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Thursday, November 8, 2001

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 17

Girls with Guitars: Gender and the Creation of Country Music Culture

CHAIR:

David Sanjek, BMI Archives, BMI Inc.

PAPERS:

Kristine M. McCusker, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University
'Howdee! I'm Jes So Proud T'Be Here': Sarah Colley Cannon, Minnie Pearl, and Performing on Stage

Diane Pecknold, Department of History, Indiana University
Gender, Spectatorship, and the Development of the Country Music Industry, 1953-1965

Joyce Linehan, Department of American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
'The Day My Mama Socked it to the Harper Valley PTA': Country Music Womanhood in the Second Wave of Feminism

COMMENT:

David Sanjek

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 3

Globalizing American Culture, 1877-1920

CHAIR:

Emily S. Rosenberg, Department of History, Macalester College

PAPERS:

James Todd Uhlman, Department of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Views from the Podium: The Foreign Travel Lecture and Its Uses in Victorian America

Mary W. Blanchard, Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers Univesity, New Brunswick
An "American Queen" and European Cosmopolitanism: Bertha Honore Palmer and the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Kristin Hoganson, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Fashionable World: Bourgeois U.S. Women and Imagined Communities of Dress

COMMENT:

T. J. Jackson Lears, Department of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 5

Negotiating Change: The Image, Between Nature and Community

CHAIR:

Dornith Doherty, School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas

Jennifer Way, School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas

PAPERS:

Christopher P. Iannini, English Department, City University of New York
"Mixed and Lost in the Vortex": Audubon's Images and the Transformation of Race in Early Nineteenth Century New Orleans

Mark Pingree, Department of History, University of California, Davis
Natural Imaginings: American National Identity in Images of Native Americans, 1797-1857

Kevin Connor Armitage, Department of History, University of Kansas
Commercial Indians: Authenticity, Nature, and Industrial Capitalism in Turn-of-the-Century Advertising

Cynthia Watkins Richardson, Department of History, University of Maine
'A Skillful Architect', Country Birds for City People: Bird Study and Photography by Cordelia Stanwood of Ellsworth, Maine (1865-1958)

COMMENT:

Dornith Doherty and Jennifer Way

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 6

The Nineteenth Century and Race: Alternative Engagements

CHAIR:

Lynn Hudson, Department of History, California State University, San Luis Obispo

PAPERS:

Amy E. Winans, Department of English, Susquehanna University
Early Black Political Culture and Class Difference

David Luis-Brown, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Subalternity and the Shards of Representation: Non-slaveholding Whites in Cuba and the U.S., 1840-1860

Susan M. Ryan, Department of English, University of Louisville
Pedagogies of Emancipation: Charlotte Forten's Civil War

COMMENT:

Christina Chia, English Department, Duke University

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 8

FOCUS ON PROGRAMS DAY--Innovative American Studies Models: Outreach and the Public Sphere (ROUNDTABLE/DIALOGUE)

CHAIR:

Eric Sandeen, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming

PANELISTS:

Marguerite Shaffer, Department of American Studies, Miami University

Jeff Sellen, General Education Program, Washington State University

Mike Barton, American Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 9

Archive Trauma: Affective Modernity and Civic Memory (TALK)

CHAIR:

Patricia Yaeger, Department of English, University of Michigan

PAPERS:

Walter Kalaidjian, Department of English, Emory University
The Holocaust at Home

Lauren Berlant, Department of English, University of Chicago
Trauma and Ineloquence

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 10

Rockwell Redux: Rethinking the Cultural Logic of Norman Rockwell (Sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus)

CHAIR:

David M. Lubin, Department of Art, Wake Forest University

PAPERS:

Eric J. Segal, School of Art and Art History, University of Florida
Re-Picturing a Nation: How Rockwell's America Became "Ours"

Alan Wallach, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
Norman Rockwell at the Guggenheim: The Work of Art in the Age of Corporate Sponsorship

Anne Knutson, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Inside the Rockwell Phenomenon: Museum Politics and the Mass Media

COMMENT:

