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Business Meeting of the ASA National Council

Program Director's Workshop: Looking In, Reaching Out: New Directions for American Studies Programs

	CHAIR:	Simon Bronner, American Studies, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
	PAPERS:	Michael Bérubé, English Department, University of Illinois American Studies Without Exceptions Michael Denning, American Studies, Yale University The University as Mass Culture
	COMMENT:	Cathrine Griggs, American Studies, Eckerd College

ASA Women's Committee Business Meeting

Chicana/o and Latina/o Spiritualities: Negotiating Multiple Identities, Faiths and Practices (Roundtable)

	CHAIR:	Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
	PANELISTS:	Irene Lara, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley Theresa Delgadillo, Women's Studies Department, University of Arizona Susana L. Gallardo, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University Anne M. Martinez, Department of American Studies and Chicano Studies, University of Minnesota Lara Medina, Religious Studies Department, California State University, Northridge Margaret Ramirez, Religion Reporter for Los Angeles Times on Latina/os, Community and Faith in Los Angeles Laura E. Perez, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
	COMMENT:	Audience

The Academy in the US / The US in the Academy: Critical Crossings in the Age of Information

	CHAIR:	Kayann Short, Farrand Academic Program, University of Colorado, Boulder
	PAPERS:	Cynthia Franklin, Department of English, University of Hawai'i When the Personal is (No Longer) Political: Rethinking U.S. Identity Politics in an Anti-Affirmative Action Era Pamela Thoma, Programs in American and Women's Studies, Colby College The Metaphors and Meaning of Gossip in Public and Academic Discourse Anne E. Goldman, Department of English, Sonoma State University No Borders Here? The Language of American Studies in the "Information Age"
	COMMENT:	Kayann Short

C. L. R. James: Revolution, American Culture, and the World We Live

	CHAIR:	Jim Murray, Founding Director, C. L. R James Institute, New York
	PAPERS:	Aldon Nielsen, Department of English, Loyola Marymount University "Time Throttles Me": C. L. R. James's Melville Correspondence Betsy Erkkila, Department of English, Northwestern University Unamerican Activities: C. L. R. James to Herman Melville Nicole King, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park Reading Race, Reading Feminism: C. L. R. James's Women
	COMMENT:	Martin Glaberman, Professor Emeritus, College of Lifelong Learning, Wayne State University

South by Southwest: Comparative Approaches to Mexican American Historical Narratives

	CHAIR:	Clara A. Lomas, Department of Spanish, The Colorado College
	PAPERS:	José E. Limón, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin North Toward Home: American "Southern" Fictions and the Organic Intellectual Andrea Tinnemeyer, Department of English, Rice University Friend or Stranger: Women of the South and the Mexican Revolution Vincent Perez, Department of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Mexican Texas and the American South: Romance and Cultural Memory in Jovita Gonzalez's Caballero Jennifer S. Tuttle, Department of Women's Studies, San Diego State University Invalid Conquest: Illness as Resistance in Narratives of "Spanish" California and the "Prostrate South"
	COMMENT:	Audience

"The Stone the Builder Rejected": The Black Freedom Movement in the Urban North and the Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement

	CHAIR:	Kevin Gaines, Department of History, University of Michigan
	PAPERS:	Jeanne Theoharis, Department of Africana Studies, Brooklyn College "It's Not the Bus, It's Us": How Boston's School Desegregation Changes the Civil Rights Paradigm Matthew Countryman, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan African-American Activism in the Urban North and the Origins of Black Power: The Black People's Unity Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Philadelphia, 1965-66 Komozi Woodard, Department of American History, Sarah Lawrence College Police Brutality, Urban Uprisings and the Development of Black Power Organizations in the 1960s
	COMMENT:	Timothy Tyson, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Reading Fiction/Reading the World

	CHAIR:	Joan Shelley Rubin, History, University of Rochester
	PAPERS:	Barbara Ryan, American Studies Program, University of Missouri, Kansas City Critics, Scholars and Inspirees: Reading the "Fifth Gospel" Then and Now Amy Blair, English Language and Literature, Cornell University Reading Up: The Middle-Class Reader and Narratives of Upward Mobility in the Early Twentieth Century Amy Frykholm, Literature, Duke University A World in Fragments: Reading and Religious Belief
	COMMENT:	Joan Shelley Rubin

