtable Discussion: Everyday Plebiscites Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
John P. McGowan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
PAPERS:
Clarence Karr, Malaspina University College American Fans of Popular Canadian Fiction
Barbara Ryan, National University of Singapore Salmi, Lew, Eliza, Abraham: Page to Stage, Ben-Hur
Allison Perlman, University of Texas, Austin NOW and Television: Activist Responses to the Media in the 1970s
Trevor Elkington, University of Denmark Don't Believe the Hype: Videogame Marketing, Critical Reception and Sales
John P. McGowan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Blogosphere: New, Different, Better?
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
248. Roundtable Discussion: Re-Imagining "Early America" From Inside Out Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Sandra M. Gustafson, University of Notre Dame
PRESENTERS:
Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland, College Park Katy Chiles, Northwestern University Annette Kolodny, University of Arizona Stephen Shapiro, University of Warwick
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
249. Roundtable Discussion: Native Feminisms Without Apology I Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan University
PRESENTERS:
Lisa Kahaleole Hall, Oberlin College Joanne Barker, San Francisco State University Mishuana Goeman, Dartmouth College Noenoe Silva, University of Hawai'i
COMMENT:
Lee Maracle, Independent scholar
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
250. Roundtable Discussion: Black Music Beyond Borders Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Gayle Wald, George Washington University
PAPERS:
Shana L. Redmond, Yale University "Global Uplift: James Weldon Johnson, Japan, and the Reach of Black Music"
Ruth Feldstein, Brandeis University "The 'King of Calypso' and the 'Voice of Africa': Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba, 1960-1967"
Gayle Wald, George Washington University Gospel and the Experience of Blackness in Post-colonial, Post-9/11 Europe
Josh Kun, University of California, Riverside Land of the Free: Dreaming Black Tijuana
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
251. Roundtable Discussion: Negotiating Graduate School: Practical Advice for Students and Mentors Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Kyla Tompkins, Pomona College
PRESENTERS:
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, University of Southern California Vicki Ruiz, University of California, Irvine Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
252. International Partnerships as a Powerful Key to Transnational Learning Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIR:
Judith Jeney, Ramapo College of New Jersey
PAPERS:
Olga Leontovich, Volgograd State Pedagogical University Creation of a U.S.-Russian Mini-Campus for Intercultural Learning
Carter Jones Meyer, Ramapo College of New Jersey Assessing Diversity: A Transnational Exchange
Jennefer Verdini Mazza, Ramapo College of New Jersey Transnational Teaching: A Case Study
Thomas J. Heed, Ramapo College of New Jersey Forging an International (Transnational) American Studies Program
COMMENT:
Maren Stange, Cooper Union
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
253. Roundtable Discussion: Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland
CHAIR:
Sharon Patricia Holland, University of Illinois, Chicago
PAPERS:
Barbara Irene Krauthamer, New York University "Citizenship, Racism and Sovereignty"
Robert Keith Collins, University of California, Berkeley "The 'Indianness' of Being a Black Indian"
David Chang, University of Minnesota "The Place of the Nation"
Jennifer Devere Brody, Northwestern University "In the Company of Women"
COMMENT:
Tiya Alicia Miles, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
254. Roundtable Discussion: American Studies Abroad: Opportunities, Programs, and Issues Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Paul Giles, Oxford University The Goals of the International Association of American Studies
Winfried Fluck, Free University, Berlin American Studies in Germany
Marc Chenetier, Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot The Work of the European Association of American Studies
Cristina Giorcelli, University of Rome American Studies in Italy
Isabel Duran, University of Madrid American Studies in Spain
Tatsushi Narita, Nagoya City University T. S. Eliot Studies and A Two-Way Interactive Dimension of American Studies
Mechal Sobel, Director of the Center for the Study of the U.S.,
University
of Haifa, Haifa Israel
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
255. Roundtable Discussion: Identity, Theory, and the New Biography Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Carla Kaplan, University of Southern California
PRESENTERS:
Daphne Ann Brooks, Princeton Lois Brown, Mount Holyoke George Hutchinson, Indiana University, Bloomington Carla L. Peterson, University of Maryland, College Park Ramon Saldivar, Stanford University
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
