Friday, November 9, 2001

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 2

Ways to Move in an American Meltdown: A Roundtable Discussion on the Relationship between Creative Expression, Scholarship and Public Voices

CHAIR:

Roberta Hill, Department of English and American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison

PANELISTS:

Ray Gonzalez, Department of English, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Margara Averbach, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Agymah Kamau, Department of English, University of Oklahoma

Salvador Mercado, Department of Foreign Languages, Le Moyne College

COMMENT:

Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 3

Visual Cultures of Militarization (TALK)

CHAIR:

George Yúdice, American Studies Program, New York University

PAPERS:

Lisa Parks, Department of Film Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
De-Militarizing the Image: Witnessing in the Information Age

Julia Bryan-Wilson, Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley
Radioactive Icons: Building a Monument of Nuclear Warning

Julia Meltzer, Department of Video and Digital Media, Hampshire College, and David Thorne, Artist
What Do You Know and When Did You Know It?

Christina B. Hanhardt, Program in American Studies, New York University
Test Bombs and Television: Military Dress Rehearsals for Procedural Performances

COMMENT:

George Yúdice

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 4

Othering the American South

CHAIR:

Susan V. Donaldson, English Department, College of William and Mary

PAPERS:

Gary Richards, English Department, University of New Orleans
Scribbling Women's Kissing Men: Eroticized Male Homosexuality in St. Elmo and The Hidden Hand

Kendra Hamilton, English Department, University of Virginia
The Art of the Charleston Renaissance--A Renaissance for Whom?

John Lowe, English Department, Louisiana State University
Presenting "Backwoods" Self-Reliance, in 1933 and 1998: The Poor Whites of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Tom Franklin

COMMENT:

Susan V. Donaldson

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 5

Policing the Boundaries: Murderous Men, Sexualized Women, and Eugenics

CHAIR:

John F. Kasson, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

PAPERS:

Michael Trotti, History Department, Ithaca College
Recasting the Male Murderer at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Melissa J. Doak, Department of History, State University of New York, Binghamton
"I Don't See Any Harm in Loving": the Use of Psychoanalysis in Mental Hospitals and "Healthy" Female Sexuality, 1910-1920

Sue Currell, Graduate Research Centre in Humanities, University of Sussex
Public Enemies: Crime, Leisure and Eugenics in the Great Depression

COMMENT:

John F. Kasson

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 12

No, Where Are You Really From: Globalization and the Asian American Community

CHAIR:

Gail Nomura, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington

PAPERS:

Augusto Espiritu, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Colonial Pacific: Historicizing Asian American Transnational Discourse

Shilpa Davé, Asian American Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Broadcasting Global Communities: American Family Values in My Year of Meats

Linda Trinh Võ, Asian American Studies Program, University of California, Irvine
We're All Hard Working, Aren't We?": Asian Immigrants, Globalization, and the Model Minority Myth

Leilani Nishime, Department of American Multicultural Studies, Sonoma State University
Whose Side Are You On?: Blacks and Asians in the Global Age

COMMENT:

Rick Bonus, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 8

Lynching, Internment and Jazz: U.S. Narratives of Race Crossing Borders

CHAIR:

Alan Trachtenberg, Department of English and American Studies, Yale University

PAPERS:

Fumiko Sakashita, Graduate School of American Studies, Doshisha University
From Historians' History to Popular History: "Without Sanctuary" Exhibition and the Reception of Lynching

Masumi Izumi, Institute of Language and Culture, Doshisha University
Historical Memories of the Japanese American Wartime Internment and their Ideological Effects in Japan and the United States

Yusuke Torii, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
LeRoi Jones Meets Japanese Jazz Criticism: Jazz and the Transnational Public Critique of U.S. Race Relations and Imperialism

COMMENT:

David W. Stowe, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 9

Recombinant Identities, New Counterpublics: Casitas, Clubs, Raves, and the Web (TALK)

CHAIR:

Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Department of Sociology, Smith College

PAPERS:

Juan Flores, Sociology Program, City University of New York Graduate Center
'Pueblo Pueblo': Rethinking Popular Culture, Performance, and Community

Randall Knoper, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Web Art: Electronic Frontiers, Hybrid Selves, and Race

Agustin Lao-Montes, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Re-enchanting El Barrio: Latino Youth Politics Forging Subaltern Counterpublics

Sunaina Maira, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Tabla, Trance, and Youth Culture: Gender and Nation in the New Orientalism

COMMENT:

Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 10

The Politics of Culture in Depression America

CHAIR:

Donald Crafton, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, University of Notre Dame

PAPERS:

Matthew Bernstein, Film Studies Program, Emory University
Remembering Southern Injustice: The Leo Frank Case in 1930s Films

Charles Maland, Department of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"Powered by a Ford?": Dudley Nichols, the Popular Front, and the Evolution of Stagecoach

Susan Ohmer, Department of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
Making Power Visible: The Presidential Politics of Citizen Kane

