Sunday, November 11, 2001

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 2

Sites of Discovery: The Creation of Public Knowledge about the American Southwest in 19th-Century America (EXHIBIT)

EXHIBITORS:

Kathleen L. Butler, P.A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

M. Steven Shackley, P. A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

COMMENT:

Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 3

The Radio Nation(s): Broadcasting and Community in the United States, 1920-1940

CHAIR:

Christopher H. Sterling, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University

PAPERS:

Philip Napoli, Department of History, Columbia University
'I Do Not Care Who Has the Votes, I Could Get Them': Radio and the Fear of the Broadcast Demagogue in the 1920s and 1930s

Derek W. Vaillant, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan
'When Other Stations are Silent': Region, Difference, and Listener Publics in American Broadcasting, 1921-1935

Michael Socolow, Department of American Studies, Brandeis University
'Who is Doing the Kicking at the Present Time?': N.B.C., C.B.S., James Lawrence Fly and the Politics of Chain Broadcasting Regulation, 1936-1943

COMMENT:

Christopher H. Sterling

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 4

Sound Media

CHAIR:

Lisa Gitelman, Program in Media Studies, Catholic University

PAPERS:

Jason Camlot, English Department, Concordia University
The Early Talking Book

Emily Thompson, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
The Soundscape of Modernity: Technology and Aural Culture in America, 1900-1933

Steve J. Wurtzler, Department of English, Georgetown University
'Hailing' Citizens and Consumers: The Innovation of Public Address Technology in the US

COMMENT:

John M. Picker, English Department, Harvard University

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 5

Where is Working-Class Studies? Reports from/on the Field (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Janet Zandy, Department of Language and Literature, Rochester Institute of Technology

PANELISTS:

John Russo, Center for Working Class Studies, Youngstown State University

Laura Hapke, Department of English, Pace University

Kathlene McDonald, Department of English, University of Maryland College Park

Michael Zweig, Department of Economics, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Sandra L. Dahlberg, Department of English, University of Houston

Vivyan C. Adair, The ACCESS Project, Hamilton College

COMMENT:

Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 8

Global Democracy or Cultural Imperialism?: New Perspectives on Hollywood's International Campaign (TALK)

CHAIR:

Lary L. May, American Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison

PAPERS:

Jennifer Fay, Department of Communication-Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Democracy as Free Trade: Hollywood and the German Film Market, 1945-1950

Hiroshi Kitamura, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hollywood and the Reconstruction of Movie Theaters in Defeated Japan, 1945-1952

Peter Decherney, Center for Research on Culture and Literature, Johns Hopkins University
Iris Barry and the Gender of Hollywood Imperialism

COMMENT:

Toby Miller, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 9

The New Business Studies as American Studies: And What Was the New Economy, Anyway?

CHAIR:

David Sicilia, Department of History, University of Maryland

PAPERS:

Thomas Frank, Editor, The Baffler Magazine
The Experts are Always Wrong. We Know Because the Dialectic Tells Us So

Christopher Newfield, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Creativity in the New Economy

Eric Guthey, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School
American Exceptionalism.com

COMMENT:

David Sicilia

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 10

Myth, Memory, and the Construction of History: Remembering the American War in Vietnam from the Twenty-First Century

CHAIR:

Nicole King, Department of Literature, University of California-San Diego

PAPERS:

H. Bruce Franklin, Department of English, Rutgers University
Teaching the Vietnam War in Twenty-First Century

Jerry Lemcke, Department of Sociology, Holy Cross College
Media and the Myth of Spat-Upon Vietnam Veterans: From Bob Green's "Homecoming" to the slate.com File

Ed Martini, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
Cultural Narratives and Counter Memories: American Studies and the American War in Vietnam

COMMENT:

Nicole King

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 11

Gentlemen, Brothers, and Rogues: Masculine Publics in
19th Century America

CHAIR:

Dana Nelson, Department of English, University of Kentucky

PAPERS:

Glenn Hendler, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
"The Age of Crowds": Racialized Public Masculinities in Charles Chesnutt's Marrow of Tradition

Colin Johnson, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Art of Husbandry: Country Gentlemen and the Cultivation of Rural Taste

Nicholas L. Syrett, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Very Fraternally Yours": Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Construction of a National Brotherhood in the Mid-19th Century

COMMENT:

Dana Nelson

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 15

Spirit Matters (TALK)

CHAIR:

John Ernest, Department of English, University of New Hampshire

PAPERS:

Ellen M. Weinauer, Department of English, University of Southern Mississippi
Supernaturalism and the Politics of Expansion in Antebellum America

Thomas Prendergast, Department of English, College of Wooster
Morbid Limits: Necromancy and the American Poets' Corner

Michael Mays, Department of English, University of Southern Mississippi
Occluding the Occult

COMMENT:

John Ernest

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 16

Another Matter: Racial Materiality in Antebellum America

CHAIR:

Fred Moten, Department of Performance Studies, New York University

PAPERS:

David Kazanjian, Department of English, Queens College, City University of New York
"Yankee Universality": Marx and Carey on Race and Nation

Seth Moglen, Department of English, Lehigh University
From Slavery to Socialism: T. Thomas Fortune and the Black Enlightenment

Gustavus Stadler, Department of English, Haverford College
"Mutual Interpretations": Slave Narrative and Materialism in Antebellum Theories of Culture

COMMENT:

Meredith McGill, Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 18

New Virtues of Nineteenth-Century Republicanism (ONLINE)

CHAIR:

Philip Gould, Department of English, Brown University

PAPERS:

Daniel S. Malachuk, Humanities Division, Daniel Webster College
Nineteenth-Century Liberalism after the Cold War

Granville Ganter, Department of English, St. John's University
A "Species of Language": Republican Humor and Dissent in Frederick Douglass

Marc Bousquet, Department of English, University of Louisville
Republican Enjoyment: the "Good Terror" and the Schoolroom, 1800-1850

COMMENT:

Philip Gould

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 13

What is the Sound of a Civic Voice?

CHAIR:

Michele Birnbaum, Department of English, University of Puget Sound

PAPERS:

Katherine Henry, Department of English, Ohio State University, Newark
Anguished Voices and Civic Speech in American Slavery As It Is

Ann Dean, English Department, University of Southern Maine
Silent Harmonies: Metaphors and Media in the Federalist Papers

Jonathan Kahana, Department of English, Bryn Mawr College
State Lines: Voice-Over in New Deal Documentary Cinema

COMMENT:

Michele Birnbaum, Department of English, University of Puget Sound

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 14

Public Women/Private Lives

CHAIR:

Daniel Horowitz, American Studies Program, Smith College

PAPERS:

Lillian Faderman, Department of English, California State University
How Emily Blackwell Ran the New York Infirmary for Women and Children for Forty Years

Leslie Fishbein, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University
Sex, Cash, and Satisfaction: The Public and Private Lives of Prostitutes and Madams

Vivian Gornick, Independent Scholar
What Feminism Means to Me

COMMENT:

John Pettegrew, Department of History, Lehigh University

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 7

Legal Fantasies: The Construction of an Interdisciplinary Legal Imagination

CHAIR:

Jonathan Freedman, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

PAPERS:

Mike Reynolds, Department of English, Hamline University
The Trials of Lee Oswald: Law as Alternate History

Karin Thomas, Department of American Studies, Yale University
Legal Fantasies of Race

Valerie Karno, Department of English, University of Rhode Island
The Problem of Intersection: Critical Legal Studies, Jasper Johns, and the Challenge of Visual Collage

COMMENT:

Jonathan Freedman