Sunday, October 15, 2006
301. Singled Out: Young Women, Femininity and Sexuality in 1960s-70s Popular Culture
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
To Be Announced.
PAPERS:
Katherine Lehman, University of New Mexico
Censoring the "Single Girl": Young Women, Independence and Inhibition in
Early 1960s Cinema
Miriam K Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Babysitters Beware!: Impulses, Ideologies, and Girls' Employment in the 1960s
Kirsten Pike, Northwestern University
Gender Mixes and Liberation Fixes: Negotiating Femininity, Power and Independence on 1970s Teen Television
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
302. Theorizing Cuban America: Literary, Visual, and Performance Texts by United States Cubans
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Raul Rubio, Wellesley College
PAPERS:
Eliana Rivero, University of Arizona
Comedy and Cubangst: Humor, Satire, and Scatology in Cuban American Performers
Andrea O'Reilly Herrera, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Defying Liminality': The Journeys of Cuban Artists in the United States
Jose Quiroga, Emory University
Ephemera: Cubanese
Isabel Alvarez, College of the Holy Cross
Loving Che: Ana Menendez and the Images of History
COMMENT:
Raul Rubio, Wellesley College
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
303. Darwin and Contested Definitions of Race, Gender, and Nation in Gilded Age America and Today
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
Jim Hofmann, California State University, Fullerton
PAPERS:
John Bruni, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Speaking Out of Place: Animal Languages and Evolution in Jack London's Fiction
Kimberly Hamlin, University of Texas, Austin
Darwin and the Happily Ever After: How Evolutionary Theory Changed Courtship, Gender, and Sex
Patrick B. Sharp, California State University, Los Angeles
The Darwinist Frontier: Roosevelt, Turner, and the Evolution of the West
Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"Against the Votaries of Race Cults": Robert Lowie's Critique of Cultural Evolutionism and Eugenics
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
304. Tourism and the Production of Place
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Christopher Endy, California State University
PAPERS:
Amanda Rees, Columbus State University
Dudes and Dudeesn Go West: Tourism. Popular Culture, and the Production of the American West
Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Educating Private Ryan: Tourism and the United States Military In Postcolonial Vietnam
Robin Bachin, University of Miami
Araby on the Atlantic: Orientalism and the Creation of South Florida
Cinda Nofziger, University of Iowa
Driving towards Authenticity: Tourist Advice Literature on the Alaska Highway
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
305. Do
You Know What It Means?: Post-Katrina New Orleans (Online Format- Click
on Session Title to View)
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Jolie Anne Preau, Graduate Center, City University of New York
PAPERS:
David Beriss, University of New Orleans
After Katrina: What Dinner Means in New Orleans
Julia Leyda, Sophia University
Crescent City Connections: Post-Katrina Geographies of Fear
Helen Regis, Louisiana State University
Grassroots Community Organizing in the Seventh Ward: Before and After Katrina
Rachel Breunlin, University of New Orleans
The Neighborhood Story Project: Documenting and Rebuilding Community Post-Katrina
Shana Walton, Academic displaced by Katrina
"I'm tired of beautiful sunsets": A Report on Life at Little Black Creek
COMMENT:
Don Mitchell, Syracuse University
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
306. Roundtable Discussion: Questions of Travel: U.S. Americans on Teaching American Studies at the John. F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Andrew Steven Gross, Free University, Berlin
PAPERS:
Paul Lauter, Trinity College
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Jules Chametzky, University Massachusetts, Amherst
Rethinking Marxisms at the Kennedy Institute in the 1970s.
