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CHAIR:
Maria Damon, Department of English, University of Minnesota
PAPERS:
Miriam Bartha, Independent Scholar
Sentimental (Re)Education: James Baldwin's Pedagogy of Violences and LoveJenny Goodman, Department of English, Colorado State University
"In the Sound Iambics of My Fist": Tino Villanueva's Response to Hollywood's Traumatic LessonsKathleen Crown, Writing Program, Princeton University
Violence and the Remaking of the College Essay: Using Trauma Narratives to Teach First-Year Writing at Princeton
COMMENTS:
Maria Damon
This workshop is the first public presentation of a collaborative research project that started fall, 2001, and whose work considers African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American media production and scholarly research into race and media production.
CHAIR:
Chon Noriega, Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles
PANELISTS:
Michelle Raheja, Department of English, University of California, RiversideCeline Parrenas Shimizu, Asian American Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Anna Everett, Film Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Todd R. Ramlow, Department of English and Program in the Human Sciences, George Washington University
PAPERS:
Cynthia Fuchs, Department of English, Film, and Media Studies & African American Studies, George Mason University
"So Much Anger Aimed": Eminem's DynamicsRalph G. Giordano, Department of History, City University of New York
A Song to End Domestic Violence: "The Dixie Chicks Sing to a Brand New Audience. The Issue of Domestic Violence, However, Remains the Same"Mark Allan Jackson, Department of English, West Virginia University
Steve Earle's Red White and BluesAlexander G. Weheliye, Departments of English and African American Studies, Northwestern University
"It's Maniacal, I Cuff the Mimetical": The Tricky Aesthetics of Messed-upness
COMMENT:
Todd R. Ramlow
CHAIR:
Mary Lui, Department of History, Yale University
PAPERS:
Hellen Lee, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
A Part of and Apart From: Race, Gender, and Labor in Alice Dunbar Nelson's Little Miss Sophie and Grace King's Bonne MamanEsther Romeyn, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Arizona State University
Crossing the Bowery: Missionaries, Miscegenation, Murder and MerchandiseElena Tajima Creef, Women's Studies Department, Wellesley College
"Vocal Pinup Girl" or "Female Fu Manchu?": The Case of Iva Toguri D-Aquino and the Legend of "Tokyo Rose"—Reading the Politics of Representation of a Dangerously Disembodied Asian Female "Body"
COMMENT:
Mary Lui
Academy Award-winning director Deborah Chasnoff's film dramatizes the various forms of violence that queer children endure in American schools. The Women's Committee and the Queer Caucus envisions this film screening as a way to bridge the topic of violence and belonging, while highlighting the role these issues play in classrooms from kindergarten through college.
CHAIR:
Marcy J. Knopf Newman, Department of English, Boise State University
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Carla L. Peterson, Department of English, University of Maryland
PAPERS:
Leslie Harris, Department of History, Emory University
Black Women Defending Themselves: Rape, Domestic Violence and the Courts During New York's Emancipation Era, 1785-1827Jean Fagan Yellin, Department of English, Pace University
Harriet Jacobs and the Legal Betrayal of ReconstructionJean Pfaelzer, Department of English, University of Delaware
Chinese Resistance to Violence and Vigilantes in the Nineteenth Century: Re-Writing the Letter of the Law
COMMENT:
Carla L. Peterson
CHAIR:
Luis Aponte, Community Planning and Latino Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
PAPERS:
Adam Green, American Studies Program, New York University
Convictions and the Second Comeback of New York CityKaren Mary Davalos, Chicana/o Studies Department, Loyola Marymount University
The Resurrection Project: Space, Faith, and Belonging in Chicago, IllinoisArlene Davila, American Studies Program, New York University
Dreams of Place: Gentrification and the Marketable Neighborhood
COMMENT:
Raul Villa, Department of English, Occidental College
CHAIR:
Renee C. Romano, History, African American Studies, and American Studies Departments, Wesleyan University
PAPERS:
John Rosa, Asian Pacific American Studies Program, Arizona State University
Violence, Historical Memory, and the Articulation of Identity in Hawai'i's Massie-Kahahawai Case of 1931-32Lili M. Kim, Department of History, School of Social Science, Hampshire College
When Your Body Becomes the Mark of the Enemy: Pearl Harbor and Korean Americans in Wartime Hawai'iSusan Y. Najita, Department of English & American Culture Program, University of Michigan
Violence and Ethnic Identity in Hawai'i's Local Literature
COMMENT:
Renee C. Romano
This panel showcases three programs that facilitate access to higher education for low-income, minority, first-generation college students and/or advocates for welfare rights, including the right for welfare recipients to attend college.
CHAIR:
Sandra L. Dahlberg, Department of English, University of Houston, Downtown
PANELISTS:
Vivyan C. Adair, Department of Women's Studies and Director, The ACCESS Project, Hamilton CollegeChristiana Birchak, Interim Dean, University College, University of Houston, Downtown
Sharon Gormley, Board Member, Welfare Made a Difference National Campaign
COMMENT:
Sandra L. Dahlberg
This panel will explore how current political, historical, cultural, and global shifts have impacted the conditions under which minority scholars work, the kind of scholarship that is emerging during this period, and the possibilities for the long term.
