| 7:00 - 10:00 AM | LAFAYETTE (CHANGE 10/10/00) | FRIDAY |
Breakfast for the International Women’s Task Force
| 9:30 - 10:00 AM | RENOIR (CHANGE 8/25) | FRIDAY |
Business Meeting of the Task Force on Relations with Ethnic Studies Departments, Faculty and Students
| 8:00 - 12:00 AM | NICOLET - A | FRIDAY |
Student Hospitality Lounge (Sponsored by the ASA Students’ Committee)
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | CADILLAC - A | FRIDAY |
I Saw It On TV
| CHAIR: | Stanley Corkin, Department of English, University of Cincinnati | |
| PAPERS: | Larry Stuelpnagel, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University Dangerous Days: News Media Monopoly in the 21st Century Cheryl D. Bohde, Department of English, McLennan Community College, Waco Constructing David Koresh: An Examination of Media Subjectivity Marianne Conroy, American Studies, University of Maryland Thinking Publics: Quiz Show, the Van Doren Scandal, and the Mass Public | |
| COMMENT: | Susan Davis, University of California, San Diego Stanley Corkin |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | CADILLAC - B | FRIDAY |
Visions and Revisions: Photography and the Making of Meaning
| CHAIR: | Shelley Armitage, Department of English, University of Texas, El Paso | |
| PAPERS: | Catherine Whalen, American Studies Program, Yale University Finding “Me”: A Young Woman’s Scrapbook as Visual Autobiography and Site of Identity Formation in 1920s Detroit Christine Kirk-Kuwaye, Independent Scholar, Ka’a’awa, Hawai’i The Lives and Time of Anne Noggle’s Radical Old Women Mark Rice, Program in American Studies, St. John Fisher College Imagined Communities, Desired Pasts: Photohistory as Nostalgia Scott Kelley, Department of Humanities, Dean College Documentary Photography and the Birth of Spatial Practice: Augustus Sherman and John James McCook | |
| COMMENT: | Shelley Armitage |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | BRULE - A | FRIDAY |
Closing Our Eyes and Thinking of America?: Expressions of Female Sexuality in Twentieth Century American Popular Culture
| CHAIR: | Lillian Robinson, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal | |
| PAPERS: | Susan C. Cook, School of Music, University of Wisconsin, Madison Female Sexuality on the Social Dance Floor: Irene Castle and the Contradictions of Ragtime Kathryne Tovo, Departamento de Ingles, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey From Vamp to Camp: Sexual Performances of Early Twentieth Century Women Janeal Louise Jaroh, American Studies, Penn State University, Capital College Forty Years of Barbie: Cultural Influence on an Innocent Blonde Lisa Rhodes, American Studies, University of Texas, Austin Backstage Passes Not Required: The Reification of the Rock and Roll Groupie in 1960s Print Media | |
| COMMENT: | Lillian Robinson |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | BRULE - B | FRIDAY |
Reading Detroit
| CHAIR: | William Gleason, Department of English, Princeton University | |
| PAPERS: | Heather Barrow, Department of History, University of Chicago The Automobile in the Garden: Suburbanization in 1920s Detroit Elizabeth Kuebler, Department of Art History and American Studies, Indiana University "Be-Bop Urban Renewal": Tyree Guyton, Detroit, and the Geography of African American Identity Francis Desiderio, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University Centering the City: John Portman in Detroit | |
| COMMENT: | William Gleason |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | LASALLE - A | FRIDAY |
Race and Adoption in National and Transnational Contexts (TALK)
| CHAIR: | Ellen Herman, Department of History, University of Oregon, Eugene | |
| PAPERS: | Mary Battenfeld, Humanities Department, Wheelock College "The Family Nobody Wanted": Adoption in the 1950s and Beyond Nicola Evans, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University The Family Changes Color: White Fantasies of Parenting Black Children in Contemporary Hollywood Film Anthony S. Shiu, American Studies, Michigan State University Flexible (Re)production: International Adoption, "Race," Whiteness Robin L.E. Hemenway, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota "Not their own": Substitute Childcare and the Construction of the Worthy Parent in America, 1870-1920 | |
| COMMENT: | Barbara Melosh, Department of English, George Mason University |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | LASALLE - B | FRIDAY |
Frybread Avenue: Urban Native American History and Life in the 20th Century
| CHAIR: | Carol Miller, American Indian Studies Program, University of Minnesota | |
| PAPERS: | Andrew Adams III, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan There's an Indian Center in Detroit?: The North American Indian Association, Native Americans, and Detroit Elizabeth Anne Castle, Department of History, University of Cambridge Native American Women's Activism and the Urban Experience Eric Meeks, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin Barrio as Borderland: Work, Gender, and Identity Among the Indians and Mexicans of Tucson, 1915-1940 | |
| COMMENT: | Carol Miller |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | JOLIET - A | FRIDAY |
“A Model for Social Process as well as Simply Good Music": Aesthetics and Institutions of the New Black Musics
| CHAIR: | Barry Maxwell, Program in American Studies, Cornell University | |
| PAPERS: | Nick Nesbitt, Department of French and Italian, Miami University
of Ohio Sounding Autonomy: Towards an Adornian Aesthetics of Jazz Lorenzo Thomas, Department of English, University of Houston--Downtown New and Old Gospel: The Aesthetics of Music in the Black Arts Movement Mary Ting Yi Lui, Chicago Historical Society Building a Space for "Great Black Music": The AACM and the Creation of an African-American Musicians' Collective George Lewis, Department of Music, University of California, San Diego Purposive Patterning: Multidominance in the Works of Jeff Donaldson and Muhal Richard Abrams | |
| COMMENT: | Barry Maxwell |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | JOLIET - B | FRIDAY |
Cross Lines: Asian/Pacific American Studies and Its Communities (Roundtable)
| CHAIR: | Gail M. Nomura, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington | |
| PANELISTS: | Martin F. Manalansan IV, Department of Anthropology, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Linda Trinh Vo, Asian American Studies Program, University of California, Irvine Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, Department of Musicology, University of Michigan Rick Bonus, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | MARQUETTE - A | FRIDAY |
Negotiating Excess and Restraint on US Television Talk
| CHAIR: | Joshua Gamson, Department of Sociology, Yale University | |
| PAPERS: | Julie Engel Manga, Sociology Department, Boston College Time, Space, and Transgression: Talk Shows and the Carnivalisque Nancey San Martin, History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz Makeovers, Boot Camp, and Steve! Steve! Steve!: Policing Bodies and Pleasures on US Talk TV Lynn Sally, Department of Performance Studies, New York University Oprah, Feminist Television, and Spectacles of Pseudotherapy | |