Hortense Spillers, Cornell University
Reflections on Teaching at the John F. Kennedy Institute
COMMENT:
Ulla Haselstein, Free University, Berlin
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
307. Christianity, Culture, and the Cold War
Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Ann Douglas, Columbia University
PAPERS:
Leilah Danielson, Northern Arizona University
"Of Holy Disobedience": A.J. Muste, Christianity, and the Struggle against the Bomb
Jason Stevens, Harvard University
Lest We Be Innocent: Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and the Rise of the Christian Right
Jason Bivins, North Carolina State University
The Religion of Fear: Horror, Identity, and Politics in Conservative Evangelicalism
This Paper will be presented by Leilah Danielson of Northern
Arizona University
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
308. Roundtable Discussion: "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore:" Critical-constructive Dialogue on (Trans)National Identities
Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland
CHAIR:
James C. Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
PRESENTERS:
Joby Taylor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Linda Burnham, Women of Color Resource Center
Paula Botelho, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Beverly Bickel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
309. Enemies at the Gates? How European Immigrants Complicated American Identity after WWII
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
William Issel, San Francisco State University
PAPERS:
Kimber Marie Quinney, California State University, San Marcos
My Enemy's Enemy is My Friend: Italian Immigrants and the Campaign to Defeat Italian Communism
Maddalena Marinari, University of Kansas
"For Christian Charity:" The Catholic Church, the Cold War, and Italians' mobilization against Immigration Restriction
Monique Laney, University of Kansas
Rethinking "Operation Paperclip": A Transnational Perspective
Krystyna T. Zamorska, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Rhetorics and Aesthetics of the Cold War: Translating Dislocation after WWII
COMMENT:
Michael Ezra, Sonoma State University
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
310. Roundtable Discussion: Bridging las Américas: Transnational Feminisms and Subjectivities I
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Patricia Zavella, University of Californnia, Santa Cruz
PRESENTERS:
Sandra K. Soto, University of Arizona
Deborah A. Paredez, U of Texas-Austin
Laura Gutierrez, University of Arizona
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
311. Islam, Empire, and Early America
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
CHAIR:
Elaine Kim, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Steven Tobias, University of Washington
Sacred Africa in the Secular, Cosmopolitical Imagination
Jacob Berman, Louisiana State University
Nineteenth Century Travel in the Near East and the Landscape of American Optimism
Charlie Samuya Veric, Yale University
Long Histories: Captivity Narrative, Abu Sayyaf, and Washington Irving
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
312. Transsexual, Transnational
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Ann Pellegrini, New York University
PAPERS:
Nancy Buffington, Stanford University
The Traffic in Freaks: Performing Personal and National Identities in the 19th Century Sideshow
Michael David Franklin, University of Minnesota
Christine Jorgensen and the Transnational Construction of Transsexual Whiteness
Robert Hill, University of Michigan
Heterosexual Transvestism and the Contours of Cold War Gender and Sexuality
Joelle Ruby Ryan, Bowling Green State University
Transnational Transgender: Reading Sexual Diversity in Cross-Cultural Contexts Through Film and Video
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
313. Transnational Pedagogies: I
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Raul Fernandez, University of California, Irvine
PAPERS:
Brandi S Hughes, Yale University
"Afro-" Signifying: Locating Black Ethnicity within American Studies' Transnational Gaze
Timothy Raphael, Rutgers University
The Pedagogy of Performance in a Transnational Context
Jim Hicks, Smith College
So Where's the Ear of America?: The Untold Story of an American Studies Foreign Legion
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
314. Detecting Race: Rewriting Noir
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Ed Guerrero, New York University
PAPERS:
Stanley Orr, University of Hawaii, West Oahu
Carlos Bulosan, John Okada, and Returning Veteran's Noir
Eve Dunbar, Vassar College
Domestic Harlem: How Chester Himes (re)created Harlem and the detective genre
Gabriela Nunez, University of California, San Diego
Higher Learning? The Space of the University in Chicana/o and Mexican Detective Fiction
Theodoor Louis D'haen, K.U.Leuven University
Marlowe's Japanese Mirror
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
315. What's Left of Activism
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Katherine Kinney, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Hellen Lee-Keller, University of California, San Diego
Regulating the "Social Evil": Representing Racialized Labor in San Francisco, 1868-1872