The New Metropolitan Landscape

	CHAIR:	Mary Corbin Sies, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
	PAPERS:	Camilo Jose Vergara, Independent Scholar, New York City Beyond the New American Ghetto Howard Gillette, Jr., Department of History, Univerisity of Michigan The Transformation of the Inner Ring Suburb Robert Fishman, Department of History, Rutgers University, Camden The Landscape of the Outer Suburbs
	COMMENT:	Mary Corbin Sies Eric Schneider, Urban Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Crossing Borders: Representations of Brazil in U. S. Fiction

	CHAIR:	Pedro Castillo, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
	PAPERS:	Antonio Eduardo de Oliveira, Department of Letters, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Zulfikar Ghose's Incredible Brazilian Cristina Stevens, Department of Literary Studies, University of Brasilia Brazil from a Japanese-American Perspective: The Prismsightedness of Karen Tei Yamashita Maria Jandyra Cunha, Department of Foreign Languages and Translation, University of Brasilia Visions of Brazil in the Code-Switch in John dos Passos, Errol Lyncoln Uys, and John Updike Stelamaris Coser, Department of Languages and Letters, Federal University of Espirito Santo The Caliban Plot in Paule Marshall's "Brazil"
	COMMENT:	Pedro Castillo

The Properties of Property

	CHAIR:	Elizabeth Wingrove, Political Science and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
	PAPERS:	Elizabeth Dillon, English and American Studies, Yale University Wounded Property: Sentiment and Contract in Nineteenth-Century Marriage Law Meredith L. McGill, English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Fugitive Objects: Securing Public Property in U.S. Copyright Law Sophia Mihic, Political Science, University of Illinois, Chicago Properties of Self in Physician-Assisted Suicide
	COMMENT:	Elizabeth Wingrove

American Studies in North America: Prospects for the Recognition of a Continental Identity?

	CHAIR:	Greg M. Nielsen, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
	PAPERS:	Fred Evans, School of Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pennsylvania Society as a "Multi-Voiced Body" and Human Rights Isidro Morales, International Relations and History Department, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico A Crisis of Hegemonic Representation: "Mexican Nationalism" Revisited after Economic Integration with North America Jean-François Côté, Department of Sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal The Continental Political Order of North America: From Imperialsim to Cosmopolitism?
	COMMENT:	Greg M. Nielsen

Passing for American: Reconceptualizing the Subject(s) of American Studies

	CHAIR:	Pamela L. Caughie, Department of English, Loyola University Chicago
	PAPERS:	Nancy Cho, Department of English, Carleton College Asian American Fault Lines: Passing for (Japanese) American in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life Robert Cochran, Department of English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Father Remus: Joel Chandler Harris Writes His Family Tree Susan Marren, Department of English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Where a Man is a Man?: The Unsettled Identities of Charles Chesnutt's Paul Marchand, F.M.C.
	COMMENT:	Pamela L. Caughie

Women's Committee / Minority Scholars' Committee Joint Business Meeting

Twentieth-Century Americanisms: The Left and Modern Literatures of the United States

	CHAIR:	Geoffrey Jacques, Department of English, City University of New York
	PAPERS:	William J. Maxwell, Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Unfree Love: Claude McKay's Renaissance Lyric Interruptus Rachel Lee Rubin, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston Voice of the Cracker: Don West Re-Invents the Appalachian James Smethurst, Department of English and Foreign Languages, University of North Florida The Motown Sound: The Left and the Formation of Black Arts Institutions and Poetics in Detroit
	COMMENT:	Geoffrey Jacques

Detroit's Renaissance Center, Or the Joys and Sorrows of Modernist Architecture and Urban Planning (A Roundtable sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus. This walking tour of the conference site is designed as a discussion of articles about the Renaissance Center and Detroit.)