| COMMENT: | Joshua Gamson |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | MARQUETTE - B | FRIDAY |
Engaging Communities: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Practice
| CHAIR: | Jeffrey Howard, Center for Community Service and Learning, University of Michigan | |
| PAPERS: | Julie Plaut, Minnesota Campus Compact Service-Learning as a Means of Academic and Cultural Engagement Keith Morton, Feinstein Institute for Public Service, Providence College Community, Service, and Economics in American Studies Courses Angel David Nieves, Department of Architecture, Cornell University 'The Lever and the Fulcrum for Uplifting the Race’: African American Women Reformers, Historic Preservation Planning, and Re-Mapping/Marking Urban Landscapes through Public Art Kelly Quinn, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park Learning from Langston: Using Urban Historic Resources to Teach about the Construction of Race and Gender | |
| COMMENT: | Jeffrey Howard |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | DULUTH - A | FRIDAY |
Boundaries of Death, Race and Nation in Faulkner
| CHAIR: | James Robert Payne, Department of English, New Mexico State University | |
| PAPERS: | Thadious Davis, Department of English, Vanderbilt University Rape, Trauma, and Racial Boundaries in Go Down, Moses John Lowe, Department of English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge A Canadian Yankee in King Quentin's Court: Questions of Boundaries, Fraternity, and Narrative in Absalom, Absalom! Charles Reagan Wilson, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi Racial Boundaries of Life and Death: Funerary Rituals in Faulkner | |
| COMMENT: | James Robert Payne |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | DULUTH - B | FRIDAY |
Teaching Diversity for Democracy (Roundtable)
| CHAIR: | Shelly Fowler | |
| PANELISTS: | Lonna Malmsheimer, Department of American Studies, Dickinson College Joyce Bylander, Educational Services, Dickinson College Susan Rose, Department of Sociology, Dickinson College Tyra Seldon, Department of English and American Studies, Dickinson College | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | NICOLET - B | FRIDAY |
Where Do We Go From Here? Entering the New Millennium with This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Roundtable)
| CHAIR: | AnaLouise Keating, English Department, Aquinas College | |
| PANELISTS: | Mita Banerjee, American Studies, University of Mainz, Germany Joanne Barker, History of Consciousness Program, University of California, Santa Cruz Ellen Gil-Gomez, Division of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University Laura Alexandra Harris, English Department, Pitzer College Ines Hernández-Ávila, Native American Studies, University of California, Davis Simona Hill, Sociology & Anthropology Departments, Susquehanna University Angela Moreno, the Funding Exchange Eliza Sun Noh, Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley Caridad Souza, Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos , Hunter College Kimberly Springer, Women’s & Gender Studies, Williams College | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | MICHELANGELO | FRIDAY |
Crossing Boundaries, Creating Boundaries: The Automobile as Catalyst in the Creation of Material, Social, and Psychic Space in US Culture
| CHAIR: | Brenda Jo Bright, Anthropology Department, University of Massachusetts | |
| PAPERS: | Ernest Zachary, Independent Urban Planner, Zachary and Associates,
Inc. The Automobile Industry, Post Industrial Detroit, and Social Fragmentation: Perspectives on Contemporary Social and Industrial Engineering Jason Loviglio, American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County The Car Radio and the World Inside Randel D. Hanson, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University A Gated Community on Wheels: Sports Utility Vehicles, Privatization, and Global Capital | |
| COMMENT: | Brenda Jo Bright |
| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | GRECO | FRIDAY |
James Blue’s The March: Film, Propaganda and International Race Politics (Roundtable)
| CHAIR: | Brenda Gayle Plummer, African American Studies, University of Wisconsin | |
| PANELISTS: | Mary L. Dudziak, University of Southern California Law School Nicholas Cull, Department of History, University of Leicester Lucy Barber, Department of History, University of California, Davis Lary May, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota Robert Chang, Loyola Law School | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | CADILLAC - A | FRIDAY |
Leisure, Sport, and the Built Environment in the Midwest
| CHAIR: | Susan Curtis, American Studies Program, Purdue University | |
| PAPERS: | Donna M. DeBlasio, Department of History and Historic Preservation,
Youngstown State University Amusement Parks and the Built Environment: Creating a Fantasyland in the Industrial Landscape Annette R. Hofmann, Institut für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften des Sports, Universität Münster , Germany Midwest Turner Societies, Turner Halls, and Physical Activities as Nurseries of German-American Culture Troy D. Paino, Department of History, Winona State University “We Have Spirit, Yes We Do”: Constructing Gymnasiums and Community in Indiana during the 1920s Ann Durkin Keating, Department of History, North Central College Getting Out of Town: Leisure Sites in the Chicago Metropolitan Area | |
| COMMENT: | Linda J. Borish, Department of History, Western Michigan University |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | CADILLAC - B | FRIDAY |
Death, Memory, and Material Culture (Sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus)
| CHAIR: | David Morgan, Department of Art, Valparaiso University | |
| PAPERS: | Derrick Cartwright,
Musée d’Art Américain , Giverny “Dead and Going to Die”: Lewis Payne and the Aesthetics of Execution in Nineteenth-Century America Ann Schofield, American Studies Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence Performing Grief: The Changing Respectability of Mourning in Turn-of-the-Century America Gary Laderman, Department of Religion, Emory University The Embalming Century Erika Doss, Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado Death and Memory in the Public Sphere: The Visual and Material Culture of Grief in Contemporary America | |
| COMMENT: | David Morgan |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | BRULE - A | FRIDAY |
The Wide World of Sports: Globalization, Nation, and Neo-Colonialism
in American and European Sports
| CHAIR: | Rob Ruck, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh | |
| PAPERS: | Amy Bass, Department of History, State University of New York, Plattsburgh Bright Stars: the (Inter) National Staging of Race and Rights in Sport Michiko Hase, Women's Studies Department, University of Colorado, Boulder Globalization as Neo-Colonialism: The Case of Soccer John Bloom, Independent Scholar Beyond La Frontera: Sports and Globalization in a Central Pennsylvania Mexican Soccer League | |
| COMMENT: | Rob Ruck |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | BRULE - B | FRIDAY |