CHAIR:
Dionne Espinoza, Department of Chicano Studies, California State University, Los Angeles
PANELISTS:
Sonia Saldivar-Hull, Department of English, University of Texas, San AntonioJorge Mariscal, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Jeffery Renard Allen, Department of English, City University of New York, Queens College
COMMENT:
The Audience
This panel will deliver short presentations that address the current state of interdisciplinarity, and how interdisciplinarity has reshaped the panelists' respective fields, or helped constitute new intellectual or epistemological concerns.
CHAIRS:
Dana D. Nelson, Committee on Social Theory, University of KentuckyGordon Hutner, Department of English, University of Kentucky
PANELISTS:
Jean-Christophe Agnew, American Studies Program, Yale UniversityAngela Miller, Department of Art History, Washington University, St. Louis
Patricia Seed, Department of History, Rice University
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Women's Studies Program, University of Michigan
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Roberta Hill, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison
PAPERS:
Mark Rifkin, Department of English, Fordham University
Romancing Kinship: A Queer Reading of Indian Education and Zitkala-Sa's American Indian StoriesPatrick Gleason, Literatures in English, University of California, San Diego
"Things Have Never Been the Way You Think They Used to Be" Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer and the Haunting of Historical Memory
Shona N. Jackson, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
Strategic Exclusion, Aboriginal Subjection and the Nationalist Discourse of the Post-Colonial Guyanese StateJacqueline Shea Murphy, Department of Dance, University of California, Riverside
Dance as Document: Addressing Colonialism and Enacting Healing in Contemporary Native American Stage Dance
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Kimberly N. Brown, Department of English, Texas A & M University
PAPERS:
Masumi Izumi, Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University, Kyoto
Sharing the Memories of Violence: Minority, Dissidents and the "American Concentration Camp Law"Alondra Nelson, Departments of African American Studies and Sociology, Yale University
Criminal Minded?: The Black Panther Party and the Medicalization of ViolenceLeigh Raiford, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University
"Attacked First By Sight": Violence, Belonging and the Photography of the Black Panther Party
COMMENT:
Kimberly N. Brown
CHAIR:
Daniel Y. Kim, Department of English, Brown University
PAPERS:
Jane Naomi Iwamura, Departments of Religion, American Studies, and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
What's the Visual Word? The Sacralization of Asian American Identity through Imageand TextMarie Lo, Department of English, Portland State University
Naturalization Acts: Visualizing the National LandscapeKarlyn Koh, Department of English, Montclair State University
Imprints: Reading between Image and Text in Three Works
COMMENT:
Daniel Y. Kim
This purpose of this panel is two-fold: to present the work of the new American Studies faculty and to address the concerns these young scholars have about the field of American Studies, their teaching and publication experiences, and their general post-doctoral adjustment. Another primary concern will be addressing the challenges of "belonging" in the departments in which we currently teach.
CHAIR:
Frieda Knobloch, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming
PANELISTS:
John Streamas, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Washington State UniversityDavarian Baldwin, Department of History, Boston College
Stephen Rohs, James Madison College, Michigan State University
Andaluna Baorcila, James Madison College, Michigan State University
Carolyn Thomas de la Peña, American Studies Program, University of California, Davis
Patrick Pynes, Applied American Studies Practitioner, La Posada National Historic District, Winslow, Arizona
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Lisa MacFarlane, American Studies Program, University of New Hampshire
PAPERS:
Caroline Levander, Department of English, Rice University
Missing Links: Visualizing National Belonging at the Close of the Nineteenth CenturyRenée Bergland, Department of English, Simmons College
Cracks in the American Self: Emily Dickinson and the Predator DroneRobert M. Bednar, American Studies Program & Department of Communication, Southwestern University
Contested Sites of Violence and Belonging: Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Material and Visual Culture
COMMENT:
Lisa MacFarlane
CHAIR:
Jules Chametzky, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
PAPERS:
Rebecka R. Rutledge, Department of English, Miami University
A Literature of Belonging: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the AfricanEdlie L. Wong, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
William Wells Brown's Flight to Freedom: Finding a Home in ExileChristina Gish Berndt, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Fighting to Return Home: A Shifting Sense of Belonging for Dull Knife's Band of CheyenneNoelani Goodyear-Ka'opua, Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Becoming Kilolani: Urban Hawaiian Identity and Experience in Honolulu
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Louis Kampf, Departments of Literature and Women's Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PAPERS:
Jeffrey Melnick, Division of History and Society, Babson College
SoulMichael Staub, Program in American Culture, Bowling Green State University
SmartMarjorie Feld, Division of History and Society, Babson College
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COMMENT:
Daniel Itzkovitz, Department of English, Stonehill College
CHAIR:
Joshua Woodfork, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
PAPERS:
Gillian Jones, Department of English, Oberlin College
"Polecat, Polecat; Get Out de Way"; Ironic Distance and Violence in the Comic "American Scene" of William Wells Brown's My Southern HomeAlisia G. Chase, Department of Art, State University of New York, Brockport
Hanging with "History's Losers": Cruelty and Community in the Graphic Novels of Joe SaccoLanita Jacobs-Huey, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California
"The Arab is the New Nigger": African American Comics Define Race, Identity, and Nation Post 9/11Amy M. Ware, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Representing America: American Iconography and Political Cartooning after September 11
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Bill Mullen, Department of English, Classics and Philosophy & American Studies Program, University of Texas, San Antonio
PANELISTS:
Fred Ho, Independent ScholarEric Schocket, School Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, Hampshire College
James Smethurst, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts
Michelle Stephens, Department of English, Mt. Holyoke College
Mary Helen Washington, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
COMMENT:
The Audience
Where does 9/11 belong in our archives, web sites, museums, and documentaries? How does it influence our understanding of the past and present? Join historians, archivists, and journalists to explore two years of effort to record and present histories of 9/11 and its evolving impact on politics, culture, and individual lives.
