Friday, October 17, 2003

Friday, October 17, 2003

* Indicates Hartford Resource Committee Event or Sponsorship

8:00 - 9:45 AM

The Transformations of "Race" in the Nineteenth Century

CHAIR:

Werner Sollors, Department of English and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University

PAPERS:

Elise Lemire, Department of English, Purchase College, State University of New York
Race and Walden
Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Racial" Migrations: Abolitionism and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America
Tavia Nyong'o, Department of Performance Studies, New York University
The Black First: Crispus Attucks and William Cooper Nell
John Stauffer, Department of English, Harvard University
Creating an Image in Black: The Power of Abolition Pictures

COMMENT:

Werner Sollors

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Space Out of Place

CHAIR:

Sonya Michel, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

PAPERS:

Aurora Wallace, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University
"Things Like That Don't Happen Here": Newspaper Crime Stories and the Representation of Place
Mary Thompson, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
"A Regrettable Necessity": Do Abortion Clinics Belong to Their Communities?
Sabine Haenni, American Studies Program, Cornell University
Searching for New Ways of Belonging: Martin Scorsese's Urban Films

COMMENT:

Sonya Michel

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Radio in Wartime: World War II and the Radio Front

This session brings together cultural historians whose work examines the intersection of media, politics, and social life to share their research on the cultural work of radio during World War II on the home front and abroad. This session responds to the conference theme of "violence and belonging" by examining the powerful role that radio played in emphasizing ideological unity in the battle against fascism.

CHAIR:

Jason Loviglio, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

PANELISTS:

Howard Blue, Independent Scholar
Barbara D. Savage, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Judith Smith, American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Susan Smulyan, Department of American Civilization, Brown University

COMMENT:

The Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Representational Violence: Samson Occom and the Position of the Christian Indian in Early American Studies

CHAIR:

Philip Round, Department of English, University of Iowa

PAPERS:

Hilary E. Wyss, Department of English, Auburn University
Samson Occom's Wife: Native Women and Writing in Colonial New England
Denise T. Askin, Department of English, Saint Anselm College
Vox Clematis in Deserto: The Voices of Samson Occom's Sermons
Heather Bouwman, Department of English, University of St. Thomas
Teaching Samson Occom's Unpublished Sermons; or, Away from the Tyranny of the Anthology

COMMENT:

Philip Round

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Premature Death: A Roundtable on Racism

This roundtable will engage with Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism: "racism is the state-sanctioned and/or legal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerabilities to premature death, in distinct yet densely interconnected political geographies." Panelists will discuss the problem of racism today, emphasizing the politics of life and death embedded in Gilmore's definition.

CHAIR:

Tiffany Willoughby Herard, Department of Africana Studies, University of Michigan-Flint

PANELISTS:

Avery Gordon, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
Wahneema Lubiano, Department of African and African American Studies & Department of Literature, Duke University
Helen Quan, Urban Studies Program, Associated Colleges of the Midwest

COMMENT:

The Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Inside Out?: Storytelling, Place, and the Power of the Particular

This roundtable will draw from various wings of American Studies to explore an historiographical approach that has proliferated in recent years—the practice of telling narrowly bounded stories that radiate out and resonate with broader import. What do we gain from this approach? What is the process involved in making it happen? What are its limits? How do different media handle this approach differently?

CHAIR:

June Howard, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan

PANELISTS:

Nick Salvatore, American Studies, Cornell University
Benjamin Filene, Exhibits Department, Minnesota Historical Society
Jill Lepore, Department of History, Harvard University
Hilary McLellan, Saratoga Media Arts Institute, Saratoga Springs, New York
Sarah Robbins, Keeping and Creating American Communities, Kennesaw State University

COMMENT:

The Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Fairs, Pageants, and Spectacles

CHAIR:

Jonathan Silverman, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University

PAPERS:

Evie Terrono, Fine Arts Department, Randolph-Macon College
Art and Politics in the Midst of Strife: The Art Galleries ofthe New York Metropolitan Fair and the Philadelphia Great Central Fair
Eden Osucha, Department of English, Duke University
Columbian Expositions: Violence and the National Symbolic, 1892-1992
Li Shao, Department of American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
World Order Imagined at the U.S. Bicentennial Celebration of the Declaration of Independence: The Political Economy of Gift Exchange
Marcia G. Synnott, Department of History, University of South Carolina
Flags, Monuments, and Memorabilia: Cultural Symbols that Divide Americans

COMMENT:

The Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Blackening Europe: Turning Remembered Colonial Violence into Belonging and African America's Part in It

CHAIR:

Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Department of English, University of Maryland in Europe

PAPERS:

Johanna Kardux, Department of English and American Studies Program, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Monuments ofthe Black Atlantic: Slavery Memorials in the United States and The Netherlands
Andre Lepecki, Department of Performance Studies, New York University
The Influence ofthe Spectral: A Portuguese Dance on Josephine Baker and European Post-Colonial Melancholia
P. A. Skantze, Independent Scholar, Italy
Dancing Away Toward Home: An Interview with Bill T. Jones