Negotiating Popular Masculinity: Wild Men, Radio Stars, and the Electric Body
| CHAIR: | Jeffrey L. Meikle, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin | |
| PAPERS: | John F. Kasson, Department of History, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill "Still A Wild Beast at Heart": Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Dream of Tarzan Carolyn Thomas de la Peña, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin Reading Electric Belts: Sex, Technology and the Modern Male Body Allison McCracken, Department of American Studies, University of Iowa Radio and Masculinity: The Golden Era, 1935-1950 | |
| COMMENT: | E. Anthony Rotundo, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | LASALLE - B | FRIDAY |
Visual Art: Taste, Class, Hierarchy
| CHAIR: | Gudrun Grabher, Institut für Americanistik, Universität Innsbruck | |
| PAPERS: | Leila Bailey Van Hook, Art History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University Beaux Arts Murals: Why No Respect? Christine Nelson, Art History, Colorado State University Art and Craft in Depression Detroit Kathryn A. Wat, Art History Department, University of Delaware John Singleton Copley in Boston: A Gentleman-Artist (and Reluctant Yankee) at Beacon Hill | |
| COMMENT: | Alan Wallach, Department of Art and Art History, The College of William and Mary |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | JOLIET - A | FRIDAY |
Deconstructing Mr. Goodbar (EXHIBIT)
| CHAIR: | Jennifer Scanlon, Women's Studies Program, Plattsburgh State University of New York | |
| PRESENTERS: | Jane Dusselier, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland Biography of a Commodity: Candy Consumption and Production in 20th-Century America Katherine Parkin, Department of History, Temple University "A New Mood in Food": How Advertisers Transformed Ethnic Food into American Food | |
| COMMENT: | Jennifer Scanlon Amy Bentley, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | JOLIET - B | FRIDAY |
Why Would "Everybody" Go Surfing USA? Making Sense of Surf Culture
| CHAIR: | Henry Yu, History, University of California, Los Angeles | |
| PAPERS: | Michael Willard, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota Tourism: Duke Kahanamoku and the Cultural Politics of Early 20th-Century Hawaiian Surfing Krista Comer, Department of English & Women's Studies, Rice University Feminism and the California Counterculture: Surfergirls, A Case Study Elizabeth Peppin, National Public Radio (KQED, San Francisco) Waterwomen: A Photojournalist's Look at Modern Women's Surf Culture Patrick Moser, Department of French & Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury College One of the Best Surfers in the World Dresses Like a Girl | |
| COMMENT: | Henry Yu |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | MARQUETTE - A | FRIDAY |
Technology, Media, and the Otherworldly
| CHAIR: | Jeffrey Alan Sconce, School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California | |
| PAPERS: | Kevin Glynn, American Studies Department, University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand Tabloid Cultures: Circulating Counterknowledge in Contemporary Media Fred Nadis, American Studies Department, University of Texas, Austin The Tesla Cult: Utopian Technology and the Status Quo Lisa Parks, Department of Film Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Satellite Panoramas: Imagining the Otherworldly | |
| COMMENT: | Jodi Dean, Department of Political Science, Hobart-William Smith Colleges |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | MARQUETTE - B | FRIDAY |
Katherine Dunham: Artist in the World /World in the Artist
| CHAIR: | Thomas F. DeFrantz, Department of Theatre Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| PANELISTS: | VéVé Clark, African and Caribbean Literature, University
of California, Berkeley Gone Fishin': A Web-Site Project to Preserve the Legacy of Katherine Dunham Susan Manning, Department of English, Northwestern University Black, White, and Left: A Cultural Materialist Approach to Dunham's Dances Constance Valis Hill, Arts and Humanities Department, Hampshire College Cabin in the Sky: Katherine Dunham's and George Balanchine's (Afro) Americana | |
| COMMENT: | Thomas F. DeFrantz |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | DULUTH - A | FRIDAY |
Worlding the US Wide Web
| CHAIR: | Jillana Enteen, English Department, University of Central Florida | |
| PAPERS: | Radhika Gajjala,
Department of Intercultural Communication, Bowling Green State
University Digital Economy and "United Statesian" Consumer Culture: Problems of Counter-Cultural Activism Leong Yew, Department of Politics, University of Adelaide, Australia The Selling of .Niue: Internet Domain Names, Identity, and US Imperialism | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | DULUTH - B | FRIDAY |
Doing Chinese American Literary Studies: A Taiwan Perspective
| CHAIR: | Thomas Lee, American
Studies Association of the Republic of China, Taipei Yao-fu Ling, College of Foreign Languages and Literarture, TamKang Univeristy, Taipei | |
| PANELISTS: | Shan Te-hsing,
Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei Doing Chinese American Literary Studies in Taiwan Pin-chia Feng, Department of English, National Chiao-tung University, Hsin-chu Chinese American Literature in the Diaspora: The Case of Yan Geling's Jen Huan Iping Liang, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University Are Asians Accidental?: On Internationalizing Accidental Asians | |
| COMMENT: | Yao-fu Ling Thomas Lee |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | NICOLET - B | FRIDAY |
Multilingual America: American Cultures and Literatures in Languages Other than English
| CHAIR: | Gönül Pultar, Department of English, Bilkent University, Turkey | |
| PAPERS: | Victor Greene,
Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Lamentations on Life in America: The Immigrant Mentality through Song Karen Majewski, St. Mary's College "And this is supposed to be Poland": struggling for Power and Place in Detroit Polonia Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College No Longer away from Homeland: A Critique of Contemporary Punjabi-Language Poetry in North America | |
| COMMENT: | Orm Overland, Department of English, Bergen University, Norway |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | MICHELANGELO | FRIDAY |
Holy Warriors and Sacred Citizens: War and Religion at the Movies
| CHAIR: | Gregory D. Black, American Studies Program, University of Missouri, Kansas | |
| PAPERS: | J. Terry Todd,
Department of American Religious Studies, Drew University Haym Salomon Was a Son of Liberty: Hollywood Responses to the 'Jewish Question' in the 1930s Judith Weisenfeld, Department of Religion, Vassar College "The Negro Soldier and the Sacralization of Military Service Kathryn A. Johnson, Department of History & American Studies, Barnard College The Spiritual Weapon of the Rosary: War and Catholic Ritual in American Culture | |
| COMMENT: | Gregory D. Black |
| 10:00 - 11:45 AM | GRECO | FRIDAY |
Witnessing Trauma (Sponsored by the ASA Women's Standing Committee and the Disabilities Caucus)
