Thursday, October 12, 2006
001. Program Directors' Breakfast: Ethnic Studies and American Studies
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Matthew Guterl, Indiana University
PRESENTERS:
Lauren Rabinovitz, University of Iowa
Alberto Pulido, University of San Diego
Ann Fabian, Rutgers University
Lauro Flores, University of Washington
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
002. Transnational Work: Labor and Culture Across Borders
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Dana Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz
PAPERS:
Kieran Taylor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The New Left and International Solidarity: Seattle Cannery Workers Fight For Justice in the Philippines
Daniel A. Gilbert, Yale University
Two Strikes: The Political Economy of Baseball in the Americas, 1980 - 1981
Amalia I. Cabezas, University of California, Riverside
Work and Sex: Exploring the Sex Work Concept in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
COMMENT:
Dana Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
003. This session has been moved to 285B -- Documentary and Dissent:
Visual Cultures of Opposition
Post-1960
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
004. Our Country: International Politics and Fragile American Ideals, 1870 to WWI
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
Paul Kramer, Johns Hopkins University
PAPERS:
Theresa Ventura, Columbia University
Populists Abroad? Agrarian Origins of American Imperialism in the Philippines
George Blaustein, Harvard University
Conscience and Kulturkampf: American Religious Liberty and German Church-State Conflict
Yael Schacher, Harvard University
Asylum for Mankind? Anti-Extradition Campaigns and American Refuge in the Progressive Era
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
005. Exhibiting "Freedom" in Public?: Using Colonial Slavery and American Wars to Construct a Suitable Past
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Christiaan Klieger, The Oakland Museum
PAPERS:
Frank Mitchell, Amistad Center for Art and Culture
Set at Full Liberty: Exhibiting Freedom and African American History in Colonial Connecticut
Cecilia Oleary, California State University, Monterey Bay
Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler's Nurmenberg Laws, from Patton's Trophy to Public Memorial
Kristin Hass, University of Michigan
The Price of Freedom: The Citizen Soldier Pays Twice
COMMENT:
Christiaan Klieger, The Oakland Museum
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
006. Seeing American Portraiture in Transnational Visual Economies
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Martha Nadell, Brooklyn College
PAPERS:
Kimberly Lamm, University of Washington
"Elle s'affiche": Painted Portraits of Girls and the Global Spectacle of American Capital
Kelley Wagers, State University of New York, Buffalo
Re-Making Portraits of American History in Du Bois and Stein
Jennifer Way, University of North Texas
From Post-War American to Post-Industrial Man: Viewing John McHale's Portraiture Cybernetically
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
007. Restaging the National Drama/Trauma
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
CHAIR:
To Be Announced.
PAPERS:
Yuko Itatsu, University of Southern California
Hollywood vs. National Humiliation: The Dilemma between Politics and Popular Culture in 1924 Japan
Charlotte Canning, University of Texas, Austin
To Be Or Not To Be: A US Hamlet Fights the Cultural Cold War
Yoshiko Miyake, Iwate Prefectural University
Puerto Rican Women and the US society
Katherine E Ledford, Mars Hill College
"Hillbilly kids out of control": Abu Ghraib and Transnational Class Identities
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
008. Business Meeting of the ASA National Council
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
009. Rethinking the Origins of Multiculturalism
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
CHAIR:
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University
PAPERS:
Russell Andrew Kazal, University of Toronto, Scarborough
"This Conglomerate of Nations": The Transnational Origins of Vernacular Pluralism in Pennsylvania, 1870-1914
Chiou-Ling Yeh, San Diego State University
Making Multicultural America: Cold War Politics, Ethnic Celebrations, and Chinese America
David G. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego
Citizens, Non-Citizens, and the Politics of the Interstices
COMMENT:
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
010. Retelling America: Religious Material Culture and the Refiguring of American Culture
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
David Morgan, Valparaiso University
PAPERS:
Kelly J Baker, Florida State University
Protestant America: Robes, Burning Crosses, and the 1920s Klan
Ken Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College
The Material Art of Writing: The Diaries of Mordecai Kaplan
Seth Feman, College of William and Mary
God in the Retails: Thomas Kinkade and Market Piety
COMMENT:
David Morgan, Valparaiso University
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
011. The Geopolitics of Film Noir
Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Dana Polan, New York University
PAPERS:
Jonathan Auerbach, University of Maryland, College Park
Mexican-American Crossings: Anthony Mann's "Border Incident" (1949)
Yoichiro Miyamoto, University of Tsukuba