COMMENT:

Donald Crafton

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 11

Exile(d) Citizenship: Feminist Transformations of American Public Engagement (TALK)

CHAIR:

Elizabeth Donaldson, Department of English and Philosophy, Stephen F. Austin State University

PAPERS:

Claudia Rector, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, and Kathryn Cohan-Haerry, Program Manager, National Alliance for the
Mentally Ill
Home is Where the Modem Is: Constructions of Identity and Place in the Wombats Listserv

Kathleen Frederickson, Department of English, University of Chicago
Wounded Ghosts and the Subject of Exile in H.D.'s "Helen in Egypt"

Barbara Shaw Perry, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Performances of Exile: Cultural Identity, Migration, and Citizenship in the Puerto Rican/American Literary Borderlands

Sujata Moorti, Women's Studies Program, Old Dominion University
Desperately Seeking an Identity: Diasporic Cinema and the Inscription of Hybridity

COMMENT:

Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 15

Public Encounters with New World Slavery (90 Min. Session)

CHAIR:

Kevin Gaines, Department of History, University of Michigan

PAPERS:

Sandra Richards, Department of African-American Studies, Northwestern University
Snapshots of the "Great Homecoming": Memorializing the Slave Trade of Ghana

Judith Jackson Fossett, Department of English, University of Southern California
Reconstructing the Plantation: The Antebellum "Big House" in the 21st Century

COMMENT:

Kevin Gaines

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 16

Diplomatic Exchanges (TALK)

CHAIR:

Gerry Kelly, Embassy of Ireland, Washington, DC

PAPERS:

Martha Elena Rojas, Department of English, Stanford University
Paper War: Diplomatic Challenges and the Domestic Press in the 1790s

M. Luke Bresky, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Imperialism and Self-Possession: Douglass's Diplomacy in Haiti

Sharon Hamilton, Department of English, John Cabot University/American University of Rome
Being a "Straniera": Diplomacy for a Canadian Teacher and Diplomatic Spouse in Rome

Martin Griffin, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Tribal Memory or American Interest: T.S. Eliot,
Henry R. Luce, and 1941

Nicole Sackley, Department of History, Princeton University
The Diplomacy of Expertise: American Social Science, Modernity and Global Dreams, 1945-1965

COMMENT:

Gerry Kelly

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 18

Civic Voices of the Air: Nation, Immigration and Labor in American and Mexican Radio, 1925-1955

CHAIR:

James L. Baughman, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin

PAPERS:

Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa
Broadcasting the Revolution: Mexican Uses of a North American Medium in the 1930's

Edward D. Miller, Department of Media Culture, City University of New York, Staten Island
Civic Voices: The Case of the Socialist Radio Station, WEVD

Kathy W. Newman, Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University
"My First 10,000,000 Sponsors": Frank Edwards and the Radio Culture of the Post-War Labor Movement

COMMENT:

Suzanne Smith, History Department, George Mason University

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 19

Rethinking Prisons: A Critical Resistance Roundtable

CHAIR:

Sandra Baringer, Department of English, University of California, Riverside

PANELISTS:

Angela Davis, History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

Gina Dent, African American Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley

David Theo Goldberg, Director, University of California Humanities Research Institute

 

COMMENT:

Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 13

Disease and Discourse (TALK)

CHAIR:

Richard P. Horwitz, American Studies Program, University of Iowa

PAPERS:

Mary E. Wood, English Department, University of Oregon
The Speaking Puzzle: Narratives of Schizophrenia

Sharon O'Brien, American Studies Department, Dickinson College
"I Prefer Not To": Depression and Narratives of Resistance

April Michelle Herndon, Program in American Studies, Michigan State University
The Medicalized Dis-Ease of Fatness

COMMENT:

Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 14

Monuments and Memory in the Nation's Capital

This is a two-part session; the second part is a tour of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. All panelists will participate in the tour, which will meet outside the Information and Bookstore building of the FDR Memorial at 4:00 PM.

CHAIR:

Melissa Dabakis, Department of Art and Art History, Kenyon College

PAPERS:

Sally Stein, Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine
The President's Two Bodies: Visions and Revisions of the FDR Memorial

Kristin Hass, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Pandering to Anxiety: The National World War II Memorial

Frank Mitchell, Amistad Foundation, Wadsworth Atheneum
Finding Fortune: Commemorating the 18th-Century Slave in 21st-Century Connecticut

COMMENT:

Erika Doss, Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado, Boulder

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 3

Imperial Nature: the Construction and Presentation of an American Imperial Identity (ONLINE)

CHAIR:

Katherine Manthorne, Department of Art History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

PAPERS:

M. Elizabeth Boone, Department of Art History, Humboldt State University
Castilian Days: John Hay, Joseph Pennell, and the Obfuscation of Politics by Art

Anne Paulet, Department of History, Humboldt State University
Public Presentations and Imperial Designs: The 1904 World's Fair and American Foreign Policy

