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Business Meetings, Special Events, and Receptions At-A-Glance

Wednesday, OCTOBER 15

6:00 - 8:00 PM
Business Meeting of the Executive Committee

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16

8:00 - 10:00 AM
The Challenge to University Administration: Understanding Interdisciplinary Departments and Cross-Departmental Programs in the Humanities

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

12:00 - 1:30 PM
Luncheon Business Meeting of the Committee on American Studies Programs

2:00 - 4:00 PM
Business Meeting of the Women's Committee
Business Meeting of the Minority Scholars

3:00 - 7:00 PM
Business Meeting of the Regional Chapters

3:30 - 5:30 PM
Business Meeting of the American Quarterly Advisory Editorial Board

4:00 - 11:00 PM
Business Meeting of the Nominating Committee

4:00 - 5:00 PM
Business Meeting of the Women's & Minority Scholars' Committees

4:30 - 6:00 PM
Business Meeting of the American Studies Editorial Board

4:30 - 7:30 PM
Business Meeting of the Students' Committee

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

6:00 - 7:30 PM
Special Session: Rethinking W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, 1903-2003
Reception for the International Scholars & Visitors (Ticketed)
Reception for the Mid-America ASA

7:30 - 9:00 PM
Reception of the Minority Scholars' Committee, Women's Committee & Queer Caucus (Ticketed)

8:30 - 9:30 PM
Readings by Roberta Hill & Jeffery Renard Allen

9:00 - 10:00 PM
Business Meeting of the Caucus on Academic and Community Activism

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17

7:30 - 9:30 AM
Networking Breakfast for Program Directors (Ticketed)
Business Meeting of the Crossroads Advisory Board

8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Student Hospitality Lounge

10:00 - 11:45 AM
Workshop of the Secondary Education Committee

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Business Meeting of the International Committee

10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Business Meeting of the Visible Knowledge Project

12:30 - 2:00 PM
Luncheon of the ASA-JAAS Advisory Project

2:00 - 4:00 PM
Business Meeting of the Secondary Education Committee

3:00 - 5:00 PM
EAS Online Advisory Board

4:00 - 5:00 PM
Networking Session of the Secondary Education Committee (Open to ASA Attendees)
Business Meeting of the Religion & American Culture Caucus

4:30 - 6:30 PM
National Institute for Secondary Education Planning Meeting

5:30 - 6:15 PM
Business Meeting of the Queer Caucus

5:30 - 6:30 PM
Business Meeting of the Material Culture Caucus

6:00 - 7:30 PM
Business Meeting of the Environmental Studies Caucus
Reception of the Material Culture & Visual Culture/Art History Caucuses (Sponsored by Boston University's American and New England Studies Program; Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library; and the University of Kentucky)
Reception of the Performance Caucus & the Music of the Americas Caucus
Reception of the University of Minnesota

6:00 - 8:00 PM
Reception of the University of Southern California

7:00 - 8:00 PM
Awards Ceremony

8:00 - 9:15 PM
ASA Presidential Address: "Violence and Belonging"

9:30 PM - 12:30 AM
The President's Dance Party, welcoming Afro-Antilles Rhythms and Latin Jazz from Ray Gonzalez and His Orquesta

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18

7:00 - 9:00 AM
Breakfast for Women in American Studies (Ticketed)
Guest Speaker: Hazel Carby, Department of African American Studies, Yale University

8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Student Hospitality Lounge

8:00 AM - 5:45 PM
Focus On Teaching Day (See Session Details for further description)

9:00 -10:30 AM
Business Meeting of the Taskforce on Graduate Education

10:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Business Meeting of the 2004 Program Committee

12:00 - 1:30 PM
Focus on Teaching Day Luncheon and Panel Discussion (Ticketed)
Guest Speaker: H. Bruce Franklin, "Teaching 'Vietnam' as 21st-Century American Matrix"

12:00 - 2:00 PM
Business Meeting of the Committee on Ethnic Studies

1:00 - 3:00 PM
Business Meeting of the Taskforce on Public Practice

3:00 - 5:00 PM
Business Meeting of All Chairs

5:00 - 6:00 PM
Business Meeting of the ASA Nominating Committee

5:30 - 6:30 PM
Business Meeting of the Performance Caucus & the Music of the Americas Caucus

6:00 - 7:00 PM
Plenary Session: The State of War

7:00 - 9:00 PM
Reception of the University of Maryland

9:00 - 10:00 PM
Special Performances by Michael S. Harper & Paul Austerlitz (Ticketed)

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