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Thursday, November 14, 2002
10:00 - 11:45 AM Galleria I
a Writing Towards the Local: Exilic Writing from New York City10:00 - 11:45 AM Galleria II
Performing Identity: Theory into Praxis10:00 - 11:45 AM Galleria III
Poor Side of Town: Popular Music, Race and Class Consciousness10:00 - 11:45 AM Tanglewood
The Black Press Writing Local, National, and Global Protest10:00 - 11:45 AM Bellaire
Trauma and the Transnational: Thinking Beyond the National Subject10:00 - 11:45 AM Post Oak
National Scope and Community Focus: Empowering Local Historians of the Underground
Railroad via Digital Libraries and Freedom Stations10:00 - 11:45 AM Plaza I
The New "Place" of the Vernacular in American Studies10:00 - 11:45 AM Plaza II
Re/visioning the Harlem Renaissance: New Directions in Harlem Scholarship10:00 - 11:45 AM West Alabama
All Work and No Pay: Imagining Employment in the Nineteenth-Century U.S.10:00 - 11:45 AM Chevy Chase
Music Cultures and Social Change Movements10:00 - 11:45 AM San Felipe
("Graffiti") Writing, Tattoos, and Aerosol Art: Reading Urban Cultures in the Local/Global
Context10:00 - 11:45 AM Sage
Racing for the Sound: Music, Cultural Crossing, and Racial Identity in the Pacific Rim10:00 - 11:45 AM Westchester
The Legal Uncanny: Gothic Dimensions of Law in Antebellum American Culture10:00 - 11:45 AM Woodway III
Gender, Race, and Age: Political and Cultural Perspectives10:00 - 11:45 AM Monarch
Troubling the Local Boundaries of U.S. Hegemonic Feminism: Women's Studies, Girls' Studies,
the "Third Wave," and the Continued Dominance of Middle-Class, Middle-Aged, Straight White
Female Experience12:00 - 1:45 PM Galleria I
"The Very Best Place Possible": Wilderness Marketing and Ideologies of Race12:00 - 1:45 PM Galleria II
*Nationalist and Internationalist Dimensions of the Latina in Texas12:00 - 1:45 PM Galleria III
Myths of the G/Local: Capitalist Subcultures in the Twentieth-Century United States12: 00 - 1:45 PM Tanglewood
Where "Atlantic" and "Pacific" Converge: From the Pacific as "Racial Frontier" to "Global
Pacific Rim"12:00 - 1:45 PM Bellaire
Early Cold War Popular Culture: The Critique Within12:00 - 1:45 PM Post Oak
Dancing to the Music of Modernity: The Case of Texas12:00 - 1:45 PM Plaza I
The New World Baroque12:00 - 1:45 PM Plaza II
Performing Theory: Poetic Interludes at the Turn of the Century12:00 - 1:45 PM West Alabama
Identity, Gender, and the Market: Global and Local Discourses of the U.S. Christian Right12:00 - 1:45 PM Chevy Chase
Female Subjectivity and American Orientalisms: Consumption, Cultural Representation, and
Domesticity12:00 - 1:45 PM San Felipe
Disasters in Modern America: Historical Perspectives on 9-1112:00 - 1:45 PM Sage
(Re)Locating Subjectivity: Testimonies of Imprisonment Across the Americas12:00 - 1:45 PM Westchester
Straightening Out History: Queer Analysis, the Heterosexuality Problem, and the Logic of
Normality in Twentieth-Century Social and Political Life12:00 - 1:45 PM Woodway III
Performance As Text: Uncovering the History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott12:00 - 1:45 PM Monarch
Negotiating Poverty-class/Working-class Difference in American Literature, Public Representation and Policy2:00 - 3:45 PM Galleria I
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Law2:00 - 3:45 PM Galleria II
Popular Natures: Complicating Nature in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture2:00 - 3:45 PM Galleria III
Style, Sponsorship, and Status: American Arts and the Marketplace, 1950-19802:00 - 3:45 PM Tanglewood