Anthony Lioi, Department of Literatures in English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
"Nature Faking" in American Periodicals and the Repression of Empire

COMMENT:

Katherine Manthorne

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 4

Internal Relations, International Relations: Musical Enactments of Race in the Interwar Period

CHAIR:

Dorothy Chansky, Department of Theatre, College of William and Mary

PAPERS:

David Krasner, Department of Theater Studies, Yale Unversity
Shuffle Along and the Eternal Return: Black Musical Theater and the Harlem Renaissance

Shannon Steen, Department of English, Northwestern University
Pacific Peregrinations: Circum-Atlantic Negotiations of Asia in The Swing Mikado

Brian Eugenio Herrera, Department of American Studies, Yale University
Tropical Travelogues:The Good Neighbor Policy on Stage and Screen, 1933-1947

COMMENT:

Dorothy Chansky

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 5

Temporal Politics

CHAIR:

Carlene Stephens, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

PAPERS:

Julia Ott, Department of History, Yale University
Time Consciousness and Commercial Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century America

Thomas M. Allen, Department of English, University of Richmond
The Geological Revolution in American Time

Alexis McCrossen, Department of History, Southern Methodist University
Hands and Faces: Public Clocks in American Cities after the Civil War

COMMENT:

Eric Wilson, English Department, Wake Forest University

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 12

Key Words and American Studies: A Roundtable (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Carla L. Peterson, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park

PANELISTS:

Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Departments of American Studies and English, University of Texas, Austin
Dialect

Gillian Johns, Department of English, Oberlin College
Humor

Jean Pfaelzer, Department of English, University of Delaware
Reconstruction

Amy Robinson, Department of English, Georgetown University
Identity

Jean Fagan Yellin, Department of English, Pace University
Genealogy

Sandra Zagarell, Department of English, Oberlin College
Domesticity

COMMENT:

Carla L. Peterson

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 8

Where Is Education? Spaces of Pedagogy, "Home," and Youth (TALK)

CHAIR:

Maureen N. McLane, Society of Fellows, Harvard University

PAPERS:

Anne-Elizabeth Murdy, Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University
Domestic Ficton, Feminist Pedagogies, and Critical Literacy

Divya Muralidhara, Department of English, The Field School
Creating Living/Learning Spaces Away from Home and School

Mary E. Thomas, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota
Geography Lessons for School and Home: Unbounded Spaces and Subjects

COMMENT:

Maureen N. McLane

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 9

Locating the Multicultural

CHAIR:

Dara Silberstein, Women's Studies Program, State University of New York, Binghamton

PAPERS:

Jacquetta Amdahl, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Reports from the "Third Space": the Music and Visual Presence of Mixed Race Artists in American Popular Culture

Sally L. Kitch, Department of Women's Studies, Ohio State University
Theorizing a Multicultural Society: from Utopianism to Realism

Hans Bak, Department of American Literature and American Studies, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
"One Nation Under God"?: Religion and Contemporary Multicultural American Literature

COMMENT:

Jodi Kelber-Kaye, Literary Studies Program, University of Arizona

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 10

The Politics of Inclusion: Making Space for Marked Bodies in the Public (TALK)

CHAIR:

Sharon Stockton, Department of English, Dickinson College

PAPERS:

Amy Farrell, Women's Studies Program, Dickinson College
Refusing to Apologize: FAT!SO?, FaT GiRL, and Fat Activism

Wendy Kozol, Women's Studies Program, Oberlin College
Miss Indian America: Regulatory Gazes and the Politics of Affiliation

Patrice McDermott, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Strategic Use of Black Bodies in the Contested Presidential Election

COMMENT:

Sharon Stockton

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 11

Reintroducing American Literature to the American Public (DIALOGUE)

CHAIR:

Laura Arnold, Department of English, Reed College

PANELISTS:

Meighan Maloney, Project Director, American Passages

Michael O'Conner, Department of English, Learning and Technology, Millikin University

Julia Reidhead, Vice President and Editor,
W.W. Norton & Co.

Sonia Saldivar-Hull, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Steve Talbot, Producer, PBS's Frontline

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 15

Teatristas sin Fronteras: Gender and Diasporic Representation in
Chicana Performance

CHAIR:

Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Cesar Chavez Center for Chicano/a Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

PAPERS:

Dionne Espinoza, Women's Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Una Mexcla Teatral: Chicana Cultural Feminism and the Performances of Dorindo Moreno and Las Cucarachas, 1970-1975

Laura G. Gutierrez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa
Deconstructing the Mythical Homeland: Mexico in Contemporary Chicana Performance

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 16

Destabilizing the Center: Order and Uprising in Washington DC (TALK)

CHAIR:

Lois E. Horton, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University

PAPERS:

Kate Masur, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Black Laborers and the Struggle for Representative Government: The General Strike of 1871

David Pedersen, Anthropology and History Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
American Value: Money, Salvadoran Migrants and Morality in Washington, D.C., 1980-99