CHAIR:
Robert Snyder, Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University, Newark
PANELISTS:
Alison Cornyn, Picture Projects - The Sonic Memorial ProjectSteven Jaffe, Senior Project Historian, New York Historical Society
Adele Oltman, Curator of History, New Jersey Historical Society
Fritz Umbach, Project Director, September 11 Digital Archive
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Shirley Teresa Wajda, Department of History, Kent State University
PAPERS:
Charlie McGovern, Curator, Division of Cultural History, National Museum of American History
Boppin' the Blues: Music, History, and Material Culture in Rock 'N' Soul: Social CrossroadsColleen Sheehy, Director of Education, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Exhibiting Springsteen: The Poetics and Politics of Rock and Roll in the Art MuseumAnn Powers, Senior Curator, Experience Music Project, Seattle
Your Stuff, My Treasure: Dealing with Working Musicians in a Museum SettingStephen Stuempfle, Chief Curator, Historical Museum of Southern Florida
Interpreting Popular Music in Online and Traditional Exhibitions
COMMENT:
Steve Waksman, Department of Music, Smith College
CHAIR:
Guthrie Ramsey, Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania
PAPERS:
Salim Washington, Department of Music, Brooklyn College
First Came a Woman: The Musical Compositions of Abbey LincolnW.S. Tkweme, Afro-American Studies Department, University of Massachusetts
I Believe that I've Finally Made It Home: Nona Hendryx's Career in the Music BusinessCarmen Ashhurst-Woodard, Former President, Def Jam Recordings
Hip-Hop and the Woman Question: An Inside View
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Ann Fabian, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University
PAPERS:
Sheila Hones, Department of Area Studies, University of Tokyo,
Julia Leyda, Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Hokkaido University
Call and Response: A Geographical Reading of the Hartford 2003 CFPMichael A. Elliott, Department of English, Emory University
President Custer: The Uses of Alternate History
Dana Maya, Independent Scholar
Blood In = Blood Out? Baca, the Disciplining of Chicano Studies, and the Problem of Violence
COMMENT:
Ann Fabian
CHAIR:
Rick Rodriguez, Department of English, Loyola University, Chicago
PAPERS:
Bruce A. Harvey, Department of English, Florida International University
Being Blue in Polynesia: (Self) Exile, Melancholy, and Native IdentityElena Glasberg, Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University
"Still Further South": Antarctic Imaginaries of the Early RepublicThomas M. Allen, Department of English, University of Richmond
Republican Land, Imperial Time
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
David Roediger, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PAPERS:
Jace Weaver, Department of Religion, University of Georgia
Farewell to the Choctaws: or, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in AttitudesSharon P. Holland, Department of African-American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
Blood and Belonging in Afro-Native New EnglandRobert Warrior, Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma
The Indigenous Grounds of Comparison
COMMENT:
David Roediger
The goal of this session is to engage members of the secondary education committee in Hartford and members of the ASA in conversation with individuals active in GLSEN, PFLAG, and the Sexual Minority Youth Action Research Project. This conversation will focus on how to recognize and stop discrimination against queer youth.
CHAIR:
Jaime Harker, Department of English, University of Mississippi
PANELISTS:
Leif Mitchell, GLSEN ConnecticutPatricia Nicolari, Teacher and GLSEN Connecticut Board Member
Nila Marrone, Chair, National Committee for People of Color Caucus, PFLAG
Kevin Tremmel Jones, Sexual Minority Youth Action Research Project, Hartford
COMMENT:
The Audience
The screening of a multimedia documentary and the ensuing discussion lends new insight into the way that the act of creating a documentary or narrative informs theoretical issues surrounding race, class, gender, sexuality and the transnational character of our cities and towns. How does documentary allow students to understand racial and class politics around them? How do you create a meaningful interaction for both community and student? How do you create forums for students to write about ALL THE PEOPLE?