Mikiko Tachi, Chiba University
Localizing Protest Songs: American Folk and Topical Songs in Japan in the 1960s and the 1970s
Jill Martins Swiencicki, California State University, Chico
The Function of Polemic in Transnational Activist Rhetoric: The Case of Arundhati Roy
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
316. Alternative African-American Modernities: From the Time of the Great Migration to Postmodernity
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Elaine Kim, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Akiyo Ito Okuda, Keio University
"Husbanding the Nation's Manhood": Walter Hines Page as a Promoter of American Imperialism
M. Giulia Fabi, University of Ferrara
Transnationalism in Early African American Utopian Fiction
Paige McGinley, Brown University
Mobile Modernisms: Staging the Rural South in Four Saints in Three Acts
Rita Keresztesi, University of Oklahoma
Transnational Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay's Black Atlantic
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
317. Business Meeting of the California American Studies Association
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
318. Animals in the Americas
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Michael Lundblad, University of Virginia
PAPERS:
Marianne DeKoven, Rutgers University
Animal Characteristics: Race, Gender and Dogs in Twentieth-Century American
Bethany Ridgway Schneider, Bryn Mawr
The Snake at the End of the World: The Animal Prophecies of Leslie Marmon Silko and Giorgio Agamben
Mark Feldman, Stanford University
Animal Pedagogies: Evolutionary Lines and Discontinuities
Neel Ahuja, University of California, San Diego
U.S. Imperialism, the Rhesus Macaque, and the Biomedical
COMMENT:
Michael Lundblad, University of Virginia
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
319. Roundtable Discussion: Challenging the Corporate University: The NYU Strike, 2005-2006
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Miabi Chatterji, New York University
PRESENTERS:
Michael Palm, New York University
Adam Green, New York University
Gordon Lafer, University of Oregon
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
320. Roundtable Discussion: Transcultural American Studies and Transdisciplinarity: Paradigms and Case Studies. A Roundtable
Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland
CHAIRS:
Gesa Mackenthun, University of Rostock
Guenter H. Lenz, Humboldt University, Berlin
PRESENTERS:
Antonis Balasopoulos, University of Cyprus
Markus Heide, Humboldt University, Berlin
Liam Kennedy, University College, Dublin
Sheila Hones, University of Tokyo
Rob Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
321. Roundtable Discussion: The New Negro Woman in Philosophy, Literature, and History
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Hamilton College
PAPERS:
Kathryn Gines, Vanderbilt University
Anna Julia Cooper: from the Black Women's Club Movement to New Negro Women
Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts, Boston
"The Organized Anxiety of Women": New Negro Womanhood and the Compulsion of Beauty
Anastasia Curwood, Vanderbilt University
The Marriage of the New Woman and the New Negro
COMMENT:
Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Hamilton College
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
322. Eric Walrond, the Caribbean, and Black Transnationalism
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
Prudence Cumberbatch, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
PAPERS:
Michelle Stephens, Mount Holyoke College
The Archipelagic Americas: Eric Walrond's "Tropic Death" and the Continent of the New World
Rhonda D. Frederick, Boston College
Genre and Eric Walrond's Equivocal Vision
James Davis, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Anticolonial on the River Avon: Eric Walrond's Black British Writing
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
323. Bodies Politic: Toxic Exposures and Global Public Health in a Transnational Frame
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
CHAIR:
Adam Sitze, Amherst College
PAPERS:
L. Joyce Z. Mariano, University of Minnesota
Exposing a New Diaspora: Transnational Filipino American Organizing Around Public Health and Environmental Justice
Susanna Rankin Bohme, Brown University
"Inconvenient Forum"?: The National and Transnational in the Pesticide-Affected Workers' Movement
Mary Elizabeth Strunk, Mount Holyoke College
Vinyl Blues: Documenting Transnational PVC Poisonings in "Blue Vinyl: A Toxic Comedy"
COMMENT:
Susan Craddock, University of Minnesota
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
324. Roundtable Discussion: Telling Stories: Oral Histories, Popular Media and Historiography
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Mary Desjardins, Dartmouth College
PAPERS:
Steven Classen, California State University, Los Angeles
Topicality, Orality and Media Histories
Mark Williams, Dartmouth College
Riffs and Alliances: Oral History, Jazz, and Historiography
Devorah Heitner, Northwestern University
Finding Black Activists in the White Pages: The Pleasures and Ironies of Oral History
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
325. Popular Culture and the Global War on Terror: Configuring the GWOT for Consumption