David M. Lubin

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 11

African American Humor and American Culture: The Public Face of "Blackness" (TALK)

CHAIR:

Lawrence E. Mintz, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

PAPERS:

Camille Forbes, History of American Civilization Program, Harvard University
Performed Fictions: the Life and Career of
Bert Williams

Barbara Webb, Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University
Defining "Us," Laughing at "Them": Humor in the African American Press at the Turn of the Century

Kimberly Dixon, Theatre and Drama Department, Northwestern University
This Black's for You: Humor, Race and Bud

COMMENT:

Lawrence E. Mintz

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 15

Between Assimilation and Multiculturalism: Performing Asian American Mythologies (PERFORMANCE FORMAT)

CHAIR:

Thomas De Frantz, Department of Music and Theater Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PERFORMERS: Yutian Wong, Department of Dance, University of California, Riverside
The Amazing Chinese American Acrobat

Priya Srinivasan, Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University
Busting the Dot/Bindi Myth

COMMENT:

Thomas De Frantz

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 18

Sideshow Science: Psychology, Medicine, and Showmanship (Sponsored by the Disability Studies Caucus)

CHAIR:

Jeffrey Meikle, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin

PAPERS:

Benjamin Reiss, Department of English, Tulane University
Minstrels and Madness: Popular Culture and the Nineteenth-Century Asylum

Lacey Torge, Department of Performance Studies, New York University
Parading Preemies: The Convergence of Birth, Showmanship and Technology

Fred Nadis, American Studies Department, University of Texas, Austin
Reading Minds: Stage Mentalists and the Turn-of-the-Century Telepathy Debate

COMMENT:

Nancy Tomes, History Department, State University of New York, Stony Brook

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 19

The Science-Humanities Contact Zone: Cultural Authority and New Interdisciplinarities (TALK)

CHAIR:

Michael Todd, Research Scientist, Naval Research Laboratory

PAPERS:

Renee L. Bergland, Department of English, Simmons College
Patriarchy, Poetry and the Woman with the Telescope

Christopher Goff, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
Challenging Traditional Notions of Mathematical Authority

Leigh H. Edwards, Department of English, Florida State University
Pseudo-Science and Literary Hoaxes: The Miscegenation Pamphlet and Cultural Authority

COMMENT:

Michael Todd

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 4

Women's Negotiations of Gender, Notoriety, and Celebrity: Three Cases

CHAIR:

Claire B. Potter, History Department, Wesleyan University

PAPERS:

Susan M. Yohn, History Department, Hofstra University
Money, Magic and Gender on Wall Street

Barbara J. Balliet, Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
Visualizing Susan: How Susan B. Anthony Became a Celebrity, Again

Hugh English, English Department, Queens College, City University of New York
"What is Good Publicity and What is Not": Gertrude Stein's Negotiation of Women's Celebrity in The Mother of Us All

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 16

Cosmopolitan Cinema: Hollywood, Hong Kong, and Beyond

CHAIR:

David Eng, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

PAPERS:

Christina Klein, Literature Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cosmopolitan Martial Arts Cinema

Anne Ciecko, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ways to Sink the Titanic: Contemporary Popular Cinema and the Invention of the Asian Blockbuster

Michelle Liu Su-mei, American Studies Program, Yale University
The Tri-Continental Politics of Performing the Chinese Woman: Anna May Wong and Rose Quong

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 12

Producing the Public Good: Neo Multinational/Domestic Formations (TALK)

CHAIR:

Elena Glasberg

PANELISTS:

Sharryn Kasmir, Department of Anthropology, Hofstra University
A New Car, a New Company, a New Worker?