Constructing the Shape and Image of the Local2:00 - 3:45 PM Bellaire
*War, Displacement, and Representation of "La Gente"2:00 - 3:45 PM Post Oak
Documenting American Warfare2:00 - 3:45 PM Plaza I
Violence in Word and in Deed: Discourses of Domestic Terrorism in Mid-Nineteenth- and Early
Twentieth-Century America2:00 - 3:45 PM Plaza II
Sites of Meaning, Sites of Violence: Recovering African American and Chicano/a Collective
Memory and Social-Spatial Legacies in the Nineteenth Century2:00 - 3:45 PM West Alabama
Keywords in African-American Studies: A Roundtable2:00 - 3:45 PM Chevy Chase
Remade in America: The Global Flows of Asian Martial Arts2:00 - 3:45 PM San Felipe
Mismatched Modernities: Mapping U.S.-Mexico Interactions Across Technologies of Labor
and Leisure, 1930-19502:00 - 3:45 PM Sage
Amiri Baraka: Jazz, Gender, and Performance as Culture and History2:00 - 3:45 PM Westcheseter
"Keeping One Foot in the Community": Intergenerational Indigenous Women's Activism from
the Local to the Global [And Back Again]2:00 - 3:45 PM Woodway III
Becoming New York's "New Majority": Latino/a Immigrants in a Global City2:00 - 3:45 PM Monarch
Multiculturalism in the Age of Globalization; Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Colonialism4:00 - 5:45 PM Galleria I
The "Place of Women's Political Language in the Nineteenth-Century Market4:00 - 5:45 PM Galleria II
America Studies American Studies: The Education of Max Bickford4:00 - 5:45 PM Galleria III
Colloquy with Ellen Messer-Davidow on Disciplining Feminism4:00 - 5:45 PM Tanglewood
The "Place" of Latina/o Popular Culture?4:00 - 5:45 PM Bellaire
Urban Intersections: Convergence and Conflict in the Nineteenth-Century American City4:00 - 5:45 PM Post Oak
Pop Culture and Performance: Queer Transgressions4:00 - 5:45 PM Plaza I
Finding Common Ground with Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed: from Asian American
Avant-Garde Performance to Labor Union Organizing, or Can We Still Change the World?4:00 - 5:45 PM Plaza II
The Work of Art: Women, Art, and Cultural Hierarchies in Late Nineteenth-Century America4:00 - 5:45 PM West Alabama
*Roundtable Discussion: Review and Assessment of the First Ten Years of the Recovery
Project4:00 - 5:45 PM Chevy Chase
Cyberspace: The Final Frontier? Exploring the Ramifications of Race on the World Wide Web4:00 - 5:45 PM San Felipe
Unfair Harvard: Notes from the Living Wage Campaign4:00 - 5:45 PM Sage
Nations, Citizens, Cultures: International Fictions of the Cold War4:00 - 5:45 PM Westchester
Changing American Studies in a New Europe: A Roundtable Discussion4:00 - 5:45 PM Woodway III
Korea, the U.S., and Korean American Literature4:00 - 5:45 PM Monarch
A New Use for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Contemporary Applications of Pragmatism
Friday, November 15th, 2002
8:00 - 9:45 AM Galleria I
Regionalism and Multiculturalism: Hidden Histories/Present Possibilities8:00 - 9:45 AM Galleria II
Wild (Backyard) America: The Urbanite Confronts the Animal World8:00 - 9:45 AM Galleria III
Global Anxieties and Local Threats: The Shifting Configurations of
American Urban Identity8:00 - 9:45 AM Tanglewood
The Language of New Media8:00 - 9:45 AM Bellaire
California Youthscapes: Criminalization, Deportation & Resistance8:00 - 9:45 AM Post Oak
Rethinking the American Century: Emergent Ideologies in Cold War
Photography, Film, and Music8:00 - 9:45 AM Plaza I
From Corridos to Norteño Progressive and Nortec: Rebellious U.S./Mexican Bordersounds that
Make the Local and Global Matter8:00 - 9:45 AM Plaza II