	CHAIR:	Patricia Johnston, Department of Art, Salem State College
	PANELISTS:	David Brody, Department of Art, West Chester University of Pennsylvania Scott Campbell, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan Judith Fryer Davidov, Department of English, University of Massachusetts Rebecca Zurier, Department of Art History, University of Michigan
	COMMENT:	Audience

'Which Side Are You On?': A Roundtable on Teaching/Claiming/Framing Working-Class Identities in Higher Education (Session sponsored by the ASA Working-Class Caucus)

	CHAIR:	Pamela Fox, Department of English, Georgetown University
	PANELISTS:	Sharon O'Dair, Department of English, University of Alabama Sandee Pyne, Consultant/Activist, Washington, DC Christie Launius, Modern Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
	COMMENT:	Audience

Every Body in Boxes: Classification, Commerce, and the Corporeal

	CHAIR:	Jennifer Doyle, Department of English, Unversity of California, Riverside
	PAPERS:	Alicia Gámez, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley Natural Collection: Joaquín Murieta and Scientific Narratives of Extinction Catherine Gudis, Department of Art History, Northern Illinois University The "Kiss of the Oceans": Commerce and Culture at the 1915 San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition Elspeth Brown, Department of American Studies, Yale University Commercializing the Social 'Type': Photographic Illustration and the Advertising Model, 1913-1929" Angela M. Blake, Department of History, American University "Real" Jews and "Real" Italians: Tourism and Ethnicity on New York's East Side, 1890-1930
	COMMENT:	Jennifer Doyle

Whose "West" is it Anyway?: Recovery Projects and Changing Conceptions of the American West

	CHAIR:	Ramon Saldívar, Department of English, Stanford University
	PAPERS:	John M. González, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan Terms of Engagement: Nation or Patriarchy in Jovita Gonzalez's Caballero John-Michael Rivera, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin Miguel Antonio Otero II: The Rise of the Public New Mexican Maria Cotera, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University Refiguring "The American Congo": Jovita González, John Gregory Bourke and Ethno-Historical Representations of the Texas-Mexican Border
	COMMENT:	Ramon Saldívar

The Legacy of Vincent Chin (Roundtable)

	CHAIR:	Mae M Ngai, Department of History, University of Chicago
	PANELISTS:	Helen Zia, Journalist & Author Renee Tajima-Peña, Producer/Director Jean Wu, American Studies Program, Tufts University Kim Moody, Director of the Labor Education and Research Project in Detroit
	COMMENT:	Audience

Of Cosmopolitical Configurations: Third World Women, Globalism and the American Academy (Roundtable)

	CHAIR:	Luisa A. Igloria, English Department, Old Dominion University
	PANELISTS:	Radha Hegde, School of Communications, Rutgers University Sujata Moorti, Women's Studies Program, Old Dominion University Raka Shome, Department of Communication, Arizona State University
	COMMENT:	Audience

"Sovereignty is the people": Narratives of Native American and American Nationalism

	CHAIR:	Kate Shanley, Native American Studies, University of Montana
	PAPERS:	Robert Warrior, Department of English, Stanford University. The Character of Policy: Reading the Feds from Apess to Momaday David L. Moore, Department of English, University of Montana. Reimagining American Community through Native American Sovereignty Virginia Carney, Department of English, Eastern Kentucky University Remembering the Pattern, Re-spinning the Web: Eastern Cherokee Women and Community
	COMMENT:	Kate Shanley

The Tough Stuff: Public Conversations About Race in American History and Culture (Roundtable)

	CHAIR:	James A. Miller, Department of English, George Washington University
	PANELISTS:	David Blight, Department of History, Amherst College James O. Horton, Department of History, George Washington University Dwight T. Pitcaithley, National Park Service Carla L. Peterson, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
	COMMENT:	James A. Miller

2:00 - 3:45 PM

LASALLE - B

THURSDAY

International Perspective of American Studies (Roundtable)

	CHAIR:	S. O. O. Amali, President of the American Studies Association of Nigeria, Theater Department, University of Jos, Nigeria
	PANELISTS:	W. O. Ali, Department of Political Science, University of Jos, Nigeria Phil Ostien, Faculty of Law, University of Jos, Nigeria David Ker, Department of English, Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria John Sambe, Department of Mass Communications, Benue State University, Makurdi Nigeria Foluke Ogunleye, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife Nigeria Folashade Ifamose, Theater Arts Department, University of Abuja, Abuja Nigeria Ebele Amali, Department of Economics, University of Jos, Nigeria
	COMMENT:	Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

JOLIET - A

THURSDAY

In a Union Town: A Round-Table on Working-Class Studies

	CHAIR:
	PANELISTS:	Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education Research, Cornell University, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations Jon Curtiss, Organizer, Michigan Federation of Teachers and School-Related Personnel, AFT/AFL- CIO Alice Audie-Figueroa, Director of Education, United Automobile Workers Kimberly Johnson, Program in American Studies, New York University Tom Juravich, Director, Labor Relations and Research Center University of Massachusetts, Amherst Paul Lauter, Department of Literature, Trinity College
	COMMENT:	Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

