American Studies and the Question of Empire:Histories, Cultures and Practices
November 19-22, 1998
Descriptions of Sessions and Events
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American Studies and the Question of Empire: Histories, Cultures and Practices November 19-22, 1998
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The papers and commentaries presented during this meeting are intended solely for the hearing of those present and should not be tape recorded, copied or otherwise reproduced without the consent of the authors. Recording, copying, or reproducing a paper without the consent of the author may be a violation of common law copyright and may result in legal difficulties for the person recording, copying, or reproducing.
7:00 - 9:00 AM
GRAND BALLROOM SECTION C
SPEAKER:Angela Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz Inside Cuban Prisons: Women's Perspectives on Punishment
7:30 - 9:45 AM
BOARDROOM
8:00 - 9:45 AM
WEST BALLROOM A
CHAIR:George Sánchez, Department of History, University of Southern California
PAPERS:Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles "Bandidos" and Citizens: Everyday Forms of Resistance to American Political and Legal Changes Linda España-Maram, Department of Asian/Asian American Studies, California State University, Long Beach "To Be or Not To Be?" Filipinos, Divided Loyalties, and the Uncertainties of Citizenship after World War II John Patrick Rosa, Department of History, University of California, Irvine 1898/99: Re-introducing the Histories of Guam, Hawai'i, the Philippines, Samoa, and Wake Island
COMMENT:Kerwin Lee Klein, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
8:00 - 9:45 AM
WEST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Ardis Cameron, New England and American Studies, University of Southern Maine
PANELISTS:Sharon O'Brien, Department of English, Dickinson College Charles Barone, Department of Economics, Dickinson College Susan Rose, Department of Sociology, Dickinson College
8:00 - 9:45 AM
EAST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Kevin Brooks, Department of English, North Dakota State University
PAPERS:A. Joan Saab, American Studies Program, New York University The Art of Citizenship: The Short History of the Harlem Community Art Center Nina Miller, Department of English, Iowa State University "Raised in liberty they will not live as slaves": Anarchism, Nativism and the Utopian Child David W. Stowe, Graduate School of American Studies, Doshisha University, Japan Education for Empire: 19th-century Japanese Uses of American Education
COMMENT:Kevin Brooks
8:00 - 9:45 AM
CEDAR
CHAIR:Francesca Sawaya, Department of English, Portland State University
PANELISTS:Harry Basehart, Department of Political Science, Salisbury State University Susan Danielson, Department of English, Portland State University Maureen Franklin, Department of French, Doane College Kenneth Hammond, Department of History, New Mexico State University Margaret Reed Mukherjee, Department of Human Ecology, Montclair State University Kendall Natvig, Department of Language Arts, Iowa Central Community College Marilyn Taylor, Department of Education, Metropolitan State College of Denver
8:00 - 9:45 AM
DOUGLAS
CHAIR:Linda K. Kerber, Department of History, University of Iowa
PAPERS:Kate Baldwin, The Bunting Institute Lace Curtains and Iron Petticoats: U.S. and Soviet Women and the Cold War Kim Heikkila, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota "WACs Fight Back": Women's Liberation and the Vietnam-era GI Movement Maureen Reed, American Studies Program, University of Texas Serving through Literature: Women and Vietnam in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Cathy Stanton, Independent Scholar Jenny Has Gone for a Soldier: Inventing a Female Martial Tradition through Civil War Reenactment
COMMENT:Susan M. Hartmann, Department of Women's Studies, Ohio State University
8:00 - 9:45 AM
MADRONA
CHAIR:David Goldstein-Shirley, Liberal Studies Program, University of Washington, Bothell
PAPERS:Márgara Averbach, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina A Photo and Its Negative: Fools Crow by James Welch, El corazón a contraluz by Patricio Manns and the Conquest of the Americas Stelamaris Coser, Departamento de Linguas e Letras, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil "A Series of Erasures and Perfect Selections": U.S.-Caribbean Relations in Cristina Garcia and Paule Marshall Brendan Walsh, American Studies Program, Yale University Figuring a New World Proletariat: Regionalism and Internationalism in the Novels of Leslie Marmon Silko and Russell Banks Cathy Eisenhower, Independent Scholar "Should We Have Stayed at Home and Thought of Here?": Elizabeth Bishop and the (anti) Imperial Imagination