Elena Glasberg, Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University
Common Wasteland? Antarctica and the Public Good

Sabina Sawhney, Department of English, Hofstra University
Price-Less Knowledges

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 13

Passionate Readings: Romanticism and Antebellum American Readership

CHAIR:

Mary Kelley, Department of History, Dartmouth College

PAPERS:

Emily B. Todd, Department of English, Westfield State College
The Common Reader as Critic: Antebellum American Readers' Responses to Walter Scott

Jill E. Anderson, Department of American Studies, California State University, Fullerton
"I Want No More Favorable Criticism Than This": Fan Mail and Reader Response to the Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

COMMENT:

Thomas Augst, Department of English, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Jennifer Phegley, Department of English, University of Missouri, Kansas City

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 17

Race in the Archives: Views from Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture

CHAIR:

Joanne Chaison, American Antiquarian Society

PAPERS:

Karen Woods Weierman, Department of Languages and Literature, Worcester State College
'Any Church is Much Better Than None': Catharine Sedgwick's Catholic Indians

Krystyn R. Moon, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
The Creation of the Chinese Immigrant in American Music: The California Gold Rush and Blackface Minstrelsy, 1850-1870

Sarah Roth, Department of History, University of Virginia
Rebels, Martyrs, Heroes: Abolitionist Representations of African Americans in the Civil War

COMMENT:

Donald Yacovone, Senior Associate Editor of Publications, Massachusetts Historical Society

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 3

Whose Washington? Conflict, Consensus, and Competing Public Interests on the Roads and Rails of the Nation's Capital

CHAIR:

M. Patrick Zilliacus, Department of Transportation and Planning, Metropolitan Washington Council of Government

PAPERS:

Timothy Davis, American Engineering Record, National Park Service
Behind the Scenery: The Contested Terrain of Washington, D.C.'s Parkways and Park Roads

Zachary Schrag, Department of History, Columbia University
The Ten-Billion Dollar Map: The Washington Metro and the Cartography of Local Identity

Jeremy Korr, American Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park
In the Loop: Inclusion and Exclusion on the Capital Beltway in Washington, D.C. and Suburban Maryland and Virginia

COMMENT:

M. Patrick Zilliacus

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 5

Vanishing Borders/Expanding Boundaries: A Conversation About Contemporary Cross-Cultural Art from the Southwest and Its Public Constituencies

CHAIR:

Lois Rudnick, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston

PANELISTS:

Andrew Connors, Senior Curator, National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico

Steve Fox, Assistant Director, New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities

Beverly Singer, Director, Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies

Joseph Traugott, Curator of 20th Century Art, Museum of Fine Art, Museum of New Mexico

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 6

Radio Publics/Radio Voices: A Forum on Radio, Community, and Democracy at the Turn of the Century

CHAIR:

Jason Loviglio, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

PANELISTS:

John Bloom, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Sheri Parks, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

Amy Goodman, Host, Democracy Now!, WBAI-FM and Pacifica Radio Network

Kathy O'Connell, Host/Producer, Kids Corner, WXPN

Jessica Skolnik, Head Music Director, WMBC, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Pete Tridish, Prometheus Radio Project

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 8

Girls' Public Spheres: Voicing Shared Identity in the Twentieth Century (ONLINE)

CHAIR:

Janice Radway, Department of Literature, Duke University

PAPERS:

Kelly Schrum, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University
'Damn Good Jazz': Music and Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920-1950

Kate Kruckemeyer, American Studies Department, George Washington University
Susan Dey, Supermodel, or Laurie Partridge, Budding Feminist?: Teen Girl Culture in the Early 1970s

Kimberley Roberts, Department of English, University of Virginia
Contesting Contemporary Girls' Culture: When Girls Talk, Feminists Should Listen

COMMENT:

Janice Radway

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 9

Displacement and Effacement: Racial Identifications and Elision

CHAIR:

Peter X. Feng, English Department, University of Delaware

PAPERS:

John Streamas, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
Racial Surgeries and Film (Re)constructions of Wartime Japanese

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Department of English, University of Southern California
Asian/African American Intersections: From State Struggle to Popular Culture

Cynthia Fuchs, English Department, George Mason University
A Mystery Unraveling: Hiphop, Displacement, and Multiplicity

COMMENT:

Peter X. Feng

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 10

Not for Sale: Determining Personal Meaning in Consumer Society

CHAIR:

Ann Smart Martin, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

PAPERS:

Beverly Gordon, Environment, Textiles, and Design Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Consumer Goods as Raw Materials: Creating Imaginary Worlds with Consumer Cast-offs