Transnational Noir: The Case of Akira Kurosawa
Stanley Corkin, University of Cincinnati
Caught in the "Crossfire": Neo-Noir and the Post-War (Vietnam, Cold, WWII) Moment
COMMENT:
Dana Polan, New York University
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
012. Transnational Foodways and Affective Economies: A Public Feelings Production
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
Michael Cobb, University of Toronto
PAPERS:
Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Unsavory Sentiments: Sensory and Affective Archives and Asian American Immigrant Lives
Ann Cvetkovich, University of Texas, Austin
Tasting History in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt
COMMENT:
Michael Cobb, University of Toronto
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
013. Muslim and Middle East Americans in the Crucible of the Cold War
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Ronald R. Sundstrom, University of San Francisco
PAPERS:
Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University, Purdue University
Cold War(s), Pan-Islamism, and the Formation of African-American Islam
Sarah Gualtieri, University of Southern California
Arab American Activism in the Wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War
Parandeh Kia, Claremont Graduate University
Sate Policy, Gendered Accommodation and the Emergence of Iranian Americans
COMMENT:
Ronald R. Sundstrom, University of San Francisco
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
014. The U.S. Pacific Rim as Geographic Imaginary and Colonial Horizon
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Rachel Ida Buff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
PAPERS:
Ji-Yeon Yuh, Northwestern University
War, Gender and Migration: Korean Military Brides and Adoptees
Steven C. McKay, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Race Politics Afloat: American Imperialism and the Taming of Filipino Maritime Labor
Sarika Chandra, Wayne State University
Globalism, Hawaii, and Fictional Travel
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
015. Workshop: Beyond the Buzz: What is an Internationalist American Studies Program?
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Hans Bak, Radboud University Nijmegen
PRESENTERS:
Maureen Elizabeth Montgomery, University of Canterbury
Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming
Cheryl Lester, Kansas University
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
016. Negroes with Guns: Black Power Across Borders
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIR:
Clayborne Carson, Stanford University, Director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
COMMENT:
Larry Adelman, California Newsreel
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
017. Lands Far Away and Places Long Ago: The Creation of Virtual Environments
in Interwar America (Sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus)
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Eric Gable, Mary Washington College
PAPERS:
Joan Saab, University of Rochester
Twentieth Century Display
Jeffrey Trask, Hunter College, City University of New York
The Art of Living: Creating Public History at the American Wing
Victoria Cain, Columbia University
Artifice and Immersion: Natural History Museum Display in the Interwar Period
COMMENT:
Eric Gable, Mary Washington College
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
018. From Nineteenth Century Imperialism to Today's Globalization: Race, Sex, and Violence in Júarez-El Paso Borderlands
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Kevin Meehan, University of Central Florida
PAPERS:
Elliott Young, Lewis and Clark College
Mexican Chinos at the Edge of Empire: Performing Mexicanidad at the Júarez-El Paso Border
Laura Anne Lomas, Rutgers University
"Queer Stories: Cutting in Juarez"
Joanna Gypsy Swanger, Earlham College
Casa Amiga: Feminist Community-Building in Ciudad Juárez
Melissa Wright, Pennsylvania State University
Profits, Prostitutes and Femicide: Reflections from Ciudad Juárez
COMMENT:
Alicia Gaspar de Alba, University of California, Los Angeles
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
019. This Session Has Been Moved to 265B--Intellectual Histories in a Global
Age
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
020. Roundtable Discussion: Moving Images: Transnational Circuits of Race and Photography
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Maurice Wallace, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Ruby Tapia, The Ohio State University
Laura Wexler, Yale University
Shawn Michelle Smith, St. Louis University
Elizabeth Abel, University of California, Berkeley
Leigh Raiford, University of California, Berkeley
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
021. Reimagining Kinship: Diasporic Queers in New Queer Documentary
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
Tracey Dey, Ontario College of Art and Design
PAPERS:
Lily Cho, University of Western Ontario
Underwater Signposts: Enabling Nostalgia and Richard Fung's "Islands"
Julianne Pidduck, Université de Montréal
New queer documentary and the 'substances' of queer kinship
Margaret DeRosia, University of Western Ontario
Queer Migrations, Family Trauma: Jonathan Caouette's "Tarnation" and Lourdes Portillo's "The Devil Never Sleeps"
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
022. Staging Race and the Law
Oakland Marriott City Center AJ Toppers
CHAIR:
Ifeoma Chinwe Nwankwo, Vanderbilt University
PAPERS:
Anthea Kraut, University of California, Riverside
Dance, Race, and Copyright: From The Black Bottom to Kiss Me, Kate
Christine Balance, CSMP Fellow, Vassar College
Bayan Ko (My Country): Marcos' Martial Law in the History of Filipino American Community-based Performance
Charlotte McIvor, University of California, Berkeley
"Mothering" India: Staging Female Desire on the Bay Area Stage
Nancy Cho, Carleton College
British Accents: Staging the U.S. "Ethnic" Play in London
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
023. Social Activism In and Out of the Nation
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Amy Farrell, Dickinson College
PAPERS:
Soo Ah Kwon, University of Illinois
A New Era of Second-Generation Youth of Color Organizing
Stephen Michael Charbonneau, University of California, Los Angeles
Global and Local Selves: (Dis)Placed Youth and the Articulation of "Home"
Armando Xavier Mejia, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Challenging Inequality, Demanding Citizenship: Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Labor Coalitions and City Politics
COMMENT:
Amy Farrell, Dickinson College
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
024. The Politics of (Anti)Maternity
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Sharon O'Brien, Dickinson College
PAPERS:
Amanda Leigh Bayer, University of South Carolina
Stopping A Race and Fighting Back - "'Making Generations': Representations of Sterilization in Gayl Jones's Corregidora"
Christine Cynn, University of Abidjan-Cocody/Barnard College
Sounding Protest: Raboteau Women in Haiti
Jesus Ayala, Univerisity of Southern California
End of the Road
COMMENT:
Sharon O'Brien, Dickinson College
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
025. Memory, Materiality and the Museum
Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland
CHAIR:
Joy Viveros, University of the Pacific
PAPERS:
Abby Clouse, University of Arizona
American Museums and Postcolonial Identities: Early Anthropological Collections Revisited
Jeremy Braddock, Princeton University
Alain Locke's Collected Works: The Harlem Museum of African Art
NeEddra James, University of California, Santa Cruz
Considering the Stakes of Multicultural Museology: The National Museum of African American History and Culture
Brandi Wilkins Catanese, University of California, Berkeley
Constructing Postnational Communities: MoAD and the Universal, Diasporic Subject
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
026. Queer "Victories" in Bush's America: Resistance and Transformation, or Co-optation and Complicity?
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Lisa Duggan, New York University
PAPERS:
Anna Marie Smith, Cornell University
Queer Socio-Political Strategies and the Transnational Stratification of Reproductive Rights
Jasbir K Puar, Rutgers University
Security, Surveillance and Affect: Infinite or Indefinite Detention?
Carlos Ulises Decena, Rutgers University
Native Sex Tourists? Eroticized Returns and US-Caribbean Circuits of Desire
COMMENT:
Lisa Duggan, New York University
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
027. International Partnership Luncheon
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
028. Business Meeting of the American Studies Editorial Board
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
029. The United States and South Africa: Transnational Perspectives
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Chris Charles Saunders, University of Cape Town
PAPERS:
Christoph Strobel, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Transnational Observations of a State Segregationist: Maurice Evans and the "Study of Race" in the United States and South Africa
Andrew Offenburger, Yale University
A US/South African Comparison of the early 20th Century reconsidered
Jennie Sutton, Washington University
"Transvaal Spectacle": Performing African Identity at the St. Louis World's Fair
Chris Charles Saunders, University of Cape Town
George Fredrickson and US/SA Comparisons: a critical perspective
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
030. Transnational Beat Spiritual Identities and Poetics
Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Jeffrey H. Gray, Seton Hall University
PAPERS:
Richard E Hishmeh, Riverside City College
A Short History of the American Haiku: From Hartmann to Kerouac
Matthew Snyder, University of California, Riverside
All My Lovely Muhammads: William Burroughs and the Beats in Tangier
Cheryl Denise Edelson, Chaminade University
"Bela Lugosi moving around down there": Transculturation, Space, and Horror in Bob Kaufman's Poetry
Craig Allan Svonkin, University of California, Riverside
Manischewitz and Sake, the Kaddish and Sutras: Allen Ginsberg's Spiritual 'Self-Othering'
COMMENT:
Jeffrey H. Gray, Seton Hall University
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
031. The Great American Makeover: Television, History, Nation
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIR:
To be announced.
PAPERS:
Ronald Becker, Miami University
"Help Is On the Way! Supernanny, Nanny 911 and the Neoliberal Politics of the Family"
Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside
Metrosexuality: See the Bright Light of Commodification Shine! Watch Yanqui Masculinity Made Over
Jennifer Gillan, Bentley College
Extreme Makeover: Home(land Security) Edition
COMMENT:
To be announced.
