Friday, November 4, 2005

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7:30 AM - 9:30 AM                                MR-2
Business Meeting of the Crossroads Advisory Board
7:30 AM - 9:30 AM                                MR-3
Business Meeting ofhe Editors of International Journals of American Studies
8:00 AM - 12:30 AM                               Renaissance East
Student Hospitality Lounge & Breakfast with Champions Series
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM African American/Diaspora Studies
Kevin Gaines (University of Michigan)
Rafia Zafar (Washington University, St. Louis)
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM "The Place of Visual Studies in American Studies"
Elizabeth Hutchinson (University of California, Berkeley)
Margaretta Lovell (Barnard College, Columbia University)
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-6
Reforming "American" Policy Space: Engaging Public Scholarship to Transform Practices of Policy Making in the US
This discussion roundtable challenges us to think strategically about how creating a different imaginary about culture, place, and power requires us to re-articulate the character of policy-making spaces that constitute democratic self-activity and social movement, and to investigate how publicly engaged intellectuals and activists can join together to forge a democratic transformation of the spaces of policy-making.
CHAIR:
Shawn Kimmel, American Culture Program, University of Michigan
PANELISTS:
Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland
Julie Ellison, Imagining America, University of Michigan
Ira Harkavy, Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander Khasnabish, Anthropology Department, McMaster University
Gordon Mitchell, Communication Department, University of Pittsburgh
Chris Strickling, Humanities Institute, University of Texas
Carly Woods, Communication Department, University of Pittsburgh
Damien Pfister, Communication Department, University of Pittsburgh
COMMENT:
Adolph Reed, Jr., Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-7
Contested Public Spaces: Barren Ground, Privileged Ground, Ground Zero
CHAIR:
Don Mitchell, Department of Geography, Syracuse University
PAPERS:
Kim Middleton, Department of English, The College of Saint Rose
Photo Opportunity: Ansel Adams and Manzanar National Historic Site
Bradford Martin, History and Social Sciences Department, Bryant University
Unsightly Huts: Shanties and the Divestment Movement
Elizabeth Boyle Machlan, Department of English, Princeton University
Panic is a Place: 9/11, the Freedom Tower, and the Architecture of Anxiety
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-18
Globalizing the Syllabus: A Conversation on the Internationalization of American Studies
This panel will discuss courses at various levels of the curriculum, and in a variety of academic settings, that have taken on this commitment of reconstituting our understanding of "America" in a global context. Panelists will offer perspectives and invite extended discussion from the audience on such questions as: What are the pedagogical, political, and/or ethical reasons for designing courses that rethink "America?"
CHAIR:
Naoki Onishi, American Studies Department, International Christian University, Japan
PANELISTS:
Eileen Leonard, Department of Sociology, Vassar College
Robert Perkinson, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai`i, Manoa
Eric Porter, Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Susan Smulyan, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Linta Varghese, American Culture Program, Vassar College
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-19
American Environmental Studies all Over (the) Place: Cultural Criticism and Cultural Work in Environmental Justice Studies
CHAIR:
Adam Sweeting, Division of Humanities and Rhetoric, Boston University
PAPERS:
Joni Adamson, English Department, University of Arizona South
American Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals? What Can Be Learned from Place-Based Environmental Justice Activism
T.V. Reed, Program in American Studies, Washington State University
Environmental Justice Cultural Criticism: Queering (post)Colonial Places in Silko's Almanac of the Dead
Randel D. Hanson, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University
The Future in Now: Arcs of Globalization, Indigenous Communities, and Climate Change
Jia-yi Cheng-Levine, Department of English, University of Houston, Downtown
Tomorrow's Environmental Leaders: Literature, the Political Economy of Environmental Racism, Situated Identities, and Community
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-8
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855): A Sesquicentennial Roundtable
In this new global era of both transnational capital and increased possibilities for communication and exchange across the borders, this panel will reflect on what the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass might still have to say to us about art, democracy, and the world we live in.
CHAIR:
Betsy Erkkila, Department of English, Northwestern University
PANELISTS:
Eric Athenot, Department of English, University of Tours, France
Peter Coviello, Department of English, Bowdoin College
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Department of English, Stanford University
Michael Moon, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University
Maria Clara Paro, Department of Comparative Literature, UNESP-Universidade Estatdual Paulista
Ken Price, Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
M. Wynn Thomas, Department of English, University of Wales, Swansea
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                Grand Ballroom North
Taking it to the Streets: Race, Memory, Violence
CHAIR:
Eduardo Obregon Pagan, Department of Language, Cultures and History, Arizona State University
PAPERS:
GusTavo Guerra Vasquez, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley
GuatamaL.A.: Race, Space and the Search for Place
Cesar Lopez, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Restoring Memory: Race, Class, and Gender at the Intersection of Calle de los Negros and Los Angeles Street
Michael LeBlanc, English Department, University of California, Riverside
The Heart of the Streets: Manhood and the Spatial Rhetoric of Violence in Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets
COMMENT:
Eduardo Obregón Pagán
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                Grand Ballroom Central
Looking Up: The Urban Landscape of New York City
CHAIR:
Maren Stange, American Studies Program, The Cooper Union
PAPERS:
Joseph Entin, English Department, City University of New York, Brooklyn College
Emigré Eyes: Urban Space and Visual Dissonance in Mid-Century New York Photography
Christoph Lindner, English Department, University of Wales, United Kingdom
Skylines of New York: Vertical Space and Urban Landscape
Matt Yockey, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University
This Island Manhattan: New York City and the Space Race in "The Fantastic Four"
COMMENT:
Maren Stange
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                Grand Ballroom South
Keeping History in Its Place: Historic Preservation in/and America
CHAIR:
Joseph Heathcott, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
PAPERS:
Melanie Hall, Museum Studies and Art History, Boston University
Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Going To? Anglo-American Preservation At Home and Abroad, 1840-1930
Sally Sims Stokes, Independent Scholar
"Mr. Rath Goes to Washington": Politics and Classism as Definers of Place in the Early Years of the National Trust, 1948-1956
J. F. Donnelly, Independent Scholar
The Art Deco District of Miami Beach: What Really Happened?
Kelli Shapiro, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
From Modernism to McDonald's: Ideology, Controversy, and the Movement to Preserve the Recent Past
COMMENT:
Joseph Heathcott
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-5
Cultural Geographies of Tourism: African Americans, 'Insurgent Public Histories,' and the Privatization of Black Authenticity
CHAIR:
Mary Corbin Sies, American Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park
PAPERS:
Clyde Woods, African American Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park
"Roses That Grew from Concrete": The Intervention of Black Working-class Tourism
Ann Denkler, History Department, Shenandoah University
Black Resorts in New York's Catskills: Peg Leg Bates Country Club and the Making of Racialized Spaces of Tourism
Marya Annette McQuirter, Independent Scholar
African American Cultural Heritage Production and the Politics of Memory
COMMENT:
Angel David Nieves, Historic Preservation Department, University of Maryland, College Park
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                Renaissance West A
Country Places: Country Music, Place and Identity
CHAIR:
Barbara Ching, Department of English, University of Memphis
PAPERS:
Kristin Solli, Department of American Studies, University of Iowa
For Love of Country: The Politics of "Americanization" at Norwegian Country & Western Music Festivals
Kristina M. Jacobsen, Department of Ethnomusicology, Columbia University
"Makin' a Country Sound:" Place-making and Country Music on the Navajo Nation
Ruth Ellen Gruber, Journalist, Author and Independent Scholar
Sauerkraut Cowboys, Indian Dreams: Country Music and "Wild Western Spaces" in Europe
Robert A. Russell, Department of Geography, University of Iowa
Nashville versus Hope: Space and Place in Alternative Country Music
COMMENT:
Barbara Ching
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                Renaissance West B
Colonias and Reservations: Critical Approaches to Rural Spaces and Struggles
CHAIR:
James Lee, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
PAPERS:
Rebecca Dolhinow, Women's Studies Program, California State University, Fullerton
Vivimos Aquí: Race and Place in the History of US Border Colonias
David Kamper, Department of American Indian Studies, San Diego State University
Picket Lines in Indian Country: Labor Activism and Self-determination
Virginia Raymond, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
Little Places, Big Pumps: Water Scarcity on the West Texas Plains
COMMENT:
James Lee
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-17
Terror and Globality: Rethinking the Sublime in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
CHAIR:
Rob Wilson, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
PAPERS:
Roberta H. Short, Department of English, University of Houston
Wieland and the Divinely Inspired Mind: American Destiny or Delusion?