JOLIET - B

THURSDAY

Reading Race in Nineteenth Century America

	CHAIR:	Rafia Zafar, African and Afro-American Studies Program, Washington University, St. Louis
	PAPERS:	David Luis-Brown, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley Slave Flight and Rebellion in Delany, Stowe and Villaverde: Insurgent and Counter-insurgent  Discourses John Ronan, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley Color Unseen: Reading Race in Webb and Melville Anne Baker, Department of English, Reed College Geography, Pedagogy, and Race: Schoolbooks and Ideology in the Antebellum United States Susan Scheckel, Department of English, University of Memphis Mobility and Identity in Nat Love's "Adventures"
	COMMENT:	Rafia Zafar Dwight McBride, English Department, University of Illinois, Chicago

2:00 - 3:45 PM

MARQUETTE - A

THURSDAY

The Joke and the Yoke: Artists and Audiences Confront Racial Stereotypes in the Media and the Performing Arts

	CHAIR:	Judith Jackson Fossett, Department of English, University of Southern California
	PAPERS:	Karl Hagstrom Miller, Department of History, New York University Singing for the Nation: Black Musicians, 'Race' Records, and the Eclipse of Local Hybridity Elena Razlogova, Cultural Studies Program, George Mason University Race, Police, and True-Crime Radio: Audiences and Subjects Confront Broadcasters in 1930s America Anne Baker, Department of English, Reed College Geography, Pedagogy, and Race: Schoolbooks and Ideology in the Antebellum United States Marie Ellen Noonan, American Social History Project, Center for Media and Learning, City University of New York Representing Race, Representing America: Porgy and Bess Abroad and at Home, 1952-1956
	COMMENT:	Judith Jackson Fossett

2:00 - 3:45 PM

MARQUETTE - B

THURSDAY

American Studies in International Contexts

	CHAIR:	Scot Guenter, American Studies Program, San José State University
	PAPERS:	Mukesh K. Williams, English Department, Soka University Japan American Studies in the World: An Indian Experience Sergio Luiz Prado Bellei, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, SC, Brazil American Literature in Brazil: Reading as Cannibalism Irem Balkir, Department of American Culture and Literature, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey The World Is Not Enough: Bonding to American Narratives in Turkey
	COMMENT:	Richard Horwitz, American Studies Program, University of Iowa Kate Delaney, U. S. Embassy, Warsaw, Poland

2:00 - 3:45 PM

DULUTH - A

THURSDAY

Resistance & Erasure: Responses to 20^th Century U. S. Wars

	CHAIR:	Brett Gary, Graduate Program in Modern History & Literature, Drew University
	PAPERS:	Michael T. Coventry, Department of History, Georgetown University Civilian Propaganda and Soldiers' Truths: Doughboy Cartoonists and Resistant Identities Christopher Capozzola, Department of History, Columbia University Borders Mattered: Draft Resistance, Policymaking, and Transnational Identities in the United States and Canada, 1914-1918 Scott Laderman, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota Pointing Them in the Right Direction: Travel Guidebooks and the American War in Vietnam
	COMMENT:	Brett Gary

2:00 - 3:45 PM

DULUTH - B

THURSDAY

The Other Nineteenth-Century South: Mexico, Cuba, and the U. S. Borderlands

	CHAIR:	Susan Gillman, Literature and American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
	PAPERS:	Shelley Streeby, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego Land, Labor, and Empire in the Dime Novel Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Department of Literature, Univeristy of California, Santa Cruz Delta Desterrados: New Orleans and the New World Exile J. Alemán, Department of English, University of New Mexico Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier
	COMMENT:	Susan Gillman

2:00 - 3:45 PM

NICOLET - B

THURSDAY

Teaching at the Union Hall: American Studies and Worker Education (Roundtable)

	CHAIR:	Sherry Linkon, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University
	PANELISTS:	Marjorie Abel, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Linda Adler-Kassner, Department of Composition and Rhetoric, University of Michigan, Dearborn Robert Bruno, Labor and Industrial Relations Department, University of Illinois, Chicago Joyce Kornbluh, Independent Labor Educator, Ann Arbor, Michigan Jackie Lawson, English and Communications Department, University of Michigan, Dearborn Lisa Jordan, Labor and Education Services, University of Minnesota
	COMMENT:	Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