| CHAIR: | Alvina Quintana, Department of English, University of Delaware | |
| PAPERS: | Janice Okoomian,
Department of American Civilization, Brown University "What Is Written on the Forehead": American Armenian Women, the Diasporic Body, and Genocide Erasures Elaine S. Abelson, Historical Studies Program, New School for Social Research "The Dimensions of Inequality: Homeless Women in the Great Depression Wendy Hesford, English Department, Indiana University and Wendy Kozol, Women's Studies Department, Oberlin College Haunting Violations: Trauma, Transnationalism, and Feminist Studies | |
| COMMENT: | Kristine Stiles, Art and Art History Department, Duke University |
| 10:15AM - 11:45 PM | RENOIR (CHANGE 8/25) | FRIDAY |
International Committee Business Meeting
| 12:00 - 4:00 PM | RENOIR (CHANGE 8/25) | FRIDAY |
Secondary Education Committee Business Meeting
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | CADILLAC - A | FRIDAY |
Religion and Urban Revitalization: Studying Congregations and Social Change in the Post-Industrial City (Roundtable)
| CHAIR: | Ray Bromley, Department of Geography and Planning, State University of New York, Albany | |
| PANELISTS: | Stephen Hart,
Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Buffalo Cynthia R. Milsap, John J. Egan Urban Center, DePaul University Heidi Swarts, Department of Government, Cornell University Paul John Schadewald, Community Service Office, Macalester College | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | CADILLAC - B | FRIDAY |
Industrial Life in the Great Lakes Region (Sponsored by the Great Lakes ASA and the ASA Committee on Regional Chapters)
| CHAIR: | Barbara S. Havira, Department of History, Western Michigan University | |
| PAPERS: | Geraldine Wojno Kiefer,
Department of Art History, Kent State University Steel and Stone Soliloquies: Margaret Bourke-White, Cleveland, and the Landscape of Corporate Identity Matthew L. Daley, University Archives, University of Detroit, Mercy Alexander McDougall and His "Pigs": Financial Wizardry, the Gospel of Progress, Technological Failure, and Shipbuilding Innovation on the Great Lakes, 1888-1899 Martha I. Pallante, Department of History, Youngstown State University To Work and Live: Brickyard Laborers, Immigration and Assimilation | |
| COMMENT: | Elizabeth Faue, Department of History, Wayne State University |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | BRULE - A | FRIDAY |
American Studies as Public Work: Thinking Through Three Models (Roundtable)
| CHAIR: | Kristin Hass, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan | |
| PANELISTS: | Brenda Cotto-Escalera,
Department of Theater Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Noelia Ortiz-Cortes, La Alianza Hispana David Scobey, School of Art and Architecture, University of Michigan Vivian D. Lyte, African American Cultural and Historical Museum William Yalowitz, Theater Arts, University of Pennsylvania | |
| COMMENT: | Kristin Hass |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | BRULE - B | FRIDAY |
Reconsidering the Politics of Aesthetics in Asian American Cultural Theory and Production
| CHAIR: | Leslie Bow, Department of English, University of Miami | |
| PAPERS: | Mark Chiang,
Department of English and Asian American Studies, University of
Pennsylvania Aesthetics and Minority Politics: The Case of Blu's Hanging Dorothy Wang, Department of English, Northwestern University "Obscurity" and Representation in Asian American Poetry: The Case of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Susette Min, Department of American Civilization, Brown University Rehearsing an "Aesthetics of Infidelity" through the Installation Art of Kim Yasuda | |
| COMMENT: | Leslie Bow |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | LASALLE - A | FRIDAY |
Feminicide on the Boderlands
| CHAIR: | Lourdes Portillo, Independent Filmmaker | |
| PAPERS: | Rosa Linda Fregoso,
Women and Gender Studies, University of California, Davis The Abjection of Border Women and "voces sin eco" ("voices without echo") Isabel Velazquez, Journalist La representación de mujeres y víctimas en los medios de comunicación Alejandro Lugo, Department of Anthropology, Univeristy of Illinois Opportunist Male Gazes, Vulnerable Female Bodies: At the Wrong Time, at the Wrong Place, and the Possibility of Counter-Surveillance Andriana Candia, Journalist Mujeres y Víctimas de Ciudad Juárez | |
| COMMENT: | Lourdes Portillo |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | LASALLE - B | FRIDAY |
Made in Detroit: Local Histories, Radical Politics
| CHAIR: | David Wellman, Department of Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz | |
| PAPERS: | Jess Rigelhaupt,
Department of American Culture, University of Michigan Organizing Black and Red: Black Radicalism and the Communist Party In Detroit, 1920-1945 Carla Vecchiola, Department of American Culture, University of Michigan Making Detroit: Contemporary Artistic Practices and Combative Ethnography Ryan Snyder, Department of American Culture, University of Michigan Serious Stress: Independent Hiphop Cooperatives and the Importance of Local Understanding in Detroit | |
| COMMENT: | Heather Ann Thompson, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | JOLIET - A | FRIDAY |
Ethnic Musics and the Politics of Memory
| CHAIR: | Travis A. Jackson, Department of Musicology (Ethnomusicology), University of Michigan | |
| PAPERS: | Paul Anderson,
Program of American Culture, University of Michigan As Time Goes By: Music, Memory, and Countermemory Tamar Barzel, Department of Musicology (Ethnomusicology), University of Michigan "Songs for Wandering Souls": The New "Jewish" Jazz in New York City Mark Clague, Department of Musicology, University of Chicago Imagining Ethnicity in America's Music: Musical Institutions and the Americanization Project in Chicago, 1885-1929 Jonathan Freedman, Department of English, University of Michigan "Rhythm and Jews": Klezmer, Race and the Problem with Whiteness-Talk | |
| COMMENT: | Travis A. Jackson |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | JOLIET - B | FRIDAY |
Contracting the Subject: Legal Fictions of Social and Political Relation
| CHAIR: | Clayton Marsh, Attorney | |
| PAPERS: | Gregory S. Jackson,
English, University of Arizona Romancing Consent in a House Divided: John W. DeForest and the Allegory of Union Nancy Bentley, English, University of Pennsylvania Stigmatic Injury and Interracial Marriage in the Fiction of Charles Chesnutt Renée Bergland, English and American Studies, Simmons College The Law of the Look: Visual Relations as Contractual Relations from Bartleby to Birth of a Nation | |
| COMMENT: | Clayton Marsh |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | MARQUETTE - A | FRIDAY |
The Nature of American Studies: Roundtable (Sponsored by the ASA Environmental Caucus Committee)
| CHAIR: | Frieda Knobloch, American Studies, University of Wyoming | |
| PANELISTS: | Bruce Braun,