256. Questioning Patriotism and Other Taboos: Teaching Controversial Topics in the Post 9/11 Classroom Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Mark Rice, St. John Fisher College
PAPERS:
Paul T. Murray, Siena College, Karen Mahar, Siena College Teaching about Patriotism in Wartime I: A Small Liberal Arts College
Susan Kay, Washington State University Teaching About Patriotism in Wartime II: A Large Land-Grant Institution
Stacy K. McGoldrick, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Christine Caffrey, Miami University Students' Perspective on Controversial Topics in the Classroom
COMMENT:
Mark Rice, St. John Fisher College
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
257. The Civil Rights Movement: A K16 Curricular Workshop Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Pamela Tindall, University of California, Davis
PAPERS:
Sylvia Aquino, University of California, Davis "The Evolution of Civil Rights"
Lisa G. Materson, University of California, Davis "Changing Meanings of Freedom in the Modern Civil Rights Movement"
Jeffrey L. Pollard, Natomas Charter School, Sacramento "The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the Community Organizing Tradition"
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
258. The "Cultural Defense" on Trial: Transnational Issues and Perspectives Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
Nancy Struna, University of Maryland, College Park
PAPERS:
Alison Dundes Renteln, University of Southern California The Cultural Defense in Death Penalty Cases
Cher Weixia Chen, University of Southern California A Critique of "Loss of Face" Arguments in Cultural Defense Cases: A Comparative Study
Sylvia Maier, Georgia Institute of Technology "Honor Killings" and the Cultural Defense in Germany and the United States
John Caughey, University of Maryland, College Park Why the Cultural Defense Needs Person Centered Ethnography: The Case of a Murder in Maine
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
259. Transnational Chican@ Style Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Olga Najera Ramirez, University of California, Santa Cruz
PAPERS:
Ellie Hernandez, University of California, Santa Barbara Chicana/o Fashion Codes: The Political Significance of Clothes
Richard T. Rodriguez, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Queering the Homeboy Aesthetic
Karen Mary Davalos, Loyola Marymount University Domestic Styles of Mexican Chicago
Curtis Marez, University of Southern California Seeing Skeletons: Ester Hernandez, and the Visual Culture of Migrant Farm Labor
COMMENT:
Olga Najera Ramirez, University of California, Santa Cruz
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
260. Visualizing the Diaspora in a Transnational American Studies Context: Resistance, Representation, and Relationships in Visual Imagery across the African Diaspora Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
CHAIR:
Fath Davis Ruffins, National Museum of American History
PAPERS:
Cheryl LaRoche, University of Maryland, College Park Envisioning Escape from Slavery: Landscapes of Resistance in the African Diaspora
Isabell Cserno, University of Maryland, College Park Nationhood and Diaspora: Visual Representations and Race in Advertisements in Germany and the US
Bridget Cooks, Santa Clara University Re-imagining the Stereotype across the Diaspora: Contemporary Self-Portraits by Black Artists
Juergen Heinrichs, Seton Hall University Towards a Black German Art Practice: Diasporic Translation in the Works of Marc Brandenburg
COMMENT:
Fath Davis Ruffins, National Museum of American History
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
261. From Assimilation to Transculturalism: Americanization At Home and Abroad: II Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Matthew Elliott, Emmanuel College
PAPERS:
Jade Roslyn Ferguson, Cornell University Witnessing an American Scene: Racial Performances of "the South" in Canada
Eric Johnson, University of Iowa Manteca! Afro-Cuban Jazz, Musical Afro-Internationalism, and Old War Politics
Maja Miscovic, National Louis University, Emily Noelle Ignacio, University of Washington Becoming White to Become American: Balkan Immigrants and the Transformation of Their Race pre- and post-911
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
262. Business Meeting of the Children and Youth Studies Caucus Oakland Marriott City Center Boardroom 430
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
263. Business Meeting of All Chairs Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
264. Gertrude Stein Tour Gertrude Stein Tour (SRC 3) Gertrude Stein Tour
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
265. Roundtable Discussion: International American Studies: After U.S. Nationalism, What Now with the State? Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIRS:
Robyn Wiegman, Duke University Allaine Cerwonka, Central European University
PAPERS:
Allaine Cerwonka, Central European University International American Studies: After U.S. Nationalism, What Now with the State?
