Crossing Borders/Crossing Centuries October 28-31, 1999 Descriptions of Sessions and Events

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.

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
SALON 2

Business Meeting of the ASA National Council

8:30 - 10:00 AM, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
SALON 1

Pre-Convention Workshop for American Studies Program Directors: American Studies and the New Media (Sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Programs)

CHAIR:

Sherry Lee Linkon, Department of English, Youngstown State University

PAPERS:

Beth Bailey, Department of History, University of New Mexico
Starting from Scratch: Setting up a New Media Program for Classroom Teaching

Randy Bass, Department of English, Georgetown University
New Media and Learner Centered Approaches to Culture and History

Michelle Kendrick, Program in Electronic Media and Culture, Washington State University, Vancouver
Hypermedia and Interdisciplinary Studies

Roy Rosenzweig, Department of History, George Mason University
Hypertext Scholarship in American Studies

Jim Zwick, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Syracuse University
Creating Hypertext History

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 1

Dread Disease as Cultural Commodity

CHAIR:

Susan E. Lederer, Section of the History of Medicine, Yale University

PAPERS:

Nancy Tomes, Department of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook
The Making of Germ Panics, Past and Present

Lisa Lynch, Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Medical Novel, Tropical Movie: Arrowsmith Goes Native

Nicholas King, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
What's "New" about Emerging Diseases?

COMMENT:

Paul Farmer, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University Medical School

Susan Lederer

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 3

Sovereignty and Beyond: Indigenous Societies in a Global Age

CHAIR:

Celia Haig-Brown, Department of Education, York University

PAPERS:

Dana Y. Takagi, University of California, Santa Cruz
Conversations within Hawaiian Nationalism: Rearticulating Multicultural Discussions of Sovereignty

Christopher Newfield, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Maori Sovereignty and Global Capitalism

Taiaiake Alfred, Indigenous Governance Programs, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria
State Politics and the Rise of Native Nationalism

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 4

The Politics of Consumption in Depression Era America

CHAIR:

Annelise Orleck, Department of History, Dartmouth College

PAPERS:

Kathy M. Newman, Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University
The Consumer Revolt of "Mr. Average Man": The CIO Boycott of Philco Radio in the 1930s

Kimberley L. Phillips, Department of History, College of William and Mary
"Buy Jobs!" Black Protest on the Periphery and the Politics of Public Behavior, 1925-1941

Lawrence B. Glickman, Department of History, University of South Carolina
"Use Your Buying Power for Justice": Debating Consumerism in the Depression Decade

COMMENT:

Annelise Orleck

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 5

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

CHAIR:

Jeffrey M. Garcilazo, Department of History, University of California, Irvine

PAPERS:

Gabriel Gutiérrez, Department of Chicana/o Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Affirmative Action of the First Kind: White Aliens, White Privilege, and Preferential Treatment in Nineteenth-Century California

Mónica Russel y Rodríguez, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, Metropolitan State College, Denver
Mexican Hybridity: Nationalism and the Pure Mixed Blooded

KarenMary Davalos, Department of Chicana/o Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Looking for "Whiteness," Nation and Empire in All the Wrong Places: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection of Mexican Folk Art at the Mexican Museum

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 6

Performance and Performativity: A Roundtable on New Initiatives in American Studies

CHAIRS:

Jane Desmond, American Studies Program, University of Iowa

Barry Shank, American Studies Program, University of Kansas

PANELISTS:

Susan Manning, Department of English, Northwestern University

Robert Walser, Department of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles

Susan Foster, Dance Studies Department, University of California, Riverside

Joane Nagel, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas

COMMENT:

Jane Desmond

Barry Shank

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 7

Consumerism and the Twentieth-Century Child: Boundaries Crossed, Boundaries Sustained

CHAIR:

Miriam Formanek-Brunell, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Missouri, Kansas City

PAPERS:

Lisa Jacobson, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Crossing the Boundaries of Dependency: Child Consumers and Mass Marketing, 1910-1940