Geography Department, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Susan Davis, Communications Department, University of California, San Diego Ann Fabian, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University Leo Marx, Science, Technology, and Society Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Megan Kate Nelson, American Studies Department, University of Iowa Jennifer Price, Writer, Los Angeles Scott Slovic, Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities, University of Nevada, Reno | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | MARQUETTE - B | FRIDAY |
Cyberculture Studies as American Studies: Locating Design, Discourse, and Diversity in Cyberspace (ONLINE)
| CHAIR: | T. V. Reed, American Studies, Washington State University | |
| PAPERS: | Lisa Nakamura,
Department of English, Sonoma State University Keeping It (Virtually) Real: the Discourse of Cyberspace as an Object of Knowledge David Silver, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland Cyberspace Under Construction: Design and Diversity in the Blacksburg Electronic Village and the Seattle Community Network | |
| COMMENT: | T. V. Reed |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | DULUTH - A (CANCELED) | FRIDAY |
Toxic Literature: Citizen Writing from Love Canal as Part of Environmental History, Social Movements and Law (Roundtable)
| CHAIR: | Daniel Payne, Ulster County Community College | |
| PANELISTS: | Rich Newman,
Rochester Institute of Technology Anna Schatz, Concordia University Thomas H. Anderson, Attorney, Portland, Oregon | |
| COMMENT: | Lois Gibbs, Center of
Health, Environment, and Justice Daniel Payne |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | DULUTH - B | FRIDAY |
More than Mowtown: Detroit's Other Black Musical Traditions
| CHAIR: | Farah Jasmine Griffin, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania | |
| PAPERS: | Daphne Brooks,
Department of English, University of California, Riverside "Got 'Til It's Gone": Nation, Nostagia & Black Feminist Desire in Contemporary Popular Music Culture Salim Washington, Department of Music, Brooklyn College William Lowe, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University Fezes, Beboppers, Belly Dancers, and Other Minstrel Masks | |
| COMMENT: | Guthrie Ramsey, Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | NICOLET - B | FRIDAY |
Recording The World/Selling The World Recordings
| CHAIR: | Paul D. Fischer, Department of Recording Industry, Middle Tennessee State University | |
| PAPERS: | Mark E. Katz, Peabody
Conservatory of Music, The Johns Hopkins University Women, Men and Phonographs 1900-1930 Susan Schmidt Horning, History of Technology, Case Western Reserve University Capturing the Moment: Home Recording from Historical Documentation to Self Expression Paul Friedlander, Department of Music and Director of Music Industry Program, California State University, Chico There's a Battle Outside and It's Ragin': Issues of Music Delivery in a Changing World | |
| COMMENT: | Joli Jensen, Department of Communication, University of Tulsa |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | MICHELANGELO | FRIDAY |
How and Why Does a Person Become a Cultural Symbol?
| CHAIR: | Richard Butsch, Department of Sociology, Rider University | |
| PAPERS: | Mark Metzler Sawin,
Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin Raising Kane: An Analysis of an Antebellum American Hero Martha L. Viehmann, American Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder Simon Pokagon at the World's Columbian Exposition: Indian Identity and Image as Relic, Token, and Cultural Icon Angela D. Dillard, History and Politics, New York University From Celebration to Silence: James Meredith and the Boundaries of the American Historical Imagination | |
| COMMENT: | Joy Kasson, American Studies Department, University of North Carolina |
| 12:00 - 1:45 PM | GRECO | FRIDAY |
Secondhand (Material) Culture
| CHAIR: | Lisa L. Lock, Editor, Winterthur Portfolio | |
| PAPERS: | Helen Sheumaker,
Honors College, University of Houston "Into the Streets": Distress and Desire in the Secondhand Trade of Nineteenth-Century America Abigail Grotke, Creator, Miss Abigail's Time Warp Advice Time Warp Advice: Marital, Dating and Beauty Advice Books from the 1820s to the 1970s Al Hoff, Independent Writer, Pittsburgh Drawing from the Discard Pile: Thrift Shopping as Cultural Anthropology Mary Anne Beecher, University of Oregon Secondhand Windows and Hand-Me-Down Doors: American Architectural Salvage and Some Issues of Identity Shirley Teresa Wajda, Department of History & American Studies, Kent State University Repo Culture | |
| COMMENT: | Susan Strasser, Department of History, University of Delaware |
| 12:30 - 2:00 PM | LAFAYETTE (10/10/00) | FRIDAY |
Advisory Board Meeting of the ASA-JAAS Project
| 2:00-3:45 PM | MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | FRIDAY |
The Worlding of African American Studies (Roundtable)
| CHAIR: | Mary Helen Washington, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park | |
| PANELISTS: | Nahum Chandler,
Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University Angela Davis, Department of the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz Gina Dent, Department of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University Robin D. G. Kelley, Departments of History and American Studies, New York University Cedric Robinson, Departments of Black Studies and Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | CADILLAC - A | FRIDAY |
Cold War Cultures on Film and Television
| CHAIR: | Charles Maland, Department of English, University of Tennessee | |
| PAPERS: | David Weinstein,
Department of Communications, George Mason University Sponsoring Anti-Communism: The Politics of Advertising in Early Television Susan Carruthers, Department of International Politics, University of Wales Bloc Busters: Narratives of Escape from the East in Early Cold War America Jeffrey Miller, Department of English and Journalism, Augustana College Scenes from a Marriage of Convenience: Ingmar Bergman and His America Audience, 1955-1960 Thomas Doherty, Film Studies Program, Brandeis University Bishop Fulton J. Sheen: Defender of the Faith and Master of the Medium | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | CADILLAC - B | FRIDAY |
Across the Borders of Irish America
| CHAIR: | Noel Ignatiev, Regents Professor, University of California, Riverside | |
| PAPERS: | Nora Kilbane,
Department of Art History, Ohio State University A Peace Pipe for Paddy Catherine Eagan, Department of English, Boston College The "Whiteness" of Harrigan's Irish Bluford Adams, Department of English, University of Iowa Ethnicity by a Different Name: Theorizing Group Identity in Gilded Age New England | |
| COMMENT: | Bruce McConachie, Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, University of Pittsburgh |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | BRULE - A | FRIDAY |
Skip to My Loop: Hip-Hop and Digital Sampling
| CHAIR: | Kyra D. Gaunt, Department of Music, University of Virginia | |
| PAPERS: | Jon Caramanica,
Sociology, Goldsmiths College Pretty Thugs: Sampling and the Creation of Sexuality Joe Schloss, Ethnomusicology, University of Washington Synthetic Substitution: Breakbeat Compilations and the Ethics of Hip-Hop Sampling Oliver Wang, Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley Pop Will Eat Itself: The Serendipity of Sampling | |
