American Studies and the Question of Empire: Histories, Cultures and Practices November 19-22, 1998 Complete Schedule of Sessions and Events

8:00AM - 3:00PM
     Business Meeting of the ASA National Council

9:30AM - 10:30AM
     Pre-convention Workshop for American Studies Program Directors: The American Studies Degree

11:00AM - 12:30PM
     Pre-convention Workshop for American Studies Program Directors: American Studies Pedagogy

12:00PM - 1:45PM
     Migrating Musics: Postcolonial Approaches to Popular Music in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora

     Visual Imagery and Cultural Contact

     Hypertext and American Studies: Theory, Practice, Knowledge

     Rethinking American Imperialism Inside/Out

     Mixing Metaphors: Race and Sexuality in American Culture

     The Politics of Neutral Ground, 1820-1830

     The Reel World Order: Contemporary Film and Cultural/National Citizenship

     Philippines and Global Culture

     Anywhere But (T)here: Placing the "Citizenry"

     The Empire of the Lens: Anglo-American Women Photographers among the Indians

     Performance, History, and Spirit in Contemporary Chicana Cultural Practices

     Using What's There: Doing American Studies at Community Colleges

1:00PM - 3:00PM
     Committee on American Studies Programs Business Meeting

2:00PM - 3:45PM
     The "Imperial Market": Determination and Agency in the Mid-twentieth Century Culture Industries

     Information, Inquiry, and Knowledge: Opportunities and Problems in Using New Technologies to Teach American Studies

     Skin Deep: American Indian Literature as Anti-colonial Resistance

     Understanding and Locating Chester Himes

     Queer in American Studies

     Imagining the Body: Pedagogies of Modern Individuality in Late 19th-and Early 20th-century America

     Passing in the Service of Empire: (Inter)national Bodies and the Trans-Mogrification of American Culture

     Afro-America in an International Frame

     Toward the White Man's Burden: Race, Class, Gender and Nation in the 19th Century

     Roundtable: Latina/o Popular Culture: Cultural Politics into the 21st Century

     Hunting for Good Will: Building Opportunities for Interdisciplinary American Studies at Community Colleges

2:00PM - 4:00PM
     Minority Scholars' Committee Business Meeting

3:00PM - 6:00PM
     International Women's Task Force Business Meeting

3:00PM - 7:00PM
     American Quarterly Board Meeting

4:00PM - 5:45PM
     Movidas y Movimientos: Social Networks among Musicians, Artists, and Vendedoras in Latino Los Angeles

     Representation and Race

     Cracking Down: The Reconsolidation of America as Police State

     Displacements, Colonialisms, Alternative Knowledges: Asian Immigrant Women

     Race and Nation in Contemporary Public Schooling

     Writing the National Body

     Cross-cultural Interpretations of the American Experience

     Remapping Cultural Identity, beyond Race, Class and Gender

     Gendering Vice: Early Twentieth-century Constructs of Femininity and Deviance

5:00PM - 6:00PM
     Business Meeting of the Material Culture Caucus

5:30PM
     Northwest Writers Reading: Sherman Alexie, Crystos, Colleen McElroy, and Shawn Wong

6:00PM - 7:00PM
     Business Meeting of the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus

6:00PM - 7:00PM
     International Reception

7:00PM - 9:00PM
     Students' Committee Business Meeting

7:30PM - 9:00PM
     Ethnic Studies Program Directors and Faculty Workshop

9:00PM - 10:30PM
     Minority Scholars' Committee, Women's Committee and the Sexual Minority Scholars(hip) Caucus Reception

7:30AM - 10:00AM
     International Women's Breakfast

8:00AM - 2:00PM
     Student Hospitality Lounge

8:00AM - 9:45PM
     Visions of Empire in West Coast Public Art

     Religion and Folklore in an Inter-American Context

     Asian American Labor and Culture

     Legacies of 1898: Sovereignty and Colonialism in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam, The Philippines and Hawai'i, and Their Implications for American Studies--A Roundtable Discussion with Audience Participation

     Beyond the Shadow of the Eagle: Models of Internationalizing African-American Cultural and Literary Studies

     What's "Black" about . . . ?

     Roundtable: The Empire Turning within: The Politics of Policing Reform in Seattle

     Sherman Alexie, Cultural Studies, and U.S. Emergent Literatures

     Cold War "Orientations": Imagining U.S. Empire in Vietnam

     Multicultural Politics and the Realist Theory of Identity

     Bodies at Work: Women and/in the U.S. American "Free Market"

     Parks, Exhibitions and Rituals of Empire

     Rereading Canonical Texts

10:00AM - 11:45PM
     "Race," Place, and the Archive: Photographing National Identity

     Becoming an Attraction: Perspectives from the Toured

     (Dis)ordering Chicanos in Nation and Empire: Racing to and from Whiteness

     Difference and American Empire: Three Phases of U.S. Internationality

     Native American Political Resurgence and Activism

     Immigrants, Blacks, and Ex-colonials: West Indian Life in the Twentieth-century U.S.

     Conduct Becoming Citizens: The Political Life of Masculinity in Nineteenth-century America

     Race and Colonial Body Politics in the United States and Puerto Rico, 1865-1940

     Roundtable: Empire and the Making of Asian Pacific American Anxiety in the American Century: Slander, Conspiracy and Rumor as Narratives of Contested Nationalism

     Europe, Africa and the Americas

     Empires of Print: Antebellum Print Culture

     The Business of American Studies

     Roundtable: Interdisciplinary Pedagogy: Approaches to Gender and Globalization

     Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) American Studies Association Caucus Business Meeting

12:00PM - 1:45PM
     Empire and Interiority: Pedagogies of Race and Citizenship

     The Price of Empire: Public Ceremonies and Public Intellectuals in Cold War America

     Negotiating Race and Citizenry in the Nineteenth Century

     The Nation and Nationalism in Queer Art, Culture and Politics

     1898/1998: Centennial of What?

     Female Bodies and the National Imaginary

     Constructing Race, Creating Nations: Relating African American and American Indian (Hi)stories

     Black Women's Cultural and Political Production in the 1970s

     Imperialized Alliances: Cross-cultural Readings between Chicano and Filipino-American Cultural Studies

     Cold War Orientalisms

     The Imagined Community of International American Studies

     Medicine, Science, and Racialized Power

1:00PM - 4:00PM
     Empirical Images: The Photographic Practice of Nation Building

     Against Derealization: Assault, New Media, and Empire Exposed

     More than One Movement: Conflicting Definitions of "Civil Rights" in the 1960s

     Cultures of Revolution/Revolution in Cultures: Forging Identities, Building Movements

     Overcoming the Boarding School Experience in American Indian Education: Views from the Rez to Academia

     Latent Destiny: Queering the Critique of United States Imperialism

     Staging Racial Conflict

     Where We Stand--Coloring American Studies: A Roundtable Discussion with the

     Audience Facilitated by Graduate Students and Faculty of Color

     Race, Gender, Empire: The Politics of Expansion in Nineteenth-century America

     Essentializing Class

     Century of Eugenics: Permutations of the Gene Dream, 1890s-1990s

     Murderous Desires: Violence and Alternative Sexualities

     International Committee Business Meeting

4:00PM - 5:45PM
     Space and Social Identities

     The Empire Crawls Back: Gerber Classics and the Imperial Work of Children's Texts

     P.T. Barnum's Empire: Rethinking Its Impact in 19th-century America

     On Inter-American Cultural Criticism

     Native American Studies/ASA Caucus

     Rewriting the West: War, Migration, and Empire, 1848-1898

     Are the Cats Still Singing? Modernity, Prostitution and the "Silent" Politics of Translation

     Masculinity, Social Space, and Disciplinary Practices

     The Cultural Practices of Country Music: An Interdisciplinary Panel

     Building Empire at Home: Domestic Forms of American "Colonization"

     Sweatshop Lit.

     Nationalism/Immigration/Neocolonialism

     All Quiet on the Home Front? Life and Labor in World War II America

4:00PM - 6:00PM
     University of Minnesota Reception

7:00PM - 7:45PM
     Award Ceremony for ASA Prize Recipients

8:00PM - 9:30PM
     President's Address: What's in a Name

9:30PM - 12:30AM
    

7:00AM - 9:00AM
     Breakfast for Women in American Studies

7:45AM - 9:45AM
     GLASA Program Committee Breakfast Meeting

8:00AM - 9:45AM
     By Land and by Sea: Revisioning America's "Empire" at Home and Abroad

     Focus on Teaching Day I: American Mosaic: An Experiment in Community-based Multicultural Education

     The American Quarterly and the Future of American Studies

     Others in American Education: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Democratic Possibility

     Roundtable: Re/Encountering Vietnam

     War and the Woman Citizen in Late Twentieth-century America

     The Continental Imagination of the Americas

     Creolizing "America": African American/Caribbean Culture Dialogue

     Internal Empires: Ethnic Studies Perspectives on Environmental Racism

     The Early Republic and Empire

     Stomping Culture: Albert Murray's Omni-American Studies

     Empire, Expansion, and Environment

8:00AM - 11:00AM
     Student Hospitality Room

10:00AM - 11:45PM
     The Future of the Past: Nationalism, Nostalgia, and Quotation

     Cultural Hegemonies, Southern States and Queer Spaces

     Writing Empire: A Roundtable of Critical Historiographies

     Subalternality Is ABOUT the U.S. and Imperialism: Sites and Citations of Pan-American Revolutionary (Trans) Nationalism

     Mapping Culture

     Culture, Ethnicity, and Migration

     Cross-cultural Readings

     Anthropology, History, and Myth

     Conflicts along the Columbia: Place, People, Power

     Imperial Fantasies: Sex, Empire, and the Construction of the Other in Cold War U.S. Foreign Relations

     Focus on Teaching Day II: Teaching Class: A Conversation, "Uncloaking Class"

11:30AM - 1:00PM
     Disabilities Caucus Business Meeting

12:00AM - 1:45PM
     Questioning the Empire: Pacific Northwest Asian-Pacific Americans Challenging Mainstream Paradigms

     Roundtable: Women Negotiating Multiple Identities: Perspectives from around the World

     Roundtable: Visual Cultures - Current Methods and Frameworks

     Women in Prison: Out from Behind the Walls of Invisibility

     Postmodern Geographies and Anti-imperial Subjectivities

     Nation and Deformation: Violence and National Narrative before 1898

     Plotting U.S. Latino/a Culture

     Roundtable: The Empire of the "Normal": Disability and Self-Representation in Autobiography

     Post-colonial British Columbia: Models for Re-envisioning Colonialism, First Nations Conquest, and Power in North America

     Imperial Visions and Critiques

     Roundtable - Part I: Textual Migrations & Cultural Border X-ings

12:00PM - 2:00PM
     Focus on Teaching Day III: Luncheon Speaker: Johnnella Butler

1:00PM - 4:00PM
     ASA Students' Committee Mock Interviews

2:00PM - 3:45PM
     Colonized Bodies and Representative Democracy

     Pedagogical Counterpractices and Alternative Educational Sites: A Workshop

     United States Military Empire: Complex Inequalities of Race, Gender, Class and Nation

     "Indian Reform," Gender Anxiety and the Domestic Empire

     Hollywood, History, and the American Imaginary

     The American Renaissance, American Literature, and the Empire of Academia

     Roundtable: Failing the Future? A Conversation on Higher Education and the Nation in the Twenty-first Century

     Utopian or Imperial Visions?

     Fear of Exchange: Xenophobia and Economic Nationalisms

     Technologies of Empire

     Focus on Teaching Day IV: What's Appropriate, What's Appropriation? Teaching Native American Issues in Secondary Education

     Knowledge from below: C.L.R. James and John La Rose Re-imagining the Americas

2:00PM - 6:00PM
     Regional Chapters Business Meeting

3:00PM - 5:00PM
     Business Meeting of the 1999 Program Committee

4:00PM - 5:45PM
     Half Lives: Manifest Destiny in the Nuclear Age

     Focus on Teaching Day V: Philosophical and Practical Applications of Asian American Studies in Secondary Schools

     More on Positive and Negative Images: The Case of Kara Walker, Artist

     The American Prison and American Studies

     Transforming Cultural Practices: Challenging the Traditional American Studies Classroom

     Roundtable: Organizing in the Trenches: Graduate Students and the Unionization Movement

     Sexual Citizenship

     Old and New Historical Narratives

     Images of Combat: Stage, Screen, and Photography

     Chicana/o Studies and the Question of Empire: An Inquiry into the Literary and National Aspects of the Chicana/o Subject

     Radio Voices and the Construction of Social Identity, 1927-1947

5:30PM - 7:00PM
     University of Michigan Reception

5:30PM - 7:00PM
     Music of the Americas Caucus Reception

6:00PM - 7:30PM
     Part II: Poetries 'Cross the Americas (An Evening Reading)

6:30PM - 8:30PM
     NYMASA and NEASA Joint Reception

     Chronicle of Higher Education Reception

6:15PM - 7:30PM
     Business Meeting of the ASA Sexual Minority Caucus

8:00AM - 9:45AM
     The Empire in the Archive: Mining Sites of U.S. Colonial Knowledge

     The Empire Comes "Home": Of Consumption and Cultural Citizenship

     Media, Consumption and American Transnationalities: Identities, Markets and Nationalisms in Late Capitalism

     Space, Place, and Power: Local Geographies and the Built Environment

     Articulating Race: International Capitalisms and Marxist Internationalisms

     Popular Music and U.S. Empire

     Troubling Silences in the Sound of Surprise: Jazz and the Intersection of Racial and Gender Politics

     Imagined Communities/Tele-visions

     Material Reality Off the Cuff: Clothing, Culture, and Commercialism

     Coalition and Collision: Issues for Researchers

9:00AM - 11:00AM
     Breakfast Meeting of the 1999 Program Committee

10:00AM - 11:45AM
     Roundtable: Managing Revolutions and Diversity Wars: Corporate Cultures as American Cultures

     The West: Business, Religion, the Environment and Empire

     The Other American Studies: Vocational Education and Race in U.S. Culture

     Ethni-city: Ethnic Transformations of Built Landscapes

     The Imperial Unconsciousness: Violence and Racial Formation in the U.S.

     The Fear of Going Home: Nationalism and Masculinity in Queer Chicano Texts

     Music, Race, and Politics

     Race and Sex in American Dance

     Cultures in Contact: Film/Video in the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora

     Antebellum Masculinities and the Rise of American Empire

     Physical Place and Social Space