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
032. The New Post-National: Mixed-Race Identities
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Werner Sollors, Harvard University
PAPERS:
Bertram Ashe, University of Richmond
"Towards a Working Definition of 'Cultural Mulatto'"
Michele Elam, Stanford University
"The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism"
Caroline A. Streeter, University of California, Los Angeles
"Black, White and Latina: Post-Race Divas in Popular Music"
Hiram Perez, Montclair State University
"'It's Just Dark Outside' : Kym Ragusa's Memoirs of White Flight"
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
033. Transnational, Post-imperial American Studies?
Oakland Marriott City Center AJ Toppers
CHAIR:
Doris Friedensohn, Jersey City State University
PAPERS:
Margara Averbach, Universidad de Buenos Aires
"(South) Americans about Americans. Looking at the Center from the Margin"
Loes Nas, University of Western Cape
"Speaking/for/against/from the Inside: Using American Studies to Serve Your Own Ends"
Stelamaris Coser, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
"Representing 'Other' Americans: Contemporary Black Women Writers in the US"
Irene Santos, University of Coimbra/University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Transnationalism, Post-Imperialism and the desire of American poetry"
COMMENT:
Doris Friedensohn, Jersey City State University
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
034. Material Culture and Identity
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Arijit Sen, Ball State University
PAPERS:
Rebecca Kathleen Shrum, University of South Carolina
Finding Meaning in the Mirror: Early American Women Shaping Identities in the Looking Glass
John Haddad, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
Domestic Geographers: Women, Porcelain, and Encounters with China, 1784-1860
Kevin Muller, San Francisco Art Institute
Zuni-Made Man: Frank Hamilton Cushing and the Power of Zuni Material Culture
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
035. Roundtable Discussion: Practical Advice for Assistant Professors
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIRS:
Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers University
Yen Espiritu, University of California, San Diego
PRESENTER:
Rosaura Sanchez, University of California, San Diego
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
036. Scenes, Means, Relays and Niches: New Takes on U.S./Transnational Cultural Production
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Joshua Gamson, University of San Francisco
PAPERS:
Matthew Soar, Concordia University
For an Alternative History of Motion Graphics
Leola Johnson, Macalester College
What Unions Should Say to Ludacris as He Goes "Pimping Around the World"
Miriam J. Petty, Rutgers University, Newark
Recovering Stepin Fetchit: New Narratives for Contested Cultural Images
Lisa Henderson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Desert Motel''s Queer Relay
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
037. Transnational Experiences of Citizenship and Belonging
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Gina M. Perez, Oberlin College
PAPERS:
M. Bianet Castellanos, University of Minnesota
Building Communities of Sentiment and Belonging among Yucatec Maya
Adriana Estill, Carleton College
Writing the Brown Woman's Body Across Borders:
Lourdes Gutierrez Najera, Dartmouth College
"Como Se Hayan": Zapotec Indigenous Migrant Expressions of Belonging
Sally Howell, University of Michigan
Islam for America/America for Islam: Risking it All for the Promise of Belonging
Ramon H. Rivera-Serevera, Arizona State University
Transnational Belongings: Mexican/American Performance Continuums
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
038. Racial Bodies in Transnational Movement
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Judith Jackson Fossett, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Lynn M. Itagaki, University of Montana, Missoula
Dead Transnationalisms under the Skin: Chinese Cadavers and Mass Witnessing in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Tamara C. Ho, University of Iowa
"Truth has a witness": Racialized Femininity, Passing, and Transnational Human Rights
Rafael Perez-Torres, University of California, Los Angeles
Brown Transnationalisms: Consuming Latino Identities in a Postmodern Era
COMMENT:
Judith Jackson Fossett, University of Southern California
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
039. Transnational Mobility: Refiguring Latina/o Literature, Culture, and Identity
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
Francisco Lomelí, University of California, Santa Barbara
PAPERS:
Anja Bandau, Free University, Berlin
Memory and Place: Transnational moves in current (autobiographical) writing by U.S.-Caribbean authors
Kevin Concannon, University of Wisconsin, Platteville
Transnational Spaces: The Crisis of (Dis)location in Maria Amparo Escandon's Road Novel
Marc Priewe, University of Potsdam
Cultures in and of Mobility: "The Flying Bus" and the Figuration of Transnational Space
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