COMMENT:Maria Irene Ramalho de Sousa-Santos, American Studies Program, University of Coimbra, Portugal
8:00 - 9:45 AM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOM
CHAIR:Kevin Meehan, Department of English, University of Central Florida
PAPERS:Jonathan Scott, Department of English, Wayne State University Cuba Libre in New York: Guillén and Hughes Yvonne Baubie Paschal, Department of English, Wayne State University Underground with Edgar White: Culture, Consciousness, and the Notion of Avant-garde in Black Theatre of the 1970s Phyllis Marie Jeffers, Department of English, University of Maryland Beyond the Benjamins, Baby: Creolization and Resistance in Wyclef Jean's The Carnival
COMMENT:Kevin Meehan
8:00 - 9:45 AM
SUITE 416
CHAIR:Adam Sweeting, College of General Studies, Boston University
PAPERS:Michael Bennett, Department of English, Long Island University African-American Communities, Anti-Urbanism, and the Spatialization of Race Terrell Dixon, Department of English, University of Houston Mexican-American Literature and Toxicity Kamala Platt, Humanities and Fine Arts, University of the Incarnate Word Chicana Poetics: Embodying the Struggle for Environmental Justice Julie Sze, American Studies Program, New York University Asian American Studies and "Reading" Environmental Justice Movements
COMMENT:Michel Gelobter, Graduate Department of Public Administration, Rutgers University
8:00 - 9:45 AM
SUITE 418/420
CHAIR:Carolyn Karcher, Department of English, Temple University
PAPERS:Kariann Yokota, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles A Culture of Insecurity: The Early Republic as a Post-colonial Nation, 1789-1830 Ellen M. Weinauer, Department of English, University of Southern Mississippi Mesmerism and Manifest Destiny: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Project of Antebellum Nation-Building Evgenia Morozkina and Marina Ershtain, Department of World Literature and Culture, Bashkir State University, Russia The Problem of Empire in "Border" Novels of W.G. Simms
COMMENT:Cristine Levenduski, Department of English, Emory University
8:00 - 9:45 AM
SUITE 422/424
CHAIR:Robert O'Meally, Department of English, Columbia University
PAPERS:Timothy L. Parrish, Department of English, University of North Texas Walking the Omni-American Blues with Albert Murray Gena Dagel Caponi, American Studies, University of Texas, San Antonio Theorizing Stomping: Dance, Play, and Albert Murray John Gennari, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia Race and Nation in 4/4 Swing Time: Albert Murray's Riff on the Jazz Mainstream Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania Albert Murray's Practice of Blackness
COMMENT:Robert O'Meally
8:00 - 9:45 AM
ASPEN
CHAIR:Barbara L. Tischler, Department of History, Columbia University
PAPERS:Lisa West Norwood, Department of English, Stanford University The Empire of the Mounds in the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, 1780-1830 Thomas Patin, School of Art, Ohio University Exhibitions and Empire: National Parks and the Performance of Manifest Destiny Bhavna Shamasunder, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University Ecology and Expansion: The Role of the Environment in the Creation of Empire
COMMENT:William K. Deverell, Department of History, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
8:00 - 11:00 AM
EAST BALLROOM A
10:00 - 11:45 AM
EAST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Jerry Herron, American Studies Program, Wayne State University
PAPERS:Eric Sandweiss, Missouri Historical Society Revisiting Historicity: Urban Museums and the Burden of the Past Kay Bea Jones, Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University City Souvenirs and Marketing Architectural History Tyrone Williams, Department of English, Xavier University Hip Hop and Fashion: Notes Toward an Iconography
COMMENT:Jerry Herron
10:00 - 11:45 AM
ASPEN
CHAIR:Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
PAPERS:Kathy Rudy, Women's Studies Program, Duke University Girl Deconstructed: Lesbian Feminism in Durham, North Carolina John Howard, Department of History, Duke University Sex Work, Class Work, and the Governor's Race--Mississippi, 1983 Meredith Raimondo, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University "Just Another Home": Of Sex, Race and Suburbs in an AIDS Hospice Controversy
COMMENT:Drew Gilpin Faust, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
10:00 - 11:45 AM
CEDAR
CHAIR:Cathy Davidson, Department of English, Duke University
PANELISTS:Paul Kramer, Department of History, Princeton University Judith Jackson Fossett, Department of English, University of Southern California Kevin Gaines, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin Penny Von Eschen, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin Amy Kaplan, Department of English, Mount Holyoke College