MICHELANGELO

THURSDAY

Impure Americans: Mixed Races and Contested Knowledges in the Early Twentieth Century

	CHAIR:	Sarah Way Sherman, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
	PAPERS:	Carrie Tirado Bramen, Department of English, State University of New York, Buffalo Bi-Racial Fictions and the Mendelist Allegory June Howard, American Culture Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor "Idle Tears" and White Tears: Racialized Sentimental Education, Mrs. Spring Fragrance, and Chinese-American Literature Sandra A. Zagarell, Department of English, Oberlin College Chesnutt vs. Chesnutt: "Real" Racial Distinctions in "What is a White Man?" and "The Wife of His Youth"
	COMMENT:	Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

GRECO

THURSDAY

Ethnic Studies and American Studies in the 21^st-Century (Submitted by ASA Students, Committee)

	CHAIR:	Kate Masur, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
	PAPERS:	Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Comparative North American Studies, Macalester College Vietnamese American Interventions: Asian/American Studies in the 21st-Century Hokulani Aikau, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota Hawai'i at the Intersection of American Studies and Ethnic Studies Shirley E. Thompson, History of American Civilization, Harvard University Creole New Orleans: Where Color and Culture Intersect Matt Wray, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley Putting Poor Whites at the Center: White Racializations and Class Transformations
	COMMENT:	George J. Sánchez, Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California

3:00 - 7:00 PM

DAVINCI (CHANGED 10/10/00)

THURSDAY

Regional Chapters' Committee Business Meeting

3:30 - 5:30 PM

NICOLET - A

THURSDAY

International Women's Task Force Business Meeting

3:30 - 5:30 PM

RICHARD - B (CHANGED 8/18/00)

THURSDAY

American Quarterly Board Meeting

3:30 - 6:00 PM

RENOIR

THURSDAY

Visible Knowledge Project's Business Meeting

4:00 - 5:45 PM

CADILLAC - A

THURSDAY

Local Activisim, Academia, and Global Politics: Environmental Justice in the World (Roundtable)

	CHAIR:	Noel Sturgeon, Departments of Women's Studies and American Studies, Western Washington University
	PAPERS:	Donele Wilkins, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice, Detroit, Michigan Giovanna Di Chiro, Department of Environmental Studies, Allegheny College Joni Adamson, Department of English and Folklore, University of Arizona Greta Gaard, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University Devon Peña, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
	COMMENT:	Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

CADILLAC - B

THURSDAY

The Legacy of Vincent Chin (FILM) (CHANGED 9/18/00)

	CHAIR:	Mae N. Ngai , Department of History, University of Chicago
	FILM:	Who Killed Vincent Chin?
	COMMENT:	Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

BRULE - A

THURSDAY

Crosscurrents of the Black Pacific: Dimensions of the African American/ Asian American Encounter

	CHAIR:	Montye Fuse, Department of English, Arizona State University
	PAPERS:	Grace Hong, Department of English, Princeton University Something Forgotten Which Should Have Been Remembered: Internment, Segregation, Property, in Hisaye Yamamoto's "A Fire in Fontana" and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye Daniel Widener, Department of History, New York University Afro-Asian Angles: African-Americans and Asian-American Culture and Politics Through the Long 20th Century Jeff Chang, Colorlines Magazine What's My Name: Asian Americans and Black Nationalism
	COMMENT:	Montye Fuse

4:00 - 5:45 PM

LASALLE - A

THURSDAY

F. O. Matthiessen, Activism, and the Origins of American Studies: A Conversation (Roundtable)

	CHAIR:	Jay Grossman, Department of English, Northwestern University
	PAPERS:	Michèle Aina Barale, Department of English, Amherst College Jack Levenson, Department of English, University of Virginia Christopher Looby, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania Carolyn Porter, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Robert Dawidoff , Department of History, Claremont Graduate School
	COMMENT:	Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