Erik Rangno, Department of English, University of California, Irvine
A Mutual Joint-Stock Threat: Moby-Dick and the Market Religion of Terror
Lynn A. Searfoss, Department of English, Appalachian State University
" Medea's Virtue": Aesthetics, Violence, and Hysteria in Margaret Fuller's
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
Jeffrey Hole, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
Terror and the Negro: Melville's "Benito Cereno" and the Age of Global Purview
COMMENT:
Rob Wilson
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-16
Race, Ethnicity and Region: New England
CHAIR:
Theresa Murphy, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
PAPERS:
Lisa Goff, Department of History, University of Virginia
Irish Shantytowns of Early Nineteenth Century Lowell, Massachusetts
Elise Lemire, School of Humanities, Purchase College
The Racialized Geography of Wilderness in Concord, Massachusetts
Michael Hoberman, English Department, Fitchburg State College
How Strange it Seems: Regionalizing a Jewish Presence in Rural New England
COMMENT:
Theresa Murphy
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-15
Modernist Spaces, Modernist Faces
CHAIR:
Kirsten N. Swinth, American Studies and History Departments, Fordham University
PAPERS:
Martha Jane Nadell, English Department, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Public Faces, Private Spaces: The Portrait in the Harlem Renaissance
Nancy Berke, English Department, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York
Lola Ridge's Bridges: Modernist Poetry and Immigrant Space
Linda M. Grasso, English Department, York College & Liberal Studies Program, City University of New York, Graduate Center
The Absent Presence of Feminism in Georgia O'Keeffe's Autobiography
COMMENT:
Donna M. Cassidy, American Studies & New England Studies Program and Art Department, University of Southern Maine
Kirsten N. Swinth
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-14
Grounded: The Place of Ethnography in American Studies
CHAIR:
Andrew Ross, American Studies Department, New York University
PAPERS:
Benita Heiskanen, North American Studies Department, University of Helsinki, Finland
On the Ground and Off: A Theoretical Practice
Ben Chappell, Sociology and Cultural Studies Departments, Bridgewater College
Ethnography as the Making of Ethnographers
Jane Juffer, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University
Spaces of Positivity in Puerto Rican Chicago
Margaret Gray, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
New York Farmworker Quiescence and Transnational Migrant Homes
COMMENT:
John Caughey, American Studies Department, University of Maryland
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-13
The Case for Hawai`i's Independence from the United States - A Scholarly and Activist Roundtable Discussion

This roundtable will feature key Hawaiian activists and academics committed to exploring Hawai`i's claims to full self-determination under international law.

CHAIR:
J. Kehaulani Kauanui, American Studies and Anthropology Departments, Wesleyan University
PANELISTS:
Jon Kamakawiwo`ole Osorio, Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Anne Keala Kelly, Correspondent for Independent Native News (INN)
Randy Kekoa Quinones Akee, Political Economy and Government Department, Harvard University
David Keanu Sai, Political Science Department, University of Hawai`i, Manoa
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-12
Monumental Contests
CHAIR:
Alan Wallach, Department of Art and Art History, College of William and Mary
PAPERS:
Aaron Shaheen, Department of English, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
How the Mormons Became White: The Spatial and Racial Negotiations of the Brigham Young Monument in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah
Marcus Bruce, Department of Religion, Bates College
Imagining America: Barbara Chase-Riboud, Africa Rising and the Incarnations of Place
Siobhan Broderick, English Department, Temple University
Challenging the Nation-State on It's Own Turf: Allen Ginsberg's "Anti-War Games" in Washington D.C.
COMMENT:
Kirk Savage, History of Art and Architecture Department, University of Pittsburgh
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-11
Haunting Sites
CHAIR:
Erik R. Seeman, Department of History, State University of New York, Buffalo
PAPERS:
Patricia West, Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, National Park Service
From Haunted House to Historic Site
Kathleen Brogan, English Department, Wellesley College
Ghost Neighborhoods: Literary Responses to Urban Renewal
Judith Richardson, Department of English, Stanford University
The Haunted Roots (and Branches) of American Memory in the Gilded Age
Renee Bergland, English Department, Simmons College
From Fort Marion to Guantánamo Bay: Ghost Detainees in Paranormal/Para-national Spaces
COMMENT:
Erik R. Seeman
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-10
Locating Filipino American Studies
CHAIR:
Allan Isaac, English Department, Wesleyan University
PANELISTS:
Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, Departments of Asian American Studies and World Arts and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles
Rick Bonus, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
Theo Gonzalves, American Studies Department, University of Hawai`i, Manoa
Richard Chu, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM                                MR-9
Fractures in the Racial Imagination: Ethnic Art as Transformative Space
CHAIR:
Meta Jones, Department of English, George Washington University
PAPERS:
Crystal Anderson, Department of English Language and Literature, Ohio University
The Afro-Asiatic Floating World: The Cross-Cultural Implications of Iona Rozeal Brown's Paintings
Heather Fryer, Department of History, Creighton University
An Internee's America: Miné Okubo, Chiura Obata, and the Visualization of Race, Place and Space during World War II
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Absurdist Silhouette of Slavery: The "Brutal Imagination" of Kara Walker's Art, Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale and Thylias Moss' Slave Moth
COMMENT:
Jacquelynne Modeste, Department of English, Hampton University
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM                                Meet at Hotel's Main Entrance
Washington's First Synagogue and a Visit to the National Building Museum Tour
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-6
American Maps, American Culture: The Cartographic Fixing of Identity, Knowledge and Power
CHAIR:
Stephen Hanna, Department of Geography, University of Mary Washington
PAPERS:
Maria Lane, Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin
Mapping Life onto Mars: Early Views of the Red Planet
Matthew H. Edney, History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin
Creating New England: The Cartographic Naturalization of a Region
Denis Wood, Independent Scholar
Possessable Nature and the Field Guide Range Map
Amanda Ciafone, Program in American Studies, Yale University
Eye in the Sky: Military Aerial Photography Maps the World
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-7
Gender, Space, and Alternative Spiritualities in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
CHAIR:
John Corrigan, Institute for the Study of Emotion, Florida State University
PAPERS:
Terrie Aamodt, History Department, Walla Walla College
Heavenly Spaces, Home(ly) Spheres: Ecstasy, Control, and Gender in Shaker Gift Drawings
Heather Curtis, Department of Religion, Harvard University
Houses of Healing: Social Space, Physical Transformation and the Gendered Dynamics of Spiritual Identity in the Faith Cure Movement, 1870-1890
Ruth Doan, Department of History, Hollins University
Spirit, Body, Gender, and the Creation of an Alternative Culture among Early Methodists
COMMENT:
Brett Carroll, Department of History, California State University, Stanislaus
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-18
A Roundtable in Honor of the Work of Nellie McKay
CHAIR:
Thadious Davis, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
PANELISTS:
William Andrews, Department of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Frances Smith Foster, Department of English, Emory University
Deborah McDowell, Department of English, University of Virginia
Arnold Rampersad, Department of English, Stanford University
Werner Sollors, Department of English & American Literature, Harvard University
Lisa Woolfork, Department of English, University of Virginia
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-19
Hybridizing Flanerie
CHAIR:
James Salazar, Department of English, Temple University
PAPERS:
Brigitte Bailey, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