CHAIR:
Kate Steinway, Deputy Director for Interpretation, Connecticut Historical Society
PANELISTS:
Aric Attas, Digital Skills Program, Real Art Ways, HartfordMichael Lesy, School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Hampshire College
Julio Ramos, Filmmaker; Rap Artist; American Studies Program, Trinity College
Jacqueline Hayden, Photographer; Film and Photography Department, Hampshire College
Todd Vogel, Program in American Studies & Department of English, Trinity College
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Janice Radway, Literature Program, Duke University
PAPERS:
Lawrence W. Levine, Department of History & Cultural Studies Program, George Mason University
Man and Superman: Individuals and Institutions in Depression AmericaAldo J. Regalado, Department of History, University of Miami
Playing in the Dark Knight: Race and Meaning in Batman ComicsMike S. Dubos, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University
Holding Out for a Hero: Reaganism, Comic Book Vigilantes, and Captain America
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Natasha Zaretsky, Department of History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
PAPERS:
Lars Erik Larson, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Emily Post on the Road: Minding the Manners of a National SpaceCotton Seiler, Department of American Studies, Dickinson College
Limited Access: Travelguide, Black Automobility and Cold-War Considerations of RaceJennifer R. Beckham, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
The Madwoman on the Freeway: Reckless White Women and the Literary Practice of Place Making
COMMENT:
Natasha Zaretsky
CHAIR:
Siobhan Senier, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
PANELISTS:
Margaret Dana (Passamaquoddy), Director, Wabanaki MuseumDawn Dove (Narragansett), Tomaquag Museum
Loren Spears (Narragansett), Nuweetooun School
Frederick Wiseman (Abanaki), Department of Humanities, Johnson State College
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
J. David Slocum, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University
PAPERS:
Megan Feeney, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
"Some Kind of Robin Hood": Invoking the Hollywood Outlaw Figure in Support of the Cuban RevolutionDavid Greenberg, Departments of History and Political Science, Yale University
To the Condition of Z: Nixon, the New Left, and Fears of ViolenceElizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Department ofArts and Humanities, Babson College
Who Killed Patrice Lumumba?: Representation as Ethical Experiment in Raoul Peck's Lumunba: La Mort du Prophet
COMMENT:
David Slocum
This roundtable will be a dialogue and mentoring workshop for mid-career scholars who have recently published their first book and/or gotten tenure. Questions to address include: What are the new responsibilities and expectations that come with the position of tenured faculty? How can we balance out research with other activities and commitments? How can we use our position of power as tenured faculty to bring about positive changes in out institutions and to empower the underprivileged?
CHAIR:
Mari Yoshihara, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
PANELISTS:
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Department of American Studies, Smith CollegeCathy N. Davidson, John Hope Franklin Institute, Duke University
Kathy Peiss, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Philip J. Deloria, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Joanne Pope Melish, Department of History, University of Kentucky
Cynthia Franklin, Department of English, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Kevin Haynes,University of North Carolina Law School
PAPERS:
Jason Puskar, Department of English, Harvard University
Underwriting Mrs. O'Leary: Accidental Violence, the Chicago Fire, and the Invention of the No-Fault HeroineElinore Longobardi, American Studies Department, University of Texas, Austin
Witness for the Public: Erle Stanley Gardner and U.S. Legal Reform in the 1950sDaniel Lang/Levitsky, Independent Scholar & Theater Artist
Events and Victims: A Play in Circumstantial Evidence
COMMENT:
Kevin Haynes
CHAIR:
Bernard Gendron, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
PAPERS:
Lisa Soccio,Visual and Cultural Studies Program, University of Rochester Locust Abortion Technician Meets "Hamburger Lady": Shock as Symbolic Violence and Subcultural SignifierBarry Shank, Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University
The Embodiment of Abstraction: Yoko Ono and the Violence of the PopularKevin Bell, Department of English, Northwestern University
Angels and Demons at Play: Space/Time/Matter in the Infinite Writing of Free Jazz
COMMENT:
Bernard Gendron
This roundtable will offer a forum within which panelists and audience members can discuss the problems that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has posed for American Jews and entertain strategies for productive engagement as scholars, teachers, or activists.
CHAIR:
Carolyn L. Karcher, Emerita, Department of English, Temple University
PANELISTS:
Sandra Zagarell, Department of English, Oberlin CollegeSusan K. Harris, Department of English, University of Kansas
Amy Schrager Lang, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University
Suzanne Gardinier, Creative Writing Program, Sarah Lawrence College
Irena Klepfisz, Women's Studies Program, Barnard College
COMMENT:
Carolyn L. Karcher
CHAIR:
Aureliano Maria DeSoto, Program in Multi-Ethnic Studies, Bard College
PAPERS:
Beth Berila, Department of English, Syracuse University
Performing Cultural Violence: James Luna's "The Artifact Piece" and Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Penas' "The Year of the White Bear"Dolores Ines Casillas, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Only the Strong Signals Survive: Community Driven U.S. Spanish Language Radio and the Case of Radio BilingueLaura Ehrisman, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin La Semana de Carnival: Chicano "Rowdiness" in Fiesta San Antonio
COMMENT:
Aureliano Maria DeSoto
CHAIR:
Christina Klein, Literature Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PAPERS:
John Cheng, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University
Yam Rice Porridge: Mix Food, Language, National and Transnational Politics, Stir and See What You GetKathy Newman, Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University
Silence and Belonging: Mexican Migrants and Radio in Postwar AmericaJane Chi Hyun Park, Department of Radio, TV, and Film, University of Texas, Austin
Oriental Style in Contemporary Cyberpunk Cinema Martial Arts as Virtual Spectacle in The Matrix and Its Sequels
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Angela Y. Davis, History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
PANELISTS:
Gregory Caldwell, History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
Phenotypes of State Terror: White Supremacist Subjects and the Policing of the "Colorline"Dylan Rodríguez, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside
Languages of Death: Captive Radical Intellectuals and the Political Logic of Mass ImprisonmentRashad Shabazz, History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
Political Discipline, Political Violence and Fascism: Reading the Thought of Black Prison Intellectuals
COMMENT:
Angela Y. DavisCynthia Young, Department of English & Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
CHAIR:
Thomas Defrantz, Jr., Department of Music and Theater Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PAPERS:
George Chauncey, Department of History, University of Chicago
Drag Balls as Society Balls: Phil Black's Funmakers Ball and the Changing Rituals of Belonging in African-American Culture and Politics, 1940 - 1973Jonathan David Jackson, Department of English, Goucher College
From Drag Ball to Vogue Ball: Butch Queens, Houses, and Black Beauty as Social Conflict in the Contemporary Ballroom Scene, 1973 - 1989
COMMENT:
Susan Manning, Department of Theatre, Northwestern University
Hazel Carby, Department of African American Studies, Yale University
The ASA Students' Committee proposes this roundtable to explore possibilities for promoting "public practices" among American Studies PhDs. Roundtable members will speak about the need to conceive of intellectual work and commitments more broadly; make connections between academic and public, non-profit, and other vital partner organizations; and how graduate education might change to meet the changing job market.