LASALLE - B

THURSDAY

Beyond Unified Identities and Binary Oppositions: Theorizing Ethnicity and Race

	CHAIR:	Susan Lurie, Department of English, Rice University, Fort Collins
	PAPERS:	Jacquetta E. Amdahl, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota "Perpetual Others": The Role of Culture, Race, and Nationalism in the Quest for a Mixed Race Aesthetic Stephen Knadler, Department of English, Spelman College Younghill Kang and the Prerequisite Negrophobia Kulvinder Arora, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego Rethinking Immigrant Ethnicity: South Asian Religious and Cultural Nationalism in the U.S. Babacar M'Baye, American Cultural Studies, Bowling Green State University Crisis in the New Black Atlantic Discourse: The Western Devaluation of African Modernity
	COMMENT:	Susan Lurie, Department of English, Rice University

4:00 - 5:45 PM

JOLIET - A

THURSDAY

The Politics of Voice: Elocution and Civic Space

	CHAIR:	Robert Levine, Department of English, University of Maryland
	PAPERS:	Martin Bruckner, Department of English, University of Delaware The Continent Speaks: Geography, Oratory, and the Figuration of Identity in British America Carolyn Eastman, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University The Woman's Voice: Oratorical Heroism and Female Elocution in the Early American Republic Thomas Augst, Department of English, University of Minnesota Becoming Visible, Being Heard: Frederick Douglass and the Bonds of Eloquence in Nineteenth-Century America
	COMMENT:	Robert Levine

4:00 - 5:45 PM

JOLIET - B

THURSDAY

Reading, Writing, and Social Class

	CHAIR:	Wayne Wiegand, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
	PAPERS:	James S. Miller, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater Pulp Fiction, Middlebrow Culture, and the Invention of Tough Authorship Gordon Hutner, Department of English, Univeristy of Kentucky Imperialism and the Middle Class in Modern American Fiction Frank D. Rashid, Department of English, Marygrove College "The Power of Place": Detroit Poets, Detroit Poems Gina Rourke, American Civilization, Brown University Labor, Consumerism, and the Persistence of Servility
	COMMENT:	Michael Cowan, Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

4:00 - 5:45 PM

MARQUETTE - A

THURSDAY

Disrupting the Boundaries between Scholarly and Public Discourses: Case Studies in Cultural Transformation Work

	CHAIR:	Deborah Rosenfelt, Women's Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park
	PAPERS:	Patrice McDermott, American Studies Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County The New Public Intellectuals: Authority, Agency, and Activist-Scholars Kathy Scales Bryan, American Studies Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Doing Cultural Transformation Work: Research, Knowledge, and Practices in the Field of Gender Equity in Education
	COMMENT:	Deborah Rosenfelt

4:00 - 5:45 PM

MARQUETTE - B

THURSDAY

Shaping Femininities (TALK)

	CHAIR:	Katherine Kinney, University of California, Riverside
	PAPERS:	Kristen Hatch, Department of Film & Television, University of California, Los Angeles "An Education in Vice:" Young Girls in Vaudeville & Film, 1880-1930 Rebecca Poyourow, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan "Oh, You Beautiful Doll": Social Clubs and Detroit Working Girls, Cosmopolitanism, 1900-1917 Mary Thompson, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University Highbrow/Lowbrow Cosmetic Surgery: The She-Devil, Orlan, and Cindy Jackson
	COMMENT:	Carla Kaplan, English and Gender Studies Departments, University of Southern California

4:00 - 5:45 PM

DULUTH - A

THURSDAY

Personal Narratives of Affirmative Action (Roundtable sponsored by the Minority Scholars' Committee)

	CHAIR:	Catherine Ceniza Choy, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
	PANELISTS:	Emma Pérez, Department of History, University of Texas, El Paso Jennifer Pierce, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota Jeffrey J. Rangel, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan Martin Summers, History Department, University of Oregon.
	COMMENT:	Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

DULUTH - B

THURSDAY

Artist-Activist: Creating New Visions, Finding New Voices: A Conversation on the Role of Art and Artists in Creating New Visions for City Life (Roundtable, taped session for Detroit Public Radio, WDET)

	CHAIR:	Bernard Brock, Center for Art and Public Policy, Wayne State University
	PANELISTS:	Ron Allen, Organizer, Horizons In Poetry Michelle Brown, Director, Cass Corridor Neighborhood Development Corporation Ngia Kia, Cultural Arts Mentorship Program, Detroit Shea Howell, Communication Department, Oakland University Nkenge Zola, Cultura Affairs Reporter, WDET
	COMMENT:	Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

NICOLET - B

THURSDAY

Transculturations: American Studies in a Globalizing World"the Globalizing World in American Studies

