Saturday, November 13, 2004
7:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Breakfast for the Women in American Studies
8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Student Hospitality Lounge
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Killer Amusements: Scrutinizing the Military-Entertainment-Industrial
Complex
CHAIR:
Ara Wilson, Women's Studies Department, Ohio State
University
PAPERS:
Caren Kaplan, Departments of Women's Studies and
Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis
Mobility and War: The Cosmic View of "Air Power"
B. Ruby Rich, Department of Film Studies, University
of California, Berkeley
Warmongering: From "Battle of Algiers" to "Lord of the Rings"
Sharon Ullman, Department of History, Bryn Mawr University
Brain Games: The Military, Hollywood, and Brainwashing in Cold War America
Minoo Moallem, Department of Women's Studies, San
Francisco State University
"Leili Is With Me": War, Masculinity and the Filmic Intervention during The
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
Jennifer Terry, Departments of Women's Studies and
Film Studies, University of California, Irvine
Boosting Morale: Entertainment as an Art of Modern War
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
"Stompin'' at the Savoy"
CHAIR:
TBA
PAPERS:
Terry Monaghan, Music Department, Goldsmiths College,
University of London
"House of Joy": Harlem's "Dance Palace"
Karen Hubbard, Dance and Theatre Department, University
of North Carolina, Charlotte
"It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got. . .": Dancing Jazz At The Savoy
Howard Spring, School of Fine Art and Music, University
of Guelph, Canada
"Rhythm Is Out Business": Swing, Social Dance and the Savoy Ballroom
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Envisioning the Rational State: Modernity, Technology, and Visual Culture
CHAIR:
Mark Rice, Department of American Studies, St. John Fisher College
PAPERS:
John Ott, Department of Art and Art History, James
Madison University
Iron Horses: Leland Stanford, Edward Muybridge, and the Industrialized Eye
Thea Petchler, Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
Art Center College of Design
MOMA on the Road: The State, the Public, and the Museum of Modern Art's Traveling
Exhibitions
Catherine Wilkins, Department of Art History, University
of Minnesota
Streamlining the Circus: Norman Bel Geddes' Design for Ringling Bros.-Barnum
& Bailey, 1940-1943
Yuka Tsuchiya, Department of American Studies, University
of Minnesota
Nurturing the Modern, Rational Mind: The US Educational Films in Occupied Japan,
1945-1952
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Breakfast with Champions (Sponsored by ASA Women's Committee, Minority Scholars' Committee, the Students' Committee, and the Committee on Ethnic Studies)
This session emphasizes the dual meaning of champion as not only one who has achieved outstanding success but also as one who can serve as an advocate for other like herself. A counterpart to the panel "Lifting as We Climb," it provides an opportunity for more sustained engagement between graduate students and senior faculty in American Studies.
CHAIR:
Laura Barraclough, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
PANELISTS:
Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Departments of English
and Comparative Literature, Emory University
Rosaura Sanchez, Department of Literature, University of California,
San Diego
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
At the Crossroads of Art and Identity: A Discussion on the Formation of American Visual and Performance Aesthetics From Modern to Contemporary
In this panel, we will explore the role of diverse and hybrid forms of visual culture and performance in shaping national identity. Panelists will offer diverse insights into the significance of Black American art on the development of American aesthetics.
CHAIR:
Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Department of Dance, Temple University
PANELISTS:
Cheryl Ragar, American Studies, University of Kansas
Bridget Cooks, Department of Art & Art History/Ethnic Studies, Santa Clara University
Michele Wallace, Departments of English, Women's Studies and Film Studies, City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center
Carla Williams, Independent Scholar & Artist
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Blood and Anxiety: Miscegenation in America
CHAIR:
David Leverenz, English Department, University of
Florida
PAPERS:
Jeffrey Santa Ana, Departments of English and American
Studies, Mount Holyoke College
The Anxiety of Mixed Race: Representing Multiraciality and Negative Affect in
Global Capitalist America
Tsuyoshi Ishihara, Program of English Language and
Culture, Otemon Gakuin University, Japan
Onoto Watanna's The Heart of Hyacinth: Miscegenation in America at The Turn
of the Century
Theresa Gaul, Department of English, Texas Christian
University
A Cherokee "Squaw"?: White Womanhood, Epistolarity, and The Letters of Harriett
Gold Boudinot
Shawn Salvant, Department of English, Vanderbilt
University
Crossing Blood
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Private Enterprise/Public Sites: Speculation at the Crossroads of Interest
CHAIR:
Lisa Fischman, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Woodruff
Arts Center
PAPERS:
Frieda Knobloch, Department of American Studies,
University of Wyoming, Laramie
Living History at Ragged Crossroads: Claiming a Presence and Making a Living
at South Pass and Atlantic City, Wyoming
John Dorst, Department of American Studies, University
of Wyoming, Laramie
Entrepreneurial Spirit and Public History at the Wyoming Territorial Prison
Park
COMMENT:
John R. Stilgoe, History of Landscape Development, Harvard University
8:00 - 9:45 AM
A Conversation on the Status of Ethnic Studies in the Academy
Questions for exploration include: Has
ethnic studies at your institution peaked? Is support waxing or waning? How
does ethnic studies on your campus relate to American Studies? Other area
studies? For those who have been at different types of institutions, what
are the strengths / weaknesses you've seen? How might we reproduce those strengths
in other types of institutions? How might we avoid pitfalls? What do you see
for your ethnic studies program in the next five years? For the field in the
next five years?