Leslie Paris, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Cheap Jazz Records and Old-Time Minstrel Shows: Interwar Summer Camps and the Politics of Children's Culture

Rachel Heiman, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Protective Borders of Steel: Children, Sport-Utility Vehicles and the Suburban, Upper-Middle Class, 1997-1999

COMMENT:

Susan J. Douglas, Communication Studies, University of Michigan

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 8

In Search of the Modern

CHAIR:

Manthia Diawara, Africana Studies Program, New York University

PAPERS:

Screening of video-film "In Search of Africa" (30 minutes)

Saidiya Hartmann, English Department, University of California, Berkeley
In Search of Pan-Africanism

Amitava Kumar, English Department, University of Florida
Nostalgia for Immigrant Futures

COMMENT:

Carole Boyce-Davies, Department of English, Florida International University

Manthia Diawara

As a way of acquainting the audience with Manthia Diawara's central concerns, but also as a way of opening an autonomous space for the visual as well as what Diawara has called "reverse anthropology," this session will begin with Diawara's video-film "In Search of Africa." The film felicitously foregrounds ideologies of modernism, the contradictions of market economies, and subtle, vexed issues of cultural resistance. Two presentations concerning Diawara's ideas will follow the screening.

12:00 - 1:45 PM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

Border-Line Identities: The Image and Self-Image of Jews in the United States and Canada

CHAIR:

Daniel Segal, Anthropology and History Field Groups, Pitzer College

PAPERS:

Julia E. Liss, Department of History, Scripps College
Franz Boas and the "Problem" of Jewishness

Diana L. Linden, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity and Social Reform

Wendy Oberlander, School of Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University
The Impossibility of Names: My Late 20th-Century Diaspora

COMMENT:

Daniel Segal

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON A

Postbellum Art

CHAIR:

Kasey Grier, Department of History, University of South Carolina

PAPERS:

Susanna Williams Gold, Department of Art History, University of Pennsylvania
A Measured Freedom: National Unity and Racial Containment in Winslow Homer's The Cotton Pickers, 1876

Deirdre Murphy, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Escaping the Nation-State: Working-Class Masculinities and Stateless Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Genre Painting

Jochen Wierich, Department of Fine Arts, Vanderbilt University
"War Spirit at Home": Lilly Martin Spencer and the Politics of Domestic Painting

COMMENT:

Kasey Grier

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON B

Visible Fictions? Visioning Race, Desire and Technologies

CHAIR:

Phyllis J. Jackson, Department of Art History, Pomona College.

PAPERS:

P. Gabrielle Foreman, English and Comparative Literary Studies, Occidental College
Optical Identities: Racial Desire, Early Photography and Black Anti-passing Narratives

Elizabeth McHenry, English Department, New York University
Rehearsals of Literacy: Portraits of African Americans at the Turn of the Century

Carole-Anne Tyler, English Department, University of California, Riverside
Illusions Heard and Seen

Jennifer DeVere Brody, English Department, George Washington University
Translating Difference/Imaging Interracial Desire

RESPONDENT:

Phyllis J. Jackson

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON C

Re-inventing Museums at the Millennium: Across Institutional and Cultural Borders--A Roundtable Discussion

CHAIR:

Colleen J. Sheehy, Fredrick R. Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota

PANELISTS:

Janet Alvarado, Executive Director, The Alvarado Project
"Through My Father's Eyes" and the Alvarado Project: New Venues, New Audiences

Coco Fusco, Interdisciplinary Performance Artist, Temple University
Interventions: Multimedia Performance and Museums

Kanatakta, Kanien'kehaka Raotitiohkwa Cultural Center, Québec
Kanawake and the Museum Development Process

Stacey Suyat, Program Specialist, Smithsonian Museum
Telling Our Own Stories: Museum Descriptions of Ethnic Communities

Ellen Fernandez-Sacco, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
Fred Wilson's Speaking in Tongues: A Look at the Language of Display at the de Young Museum, San Francisco

John Kuo Wei Tchen, A/P/A Studies Program and Institute, New York University
What Do We Mean by "Popular"?!?