Making it Modern: Popular Culture and Eugenics in the 1930s8:00 - 9:45 AM West Alabama
The Problem of Identity in Early America, 1600-18308:00 - 9:45 AM Chevy Chase
Teaching 9/118:00 - 9:45 AM San Felipe
Roundtable Discussion on Race, Space, and Queer Subcultures8:00 - 9:45 AM Sage
Visual Cultures of Blackness and Whiteness8:00 - 9:45 AM Westchester
Nations, Wars, and Markets: Hidden Histories of the American War in Vietnam8:00 - 9:45 AM Imperial Suite
Visual Culture and the Construction of New Identities8:00 - 9:45 AM Regal Suite
*The Gender Politics of Recovered Hispanic Literature10:00 - 11:45 AM Galleria I
Racial Boundaries, Identities, and Anti-Racist Politics10:00 - 11:45 AM Galleria II
Academic Job Interview in American Studies: A Demonstration Workshop10:00 - 11:45 AM Galleria III
Performance, Race, and the Birth of the Local10:00 - 11:45 AM Tanglewood
Transforming Places: Nuclear Tourism, Surfer Grrrls, and State Sponsored Tourism10:00 - 11:45 AM Bellaire
Feeling Historical: New Readings of Affect, Identity, and Historical Desire10:00 - 11:45 AM Post Oak
Compromising Positions: Race, Reform, and the Scholarship of Disappointment10:00 - 11:45 AM Plaza I
Body Sites, Body Parts: Celebrity and the Technologies of Recognition10:00 - 11:45 AM Plaza II
Cultural Politics of Multiculturalism10:00 - 11:45 AM West Alabama
The American Politics of Death10:00 - 11:45 AM Chevy Chase
Visualizing Blackness: Locality, Race, and the Polemics of Visibility10:00 - 11:45 AM San Felipe
Women Working in Early Hollywood: Labor, Studio Culture, and the
Industry of Celebrity10:00 - 11:45 AM Sage
*Putting the Work of the Recovery Project in Practice: Questions of Pedagogy10:00 - 11:45 AM Westchester
Left Critique and the War on "Terror"10:00 - 11:45 AM Imperial Suite
September 11, 2001 as Memory, History, Document, Art, Photograph10:00 - 11:45 AM Regal Suite
American (Indian?) Studies: Can ASA Be an Intellectual Home?12:00 - 1:45 PM Galleria I
a Inventing and Commodifying an Imagined Hispanic Community12:00 - 1:45 PM Galleria II
The Politics of Native American Photography: Historical and Contemporary
Perspective12:00 - 1:45 PM Galleria III
Courts of Law, Courts of Conscience and Courting Race: Jurisprudential Critique and Evocative
Style in Literature on Slavery and Segregation12:00 - 1:45 PM Tanglewood
Beyond Moonlight and Magnolias: Memory and Identity in the Poor White
South12:00 - 1:45 PM Bellaire
Global Crisis, Local Schooling: American Education During WWII and the
Cold War12:00 - 1:45 PM Post Oak
Sexuality, Race, and Empire in the Americas12:00 - 1:45 PM Plaza I
Autobiographies of Race: Education, Language, and (Trans)nation12:00 - 1:45 PM Plaza II
Saving the World Through Children: Cold War Politics and the Battle for
Children's Minds12:00 - 1:45 PM West Alabama
The Mass Culture Debate at 50: Critical Reassessments and Interventions12:00 - 1:45 PM Chevy Chase
Handwork and Masculinity12:00 - 1:45 PM San Felipe
The Culture of Print in Civil War America: Local and Global Perspectives12:00 - 1:45 PM Sage
Diasporic Politics and Pacific Islanders on the Continental United States12:00 - 1:45 PM Westchester
Transnational, Translocal: Popular Music and the Discourses of Latinidad12:00 - 1:45 PM Imperial Suite
Vanishing Points: Nature, Nation, and Intimacy in Documentary Photography12:00 - 1:45 PM Regal Suite
Culture, Crisis, Citizenship: The Expressive Arts Respond to Global and
Local Dilemmas2:00 - 3:45 PM Galleria I
Keywords for Global/Local American Studies: A Roundtable2:00 - 3:45 PM Galleria II