Reading Space: Lydia Maria Child's Letter's from New York, Critical Geography, and Antebellum Literary Criticism
Elizabeth Belanger, American Civilization Department, Brown University
Mapping the City of Virtue and Vice: Gender, Geography and Moral Order in St. Louis and Chicago
Stephen Sohn, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ethnic Flanerie and the Asian American Detective Impulse
COMMENT:
James Salazar
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-8
Crossing Over: Performing Hip-hop, Boogaloo and the Sounds of Coersion
CHAIR:
Candice Jenkins, English Department, Hunter College
PAPERS:
Monica L. Miller, English Department, Barnard College
The "African American Gentlemen's Movement": Hip-Hop Haute Couture
Jacqueline Lazu, Modern Languages Department, DePaul University
Stage, Props, and Music!: Nuyorican Street Theaters and the Musical Evolution of Spectacle
Michelle Wilkinson, Independent Scholar, National Center for Cultural Resources
Big Apple Boogaloos: Afro-Latin Music and Identity in New York City
COMMENT:
Candice Jenkins
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                Grand Ballroom North
Comparative Methodologies in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
CHAIR:
Martha Sandweiss, Amherst College
PAPERS:
Shelly Jarenski, English Department, Loyola University, Chicago
"Doomed to be a Witness and Participant": Visual Culture and Narrative Form in My Bondage, My Freedom
Tanya Sheehan, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
The Photographic Portrait Studio as Medical Space in Nineteenth-Century America
Jennifer Price, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
Showing Babies: Real and Imagined
COMMENT:
Martha Sandweiss
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                Grand Ballroom Central
The Good Life in the Cold War
CHAIR:
Elaine Tyler May, American Studies Department, University of Minnesota
PAPERS:
Heather Fisher, Department of Communications, University of Pittsburgh
"Laying Siege to that Enigmatic and Glittering Prize, the Female Consumer": Primetime Television Quiz Shows and 1950s Consumer Appeal
Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Answer to Postwar Suburbia: Playboy's Urban Lifestyle, 1953-1970
Trecia Pottinger, American Studies Department, University of Minnesota
Showcasing Homeownership: Depictions of Suburbia in Ebony Magazine (1945-1965)
COMMENT:
Elaine Tyler May
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                Grand Ballroom South
Construction Sites: Latinos, Place, and the Politics of Race
CHAIR:
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Sociology Department, American University
PAPERS:
Gabriela Sandoval, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Place and the Vote: Segregation, Latino/as, and the Voting Rights Act
Julie Dowling, Latina/o Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Latinos and the Question of Race: Racial Identities at the Texas-Mexico Border
Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky, Department of Sociology, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Work in Brooklyn, Live in Queens, Home is Mexico: Social Ties among Latino Day Laborers
Ramon Rivera-Servera, Department of Theater, Arizona State University
Building Space: Latina/o Queer Performances in the Bronx
COMMENT:
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-5
"Placing" African Americans: Exploring the Intersection of Public History and Historical Memory
CHAIR:
Leslie Brown, Department of History and African American Studies, Washington University, St. Louis
PAPERS:
Andrea Burns, Department of History, University of Minnesota
"Show Me My Soul!": The Black Museum Movement in Postwar America
Keith Mayes, Department of African and African American Studies, University of Minnesota
"To Celebrate for Many Years to Come": Black Holiday Placement, Public History, and American Calendar Politics
Derek Alderman, Department of Geography, East Carolina University
Street Naming and the Scaling of Memory: The Politics of Commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. within the African-American Community
John McKerley, Department of History, University of Iowa
The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and the Politics of Race in Progressive Era Missouri
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                Renaissance West A
Decolonizing Methodology: Women, Race and Ethnographic Meaning-Making
CHAIR:
Nadine Naber, Program in American Culture, Women's Studies Program, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
María Cotera, Program in American Culture & Women's Studies Program, University of Michigan
"Native" Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jovita González in the Borderlands of Ethnographic Meaning-Making
Monika Kaup, Department of English, University of Washington
Transcreation and Transculturation in the Afrocuban Ethnography and Folktales of Lydia Cabrera
Mérida Rúa, Latina/o Studies and American Studies, Williams College
Intervening in the Field: Elena Padilla, Scholarly Activism, and the Study of US Latinos
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                Renaissance West B
Policing Boundaries and Creating Communities: Race, Sport, and Public Space
CHAIR:
Amy Bass, History Department and Honors Program, College of New Rochelle
PAPERS:
Michael Ezra, American Multicultural Studies Department, Sonoma State University
The Travels and Travails of Muhammad Ali: Political Boundaries and Public Space
David Leonard, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Washington State University
Unnatural Obsessions: Cyberspace and Mainstream Media; Black Athletes and White Power Communities
Anne Enke, Women's Studies, History, & LGBT Studies Programs, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"They Took the Houses, but They Didn't Take the Playground": Civic Space, Softball, and Black Women's Activism
COMMENT:
C. L. Cole, Gender & Women's Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-17
Digital Public Spaces: Media, Democracy, and Activism (Online)
What counts as public space in an era of discourses that signal our historical moment as one of "time-space compression," "the end of geography"? Our roundtable situates a discussion of new media and social movements in relation to the questionable assumptions posed by the discourse of "newness" with respect to "connectivity" and the heralded "fragmented and dispersed yet highly connected" networks represented within the ICT world of globalization.
CHAIR:
Katie King, Women's Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park
PANELISTS:
Megan Boler, Theory and Policy Studies Program, University of Toronto
David Silver, Department of Communication, University of Washington
Martha McCaughey, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Appalachian State University
D. Travers Scott, Department of Communication, University of Washington
Jayne Rodgers,International Communication Program, University of Leeds
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-16
The Critical Front Takes on Space, Place and the Politics of Production
What happens when four African-American academics decide to break free of the rules of gravity and turn themselves into cartoon superheroes in order to get a better perspective on the places and spaces that define their work? The result: The Critical Front, heroes who offer their stories through film clips, cartoon images, and disembodied sounds that, taken together, map the terrains and locate the places that lay the ground for creative and intellectual projects.
CHAIR:
Chyann L. Oliver, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
PANELISTS:
Patricia J. Williams, School of Law, Columbia University
John L. Jackson, Cultural Anthropology Department, Duke University
Sheri L. Parks, American Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park
Stanford W. Carpenter, Cultural Anthropology Department, Johns Hopkins University
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-15
Resisting Exile in the "Land of the Free": Indigenous Groundwork at Colonial Intersections (Online)
CHAIR:
Malea D. Powell, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, Michigan State University
PAPERS:
Hokulani K. Aikau, Political Science Department, University of Hawai`i, Manoa
Kanaka Maoli Groundwork in the Crossroads of the Pacific
Joseph P. Gone, Psychology Department and the Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
"So I Can Be Like a Whiteman": The Mental Health Clinic as Site of Colonial Contestation in Indian Country
Lloyd L. Lee, Language, Culture, and History Department, Arizona State University West
The Time of the End: Navajo Assimilation or Independence?