Eva Cherniavsky, University of Washington International American Studies: After U.S. Nationalism, What Now with the State?
Eva Federmayer, Eotvos Lorand University and the University of Szeged International American Studies: After U.S. Nationalism, What Now with the State?
Robyn Wiegman, Duke University International American Studies: After U.S. Nationalism, What Now with the State?
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
265B. Intellectual Histories in a Global Age
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University
PRESENTERS:
Nicole Sackley, University of Richmond Cosmopolitan Exchanges
Jay Garcia, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill Alain Locke's "World Culture"
Sarah E. Igo, University of Pennsylvania Conceptualizing Modern Privacy
COMMENT:
Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University Howard Brick, Washington University
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
266. Roundtable Discussion: Sexual Citizenship in Transnational America: Histories, Politics, Possibilities Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Erica Rand, Bates College
PRESENTERS:
Clare Sears, University of California, Santa Cruz Wendy Chapkis, University of Southern Maine Eithne Luibheid, University of Arizona Gina Rourke, Independent scholar
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
267. Transnational Perspectives on North American Architecture Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
Margaretta Lovell, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Abigail A. Van Slyck, Connecticut College Spaces of Literacy: Carnegie Libraries and an English-Speaking World
Annmarie Adams, McGill University Man and His Worlds: Transnationalism and the Architecture of Expo 67
Victoria Solan, University of Chicago Ethnicity in Suburbia--Inversions and Occupations
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
268. Roundtable Discussion: Colloquy with Joanna Brooks on American Lazarus (2003) Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Dennis D. Moore, Florida State University
PRESENTERS:
Joanna Brooks, University of Texas, Austin Kristina Bross, Purdue University Vincent Albert Carretta, University of Maryland, College Park Edward D. White, University of Florida Hilary Wyss, Auburn University Anthea Butler, University of Rochester
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
269. Get Up, Stand Up: Comparative and Transnational Social Movement Politics in the "Long Sixties" Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Lisa Rubens, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Derek Catsam, University of Texas, Permian Basin "When We Are Tired We Shall Rest": Bus Boycotts in the U.S. and South Africa
Lara A. Campbell, Simon Fraser University "Love Guerrillas' and 'Liberationist Shit-chicks": Gender and Vietnam War Resisters in Canadian Antiwar Activism
Ian Lekus, University of Georgia "Out in the Cold: Lesbian Feminism at the 1971 North American-Indochinese Women's Conference"
COMMENT:
Lisa Rubens, University of California, Berkeley
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
270. Youth Voices and Youth Activism in Oakland: Transforming the Public Sphere Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Taj James, Movement Strategy Center
PAPERS:
Jennifer Tilton, Wesleyan University What is "the Power of the Youth?"
Victor Rios, University San Francisco Gender as a Trans/re/gressive force in Chican@ Youth Activism in the 21st Century
Victor Duarte, Huaxtec Organization Youth in Grassroots Raza Organizing
Lissa Soep, Youth Radio Youth Voice At War
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
271. The Cultural Politics of (Mis)translation: Reading Three US-Japan Cultural Interfaces Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University
PAPERS:
Tsuyoshi Ishihara, Waseda University The Fate of Mark Twain in Post-WWII Japanese School Textbooks
Hitoshi Kamada, University of Arizona Karate in the United States: Its Popularization and Diversification
Masumi Izumi, Doshisha University Taiko and Japanese American Community: Postwar Community Re-Building through Multicultural Performance Music
COMMENT:
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
272. American Studies After Totalitarianism: Toward a Progressive Pedagogy in Becoming-EU Central and Eastern Europe
This panel has been canceled.