COMMENT:

Lois E. Horton

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 18

Roundtable: The Marital Civic Sphere (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Elizabeth Freeman, Department of English, University of California, Davis

PANELISTS:

Nancy F. Cott, Department of American Studies, Yale University

Ellen Lewin, Department of Women's Studies, University of Iowa

Jacqueline Stevens, Politics Department, Pomona College

Janet Jakobsen, Center for Research on Women, Barnard College

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 19

Pushing Racial Boundaries (TALK)

CHAIR:

Carla Kaplan, Department of English, University of Southern California

PAPERS:

Arthur Knight, American Studies Program, The College of William and Mary
Whiteface

John Charles, Department of English, University of Virginia
Crackers and Magnolias: Zora Neale Hurston's "Seraph on the Suwanee" as New South Plantation Romance

Kim D. Hester-Williams, English Department, Sonoma State University
Black Body? Any Body? Public Uses, Public Abuses and the New Minstrelsy

COMMENT:

Sivagami Subbaraman, Women's Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 13

Photography, Race, and Resistance

CHAIR:

Shawn Michelle Smith, Department of English, Washington State University

PAPERS:

Cristin McVey, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Gone Westward: Photographic Representation of Black San Diego, 1890-1930

Arthe Anthony, American Studies Program, Occidental College
Reflecting the Race: Photography as Resistance in
Pre-WWII New Orleans

Leigh Raiford, African-American Studies Department, Yale University
"Come Let Us Build a New World Together": SNCC Photography, Then and Now

COMMENT:

Ronald M. Johnson, Department of History, Georgetown University

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 14

Seeing Media from the Margins

CHAIR:

Susan Douglas, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan

PAPERS:

Beate Gersch, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
Invisible Public and No Voice: What Inmates do with Media

Elena Espinoza Leyva, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California
"Los Almadas Get Their Day": Mexican Drug Movies and the Rethinking of the Criminal "Other"

Leslie A. Grinner, Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University
"Niggaz Know Who the Don Is": Intertextuality and Hyperreality as Hip-Hop Culture and American Cinematic Representations of Gangster Culture (E)merge

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 2

Negotiating the Ideologies of Gender, Race, and Nationality in Hollywood Film: Projections, Receptions, and Interventions

CHAIR:

John Cheng, Department of History, George Mason University

PAPERS:

Matthew Basso, Department of History, University of Richmond
White Ethnic Working Class Men and the Contradictions of Race, Gender, and Class Identification in Hollywood Films During
World War II

Karen J. Leong, Women's Studies Program, Arizona State University
The Contradictions of Race, Nationality, and Gender for Chinese American Male Actors in Hollywood During World War II

Clara E. Rodríguez, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fordham University
The Contradictions of Race, Nationality, and Gender for Latinos in Hollywood, 1921-1931

COMMENT:

Anna Everett, Department of Film Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 3

Network Views and Public Voices in Interwar America

CHAIR:

Regina Blaszczyk, Department of History, Boston University

PAPERS:

Jason Weems, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Every Visible Thing: Aerial Views, FSA Photography, and a Comprehensive Image of Rural America

Elena Razlogova, Cultural Studies Program, George Mason University
"Jumping the Waves": Popular Opposition to Network Broadcasting in the 1920s

Sarah Igo, History Department, Princeton University
Popular Polls, Surveys and Statistics: Imagining the American Community in the Interwar Years

COMMENT:

Miles Orvell, American Studies Program, Temple University

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 4

Heading South: the Circulation and Multiplication of Region

CHAIR:

Peter W. Bardaglio, Department of History, Goucher College

PAPERS:

Jeremy Wells, English Department, Indiana University
Civilizing the South: Race, Region, and National Identity in Northerners' Postbellum Travel Writing

Cindy Weinstein, Department of Literature, California Institute of Technology
She Said/He Said: the Stowe Effect

Karen Kilcup, Department of English, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"No Small Amount of Courage": The National Conversations of Nineteenth-Century American Poetry Criticism

COMMENT:

June Howard, American Culture Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 5

Vistas and Visitors in the National Park System (TALK)

CHAIR:

Hal K. Rothman, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

PAPERS:

Emily Greenwald, Department of History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Framing the View: Photographs, Promotional Materials and Visual Experience in America's National Parks, 1880-1930

Alicia Barber, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
A Bluff with a View: Landscape, Ideology, and the Shaping of Scotts Bluff National Monument

Robert Matej Bednar, Department of Communication, Southwestern University
Mediating Vistas: Vision, Landscape, and the Embodiment of Spatial Practices in Contemporary Western American National Parks

COMMENT:

Hal K. Rothman

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 12

Disidentifications: Sexuality, Race, Popular Culture

CHAIR:

Jose Muñoz, Department of Performance Studies, New York University

PAPERS:

Gayatri Gopinath, Women and Gender Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley
Migration, Sexuality, Popular Culture: Surviving Sabu