The Search for Place in the Global City2:00 - 3:45 PM Galleria III
Racializing the American: The New Negro and the New Whiteness in the Early-Twentieth
Century United States2:00 - 3:45 PM Tanglewood
Black Arts Movements in the African Diaspora2:00 - 3:45 PM Bellaire
Globalization and the Disenchantment of the Local: The Case of New Mexico2:00 - 3:45 PM Post Oak
Black Music and Technology2:00 - 3:45 PM Plaza I
What's In a Hemisphere? Theorizing New Locations for American Studies2:00 - 3:45 PM Plaza II
Trading Gazes: Anglo American Women Photographers and Native North Americans2:00 - 3:45 PM West Alabama
The Cultural Work of Financial Panic2:00 - 3:45 PM Chevy Chase
Look at the Queers: Mainstream Mediations of Sexual Practices and Identities, 1960-19802:00 - 3:45 PM San Felipe
Popular Memory and the Production of Local Knowledges2:00 - 3:45 PM Sage
The Sexual Politics of Global Fundamentalist Movements2:00 - 3:45 PM Westchester
Transnational Localities: Navigating the Global in Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together2:00 - 3:45 PM Imperial Suite
Vision, Visuality and Commerce in Nineteenth Century America, 1800-18502:00 - 3:45 PM Regal Suite
*What Lies Between Nations, Language, and HistoryFriday, 4:00 - 5:45 Galleria I
A Long Road Back: Japanese Americans in Postwar America4:00 - 5:45 PM Galleria II
*Recovering the Biography of Padre Antonio José Martínez Through Text and Film4:00 - 5:45 PM Galleria III
Kitchens, Chapels, and Prada: Consumer Spaces and Global Exchange4:00 - 5:45 PM Tanglewood
Mexico and American Studies4:00 - 5:45 PM Bellaire
Faith, Ethnicity, and Social Change: Three Case Studies of Religion and the
Immigrant Experience in North America4:00 - 5:45 PM Post Oak
The "Other" Third Wave: Women of Color Activism and Cultural Work4:00 - 5:45 PM Plaza I
Global Food?: Fusion, Creolization, and Hybridity in Culinary Culture4:00 - 5:45 PM Plaza II
Chicana/o Technospaces4:00 - 5:45 PM West Alabama
(Re-) Contextualizing the Local and the Global: Literary and Critical Discourses in the United
States in the Twentieth Century4:00 - 5:45 PM Chevy Chase
The Mexican Revolution in U.S. National Consciousness4:00 - 5:45 PM San Felipe
Music, Maestros, and Missions4:00 - 5:45 PM Sage
Talking Across Disciplines: A Roundtable Discussion on 19th-century American Oratorical
Performance4:00 - 5:45 PM Westchester
"To Witness On Every Level": The Work of Lorenzo Thomas4:00 - 5:45 PM Imperial Suite
Trans-Species Studies: Animals and Humans in American Culture4:00 - 5:45 PM Regal Suite
The South and the West Indies: Literary Translations
Saturday, November 16th, 2002
8:00 - 9:45 AM Galleria I
*Land, Labor, and Empire after 18488:00 - 9:45 AM Galleria II
Localizing the War on Terrorism: State Repression, Domestic Violence, and Sexual Politics8:00 - 9:45 AM Galleria III
Places/Spaces of Performance I: Geographies of Diaspora: Identity and Sexuality8:00 - 9:45 AM Tanglewood
Gendering the Global, Historicizing the Local8:00 - 9:45 AM Bellaire
Disciplining the Humanities8:00 - 9:45 AM Post Oak
Landscapes of the Future: On The (Im)possibility of Nation8:00 - 9:45 AM Plaza I
Engendering Identities: Life-Writing by Women8:00 - 9:45 AM Plaza II
Noisy Cosmopolitanism8:00 - 9:45 AM West Alabama
Bringing the War Home8:00 - 9:45 AM Chevy Chase
Creating Ethnic Americans8:00 - 9:45 AM San Felipe
Getting Published: A Workshop for Graduate Students on Publishing in Scholarly Journals8:00 - 9:45 AM Sage
Reading Out: Queer Texts, Queer Readers, Queer Publics8:00 - 9:45 AM Westchester