CHAIR:
Duchess Harris, Department of American Studies,
Macalester College
PAPERS:
Robert Bullard,Sociology and Environmental Justice
Resource Center, Clark Atlanta University
Robert Lee, Department of American Civilization,
Brown University
Alvina Quintana, Department of English, University
of Delaware
Danille Taylor, Dean of Humanities, Dillard University
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
The Not So "Invisible Minority": Portuguese Americans and the American Scene
CHAIR:
Teresa Cid, English Department, University of Lisbon, Portugal
PAPERS:
Onésimo T. Almeida, Department of Portuguese
and Brazilian Studies, Brown University
Portuguese-American Literature—Some Thoughts on the Language Question
Teresa F. A. Alves, English Department, University
of Lisbon, Portugal
Cultural Crossroading: From the Azorean Pico into the American Shores
George Monteiro, Departments of English and Portuguese
and Brazilian Studies, Brown University
"New Bedford was my Whaling Ship": The Writings of Charles Reis Felix
COMMENT:
Isabel Caldeira, English Department, University of Coimbra, Portugal
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Unruly Subjects: Race, Gender, & Sexuality in Marginalized Communities
CHAIR:
Fon Gordon, History Department, University of Central Florida
PAPERS:
Donna Troka, The Graduate Institute of the Liberal
Arts, Emory University
Navigating Gender Crossroads: Community and Subjectivity Formation Among Drag
Kings in the Midwestern United States
Michelle Hite, The Graduate Institute of the Liberal
Arts, Emory University
The Millenium Bonnie: The Black Female Outlaw According to Tupac, Jay-Z, and
Toni Morrison
Sarah Stanton, Department of Women's Studies, Emory
University
Discretion and Disclosure: (Re)Imagining Queer Communities in the U.S. South
Lynn Jennings, Department of English, University
of Wisconsin, Madison
Sista With Attitude
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Contact Zones and End Zones: Sports Culture and the Cultural Pedagogy of "Indian" Mascots
CHAIR:
Philip C. Bellfy, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, Michigan State University
PAPERS:
David Anthony Tyeeme Clark, American Studies Program
and Center for Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas
Letter to the Settlers of Illinois: Athletics, Consumerism, Sovereignty Politics,
and a "NEW" Jurisprudence of Color
C. Richard King, Department of Comparative Ethnic
Studies, Washington State University
On Being a Warrior: Race, Gender, and Native American Sports Mascots
Dinah Zeiger, School of Journalism and Mass Communications,
University of Colorado, Boulder
Occidentalizing the Mascot: The Fightin' Whites and Social Transformation
Suzan Shown Harjo, President and Executive Director,
Morning Star Institute, Washington, D.C.
"Stay in Your Place, Stop Changing Things and Don't Call for Help": Sport Mascots
and Social Justice
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Imagining Terror: Representing Violence, Race, and Reality
CHAIR:
Steven Weisenburger, Department of English, Southern Methodist University
PAPERS:
Elizabeth Streeby,Literature, University of California,
San Diego
Staging Terror—From the Playhouse to the Streets of Atlanta: Thomas Dixon's
The Clansman and the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 as Performance
Ann Kibbey, English Department, University of Colorado,
Boulder
Normalized Terror and Its Image: The Meaning of the Middle East Veil in the
U.S.
COMMENT:
Steven Weisenburger
8:00 - 9:45 AM
American Diasporas
CHAIR:
Shirley J. Lim, Department of History,State University New York, Stony Brook
PAPERS:
Mary Lou O'Neil,American Culture and Literature
Department, Kadir Has University
Americans Abroad: Theorizing Expatriate Life
Genelle Gaudinez, Department of Sociology, University
of Southern California
What about the "Manangs" and "Fountain Pen Girls?:" Uncovering the Filipina
Immigrant Experience in Pre-World War II Los Angeles
Shirley Tang, American Studies and Asian American
Studies Programs, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Where Narrative Traditions and Historical Memories Intersect: Vietnamese American
and Multi-Cultural Community Crossroads in an Urban Context
Rika Rihwa Lee, Hitotsubashi University, University
of Hawai'i
"Our" Ancestor for who?: Commemorating Centennial Year of "Pioneer" Korean Immigration
to Hawai'i
COMMENT:
Shirley J. Lim
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Not all Moonlight and Magnolias: Exhibiting the American South
Scholars and museum professionals have struggled over the past three decades to grapple with the complexity of Southern history and culture and present it to the public in meaningful ways. In a dialogue format, three scholars who have worked for years interpreting the American South will discuss the unique challenges they faced in creating exhibitions on this topic.
CHAIR:
Catherine Lewis, Department of History, Kennesaw State University
PANELISTS:
Andy Ambrose, Deputy Director, Atlanta History Center
Sandra Berman, Archivist, William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum
John Burrison, Department of English, Georgia State University
COMMENT:
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Memorial Gathering for Gillian Brown
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Business Meeting of the Task Force on Graduate Education
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Business Meeting of the Rocky Mountain ASA
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Business Meeting of the 2005 Program Committee
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Spectors of War: Black Internationalism/ Black Imperialism
CHAIR:
Devin Fergus, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
PAPERS:
Stephanie Batiste, Department of English, Carnegie
Mellon University
No Storm in the Weather: Domestic Bliss and African American Performance
Jennifer James, Departments of English and Africana
Studies, The George Washington University
Black Vs. Black Vs. Brown: African American Literature of The Spanish American
Wars
Judith Michelle Williams, Department of African and
African-American Studies, University of Kansas
George Schuyler: Intercultural Catalyst and Pan-African Gadfly
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
"Blackness" at the Crossroads: Struggles over Televisual
Representations in the Sixties
CHAIR:
Steven Classen, Department of Communication Studies, California State University
PAPERS:
Michelle Materre, Communications Department, New
School University
Creating Black Public Affairs Programming on Public Television
Devorah Heitner, Department of Radio/TV/Film, Northwestern
University
Women Cops, Poets and Beauty Queens Tell it "Like It Is"
Jennifer Fuller, Department of Communication, Miami
University
Just a "White Ploy?" "The Leslie Uggams Show" and the Risky Business of Black
TV in the Late Sixties
COMMENT:
Steven Classen
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Modernizing Women: The Cultural Crossroads of Gender and Modern Art
This roundtable will bring together an interdisciplinary team of American studies and American art history scholars with curators of American art to discuss the planning of an exhibition and exhibition catalog (scheduled for 2005) that focuses on the art of an extraordinary generation of women who were the students of Robert Henri.