| COMMENT: | Kyra D. Gaunt |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | BRULE - B | FRIDAY |
Asian America in Focus: Photography, Identity, History
| CHAIR: | Anthony W. Lee, Department of Art, Mount Holyoke College | |
| PAPERS: | Anna Pegler-Gordon,
Program in American Culture, University of Michigan Paper Sons as Photo Sons: The Role of Photography in Chinese Exclusion Eric Estuar Reyes, American Civilization Department, Brown University Pure Nostalgia in Photographs from Cordova's "Filipinos: Forgotten Asian Americans" | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | LASALLE - A | FRIDAY |
Dancing Hybridity: Choreographing the World in American Culture
| CHAIR: | Susan Leigh Foster, Department of Dance, University of California, Riverside | |
| PAPERS: | Yutian Wong,
Department of Dance, University of California, Riverside G-Strings, Buddhas, and Helicopters: Choreographing Race, Gender, and National Identity in Club O' Noodles Laughter of the Children of War Ananya Chatterjea, Department of Theater and Dance, University of Minnesota Subversive Dancing: The Interventions in Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's Batty Moves Rebekah Kowal, Department of English, Haverford College Identity as Disavowal in Neil Greenberg's Not-About-AIDS-Dance | |
| COMMENT: | Susan Leigh Foster |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | LASALLE - B | FRIDAY |
Constructing Masculinity: American Visual Culture and the Male Body
| CHAIR: | Sarah J. Moore, Department of Art History, University of Arizona | |
| PAPERS: | Alexis Boylan,
Department of Art History, Rutgers University Men at Work: Masculinity, Labor, and the Ashcan School James C. Boyles, Department of Art History, University of North Carolina Mourning Masculinity: George de Forest Brush's Orpheus David Krasner, Department of Theater Studies, Yale University Men in Black and White: Race and Masculinity in the Heavyweight Title Fight of 1910 Laura Lindenfeld, Department of Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis Culinary Comfort: The Satiating Construction of Masculinity in American Food Films Michael Tavel Clarke, Department of English, University of Iowa A Shrinking Man in a Human Jungle: Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity in the Progressive Era | |
| COMMENT: | Sarah J. Moore |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | JOLIET - A | FRIDAY |
Music of the Americas I (Sponsored by the Music of the Americas Caucus)
| CHAIR: | Jeff Belnap, Department of International Cultural Studies, Brigham Young University, Hawai'i | |
| PAPERS: | Darshan Elena Campos,
History of Consciousness Program, University of California, Santa Cruz "Extinguished by Decoration": The Fact of Carmen Miranda Gillian Rodger The Voice of the Little Man: Nineteenth-Century Urban Experience Depicted in Ella Wesner's King of Trumps Songster Deborah R. Vargas, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz Gender and Race in Tejano Music: A Focus on Rosita Fern¦ndez "San Antonio's First Lady of Song" Gema Rosa Guevara, Department of Languages and Literature, University of Utah "Yo soy el punto cubano": Music, Identity, and the Politics of Gender | |
| COMMENT: | Sherrie Tucker, Women's Studies Program, Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | JOLIET- B | FRIDAY |
Posing Indians: Performance and the Construction of "Indian" Identities
| CHAIR: | Michael Tsosie, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley | |
| PAPERS: | Tharon Weighill,
Department of Dance, University of California, Riverside, Choreographed Identities: Auto-Exoticization and the Construction of Chumash Identity Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Department of Dance, University of California, Riverside José Limón, Tom Two Arrows, and American Indian dance in the 1950s Michelle Hermann, Department of English, Swarthmore College, Tears and Trash: Playing Indian in the 1970s Stephanie Fitzgerald, Department of English, Claremont College The Rising Popularity of the Gourd Dance in Southern California | |
| COMMENT: | Michael Tsosie |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | MARQUETTE - A | FRIDAY |
The Anti-Colonial Front: US Radicals, Third World Revolutions and Black Transnationalism
| CHAIR: | Nayan Shah, Department of History, University of California, San Diego | |
| PAPERS: | Prudence Cumberbatch,
Department of History, Brooklyn College "Blackness [as] an Attitude": Dick Gregory, Mainstream Radicalism and the Politics of the US State Michelle Stephens, Department of English, Mount Holyoke College Deterritorializing the "Negro Problem": C. L. R. James and Third World Federation Cynthia Young, Afracana Studies Program, State University of New York, Binghamton Angela Davis' Revolutionary Internationalism | |
| COMMENT: | Nikhil Pal Singh, Department of History, University of Washington |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | MARQUETTE - B | FRIDAY |
P. T. Barnum and the Art of Deception: Two Views
| CHAIR: | Ann Fabian, Department of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick | |
| PAPERS: | James W. Cook,
Department of History, Butler University Humbug Universal: P.T. Barnum and the Perils of Artful Deception Joshua Brown, American Social History Project, City University of New York Virtual Humbugs: Barnum's American Museum in the Digital Age | |
| PRESENTATION: | Demonstration of The Lost Museum, a prototype digital exploration of Barnum's American Museum | |
| COMMENT: | Ann Fabian |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | DULUTH - A | FRIDAY |
Suffering Childhood In America: Afflicted Bodies and National Wounds
| CHAIR: | Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Department of English, Amherst College | |
| PAPERS: | Anna Mae Duane,
Department of English, Fordham University Casualties of the Rod: Lost Children and the Anxieties of Authority in Early American Literature Mary Chapman, Department of English, University of British Columbia Children as Poetry and Property in Emerson's Threnody Sarah Pike, Department of Religious Studies, California State University, Chico Infected by the Devil and Consumed by Darkness: Images of Adolescents in Contemporary America | |
| COMMENT: | Karen Sánchez-Eppler |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | DULUTH - B | FRIDAY |
Techno Music: Fastforward from Local History to Global Market
| CHAIR: | Alan Oldham, DJ T-1000, Tresor, Generator, Pure Sonic Records | |
| PAPERS: | Marc Christensen,
Department of English, Wayne State University From Signal to Noise: Inhabiting a Formalist Response to the Commodification of Marginality Beverly May, University of Toronto The Berlin-Detroit Techno Axis: A Sister-City Musical RelationshipForged from Environment, Aesthetic Ideology and Timing Vincent Woolums and Megan Bygness, University of Iowa To Return Home in Pain: Detroit Techno, Nostalgia, and Diasporic Identity Stan Beeler, English Department, University of Northern British Columbia Around the World and Back Again: The Literary Expressions of Rave Culture | |
| COMMENT: | Alan Oldham |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | NICOLET - B | FRIDAY |