040. Transnational Social Movements
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
PAPERS:
David Eng, Rutgers University
Transnational Adoption and Human Rights
Shelley Streeby, University of California, San Diego
Transnational Anarchist Movements and the "Slaves of the World:" From Haymarket to the Mexican Revolution
David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
The Brink of Freedom: Liberia at the Edge of Early U.S. Empire
Miranda Joseph, University of Arizona
Restoring Justice, Transforming Accounting
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
041. Reimagining Race: Ethnic Literature and the Negotiations of Difference in "Post-Race" America
Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland
CHAIR:
Lisa Guerrero, Washington State University
PAPERS:
Susan Muchshima Moynihan, State University of New York, Buffalo
Asian American Travel Writing in Pursuit of Home and Self: Maximum City, Catfish and Mandala
Rory Ong, Washington State University
Inventing Transpacific Literacy in Karen Tei Yamashita's Circle K Cycles
Aureliano Maria DeSoto, Metropolitan State University
Revenge of Race in "Post-Race" America: Latinos, Changing Racial Politics, and Richard Rodriguez's Brown
Christopher Allen Shinn, Florida State University
National Fantasy and The "Post-American" in Kawaguchi's Eagle: The Making of An Asian American President
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
042. Internal/External Migrations of the Political
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
James B. Salazar, Temple University
PAPERS:
Rika Nakamura, Seijo University
Reclaiming "Asia" and the Desert: Reformation of U.S. Asian American Citizenship in the Trans/national-Imperial Space
Elizabeth Currans, University of California, Santa Barbara
Representing the Women of the World?: The Transnational Context for US Women's Anti-War Protests
Sheila Croucher, Miami University
The Door Swings Both Ways: U.S. Migrants in Mexico
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
043. Talkshop I: Teaching America in the 21st Century: How the U.S. Presence, Role, and Image in the World Shape "American Studies" Teaching
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
PRESENTERS:
Jane Desmond, University of Iowa
Alfred Hornung, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz
Wieslaw Oleksy, University of Lodz
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
044. Business Meeting of the Regional Chapters Committee
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
3:15 PM - 5:45 PM
045. InterTribal Friendship House: Oral History as Transnational Indigenous Activism-SRC/K12 sponsored
Intertribal Friendship House (SRC1) Intertribal Friendship House (SRC1)
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
046. Business Meeting of the Minority Scholars' Committee
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
047. Business Meeting of the American Quarterly Advisory Editorial Board
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
048. Roundtable Discussion: East Bay Labor Activism
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Chris Rhomberg, Yale University
PAPERS:
David Bacon, KPFA
A Report on East Bay Labor Politics
John Borsos, SEIU
The labor of SEIU
Mike Henneberry, UFCW
The labor of UFCW
Wei-Ling Huber, UNITE/HERE
The labor of UNITE/HERE
Lawrence Thibeaux, International Longshore and Warehouse Union
The Labor of ILWU
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
049. The U.S. Inside Out: Early American Perspectives
Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Mary Helen McMurran, University of Western Ontario
PAPERS:
Colleen Boggs, Dartmouth College
Transatlantic Methodologies
Laura Moss, University of British Columbia
Expanding the History of Canadian Multiculturalism
Martha Rojas, University of Rhode Island
Diplomatic Exchanges: Jeffersonian Protocols and the Problem of the Gift
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
050. Faith, Therapeutic Culture & the World: Reading & the Religious Cultures of 1940s and 1950s America
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Amanda Porterfield, Florida State University
PAPERS:
Erin A. Smith, University of Texas, Dallas
Liberal Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and the World: Reading "America's Preacher" at Home and Abroad
Matthew S. Hedstrom, Valparaiso University
The Construction of "Judeo-Christian" Spirituality in Postwar America
Jaime Harker, University of Mississipi
Rimming in the Cold War: Christopher Isherwood, the Missionary Impulse, and Hybrid Cultural Identity
COMMENT:
Amanda Porterfield, Florida State University
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
051. Transnational Waste and Pollution: Communities, Consumption & Cultures
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Joni Adamson, University of Arizona
PAPERS:
David Naguib Pellow, University of California, San Diego
Global North and South in Solidarity and Action: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice
Margo Tamez, Washington State University
North American Indigenous Women and U.S.Third World/U.S.Global South Coalitions: Romic, Inc.'s Hazardous Transnational Waste & Incineration Trafficking for 'Violable' Sites.