CHAIR:
TBA
PANELISTS:
Lois Rudnik, Department of American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Marian Wardle, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University
Betsy Fahlman, School of Art, Arizona State University
Gwendolyn Owens, Canadian Centre for Architecture,
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Helen Langa, Department of Art, American University
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Familial Crossroads: The Cultural Contradictions of Asian International Adoption
CHAIR:
Toby Volkman, Office of the Provost, New School
University
PAPERS:
Catherine Ceniza Choy, Department of Ethnic Studies,
University of California, Berkeley
The Institutionalization of Asian International Adoption
Sara Dorow, Department of Sociology, University
of Alberta Brokering
Cultural Desire: Chinese Facilitators of Transnational Adoption
Sandra Patton-Imani, Study of Culture and Society
Program, Drake University
Haunting Choices: Korean Birthmothers and the Politics of Adoption
Kim Gregg, Department of American Studies, University
of Minnesota
Formations of Transnational Adoptee Identity and Community: A Collection of
Adult Korean Adoptee Oral Histories
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
American Kitsch: Souviner Kulture
CHAIR:
Dana Polan, Department of Cinema-TV, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Bill Brown, Departments of English and History of
Culture, University of Chicago
Commodity Nationalism and the Lost Object
Jani Scandura, Department of English, University
of Minnesota
Dead Air, or Sound Souvenirs
Marita Sturken, Annenberg School, University of Southern
California
Kitsch and the Tourism of History
COMMENT:
Dana Polan
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Latino Workers in Atlanta and the South: Conflicts, Collaborations, and Communities (Labor and Working-Class History Association Roundtable)
This roundtable invites scholars, activists, and institutional leaders to discuss the ways that migrants and immigrants from Mexico and Latin America are experiencing their working lives in Atlanta and the South. Through this lens we will discuss the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and religion in the working lives of Latinos.
CHAIR:
Michelle Brattain, Department of History, Georgia State University
PANELISTS:
Terry Easton, American Studies Program, Emory University
Mary Odem, Department of History, Emory University
Rosalynn Evans, Georgia Poultry Justice Alliance
David Moskowitz, Georgia Poultry Justice Alliance
Barbara Ellen Smith, Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis
Juan Carlos Lara, Consulate General of Mexico
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Cinema, Race, and Urban Space
CHAIR:
Michelle Raheja, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Jacqueline Stewart, Department of English, University
of Chicago
Filming the Black Urban Frontier
Sabine Haenni, Department of Theatre, Film and Dance,
Cornell University
Chinatown Melodrama
Amy Ongiri, Department of English, University of
Florida
The Shogun of Harlem: Race, Space and Narratives of Urbanity in Black Cast Kung
Fu Film
COMMENT:
Michelle Raheja
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Color-Lines and Borderlands in American Studies Comparative
Ethnic Studies Seminar (Sponsored by the ASA Committee on Ethnic Studies)
CHAIR:
Alicia Camacho, American Studies Department, Yale
University
PANELISTS:
Lisa Marie Cacho, English Department, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Alien Others: Asian and Latino Relational Racializations in Discourses
of Immigration
Matthew Guterl, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department,
Indiana University
Race, Labor and "Latin-Americanization," from Apprenticeship to
the Guest Worker Program
Moon-Ho Jung, Department of History, University of
Washington
Outlawing "Coolies": On Race in the Age of Emancipation
Diana Irene Williams, American Civilization Department,
Harvard University
How the Tragic Mulatto Became Ethnic
COMMENT:
Alicia Camacho
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Reconstructing Resistance: Frances E. W. Harper and Pauline
Elizabeth Hopkins
CHAIR:
Lois Brown, Department of English, Mt. Holyoke College
PAPERS:
Alice Rutkowski, Department of English, State University
of New York, Geneseo
Moses and Motherhood: Frances E.W. Harper and the Self-Determination of Blacks
Amy Blair, Department of English, Marquette University
A Most Peculiar Play: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins' Peculiar Sam and the
Persistence of Minstrelsy
Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Department of English, University
of Virginia
Pauline Hopkins and the Rhetoric of Social Protest
COMMENT:
Lois Brown
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Interdisciplinary Methodologies: A Roundtable
The roundtable will address the ways in which interdisciplinary methods enable our inquiry and analysis of cultural crossroads and contact zones. In particular, the panel is focused on the ways in which working or speaking across disciplines and cultural spaces can develop new scholarly directions or re-examinations of older discourses.
CHAIR:
Michael Cowan, Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
PANELISTS:
Corey Capers, History of Consciousness Program, University of California, Santa Cruz
David Silver, Department of Communication, University of Washington
Janet Davis, Departments of American Studies and History, University of Texas, Austin
COMMENT:
Michael Cowan
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Bodies over the Edge: Reclaiming Dance Culture for American Studies
CHAIR:
Csaba Toth, Department of History, Carlow College
PAPERS:
Anthony P. Avery, Department of American Studies,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Raving in New Mexico: Alternative Masculinities in the Albuquerque Dance Scene
Kirsche Dickson, Independent Scholar & Dance
Artist
Dance Music and the Rhetoric of 'Populist Progress': Metadiscourses of Self-Expression
from Madonna to Mu
Atsuko Miyawaki, Department of Performance Studies,
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Dance and the Production of Sonic Space: Performing Butoh and Drum 'n Bass in
America
COMMENT:
Csaba Toth
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Queering the Man: Masculinity, Mathematics and Migration
CHAIR:
Crystal Parikh, Department of English, University of Utah
PAPERS:
Beth Berila,Women's Studies Program, St. Cloud State
University
Commodifying Masculinity: Race, Labour, and Sexuality in Queer Eye for the Straight
Guy
Christopher Goff, Department of Mathematics, University
of the Pacific
How (West) Hollywood Adds Up: A Queer Theoretical View of Mathematics and Mathematicians
in Film
Vincent Woodard, English Department, University of
Colorado, Boulder
Haiti, Myth-making and Black Gay Identity Politics in the Writing of Assotto
Saint
COMMENT:
Crystal Parikh
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Of Books, Short Stories, and Self-Marketing: Publishing in the 19th Century
CHAIR:
Jennifer Mason, Department of English, Skidmore College
PAPERS:
Rebecca Berne, Department of English, Yale University
"Similar enough, and yet unlike enough, to make a book:" The Short Story Cycle
and the Need to Be Novel
Augusta Rohrbach, Expository Writing/Harvard University
As Different as Black and White: The Marketing Approaches of Sojourner Truth
and Louisa May Alcott
Oz Frankel, Historical Studies, New School University
"The Battle of the Books:" Congress and Print Culture in the Nineteenth Century
COMMENT:
Hans Bak, American Studies Department, Radboud University
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Listening Critically to New Voices in Georgia's Literature
CHAIR:
Pearl McHaney, Department of English, Geogia State