CHAIR:
Michael H. Frisch, Department of History & American Studies Program, State University of New York, Buffalo
PANELISTS:
Bruce Fraser, Executive Director of the Connecticut Humanities CouncilLaura Schiavo, Exhibitions Curator, Historical Society of Washington, District of Columbia
Frank H. Goodyear, Assistant Curator of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery
Ruth Glasser, Author and Independent Public Historian
Anita M. Gonzalez, Director of Education, Minnesota Museum of American Art
COMMENT:
Teresa Anne Murphy, American Studies Department, George Washington University
Focusing on a number of threads within geographical and cultural theory in the study of regionalism, we will examine the concepts of violence and belonging in the production of regionalism.
CHAIR:
Amanda Rees, Department of Geography, University of Wyoming
PANELISTS:
John S Gilkeson, American Studies Department, Arizona State University WestMichael Steiner, Department of American Studies, California State University, Fullerton
Kent Ryden, American and New England Studies Program, University of Southern Maine
Douglas Reichert Powell, University Writing Program, Duke University
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Arthur Knight, Department of English & American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
PAPERS:
Rebekah Kowal, Department of Dance, University of Iowa
The World Dances through Manhattan: Making Sense of "Ethnologic" DanceShirley Jennifer Lim, Department of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Subversive Sirens: Anna May Wong and Josephine BakerPaige McGinley, Department of Theater, Speech, and Dance, Brown University
"Where You At?" "Over Here!" Race, Rap, and Aural Drag
COMMENT:
Arthur Knight
CHAIR:
Yashushi Watanabe, American Studies and Cultural Anthropology, Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa
PAPERS:
Gail Y. Okawa, Department of English, Youngstown State University
In Spite of Violence: Strategies for Belonging Among Japanese "Alien Enemies" In U.S. Justice Department Concentration Camps, 1941-1945Jane Dusselier, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
Coloring, Carving, Dolls and Model Planes: Crafting Childhood Identities in Japanese American Concentration CampsAyanna Yonemura, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, California State University, Northridge
Concentration Camps, American Style: Constructing Americans and Generating SoldiersRobert Hayashi, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Patriots All: Combat Service and Commemoration in the Formation of Japanese American Identity
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Robert Scholnick, Department of English & American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
PAPERS:
Kathleen Diffley, Department of English, University of Iowa
Hue and Cry: Reconstruction's Emended Promise in Rebecca Harding Davis's Waiting for the VerdictKevin O'Donnell, Department of English, East Tennessee State University
Charles Dudley Warner and the Railroads in the South: A Study in Corporate Influence on American Literary Magazines, 1876-1893Emily Satterwhite, Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
"Doubly Suggestive": Local Color, Readerly Desire, and the Imagined "Habitats and Habits of Charles Egbert Craddock
COMMENT:
Robert Scholnick
CHAIR:
Vijay Prashad, International Studies, Trinity College
PAPERS:
George Lipsitz, Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
If You Want Love, You Got to Earn ItTricia Rose, American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Longing to Tell: Intimacy and Justice in Black Women's Sexual StoriesLisa Duggan, American Studies, New York University
Cultural Economics, or, How Neoliberalism Rules
COMMENT:
Vijay Prashad
CHAIR:
Maureen Mahon, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
PAPERS:
Camille Forbes, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
The Challenge of Historicizing a Body/Life of Performance: The Careers of Comedian Bert WilliamsGayle Wald, Department of English, George Washington University
In Search of Rosetta TharpeLicia Fiol-Matta, Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures, Barnard College
Researching and Writing, Proposing and Publishing a Single-Figure Book: Thoughts on A Queer Mother for the Nation
COMMENT:
Maureen Mahon
CHAIR:
Allegra McLeod, School of Law, Yale University
PAPERS:
David Marriott, English and Drama, Queen Mary College, University of London
Separate but Equal: Locke and Boas on the Question of Racial TypesJared Sexton, Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
The Force of Law in the Field of VisionS. Han, Critical Race Studies Program, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
The Feel of Law: Constructing "Reasonable Suspicion"Frank Wilderson III, Rhetoric & Film Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Persons Unknown: Cinema and the Political Ontology of Race
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Lawrence S. Hashima, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Shani Mott, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
The Hangman: History, Memory, and Lynching in Ann Petry's The NarrowsRyan Snyder, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Artificial Sensitivity: W.E.B. Du Bois, Virtual Concentration, and the Disembodied Body of AmericaLuis Vazquez, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan Aquel Que Habia Muerto: An Analysis of Conversion Narratives in the U.S. Puerto Rican Diaspora
Shawan M. Wade, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Nothing is Sacred: Confronting Violence, Reconstructing Memory and Reconstituting Identity in Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone
COMMENT:
The Audience
This panel will mark a departure from the traditional conference format in that participants include a longtime advocate of prison writers: two recently released award-winning writers, and a junior scholar currently writing on the history of prison arts and education programs. This panel hopes to bridge the divide between academic practice and creative expression.