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Gary Edward Holcomb, Emporia State University The New American Studies in Becoming-EU Romania
Mihaela Precup, University of Bucharest Teaching American Visual Culture in Romania and the Battle of Representations
Ruxandra Manuela Radulescu, University of Bucharest Approaching Civil Rights in Romania: How American Studies Can Trouble the Waters
COMMENT:
John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
273. Roundtable Discussion: When and How do Discourses of "Americanization" and "Anti-Americanism" Matter? Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
CHAIR:
Jane Desmond, University of Iowa
PAPERS:
Giorgio Mariani, University of Rome Giorgio Mariani, University of Rome "Anti-Americanization" in Contemporary Italian Discourse
Pawel Krzysztof Jedrzejko, University of Silesia, Katowice Pawel Jedrzejko The Passion for Consumption of U.S. Literature in Polish Universities
Ricardo Salvatore, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires Ricardo Salvatore History and Politics of U.S. Interventions in Latin America
Virginia Dominguez, University of Iowa Virginia Dominguez Public Discourse as Political Speech-Act: multi-sited Comparisons
Zsofia Ban, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest Zsofi Ban, "Americanization" and the Art World Abroad
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
274. Roundtable Discussion: Keynotes of Sound Studies--Crossing Disciplinary and National Borders Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin, Madison
PAPERS:
David Suisman, University of Delaware The Transnational Origins of the Modern American Music Business
Derek Vaillant, University of Michigan Sounds Provincial: Producing a (trans)National Radio Imaginary in Interwar France, 1921-1939
Elena Razlogova, Concordia University, Montreal Hearing Like a Citizen of a Cold War State: Transnational Sound Studies and the History of the Social Imagination
Angela Blake, Miami University, Ohio Urban Acoustic Ecologies: Framing the Soundscapes of North American Cities
Michael Bull, University of Sussex Listening to the Voice of Globalisation: iPod Culture and Urban Experience
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
275. Roundtable Discussion: Demystifying the Dissertation Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Joseph Heathcott, Saint Louis University
PAPERS:
Karen Cardozo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "The Dissertation as an Institution: Identifying Systemic Challenges"
Stephanie Dunson, University of Rhode Island "Not the 'What' But the 'How': The Problem of Methodology in the Interdisciplinary Dissertation"
Cynthia Wu, Agnes Scott College "Finishing the Dissertation Away from the Home Institution"
Randolf Lagumbay Arguelles, University of California, Los Angeles "The Dissertation and Alternative Careers"
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
276. Foreign Tastes: Appropriating National Culture in Nineteenth-Century America Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Scott Casper, University of Nevada, Reno
PAPERS:
Andrew Lewis, American University New Wine in Old Bottles?: Table Wines and Consumerism in Early America
Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow "Qualities Adapted to the Country": The Place of Horticulture in the Nineteenth Century
Elizabeth White Nelson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas The Lost Cuisine: Preserving Culinary Traditions in the Post-Civil War South
COMMENT:
Scott Casper, University of Nevada, Reno
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
277. Feminism and Transnational Studies of Empire and Militarism Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Inderpal Grewal, University of California, Irvine
PAPERS:
Jennifer Terry, University of California, Irvine Governmentality, Sentimentality, and Imperial Erotics in "Extreme Cinema Verite"
Minoo Moallem, University of California, Berkeley "Nation, Empire and the Sexed Female Subject"
Caren Kaplan, University of California, Davis "Aftermath: Aerial Perspective and the First Persian Gulf War"
Persis Karim, San Jose State University, Taraneh Hemami, California College of the Arts Cross-Connections: Art, History and the Emerging Vision of Iranian-Americans
Flo Oy Wong, Asian American Women Artists Association The Art of Our Lives: An American Family From Oakland Chinatown
William Wong, Author, Social Historian, Freelance Writer Reclaimed Stories: Oakland's Chinatown
Ping-Ann Addo, University of Massachusetts, Boston Treasured Textiles as Community Art: Tongan Women, Tapa, and Transnational Cultural Pride
Sonia Manjon, California College of the Arts Art Making Social Change in Oakland
Sharon Mizota, Independent scholar Comments
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
279. Building for the Future: How the Whole Earth Counterculture Redesigned the World Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Simon James Sadler, University of California, Davis
PAPERS:
Fred Turner, Stanford University Buckminster Fuller and the Rise of Bohemian Technocracy
Andy Kirk, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Shelter and Land Use: Whole Earth Visions of Alternative Architecture and Technology
William Bryant, University of Iowa Outlaws in Space: Stewart Brand, Space Colonies, and the Techno-Ecological Future
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
280. Roundtable Discussion: Losing History, Losing Culture: Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Tracyann Williams, Graduate Center, City University of New York
PAPERS:
Michelle Materre, The New School Race and Space: The Visual Politics of a Local Community
Tracyann Williams, Graduate Center, City University of New York Feasting on the Saints
Nina Ha, Creighton University Displaced Again: Where Do We Vietnamese Go?