Katherine C. Grier, Department of History, University of South Carolina
Pets: Goods, Gifts, Persons

Katharine Martinez, Fine Arts Library of Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Visual Culture of Culturine?: Attitudes toward Photomechanical Images, 1880-1920

COMMENT:

Ann Smart Martin

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 11

Memorializing Disability: Politics, Aesthetics, and Narrative (Sponsored by the Disability Studies Caucus)

CHAIR:

Kirk E. Savage, Department of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh

PAPERS:

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Department of English, Howard University
Making Meaning with Monuments: Politics and Aesthetics in the FDR Memorial

Kim E. Nielsen, Department of Social Change and Development, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Remembering and Remaking the Public Helen Keller

Telory Williamson, Department of Drama, Stanford University
Memorializing the Immemorial: "Victim Art" and the Dances of Bill T. Jones

COMMENT:

Scott A. Sandage, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 15

Multiple Musics/Public Intellectuals (DIALOGUE)

CHAIR:

Paul D. Fischer, Department of Recording Industry, Middle Tennessee State University

PANELISTS:

Nina Crowley, Director, Massachusetts Music Industry Coalition

Reebee Garofalo, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Laura W. Murphy, Director, American Civil Liberties Union

Halifu Osumare, School of Human Movement, Sport, & Leisure Studies, Bowling Green State University

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 19

Producing the American Worker: Imagining the Working Class in the Public Sphere

CHAIR:

Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University

PAPERS:

Mary Rizzo, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Revolution in a Can: Class, Radicalism, and the Minneapolis Co-op Wars

David Gray, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Managing Working Class Aesthetics: Memory and Utopia in World War II Defense Posters

Derek Nystrom, Department of English, University of Virginia
Fantasies of Working-Class Reaction in 'Joe'

Carlo Rotella, Department of English, Boston College
The Cult of Marciano in Postindustrial Brockton

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 4

Owen Wister's The Virginian and Western American Cultural Studies: The Next One Hundred Years

CHAIR:

Nancy Cook, Department of English, University of Rhode Island

PAPERS:

Zeese Papanikolas, Liberal Arts Department, San Francisco Art Institute
Horseback Ideology: Cowboys, Gauchos, and Literature

Susan Kollin, Department of English, Montana State University
Stranger Than Paradise: Owen Wister and the New West

Melody Graulich, Department of English, Utah State University
"When You Call Me That, Smile": What if Wister Were a Woman?

Steve Tatum, Department of English, University of Utah
The Double Bind: Illustrating The Virginian

COMMENT:

Christine Bold, Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Guelph

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 16

African American Modernisms

CHAIR:

Angelyn Mitchell, English Department, Georgetown University

PAPERS:

Cherene M. Sherrard, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison
A Dusky Palette of Black and Tan: Afro-Modernism and the Urban Portraits of Jean Toomer's Cane and William Johnson's Artwork

John Lowney, English Department, St. John's University
Beyond Mecca: The Multiple Publics of
Gwendolyn Brooks

Carter A. Mathes, Department of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Literary Sound/Sonic Consciousness in the Black Arts Movement

COMMENT:

William Maxwell, Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 12

American/Beauty: The Convergence of Aesthetics and Politics (TALK)

CHAIR:

Ruth Salvaggio, Department of English, State University of New York, Binghamton

PAPERS:

Russ Castronovo, Program in American Studies, University of Miami
Global Aesthetics

Mary A. Knighton, English and Japanese Departments, University of California, Berkeley
Faulkner: Surface Aesthetics, Surface Politics

Kathy Freise, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico
Fantastic Beauty: The Brooklyn Museum's "Sensation" Exhibit

Paul Gilmore, Department of English, Bucknell University
By Mechanical Means: Emerson, Technology, and the Aesthetic Transcendence of Race

Mónica Torres, American Studies Program, Carleton College
Sound, Sounds, and Sounding: The Political and the Aesthetic in Marlon Riggs's "Tongues Untied"

COMMENT:

Ruth Salvaggio

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 13

Cinema in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching Film and Video (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Ted Hovet, Jr., English Department, Western Kentucky University