Univesity
PAPERS:
Carmen Deedy, Independent Writer
Tony Grooms, Department of English, Kennesaw University
Natasha Trethwey, Department of English, Emory University
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Department of English, University of Georgia
COMMENT:
James Davis, Department of English, Georgia State
University
Cynde Snider, English, Starr's Mill High School, Fayette County,
Georgia
Felicia McCrary, World History, Galloway School, Atlanta, Georgia
Christina Daniel, English, Riverdale High School, Clayton County,
Georgia
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Queer Ciudad: Urban Latino/Latina Cultures
CHAIR:
Licia Fiol-Matta, Department of Latin American Studies, Lehman College, City University of New York
PAPERS:
Jose Quiroga, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Emory University
Miami Dust
Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui, Department of American Studies,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Richard Rodriguez's Cosmopolitanism and Unheimlich Aesthetics
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Program in American
Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Macha's World: Elizabeth Marrero Performs the Queer Nuyorican Bronx
COMMENT:
Licia Fiol-Matta
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Engendering Health: Nursing, Medicine, and Reforming Women
CHAIR:
Tim Marr, American Studies Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
PAPERS:
Elizabeth Belanger, Department of American Civilization,
Brown University
The Contested Spaces of Reform: Women, Vision and Power during the Civil War
Frederick Wegener, Department of English, California
State University, Long Beach
Healing "Heathen" Sisters: Discourses of North American Medical Missionary Women,
1870-1920
Shawn Smith, American Studies, Saint Louis University
Healthy Homes: Nursing the Nation in the 1930s
Ashley Byock, Department of English, Northwestern
University
Elegiac Nursing in the Sentimental Republic
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Radical Fairies, Superstars, and Scandal's Refusal: Citing Sixties Sex
CHAIR:
Robert Reid-Pharr, Department of English, City University
of New York Graduate Center
PANELISTS:
Jennifer Doyle, English Department, University of
California, Riverside
She Shot Andy Warhol: Women in Gay Spaces
Rebecca Schneider, Department of Theater, Speech, and Dance,
Brown University
Ricardo L. Ortíz, Department of English, Georgetown
University
The Lizard King Meets the Radical Faerie: Jim Morrison, Harry Hay and Counter
Sexuality in Mid-60's LA
COMMENT:
Robert Reid-Pharr
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Close Encounters of a Different Kind: The Racial (Mis)Understandings of Cultural Contact
CHAIR:
Anne Soon Choi, Department of American Studies, University of Kansas
PAPERS:
Crystal Anderson, Department of English, Ohio University
"Worlds of Color": Literary Articulations of Black-Asian Cooperation
Robert Ji-Song Ku, Department of Ethnic Studies,
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
"I Am Tarzan": The Policing of Pidgin English and the Fantasy of a Standardized
America
Moustafa Bayoumi, Department of English, Brooklyn
College, City University of New York
Racing Religion
COMMENT:
Anne Soon Choi
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Graphic Memory
CHAIR:
Jared Gardner, Department of English, Ohio State University
PAPERS:
Michael Moon, Department of English, Johns Hopkins
University
Childhood Dismembered: The Writings and Drawings of Henry Darger
Marcie Frank, Department of English, Corcordia University
Watergate and the Graphic Reconfiguration of (Post?) Modernism
Michael Trask, Department of English, Yale University
Mockery and Collaboration in the O'Hara/Brainard Collage-Comics
COMMENT:
Jared Gardner
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Imagining Terrorism: The War on Terrorism in Popular Culture
This panel explores how terrorism and the war on terrorism have been portrayed in popular culture since 11 September 2001. The papers explore a variety of media—comic books, television, and video games—in which the war on terrorism is prominent, and ask a variety of questions of these media.
CHAIR:
Gina Rosetti, Department of English and Foreign
Languages, Saint Xavier University
PANELISTS:
Matthew Costello, Department of Political Science, Saint Xavier University The War on Terrorism in Superhero Comicbooks
David Leonard, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, Washington State University
Stacy Takacs, Department of American Studies, Oklahoma State University
COMMENT:
Gina Rosetti
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Performing at the Crossroads: Latina/o Performance and Popular Imaginaries
CHAIR:
Tiffany Ana Lopez, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Alicia Arrizón, Department of Ethnic Studies,
University of California, Riverside
The Revision of the Exotic Other in Hollywood: From Dolores del Rio to Salma
Hayek
Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez, Department of Spanish,
Mount Holyoke College
TBA
Irma Mayorga, Esperanza Peace & Justice Center,
Stanford University
Our Alamo: Theatrical Tropologies in Kathy Vargas' "My Alamo" series
Ramon Rivera-Servera, Department of Theatre, Arizona
State University
Radical Corporealities: Latin Dance and Queer Utopia
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
A Thin Line: Race, Lynching, and the Death Penalty
CHAIR:
Walter Kalaidjian, Emory University
PAPERS:
John Barton, Department of English, University of
California, Irvine
"The Necessity of An Example": Race, Lynching, and the Death Penalty in Turn-of-the-Century
America
Lillian S. Robinson, Simone de Beauvoir Institute,
Concordia University, Canada
"There Are No Beaches in Hawai'i": Race, Rape, and Capital Punishment in the
Massie Case
COMMENT:
Walter Kalaidjian
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Labor and Technology: Changes at Work
CHAIR:
Jessica Livingston, Department of English, University of Florida
PAPERS:
Mobina Hashmi, Department of Communication Arts,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
What Does it Mean to be American? The Value of Citizenship in a Global Information
Economy
Tony Zaragoza, Program in American Studies, Washington
State University
"But We Won't Replace Everybody . . .": Globalized Capital, Racialization, Automation,
and Agriculture
Frederick Wasser, Department of Television and Radio,
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Media and Work
COMMENT:
Jesu Estrada, Department of English, Washington State University
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Hybridity, Mestizaje and Racial Degeneration: A Comparative
Approach to Narratives of Resistance in the Américas: 1854-1930
CHAIR:
Rosaura Sánchez, Literature, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
Linda Torres, Department of Literature, University
of California, San Diego
On John Rollin Ridge and The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta
Margaret Fajardo, Department of Literature, University
of California, San Diego
Colonial Resemblances: Comparing Representations of Mestizaje by Rizal
Villaverde
Kyla Schuller, Department of Literature, University
of California, San Diego
"La Eugénica Misteriosa del Gusto Estético"
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Ethnic Communities in the Public Eye: The Implications of Visual Knowledge
We will debate the ways photographs, moving images, museum displays, and public tours produce "knowledge" about various ethnic groups, places and cultures through the act of looking. This panel will take a two-pronged approach to the topic: 1) visual experience as a powerful methodology that we employ across the disparate venues in which we work, and 2) visual experience as historically situated.
CHAIR:
Faye Ginsburg, Department of Anthropology, New York University
PANELISTS:
Libby Garland, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Joanna Lindenbaum, Curatorial Assistant, The Jewish Museum, New York
Anna Pegler-Gordon, Department of History, Michigan State University
Marjorie Weinstein, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Contact Zones: Making Identity and Place Through Image and Text
CHAIR:
Wendy Walters, Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing,Emerson College
PAPERS:
Jeanette Roan, Department of English, George Mason
University
Knowing China: Accuracy, Authenticity, and The Good Earth (Sidney Franklin
1937)
Jason Ruiz, Department of English, University of
Minnesota
"This Tropic of Cancer Country is a Tropical Cancer:" At the Crossroads of Desire
and Danger in Discourses of U.S. Travel to Mexico, 1910-1925
Kathryn Mathers, Department of Anthropology and
Archaeology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Disrupting the Hyphen: Travel to South Africa and On Being just American
Margarita Marinova, Comparative Literature, University
of Texas, Austin
Crossing Boundaries, Creating Difference: Russia and America Discover Each Other
in Travelogues from the 1860s and 1870s
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Of Recipes, Restaurants, and Revolutions: Food and Eating from the Early Republic to the Atkins Years
CHAIR:
Psyche Williams-Forson, English Department, McDaniel College
PAPERS:
Karla Erickson, American Studies Department, University
of Minnesota & Department of History, St. Olaf University
Creating a Home Away From Home: Customers, Workers and the Norm! Effect in American
Restaurants
Amy Bentley, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies,
and Public Health, New York University
The Other Atkins Revolution: Atkins and the Shifting Culture of Dieting
Nancy Siegel, Department of Art History, Juniata
College Museum of Art
Swallow Your Pride: Food as a Nationalistic Symbol in the Early Republic
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Racialized Geographies: Remapping Southern Contact Zones
CHAIR:
Cristine Levenduski, Departments of English & American Studies, Emory University
PAPERS:
Caroline Levander, Department of English, Rice University
Confederate Cuba
Rachel Adams, Departments of English & American
Studies, Columbia University
Fugitive Cartographies
Thaddeus Russell, Department of History, Barnard
College
Fruits of Violence: Black Resistance and the Transformation of Birmingham, 1941-63
COMMENT:
Elizabeth Young, Department of English, Mount Holyoke
College
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Business Meeting of All Chairs
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Enforcing Sexuality: Documenting Hate Crime in the West
CHAIR:
Casey Charles, Department of English, University of Montana
PAPERS:
Scott Rice, Filmmaker, University of Montana
The Jennifer Pate Story: A Film Screening
David Wilson, Teacher, Big Sky High School
"That's So Gay:" Homophobia High
COMMENT:
Casey Charles
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Musical Urbanism: Race and Rhythm in the American City
CHAIR:
Karen Shimakawa, English & Asian American Studies Departments, University of California, Davis
PAPERS:
Josh Kun, Department of English, University of California,
Riverside
Mariachis and Lonely Bulls: Inventing the Sound of Tijuana
Deborah Paredezm, Theatre Department, University
of Texas, Austin
East Side Story: Performing Selena in Austin's City Limits
Shannon Steen, Theatre Department, University of
California, Berkeley
Immigration Counter-time: Ghost Dog and American Post-colonial Temporality
COMMENT:
Karen Shimakawa
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Music, Pictures, Text: Crossing Generic Boundaries from the 1850s to the Present
CHAIR:
Susan Bussey, Wake Forest University
PAPERS:
Ellen Goldner, English Department, College of Staten
Island
Crossroads of Media, Crossroads of Cultures: William J. Wilson's "Afric-American
Picture Gallery" and 1850s Exhibitions of American Nationalism
Grace Wang, Program in American Culture, University
of Michigan
"Between Words and Notes:" Jazz and Citizenship in Lawson Inada's Poetry
Martha Jane Nadell, Brooklyn College, The City University
of New York
Race, Image, Text: The Crossroads of Southern Road
Jonathan P. Eburne, English and American Studies,
Penn State University
The Death of Nick Carter: Race and the American Dime Novel in Jazz-Age Paris
COMMENT:
Susan Bussey
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Same Sex Unions and Constructions of
Marriage
The issue of same-sex unions and the
redefinition of marriage has taken on a special importance in the wake of Massachusetts's
law permitting Lesbians and Gays to marry, and the Constitutional amendment
proposed by President George W. Bush to ban all such marriages. This panel will
explore the connection between the invention of the (middle-class, white) nuclear
family as transhistorically normative and the current effort to proclaim the
monogamous heterosexual couple as transhistorically (and biblically) natural.
Other issues to be examined include the historical and rhetorical connections
between attitudes towards same-sex marriage and interracial marriage, and the
ways in which same-sex marriage influences the creation of national and regional
borders.
CHAIR:
Renée Romano, African
American Studies Department, Wesleyan University
PANELISTS:
Elaine Tyler May, American
Studies Department, University of Minnesota
John Howard, American Studies
Program, Kings College, London
Lisa Duggan, American Studies
Department, New York University
Greg Robinson,
Department of History, Université du Québec à Montréal,
Canada
COMMENT:
The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Comparative Mestizajes and Hybridities: A Workshop in the Discourse and Politics of Race and Place
What we hope emerges from this discussion is not just a reflection of these issues, but a useful dialogue in addressing the tensions between political intervention and cultural production, where notions of blackness, indianness, as well as hybridity can be discussed in tandem with sovereignty and citizenship, memory and amnesia. We hope that by taking the subjects of mestisaje or hybridity as topics of discussion, we may begin to point to the limits of their use, locally and in a comparative context as well.
CHAIR:
Estevan Rael-Gálvez, State Historian, New Mexico
PANELISTS:
Jose Rabasa, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley
Jared Sexton, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Julia Coats, Instructional Designer, Cherokee Nation
Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, English Department, Brown University
COMMENT:
The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Cultures Cross the Road: Southern White Student Activists Respond
to the Black Liberation Struggle: From Freedom High to Black Power, the Southern
Student Organizing Committee
The proposed dialogue session is a unique opportunity to bring together key veterans of a little-examined phenomenon of the Southern Civil Rights Movement—the Southern Student Organizing Committee—and a pioneering scholar, historian Gregg Michel, who has researched the organization and will soon publish the first book on SSOC. SSOC (1964-69) was a predominantly white Southern student activist organization which spun off from SNCC and arose in response to the growing civil rights struggle in the 1960s.
CHAIR:
Tom Gardner, Communications Department, Westfield State College
PANELISTS:
Bob Zellner, Department of History, Tulane University
Sue Thrasher, Coordinator of the Five College Public School Partnership
David Nolan, Historian, Writer
Roger Hickey, Co-Director of Institute for America's Future
Janet Dewart-Bell, Director of Communications for PolicyLink
Gene Guerrero, National Political Director on Criminal Justice Policy, Open Society Institute
Nan Grogan Orrock, Majority Whip, Georgia House of Representatives
John Lewis, U.S. Representative of the Fifth Congressional District in Atlanta (Invited)
Gregg Michel, Department of History, University of Texas, San Antonio
Cleveland Sellers, African American Studies Department, University of South Carolina
Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, W.E.B. DuBois Department of African American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
COMMENT:
The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Cold War Cultural Trajectories in the Americas
CHAIR:
George Yúdice, American Studies Program, New York University
PAPERS:
Rebecca Schreiber, American Studies Department,
University of New Mexico
Situating the Transnational: Elizabeth Catlett and the Taller de Gráfica
Popular
Claire F. Fox, English Department, University of
Iowa
Mexico and Hemispheric Cultural Policy during the Cold War
Seth Fein, History Department, Yale University
From New Empire to Old: Making Latin American News the Cold War Way
COMMENT:
George Yúdice
2:00 - 3:45 PM
The Unregenerate: Investigating the Anti-Reformist Imagination
CHAIR:
Ronald Walters, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
PAPERS:
Michael Reynolds, Department of History, University
of South Carolina
Honor and Evangelicalism at Odds: The Battle Over Moral Reform in the Slave
South
James Britton, Department of English, University
of Miami
Abolition, Women's Rights, and Angry White Men
Joshua Guthman, Department of History, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Calvinism and the Anti-Reformist Imagination: The Primitive Baptists of the
Antebellum South
COMMENT:
Ronald Walters
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Crossroads City: The Expressive Culture, History, and Historiography of 1940s Los Angeles
CHAIR:
Eric Porter, Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
PAPERS:
Sherrie Tucker, Department of American Studies, University
of Kansas
"They Got Corns for My Country": Hollywood Canteen Hostesses as Subjects and
Objects of Freedom
Daniel Widener, Department of History, University
of California, San Diego
Double Victory?: Black Arts and Black Cultural Politics in Los Angeles
Catherine Ramirez, Department of American Studies,
University of California, Santa Cruz
The Pachuco and the G.I.: The Significance of the 1940s to Chicano Historiography
Anthony Macias, Department of Ethnic Studies, University
of California, Riverside
Mexican American Mojo: Chicano Expressive Culture and Black Cultural Connections
COMMENT:
The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Feminist Pedagogies in Action: Women's Studies Meets American Studies
CHAIR:
Eileen Boris, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
PAPERS:
Elizabeth Currans, Department of Religious Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Problem of Creating Engaged Feminist Pedagogy
Sharon Doetsch, Department of English, University
of California, Santa Barbara
Introducing Resistance: Teaching to Transform in Introductory Classes
Kimberlee Staking, Department of Women's Studies,
University of Maryland, College Park
Contextualizing the US Feminist Art Movement
Johonna McCants, Department of American Studies,
University of Maryland, College Park
Fusing Activist and Academic Learning Spaces: Popular Education in the Classroom
COMMENT:
The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Both Here and There: (In)fusing Southeast Asia/America through Contemporary Community Formations
CHAIR:
Marie-Therese C. Sulit, Department of English, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
PAPERS:
Lisa A. Long, Department of English, North Central
College
Contemporary Gender Roles through Hmong and Vietnamese Eyes
Eleanor T. Lipat, Department of Ethnomusicology,
University of California, Los Angeles
Bitter Fruit, Sweet Aftertaste: Community Theater and Social Outreach in Thailand
and the Philippines
Jude Narita
Performance Excerpts from Her One-Woman Play Walk the Mountain
COMMENT:
Marie-Therese C. Sulit
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Hawai'i: Cultures in Contact, Cultures in Revival
CHAIR:
Bruce Harvey, Florida International University
PAPERS:
Heather Diamond, Department of American Studies,
University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Regulating Tradition: Institutional Intervention and the Politics of Cultural
Revival in Hawai'i
Mariko Iijima, Faculty of Modern History, University
of Oxford
Reproducing a 'Village Life' in Hawai'i: Development of the Japanese Community
in Kona, Hawai'i
Tracy Wuster, American Studies, University of Texas,
Austin
"Interrupting a Funeral with a Circus": Presenting America's National Game in
Hawai'i on the Baseball World Tour of 1888-1889
COMMENT:
Bruce Harvey
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Pedagogy in the Here and Now
CHAIR:
Joanne Grasso, Social Science Department, St. John's University
PAPERS:
Golam Sarwar Chowdhury, Department of English, University
of Chittagong, Bangladesh
American Studies in Bangladesh: Relevance in Post-9/11 Context
Timothy Raphael, Department of Theatre Arts, Rutgers
University, Newark
Something to Declare: Tales of Immigration
Laura L. Behling, Department of English, Gustavus
Adolphus College
Lab Work: Teaching the "Science" of American Studies
COMMENT:
Joanne Grasso
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Public Feelings
The Public Feelings group has agreed that it would be useful to present our work at national conferences in order to create dialogue and visibility, as well as to provide a forum for our own collective organizing. A dialogue panel at the ASA conference would be an ideal way for us to discuss the relation between our own individual research and the collective Public Feelings enterprise and to continue to delineate its possibilities as an intellectual and political project.