Karen Jane Ohnesorge, English Department, Ottawa University
Uneasy Terrain: Image, Text, and Landscape in Contemporary Indigenous Peoples' Art
Jeffrey P. Shepherd, Department of History, University of Texas, El Paso
Contesting Space and Place at the Crossroads of Hualapai History and American Colonization
COMMENT:
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark, American Indian Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-14
Diasporic Traffic: Race, Sex and Gender in South Asian Popular Culture
CHAIR:
Gayatri Gopinath, Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of California
PAPERS:
Amit Rai, Department of English, Florida State University
Ultimately Bollywood
Neetu Khanna, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
Identity Relocation and Homoeroctic Cinematic Spaces in Bollywood
Vanita Reddy, Department of English, University of California, Davis
The Feminization of "Indian" Culture: Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Divakaruni, and Bharati Mukherjee as Feminine and Feminist Ethnographers in South Asian Diasporic Fiction
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-13
From the Ground UP: Teaching and Transformation in American Studies
This roundtable/workshop session will explore some of the ways in which the panelists' participation in a national scholarship of teaching and learning project, The Visible Knowledge Project (VKP), has fed, nurtured, and supported their work in American Studies. At the core of this session is this question: What difference does inquiry into teaching and learning make in the experience of teachers and learners in American Studies classrooms?
CHAIR:
Michael Coventry, Communication, Culture, and Technology Program, Georgetown University
PANELISTS:
Stephanie Tingley, English Department and American Studies Program, Youngstown State University
Martha Pallante, History Department and American Studies Program, Youngstown State University
Jo Paoletti, American Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park
Lynne Adrian, American Studies Department, University of Alabama
Edward Tang, American Studies Department, University of Alabama
Lawrence Hanley, English Department, City College of New York
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-12
Cold War Language(s) and Asia/America
CHAIR:
Xiao-huang Yin, American Studies Department, Occidental College
PAPERS:
R. John Williams, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Where Have All the Multilinguals Gone?; Or, How to Quiet American Multilingualism: American Internationalism during the Long 1950s
Wen Jin, English Department, Northwestern University
Transfiguring US Internationalism: Chinese Diasporic Literature in the Reagan Era
Yuan Shu, Department of English, Texas Tech University
From Mythology to Technology: the Representation of China and Chinese America in Maxine Hong Kingston's Women Warrior and China Men
Crystal Parikh, American Studies Program, New York University
"A Globe within Him": Writing the Asian American Subject of Human Rights
COMMENT:
Jinqi Ling, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-11
Bridging the Activist/Academic Divide?: A Dialogue on Researching Contemporary Activism
Activists and public intellectuals continue to struggle over the role of intellectuals in social change, asking what responsibilities accompany the privileges of having time and resources to pursue knowledge, questioning the usefulness of academic work in struggles for liberation and justice, and recognizing the way that increasing specialization and the rootlessness of academic life separates scholars from worlds beyond higher education. In this session, activists and academics will discuss the challenges and possibilities for collaborating research and teaching, with an emphasis on generating concrete practices and methods for directing and designing research projects that benefit underserved communities and struggles for social justice.
CHAIR:
Sharon Doetsch, English and Women's Studies Departments, University of California, Santa Barbara
PANELISTS:
Darby Hickey, Transgender Activist and Journalist
C. Nicole Mason, Executive Director, National Women's Alliance
Avelynn Mitra, Musician & Activist, Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Sisters
Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, Lesbian Feminist Antiracist Activist
Donna Payne, Senior Constituency Organizer, Human Rights Campaign
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-10
Grief's Memorabilia: The Place of Artifacts in American Mourning Practices
CHAIR:
Ann Schofield, American Studies Program, University of Kansas
PAPERS:
Suzanne Smith, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University
"Laid Out in 'Big Mama's Kitchen'": African Americans and the Personalized Theme Funeral
Kristin Hass, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Inscribing Sites of Memory: Resistant? Transformative? Sacred? Tracking Public Memorial Practice on the National Mall
Valerie Neal, Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Mourning Our Astronauts: Public Commemoration after the Space Shuttle Tragedies
Michael Allen, Department of History, North Carolina State University
Artifacts of Loss: Lost Bodies and Lost Wars in American Mourning
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                MR-9
Music, Blackness, and Afro-Asian Re-Racialization in Postwar Global Cultures
CHAIR:
David W. Stowe, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Program, Michigan State University
PAPERS:
Masumi Izumi, Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University, Japan
"What is the Color of Love?": Community-based Trans-racial Music of Nobuko Miyamoto
Walter Lee Sistrunk, Jr., African American and African Studies Department, Michigan State University
Invincible Shaolin "Microphone Palm Blast": Recognizing the Cross-Cultural Interaction of African and Asian Americans in Hip Hop
Yusuke Torii, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
Democratization with Syncopation: Jazz and Race Consciousness in Postwar Japan
COMMENT:
David W. Stowe
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM                                Library of Congress
Primary Places I: Material Culture Resources at the Library of Congress (Workshop at the Library of Congress Sponosored by the Material Culture Caucus)
LIMITED TO 20 PARTICIPANTS
In this hands-on workshop, participants meet with Library of Congress curators to examine rare primary materials--including artifacts, manuscripts, maps, books, prints, and photographs--pertinent to the study of space, place, and material culture. Please see http://www.footnotesrising.org/asa05/ for details and registration information.
FACILITATOR:
Susan Garfinkel, Library of Congress
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM                                MR-4
Business Meeting of the International Committee
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM                                MR-3
Business Meeting of the Keeping and Creating American Communities Project, Phase II
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM                                MR-2
Secondary Education Day Luncheon -
Richard Yarborough,Multiculturalism in the Academy: Hard-Won Victories, Ongoing Struggles, and New Challenges
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-6
One Foot In, One Foot Out: Doing American Studies within and beyond the Academy
CHAIR:
Susan Douglas, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Carlo Rotella, American Studies Program, Boston College
Magazine Editors are Dissertation Advisers Who Pay You by the Word
Josh Kun, English Department, University of California, Riverside
Making Connections, Making Sense
Kathy M. Newman, English Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Altered States: How I Became a TV Critic for the Alternative Press
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University
Bloggership and Scholarship: How I Use My Blog to Organize My Thoughts, Teach Courses, Reach a Bigger Audience, Sell Books, and Vent
COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-7
The Environmental Imagination: Toward a Green History of American Art
CHAIR:
Alan Braddock, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University
PAPERS:
Christoph Irmscher, Department of English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Medusae on Your Mind: Scientific Illustration as Ecocritical Art
Gray Sweeney, Department of Art History, Arizona State University
Geology and Ecology in the Art of Gilbert Munger
Mark White, Department of Art History, Oklahoma State University
Alexandre Hogue's Passion: Ecology, Agribusiness, and The Crucified Land
Amy Lyford, Department of Art History and Visual Art, Occidental College
Landscape, Nation, and Sculptural Labor in Isamu Noguchi's Monument to the Plough
COMMENT:
Judith Fryer Davidov, Department of English and American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-18
Undisciplined Public Practice I
What happens when the intellectual ground of American studies research and teaching shifts from the institutional geography of the university to off-campus sites of public engagement? What new knowledge practices and forms of collaboration does this shift require and generate? These two roundtables ("Undisciplined Public Practice I and II") take up these questions by exploring how recent American Studies scholarship produced with and oriented toward non-academic constituencies challenges the field's (inter)disciplinary assumptions about how knowledge is and can be made.