Arhythmia of the Iron System: Musical Insurgency in Detroit
| CHAIR: | Kathryne Lindberg, Department of English, Wayne State University | |
| PAPERS: | Fred Moten,
Department of Performance Studies, New York University Don't Make Me Wait Eric Neel, Department of English, University of Iowa Elvin Jones and the Politics of Time Vincent Woolums and Megan Bygness, University of Iowa To Return Home in Pain: Detroit Techno, Nostalgia, and Diasporic Identity Tom Sheehan, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Detroit Rock City | |
| COMMENT: | Kathryne Lindberg |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | MICHELANGELO | FRIDAY |
The Art of Trauma (Sponsored by the ASA Women's Standing Committee and the Disabilities Studies Caucus)
| CHAIR: | Nancy A. Hewitt, History Department, Rutgers University | |
| PAPERS: | Mark Polishook, Music
Department, Central Washington University Seed of Sarah: A Libretto of Holocaust Memories Michelle Satterlee, English Department, University of Nevada, Reno "Woman's Body Found": Landscapes of Violence--Rape, Retribution, and Recovery from the Bronze Age to the 21st-century Janet Marstine, Art Department, Central Washington University Feminist Practice, Dr. W., and the Oeuvre of Jane Orleman: Art or Art Therapy? | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 2:00 - 3:45 PM | GRECO | FRIDAY |
Power and Display: Museum/House/Installation
| CHAIR: | Teresa Murphy, American Studies Department, George Washington University | |
| PAPERS: | Colleen Sheehy,
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota The World in the Museum/The Museum in the World: The Work of Artist Mark Dion Kerry Dean Carso, American Studies Program, Boston University The Old Dwelling Transmogrified: Memory and the Medieval in Cooper's Otsego Hall Jennifer Ellen Way, Art History, University of North Texas Redeeming Presence in History and Art: Institutionalized Mythologies and the House Whitfield Lovel Built | |
| COMMENT: | Eva Meltzer, Rhetoric Department, University of California, Berkeley |
| 3:00 - 4:45 PM | NICOLET - A (CHANGE 8/25) | FRIDAY |
Graduate Student Town Hall
Meeting
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | CADILLAC - A | FRIDAY |
The Geographies of Auto
Production, Labor and Protest
| CHAIR: | Steve Babson, Coordinator, International Research Network on Auto Work in the Americas, Wayne State University | |
| PAPERS: | Don Mitchell,
Department of Geography, Syracuse University Property, Landscape, and the Geography of Worker Protest in the Auto Industry Andrew Herod, Department of Geography, University of Georgia at Athens Rethinking the Geographic Scale of Labor Disputes: Auto Labor and Lean Production John Holmes, Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada NAFTA, Lean Production and Autoworkers' Unions: Reshaping the Labour Geography of the North American Auto Industry John Russo, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University Modular Production and the Reshaping of the Cultural Politics within Auto Unions | |
| COMMENT: | Ron Blum, Research
Department, United Autoworkers Brad Markell, Research Department, United Autoworkers |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | CADILLAC - B | FRIDAY |
Performance in Everyday Life and Everyday Life in Performance
| CHAIR: | Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Department of Dance, Temple University | |
| PERFORMERS: | Jawole Willa Joe
Zollar, Artistic Director, Urban Bush
Women Joined by Workshop Participants | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | BRULE - A | FRIDAY |
Women in American Public
Performances: Staging Identity/Moving Boundaries of Race, Class, and
Gender (Roundtable)
| CHAIR: | Anthea Kraut, Department of Theatre and Drama, Northwestern University | |
| PANELISTS: | Kirsche Dickson,
Department of Dance History and Theory, University of California,
Riverside Marta Effinger, Department of Theatre and Drama, Northwestern University Deborah Paredez, Department of Theatre and Drama, Northwestern University | |
| COMMENT: | Anthea Kraut |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | BRULE - B | FRIDAY |
AfroFuturist Dreams: Recasting Race, Recasting Technoculture
| CHAIR: | Nalo Hopkinson, Novelist | |
| PAPERS: | Alondra Nelson,
American Studies Program, New York University Digital Diaspora: Theorizing Race and Technology in Visual Culture Kali Tal, Arizona International College, University of Arizona Duppies in the Machine, or, "Anybody know where I can buy a copy of the UPNORTH-OUTWEST GEECHEE JIBARA QUIK MAGIC TRANCE MANUAL FOR TECHNOLOGICALLY STRESSED THIRD WORLD PEOPLE?" Ron Eglash, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Race, Sex and Nerds: From Black Geeks to Asian Hipsters | |
| COMMENT: | Nalo Hopkinson |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | LASALLE - A | FRIDAY |
Race and the Politics of Sports since the 1960s
| CHAIR: | Jeffrey Sammons, Department of History, New York University | |
| PAPERS: | Theodore Hamm,
Department of American Studies, Rutgers University Bill vs. Wilt: A Tale of Two Political Centers Douglas Hartmann, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Beyond the 'Revolt of the Black Athlete:' The Cultural Politics of Race and Sport in Post-Civil Rights America Cheryl L. Cole, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign From the NBA to Soul in the Hole: Articulating Race, Leisure and Capitalism for Consumption in Late-Capitalist America Ketra L. Armstrong, Department of Sport Management, Ohio State University, Columbus Embracing Blacks as Sport Consumers: The Depoliticizing of Sport | |
| COMMENT: | Charles P. Korr, Department of History, University of Missouri, St. Louis |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | LASALLE - B | FRIDAY |
Oppression and Insurgency Among the Poor and Dispossessed
| CHAIR: | ||
| PAPERS: | Timothy A. Gibson,
School of Communication, Simon Fraser University "You don't mix manure with chocolate ice cream": The Politics of Homelessness and Gentrification in Seattle Carlos Ulises Decena, American Studies Program, New York University Scandals of Blood: Towards Historicizing the Threatening Donor/Seller Carol C. Weisfeld, Department of Psychology, University of Detroit Mercy "A REAL Detroit Community in Action | |
| COMMENT: |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | JOLIET - A | FRIDAY |
Music of Americas II
| CHAIR: | David Sanjek, Director of BMI Archives | |
| PAPERS: | Josh D. Kun,
Department of English, University of California, Riverside Dreaming in Audio Color: Rahsaan Roland Kirk and the Aurality of Race Sara Johnson, Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University Pan Caribbean Interchanges in the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution E. Taylor Atkins, Department of History, Northern Illinois University Multicultural Jazz: Expanding the Borders of Jazz History | |
| COMMENT: | Gayle F. Wald,
Department of English, George Washington University Raul A. Fernandez, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | JOLIET - B | FRIDAY |
Genetic Technologies/Reliable Futures: Mapping, Splicing, Cloning, and Owning in the U.S.