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON H

Caribbean Crossings

CHAIR:

Wilbert J. Roget, Department of French, Temple University

PAPERS:

Robert M. Greenberg, School of Communications and Theater, Temple University
From Empiricism to the Narrative Imagination in
V.S. Naipaul's Caribbean Nonfiction

Samir Dayal, Department of English, Bentley College
An Ethical Anti-humanism in Frantz Fanon's "Black Skin, White Mask"

Nana Wilson-Tagoe, Department of Africa, University of London
Connecting the Americas through History and Mythology: Coalitions of Historical Vision in the Writings of Caribbean and African-American Women Writers

COMMENT:

Fawzia Mustafa, Department of English, Fordham University

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON J

Frontiers and Media

CHAIR:

Shelton Waldrep, Department of English, University of Southern Maine

PAPERS:

James Spiller, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Beyond the Borders of Civilization: American Nationalism in Space and on Antarctic Ice

Shakuntala Rao, Department of Communication, State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Crossing Continents/Crossing Representations: The Journey of Lewis and Clark in Popular Culture

Alan Nadel, Department of Language, Literature and Communications, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Davy Crockett and Walt Disney at the Alamo: The Televisual Borders of Cold War America

Linda Dryden, Department of Print Media, Publishing and Communication, Napier University
Star Trek: The Present Future

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 701

Which Public(s)?

CHAIR:

Alexander Bloom, Department of History, Wheaton College

PAPERS:

Lucia McMahon, Department of History, Rutgers University
Gender, Society, and the Public Sphere

Joshua L. Miller, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Codifying Vox Americana: Defining the Public Sphere through a National Language

Heather Schuster, Department of Performance Studies, New York University
Public/s Act/s: Holly Preaches to the Perverted

Kathryn M. Tomasek, Department of History, Wheaton College
Time for a Change? Women's History and the Public Sphere

COMMENT:

Alexander Bloom

12:00 - 2:00 PM
SALON D

Minority Scholars' Committee Business Meeting

12:00 - 2:00 PM
SALON G

Women's Committee Business Meeting

12:30 - 2:30 PM

Committee on American Studies Programs Business Meeting

2:00 - 3:00 PM
SALON D

Women's Committee/Minority Scholars' Committee Joint Meeting

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 1

Imaging the Nation

CHAIR:

Wendy Kozol, Department of Women's Studies, Oberlin College

PAPERS:

Brigitte Bailey, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
Antebellum Tourist Gazes, Visual Culture, and National Subjectivity

Andrea Volpe, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University
Immigrant Images/Migrating Meanings: Documentary Photography and National Invention in the 20th Century

Sivagami Subbaraman, Department of Women and Gender Studies, Macalester College
Optic Diversity: Imag(in)ing Us & Them

COMMENT:

Wendy Kozol

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 3

Sexual Orientation and the Workplace: A Cross-Border Discussion

CHAIR:

Andrew Ross, American Studies Program, New York University

PAPERS:

Tami Gold, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College
From Union Hall to Halls of Ivy: The Odyssey of "Out at Work"

Kitty Krupat, American Studies Program, New York University
Sexual Identity as Class Struggle

Patrick McCreery, American Studies Program, New York University
"Deviant" Sex and Workplace Rights

COMMENT:

Steven Maynard, Department of History, Queen's University, Ontario

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 4

Class and Mobility

CHAIR:

Michael Aaron Rockland, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University

PAPERS:

Christine Photinos, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
The Figure of the Tramp in Gilded Age Success Narratives

Adam Golub, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Pullman Lessons: Railroads, Race, and Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Nancy Koppelman, American Studies, Evergreen State College
Using Metaphor to Understand History: The Case of "Mobility" in American Life

COMMENT:

Michael Aaron Rockland

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 5

Gender and American Discourses of Genius, 1880-1930

CHAIR:

Gustavus Stadler, Department of English, Haverford College

PAPERS:

Katherine Henry, Department of English, Haverford College
"An Excess of Self": Mary Baker Eddy and the Egotistical Sublime

Jennifer Doyle, Jesse Ball DuPont Scholar in Residence, Sweet Briar College
Thomas Eakins's "Big Painter": Gender and Late 19th-Century Discourse on American Art

Gustavus Stadler, Department of English, Haverford College
"An Impulse More Tender and More Purely Expectant": Genius and the Gender of Sentiment in Henry James's Portrait of a Lady and A Small Boy and Others

Adam Lerner, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Mount Rushmore, American Genius and Racial Movement

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 6

Paul Robeson's Identities

CHAIR:

Andrew J. Furer, Program in History and Literature, Harvard University

PAPERS:

Hal Weaver, Ciné-Fest Plus
Paul Robeson and the Black Atlantic: From
Boy/Sambo to Man/King

Andrew J. Furer
"Ballad for Americans" and "King Joe": Paul Robeson's Polar Politics

Charles Musser, Department of American Studies, Yale University
Paul Robeson and the End of His Film Acting Career

COMMENT:

Penny Von Eschen, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 7

Trust and Distrust: Anishinaabe Treaty Making and Negotiation

CHAIR:

Eva Garroutte (Cherokee), Department of Sociology, Boston College

PAPERS:

Benjamin Ramirez-shkwegnaabi, Department of History, Central Michigan University (Saginaw Band of Chippewa)
What's Mine Is Mine and What's Yours Is Mine: Anishinaabe-United States Negotiation and Treaty Making

Carol Green-Devens, Department of History, Central Michigan University
Our Women Are Angry: Anishinaabe Women's Roles in Negotation

Brian Baker, American Indian Program, Cornell University (Bad River Chippewa)
Something's Fishy: Anishinaabe Treaty Rights and Struggles in the United States and Canada

COMMENT:

Eva Garroutte

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 8

War, Memory, and Post-Nationalist American Studies

CHAIR:

Michael Sherry, Department of History, Northwestern University

PAPERS:

Katherine Kinney, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
The Good War and Its Other: Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line

Shelley Streeby, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego
Cross-Dressing and the Erotics of Empire

Geoff Cohen, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
Indian Wars

Lisa Yoneyama, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego
"Okinawa on Whose Mind?": Subalternity in the Contexts of US Militarism, Japanese Colonialism, Global Tourism, and the Discourse on Eternal Peace

COMMENT:

Amy Kaplan, English Department, Mount Holyoke College

Michael Sherry

2:00 - 3:45 PM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

Getting Lost in Translation: Film and Musical Adaptations of Identity and the "Real," 1894-1940

CHAIR:

Francis Couvares, Department of History, Amherst College

PAPERS:

Derek Vaillant, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan
Ethnic Encores: Progressivism, Power, and Music Making at Chicago's Hull-House, 1894-1918

Anne Burri Wolverton, Department of History, University of Chicago
Mary Pickford at Work: Translating the Women's Coming-of-age Novel to the Screen, 1910-1925

Geoffrey Klingsporn, Department of History, University of Chicago
"If the Militarists Want Realism, We Will Give It to Them": Anti-war Photography, Film, and History Between the Wars

COMMENT:

Francis Couvares

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON A

Capitalism and Culture

CHAIR:

Jonathan Flatley, Department of English, University of Virginia

PAPERS:

Benjamin Flowers, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Brave New World: The Ascension and Decline of the International Style

Jeffrey D. Brison, Research Fellow in Historical Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada
American Corporate Philanthropy and the Construction of Canadian National Culture

Augusta Rohrbach, The Bunting Institute, Harvard University
My William Dean Howells: Paying More Attention to the Man behind the Mustache

COMMENT:

Jonathan Flatley

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON B

Prisons

CHAIR:

Rebecca Sumner-Burgos, American Studies, New York University

PAPERS:

Cassandra Shaylor, Department of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Prison Tourism: The Prison(er) as Spectacle in 19th- and 20th-Century America