CHAIR:
Ann Cvetkovich, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
PANELISTS:
Susan Briante, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
Alyssa Harad, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
Ann Reynolds, Department of Art and Art History,
University of Texas, Austin
COMMENT:
The Audience
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Business Meeting of the ASA Nominating Committee
Business Meeting of the Performance of the Americas
Caucus
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Performing Activism: Institutionalized Power and the Discourses
of Change
CHAIR:
Nina Morgan, Department of English, Kennesaw State University
PAPERS:
Sergio Rizzo, Independent Scholar
When Is Moore Less?: Celebrity as Activist Discourse
Linda Neimann, Department of English, Kennesaw State
University
Activist Theatre as Bridge Between an Indigenous Community and the Americas:
The Story of FOMMA/ Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya
Sayuri Shibasaki, Department of Comparative Culture
Studies, Josai International University, Japan
Dismantling the Discourse of the Mulatta: Film and the Icons of Race
COMMENT:
Nina Morgan
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Tales of Mayan Technologies: A Performance (Sponsored by the Performance of the Americas Caucus)
The Performance of the Americas' Caucus' advisory committee
felt that this performance rates among the best critical-conceptual work in
performance today, and would be an important contribution to our consideration
of "cultural cross-currents."
CHAIR:
Jon Mckenzie, Department of English, Dartmouth College
PERFORMER:
Ricardo Dominguez, Performer, Independent Artist
COMMENT:
The Audience
4:00 - 5:45 PM
At the Crossroads of Community and Identity: Artists, Installations, Institutions
CHAIR:
Erika Doss,University of Colorado
PAPERS:
Phillip Earenfight,Trout Museum; Art and Art History
Department, Dickinson
A Kiowa's Odyssey: Reconstructing Etahdleuh Doanmoe's Album of Ledger Drawings
from Fort Marion
Mary Ann Calo, Colgate University
Opening Doors, Enforcing Boundaries: The Cultural Politics of "Negro Art" Initiatives
in the 1930s
Ricardo Montez, Department of Performance Studies,
New York University
"Trade" Marks: Keith Haring, Graffiti Artist LA2, and the Economy of Collaboration
COMMENT:
Eric Doss
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Authentic Eating: In Search of "The Real Thing"
CHAIR:
Rafia Zafar, Department of English, Washington University, St. Louis
PAPERS:
Anita Mannur, Department of American Studies, Wesleyan
University
"Unusual Cultural Tales": Culinary Citizenship and Authenticity in "Indian"
Cookbooks
John T. Edge, Center for the Study of Southern Culture,
University of Mississippi
The Southern Foodways Alliance as Reluctant Arbiter of Authenticity
Maria McGrath, History Department, Lehigh University
Recipes for a New World: Utopianism and Authentic Eating in Vegetarian Natural
Foods Cookbooks, 1970-1984
Meredith Abarca, English Department, University of
Texas, El Paso
Is It Time to Rethink 'Authenticity' in Multi-culinary American
Kyla Tompkins, Department of Modern Thought and Literature,
Stanford University
Wheat Bread and "Real" Americans in the writings of the Alcotts and Sylvester
Graham
COMMENT:
The Audience
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Performance/Spaces
CHAIR:
Camille Forbes, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
Kimberly Springer, American Studies, King's College
London
Laugh or Cry?: Racial Satire on the World Wide Web
Nora Amin, Academy of the Arts, Egypt
Space Within
Hershini Bhana Young, Department of English, State
University of New York, Buffalo
The Haunting Distance Between Two Places: South Africa and South Carolina at
the Crossroads
COMMENT:
Camille Forbes
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Publishing in the 20th Century: Of Superheros, Humor, and Bilingual Markets
CHAIR:
Alfred Hornung, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität
Mainz, Germany
PAPERS:
Maura Seale,American Studies, University of Minnesota
The Imperial Politics of "Escapist Rot": Depictions of Race, Imperialism, and
Decolonization in Harlequin Novels, 1965-1979
Michael Epp, Department of English, University of
Alberta, Canada
The 'irths' of a Nation: Humor, Nationality and Nasreddin Hodja
Jennifer Gowen, Department of American Studies, University
of Minnesota
(Captain) America's "Others:" A Nationalist Superhero in a Changing World, 1964-1977
Molly Metherd, Saint Mary's College
Crossing Borders and Barnes and Noble: Transnational Publishing in the Americas
COMMENT:
The Audience
4:00 - 5:45 PM
On Common Ground?: State-Funded Communities at a Crossroads
CHAIR:
Larry Keating, City and Regional Planning Program, School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
PAPERS:
Amy Howard, American Studies Program, The College
of William and Mary
"Little Italy, Fisherman's Wharf, and the 'Projects'": Redevelopment Politics
at North Beach Place, San Francisco
Stuart Patterson, The Graduate Institute for the
Liberal Arts (ILA), Emory University
Community as Crossroads: Expert and Grassroots Cultures at Arthurdale and Aberdeen
Gardens, 1933 to the Present
Kelly Quinn, Departments of American and African
American Studies, University of Maryland
"Just Enough for the City": Labor and Leisure at Langston Terrace Dwellings
COMMENT:
Larry Keating
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Gone with the Wind as Cross and Crossroads
CHAIR:
Veronica Makowsky, College of Arts and Science, University of Connecticut, Storr
PAPERS:
Helen Taylor, School of English, University of Exeter
In the Track of the Wind: Scarlett's Sequels and Transnational Culture
Susan Donaldson, Department of English, College
of William and Mary
Rewriting GWTW from the Margins
John Lowe, Department of English, Louisiana State
University
The Premiere of GWTW as Cultural Crossroads
COMMENT:
Veronica Makowsky
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Ingest Chemicals, Alter Your Genes, Purchase Our Product, and Become the American Dream: Merchandising Technological Consumerism
CHAIR:
Allison McCracken, American Studies Department, DePaul University
PAPERS:
Cynthia Henthorn, Independent Scholar
Commercial Fallout: Advertising Narratives of Efficiency and Social Uplift,
1920s-1950s
Carolyn Thomas de la Peña, Department of American
Studies, University of California, Davis
Sweet Rewards: Saccharin and the Post-War Allure of Hi-Tech Taste
Christina Cogdell, Department of Liberal Studies,
California State University, Fullerton
"Don't Die, Stay Pretty": Human Genetic Engineering, Design, and Consumer Choice
Gia Medeiros-McOsker, Director of Strategy, Kindred
Keziah, Inc.