Marisol Foley Cortez, University of California, Davis
A Tale of Two Sitings: Race, Class, and Nation in the Transportation and Transformation of Sewage
Julie Sze, University of California, Davis
The Racial Geography of New York City Garbage: Local/ Global Trash Politics
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
052. Transnationalism and Nonstandard Histories
Oakland Marriott City Center AJ Toppers
CHAIR:
Amanda Claybaugh, Columbia University
PAPERS:
Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University
World History According to Katrina
Daniel Y. Kim, Brown University
The Subject of Postmemory: The Korean War and Susan Choi's "The Foreign Student"
Sara Blair, University of Michigan
Photograph as History: Richard Wright, "Black Power," and Transnationality
COMMENT:
Amanda Claybaugh, Columbia University
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
053. Treating the Transnational Body: Public Health With(out) Borders
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIR:
Alys Weinbaum, University of Washington
PAPERS:
Jean Kim, Dartmouth University
Unlike the "Nice Clean English Club": U.S. Colonial Public Health Administration and "Sanitating" the Oriental
Lena McQuade, University of New Mexico
Reproducing Inside and Out: Parteras, Public Health, and the Transnational Space of New Mexico
Catherine Choy, University of California, Berkeley
Without Borders: Global Health and the New Immigration of Asian, Caribbean, and African Medical Professionals
Anoop Mirpuri, University of Washington
State Racism and the Biopolitics of Surplus: Rethinking Reproduction Discourse through Mass-Incarceration
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
054. Shame, Identity, Praxis
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Sianne Ngai, Stanford University
PAPERS:
Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania
Gay Shame Redux
Swati Rana, University of California, Berkeley
Toward a Theory of Immigrant Shame
Jeffrey Santa Ana, Dartmouth College
Shameful Hybridity
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
055. The "Black
Atlantic" Inside
Antebellum America (Online Format- Click on Session Title
to View)
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
James Miller, George Washington University
PAPERS:
Edward Rugemer, Boston College
The First of August vs. The Fourth of July: An Antebellum Contest Over American "Freedom"
Van Gosse, Franklin and Marshall College
What David Walker Knew: "As A Nation, The English Are Our Friends"
W. Bryan Rommel-Ruiz, Colorado College
Negotiating Politics and Festivals: Liberal Democracy and Racial Consciousness in the Nineteenth-Century Black Atlantic
COMMENT:
James Miller, George Washington University
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
056. Predicaments of Retribution: Prison, Punishment, and the Politics of Control
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Joy A. James, Williams College
PAPERS:
Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico
Neoliberal Unreason: Coercive States and Affective Communities
Tanya Erzen, Ohio State University
Disciplining Bodies and Souls: Religion and Power in the Faith-Based Prison
Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Binghamton University
Chicanas and the War on Drugs
COMMENT:
Joy A. James, Williams College
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
057. The Performative Force of Violence
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Vorris Nunley, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Coya Paz Brownrigg, Northwestern University
Lynchocracy: California, Lynching, and the Performance of American Democracy
Joshua B. Guild, Yale University
Pressure: Black Community Responses to Police Abuse in 1970s New York and London
Patrice N. Delevante, Simmons College
The 'Look' of Violence, Race, and Masculinity Surrounding the Photographs taken from American Lynching and Abu Ghraib
Louise Cainkar, Marquette University
Cultural Snipers: Interpreting Hate Acts against Muslim American Women as American Culture Boundary-Making.
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
058. Theorizing Diaspora
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
Gerd Horten, Concordia University, Portland, Oregon
PAPERS:
Alexandra Vazquez, Yale University
Transatlantic Revues: The Performative Intersections of Rita Montaner and Josephine Baker
Richard J. Ellis, University of Birmingham
Globalizing from within: seeking to circumvent the romantic dream
Dacia Mitchell, New York University
Queering a New Diaspora
Demetrios Kapetanakos, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Cultures Between Babylon: Hazel Carby, Popular Culture, and the Technology of Diaspora
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
059. Queer Geographies: Region, Nation, Globe
Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland
CHAIR:
Linda Vo, University of California, Irvine
PAPERS:
Elizabeth Heard, New York University
Inside Out: Gertrude Stein, Natalie Barney, and the Queer Expatriate
Carol Stabile, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
George the Queer Danced the Hula
Harrod Suarez, University of Minnesota
Nationalism's Significant Other: Postcolonial Queerness in Hawai'i and the Philippines
Scott Herring, Pennsylvania State University
Country Women
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
060. The Politics of Cultural Diplomacy
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Gulriz Buken, Bilkent University
PAPERS:
Harilaos Stecopoulos, University of Iowa
"A Hot Time At Santiago": James Weldon Johnson, Popular Music, and U.S. Expansion
Chris Vials, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Henry Wallace's International Republicanism and the "Lesson" of the Second World War
Rashida Kamilah Braggs, Northwestern University