Landscapes of Disease in Early America8:00 - 9:45 AM Imperial Suite
Religion in the American Studies Classroom: A Roundtable8:00 - 9:45 AM Regal Suite
The American Holy Land: Protestant U.S.'s Involvement in the Middle East10:00-11:45 AM Registration Desk Area
Befriending Sailors, Blinding Woodard, and Posting Seberg (Exhibit)10:00 - 11:45 AM Galleria I
Americanskaya Kultura / American Culture: A Roundtable Discussion on American Studies in
Post Soviet Russia10:00 - 11:45 AM Galleria II
Beg, Borrow or Steal: Critical Engagements with Consumer Culture10:00 - 11:45 AM Galleria III
American Studies in Secondary Education10:00 - 11:45 AM Tanglewood
Place/Spaces of Performance III: Embodying Ambiguities10:00 - 11:45 AM Bellaire
Pan-Latin Americanisms in the Mission District: Politics, Culture, and Change in 1970s Latino San Francisco10:00 - 11:45 AM Post Oak
Community Policing10:00 - 11:45 AM Plaza I
Free-Wheeling Social Identities10:00 - 11:45 AM Plaza II
Exile, Imagination, and Sexuality10:00 - 11:45 AM West Alabama
Teaching America10:00 - 11:45 AM Chevy Chase
Displaced People, Unsettled Writers10:00 - 11:45 AM San Felipe
*The Editorial Construction of Herencia y En otra voz: The First Comprehensive Anthology of
Latino/a Literature10:00 - 11:45 AM Sage
Instituting Lesbian and Gay Programming: A Roundtable10:00 - 11:45 AM Westchester
American Studies in a Hostile World: U.S. Culture and Global Politics After September 11th10:00 - 11:45 AM Imperial Suite
Epistemology of the Global in the Local: Perspectives from Ethnography and the U.S.10:00 - 11:45 AM Regal Suite
Indigenous Transnationalisms: American Indians, Indios, and "Indian Indians"12:00 - 1:45 PM Galleria I
American Womanhood in Brown and White - "What's Class Got To Do With It?"12:00 - 1:45 PM Galleria II
Contact Zones: Latino/a Language, Memory, and Labor in the Midwest12:00 - 1:45 PM Galleria III
Visual Culture at Work in the 1930s12:00 - 1:45 PM Tanglewood
Places/Spaces of Perfomance II: The Politics of Embodiment12:00 - 1:45 PM Bellaire
Of Warriors and Wet Dreams12:00 - 1:45 PM Post Oak
Imposing Presences: U.S. Ideologies Overseas12:00 - 1:45 PM Plaza I
Traveling Objects12:00 - 1:45 PM Plaza II
Screening the Borders12:00 - 1:45 PM West Alabama
Animating Whiteness12:00 - 1:45 PM Chevy Chase
New England Geographies12:00 - 1:45 PM San Felipe
*Modernism, Feminism, and the Oppression of Latinas12:00 - 1:45 PM Sage
B'twixt and Between: Asian American Studies, the Local vs. the Global12:00 - 1:45 PM Westchester
Education Without Borders: Building Academy/Community Partnerships12:00 - 1:45 PM Imperial Suite
Transnational Classrooms: Exploring Possibilities of Collaborative Teaching Online A
Roundtable12:00 - 1:45 PM Regal Suite
A World Remade, A Racial Past Reconsidered: Building Black Communities Local and Global,
1890-19502:00 - 3:45 PM Galleria I
Bad Campus, Good Campus: The Present and Future of College and University Architecture and
Public Space2:00 - 3:45 PM Galleria II
The Swingin' Sixties: Alternative Histories of Jazz2:00 - 3:45 PM Galleria III
Commodities, Communities and Culture: The Aesthetics of Working Class Life2:00 - 3:45 PM Tangelwood
Regret to Inform: Women and War2:00 - 3:45 PM Bellaire
Magazines and Class Formation2:00 - 3:45 PM Post Oak
Youth Cultures of Late Capitalism2:00 - 3:45 PM Plaza I
Pacific Translations2:00 - 3:45 PM Plaza II
Subverting the Marketplace of Images2:00 - 3:45 PM West Alabama
Documenting World War II2:00 - 3:45 PM Chevy Chase
American Hunger: Black Intellectuals in Search of International Context2:00 - 3:45 PM San Felipe