CHAIR:
Lee Bernstein, American Studies Program, San Jose State UniversityINTRODUCTION:
Bell Gale Chevigny, Professor Emerita of Literature, Purchase College, State University of New York
READINGS:
Susan Rosenberg, Thematic Studies Department, John Jay School of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
William Eric Waters, Poet and Essayist
COMMENT:
The Audience
This panel is designed as a transatlantic dialouge between U.S. and European American Studies scholars. The panel will address the widening gap in foreign policy and human rights perspectives between the U.S. and Europe, U.S. State department cultural diplomacy initiatives and their impact in Europe, and growing anti-Americanism in Europe.
CHAIR:
Eric Sandeen, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming
PANELISTS:
Liam Kennedy, Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham, United KingdomRob Kroes, American Studies Program, University of Amsterdam
Carl Pedersen, Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark
Helle Porsdam, Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark
COMMENT:
Paul Lauter,Trinity College
The central theme of this roundtable is that violence that emerges in struggles over belonging vis-à-vis nation(s) and communities. Panelists will explore discursive and material forms of violence related to the U.S. nation, highlighting how Arab/Arab American feminists confront these violences.
CHAIR:
Rabab Abdulhadi, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University
PANELISTS:
Ella Shohat, Department of Art and Public Policy, New York UniversityEvelyn Alsultany, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
Lara Deeb, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
Sherene Seikaly, Department of Middle Eastern Studies and History, New York University
Lisa Suhair Majaj, Independent Scholar
COMMENT:
Rabab Abdulhadi
CHAIR:
Lizabeth Cohen, Department of History and Program in American Civilization, Harvard University
PAPERS:
Dolores Hayden, School of Architecture and American Studies Program, Yale University
A Field Guide to Sprawl: Aerial Photography and Suburban Land UsePatternsSetha Low, Environmental Psychology and Anthropology, Public Space Research Group, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Politics of Fear: Ethnography in Gated CommunitiesCindi Katz, Environmental Psychology and Women's Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Terror's ofHypervigilance: Security and the Compromised Spaces of Suburban Childhood
COMMENT:
Lizabeth Cohen
CHAIR:
Victor Bascara, Department of English & Program in Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
PAPERS:
Lisa Marie Cacho, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Other Other's Historical Hauntings: Reading Latino/a Ghost Stories in Asian American FictionHelen Heran Jun, Departments of English & African American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
From the Rubble of Los Angeles: Uprising, Downsizing, and the New Politics of Cultural DifferenceJames Kyung-Jin Lee, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
Angel Island Redux: Creating Consent in the Bowels of Detention
COMMENT:
The Audience
Given the increasing importance of publishing experience for graduate students newly on the job market, this session seeks to demystify the publishing process for graduate students. The panel will address two of the kinds of publishing most relevant to students: scholarly articles in refereed journals, and the process of turning a dissertation into a book.
CHAIR:
Laura Barraclough, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
PANELISTS:
Greg Dimitriadis, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, State University of New York, BuffaloM. Jeff Hardwick, Department of American Studies, Smithsonian Institute Press
Bernard Mergen, Department of American Studies, George Washington University & Editor of American Studies International
Suzanne Oboler, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago & Editor of Latino Studies
Ken Wissoker, Editor-in-Chief, Duke University Press
COMMENT:
The Audience
This session's priorities are to examine opportunities for collaborative projects between schools and land trusts, universities, environmental non-profits, small farms, and even arts/humanities organizations; to explore curriculum templates and teaching strategies for introducing local agricultural history and environmental studies themes in high school classes; to evaluate the efficacy of environmental activism with student groups; and, to recognize the imperative for sustained advocacy by students and faculty around food security issues and locally grown food.
CHAIR:
Kristin Hass, Program in American Culture, The University of Michigan
PANELISTS:
Oliver Barton, The New Haven Ecology Project & Common Ground Charter High SchoolClaire Criscuolo, Claire's Corner Copia Vegetarian Restaurant
Gail Staggers, Department of History, James A. Hillhouse High School
COMMENT:
Julie Ellison, Imagining America, The University of Michigan
This roundtable, co-sponsored by the ASA Women's Committee, Queer Caucus, and Minority Scholars' Committee, will bring together scholars and activists who treat issues of domestic abuse related to racial, ethnic, religious, class, or sexual orientation. The panelists will present the problems caused by shaming mechanisms that affect victims of domestic abuse within their communities and the efficacy of strategies activists have used to overcome the harm caused by such shaming mechanisms.