Beyond the Periphery of American Jazz
Frank Mehring, Free University, Berlin
"Selling Democracy" Inside and Out: Public Diplomacy, Marshall Plan Films, and Transcultural Conflicts
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
061. Transnational Debts: Gender, Remittance, and Labor
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Bistra V. Nikiforova, University of Memphis
PAPERS:
Els de Graauw, University of California, Berkeley
Government Courtship of Migradollars: Remittance Policies in Contemporary Mexico
Ljiljana Coklin, University of California, Santa Barbara
Migrant Women: Corporeal Transgressions and Cultural Border Crossings in Contemporary Cinema
Shannah Kurland, University of Massachusetts, Boston
The Power of Love and Money Without Borders
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
062. Business Meeting of the Material Culture Caucus
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
063. California American Studies Association and Regional American Studies Programs Reception and Open Gallery at the Oakland Museum of California-SRC Sponsored
Oakland Museum of California (SRC7) Oakland Museum of California
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
064. Teaching American Studies in Transnational Perspective
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Xiao-huang Yin, Occidental College
PAPERS:
S. Jay Kleinberg, Brunel University
Teaching American Studies Outside the United States and Outside an American Studies Program or Department
Emily Budick, Hebrew University, Leslie Ellen Fishbein, Rutgers University
Teaching Race, Culture, and Politics: Blacks and Jews in America in Transnational Perspective
Jay Mechling, University of California, Davis
Students as Ethnographers in Transnational American Studies
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
065. Constructing Motherhood in the Transnational Era
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
To Be Announced
PAPERS:
Rhacel Parrenas, University of California, Davis
Transnational Mothering
Kirsten Swinth, Fordham University
Displacing the Global Nanny: White Male Nannies in 1980s & 1990s TV and Film
Laura Lovett, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Free to Be You and Me:" Non-Sexist Parenting and Feminist Motherhood
COMMENT:
Jessica Weiss, California State University, East Bay
Rickie Solinger, Independent scholar
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
066. Roundtable Discussion: Rethinking Center and Periphery: Making the "Foreign" Central to American Studies
Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland
CHAIR:
Brian Locke, University of Utah
PAPERS:
Christina Klein, Boston College
Indigenizing Hollywood: Local Uses of Global Styles
Sandhya Shukla, Columbia University
Harlem: A Global-Comparative Reading
Heidi Tinsman, University of California, Irvine
Buying into the Regime? Bringing Latin America to Bear on US History
Zachary Ross Morgan, Boston College
Locating Afro-Latin America in American Studies
Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan University
Afro-Creole Religious Roots and Routes
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
067. Transnational Feminist Politics
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Lillian Schlissel, Brooklyn College
PAPERS:
Sally Kitch, The Ohio State University
Gendered National "Identity Politics": The U.S. and Afghanistan
Mary Margaret Fonow, Arizona State University
She Works Hard for the Money: Transnational Labor Rights and Union Feminism
Nancy Campbell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The Constant Organizer: Transnational Feminist Responses to the Pharmaceutical Industry
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
068. Roundtable Discussion: U.S. Inside Out: Race, Genomics and Global Health
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Priscilla Wald, Duke University
PRESENTERS:
Robert Mullan Cook-Deegan, Duke University
Jennifer Reardon, University of California, Santa Cruz
Matthew Sparke, University of Washington
Karla FC Holloway, Duke University
Kimberly TallBear, Arizona State University
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
069. Past, Present, and Future: Constructing and Reconstructing American Tourist Destinations
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Stephen Taylor, Macon State College
PAPERS:
Eleanor Goodman, University of Virginia
The U.S. Postcard, Tourism, and the Construction of Place and Past
Sara Francis Mason, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Look at Atlanta Now": Constructions of Place, History and Race in the Making and Re-Making of Atlanta
Loren Redwood, Washington State University, Pullman
The Rebuilding of a Tourist Industry: Labor Exploitation in Post-Katrina Reconstruction
COMMENT:
Stephen Taylor, Macon State College
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
070. Performing Racial Identities in the Transoceanic Sphere
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Gilbert Rodman, University of Minnesota
PAPERS:
Frank Guridy, University of Texas, Austin
Enacting Diaspora: Gender, Performance, and Garveyism in the U.S.-Caribbean World
Shannon Steen, University of California, Berkeley
Of Viruses and Virtue: Resisting the Asian Body as Transnational Vector of Contagion
Margaret Werry, University of Minnesota
Runaway Race: Hollywood, Wellywood, and the place of race in the cinematic imagination
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
071. Roundtable Discussion: The "Republican Mother" Turns 30: Reflections on an Article and a Concept
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
Kate Haulman, Ohio State University
PAPERS:
Rosanne Marion Adderley, Tulane University
Gender Roles for Free African Women in the Age of Abolition
Seth Cotlar, Willamette University