Kara Keeling, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Let's Eat Pomegranates": Eve's Bayou, the Black Femme, and the Limits of Visibility

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Department of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University
Queer Ducks, Puerto Rican Faggots: On Cartoons, Literature and Dance-Theatre

COMMENT:

Jose Muñoz

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 8

Race, Place, and Social Movements (TALK)

CHAIR:

Barbara Harlow, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin

PAPERS:

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
Articulations of Urban and Rural Anti-Prison Activism: Non-NIMBY Politics and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning

Jim Lee, Department of English Literature, University of Texas, Austin
The Soul of Little Tokyo: Political Archaeologies of Asian American Activism

Laura Pulido, Department of Geography, University of Southern California
Articulations of Race and Class among Third World Leftist

COMMENT:

Barbara Harlow

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 9

Doing Feminist Art/Feminist Art Matters: Engaging Multiple Publics in Visual Cultures

CHAIR:

Helen Langa, Department of Art, American University

PAPERS:

Deborah Whaley, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
"Put Some Skirts on the Cards!": Visualising Sexualities, Working Class Consciousness, and Womanist Presence in the Art of Annie Lee

Maria-Elena Buszek, Art History Department, University of Kansas
Pin-Up Girls: The Relevance of the Sexualized Woman in Third Wave Feminist Art

Shirley S. Tang, American Studies/Asian American Studies programs, University at Massachusetts Boston
Community Art Matters: Cambodian American Young Women and Their Creative Expressions in the Arts

COMMENT:

Terri Snyder, American Studies Program, California State University, Fullerton

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 10

Queers Out (TALK)

CHAIR:

Edward Ingebretsen, English Department, Georgetown University

PAPERS:

Joe Rollins, Department of Political Science, Queens College, City University of New York and
H.N. Hirsch, Department of Political Science, Macalester College
Queer Citizenship?

Dona Yarbrough, Department of English, University of Virginia
Ins and Outs of the Lesbian Canon

Julia Balén, Women's Studies, University of Arizona
Strategic Musicking: Producing Queer Civic Voices through GALA Choruses International

COMMENT:

Chad Heath, Department of American Studies, George Washington University

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 11

Mustering Support: The Military and Its Publics

CHAIR:

Mark D. Van Ells, History Department, City University of New York, Queensborough

PAPERS:

Randolph Lewis, Honors College, University of Oklahoma
Be All that You Can Click On: Military Propaganda in the Information Age

Anastasia Mann, Department of History, Northwestern University
Ballast in a Storm: The Community War Service and the Struggle for National Unity during World War II

William Friedman Fagelson, Department of American Studies, University of Texas
You're Our of the Army Now: WWII Veteran Training Films and Postwar Masculinity

COMMENT:

Mark D. Van Ells

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 15

The New Mulatto Celebrity

CHAIR:

Jennifer DeVere Brody, Departments of African American Studies and English, University of Illinois at Chicago

PAPERS:

Margaret Kent Bass, Department of English,
St. Lawrence University
The Bi(I) and African American Autobiography

Hiram Perez, Department of English, St. Lawrence University
"I Am Tiger Woods": America's Amalgamation Proclamation

Caroline A. Streeter, The Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Morphing Mulatta: Mariah Carey's 31 Flavors

COMMENT:

Sarita Echavez See, Department of English and American Studies Program, Williams College

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 16

Colloquy with Judith Stacey on In the Name of the Family Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age, FiveYears Later (DIALOGUE)

CHAIR:

Dennis Moore, Department of English, Florida State University

PANELISTS:

David Cheal, Department of Sociology, University of Winnipeg

Bonnie Thornton Dill, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

Elaine Tyler May, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota

Judith Stacey, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California, University Park

Arlene Stein, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 18

Music and Racial Performance I

CHAIR:

Phil Deloria, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

PAPERS:

Jurretta Jordan Heckscher, Editor, American Memory, Library of Congress
"A Fame Far and Wide": African-American Fiddlers and the Shaping of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, c. 1800-1865

Steven Baur, Department of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles
Rhythm, Dance, and the Body Politic in Post-Civil War America

John W. Troutman, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
'Playing Indian' in Pitch: Federal Indian Education, American Indian Performers and the Politics of Music, 1900-1935

COMMENT:

Susan Manning, Departments of English and Theatre, Northwestern University

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 19

Connecting Intellectual Engagement and Community Empowerment: Caribbean-American, African-American, and Latino Communities (DIALOGUE)

CHAIR:

Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo, Department of English, University of Michigan

PANELISTS:

E. Francisco Lopez, National Institute for Latino Development

Shireen Lewis, Sister Mentors

Merle Collins, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Maryland

Monique Luse, Center for Afroamerican and American Studies, University of Michigan

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Department of English, Talladega College

Melinda W. Green, African American Early Childhood Resource Center, National Black Child Development Institute

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 13

Imagining Asia and Asia America

CHAIR:

John Kuo Wei Tchen, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute, New York University

PAPERS:

Josie Fowler, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
"To Be Red and 'Yellow'": Class and (Trans)nationalisms among Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Communists

Anthony S. Shiu, Program in American Studies, Michigan State University
Backwards from the Threshold of Race: The Danger of Imagining Asian Americans

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 14

American Studies, Visual Culture, and the Performing Arts

CHAIR:

David Román, Department of English, University of Southern California

PAPERS:

Karen Shimakawa, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of California, Davis
Multiple Presents, Diasporic Voices: Staging "Chineseness"

Richard Meyer, Department of Art History, University of Southern California
The Jesse Helms Theory of Art

Josh Kun, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
Bagels, Bongos, and Yiddishe Mambos: Notes on the Jewish Latin Craze

Diana Paulin, Department of English, Yale University
Performing/Producing Cultural Memory

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 2

Cultural Solutions to Political Problems: Anti-Fascism and Anti-Semitism in the Hollywood Social Problem Film (ONLINE & TALK)

CHAIR:

Patrick McGilligan, Department of Communications, Marquette University

PAPERS:

Benjamin L. Alpers, Honors College, University of Oklahoma
Anti-Fascism in Soft Focus?: Frank Borzage's German Trilogy

J.D. Connor, Department of English, Fordham University
"Now You Know Everything": Method Semitism in Gentleman's Agreement

Jennifer Langdon-Teclaw, Gender and Women's Studies Program, University of Illinois, Chicago
"You Can't Do That": Anti-Fascism, Anti-Semitism and Homosexuality in Crossfire

COMMENT Patrick McGilligan

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 3

The Making of The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, Culture for the 21st-Century (DIALOGUE)

CHAIR:

Rena Fraden, English Department, Pomona College

PANELISTS:

Rhodessa Jones, Founder and Artistic Director, The Medea Project

Sean Reynolds, Performer, The Medea Project

Angela Wilson, Performer, The Medea Project

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 4

The Cinema and the City: Urban Spaces, Urban Publics

CHAIR:

Sabine Haenni, Humanities Collegiate Division , University of Chicago

PAPERS:

Merrill Schleier, Department of Art and Art History, University of the Pacific
Skyscraper Space/Skyscraper Erotics in American Films of the 1930's

Paula Massood, Department of Film, City University of New York, Brooklyn College
Harlem is Heaven: City Motifs in Race Films from the 1930's and 1940's

Samuel Zipp, American Studies Program, Yale University
The Lure and Loathing of Urban Redevelopment: West Side Story and Lincoln Center in the Political Geography of Cold War New York

Josh Stenger, Department of English, Wheaton College
The Cinema vs. the City: The Battle for History, Hegemony, and Hollywood in Los Angeles

COMMENT:

Edward Dimendberg, Program in Film and Video Studies, University of Michigan

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 5

Nightlife and the Construction of Urban Subjects

CHAIR:

Lewis Erenberg, History Department, Loyola University, Chicago

PAPERS:

Fiona Brigstocke, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
The Other Harlem: Asian/Americans, Orientalism, and Sexuality in the Jazz Age

Simone Weil Davis, Department of English, Long Island University
Choosing the Moves: Choreography in the Strip Club

Matthew Andrews, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Equal Suffrage as Far as Prizefights Go": Gender, Pugilism, and Public Space in Turn-of-the-Century
San Francisco

Kyle Julien, Independent Researcher and Scholar
'The Eastside's Hollywood and Vine': African American Nightlife and the Racial Geographies of 1940's Los Angeles

COMMENT:

Lewis Erenberg

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 12

Race Represented: U.S. Democracy, Racial Groups, and Crises of Publics Participating (TALK)

CHAIR:

Kenneth W. Warren, Department of English, University of Chicago

PAPERS:

Min Hyoung Song, Department of English, Boston College
Strange Future: The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Desire for Civic Responsibility

Daniel Y. Kim, Department of English, Brown University
"I, Too, Sing America": Vernacular Representations of the Public in Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker

Patricia E. Chu, Department of English, Brandeis University
"Of Course it is Nothing New for Haiti to Go on a Rampage": The Riot, The Franchise and U.S. "Intervention"

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 8

Engendering Counterpublics

CHAIR:

Riv-Ellen Prell, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

PAPERS:

Alyosha Goldstein, American Studies Program, New York University
Workfare Civics: Poverty, Labor, and Urban Crisis After the Great Society

Lynn Fujiwara, Women's Studies Program, University of Oregon
Forces of Change: Immigrant Women Mobilize Against Welfare Reform

Felicity Schaeffer, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Internet Encounters Across the Americas: Forging Multiple Cyber-Publics in the Aftermath of Migration

Jennifer L. Pierce, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Corporate Culture and the Backlash against Affirmative Action: the Continuing Significance of Race and Gender in a Professional Workplace

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 9

In/Visibility Politics: Spectacular Blackness, Signifying Bodies, and Performative Interventions in Civic Culture