CHAIR:
Bruce Burgett, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences & American Studies Programs, University of Washington, Bothell
PANELISTS:
George Sánchez, American Studies, University of Southern California
Pamela Perry, Community Studies Program, University of California, Santa Cruz
Gail Dubrow, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Planning Departments, University of Washington
Rod Ferguson, American Studies Department, University of Minnesota
COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-19
American Studies, Religion, and the Left
CHAIR:
Gayle Wald, English Department, George Washington University
PAPERS:
Judith Casselberry, Africana Studies Department, Barnard College
"We'll Understand It Better By and By": Black American Pentecostalism and the Politics of Respectability
Ann Pellegrini, Performance Studies Department and Religious Studies Program, New York University
AKA Democracy: Religious Freedom, Progressive Values, and the Future of an Illusion
David Harrington Watt, Department of History, Temple University
What has "Muslim Fundamentalism" Done?
COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-8
Visual Emotion: Private Feelings in Public Spaces
CHAIR:
Joel Pfister, Department of English, Wesleyan University
PAPERS:
Guy Jordan, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland
Places of the Heart: Vision, Desire, and Annihilation in Frederic Church's "Heart of the Andes"
John Kasson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Behind Shirley Temple's Smile: Children and the Commodification of Feeling
Cynthia Mills, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Grief, Wonder, and Emotional Regulation in the Cemetery
COMMENT:
Joel Pfister
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                Grand Ballroom North
Critical Geographies across the Pacific
CHAIR:
Robert Hayashi, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
PAPERS:
Tatsushi Narita, Department of British and American Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya City University, Japan
Transpacific T.S. Eliot
David Palumbo-Liu, Modern Thought & Literature Department, Stanford University
Literary, Spatial, and Social Form in Henry James and R.P. Blackmur
Greg Robinson, Département d'histoire, Université du Québec À Montréal, Canada
A Japanese Yankee at Howard University?: The American Career of Jenichiro Oyabe
COMMENT:
Mari Yoshihara, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai`i
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                Grand Ballroom Central
Communities: Planned, Imagined, Intentional
CHAIR:
Sarah Schrank, Department of History, California State University, Long Beach
PAPERS:
Kathryn Oberdeck, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Destination Kohler" and the Branding of Place in Twentieth-Century America
Andrew Berish, Musicology Department, University of California, Los Angeles
I Dreamed of her and Avalon: Modernity and Utopia in Early Swing
Daniel Chamberlain, Critical Studies Program, School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California
Contemporary Utopias: Playa Vista and the New Urbanism
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                Grand Ballroom South
Up on Housing Project Hill: A Roundtable Discussion of Bob Dylan's Masked and Anonymous
This roundtable brings together scholars from a range of academic disciplines and scholarly interests—popular music studies, American studies, literary studies, ethnic studies, African American studies, and history, to name a few—to discuss Bob Dylan's ambitious attempt to grapple with American culture, history, identity, geography, and literally, its place in the world in the world, physically, culturally, and spiritually. Presenters will offer remarks and then extend the dialogue to the audience.
CHAIR:
Barry Shank, Comparative Studies Department, Ohio State University
PANELISTS:
Rachel Rubin, American Studies Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston
James Smethurst, Afro-American Studies Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Michael Denning, American Studies Department, Yale University
W. T. Lhamon, Jr., Department of English, Florida State University
Judith Smith, American Studies Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston
COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-5
Walden Pond in Aztlán?: Intersections of Chicana/o Writing and the Environment
CHAIR:
Tey Diana Rebolledo, Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of New Mexico
PAPERS:
Priscilla Ybarra, English Department, Rice University
"Nature Writers" from El Río Bravo: Jovita Gonzáles and Américo Paredes
José Aranda, English Department, Rice University
The Predicament of Place in Early Mexican American Literature
María Herrera-Sobek, Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Environment and Nationalist Poetics in the Chicano/a Movement
COMMENT:
Tey Diana Rebolledo, University of New Mexico
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                Renaissance West A
Space Still Available: Using Non-theatrical Space to Legitimate Popular American Performance
CHAIR:
Susan Clarke, Campbell Performing Arts Center, Groton School
PAPERS:
Jennifer Schlueter, Department of Theatre, Ohio State University
Stagecraft in the Gallery: Legitimating American Theatre as Art
Peach Pittenger, Department of Theatre, Ohio State University
Sophie Tucker: Going Clubbing with America's Yiddish Red Hot Mama
Mark Evans Bryan, Department of Theatre, Denison University
"Talking Machine" Rubes: Contesting and Transforming Rural Identity in the Urban Vaudeville Theatre and in the Middle Class Home
COMMENT:
Susan Clarke
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                Renaissance West B
Secularization Theory and American Studies: Religion in the Global/Transatlantic Sphere
The roundtable discussion sets out to relate the repercussions of the secularization debate to the internationalizing, comparative redefinition of American Studies.
CHAIR:
Klaus J. Milich, Department of American Literary and Cultural Studies, Dartmouth College
PANELISTS:
Giles Gunn, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Günter H. Lenz, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universität
Donald E. Pease, Liberal Studies Program, Dartmouth College
John Carlos Rowe, English Department, University of Southern California
Liam Kennedy, Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College, Dublin

Malini Schueller, Department of English, University of Florida, Gainsville

COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-17
Then and Now: Early American and Contemporary Society
CHAIR:
Dennis Moore, English Department, Florida State University
PAPERS:
Rafia Zafar, English Department, Washington University, St. Louis
A Dyspeptic's Utopia: William Alcott and the Legacy of Vegetarian Reform
Ann Kibbey, Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder
From Protestant Calling to White Collar Sweatshop: The Changing Lifestyle of Work
Donald Grinde, Jr., American Studies Department, State University of New York, Buffalo
Towards a Multicultural Space in Debating the Native American
COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-16
Geography on the Body: "Oriental" Performance in 20th C.