Natalie S. Bimel, American Studies Program, New York University
The Politics of Ethnography in Women's Prisons

Megan Sweeney, Literature Department, Duke University
Trespassing: A Montage of Voices about Reading, from Both Sides of the Prison Fence

COMMENT:

Rebecca Sumner-Burgos

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON C

Rethinking Border Theory in the Context of Globalization

CHAIR:

Scott Michaelsen, Department of English, Michigan State University

PAPERS:

Daniel Belgrad, Department of Humanities and American Studies, University of South Florida
Sharing the Needle: The Rockefeller Foundation Agricultural Program in Mexico

Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
Good Neighbors and Tall Fences: Border Theory, NAFTA, and US Immigration

Joni L. Adamson, Department of English, University of Arizona
Working Wilderness: Nature, Narrative, NAFTA and Rangeland Management in the US/Mexico Borderlands

Manuel Rafael Mancillas, Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo San Diego/Tijuana
The Dynamics of Binational Cooperation

COMMENT:

Scott Michaelsen

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON H

Dislocating the Nation: The Caribbean in the Nineteenth-Century American National Imaginary

CHAIR:

Peter Gibian, English Department, McGill University

PAPERS:

Teresa Goddu, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
Mapping Mary Prince

Russ Castronovo, Department of English, University of Miami
The Anti-slavery Unconscious: Mesmerism, Vodun, and "Equality"

Robert S. Levine, Department of English, University of Maryland
William Wells Brown circa 1861: Haiti, Miralda, Canada, and Civil War

COMMENT:

Julia Stern, Department of English, Northwestern University

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON J

Languages and Identifications of Asians in America

CHAIR:

Eugene Chen Eoyang, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University

PAPERS:

Yuh Ji-Yeon, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Proud to Be Korean, But Living in America: Language and Identity in Korean/American Borderlands

Da Zheng, Department of English, Suffolk University
Home Construction: Chinese Poetry in Chiang Yee's Travel Literature

Qian Suoqiao, Department of Comparative Literature, Hamilton College
Diasporic Chinese Patriotism

COMMENT:

Eoyang Chen Eugene

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 701

Theory of Borders I

CHAIR:

Rachel Buff, Department of History, Bowling Green State University

PAPERS:

Rodica Mihaila, American Studies, University of Bucharest
Crossing Borders/Exploring: American Studies and the Post-Communist Context

Luke Carson, Department of English, University of Victoria
Statelessness and Self-Disclosure in Hannah Arendt's Theory of Political Action

Carrie Tirado Bramen, Department of English, State University of New York, Buffalo
On the Necessity of Borders: From William James to Chantal Mouffe

COMMENT:

Rachel Buff

3:00 - 7:00 PM
HOSPITALITY SUITE

American Quarterly Board Meeting

3:30 - 5:30 PM
SALON G

Task Force for International Women in American Studies Business Meeting

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 1

Gender and Race in US-Japan Relations

CHAIR:

Cathy N. Davidson, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University

PAPERS:

Joseph M. Henning, Department of History, Saint Vincent College
Internationalizing the Domestic Sphere: The Participation of American Missionary Women in Early American-Japanese Relations

Mari Yoshihara, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
"When I Don Your Silken Draperies": American Women Performers in Orientalist Stage Productions, 1900s-1920s

Naoko Shibusawa, Independent Scholar
Gender and Recasting the Japanese Enemy

COMMENT:

Yujin Yaguchi, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 3

Conversations and Contestations in Queer/Disability Studies
(Sponsored by the Disability Studies Caucus)

CHAIR:

Thomas Murray, Division of Quality and Accreditation Policy, American Medical Association

PAPERS:

Robert McRuer, Department of English, George Washington University
As Good As It Gets: Queer Theory/Disability Studies

Abby Wilkerson, Department of English, George Washington University
Disability, Sexuality, and the Moral Authority of Medicine

Todd Ramlow, Human Sciences Program and Department of English, George Washington University
Disabling Youth/Deviance, Dis-ease, and Social Control in Recent American Youth Films

COMMENT:

Sarah E. Chinn, Department of English, Randolph Macon College

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 5

Native American Issues

CHAIR:

Brenda Child, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota

PAPERS:

Martha L. Viehmann, Arts and Humanities, University of Denver
Staging Indian Identity: The Mixed Messages of Mixed-Blood Pauline Johnson

Catherine C. Griffin, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
An Unnatural State: Sexual Deviance and Colonialism in American Indian Women's Writing

Timothy B. Powell, English Department, University of Georgia
Reading the American Flag at Wounded Knee,
1889-1973

COMMENT:

Brenda Child

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 6

Nation, Nostalgia, and Transnational Movement: Gender and Desire in Contemporary Popular Music Culture

CHAIR:

Sonnet Retman, Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine

PAPERS:

Gayatri Gopinath, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Diasporic Mediations: South Asian Popular Culture in a Global Frame

Michelle Habell-Pallán, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
Chicana Punks and Mexicana Roqueras: The Development of Oppositional Transnational Musical Publics

Daphne Brooks, Department of African American Studies, University of California, San Diego
"Got 'Til It's Gone": Nation, Nostalgia, & Black Feminist Desire in Contemporary Popular Music Culture

COMMENT:

Arnaldo Cruz-Malave, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, Fordham University

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 7

Paradox at the Border: A National Politics in Translation and Language Study

CHAIR:

Lisbeth Haas, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz

PAPERS:

Amelia M. de la Luz Montes, Department of Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Polyglossia Border Check Point: Complicating What It Means to Translate

Anne E. Goldman, Department of English, Sonoma State University
It's All Part of the American Palaver and Squawk

Genaro M. Padilla, Vice Chancellor, University of California Berkeley
Revaluing Language Study: On Multilingualism and National Literatures

COMMENT:

Lisbeth Haas

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 8

The Problem of "Home" in the Filipino Diaspora

CHAIR:

Linda M. Pierce, Department of English, University of Arizona

PAPERS:

Luisa A. Igloria, Institute for the Study of Minority Issues, Old Dominion University
Revisioning the Filipino Subject in R. Zamora Linmark's Rolling the R's and Marlon Fuentes' Bontoc Eulogy

Sharon Delmendo, Department of English, St. John Fisher College
Canto del Viajero: F. Sionil Jose's Restorative "Passage"

E-Chou Wu, Department of English, Providence University, Taiwan
Like Father, Like Lover: The Home, the Journey and the Border in Peter Bacho's Cebu

COMMENT:

Phyllis Frus, Department of English, University of Michigan

4:00 - 5:45 PM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

Pushing Boundaries: Energy and the Search for the Modern Body

CHAIR:

Cecelia Tichi, Department of English, Vanderbilt University

PAPERS:

Carolyn Thomas de la Peña, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Meeting the Energy Crisis: Modern Masculinity and the Mechanized Physique

Carma Gorman, Department of Art History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Not Just Skin Deep: Body Mechanics and Willpower in the 1920s and 1930s

Joel Dinerstein, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
The Body of Tomorrow: The Lindy Hop and Black Culture at the New York World's Fair, 1939/40

COMMENT:

David Nye, Center of American Studies, Odense University

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON A

Science and Literature

CHAIR:

Lisa Strong, Department of Art History, Corcoran School of Art

PAPERS:

Adam W. Sweeting, Division of Humanities and Rhetoric, Boston University
Crossing the Weather Divide: Literature, Science, and the Invention of Indian Summer in Antebellum America

Anne Sheehan, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Oliver Wendell Holmes and Antebellum Medical and Literary Authority

Michael Gaudio, Department of Art History, Stanford University
Swallowing the Evidence: A Reading of William Bartram's Voids

COMMENT:

Stephen Rice, School of American/International Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON B

Traversing Inter-America: Variations on the Political Imagination of Hemispheric Cultural Formation

CHAIR:

Claire F. Fox, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University

PAPERS:

Cynthia Young, Program in Comparative Literature, State University of New York, Binghamton
Fidelismo: Cuba and the Cultural Politics of Third World Identification