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Anna Froula, University of Kentucky
PAPERS:
Karen Randell, Southampton Solent University
After Iraq: Cultural Trauma and Hollywood
Jonathan Vincent, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Left Behind in America: Rapture Culture and the Army of One in the GWOT
Jeff Birkenstein, Saint Martin's University
The First Broadside: The Op/Ed Fight Over Master and Commander
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
326. Citizens, Outcasts, and Enemies: Transnational War and Latino/a Agency
Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Michael Soto, Trinity
University, San Antonio
PAPERS:
John M. González, University of Texas, Austin
Cheno Cortina and Mexican-American Civil Rights in the Era of Jim Crow
Ben Olguin, University of Texas, San Antonio
The Soldado Razo as Floating Signifier and the Limits of Latina/o Spatial Ontology
Jaime Javier Rodriguez, University of Notre Dame
A War of Words: American Rhetorical Violence and Cultural Anxiety During the Mexican War
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
327. Autobiographical Hoaxes, Inside and Out
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
Leigh Gilmore, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Julia Watson, Ohio State University
Autobiography, Sham Lives, and "Truthiness"
Leigh Gilmore, University of California, Berkeley
Transparency
Gillian Lea Whitlock, University of Queensland
Traplines
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
328. Notes Towards a Femininity Studies: Critical Femininities and the Cosmologies of Queer Femme
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
CHAIR:
Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Stanford University
PAPERS:
Juana Maria Rodriguez, University of California, Davis
Femme Gestures: Fragments from a Sexual Archive
Laura Harris, Pitzer College
Confessions of the Pillow Queen: Sexual Practices & Queer Fem-ininities
Catriona Esquibel, San Francisco State University
Entre dos Luces: A performance
Joon Oluchi Lee, Rhode Island School of Design
Masturbating a Glitter: How to Make an American Vulva
Stacy Iene Macias, University of California, Los Angeles
Femme Ontology: Queer Femininities and the Politics of Race On-line
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
329. Double Export
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
Santiago Colas, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Robert Adams, University of Michigan
Double Export Strategies of Colonel Sanders and Chairman Mao
Jerry Herron, Wayne State University
Inside/Out Detroit and the Double Export of American Studies
Jason Young, University of Michigan
Mutual Construction
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
330. Militarization and Domestic Identity
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Ji-Moon Suh, Korea University
PAPERS:
Christine Knauer, University of Tuebingen
The African American Strife for the Integration of the Military and Questions of Manhood
Carrie Anne Platt, University of Southern California
Takes a Family to Raise a Soldier: Racialized Masculinity and Militarism in Contemporary Army Recruitment
Laura Browder, Virginia Commonwealth University
"Love My Rifle More than You": On the U.S. Female Soldier in Iraq
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
331. Narrating Violence and the Violence of Narration
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIR:
Mariam Lam, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Joshua Chambers-Letson, New York University
A Provisional Defense for the Cultural Defense: People v. Wu, Culture and Law
David Jason Leonard, Washington State University, C. Richard King, Washington State University
Replaying Empire: Racialized Violence, Insecure Frontiers, and Displaced Terror
in Contemporary Video Games - This Paper Will Be Delivered In Absentia
A. Freya Thimsen, University of Pittsburgh
The Tortured Subject: Confession and Testimony in States of Exception
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Babson College
Living in the 'Awakened Dark': Racism and Genocide in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
332. Transnational Pedagogies: II
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Kristen Brunnemer, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Gregory Jay, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Teaching Transnationalism Through Service Learning
Betty Anderson, Boston University
The American University of Beirut (AUB): Conflicts of Coeducation
Laura Bettencourt Pires, Universidade Católica
Teaching American Studies in Portugal as a contribution to the future of university
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
333. Roundtable Discussion: Bridging las Americas: Transnational Feminisms and Subjectivities II
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Michelle Habell-Pallán, University of Washington
PRESENTERS:
Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, University of California, Santa Cruz
Michelle Tellez, Arizona State University, West
Maylei Blackwell, University of California, Los Angeles
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
334. Peralta Hacienda Historical Park Grand Re-opening-SRC/K12 sponsored
Peralta Hacienda Historic Park (SRC 4) Peralta Hacienda Historic Park