CHAIR:
Jolie Sheffer, English Department, University of Virginia
PAPERS:
Lisa Botshon, Humanities Department, University of Maine, Augusta
Winnifred Eaton's Amerasian Geographies
Sylvia Chong, English and American Studies Departments, University of Virginia
Yellowface of a Different Color: Richard Loo and Tom Neal Performing "Japanese" in World War II Films
SanSan Kwan, Theatre Arts and Dance Department, California State University, Los Angeles
A Geography of Asian America: Internment, Segregation and the Chop Suey Circuit
COMMENT:
Jolie Sheffer
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-15
Locating Ballers and B-Boys in the Class to the Club...and Beyond: The Construction of Space, Place, and Racial Identities in Urban America
CHAIR:
Nitasha Sharma, American Studies Department, Amherst College
PAPERS:
Oliver Wang, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley
Mobile Sound and Identity Mobility: Filipino American DJs in the San Francisco Bay Area
Joseph Schloss, Department of Music, Tufts University
"It Doesn't Count Unless We Get Down on Concrete": Power, Performance and B-boy Environments
A. A. Akom, Department of Urban Sociology and Department of Black Studies, San Francisco State University
Basketball, Barbershops & Beats: Some Observations on the Use of the Word Nigga and Urban Youth Culture
Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade, Department of Raza Studies & Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies Program, San Francisco State University
Ethnographic Inquiry: Space of an Urban High School English Class in San Francisco's East Bay Area
COMMENT:
Mark Anthony Neal, Black Popular Culture Program, Duke University
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-14
Direct Action and Political Culture: Taking Space from the 1960's to the Present
CHAIR:
Eric Lott, Department of English, University of Virginia
PAPERS:
Franny Nudelman, Department of English, University of Virginia
Political Suicide: Susan Sontag's Trip to Hanoi
Laura Wexler, American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Yale University
Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
Grace Hale, Department of History, University of Virginia
New Right Rebels in a New Left Style
COMMENT:
Eric Lott
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-13
Cinematic Traditions and Repetitions: Legacies of African American Space and Time
CHAIR:
Nicole Fleetwood, American Studies Department, Rutgers University
PAPERS:
David Gerstner, Department of Media Culture, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Snap! Dance!: The Defiant Aesthetic Form of Marlon Riggs
Jacqueline Stewart, English Department and Cinema & Media Studies Program, University of Chicago
The Spatial Imagination in the Films of Spencer Williams
Keith Harris, School of Interdisciplinary Arts, School of Film , and Department of African American Studies, Ohio University
Cinematic Entrails: Belly and the Geography of the Beast
Paula Massood, Department of Film, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Remembering the Past, Seeing the Future: History, Place, and Visuality in Zeinabu Irene Davis's Compensation (1999)
COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-12
Back to the Blackboard Jungle: America's "Drama of Teenage Terror" Turns Fifty
CHAIR:
James Gilbert, History Department, University of Maryland
PAPERS:
Bill Bush, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Momism without Mom: Masculinity and Urban Crisis in the Blackboard Jungle
Daniel Cavicchi, Department of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences, Rhode Island School of Design
Documentary, Disorder, and Dancing: the Perverse Reception of Blackboard Jungle
Adam Golub, Education Studies Department, Guildford College
From The Blackboard Jungle to Battle Royale: Gakkyu Hokai ("Classroom Collapse") in Japan
Jeffrey Melnick, Division of History and Society, Babson College
"Meanwhile, Back in the States": The Jungle in 1950s American Popular Culture
COMMENT:
James Gilbert
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-11
Transatlantic Circuits of Culture
CHAIR:
Theresa Leininger-Miller, School of Art, University of Cincinnati
PAPERS:
Brooke Blower, History Department and Writing Program, Princeton University
The Specter of Americanization in Interwar Paris
Alexandra Vázquez, Performance Studies Department, New York University
"Contingo en las Distancia": Harlem Meets Havana in Montmartre
Christine Sprengler, Visual Arts Department, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Remembering the American Dream in Postwar Liverpool: Terence Davies' "Distant Voice, Still Lives"
COMMENT:
Theresa Leininger-Miller, School of Art, University of Cincinnati
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-10
Native American Iconographies
CHAIR:
Mary Lawlor, Department of English, Muhlenberg College
PAPERS:
Mark Rifkin, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago
Metaphors of Barbarism: The Comanche-ization of Americans in Juan Sequín's Memoirs
Rachel Leibowitz, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Indigenous by Design: The Spanish Pueblo Revival Style and Federal Occupation in the Capital of the Navajo Nation
Paul Dambowic, Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute
Reorienting the Smithsonian: The National Museum of the American Indian Faces East
COMMENT:
Erika Bsumek, Department of American Studies, University of Texas
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM                                MR-9
Reading in the White City: The Woman's Building Library of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
CHAIR:
Sarah Wadsworth, English Department Marquette University
PAPERS:
Bernice Gallagher, English Department, Lake Forest College
Illinois Women Novelists at the World's Columbian Exposition
Angela Sorby, English Department, Marquette University
The Caryatid's Complaint: Poetry and Idealism in the Woman's Building Library
Anne Lundin, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Little Pilgrim's Progress: Children's Literature Horizons at the Fair
Barbara Hochman, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Uncle Tom's Cabin at the Columbian Exposition, 1893
COMMENT:
Sarah Wadsworth
12:30 AM - 2:00 PM                                MR-4
Luncheon of the ASA-JAAS Advisory Project
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM                                Library of Congress
Primary Places II: Early American Resources at the Library of Congress (Library of Congress Workshop Sponsored by the Early American Matters Caucus)
LIMITED TO 20 PATICIPANTS
In this hands-on workshop, participants meet with Library of Congress curators to examine rare primary materials--including manuscripts, maps, books, prints, and photographs--pertinent to the study of space and place in early America. Please see http://www.footnotesrising.org/asa05/ for details and registration information.
FACILITATOR:
Jurretta Jordan Heckscher, Library of Congress
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM                                MR3
Business Meeting of the Secondary Education Committee
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM                                Renaissance East
Talkshop II: Teaching American Studies in a Time of Terror: Comparative Views from around the World - An Audience-Participation Discussion, coordinator Michael Frisch, State University of New York, Buffalo
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM                                Meet at the Hotel's Main Entrance
Photography Collections a the National Portrait Gallery Tour
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM                                AFI SILVER THEATRE - SILVER SPRING
K16 Workshop - Teaching History and Literature through the Lens

The AFI SIlver Theatre and Cultural Center is at 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD (just two blocks north of Silver Spring Metro Station on the red line).

FACILITATORS:
Glenn Wallach, Horace Mann School
Vickie Adamson, Montgomery Blair High School
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
The Impure Artifact: The Place of Museums in American Studies
This panel is comprised of academic and museum professionals who work across the aisles and dare to speak about it. Rather than another depressing panel about who misunderstands what, this session explores the place of museums and the study of them in the marketplace of ideas. The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is located at 12th and Constitution Ave., NW. The best Metro stop is Federal Triangle on either the Blue or the Orange lines. You can transfer to the Blue or Orange line from the Red line at Metro Center. Carmichael Auditorium is located just inside the Constitution entrance.