Rebecca M. Schreiber, American Studies Program, Yale University
Beyond the Gringo Pastoral: Hollywood Exiles in Mexico during the Cold War

Alyosha Goldstein, American Studies Program, New York University
Visual Economies of Inter-America: Labor, Design and American Globalism

COMMENT:

Claire F. Fox

4:00 - 5:45 AM
SALON C

Media, Mobility and Transnational Traffic

CHAIR:

Jesse Lerner, Department of Media Studies, Pitzer College

PAPERS:

Tova Cooper, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Border Discourse and the Spectral Presence of the Cold War in Touch of Evil

Elana Zilberg, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin
The Latino Looter: A Spatial Politics and Poetics of the Latinization of Los Angeles at the Turn of the 21st Century

Brian Carr, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
"Retinal Fetish": Strange Days and Identification at the Limit

COMMENT:

Lindon Barrett, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON J

Protecting Our (Discursive) Boundaries

CHAIR:

Alexis McCrossen, Department of History, Southern Methodist University

PAPERS:

Amy S. Greenberg, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University
Natural vs. National Borders: Legitimating Aggressive Expansionism in the 1850s

Imre Szeman, Department of English, McMaster University
"The Solemn Geography of Human Limits": National Culture vs. Mass Culture in Canada

Caren Irr, Department of English, Brandeis University
Miss America, Org. v. Mattel, Inc.: Iconic Femininity and Infringement at the Border

COMMENT:

Don Mitchell, Department of Geography, Syracuse University

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SUITE 701

Liberationists, Keepers, and Weepers: Men and Emotions at the Millennium

CHAIR:

Jennifer Travis, Department of English, Illinois State University

PAPERS:

Tom Lutz, Department of Literature, University of Iowa
Male Weepies and the Roles of Melodrama

Sally Robinson, Department of English, Texas A & M University
Men's Liberation, Men's Wounds: Emotion, Sexuality, and the Reconstruction of Masculinity in the 1970s

Judith Newton, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Davis
Re-enchanting Masculinity: Promise Keepers and the Politics of Repentance

COMMENT:

Milette Shamir, Department of English, Tel Aviv University

4:00 - 6:00 PM
SALON 2

American Studies Editorial Board Meeting

4:00 - 6:00 PM
SALON 4

Crossroads Project Advisory Board Business Meeting

4:00 PM - 12:00 AM
SALON D

ASA Nominating Committee Business Meeting

5:30 - 7:00 PM
SALON H

Workshop for Ethnic Studies Program Directors, Faculty and Students

6:00 - 7:30 PM
SALON B

International Committee Reception

6:00 - 8:00 PM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

Mid-American American Studies Association Reception

6:30 - 7:45 PM
SALON A

Material Culture Caucus, Annual Business Meeting

6:30 - 8:00 PM
SALON 6/7

New England/New York Metro American Studies Association Reception

7:00 - 8:30 PM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

Minority Scholars' Committee, Women's Committee, and Sexual Minority Scholars(hip) Reception

7:00 - 9:00 PM
SALON 2

Students' Committee Business Meeting

8:00 - 9:15 PM
SALON 1

Visual Culture Caucus, Annual Business Meeting

8:15 - 10:00 PM
SALON C

Canadian Association for American Studies President's Forum: American? . . . Not! New Directions for American Studies in Canada

CHAIR:

Bruce Tucker, Department of History, Philosophy and Political Science, University of Windsor

PANELISTS:Thomas King, Department of English, University of Guelph

Will Straw, Communication Studies, McGill University

Robert Martin, Department of English, Université de Montréal

Percy Walton, Department of English, Carleton University

Rinaldo Walcott, Division of Humanities, York University

Leslie Sanders, Division of Humanities, York University

Michael Zeitlin, Department of English, University of British Columbia

COMMENT:

Sacvan Bercovitch, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

10:00 - 11:30 PM
SALON B

Canadian Association for American Studies Presidential Reception