A Delicate Symbiosis: Marketing to Desire in the 21st Century
COMMENT:
The Audience
4:00 - 5:45 PM
The Ideology of Architecture: Identity, Race and Nation
CHAIR:
Elizabeth Raymond, History Department, University of Nevada, Reno
PAPERS:
George Johnston,Georgia Institute of Technology
Drafting Identity: Discourse of the Architect and the Draftsman in "Pencil Points,"
1920-1945
Arijit Sen, Department of Architecture, Ball State
University
Collaborating Across Gender, Nationality, and Race: Anglo American Women and
the Construction of Indian Ethnic Identity in the San Francisco Vedanta Temple,
1908-1910
COMMENT:
The Audience
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Branding the Globe: Clothing, Cosmetics, and Capitol Records
CHAIR:
Jeffrey Sklansky, Department of History,Oregon State University
PAPERS:
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Department of Comparative Studies,
Ohio State University
Fashion's Globalism, or How East came to Meet West
Melissa McEuen, History Program, Transylvania University
(Face)ing the Crossroads: Cosmetics Advertising and Women on the Home Front,
1942-45
John Howland, Visual and Performing Arts Department,
Rutgers University, Newark
Hollywood "Songs for Swingin' Lovers": The Capitol Jazz Aesthetic, from Music
for Martinis to Cool and Progressive
COMMENT:
Jeffrey Sklansky
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Asian-Black: Representing the Other
CHAIR:
David Palumbo-Liu, Comparative Literature Department, Stanford University
PAPERS:
Tamiko Nimura, Department of English, University
of Washington, Seattle
A Crisis in the American Novel: Nisei Daughter, Maud Martha, and Social Protest
Chong Chon-Smith, Department of Literature, University
of California, San Diego
Asian American and African American Masculinities
Deborah Whaley, Center for Cultural Studies, University
of California, Santa Cruz
Black Bodies/Yellow Masks: The Tactical Orientalist Aesthetic in Black Visual
Culture
COMMENT:
David Palumbo-Liu
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Triangulations of Asian America
CHAIR:
TBA
PAPERS:
Thy Phu, Department of English, University of Toronto,
Canada
Visuality and Visibility of Asian-American Culture: From Ethnic Enclave to Nikki
S. Lee's Projects
Lily Cho, Department of English, University of California,
Riverside
Sea Change: Asian Diasporas and Atlantic Routes
Iyko Day, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies,
University of California, Berkeley
Model Minorities and the Complicities of Resistance
COMMENT:
4:00 - 5:45 PM
The Global Face of Horror: The New York
- Madrid Connection
CHAIR:
Tatjana Gajic, Emory University
PAPERS:
Ana Anton Pacheco, Universidad
Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Not Only Bells Tolled in Madrid on March 11, 2004
Isabel Duran, Universidad
Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Broken Symbols, Broken Lives: The Human Faces of Trauma
COMMENT:
5:00
- 6:00 PM
Business Meeting of the ASA Nominating Committee
Business Meeting of the Performance of the Americas Caucus
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Expulsions: the Trail of Tears and Beyond
In commemoration of the Trail of Tears,
the forcible removal of Native Americans from Georgia in the 1830s, this plenary
session explores the historical connections and contrasts between different
events in North American history in which racialized groups have been expelled
or driven out from areas in which they resided. Discussion will include various
episodes of removal of Native Americans, Chinese Americans and Mexican Americans,
as well as the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians
during World War II.
CHAIR:
Roger Daniels, Department
of History, University of Cincinnati
PANELISTS:
Vine Deloria, Writer and Independent
Scholar
Jean Pfaelzer, American Studies
Department, University of Deleware
Joy Kogawa, Writer and Independent
Scholar
Lauro Flores, American Ethnic
Studies Department, University of Washington
COMMENT:
The Audience
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Business Meeting of the Working Class Studies Caucus
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Reception of the Visual Culture/Art History and Material
Culture Caucuses (Sponsored by the Boston University American and
New England Studies Program,Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, and the University
of Kentucky Press)
Reception of the Performance of the Americas Caucus
Reception of the University of Michigan
8:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Imagining America: Film Premiere
Imagining America: Icons of the 20th-Century
American Art was created by Jonathan Fineberg, a leading scholar and
educator in the field of modern art (author of Art Since 1940: Strategies
of Being), and John Carlin, a scholar in the field of American Art and
popular culture (founder of Funny Garbage, a company that specializes in creating
complex multimedia cultural projects). This film brings the uniqueness and
diversity of American culture in the 20th century to life through its visual
art, tracing how, over the course of the twentieth century, art provided a
space in which to re-imagine America, to visualize what we were and what we
wanted to become.
CHAIR:
Donna M. Cassidy,
American and New England Studies Program, University of Southern Maine
PANELISTS:
Jonathan Fineberg,
Department of Art History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Katherine Manthorne,
Departmen of Art History, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Catherine Gudis, Honors
Program, University of Oklahoma
COMMENT:
The Audience
‡ Indicates an International American Studies Initiative Event