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
281. Roundtable Discussion: Native Feminisms Without Apology II Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Andrea Lee Smith, University of Michigan
PRESENTERS:
Audra Simpson, Cornell University Renya Ramirez, University of California, Santa Cruz Sarah Deer, Tribal Law and Policy Institute Luana Ross, University of Washington
COMMENT:
Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Queensland University of Technology
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
282. Reception of the University of Southern California Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
283. African American Museum and Library-SRC/K12 sponsored African American Museum and Library (SRC5) African American Museum and Library
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
284. "Dare to Secure a Future": Archaeologies of Contemporary Cultural Politics Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
James Kyung-Jin Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara
PAPERS:
Victor Bascara, University of Wisconsin, Madison Empire as Refuge
Grace Hong, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Horizontal Community": Comparative Racialization and Intersectionality
Dylan Rodriguez, University of California, Riverside Multiculturalist Life and White Supremacist Death: Language, Praxis, and Movement in the Historical Present
Min Hyoung Song, Boston College Genealogy of a Detroit Childhood
COMMENT:
Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
285. Roundtable Discussion: The Terminator Strikes: Labor Studies in Crisis (Sponsored by the Working-class Studies Caucus) Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Kitty Krupat, New York University
PRESENTERS:
Katie Quan, University of California, Berkeley Peter Rachleff, Macalester College Keith Pace, Califirnia School Employees Association
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
285B. Documentary and Dissent: Visual Cultures of Opposition
Post-1960 Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Miles Orvell, Temple University
PAPERS:
Joseph Entin, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Documentary, Disfiguration and Race: The "Maximum Multiplicity" of Romare
Bearden's Projections
Franny Nudelman, University of Virginia "Asleep All This Time": Documenting the Radicalization of Vietnam
Veterans in Winter Soldier
Rebecca Schreiber, University of New Mexico "What's Hard to See Is the Unknown": Photography, Documentary and Labor
Paula Rabinowitz, University of Minnesota Shutterings, Endings and Autopsies: Towards a Poetics of the Post-Industrial
Documentary and Labor
COMMENT:
Miles Orvell, Temple University
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
286. The Color of Welfare Reform: New Evidence from Las Vegas, Miami, and Los Angeles Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
CHAIR:
Rhonda Y. Williams, Case Western Reserve University
PAPERS:
Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College Race, Welfare Reform and the Political Activism of Welfare Mothers
Alejandra Marchevsky, California State University, Los Angeles, Jeanne F. Theoharis, Brooklyn College Tough Love in L.A. County: Mexican Immigrants and the Failure of Welfare-to-Work
Sanford Schram, Bryn Mawr College Wel-Mart: Devolution, Privatization, Performance Measurement and the New World of Welfare-to-Work
Constance Areson Clark, Randolf-Macon Woman's College Cartoon Cave Men on the Global Stage: When Were They Funny and Why?
Adam R. Shapiro, University of Chicago The Evolution of the "New Civic Biology"
Angie Christine Maxwell, University of Texas, Austin Reactionary Fundamentalism in the Aftermath of Scopes: The Founding of William Jennings Bryan College
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
288. Spatial Scale and the New U.S. Imperialism Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
Lee Quinby, Brooklyn College
PAPERS:
Paul Lyons, Unversity of Hawaii Legislative Imperialism and Anti-"Race-Based" Entitlement Rhetoric In Hawai'i
Malini Schueller, University of Florida The Spectacular Languages of Shock & Awe and Abu Ghraib
Ashley Dawson, College of Staten Island Transnational Popular Movements Against U.S. Empire
COMMENT:
Lee Quinby, Brooklyn College
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
289. Transnational Native American Communities--SRC-sponsored Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Hertha D. Sweet Wong, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Malcolm Margolin, Publisher, Heyday Books, Berkeley Relocation and Return: Pan-Indian Urban and Reservation Activism
Danika Fawn Medak-Saltzman, University of California, Berkeley Dances with Samurai
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz The Indigenous World Association and the Global Quest for Justice
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
290. Roundtable Discussion: Re-imagining the Journal: Vectors and New Modes of Digital Scholarship Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
Tara McPherson, University of Southern California
PRESENTERS:
Amelie Hastie, University of California, Santa Cruz Steve Anderson, University of Southern California Trevor Paglen, University of California, Berkeley Rick Prelinger, Independent Scholar/Archivist/Activist Raegan Kelly David Lloyd, University of Southern California
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
291. Radical Difference? Transnational Encounters, Afro-Asian Imaginings and the Search for Cross-Racial Solidarity Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Junaid Rana, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PAPERS:
Vivek Bald, New York University The Mysterious Mr. Abdou: Indian Radicals and Sailors in the Overlapping Diasporas of 1920s New York
Sohail Daulatzai, University of California, Irvine Sketches of Pain: Black Sounds, Global Visions and Afro-Asian Islam
Rich Blint, New York University Divided Union: 'Afro-Asian Connections,' the State and the Politics of Difference
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
292. Re-membering Religion in Asian America Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
CHAIR:
Roberto Lint-Sagarena, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Rudiger Valeriano Busto, University of California,
Santa Barbara Mongols or Mongolians? And the Strange Career of the "Living Buddha" in
America
David Kyuman Kim, Connecticut College Buried in Time's Memory: Nostalgia, Cosmopolitanism, and the Asian American
Religious Imagination
Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of Southern California Critical Faith: Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion
COMMENT:
Derek Chang, Cornell University
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
293. Reanimating the Archive: From Dance to Digital Space Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Mariam Lam, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Cecily Marcus, University of Minnesota In the Vaginal Library: A Lover's Discourse
Wendy W. Walters, Emerson College Revising the Archive of Empire: Transnational Histories in The Pagoda
Jacqueline Shea Murphy, University of California, Riverside Dancing (as) the Archive: Santee Smith's "Kaha:wi"
Letha Rain Alicia Cranford, Michigan State University In[digital]nous Voices: American NDN Memories and Indigenous Communities in Digital Space
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
294. The Double Time of the Nation Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Kerry Larson, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Alyssa Erin MacLean, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Lost Acadia, or Lost America? Borders of Memory and Spaces of Oblivion in Longfellow's "Evangeline"
Haipeng Zhou, Emory University Feminism lost in translation? -- When a Chinese woman speaks through an American woman's voice
Jinqi Ling, University of California, Los Angeles Critical Temporalities in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Amy Sara Carroll, Northwestern University Generational Conflicts and Continental Shifts: Guillermo Gómez Peña and Alex Rivera's Contrasting Border Poetics
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
295. Transnational Tastes: Consuming "Exoticism" Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
To Be Announced
PAPERS:
Amy Reddinger, University of Washington Postwar Hawaiian Food-xotica and the Legacy of US Racial Liberalism
Andre Carrington, New York University Is That What the Kids Are Calling it These Days? FLCL, Object Relations, and the Interpretation of Anime
Amanda Maria Morrison, University of Texas, Austin "New Generation Latino" in the crossfire: Urban Latino youth as a target market
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
296. Race and Remasculinization Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
To Be Announced
PAPERS:
Brian Herrera, University of New Mexico From Desi to Fidel: The Cuban Romance Sours
Stacey Van Dahm, University of California, Santa Barbara Ricky, Che, Fidel, and Arenas: Trumping Masculinity in U.S./Cuban Cultural Maneuvers
Jac Asher, University of California, Riverside Baldwin's Boys: Black Atlantic Hustle and Drift
Hoang Tan Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley Reflections on an Asian Bottom: Gay Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
296B. Business Meeting of the Environment and Culture Caucus Oakland Marriott City Center Board Room 417
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
297. Challenges to Umoja: Africans and African Americans in Oakland-SRC/K12 sponsored First Unitarian Church of Oakland (SRC 6) First Unitarian Church of Oakland
PRESENTERS:
Nunu Kidane, Priority African Network Kalemba K Kizito, California State University, East Bay Walter Turner, College of Marin and Africa Today, KPFA-Pacifica Radio Kelvin Sauls, Downs Memorial United Methodist Church, Oakland
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
298. Reception of the University of Michigan Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
299. Reception of the University of Minnesota Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
300. Reception of Stanford University Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
300-A. Reception of Northwestern University's Department of African
American Studies Oakland Marriott City Center Calvin Simmons Room 1