	CHAIR:	Guenter H. Lenz, Department of American Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
	PANELISTS:	Alfred Hornung, Department of American Studies, University of Mainz, Germany Maureen E. Montgomery, Department of American Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Masako Notoji, Department of American Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan Bruce Tucker, Department of History, Philosophy, and Political Science, University of Windsor, Canada Allan M. Winkler, Department of History, Miami University
	COMMENT:	Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

MICHELANGELO

THURSDAY

Property, Representation, and Excessive Desire in Nineteenth-Century America

	CHAIR:	Bruce Ronda, American Studies Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
	PANELIST:	Melissa Homestead, Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow, American Antiquarian Society Coverture and Copyright: The Paradoxes of Authorial Proprietorship for 19th-Century American Women Authors Debra Bernardi, Department of Languages and Literature, Carroll College Sinful Extravagance: Greed and Family in Anti-Mormon Narratives, 1855-1900 Yvonne Elizabeth Pelletier, Department of English, University of Toronto False Maps and Real-Estate Scams in Nineteenth-Century Constructions of America
	COMMENT:	Mary Kelley, Department of History, Dartmouth University

4:00 - 5:45 PM

GRECO

THURSDAY

Medical Science, Culture, and the Nineteenth-Century Body

	CHAIR:	Stephen Rachman, Department of English, Michigan State University
	PAPERS:	Paul Gilmore, Department of English, Bucknell University The Electric Body: Antebellum Technology and Aesthetic Transcendence Anne Sheehan, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles "Strange Paroxysms": Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Cultural Origins of American Nervousness Laura L. Behling, Department of English, Gustavus Adolphus College "Fulfilling All the Requirement of the Natural: Loss and Restoration in Civil War Fiction and Artificial Limb Testimonials Gina Rourke, American Civilization, Brown University Labor, Consumerism, and the Persistence of Servility
	COMMENT:	Michael Elliott, Department of English, Emory University Csaba Toth, History Department, Carlow College

6:00 - 7:30 PM

CADILLAC - B

THURSDAY

Workshop for Ethnic Studies Program Directors, Faculty and Students:
What Are the Gates? Who Are the Gatekeepers? Panelist include Frances Aparicio, Johnnella Butler, Kate Shanley and Jack Tchen.

6:00 - 7:30 PM

MACKINAC (CHANGED 8/18/00)

THURSDAY

International Committee Reception

6:30 PM - 11:00 PM

RENOIR (CHANGED 8/18/00)

THURSDAY

ASA Nominating Committee Business Meeting

5:30 - 6:45 PM

NICOLET - A

THURSDAY

American Studies Editorial Board Meeting

6:00 - 8:00 PM

RICHARD - A (CHANGED 8/18/00)

THURSDAY

Mid-American American Studies Association Reception

6:00 - 7:15 PM

BRULE - B

THURSDAY

Material Culture Caucus, Annual Business Meeting

7:30 - 9:00 PM

RICHARD - B (CHANGED 8/18/00)

THURSDAY

Minority Scholars, Committee, Women,s Committee, and Sexual Minority Scholars(hip) Reception

7:00 - 9:00 PM

DAVINCI (CHANGE)

THURSDAY

Students, Committee Business Meeting

7:30 - 8:45 PM

BRULE - B

THURSDAY

Visual Culture Caucus, Annual Business Meeting

8:00 - 9:30 PM

DULUTH - B

THURSDAY

The Formation of the International American Studies Association: Issues and Prospects

	CHAIR:	Djelal Kadir, Pennsylvania State University, Founding President of the International American Studies Association (IASA) Michael Frisch, State University of New York, Buffalo, President of the American Studies Association (ASA)
	PAPERS:	Theo D'haen, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, Executive Director of the IASA Loes Nas, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Director of the Cape American Studies Association and Treasurer of IASA George Sáchez, University of Souther California and President-Elect of the American Studies Association Hiroko Sato, Tokyo Women's Christian University, Japan, and Interim Chair of the American Studies Association's International Committee Sonia Torres, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil, President of the Braizilian Association of American Studies (ABAE), and on the Executive Committee of the International American Studies Association
	COMMENT:	Audience

8:00 - 10:00 PM (CHANGED 8/18)

CADILLAC - A (CHANGE 8/18)

THURSDAY

Strait Talk: Six Detroit Poets