10:00 - 11:45 AM
DOUGLAS
CHAIR:Stephen A. Germic, Independent Scholar
PAPERS:Matthew Karush, Department of History, George Mason University Anarchism in Argentina, c. 1912: Class War and Transatlantic Cultural Capital
John Beverly, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of PittsburghWhose America? American Studies in a Latin American Frame Rob Wilson, Department of English, University of Hawaii, Manoa Jack London in Waikiki: U.S. Tourism and Hawain Sovereignty Kathryne V. Lindberg, Departments of English, Wayne State University Ballad for (un)Americans: Paul Robeson, Ho Chi Minh and Recycling Revolution
COMMENT:Stephen A. Germic
10:00 - 11:45 AM
MADRONA
CHAIR:Herman Beavers, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
PAPERS:Iping Liang, Department of English, Tamkang University, Republic of China Women, Maps, and Empire: Intertextuality, Internationality, and Interstitiality in Hau-ling Nieh and Mahasweta Devi Eduardo Mendieta, Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco From Imperial History to World History: The American Century and Globalization Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara Encyclopedic Designs
COMMENT:Matthew Sparke, Department of Geography, University of Washington
10:00 - 11:45 AM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOM
CHAIR:Gudrun Grabher, Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria
PAPERS:Larry H. Yu, Department of English, Brown University Frontier Mythologies and Subaltern Histories in Frank Chin's "Chinaman" Vision Eithne Luibheid, Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine Discourses of Contemporary Irish Emigration as Narratives of Nation Adrian T. Gaskens, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota Conducting the Empire: Walter Howard Loving and the Philippines Constabulary Band
COMMENT:Leerom Medovoi, Department of English, University of California, Irvine
10:00 - 11:45 AM
SUITE 416
CHAIR:Roberta Hill, Department of English, University of Wisconsin
PAPERS:Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Department of English, University of Delaware The Borderlands Write Back: Revaluing Pre-colonial Mythologies Aparajita Sagar, Department of English, Purdue University Mourning and Memory in Caribbean Literary Feminism: Representations of AIDS in Patricia Powell and Jamaica Kincaid John Lowney, Department of English, St. John's University, New York "The Eagle and the Dollar": Claude McKay and "New World" Imperialism
COMMENT:Yuko Matsukawa, Department of English, State University of New York, Brockport
10:00 - 11:45 AM
SUITE 418/420
CHAIR:Sarah Deutsch, Department of History, Clark University
PAPERS:Eleni Coundouriotis, Department of English, University of Connecticut Anthropology and American Myths of African Nationalism David Luis-Brown, Literature Board, University of California, Santa Cruz Hybridity, Mimicry and Migration: Theories of Race Relations in Gamio and Hurston Edward Simmen, Department of Literature, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico After the Battle of San Jacinto: The Texans' Treatment of the Mexican Dead and Captured
COMMENT:Sarah Deutsch
10:00 - 11:45 AM
SUITE 422/424
CHAIR:Wendy Dasler Johnson, Department of English, Washington State University, Vancouver
PAPERS:William L. Lang, Center for Columbia River History, Portland State University Cultural Constructions of the 20th Century Columbia River Laurie Mercier, Center for Columbia River History, Washington State University, Vancouver Power and Place: Work, Environment, and Community in the Columbia Basin Katrine Barber, American Studies Program, Washington State University, Pullman Negotiating Values: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Popular Resistance to the Construction of the Dallas Dam
COMMENT:David Nye, Center for American Studies, Odense University, Denmark
10:00 - 11:45 AM
JUNIPER
CHAIR:Laura Belmonte, Department of History, Oklahoma State University
PAPERS:Victoria Allison, Department of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook Not Like Us(?): Sex, Psychology, and Empire in U.S. Relations with Peronist Argentina Robert Dean, Department of History, University of Arizona The State Department's "Purge of the Perverts": Sex, Secrecy, "Security" and the Construction of the Homosexual Threat to Empire, 1950-1954 Christine Skwiot, Department of History, Rutgers University Sugar, Sand, and Sex: How Cuba and Hawai'i Transformed the American Empire through Tourism
COMMENT:Elaine Tyler May, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota Laura Belmonte
10:00 - 11:45 AM
WEST BALLROOM A