| CHAIR: | Lisa Lillian Lynch, Department of Literatures in English, Rutgers University | |
| PAPERS: | Howard Horwitz,
Department of English, University of Utah Eugenics and the Political Economy of Identity Priscilla Wald, Department of English, Duke University Future Perfect: Genes, Grammar, and Geography Stephanie S. Turner, American Studies Program, Purdue University Human Cloning Narratives and the "New Eugenics" Susan Bridget McHugh, Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University Splicing Saurians and Amphibians, Americans and Multiculturalism: The Lost World of Transgenic Cultures | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | MARQUETTE - A | FRIDAY |
Goodbye to All That: Rethinking the Sexual Revolution
| CHAIR: | Rachel Adams, Department of English, Columbia University | |
| PAPERS: | Michael Szalay,
Department of English, University of California, Irvine Ken Kesey and the Sexual Politics of Hip Michael Trask, Department of English, Yale University Impersonal Sex: A 1960s Alternative to Identity Politics Rachel Adams, Department of English, Columbia University Stormin' Norman Mailer: Liberalism, Radicalism, and the Discourse of Sexual Revolution | |
| COMMENT: | Beth Bailey, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | MARQUETTE - B | FRIDAY |
CyberNatures/CyberCultures: Redefining Natural and Cultural Borders (ONLINE)
| CHAIR: | Ednie Garrison, Program in American Studies, Washington State University | |
| PAPERS: | Bill Bryant, American
Studies Program, University of Iowa Nature and Technology in the Age of Cybernetic Systems Tomasz Sikora, Institute of British and American Culture, University of Silesia, Poland "Wild as a hawk's dream": The Dream of Progress, the Spaces of the Wild and the Future of Nature Mobina Hashmi, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison Japanese Anime in the United States: Gender, Sexuality and Techno-bodies | |
| COMMENT: | Ednie Garrison |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | DULUTH - A | FRIDAY |
"Let Me Have My Little Half Measure Full": Practicing a Feminist American Studies
| CHAIR: | Sondra Guttman, Department of English, Concordia University | |
| PAPERS: | Martha McCaughy,
Women's Studies Department, Viginia Tech Getting Physical in Theory and Practice Nancy Jesser, Division of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University Thinking Through the Crisis: Methods for Cultivating Academic and Activist Exchange in the U. S. Anti-rape Movement Beth Berila, English Department, Syracuse University ENACTing Feminism: The Feminist Methodology of Community-Based Arts Kimberley Roberts, Department of English, University of Virginia How to Give Girls Twice the Power: One Activist's Dilemma within American Studies | |
| COMMENT: | Audience |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | DULUTH - B | FRIDAY |
Neoliberalism in the United States
| CHAIR: | Penny M. von Eschen, Department of History, University of Michigan | |
| PAPERS: | Christopher Newfield,
Department of English, Duke University Neoliberalism or Neohumanism? Harry Stecopoulos, Department of English, University of Iowa "Always Reaching Beyond": Steven Spielberg, the Clinton Administration, and Neoliberal Propaganda Eric Lott, Department of English, University of Virginia Boomer Liberalism | |
| COMMENT: | Penny M. von Eschen |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | NICOLET - B | FRIDAY |
The Liminal Caribbean: The West Indian, Inter-American Identity
| CHAIR: | Marcus Embry, Department of English, University of Northern Colorado | |
| PAPERS: | John Bugg, Department
of English, Fordham University "Beyond the Western Main": Constructions of the Caribbean in Early American Literature Rebecca Weaver, Department of English, University of Kentucky "Yuh haffe come fron some weh fus, before yuh go back deh": Caribbean Liminal Self-Definition Bridget Kevane, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Montana Liminality in the Latina Caribbean Novel: From Identity Politics to National History in the Novels of Julia Alvarez, Cristina Garcia, and Rosario Ferre | |
| COMMENT: | Marcus Embry |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | MICHELANGELO | FRIDAY |
Unleashing Power and Knowledge in Asian America: Linking Community Research, Academic Scholarship, and Activism (Roundtable Discussion Sponsored by the ASA Students' Committee)
| CHAIR: | Alice Y. Hom, History Department, Claremont Graduate University | |
| PANELISTS: | Gisele L. Fong,
History Department, University of California, Los Angeles Theodore S. Gonzalves, Comparative Culture Department, University of California, Irvine Eric C. Wat, Department of American Studies, California State University, Fullerton | |
| COMMENT: | Judy Yung, Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 4:00 - 5:45 PM | GRECO | FRIDAY |
Violence, Race, and the Social Construction of Masculinities
| CHAIR: | Bruce Burgett, American Studies Program, University of Washington, Bothell | |
| PAPERS: | Robert Shulman,
Department of English, University of Washington W. E. B. DuBois and the Harvard Discourse on Manhood Robert Frame, Department of History, University of Minnesota Reel Life, Real Men: Early Film's Role in Stabilizing Masculinity Based on Working Class Norms of Maleness Timothy Barnard, Department of American Studies, The College of William and Mary Violence, Race, and the Social Construction of Masculinities Jonna Eagle, American Civilization, Brown University Spectacle, Melodrama, and the Discourse of Masculine Crisis | |
| COMMENT: | Herman Beavers, English Department University Pennsylvania |
| 6:00 - 8:00 PM (CHANGE 8/25) | MARQUETTE - B | FRIDAY |
Environmental Studies Caucus Organizational Meeting
| 5:00 - 7:00PM | RICHARD - B (CHANGE 8/25) | FRIDAY |
University of Southern California Reception
| 6:00 - 7:30 PM (CHANGE 8/25) | JOLIET - A | FRIDAY |
Task Force on Employment of Part-Time and Adjunct and Temporary Faculty Open Forum
| 6:00 - 7:30 PM (CHANGE 8/25) | NICOLET - A (CHANGE 8/25) | FRIDAY |
Performance Caucus Reception
| 6:00 - 7:30 PM | FICHARD - A (CHANGE 8/25) | FRIDAY |
Material Culture / Art History Caucuses Reception
| 6:30 - 8:00 PM | DAVINCI (CHANGE 8/25) | FRIDAY |
Music of the Americas Caucus Reception
| 6:30 - 8:30 PM | CABOT (CHANGE 8/25) | FRIDAY |
University Of Minnesota Reception
| 7:00 - 7:45 PM | MACKINAC (CHANGE 8/25) | FRIDAY |
Detroit Mayor, Dennis W. Archer, delivers a welcome to ASA's membership.
Awards Ceremony for ASA Prize Recipients
PRESIDING: George Sánchez, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California; President-Elect of the American Studies Association
Presentation of: the 2000 Bode-Pearson Prize for outstanding contributions to American Studies; the 2000 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best book in American Studies; the 2000 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for the best dissertation in American Studies; the 2000 Constance Rourke Prize for the best article in American Quarterly; the 2000 Mary C. Turpie Prize for outstanding teaching, advising, and program development in American Studies; the 2000 Wise-Susman Prize for the best student paper at the convention; and the Annette K. Baxter Travel Awards to provide travel assistance to outstanding graduate students on the program.
| 8:00 - 9:30 PM | MACKINAC (CHANGE 8/25) | FRIDAY |
Presidential Address, Prismatics, Multivalence, and Other Riffs on the Millennial Moment, by Michael Frisch.
| 9:30 - 10:30 PM | MACKINAC - FOYER | FRIDAY |
Presidential Reception