CHAIR:
Leslie Fishbein, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University
PANELISTS:
Jacqueline Torres, Statewide Project Coordinator, Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic ViolenceAntonia A. Vann, Steering Committee Member,Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
Jessica F. Vasquez, Director of Projects, National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence
Mimi Eunmi Kim, National Steering Committee Member, Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
Christine M. Heer, Clinical Social Worker, Bunker Hill Consultation Center
Susan Weitzman, Director, Not to People Like Us
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Patricia Ybarra, Department of Theatre and Film, University of Kansas
PAPERS:
Anita Gonzalez, Department of Theatre, Florida State University
Ceremonious Practices: Evoking the IndigenousJulie Pearson-Little Thunder, Department of Theatre and Film, University of Kansas
Standing-Up StoriesTamara Underiner, Department of Theatre, Arizona State University
The Midwife's Prayer: Mayan Women's Theatre in Chiapas
COMMENT:
Paul Rathbun, Independent Scholar
In response to requests made to the ASA's Queer Caucus to address professional development concerns, this session will attempt to examine professional issues that are of particular importance to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex faculty and graduate students. The complexities of queer (in)visibility—the often costly experience of "belonging" as well as the psychic "violence of exclusion"—in the academy will be discussed.
CHAIR:
Guy Mark Foster, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
PANELISTS:
Shelli Fowler, Departments of English and Comparative Ethnic Studies, Washington State UniversityKaren Depauw, Graduate Dean, Graduate School,Virginia Tech
Cris Mayo, Department of Educational Policy Studies & Women's Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Megan Boler, Department of Teaching and Learning, Virginia Tech
COMMENT:
The Audience
This documentary film screening explores Hartford's past as a "model city" during the War on Poverty, and includes footage shot in summer, 1969, by filmmakers from the Film Board of Canada and UCLA, working with local Black Panthers, community organizers and residents to document "wealth and poverty." The Hartford Studies Project tracked down some of the original participants and shot more film to accompany the 1960s footage.
CHAIR:
Randel D. Hanson, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University
PAPERS:
Linda Ivey, History Department, Georgetown University
Improper Cultural Practices: Facing Ecological Limitations and Social Violence in Depression Era CaliforniaDavid Monteyne, American Studies Department, University of Minnesota
Civil Defense and Environmental Control During the Early Cold WarPamela Calvert, Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduate Theological Union
Not in Our Town: Violence and Belonging in Kalispell
COMMENT:
Randel D. Hanson
CHAIR:
Kevin Gaines, Department of History, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Kimberly L. Phillips, Department of History, College of William and Mary
Thurgood Marshall's Special Report: The Black Protest, the Press, and the Military During the Korean War
Mary L. Dudziak, Departments of History and Political Science, University of Southern California Law School
Writing Constitutional Law in Africa and America: International Influence on the Jurisprudence of Thurgood Marshall
COMMENT:
Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School
CHAIR:
Elizabeth Dillon, Department of English and American Studies Program, Yale University
PAPERS:
Matt Cohen, Department of English, Duke University
William Bradford's Hystery: Longing and Belonging in PlymouthWalter Hesford, Department of English, University of Idaho
The Song of Songs and American Lyrics of Violent (Be)LongingLiza McAlister, Department of Religion, Wesleyan University
The End Times in the Americas: National Violence and Global Belonging in Transnational Evangelical Media
COMMENT:
Elizabeth Dillon
CHAIR:
Dan Aldridge, Department of History, Davidson College
PAPERS:
Keith Williams, Department of English, Southern Methodist University
Marching to a Different Drummer: Masculinity in the War Novels of John A. WilliamsChuck Jackson, Department of English, University of Houston, Downtown, and Rice University Sula, Soldiers, and Lynching
Pearl James, Department of English, Davidson College
Lynching, Citizenship and the Black Male Body: Claude McKay's The Soldier's Return
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Bill Tuttle, Department of American Studies, University of Kansas
PAPERS:
Katharine Capshaw Smith, Department of English, Rhode Island College
Rendering the "Red Summer" of 1919 and the Scottsboro Boys: Representations of Violence in Black Children's Literature of the 1920s and 1930sPhilip Nel, Department of English, Kansas State University
Children's Literaure Goes to War: Dr. Seuss, P.D. Eastman, Munro Leaf, and the Private SNAFU Films (1943-46)Julia Mickenberg, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Anti-Fascism and Subversive Patriotism in World War II-Era Children's Literature
COMMENT:
Bill Tuttle
CHAIR:
David Shorter, Center for the Americas, Wesleyan University
PAPERS:
Chadwick Allen, Department of English, Ohio State University
Sovereignty and Indigenous AestheticsSara Sutler-Cohen, Department of Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz
Rhetorical Profits: A Textual Analysis of Contemporary Shamanism in Northern CaliforniaColleen Boyd, Center for the Americas, Wesleyan University
Writing Indians/Reading History in (to) the Turn-of-the-Century
COMMENT:
David Shorter
This panel will highlight the violences of belonging and non-belonging, and explore the diverse narratives of Arab experiences in the U.S. Panelists will explore activist and academic spaces of empowerment, resistance, and alliance building where Arab/Arab American feminist politics have flourished.
CHAIR:
Nadine Naber, American Culture and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
PANELISTS:
Mervat Hatem, Political Science, Howard UniversityHuda Jadallah, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nathalie Handal, Department of English, Hunter College
Zeina Zaatari, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Rosina Hassoun, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University
COMMENT:
Nadine Naber
CHAIR:
Patricia White, Department of English, Swarthmore College
PAPERS:
Judith Halberstam, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Shadows on a Dime: Queer Subcultures and Generational ConflictKaren Tongson, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Touring the Dykeaspora from the Suburbs to the CityAnn Cvetkovich, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
Making Work Sexy at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
COMMENT:
Patricia White
To address the theme of violence and belonging, this roundtable will discuss
activism and repression, specifically addressing the question posed in the Call
for papers: "how do different collectivities coalesce or break down in relation
to violence through perpetration, victimization, and oppression?"