CHAIR:
Katherine Ott, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
PANELISTS:
Shirley Wajda, Department of History, Kent State University
Barbara Clark Smith, National Museum of American History, Division of Social History, Smithsonian Institution
Adrienne Hood, Department of History, University of Toronto
Marvette Pérez, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-6
Racial Geographies across the Pacific
CHAIR:
Swan Kim, Graduate Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
PAPERS:
Stephen Knadler, Department of English, Spelman College
Policing the Isthmus: Panama and the Trans-Pacific Geography of a New Negro
Masami Usui, English Department, Doshisha University, Japan
Remapping Hawaii and Reconstructing Localism in Lee Cataluna's Plays
Jillian Sandell, Department of Women's Studies, San Francisco State University
Lost in Transnation, Found in Translation: The Floating Worlds of Iona Rozeal Brown and Sofia Coppola
COMMENT:
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Department of English, Cornell University
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-7
The Excesses of Consumer Capitalism: The United States-Mexico Borderlands, 1910-1990
CHAIR:
Amy Greenberg, Women's Studies and History Departments, Pennsylvania State University
PAPERS:
Alexis McCrossen, History Department, Southern Methodist University
A Transnational History of Borderlands' Consumerism
Melissa Gauthier, Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montreal
Las Segundas: An Historical Ethnography of Secondhand Clothing Consumption along the US-Mexico Border
COMMENT:
Amy Greenberg
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-18
Undisciplined Public Practice II
A continuation of "Undisciplined Public Practice I"
CHAIR:
Todd Vogel, Trinity Institute on Urban Learning and Action, Trinity College
PANELISTS:
Jack Tchen, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program, New York University
Janice Ross, Drama Department, Stanford University
Megan Boler, Theory and Policy Studies Program, OISE/University of Toronto
Sherry Linkon, American Studies, Youngstown State University
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-19
Outside/Inside/Beyond Jim Crow: The Strange Choreographies of Racial Segregation
CHAIR:
Marlon Ross, Department of English, University of Virginia
PAPERS:
Tavia Nyong'o, Performance Studies Department, New York University
Why Was Jim Crow called Jim Crow? The Strange Career of a Performance Effigy, 1828-1896
Jayna Brown, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, Riverside
From the Point of View of the Pavement
Shane Vogel, English Department, University of Indiana
Of Nostalgia and the Cotton Club: Lena Horne's Critical Memory
COMMENT:
Marlon Ross
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-8
Race-ing Islam
CHAIR:
Moustafa M. Bayoumi, Department of English, City University of New York, Brooklyn College
PAPERS:
Evelyn Alsultany, Center for Arab American Studies, University of Michigan, Dearborn
"Going Muslim": News Narratives of Terrorism and Conversion in the Cases of John Walker Lindh, Jose Padilla, and John Allen Muhammad
Sylvia W. Chan, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
"Not Without My Radical Fundamentalist Islamic Terrorists": Public Enemies in Multicultural America
Sohail Daulatzai, Comparative Literature Department, University of California, Los Angeles
A War of Dreams: Race and the Black Radical Imagination in Sam Greenlee's Baghdad Blues
Junaid Rana, Asian American Studies and Anthropology Departments, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Shape of Islamophobia
COMMENT:
Moustafa M. Bayoumi
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                Grand Ballroom North
Performance
CHAIR:
Ilka Saal, Department of English, University of Richmond
PAPERS:
Ethan Shoshan, Independent Scholar
Paper Bombs Performance
Karin Bolender, Creative Writing Program, University of Georgia &
Jack Christian, Independent Scholar
The Dead Car Crossing
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                Grand Ballroom Central
Performing Coed: Disciplining the Student Body
CHAIR:
Tracyann Fonseca Williams, The New School for Social Research, City University of New York
PAPERS:
Audrey Russek, American Studies Department, University of Texas, Austin
Designing the Student Body at Smith College: Femininity, Transgression, and the Case of Marjorie Allen Seiffert, 1875-1910
Holly Middleton, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
Constructing Radcliffe: Access, Assessment and Divisions of Labor in the Nineteenth Century
Elizabeth Boyd, American and Southern Studies Program, Vanderbilt University
Dream House: Romancing a Past of Privilege and Whiteness One Column at a Time
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                Grand Ballroom South
Naming and Claiming: The Politics of Community
CHAIR:
Nayan Shah, Department of History, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
Rosamond Rodman, Religious Studies Department, Macalester College
Naming a Place Nicodemus
Amy Howard, Center for Civic Engagement, University of Richmond
Uncommon Grounds: Community and Spatial Politics in a San Francisco Public Housing Project
Catherine Zipf, Cultural and Historic Preservation Program, Salve Regina University
Irish American Architecture: The Southern Thames Street Neighborhood in Newport, Rhode Island
COMMENT:
Nayan Shah
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-5
Varieties of Contemporary Women's Religious Experience
CHAIR:
R. Marie Griffith, Department of Religion, Princeton University
PAPERS:
Trysh Travis, Women's Studies Department, University of Florida
Spirit and Selfhood in Contemporary Women's Devotional Readers
Erin Smith, American Studies Department, University of Texas, Dallas
Reading The DaVinci Code: Heresy, Conspiracy, and the Sacred Feminine
Paul Gutjahr, English Department, Indiana University, Bloomington
Marginalizing God: Popular Christianity and the New Teenage Bible Sensation, Revolve
COMMENT:
R. Marie Griffith
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                Renaissance West A
Our Promiscuous Ways: Queer Methodology, Interdisciplinarity, and the Legacy of Martin Duberman
CHAIR:
Minnie Bruce
PAPERS:
Micki McElya, Department of American Studies, University of Alabama
The "Romance of Reunion?": Reading the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery
Mark Turner, Department of English, King's College, University of London
Cruising Modernity, or, The Pack-Donkey's Way
Meredith Raimondo, Comparative American Studies Program, Oberlin College
Queer Questions: Interdisciplinarity, History, and Activism in AIDS Cultural Criticism
COMMENT:
Martin Duberman, Lehman College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                Renaissance West B
Locating Self, Nation, and Race in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Periodical's "World"
CHAIR:
Wayne A. Wiegand, School of Information Studies, Florida State University
PAPERS:
Ronald J. Zboray, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh &
Mary Saracino Zboray, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh
Visualizing Race and Nation: Wood Engravings in Harper's Monthly and Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion
Carla L. Peterson, Department of English, University of Maryland
The Politics of the Pseudonym: Debating African-Americaness in Frederick Douglass' Paper
Linda Frost, Department of English, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Locating Domestic Power: American Freedom, U.S. Imperialism, Racialized Women, and the Harem in Nineteenth-Century Popular Periodicals
COMMENT:
Joshua Brown, American Social History Project, City University of New York
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-17
Getting Funded in the Humanities (Workshop)
A National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) technical assistance workshop for college, university faculty administrators interested in strengthening and improving their humanities programs. Senior Program Officers Dr. Sonia Feigenbaum and Dr. Gary Henrickson of the Education Division at the NEH will lead and facilitate a grant-writing workshop pertaining to funding opportunities with the NEH.