PANELISTS:

Teri Ann Bengiveno, American Studies/Humanities Program, San Jose State University

Patricia Bixel, Department of History, Maine Maritime Academy

Ron Briley, Assistant Headmaster, Sandia Preparatory School

Stanley Corkin, Department of English, University of Cincinnati

Jacqueline Foertsch, Department of English, Xavier University, New Orleans

Phyllis Frus, Department of English, Hawai'i Pacific University

Ednie Garrison, Women's Studies Program, Washington State University

Mary Lou Nemanic, Department of Communications, Penn State University, Altoona

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 17

Contesting Racial Orders through Strategies of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Solidarity: Communities of Color throughout 20th Century Los Angeles

CHAIR:

Lawrence W. Levine, History and Culture Studies, George Mason University

PAPERS:

Scott Kurashige, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Negro Victory" in Multi-Ethnic Los Angeles:
Black Radicals and Community Activism During World War II

Natalia Molina, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, San Diego
Tracing Divergent Paths of Racialization through Public Health Discourse: Examining the Trajectories of Mexicans and Japanese in Los Angeles, 1910-1930

Michael Nevin Willard, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Racial Hierarchy, Racial Formation, and Mutual Recognition in Los Angeles Newspapers

COMMENT:

Eric Avila, Cesar E. Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicano/a Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 3

FOCUS ON PROGRAMS DAY--Making the Most Out of Mentoring (WORKSHOP--Sponsored by ASA Students' Committee and the Committee on American Studies Programs)

CHAIR:

Sandra Gunning, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan

PANELISTS:

Harry J. Elam, Jr., Drama Department, Stanford University

Robert A. Gross, American Studies Program, The College of William and Mary

Margaretta M. Lovell, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

Norman R. Yetman, American Studies Program, University of Kansas

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 5

Jewish Self-Fashioning in America: History, Identity, and Public Culture (TALK)

CHAIR:

Wini Breines, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Northeastern University

PAPERS:

Susan Glenn, Department of History, University of Washington
Jewhooing: Blood Logic and Identity Politics in Modern American Life

Joyce Antler, Department of American Studies, Brandeis University
'The Mother and the Movement': Feminist Identity and Jewish Motherhood

Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Department of History, University of Michigan
Modern Mothers, Traditional Daughters: The Fashioning of Female American Jewish Identity in Historical Context

COMMENT:

Wini Breines, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Northeastern University

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 6

'Did I Dream Them Times? Or What Happened?': Remembering and Rethinking the Black Arts Movement

CHAIR:

Lorenzo Thomas, Department of English, University of Houston, Downtown

PAPERS:

Bill Mullen, Division of English, Classics, Philosophy & Humanities, University of Texas, San Antonio
Detroit, Black Arts and the Role of Culture in Revolution

Michelle Stephens, English Department, Mount Holyoke College
Belafonte, Baraka and the Black Arts Movement

James Smethurst, Department of English and Foreign Languages, University of North Florida
The Left and the Rise of Black Arts Movement in New York City; New York City and the Rise of Black Arts Movement

COMMENT:

Lorenzo Thomas

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 8

Digital Cities: Using Multimedia for American Urban Studies

CHAIR:

Peter Bacon Hales, Department of Art History, University of Illinois

PAPERS:

Maria Balshaw, Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham
Electronic Pathways: Constructing Collaborations in Electronic Urban Studies

Douglas Tallack, Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham
The Rhetoric of Space in Jacob Riis's Photographs of New York's Lower East Side

Max Page, Department of History, Yale University
Maxwell Street: A Virtual Record of a Crucible of Culture

COMMENT:

Peter Bacon Hales
Some Thoughts on the Construction of Virtual Cities and Virtual Conversations

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 9

Ethnographic Film for Social Change: Exploring Disability, Education, and Work (FILM--Sponsored by the Disability Studies Caucus)

FILM:

Sandra Patton-Imani, Department of Culture and Society, Drake University
When I Grow Up

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 10

The (Trans) National Other: Globalization, Politics, and Cultural Identity

CHAIR:

Norma Alarcón, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

PAPERS:

Maylei Blackwell, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Contingent Coalitions and the Formation of a Women of Color Political Inquiry: The Third World Women's Alliance's Triple Jeopardy

Jaime Cárdenas, Department American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Acts of Nation and of Others: Los Angeles, Latinos, and Public Belonging, 1965-1992

Brian O'Neil, Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi
Framing Pan-America: Wartime Propaganda and Hollywood's "Contact Zones"

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 11

Cultivating a Public Sense of Place Outside the Academy (WORKSHOP/ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Shelley S. Armitage, Women's Studies Department, University of Texas, El Paso

PANELISTS:

William A. Dodge, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico

Perry Frank, American Dreams & Associates, Inc.

Steven J. Holmes, Independent Scholar

Theresa Trainor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 15

Inventing the American Radio Public: International Comparative Perspectives (TALK)

CHAIR:

Susan Smuylan, Department of American Civilization, Brown University

PAPERS:

Michele Hilmes, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Inventing the Radio Public: Contrasting Paradigms in the U.S. and Great Britain, 1922-47

David C. Goodman, Department of History, University of Melbourne
Radio--The 'American System'

Margaret McFadden, American Studies Program, Colby College Of Battling Divas and Toothpaste Tenors: Contesting Cultural Hierarchies in Radio Parodies of Art Music, 1935-1945

COMMENT:

Susan Smuylan

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 18

Understanding Her Place: National Park Service Sites and Women's History

CHAIR:

Dolores Hayden, School of Architecture, Yale University

PAPERS:

Beth Boland, Historian, National Register of Historic Places
Keeping Women in Their Historic Places: Bringing Women's Stories to the Classroom

Donna Graves, Project Director, Rosie the Riveter Memorial
Revising Rosie the Riveter: From Public Art Project to National Park

Judy Hart, Superintendent, Rosie the Riveter/WWII National Historical Park
Seneca Falls and Rosie the Riveter: Reclaiming Women's Histories with the National Park Service

COMMENT:

Dolores Hayden

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 19

Science Fiction, Fictions of Science: Contesting Race, Sex, Citizenship and the Boundaries of the Human

CHAIR:

Laura Briggs, Department of Women's Studies, University of Arizona

PAPERS:

Eric Porter, Department of American Studies , University of California, Santa Cruz
'Black No More'?: Walter White and the Hydroquinone Controversy

Catherine S. Ramírez, Department of English, University of New Mexico
'She Did Not Own Herself Any Longer': Slavery and the Promise of Humanism in Black Science Fiction

Matt Wray, Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
'Mongrel Virginians': Sex, Race, and Science in the New South

COMMENT:

Laura Briggs

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 4

Monuments, Borders and City Streets: Performances of Citizenship and Nation/Performing Citizenship and Nation

CHAIR:

Rebekah Kowal, Department of Dance, University of Iowa

PAPERS:

Amy Koritz, Department of English, Tulane University
The Dance of the City: Performance and Urban Citizenship

John Agee Ball, Program in Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Pittsburgh
The FDR Memorial and the [Spatial] Politics of Commemorating the New Deal

Beth Berila, Department of English and Women's Studies, Syracuse University
Performing Communities: The Public Interventions of the Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo

COMMENT:

Rebekah Kowal

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 16

Culinary-scapes: Food and Ethnicity in America

CHAIR:

Sandra Lwin Mayzaw, Departments of English and American Studies, Yale University

PAPERS:

Anita Mannur, Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Model Minorities Can Cook: Fusion Cuisine in Asian America

Anne Bower, Department of English, Ohio State University
Welcome to the Neighborhood: Mexican Recipes in Texas Community Cookbooks

Toni Irving, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
Eating Out: Sex and the Appetite for Violence in
Gayl Jones's Eva's Man

Frank H. Wu, Law School, Howard University
"The Best Chink Food": Multi-culturalism and
Dog-eating

COMMENT:

Sandra Lwin Mayzaw

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 12

Multiple Publics/Civil Voices?: The Contest for White Supremacy in Chopin Country (TALK)