CHAIR:Enrique de la Cruz, Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles
PAPERS:E. San Juan, Jr., Department of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University Reactionary Tendencies in the U.S. Production of Knowledge about Filipinos and the Philippines Chris Vaughan, Department of Journalism and Mass Media, Rutgers University Commemorating an Ambivalent Memory: U.S. Media Coverage of the Spanish-American War Centennial Sharon Delmendo, Department of English, St. John Fisher College Kalayaan 1998: Philippine Commemorations of the 1998 Centennial
COMMENT:The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
WEST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Doris Meadows, Wilson Magnet High School, Rochester, NY
PAPERS:Janet Zandy, Department of Language and Literature, Rochester School of Technology Hollywood and Social Class: Images of Class Identity in Modern America Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory, Sandia, New Mexico The Cost of Identity: Examining Class in Literature Vickie Adamson, Montgomery County Public Schools, Montgomery County, Maryland American Dreams and Urban Realities: Teaching Class in an Inner-city School
COMMENT:Doris Meadows
11:30 - 1:00 PM
BOARDROOM
12:00 - 1:45 PM
WEST BALLROOM A
CHAIR:Brett E. Eckelberg, Department of English, University of California, Davis
PAPERS:Gail M. Nomura, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan Contested Terrain: Asian Americans on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1906-1942 Connie So, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley Out of Focus: Seattle Community Involvement in Teaching the Role of History and Ideology on Stereotypes of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans Ron Chew, Wing Luke Asian Museum Home for Displaced Stories: The Wing Luke Asian Museum and Seattle's Asian Pacific Islander Community Shawn Wong, Department of English, University of Washington Teaching the "New" Asian American Literature for 30 Years
COMMENT:S.E. Solberg, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
12:00 - 1:45 PM
ASPEN
CHAIR:Jean Pfaelzer, Department of English, University of Delaware
PAPERS:Judith Babbitts, Distance Learning Program, University of Maryland, College Park Womenet: An Online Network for International Women Umeeta Sadarangani, Department of English, Parkland College Nowhere Woman? A Reflection Rita Terezinha Schmidt, Department of Modern Languages, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Moved on by a Passionate Will: American Feminisms/Brazilian Practices Anita Poluga Hodges, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Hawaii, Manoa Transcending Boundaries/Affirming Multiracial Identities Loes Nas, Department of English, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Negotiating Different Worlds: The Challenge of Graduate Education at a South African University Avital H. Bloch, Center for Social Research, University of Colima, Mexico American Women Intellectuals Debate the Vietnam War: The Importance of Identities
COMMENT:Deborah Rosenfelt, Women's Studies Program, University of Maryland, College Park
12:00 - 1:45 PM
EAST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Patricia Johnston, Department of Art, Salem State College, Massachusetts
PANELISTS:
Rodger C. Birt, Department of Humanities, San Francisco State UniversityDavid Brody, Department of Art History, University of Delaware Theodore Landsmark, President and CEO, Boston Architectural Center Castle McLaughlin, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University David C. Miller, Department of English, Allegheny College, Pennsylvania
12:00 - 1:45 PM
CEDAR
CHAIR:Julius Debro, Department of Criminology, University of Washington
PAPERS:Cassandra Shaylor, History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz Women of Color and the Prison Industrial Complex Jennifer E. Smith, Department of Sociology, University of the District of Columbia Moving Targets: Utilizing Womanist Constructs in the War on Criminal Injustice Donna L. Rowe, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park "Behind This Stone Wall": Women's Prison Narratives as Strategies of Resistance
12:00 - 1:45 PM
DOUGLAS
CHAIR:Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University
PAPERS:Rafael Perez-Torres, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles Identity Formation and Transnational Culture Elizabeth A. Marchant, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles Afro-Brazilian Culture and Black Discourse in the Americas Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Department of English, Brown University On the Road with Che and Jack: Geographies of Race in Travel Narratives Shaleen M. Brawn, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University Postmodern Techniques and Modern Tactics: Transnational Subjectivity in Tomas Rivera's "Y no se lo trago la tierra"
COMMENT:John Carlos Rowe, Department of English, University of California, Irvine
12:00 - 1:45 PM
JUNIPER
CHAIR:Shirley Samuels, Department of English, Cornell University
PAPERS:Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Department of English, Yale University Infanticide Revised Franny Nudelman, Department of English, University of Virginia Parricide Reconsidered: David Walker's Jefferson Virginia Jackson, Department of English, Rutgers University American Epic Lyric
COMMENT:Elizabeth Young, Department of English, Mt. Holyoke College
12:00 - 1:45 PM
MADRONA
CHAIR:Brenda Bright, Latin American Studies Program, Smith College
PAPERS:Randy A. Rodriguez, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota Richard Rodriguez as Trickster: Literary Multi(du)plicitousness in (between) the U.S. and Mexico Monica Brown, Department of English, The Ohio State University Her Vida Loca: Gender and Sexuality in "Girl" Gang Narratives Megan Sweeney, Program in Literature, Duke University Mambo Kings and Beautiful Señoritas: The Politics of the Latin Culture Craze Kathlyn A. Barros, Department of English, University of California, Riverside Lacurandera/bruja and the Reconciliation of History and Mythology in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima
COMMENT:Cordelia Candelaria, Departments of English/CCS, Arizona State University
12:00 - 1:45 PM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOM
CHAIR:G. Thomas Couser, Department of English, Hofstra University
PANELISTS:Leonard Cassuto, Department of English, Fordham University, Lincoln Center Brenda Brueggeman, Department of English, Ohio State University Georgina Kleege, Independent Scholar Michael Berube, Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign David Mitchell, Department of English, Northern Michigan University Sharon Snyder, Department of English, Northern Michigan University
12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 416
CHAIR:Pamela M. Creasy, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
PAPERS:Cole Harris, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada Strategies of Colonialism Christopher Bracken, Department of English, University of Alberta, Canada Telepolitics: British Columbia and the Ends of the West John Lutz, Department of History, University of Victoria, Canada Enduring Indigenous Land Claims: Mapping 20th Century First Nations Legal and Political Activism
COMMENT:Taiaiake Alfred, Director, Indigenous Governance Program, University of Victoria, Canada
12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 418/420
CHAIR:Sandara Zagarell, Department of English, Oberlin College
PAPERS:Martha Banta, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles Marching Toward Empire: Satiric Cartoons as Critique and Validation of America's Destiny Maureen Honey, Department of English, University of Nebraska Anti-Imperialist Themes in the Work of Winnifred Eaton, Asian American Popular Writer Mary Battenfeld, Department of English, Wheelock College The Problem of "the Color Curtain" Anneliese Truame, Department of English, University of Washington Exploring Exclusions: Traces of Empire in 1850s and 1950s Ethnic Fiction
COMMENT:Lillian S. Robinson, Department of English, East Carolina University
12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 422/424
CHAIR:Jennifer Drake, Department of English, Indiana State University
PAPERS:Juan Felipe Herrera, Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies, California State University, Fresno CALIFAS PERFORMEROS: On Poetics, Cultural Production, and Spectatorship Mark Nowak, Department of Arts and Sciences, College of St. Catherine, Minneapolis DisPlace, DatPlace: The Iron Range Polka Mass Diane Glancy, Department of English, Macalester College A Fieldbook of Textual Migrations Maria Damon, Department of English, University of Minnesota The Poetics of Poetry
12:00 - 2:00 PM
WEST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Daniel Horowitz, American Studies Program, Smith College
PANELISTS:Lucy Maddox, Editor, American Quarterly George Lipsitz, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego Scott Wong, Department of History, Williams College Michael Cowan, American Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz Thaddeus Davis, Department of English, Vanderbilt University Amy Farrell, Department of American Studies, Dickinson College
COMMENT:The Audience
12:00 - 2:00 PM
EAST BALLROOM A
Johnnella Butler, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington The Joys and Frustrations of Incorporating Ethnic Studies
1:00 - 4:00 PM
SUITE 426
2:00 - 3:45 PM
EAST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Gordon Hutner, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison
PAPERS:Dana Nelson, Department of English, University of Kentucky Representative Democracy: Presidents, White Manhood and Civic Identity T. Walter Herbert, Department of English, Southwestern University, Texas Colonizing Women's Bodies: Sexual Violence and American Manhood Cecelia Tichi, American Studies Program, Vanderbilt University Imperial Lunacy: Apollo 11 and the "New Mistress," the Moon
COMMENT:Lyn Weiner, Department of History, Roosevelt University
2:00 - 3:45 PM
ASPEN
CHAIR:Janice Radway, Program in Literature, Duke University
PANELISTS:Michelle Fine, Social Psychology, The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York Eric Cheyfitz, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania Sarah Anne Chewiwie, College Studies, College of Santa Fe Mary Nordwall, Counseling Services, Santa Fe Community College Kendall A. Johnson, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania Giselle Anatol, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania Aida Hurtado, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz Paula Rothenberg, The New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum and Teaching, William Paterson University Howard Pinder-Hughes, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco Paul Lauter, American Studies Program, Trinity College
2:00 - 3:45 PM
CEDAR
CHAIR:Margo Okazawa-Rey, School of Social Work, San Francisco State University
PAPERS:Ilene Feinman, Institute for Human Communication, California State University, Monterey Bay GI Jane, GI Joe: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off Gwyn Kirk, Bay Area Okinawa Peace Network Women and Children, U.S. Militarism, and Human Rights in East Asia Noël Sturgeon, Women's Studies Program, Washington State University, Pullman From Anti-militarist Feminism to Ecofeminism: Disappearing Militaries and Conceiving Global Empires
COMMENT:Margo Okazawa-Rey
2:00 - 3:45 PM
DOUGLAS
CHAIR:Peggy Pascoe, Department of History, University of Oregon
PAPERS:Maureen Burgess, Department of English, Ohio State University Re-forming the Native Body: Victorian Womanhood and Frontier Activism Michael Elliot, Department of English, Columbia University Suffering Manhood: Pain, Masculinity, and "Indian Reform" Sara Romeyn, Department of American Studies, George Washington University Domestic Space as Political Tool: The Early Women's National Indian Association
COMMENT:Peggy Pascoe
2:00 - 3:45 PM
JUNIPER
CHAIR:Michael Rockland, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University
PAPERS:Diane Negra, Department of Radio, Television and Film, University of North Texas Contemporary Hollywood Film and the Exhaustion of American Whiteness Jeff Rhyne, Department of English, University of California, Riverside Mapping Histories in John Sayles' Lone Star Frederick Luis Aldama, Department of English, Stanford University Penalizing Chicano/a Bodies in Edward J. Olmos' American Me
COMMENT:Lary May, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
2:00 - 3:45 PM
MADRONA
CHAIR:Stacey Margolis, Department of English, The California Institute of Technology
PAPERS:Clare Eby, Department of English, University of Connecticut Thorstein Veblen, the Empire of Academia, and the Conspicuous Spouse Michael Soto, Department of English, Harvard University American Renaissance Rhetoric and U.S. Cultural Nationalism Hans Bak, Department of English/American Studies, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands For the Nation and the World: Malcolm Cowley, the Cold War, and the Making of American Literature
COMMENT:De Witt Kilgore, Department of Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate School
2:00 - 4:00 PM
METROPOLITAN BALLROOM
CHAIR:Dennis Moore, Department of English, Florida State University
PANELISTS:Gregory S. Jay, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Annette Kolodny, Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona Ellen Messer-Davidow, Department of English, University of Minnesota John A. Powell, Institute on Race and Poverty, University of Minnesota Law School
COMMENT:The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 416
CHAIR:Howard Segal, Department of History, University of Maine
PAPERS:Charles L. Bertsch, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Imperial Projections: The Americanness of the Cyberpunk Post-Nation James Emmett Ryan, Department of English, University of North Carolina A Mystical Empire: Isaac Hecker's Catholicism and the Religious Destiny of Antebellum America Heinz Tschachler, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria The "Ekumen": Ursula K. Le Guin's Vision of a "Benign Empire"
COMMENT:Tom Foster, Department of English, Indiana University
2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 418/420
CHAIR:Dana Takagi, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
PAPERS:Dana Frank, Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz Foreign Workers, Foreign Trade: "Buy American" Campaigns and the Politics of Economic Nationalisms in the 1930s Ann E. Kingsolver, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina Trading in Stereotypes: NAFTA, California Proposition 187, and Images of Labor and Identity
COMMENT:Pablo Pozzi, Department of History, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2:00 - 3:45 PM
WEST BALLROOM A
CHAIR:Donald Pease, Department of English, Dartmouth College
PAPERS:Mark Poster, Department of History, University of California, Irvine A New Imperialism? Or Nations, Identities, and Global Technologies Eva Cherniavsky, American Studies Program, Indiana University White Desire on the Border in Touch of Evil Elena Glasberg, Department of Liberal Studies, California State University, Los Angeles Technology, Exploration, and the Aesthetics of Global Unity
COMMENT:Donald Pease
2:00 - 3:45 PM
WEST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Robert Tisdale, Department of English, Carleton College
PANELISTS:Mary Hermes, Department of Educational Studies, Carleton College Tom Peacock, Department of Education, University of Minnesota
2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 422/424
CHAIR:Jim Murray, Director, C.L.R. James Institute, New York City
PAPERS:Brian Alleyne, Department of Social Anthropology, Queens College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom John La Rose: Organic Black Atlantic Intellectual Brett St. Louis, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Mapping Spontaneity: C.L.R. James and Marxism in America Nicole R. King, Department of English, University of Maryland Beyond a Boundary and Blues People: Texts of Independence and Creolization
COMMENT:Jim Murray
2:00 - 6:00 PM
SUITE 428/430
3:00 - 5:00 PM
BOARDROOM
4:00 - 5:45 PM
WEST BALLROOM A
CHAIR:Frieda E. Knobloch, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming
PAPERS:Valerie Kuletz, Department of American Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Manifest Destiny Revisited: Military and Nuclear Colonialism in the American West Joseph Masco, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego Millennial Futures: Nuclear Weapons Science at Los Alamos Randel D. Hanson, Center for the Study of Science and Technology, Rice University Swords into Corporate Shares: Privatization as a Chapter in the Social Life of Nuclear Materials
COMMENT:Frieda E. Knobloch
4:00 - 5:45 PM
WEST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Charlene Mano, Public Programs and Education Director, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, Washington
PANELISTS:Pam Oakes Borromeo, Ridgetop Jr. High, Lynwood, Washington Theresa Duque, Holy Names Academy, Seattle, Washington Michelle Ota, TOPS, Seattle Public School District, Seattle, Washington
4:00 - 5:45 PM
EAST BALLROOM B
CHAIR:Susette Min, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
PANELISTS:Gina Dent, Department of English, Columbia University Avery Gordon, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara Farah Griffin, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania Richard J. Powell, Department of Art, Duke University Judith Wilson, African American Studies, University of California, Irvine
4:00 - 5:45 PM
ASPEN
CHAIR:
Mary Helen Washington, Department of English, University of Maryland
PAPERS:Angela Davis, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz Critical Perspectives on the Prison Industrial Complex Ruth Gilmore, Department of Geography, Rutgers University From Military Keynesianism to Post-Keynesian Militarism: Finance Capital, Land, and Labor in the Rising Prison State H. Bruce Franklin, Department of English, Rutgers University Literature of the American Prison
COMMENT:The Audience
4:00 - 5:45 PM
CEDAR
CHAIR:Traise Yamamoto, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:Lawrence S. Hashima, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan No-Yes Boy?Dominant Literary Narratives and the Lost History of Seattle's Nisei Draft Resisters Rory J. Ong, Department of English, Washington State University Writing the Body as a Self-Reflexive Practice in Contemporary Asian American Fiction Shelli Fowler, American Studies Program, Washington State University (Re)envisioning Pedagogical Practices in American Studies: Teaching No-No Boy in the Contested Public Space of the Cross-cultural Classroom
COMMENT:The Audience
4:00 - 5:45 PM
DOUGLAS
CHAIR:Debra DeRuyver, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
PAPERS:Matthew Basso, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota Starting a Union: Organizing Across the University of Minnesota David Colman, Department of History, University of Iowa Failure Then Success: The Story of Graduate Student Unionization at the University of Iowa Karen Miller, Department of History, University of Michigan Learning to Organize at the University of Michigan Suren Moodliar, Academic Advancement Program, University of California, Los Angeles Organizing for Recognition: Academic Organizing in the California University System Tom Thurston, American Studies Program, Yale University Workers of the World Connect: Campus Labor Organizing and the Communications Technology Victoria Smallman, McMaster University, Canada Organizing at Canadian Universities
COMMENT:The Audience
4:00 - 5:45 PM
JUNIPER
CHAIR:Robyn Wiegman, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Irvine
PAPERS:Robert Caserio, Department of English, Temple University Civic Ideals: Michael Sandel, Rogers Smith, and an Old Gay Philosopher (George Santayana) Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Irvine Delineating the 19th Century Asian Immigrant "Prostitute" as/not U.S. Citizen Bonnie Honig, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University The Romance of Citizenship: Marrying Up, In or Out
COMMENT:Michael Warner, Department of English, Rutgers University
4:00 - 5:45 PM
MADRONA
CHAIR:Anne Stavney, Department of English, University of Tulsa
PAPERS:Barry Maxwell, Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University Emergency History: John Sanford and Eduardo Galeano Rebecca Schreiber, American Studies Program, Yale University "But Say It Politely": U.S. Imperialism and Crucian Counter-articulation Harry Stecopoulos, Department of English, University of Virginia "Putting the Administration on the Spot": James Baldwin, Robert Kennedy, and the African American Critique of the Cold War State
COMMENT:Ranu Samantrai, Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate School
4:00 - 5:45 PM
SUITE 416
CHAIR:Anna Everett, Film Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
PAPERS:James Castonguay, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Mediating Empire: Race, Gender, and the 1898 Spanish-American War Geoffrey Klingsporn, Department of History, University of Chicago "A harvest of death": Civil War Iconography on Stage, Page and Screen Karen Shimakawa, Department of Dramatic Arts and Dance, University of California, Davis "A Yellow Fever in Playwriting": Performing Empire on the U.S. Stage
COMMENT:Anna Everett
4:00 - 5:45 PM
SUITE 418/420
CHAIR:Teresa McKenna, Department of English, University of Southern California
PAPERS:José Limón, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin War, Nation-Building and Empires: Americo Paredes, Rolando Hinojosa and the Asian Question Juan Alonzo, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin Beyond Binaries, Toward Dialectics: Articulating the Postcolonial Chicano/a Subject John Michael Rivera, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin (Re)constructing the Nation from the Parlor: Juxtaposing Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who Would Have Thought It? and Henry James' The BostoniansRalph E. Rodriguez, Department of English, Oregon State University Romancing the Nation: Creation and Territorial Dispossession in Ana Castillo's So Far from God
COMMENT:Teresa McKenna
4:00 - 5:45 PM
SUITE 422/424
CHAIR:John Raeburn, American Studies Program, University of Iowa
PAPERS:Jason Loviglio, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota Vox Pop: Early Network Radio and the Voice of the People Matthew Murray, Department of Speech Communication, North Central College Mixing Manners: Swish Routines and "Feminine Gentlemen" in Radio Comedy Allison McCracken, American Studies Program, University of Iowa White Men Can't Sing Ballads: Crooning and Cultural Anxiety 1927-1933 Tona Hangen, Department of American Studies, Brandeis University The "Live Wire" of Los Angeles: Aimee Semple McPherson on Radio
COMMENT:Michele Hilmes, Department of Communications Arts, University of Wisconsin
5:30 - 7:00 PM
GRAND BALLROOM SECTION C
The University of Michigan Program in American Culture, and Programs in Asian/Pacific American Studies, Latino/a Studies, and Native American Studies will be co-sponsoring with the Great Lakes American Studies Association, this annual reception for all of their alumni, friends, students and associates.
5:30 - 7:00 PM
EAST BALLROOM A
6:00 - 7:30 PM
CIRRUS
READERS:Juan Felipe Herrera, Diane Glancy, Mark Nowak
M.C.:Maria Damon
6:30 - 8:30 PM
WEST BALLROOM A
6:30 - 8:30 PM
EAST BALLROOM B
The Chronicle of Higher of Education cordially invites all conference registrants to this reception.