CHAIR:

Farah Jasmine Griffin, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

PAPERS:

Daphne A. Brooks, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
The Escape Artist: Henry "Box" Brown, Black Abolitionist Performance, & Moving Panoramas in Trans-Atlantic Culture

Imani Perry, Law Center, Georgetown University
Spectacular Battlegrounds: The Use of Public Spectacle to Define and Contest the Meaning of Race in the19th Century South

Susette Min, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Mutual Consent: Signifyin(g) Across Time and Space

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 10

Forging Public Culture, Public Voices: Latin(o) American Community Rhythms as Civic Engagement (TALK)

CHAIR:

Michelle Habell-Pallán, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington, Seattle

PAPERS:

María Elena Cepeda, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Florecitas rockeras: Gender and Transnationalism in Colombian Rock

Wilson Valentín, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The New Latino Left and the Making of an Avant-Garde Latin Jazz Scene in New York City

Luis Vázquez, Program in American Culture , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Return of the Prodigal Musician: Protestant Christianity in Puerto Rican Popular Music

Lise Waxer, Music Department, Trinity College, Hartford
Ritmo de Pueblo: Using the Arts to Build Campus-Community Bridges

COMMENT:

Michelle Habell-Pallán

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 11

Hillbillies and the Twisted Borders of American Identity

CHAIR:

Randall Moon, Department of Humanities, Hazard Community College

PAPERS:

Larry J. Griffin, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University and Ashley B. Thompson, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
Appalachia and the U.S. South: Contradictory "Others"

John R. Hensley, American Studies Program, St. Louis University
"Dreadful People" No More: Misrecognition and Transformation in the Ozarks

Meredith Raimondo, Women's Studies Program, Barnard College
"Help Hillbillies with AIDS": Media Maps of AIDS in Appalachia

COMMENT:

Randall Moon

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 15

Civic Dialogues: Public Views on Private Parts

CHAIR:

Christina Sharpe, English Department, Tufts University

PAPERS:

Augusta Rohrbach, Bunting Fellowship Program, Harvard University
"Ar'n't I a More Complicated Woman: Re-locating Soujourner Truth, Civic Action and Private Enterprise"

Lisa Herschbach, Federated Department of History, Rutgers University
Only the Bones were White: Private Bodies and Public Meanings at the US Army Medical Museum

Charlene D. Gilbert, School of Communication, American University
"Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa Cells: Body Ethics in the 21st Century: A Documentary Film

COMMENT:

Christina Sharpe

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 16

Race: An International Perspective

CHAIR:

Michael Aaron Rockland, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University

PAPERS:

Carolyn L. Karcher, Department of English, Temple University
Ida B. Wells: A Transnational Perspective

Harry Stecopoulos, Department of English, University of Iowa
Locating Mississippi in Japan: William Faulkner and the Cold War Construction of Southern Whiteness

Kyoko Kishimoto, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University
Racial Politics and the Conflict between History and Public Memory in the Fiftieth Anniversary of the End of World War II: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. and Japanese Media

COMMENT:

Crystal Anderson, Honors Program, Sweet Briar College

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 18

Citing/Siting "Comfort Women" Critically: Transnational Memories in Korea-Japan-U.S. Liaisons (TALK)

CHAIR:

Oscar V. Campomanes, Literature and Philippine Languages De La Salle University-Manila

PAPERS:

Kandice Chuh, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
Representing Comfort Women: Questions of Genealogy, Deployment and Narrative

Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Women's Studies Department, University of California, Irvine
'Comfort Me': Mediated Affiliations and Disciplined Selves in Korean/American Transnationality

Lisa Yoneyama, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Americanization of Japanese "Crimes Against Humanity": Adjudicating Memories of "Comfort Women"

COMMENT:

Leti Volpp, Washington College of Law, American University

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 19

Constructions of Childhood

CHAIR:

L. Bailey Van Hook, Department of Art and Art History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

PAPERS:

Robin Bernstein, Program in American Studies, Yale University
Talismans of the Middle Class: Nineteenth-Century Postmortem Daguerreotypes of Children

Kristen Hatch, Department of Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles
Loving Little Eva: Race and Girlhood in American Theater and Film through the 1930s

COMMENT:

Bruce Ronda, Department of English, Colorado State University

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 13

Sensationalism and Sexuality in Antebellum America

CHAIR:

David Leverenz, Department of English, University of Florida

PAPERS:

Neill Matheson, English Department, University of South Alabama
Inventing Transgression: Sylvester Graham's Morbid Figures

David Anthony, Department of English, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Libertines, Libel, and Tabloids: Reading Sensational Masculinity in the Antebellum City

Michael Millner, English Department, University of Virginia
Intimate Publics: Sensationalism and White Heterosexuality in Antebellum America

COMMENT:

Ann Cvetkovich, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 14

Modern Arts

CHAIR:

Ellen Todd, Art History Department, George Mason University

PAPERS:

David W. Patterson, School of Music, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Modern Music/Modern Dance: Cage without Cunningham, 1940-1954

Joshua A. Shannon, Department of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
Abundance and the Mid-Century City: Robert Rauschenberg in New York, 1961

Myron Lounsbury, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Has the Solid Melted into Air? Reconstructing New York Film Culture, 1945-1970

COMMENT:

Bryan Wolf, American Studies Program, Yale University

4:00 - 5:45 PM

OFF-SITE TOUR: F.D.R. Memorial

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 2

Public Music and Working-Class Protest (ROUNDTABLE--Sponsored by the Working-Class Studies Caucus of the ASA)

CHAIR:

Victor Robert Greene, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

PANELISTS:

Bryan Garman, Department of History, Sidwell Friends School

Dean Masullo, Department of English, Vanderbilt University

Robert Nasatir, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt University

Rachel Lee Rubin, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Clyde Woods, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

COMMENT:

Jacqueline Ellis, Women's Studies Program, Bates College

Steven Garabedian, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 3

Labor Paradigms in American Media History

CHAIR:

William L. Bird, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

PAPERS:

Mark J. Williams, Department of Film and Television Studies, Dartmouth College
Consuming/Labor: See It Now's Intimations of Cyberspace, 1957

Anna McCarthy, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University
Labor and Commodity Aesthetics in Postwar TV Advertising

Mary Desjardins, Department of Film and Television Studies, Dartmouth College
"Just a Pause Before Rebooting": Star Labor, Star Commodification, and the Emergence of the Synthespian

COMMENT:

William L. Bird

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 4

Strange Fruit: Lynchings' Publics (TALK)

CHAIR:

Fath Davis Ruffins, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institute

PAPERS:

Kathleen Hulser, New-York Historical Society
Doing Difficult History: The Lynching Dialogues

Susan Edmunds, Department of English, Syracuse University
Lynching and the Formation of a National Black Public Sphere in Jean Toomer's Cane

Amy Wood, Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
Documents of Horror: Lynching Photographs, Visual Proof and Racial Memories in Contemporary America

COMMENT:

Lisa Gail Collins, Department of Art, Vassar College

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 5

A Noble Tradition: A Retrospective on the Scholarly Influence of David Noble (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Jean M. O'Brien, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota

PANELISTS:

George Lipsitz, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, San Diego

David R. Roediger, Department of History, University of Illinois

Peter N. Carroll, History Department, Stanford University

COMMENT:

Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 12

Fallout

CHAIR:

Jane Caputi, Women's Studies Program, Florida Atlantic University

PAPERS:

Philip Burnham, Independent Scholar
Diasporas for National Defense

Marcy J. Knopf Newman, Department of English, Boise State University
Miss Carson Goes to Washington: Rachel Carson's Public Silence and Private Battle

Harvey Flad, Department of Geography, Vassar College
Reading Nuclear Landscapes in America and Central Asia: The Literary Contributions of TerryTempest Williams, Chinoiz Aitmatov, and the Development of the Civic Society

COMMENT:

Jane Caputi

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 8

Sanitizing Landscapes: Tourism and History

CHAIR:

Csaba Toth, Department of History, Carlow College

PAPERS:

Amy M. Tyson, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Fleshing Out History: Living History Workers and the Politics of Re-creating the Past

Laura Ehrisman, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Battle of Flowers: Women's Culture and San Antonio's Public Memory

Matthew J. Martinez, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
A Living Exhibition: An Examination of American Indian Labor through the Selling of Arts and Crafts in Santa Fe

Elizabeth Walker Mechling, Department of Speech Communication, California State University, Fullerton, and Jay Mechling, American Studies Program, University of California, Davis
No Escape from Alcatraz: Folk and Popular Narratives in a Touristic Experience

COMMENT:

Csaba Toth

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 9

Architecture Across Disciplines

CHAIR:

John Davis, Art Department, Smith College

PAPERS:

Laura L. Behling, Department of English, Gustavus Adolphus College
Architecture, Anatomy, and Ethnology: Nineteenth-Century Connections

Jessica Barkley Blaustein, Program in Literature, Duke University
Frames for Living: The Counter-Private Architecture of Rudolph Schindler

George B. Johnston, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
Architecture and Cultural Discourse: A Comparison of Two Films

COMMENT:

Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 10

Configuring Cyberculture: New Directions in Cyberstudies and Cybercultural Production (ONLINE)

CHAIR:

Martha Nell Smith, Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland

PAPERS:

Kimberly J. Surkan, Department of English, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Virtually Home Now: Transgender Culture in Cyberspace

David Silver, School of Communications, University of Washington
Intervening in the Cyber Canon: Introducing Voices of Diversity to an Emerging Field of Study

Sidney Eve Matrix, Department of Women's Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Console Cowboys in Cubicleville: Cyberfiction and the Invention of Cyberculture

COMMENT:

Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 11

Gender,