Franny Nudelman, Department of English, University of Virginia

Alys Eve Weinbaum, Department of English, University of Washington
Kate Chopin's Imagined Community

Susan Castillo, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow
"A Gentleman from Bayou Teche": Kate Chopin, Local Color, and Literary Axiology

Laura Wexler, American Studies Program, Yale University
The Awakening of What?: Race, Rage and Writing in Kate Chopin's Border Fictions

Becky Thompson, Department of Sociology, Simmons College

Dana Takagi, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Cultural Politics of when Faith Is Progressive

Ruth Frankenberg, American Studies Program, University of California, Davis
Spiritual Praxis: Faith-Based Activism

Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Dance Studies Program, Temple University
Improvisation and Faith--Transformation and Tradition

Bettina Aptheker, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 17

Martha Solomon Watson, Department of Communication, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Alisse Theodore, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
Shifting Publics: Constituting Women as Political Agents, 1830-1831

Laura Free, Department of History, Cornell University
Shifting Publics: Woman Suffrage, Racism, and Politics, 1866-1869

Shirley Wilson Logan, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
Shifting Publics: The Political Activities of Frances Harper and Victoria Matthews

Gerald Creed, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York

Judith Halberstam, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
"Metronormativity"

John Howard, American Studies Programme, King's College, University of London
"I Like These Boys": Queer Implications of Rural Interracial Homosociality in World War II America

Aisha Khan,Department of Africana Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Locating the Queer: Alterity and the Rural/Urban Divide

Lisa Duggan, Department of American Studies, New York University

Santiago R.Vaquera-Vásquez, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Pennsylvania State University

Manuel Mancillas Rafael, Border Arts Workshop, Taller de Fronterizo, San Diego/Tijuana
Struggles for Excellence and Justice in the San Diego Public Schools

Kenton T. Wilkinson, Department of Communication, University of Texas at San Antonio
Media Literacy, Advocacy, and Civic Culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

David Shorter, History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
Crossing National Borders: Indigeneity and Religion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Department of English, State University of New York, Fredonia
The Maquiladora Solidarity Network, U.S. Borders and Hemispheric Civic Cultures

Robert Griffith, Department of History, American University

Bruce Lenthall, Department of History, Bryn Mawr College
A Civic Canvas: Radio and the Pursuit of Socially Meaningful Art in the Depression

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, History Department, University of West Virginia
Labor Radio: A Catalyst for Social Change in Depression Era America

Nathan Godfried, Department of History, University of Maine
Contested Views of Community Broadcasting: Race, Class, and Television in Chicago, 1962-67

Rich Klimmer, AFT Union Leadership Institute, Washington, D.C.

Valerie Karno, Department of English, University of Rhode Island

Maren Stange, Humanities and Social Sciences, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art
Black Chicago in Pictures: Sincere and Honest Science

Rachel Adams, Department of English, Columbia University
Freakabilia

Valerie Karno

Brenda Child, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota

Mark Rifkin, English Department, Univeristy of Pennsylvania
Asserting and Undoing Indigenous Nationalism: The Cherokees, Subaltern Studies, and the Voice of Sovereignty

Jacqueline Fear-Segal, School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia
The Man-on-the-Bandstand at the Carlisle Indian School: Can He Help Reveal the Children's Experiences?

Susan Bernardin, Division of Humanities, University of Minnesota, Morris
Writing/Righting Region: Stories from the "Contact Zone" in Northwestern California

FOCUS ON PROGRAMS DAY: Reconfiguring American Studies: Contributions from
Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, and Gay and Lesbian Studies (WORKSHOP--Sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Programs)

T.V. Reed, American Studies Department, Washington State University, Pullman

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

Richard Yarborough, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Steve Sumida, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington, Seattle

Frances Aparicio, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, University of Illinois, Chicago

Katie King, Women's Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park

Patrice McDermott, American Studies Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Olivia Cadaval, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institute

PERFORMER:
Quique Avilés, Artistic Director, and Youth Performance Workshop, Sol & Soul

Nilda Villalta, Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Maryland

 

Christina Venegas, Critical Film Studies, University of Southern California

Catherine Benamou, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
(Re)constructing Latino/a Identity through Television: Community Reception of Spanish-Language Media in Los Angeles, 1998-2000

Nhi T. Lieu, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Finding Leisure through Performing Culture: the Cultivation and Assimilation of Vietnamese American Audiences

Charles Gentry, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Scenes of Hybridity: Locating Audiences of "Mature" Hip-Hop Music

Grace Wang, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Interlopers in the Realm of "High" Culture: Asian Americans, Classical Music and the Construction of Racialized Identities

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 18

George Sánchez, Chicano/Latino Studies Program, University of Southern California

Geoff Cohen, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
Cannibals and Captives, or 'Captives and Cannibals?': Teaching Early American Culture

Patricia M. Ard, English Department, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Teaching "American Photography and Visual Culture" (EXHIBIT)

Phoebe Crisman, Department of Architecture, University of Virginia
Bridging Urban Fractures: Academic Inquiry + Community Collaboration

Pamela Fox, Department of English, Georgetown University

An America Formulated, Sprawled, Pinned, and Wriggling: Representing and Failing to Represent the Nation in Early 20th Century U.S. Culture (TALK)

Sean McCann, English Department, Wesleyan University

Robert Johnson, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
'A Whole Synthesis of His Time': William Carlos Williams and the Failure to Represent America in the Midst of the Depression

Angela Smith, Department of English, University of Minnesota
Imagining a Monstrous America: Eugenics and 1930s Horror Film

Elizabeth Wiatr, Humanities Faculty, Southern California Insitute of Architecture
Seeing American: Spectatorship in 1920s Visual Education and the American Memory Historical Collections

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 4

Steve Jones, Department of Communications, University of Illinois-Chicago

Paul A. Anderson, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Revolutions per Minute: Greil Marcus's Alternative Histories of Popular Music

Michael J. Kramer, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Between Rock Music and a Hard Place: Greil Marcus, Rock Criticism, and the Civic Imagination of Countercultural Community, 1968-1975

Patti Ybarra, Theater Department, University of Minnesota
"The Whole Thing Is Over by Nine O Clock": The Possibilities of Performance in the Rude Mechanicals' Adaptation of Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces

Charles McGovern, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Cedric Robinson, Department of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jane Rhodes, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Mass Media and the Trans-Atlantic Crossing of 1960s Black Nationalism

Alondra Nelson, American Studies Program, New York University
Spin Doctors: The Black Panther Party and Sickle Cell Anemia

Charise Cheney, Department of Ethnic Studies, California Polytechnic State University
"Brothers Gonna Work It Out": Gender and Sexual Politics in the Hip Hop Nation

Tim Tyson, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 12

Debra Minkoff, Department of Sociology, University of Washington

Samantha J. King, College of Education, University of Arizona
Corporate Philanthropy, Consumer-Citizenship, and the Generous State of America

Frances Kunreuther, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University
Building Movements or Building Organizations

Miranda Joseph, Women's Studies Program, University of Arizona
Non-Profit Organizations and Capitalist Subjectivity

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 13

Deirdre Murphy, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota

Liza Featherstone, Freelance Journalist

Karen R. Miller, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Saurav Sarkar, Program Associate, National Labor Committee

6:00-7:30 Auditorium

This session is meant to deepen and extend our ongoing conversations and concerns about affirmative action and access in higher education. The plenary will combine activists who work in social change sectors with those of us whose base of policy and conceptual engagement is in the academy. We will examine how the affirmative action backlash is both a bridge to--and simultaneously occludes--other policy threats to access and diversity. This session will explore, for example, how immigration policy, college debt load "reform," and new anti-crime policies are linked in complicated and politically charged ways with affirmative action and the backlash against it.

CHAIR:

Jonathan Holloway, African American Studies, Yale University

PANELISTS:

Rose Braz, National Director, Critical Resistance

Mari Matsuda, Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown University

Theodore Mitchell, President, Occidental College

COMMENT:

Audience

6:00-7:30 Room 15