CHAIRS:
Sonia Feigenbaum, Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities
Gary Henrickson, Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-16
Figuring Labor: The Body at Work in Early Twentieth-Century Visual Culture (Sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus)
CHAIR:
Linda Kim, Art and American Studies Departments Colby College
PAPERS:
Jessica Lee May, History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley
Walker Evans and the South: Work as the Image of Time Past
Sharon Corwin, Colby College Museum of Art
Male Subjectivity and the Crisis of Labor
George Speer, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Turrets and Tanktops: Fascist Contagion and the American Antibodies
Ellen Wiley Todd, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University
Garment Workers on the Wall: Labor, Society, and Politics in Ernest Fiene's History of the Needlecraft Industry
COMMENT:
Erika Doss, Art and Art History Department, University of Colorado, Boulder
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-15
Imaginary Architecture: Between Fictional and Material Reality
CHAIR:
Ulla Haselstein, Department of Literature, John F. Kennedy Institute
PAPERS:
Laura Bieger, Department of Culture, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University
"Come Fly with Me"—Immersion Environments and Imaginary Journeys as Current Themes of Las Vegas Architecture
Annette Geiger, College of Media, Architecture, and Design, University of the Arts, Berlin
The Natural & the Hyperreal: Imaginary Skyscrapers in a Transatlantic Perspective
Andrew Gross, Department of Literature, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University Berlin
Daniel Libeskind's WTC Project: Architecture, (Inter)nationalism and the Space of Moral Consensus
Sieglinde Lemke, Department of Culture, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University, Berlin
"Yearning to Breathe Free": Heterotopia and Counter-Memory in Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-14
Contentious Spaces: Cinema and the Architecture of War
CHAIR:
Katherine Joslin, English Department, Western Michigan University
PAPERS:
Adriana Alves de Paula Martins, Department of English, Portuguese Catholic University, Viseu
Contested Media and Politics: Gore Vidal and the Architecture of War in American Cinema
Christiane Schonfeld, German Department and Huston School of Film & Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway
Representing Rubble: Post-War Cinema and the US Occupation of Germany
Elisabeth Bronfen, English and American Studies Departments, University of Zurich
Military Law in Hollywood: Rogues, Rogue Nations and Martial Court Investigations
Isabel Capeloa Gil, Department of Languages and Literatures, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
"The Home Is the Warrior's Resting Place?" The Family as Contested Place of Endearment
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-13
Labor, Emotion and Material Culture in the Making of the Nineteenth-Century "Home," (Sponosred by the Material Culture Caucus)
CHAIR:
Wendy Gamber, Department of History, Indiana University
PAPERS:
Brandy Parris, English Department, University of Washington
Household Duties Necessary to Social Happiness
Elizabeth White Nelson, History Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Sustaining Nourishment: Images and Artifacts of 19th-Century Domestic Economy
Robin Veder, American Studies Department, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
Pastoralized Labor: Love and Knowledge in the Marketing and Work of Nineteenth-Century Parlor Gardening
Helen Sheumaker, American Studies Department, Miami University
Acts of Charity: Women and Secondhand Goods in Nineteenth-Century America
COMMENT:
Wendy Gamber
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-12
The Anti-Imperial Imaginary and the Global Color Line
CHAIR:
Kevin Gaines, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
PAPERS:
Rebecca Schreiber, American Studies Department, University of New Mexico
Circuits of Freedom: African-American Artists, Postwar Mexico and the Black Movement
Michelle Stephens, English Department, Mount Holyoke College
Race and Religion at Bandung: Richard Wright and Third World Geopolitics

Cynthia Young, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Culture, Decolonization, and African Diasporic Identities
COMMENT:
Kevin Gaines
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-11
Race Building: Eugenics and the Built Environment
CHAIR:
Carl Nightingale, Department of History, University of Massachusetts
PAPERS:
Laura Lovett, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Bedroom Communities": Eugenics and the Pro-natalist Suburb
Randall Mason, University of Pennsylvania
Eugenics and Historic Preservation: Madison Grant and the Bronx River Parkway
David Brody, Parsons School of Design
The "Racial Ideal": George Howe, Modernism, and Design in the 1930s
COMMENT:
Christina Cogdell, Art History Department, College of Santa Fe
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-10
Interdisciplinary and International in the Multiversity
This roundtable will consider the relation between two critical orientations in contemporary American Studies: towards interdisciplinary research and teaching, on the one hand, and towards internationalism, on the other.
CHAIR:
Tom Foster, English Department, University of Washington, Seattle
PANELISTS:
Eva Cherniavsky, Department of English, University of Washington, Seattle
Jan Radway, Program in Literature, Duke University
Christopher Newfield, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Yoonmee Chang, English Department, Indiana University
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM                                MR-9
Reality TV: Reframing Televisual Space
CHAIR:
Peter Parolin, Department of English, University of Wyoming
PANELIST:
Leigh Edwards, Department of English, Florida State University
Home Makeover: Reality TV's New Domestic Space
Mark Andrejevic, Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa
Monitoring Space: Staging "Behind-the-Scenes" Surveillance on Reality TV
June Deery, Department of Literature and Media Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Interior Design: Re-making Person and Place on Reality TV
COMMENT:
Peter Parolin
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM                                Congressional Halls A, B & C
Celebration of ASA Authors
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM                                MR-2
Networking Meeting of the Secondary Education Committee
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM                                MR-4
Business Meeting of the Early American Matters Caucus
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM                                MR-6
Evangelicals in America and the World
CHAIR:
Melani McAlister, American Studies, George Washington University
PAPERS:
Tanya Erzen, Comparative Studies Department, Ohio State University
Therapy, Evangelicalism and Faith-based Politics
Andrea Smith, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Race Reconciliation and Evangelical Prison Organizing
Mark Hulsether, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee
Evangelicals and the Protestant Left
Heather Hendershot, Media Studies, Queens College
Fundamentalism, Neo-Evangelicalism, and the Christian Right
COMMENT:
Audience
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM                                MR-7
Mind, Body, Technology, Salvation
CHAIR:
Sook-Won Shin, English Department, Sogang University
PAPERS:
Jae Roe, English Department, Sogang University
Retrieving "Lost Luggage": Trauma, Narrative and Embodiment of Gibson's Pattern Recognition
Bong Eun Kim, English Department, Kosin University
Can Chuang Tzu Save Helen in Richard Powers' Galatea 2.2?
Chae Young Kim, Religious Studies Department, Sogang University
Religion, Immortality and Gibson's Neuromancer
COMMENT:
Audience
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM                                MR-18
Roundtable in Honor of the Work of Alan Trachtenberg
We have organized this panel to explore the work of Alan Trachtenberg. Trachtenberg will be one of the three scholars so honored. Panelists are neither colleagues nor students.
CHAIR:
Casey Blake, American Studies and History Departments, Columbia University
PANELISTS:
Robin Kelsey, History of Art and Architecture Department, Harvard University
Elizabeth Blackmar, History Department, Columbia University
Brad Evans, Department of English, Rutgers University
Richard Haw, Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
COMMENT:
Alan Trachtenberg, English and American Studies Deparments, Yale University
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM                                MR-19
Confronting Racism: A Discussion between Middle East Studies and American Studies Scholars
A follow-up to the 2004 ASA Convention panel, "Between Iraq and a Hard Place," this roundtable discussion between scholars of Middle East Studies and American Studies addresses one of the most difficult issues of our times: the violent racism set loose in the wake of 9/11 against people of Middle Eastern cultures and how this racism creates profound differences for teaching about the Middle East at this particular historical moment of American Imperialism.
CHAIR:
Amy Kaplan, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
PANELISTS:
Minoo Moallem, Women's Studies Department, San Francisco State University
Ella Shohat, Departments of Art & Public Policy, Middle Eastern Studies, and Comparative Literature, New York University
Eve Troutt Powell, Department of History, University of Georgia
Ahmed Dalal, Department of Arabic, Georgetown University
COMMENT:
Timothy Powell, Department of English, University of Georgia
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM                                MR-8
Multicultural Memories: Preserving and Interpreting "Raced" Spaces
CHAIR:
Kenneth Breisch, School of Architecture, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Hillary Jenks, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Anglo California, Mexican Missions, and the "Spanish" Past: Negotiating Race in the Borderlands of Memory
Amy Ware, American Studies Department, University of Texas, Austin
Oklahoma's Will Rogers: Celebrity, Representation, and Memory in the Sooner State
Kim A. O'Connell, Historic Preservation Program, Goucher College
"Catching Two Fish with Two Hands": Preserving Vietnamese Heritage in Virginia's "Little Saigon"
Melissa A. Kotulski, American Studies Department, Trinity College
Reflection of Neighborhood Change: Film Exhibition, Preservation, and Latinos in Hartford's Lyric Theatre
COMMENT:
Kenneth Breisch
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM                                Grand Ballroom North
Place, Community, Commitment
CHAIR:
Stephanie LeMenager, English Department, University of California at Santa Barbara
PAPERS:
Krista Comer, English Department, Rice University
Committing to the Wave: Surfing, Community, Critique
Tovis Page, Department of Religion, Harvard University
Metanoia: Identity Formation and Commitment at Grailville
Ramon Saldivar, English Department, Stanford University
Imaginary Citizens and Transnational Sites
COMMENT:
Stephanie LeMenager
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM