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Thursday, November 8, 2001

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Girls with Guitars: Gender and the Creation of Country Music Culture

Globalizing American Culture, 1877-1920

Negotiating Change: The Image, Between Nature and Community

The Nineteenth Century and Race: Alternative Engagements

FOCUS ON PROGRAMS DAY--Innovative American Studies Models: Outreach and the Public Sphere Archive Trauma: Affective Modernity and Civic Memory

Rockwell Redux: Rethinking the Cultural Logic of Norman Rockwell

African American Humor and American Culture: The Public Face of "Blackness"

Between Assimilation and Multiculturalism: Performing Asian American Mythologies

Sideshow Science: Psychology, Medicine, and Showmanship

The Science-Humanities Contact Zone: Cultural Authority and New Interdisciplinarities

Women's Negotiations of Gender, Notoriety, and Celebrity: Three Cases

Cosmopolitan Cinema: Hollywood, Hong Kong, and Beyond

Producing the Public Good: Neo Multinational/ Domestic Formations

Passionate Readings: Romanticism and Antebellum American Readership

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Race in the Archives: Views from Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture

Whose Washington? Conflict, Consensus, and Competing Public Interests on the Roads and Rails of the Nation's Capital

Vanishing Borders/Expanding Boundaries: A Conversation About Contemporary Cross-Cultural Art from the Southwest and Its Public Constituencies

Radio Publics/Radio Voices: A Forum on Radio, Community, and Democracy at the Turn of the Century

Girls' Public Spheres: Voicing Shared Identity in the Twentieth Century

Displacement and Effacement: Racial Identifications and Elision

Not for Sale: Determining Personal Meaning in Consumer Society

Memorializing Disability: Politics, Aesthetics, and Narrative

Multiple Musics/Public Intellectuals

Sexual Citizenship and Economies of Exchange

Producing the American Worker: Imagining the Working Class in the Public Sphere

Owen Wister's The Virginian and Western American Cultural Studies: The Next One Hundred Years

African American Modernisms

American/Beauty: The Convergence of Aesthetics and Politics

Cinema in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching Film and Video

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Contesting Racial Orders through Strategies of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Solidarity: Communities of Color throughout 20th Century Los Angeles

FOCUS ON PROGRAMS DAY--Making the Most Out of Mentoring

Jewish Self-Fashioning in America: History, Identity, and Public Culture

'Did I Dream Them Times? Or What Happened?': Remembering and Rethinking the Black Arts Movement

Digital Cities: Using Multimedia for American Urban Studies

Ethnographic Film for Social Change: Exploring Disability, Education, and Work

The (Trans) National Other: Globalization, Politics, and Cultural Identity

Cultivating a Public Sense of Place Outside the Academy

Inventing the American Radio Public: International Comparative Perspectives

Understanding Her Place: National Park Service Sites and Women's History

Science Fiction, Fictions of Science: Contesting Race, Sex, Citizenship and the Boundaries of the Human

Monuments, Borders and City Streets: Performances of Citizenship and Nation/Performing Citizenship and Nation

Culinary-scapes: Food and Ethnicity in America

Multiple Publics/Civil Voices?: The Contest for White Supremacy in Chopin Country

The Future of Faith-Based Progressive Organizing

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Shifting Publics: Women, Language, and Political Performance in the Nineteenth Century

Non-Metropolitan Sexualities: The Rural/Urban Divide in Contemporary Queer Studies

Public Cultures in the Borderlands

Alternative Civic Voices: Oppositional Broadcasting and American Society in the 1930s and 1960s

Envisioning Collection, Envisioning Collectives

Indigenous Recoveries

Focus on Reconfiguring American Studies: The Place of Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, and Gay and Lesbian Studies

Spoken Resistance: D.C. Fragments & Identity

Negotiating the Mainstream: Multiple Effects of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Changing Niche Media Audiences

(In) Class: Bridging Campus, Classroom, and Community

An America Formulated, Sprawled, Pinned, and Wriggling: Representing and Failing to Represent the Nation in Early 20th Century US Culture

Rock and Roll Only Forgets: The "Secret History" of Greil Marcus, American Studies, Cultural Criticism, and Popular Music

Re-Appraising the Histories of Black Nationalism in the United States

What Is Activism? Social Movements, Non-Profits and the Academy

This is What Democracy Looks Like: Student Activism, Global Business, and Commercial Media's Grip on Public Representation

6:00 - 7:30 PM

Task Force on Ethnic Studies Featured Session: "Battling the Backlash: Justice and Access in Higher Education"

Featured Session: Grant Opportunities at the National Endowment for the Humanities



Friday, November 9, 2001

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Ways to Move in an American Meltdown: A Roundtable Discussion on the Relationship between Creative Expression, Scholarship and Public Voices

Visual Cultures of Militarization

Othering the American South

Policing the Boundaries: Murderous Men, Sexualized Women, and Eugenics

No, Where Are You Really From: Globalization and the Asian American Community

Lynching, Internment and Jazz: U. S. Narratives of Race Crossing Borders

Recombinant Identities, New Counterpublics: Casitas, Clubs, Raves, and the Web

The Politics of Culture in Depression America

Exile(d) Citizenship: Feminist Transformations of American Public Engagement

Public Encounters with New World Slavery

Diplomatic Exchanges

Civic Voices of the Air: Nation, Immigration and Labor in American and Mexican Radio, 1925-1955

Rethinking Prisons: A Critical Resistance Roundtable

Disease and Discourse

Monuments and Memory in the Nation's Capital

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Beyond the Affirmative Action Backlash: (More) Policy Threats to Access and Diversity in Higher Education

Imperial Nature: the Construction and Presentation of an American Imperial Identity

Internal Relations, International Relations: Musical Enactments of Race in the Interwar Period

Temporal Politics

Key Words and American Studies: A Roundtable

Where Is Education? Spaces of Pedagogy, "Home," and Youth

Locating the Multicultural

The Politics of Inclusion: Making Space for Marked Bodies in the Public

Reintroducing American Literature to the American Public 0

Teatristas sin Fronteras: Gender and Diasporic Representation in Chicana Performance

Destabilizing the Center: Order and Uprising in Washington, DC

Roundtable: The Marital Civic Sphere

Pushing Racial Boundaries

Photography, Race, and Resistance

Seeing Media from the Margins

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Negotiating the Ideologies of Gender, Race, and Nationality in Hollywood Film: Projections, Receptions, and Interventions

Network Views and Public Voices in Interwar America

Heading South: the Circulation and Multiplication of Region

Vistas and Visitors in the National Park System

Disidentifications: Sexuality, Race, Popular Culture

Race, Place, and Social Movements

Doing Feminist Art/Feminist Art Matters: Engaging Multiple Publics in Visual Cultures

Queers Out

Mustering Support: The Military and Its Publics

The New Mulatto Celebrity

Colloquy with Judith Stacey on In the Name of the Family Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age, FiveYears Later

Music and Racial Performance I

Connecting Intellectual Engagement and Community Empowerment: Caribbean-American, African-American, and Latino Communities

Imagining Asia and Asia America

American Studies, Visual Culture, and the Performing Arts

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Cultural Solutions to Political Problems: Anti-Fascism and Anti-Semitism in the Hollywood Social Problem Film

The Making of The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, Culture for the 21st-Century

The Cinema and the City: Urban Spaces, Urban Publics

Nightlife and the Construction of Urban Subjects

Race Represented: U. S. Democracy, Racial Groups, and Crises of Publics Participating

Engendering Counterpublics

In/Visibility Politics: Spectacular Blackness, Signifying Bodies, and Performative Interventions in Civic Culture

Forging Public Culture, Public Voices: Latin(o) American Community Rhythms as Civic Engagement

Hillbillies and the Twisted Borders of American Identity

Civic Dialogues: Public Views on Private Parts

Race: An International Perspective

Citing/Siting "Comfort Women" Critically: Transnational Memories in Korea-Japan-U. S. Liaisons (TALK)

Constructions of Childhood

Sensationalism and Sexuality in Antebellum America

Modern Arts

4:00 - 5:45 PM

OFF-SITE TOUR: F.D.R. Memorial

Public Music and Working-Class Protest

Labor Paradigms in American Media History

Strange Fruit: Lynchings' Publics

A Noble Tradition: A Retrospective on the Scholarly Influence of David Noble

Fallout

Sanitizing Landscapes: Tourism and History

Architecture Across Disciplines

Configuring Cyberculture: New Directions in Cyberstudies and Cybercultural Production

Gender, Race and Citizenship in Cold War America

Music and Racial Performance II

Geographies of Latinidad: Latina/os and the (Trans)formation of U.S. Public Culture

Following the Color Line in Late Nineteenth-Century America

"Half Men," Race Women, and "Brothers Under the Skin": Race, Gender, and Public Intellectual Life

Cartographies of Middle-Class Modernism

After Fred Wilson: The Legacy of "Mining the Museum" at the Maryland Historical Society and Beyond



Saturday, November 10, 2001

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Body, Voice, and Narrative Form in Working-Class Literature

Clandestine Formations of Black (U.S.) Publics: Finding the Political in Civic Expression

Alternative Memories/Alternative Publics: Race, U.S. Imperialism, and the Crisis of Liberalism

Objects of Contestation

The Literary Performance of Otherness

State Humanities Councils and the Scholarly Community: Putting Theory into Practice, a Roundtable Discussion

A Roundtable on Architecture, Urbanism, and the Working Class in the United States

Object Lessons: Field Fomations in Interdisciplinary Studies

Engaging Multiple Publics through a Collaborative NEH Project: Stories from the Keeping and Creating American Communities Program

Race and the Origins of U.S. Cinema

Indians in the Act: Native Performance Past and Present

Learning from the Local: Pedagogy and Public Space in the Chesapeake

Narrating the Nation through Art, Politics, and Intellectual History

The Cultural Capital of Antislavery

10:00 - 11:45 AM

New Work in Youth Culture Studies: Emerging Debates, Public Interventions

Souls and Commodities: Spirituality, Religion, and the Literary Marketplace in Post-War America

Academy After Activism

Making It Public: Putting Multicultural Research Online 0

El Pueblo (Dis)Unido (The People (Dis)united): (Re)mapping Identity, Community, and Insurgency in Chicano/Latino Communities in the 1960s and 70s

Labor and Working-Class History Association Roundtable: The Cultural Turn in Working-Class Studies

FOCUS ON TEACHING DAY--Bridging the Divide: Race and Ethnicity in the High School and University U.S. Literature and History Classroom

Visible Knowledge(s), Visual Teaching, and Teaching Visually: A Roundtable and Multimedia Presentation on Conceptual Visualization in American Studies Learning

Civic Design, Public Space, and the Washington Mall: A Roundtable Discussion on the National World War II Memorial

Nineteenth-Century Public Intellectuals

Contesting Testimonies: Voices from the U.S. Borderlands, 1862-1916

A New Low for the U. S. Constitution: Rice v. Cayetano and the 14th and 15th Amendments in Relation to Native America, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa

Engaging Multiple Publics: Environmental Justice Politics, Poetics, Pedagogy, and

Postwar Culture and the Shape of the Feminine

Marrying Alien and Native: Ethno-religious Imaginations

12:00 - 1:45 PM

For American Studies Scholars Who Have Considered Suicide When the U.S. Is Just Too Much

Counter Publics in the Age of George W. Bush

Academic Job Interview in American Studies: A Demonstration Workshop

Ritual, Business, and Gender Conventions in the Twentieth-Century

Multiple Voices and Spaces of American Studies Public Practitioners

"Made in the USA": A Roundtable on International Students in American Studies Graduate Programs

Washington and "High" Culture: Case Studies in Public Support (Neglect?) of the Arts

A Roundtable on the Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women of Color

"The Death of a National Landscape": Counternarratives to the Discourse of Bourgeois Nationalism

Music of the Americas I--Crossing the Color Line: African-Derived Music and Crossing into the "Free" Public Sphere

Genetic Aesthetics/Aesthetic Genetics: Visualizing Genes and Transgenics in Art, Science, and Popular Culture

Centennial Perspectives on the Philippine-American War

Theatre Studies/American Studies: The Broadway Musical as Public Culture

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Antebellum Race's International Publics

From Fear of a Black Planet to "Bling, Bling" and Other Big Willie-isms: Black Popular Culture in the Clinton Era

Does Intellectual Property Threaten Intellectual Life?: A Roundtable on Teaching and Research

Student Voices on Academic Freedom: Making Meaning of Domestic Cold War Abuses, an Intergenerational Conversation

Genetics, Popular Culture and Political Identity

African Women, Human Rights, and Migration

FOCUS ON TEACHING DAY--Attending the Voices of Multiple Constituencies: Creating an American Studies Program in a Small-College Setting

Were Chicanas/os Ever Colonized?: A Riddle (and Response) for Historians and Literary Critics

Representing Radicals

Revising Canons and Politicizing the Teaching of American Visual Cultures

Contested Closets: Passing, Coming Out, and Disability

Music of the Americas II--Remembering/Forgetting the Nation: Diasporic Performances, Genres, and the Continual Remaking of the Public Space

The Real Folk: Tourism, Identity, and Attractions in the National Parks

Museums and Memory

Incivil Society: Urban Publics in the Nation

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Japanese American Women Writers of the 1930s: Transnationalism and Civic Engagement

Laws of Desire

Race and Rights

Building Publics in Civic Spaces 0

American Quarterly, American Studies, and the ASA

Re-Mapping Home Anxieties: The Domestic/Local and the Foreign during the Cold War and Beyond

The Role of American Studies within Environmental Studies

Visual Literacy and the Creation of Publics for Art

Interdisciplinary Renderings of 60s Politics

Internationalizing the Study of North American Literatures and Cultures: Identifying Comparative Paradigms

After Degrees of Shame: Finding Solutions to the Adjunct and Part-Time Employment Crisis

Re-Presenting Class in the Mexican American/Chicana/o Public Spheres

Foreign, Female and Fighting: De-centering U. S. Paradigms, Developing Transnational Perspectives on Italian Immigrant Women Workers, Exiles and Radicals

Textual Transgressions and Belonging

Multiple Publics, Varied Contexts: The Public and Private Jew in American Culture



Sunday, November 11, 2001

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Sites of Discovery: The Creation of Public Knowledge about the American Southwest in 19th-Century America

The Radio Nation(s): Broadcasting and Community in the United States, 1920-1940

Sound Media

Where is Working-Class Studies? Reports from/on the Field

International Perspectives on American Studies, The View from Latin America

Global Democracy or Cultural Imperialism?: New Perspectives on Hollywood's International Campaign

The New Business Studies as American Studies. And What Was the New Economy, Anyway?

Myth, Memory, and the Construction of History: Remembering the American War in Vietnam from the Twenty-First Century

Gentlemen, Brothers, and Rogues: Masculine Publics in 19th Century America

Spirit Matters

Another Matter: Racial Materiality in Antebellum America

New Virtues of Nineteenth-Century Republicanism

What is the Sound of a Civic Voice?

Public Women/Private Lives

Legal Fantasies: The Construction of an Interdisciplinary Legal Imagination


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