a Recovering the Visual and Performative Past of Hispanics2:00 - 3:45 PM Sage
The Nature of Houston: The Local and Global Implications of and Need for Reconceiving
"Nature" in Urban Environments2:00 - 3:45 PM Westchester
Race, Gender, and Education in the Bush Years2:00 - 3:45 PM Imperial Suite
War and the Culture of Print: World War II and the Cold War in Local and Global Perspective2:00 - 3:45 PM Regal Suite
Talking Back to "Whiteness"?: Women of Color Educators, Students, and Texts4:00 - 5:45 PM Galleria I
New Directions in Early African American Studies4:00 - 5:45 PM Galleria II
Canonizing Black Culture4:00 - 5:45 PM Galleria III
Engendered Visions: Building Local Physiques and National Icons in an Embodied World4:00 - 5:45 PM Tanglewood
Re/Moving the Mammy: Blackness in Film4:00 - 5:45 PM Bellaire
Race, Nation, and Citizenship4:00 - 5:45 PM Post Oak
Constituting Latina/o Identity Through Transnational Media4:00 - 5:45 PM Plaza I
Materializing Imperial Images4:00 - 5:45 PM Plaza II
Empires of Sweat4:00 - 5:45 PM Chevy Chase
American Bohemias4:00 - 5:45 PM San Felipe
a An Editorial Work-in-Progress, A Recovery Anthology of Historical Hispanic Documents4:00 - 5:45 PM Sage
American Studies in the Public Sphere: PhDs Outside the Academy4:00 - 5:45 PM Westchester
Inventing Youth Cultures in the Borderlands4:00 - 5:45 PM Imperial Suite
A Coming -of-Age Course: Teaching First-Year Undergraduates to Think About Who They Are,
How They Got That Way, and Who They Might Become4:00 - 5:45 PM Regal Suite
Too Jewish
Sunday, November 17th, 2002
8:00 - 9:45 AM Galleria I
Sovereign Nations, Sovereign Bodies8:00 - 9:45 AM Galleria II
Signifying Borders8:00 - 9:45 AM Galleria III
Producing the "Vanishing Indian"8:00 - 9:45 AM Tangelwood
Art and Work, Art as Work: The Construction of Artistic Labor in American Visual Culture8:00 - 9:45 AM Bellaire
African American Internationalism: War, Diaspora, and the Politics of Race, 1917-19378:00 - 9:45 AM Post Oak
Old West, Global West: Genealogies of Indian Territory8:00 - 9:45 AM Plaza I
911: The Emergency of Racist Militarism8:00 - 9:45 AM Plaza II
Local and Global Identities at the Intersection of Arab and American Worlds8:00 - 9:45 AM West Alabama
Making Nation/Making Empire: Narratives of Antebellum America8:00 - 9:45 AM Chevy Chase
a Villegas de Magnón's The Rebel in a Global Perspective8:00 - 9:45 AM San Felipe
TBA8:00 - 9:45 AM Westchester
TBA8:00 - 9:45 AM Imperial Suite
TBA8:00 - 9:45 AM Regal Suite
TBA10:00 - 11:45 AM Galleria I
Narratives of the Pacific/Pacific Narratives10:00 - 11:45 AM Galleria II
Intervening Women: Wright, Luhan, and O'Keeffe10:00 - 11:45 AM Galleria III
Theorizing Through Asian America10:00 - 11:45 AM Tangelwood
Thinking the Local and the Global Through Region10:00 - 11:45 AM Bellaire
How the (Black) West Was Won: Art, Words, and Social Reality10:00 - 11:45 AM Post Oak
Trading in Print: Transnational Economics and Colonial North American Literatures10:00 - 11:45 AM Plaza II
Get a Ph.D. and Change the World: Activist Careers for Humanities Scholars10:00 - 11:45 AM West Alabama
Cultures of Economic Reading, Affect, and Rhetoric10:00 - 11:45 AM Chevy Chase
*Discursive Strategies, Political Realities10:00 - 11:45 AM San Felipe
Beyond the Boundary: Caribbean Culture in the Global Marketplace10:00 - 11:45 AM Sage
Incorporating and Subverting the Global: Hawai'i Local Identities in Performance10:00 - 11:45 AM Westchester
TBA10:00 - 11:45 AM Imperial Suites
TBA10:00 - 11:45 AM Regal Suite
TBA
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