Rethinking the Paths to Republican Motherhood
Jennifer Jones, Rutgers University
The Republican Anti-Mother: Therese Levasseur, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Mistress
Karin Wulf, College of William and Mary
But who's the father?: Republican Motherhood, Lineage, and the Politics of Geneaology in the Early America
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
072. The Revolutionary Transatlantic
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
Cecilia Tichi, Vanderbilt University
PAPERS:
Sarah Pearsall, Northwestern University
The Farewell between Husband and Wife: The Dynamics of Marriage in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Betsy Erkkila, Northwestern University
Phillis Wheatley and the Transatlantic Revolution
James A. Epstein, Vanderbilt University
Radical Underworld Goes Colonial: P.F. McCallum's Travels in Trinidad
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
073. Visual Culture, Transnational Spectacle
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Rhode Island School of Design
PAPERS:
Megan Glick, Yale University
Human Nature / Human Culture: Kinship, Racial Sight, and Species Difference
Laura Harris, New York University
Undocuments of U.S. Imperialism: Hélio Oiticica's Newyorkaises
Dr. Carol E. Henderson Belton, University of Delaware
Farming the Bones: Primitivism, the Nation, and Saartjie "Sara" Baartman
Joel Eisinger, University of Minnesota, Morris
Spell It Out, White Racial Identity in Barbara Kruger
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
074. The Problem of Reality and Television Studies
Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, University of Arizona
PAPERS:
Heather Hendershot, Queens College
Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting: H.L. Hunt, Dan Smoot, and the Unraveling of Consensus Culture
Lucas Hilderbrand, University of Southern California
The Revolution Was Recorded: Vanderbilt Television News Archive and the Making of TV History
Elizabeth Nathanson, Northwestern University
Making up for Lost Time: Postfeminist Temporality and American Lifestyle Television
Carole-Anne Tyler, University of California, Riverside
The "Subject" of Plastic Surgery Television
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
075. The Politics of Repressive Tolerance
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
CHAIR:
Jee Hyun An, Seoul National University
PAPERS:
Arthur Redding, York University
The Globalization of Sexual Consensus: Masculinity, Deviance, and Sexuality in the Cold War
Mathias Nilges, University of Illinois, Chicago
Global American Studies, Re-Modern Subjectivities: Contemporary American Studies and the Transnational Sublime
Elizabeth Duquette, Gettysburg College
Policing the Borders of Allegiance
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
076. The Imperial Mission
Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Judith Richardson, Stanford University
PAPERS:
Barry Kendall, Stanford University
Evangelical Protestant Revivals as Religious Performances: The Methodist Mission
to the Slaves, 1824-1844
John Ernest, West Virginia University
"The Intentions of the Almighty": Antislavery Religion and Narrative Agency in the Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself
Susan K. Harris, University of Kansas
Imperialism, American Identity, and the National Christian: The Crisis of 1899
COMMENT:
Judith Richardson, Stanford University
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
077. Business Meeting of Early American Matters Caucus
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
078. Academic and Community Activism Caucus
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
079. The Black Panther Party, Reflections in Light of Forty Years - SRC
Sponsored
Oakland Marriott City Center AJ Toppers
CHAIR:
Tracye Matthews, University of Chicago
PRESENTERS:
Angela Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz
David Hilliard, Black Panther Party
Ericka Huggins, n/a
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
080. Berkeley Art Museum Tour and Dinner - Students' Committee
Sponsored
Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley Art Museum
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
081. Reception of the University of New Mexico
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
082. Welcome Reception for International Scholars
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
083. Curating Community: Navigating the Terrain Between the Museum-world
and the Communities - SRC Sponsored
Oakland Museum of California (SRC7) Oakland Museum of California
CHAIR:
Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, Museum of the African Diaspora
PAPERS:
Christiaan Klieger, The Oakland Museum
Oakland Museums of California: New Strategies for Integrating Cultural Diversity into Exhibitions and Programs
Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, Museum of the African Diaspora
The Museum of the African Diaspora: Developing a Mission, Negotiating Audience
Holly Alonso, Friends of Perlata Hacienda Historical Park
The Peralta Hacienda Historical Park: Neighborhood Project to Regional History Museum
Raymond Codrington, Julian Dixon Institute for Cultural Studies, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
Fossils in the City Futures: Community and the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
084. Sweetback Screening
Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
085. Reception of the Minority Scholars' Committee, Ethnic Studies Committee,
Women's Committee & Queer Caucus
Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
10:00 PM - 11:45 PM
086. Nao Bustamante: Performing American Studies
Oakland Marriott City Center AJ Toppers
CHAIR:
Jennifer Doyle, University of California, Riverside