CHAIR:
Rebecca Hill, Department of History, Borough of Manhattan Community College
PANELISTS:
Charlene Mitchell, AFSCME/SEIU Local 371, New York
Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York
Ashanti Omowali Alston, Critical Resistance, New York
Epifanio San Juan Jr., Philippines Cultural Studies Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Maren Stange, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union
PAPERS:
Shawn Michelle Smith, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
The Domestic Science of Nation-BuildingSally Stein, Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine
New Deal BodiesMiles Orvell, American Studies Program, Temple University
Small Town Hegemony: FSA Photography and Thirties AmericaLaura Wexler, American Studies Program, Yale University
"The Nature of the Enemy"
COMMENT:
Maren Stange
CHAIR:
Josh Kun, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Jasmine Payne, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
"By Virtue of her Descent": Genealogical Fictions of BelongingSylvia W. Chan, Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
From Coollies to Courvoisier: A Brief Look into All this Oriental TroubleAlexandra Vazquez, Performance Studies, New York University
Written on a Grunt: Accompaniments of Prado's Utterance (Ugh!)
COMMENT:
Josh Kun
CHAIR:
Deborah S. Rosenfelt, Women's Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park
PAPERS:
Isabel Caldeira, American Studies Department, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Violence, Memory, and Imagination in African American Women's LiteratureMaria Ramalho Santos, Department of Anglo-American Studies, University of Portugal, Coimbra
Remembering Forgetfulness: American Women Poets and the Lyric TraditionDorothea Steiner, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of Salzburg, Austria
Speaking Within and Across Cultures: American and South African Voices on the Violence of Belonging
COMMENT:
Deborah S. Rosenfelt
CHAIR:
Louis J. Kern, Department of History, Hofstra University
PAPERS:
Alan J. Silva, Assistant Dean/Associate Professor of English, Hamline University
Captured by Marriage: Elizabeth Ashbridge's 1774 Quaker JournalLaura Henigman, Department of English and American Studies,James Madison University
"Guilty Companion": Incest and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Rural New EnglandDaisy Miller, Department of English, United States Military Academy
"Infernal Dens": Shaker Families and the American Citizen
COMMENT:
Louis J. Kern
The New England Community Heritage Project forum at the Hartford ASA will offer brief introduction to the pursuit of community heritage education in secondary schools. But, most of the session will be given over to mini-presentations on current in-school projects by participating teachers.
CHAIRS:
Bonnie Sunstein, Department of English, University of IowaMichael Hoberman, Department of English, Fitchburg State College
PANELISTS:
Marjorie Burdette, Hillside Middle School, Manchester, New HampshireArthur Hunsicker, Revere High School, Revere, Massachusetts
Burt Feintuch, Director, Center for the Humanities, University of New Hampshire
Kay Morgan, Oyster River High School, Durham, New Hampshire
Clare Underwood, Groton-Dunstable Middle School, Groton, Massachusetts
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
James A. Miller, Department of English George Washington University
PANELISTS:
Glenn H. Orkin, Documentary Film Maker, Motion, Inc., HartfordDiane L. Smith, American Studies Program, Trinity College
Luis Figueroa, Department of History, Trinity College
Susan Pennybacker, Department of History and Hartford Studies Project, Trinity College
Joan Jacobs Williams, Hartford Studies Project, Trinity College
Wm. Frank Mitchell, Curator and Writer, American Studies Program, Trinity College
Thomas Gordon Smith,Weaver High School, Hartford
Stephen F. McFarland, City and Regional Planning Program, Cornell University
COMMENT:
The Audience
CHAIR:
Kimberly Gladman, Independent Scholar
PAPERS:
Donna I. Dennis, Rutgers University School of Law, Newark
Obscenity Regulation in New York City, 1840-1870Paul J. Erickson, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
The Community of Solitary Readers: Consuming Obscene Literature in Antebellum AmericaE. Haven Hawley, School of History, Technology, & Society, Georgia Institute of Technology
Reading between the Lines: The Technological History of Indecent Literature in Nineteenth Century America
COMMENT:
Kimberly Gladman
At the turn of the 21st century, the United States emerged as the world's only superpower. Globalization, terrorism, violent civil wars, and a re-figured imperialism: these realities have structured the multiple wars that the United States is now fighting, at home and abroad. This panel addresses the militant assertion of U.S. power in Iraq and elsewhere, the attacks on civil rights and immigrants at home, the impact of racism and nationalism, and the struggles of social movements within the U.S. to articulate dissent and wage peace. How can we as scholars, teachers, artists, and public intellectuals foster political engagement and critical debate in a transnational public sphere?
CHAIR:
Ruth Gilmore, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
SPEAKERS:
Tariq Ali, Historian, Playwright, Novelist, and Editor of the New Left ReviewMichael Bérubé, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University
Judith Butler, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Cheryl Harris, Law School, University of California, Los Angeles
COMMENT:
The Audience