COMMENT:

Heike Raphael-Hernandez

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Situating Filipino Americans in the History of United States Conquest and Racialization: A Comparative Look

CHAIR:

Catherine Ceniza Choy, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota

PAPERS:

Faye C. Caronan, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Rule by Rape: Violence of United States Imperial Conquest and Colonialism
Dean Saranillio, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Colonial Amnesia: Filipino "Americans" and the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement
Lisa Nevins, Center for African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Colorblind in a Space Full of Color: History, Resistance, and the Construction and Deconstruction of Race in Filipino and Mexican American Shared Spaces

COMMENT:

Catherine Ceniza Choy

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Jewish Experiences in American Culture: Belonging, Violence and Identity in American Communities

CHAIR:

Simon Bronner, American Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

PAPERS:

Linda J. Borish, Department of History, Western Michigan University
The Young Women's Hebrew Association in Hartford, Connecticut and Affiliations with Immigrant Aid Associations Supporting Jewish Young Women in American Sporting Activities
Lynn Davidman, Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University
Jewish Identity Among Unsynagogued Jews: Practice, Essentialism and the Sense of Being "Other"
Susanne Wiedemann, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
From Berlin to San Francisco, via Shanghai: American Jewish Identity Formation of Shanghailanders

COMMENT:

Simon Bronner

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Performing Queer Femininity in Perverse Modernities

CHAIR:

Gayatri Gopinath, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, University of California, Davis

PAPERS:

David Román, Department of English, University of Southern California
Cabaret Performance as Theatre History
Marcia Ochoa, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Stanford University
Queen for a Day: Misses, Transformistas, and Mass Media in Venezuela
José Esteban Muñoz, Department of Performance Studies, New York University
A Phenomenology of Brown Feelings: La Lupe

COMMENT:

Gayatri Gopinath

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Pulp Queens and Government Girls: What WWII Did for Working Women

CHAIR:

Paula Rabinowitz, Department of English, University of Minnesota

PAPERS:

Aura Wharton-Beck, Minneapolis Public Schools
Uncommon Patriotism: A Case Study of a Government Girl
Cheryl Johnson, Department of English, Miami University of Ohio
A Strip/Tease: The Violence of Sex and Myth in Ann Petry's The Street
Charlotte Nekola, Department of English, William Paterson University
Private Hell 36: Ida Lupino, Domestic Noir and the Violence of Belonging

COMMENT:

Paula Rabinowitz

8:00 - 9:45 AM

World War II and the Construction of Memory

CHAIR:

Marita Sturken, University of Southern California, Annenberg School

PAPERS:

Elizabeth Abele, English Department, State University of New York, Nassau Community College
The Journey Home in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s World War II Novels
Yujin Yaguchi, Center for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo
Transnationalizing War Memories: Japanese Visitors at the Arizona Memorial
Kyoko Kishimoto, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University
Apologies for Atrocities: World War II Narratives as Nationalism in Japanese and American Media

COMMENT:

The Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Rethinking Activism and Social Movement Theory: Identities, Cultural Politics and the State

This roundtable of scholars will draw from their own work on performance art, state violence, youth organizing, women of color feminists, and film and video to begin a dialogue about rethinking restrictive conceptions of political actors, modes of resistance, arenas of dissent, and the state. We ask: How does the state manage political identities? In reconceptualizing concepts of state power, how do we formulate alternative strategies that move beyond a dichotomy of oppression and resistance?

CHAIR:

Maylei Blackwell, Women's Studies Program, Loyola Marymount University

PANELISTS:

Darshan Campos, Department of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Andreana Clay, Department of Sociology, San Francisco State University
Maxwell Leung, Cultural Studies Program, Claremont Graduate School
Tina Takemoto, Department ofArt and Art History, Loyola Marymount University

COMMENT:

The Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM

Guns, Violence, and Belonging in Late Twentieth-Century America

CHAIR:

Robert J. Cottrol, Law School and History Department, George Washington University

PAPERS:

Abigail A. Kohn, Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney Law School
Girls, Gangs, and Guns: Female Gang Members' Experiences with Firearms
Robert H. Churchill, Department of Humanities, University of Hartford
"Shaking Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face": Guns, Violence, and Belonging Within the Constitutional Militia Movement
John Drabble, Department of History, Koc University
From Vigilante Violence to Revolutionary Terror: FBI Covert Operations Against the KKK

COMMENT:

Mary Zeiss Stange, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Skidmore College

10:00 - 11:45 AM

The Violence of Political and Biological Belonging

CHAIR:

Monique Allewaert, Department of English, Duke University

PAPERS:

Leti Volpp, Washington College of Law, American University
Dependent Citizens and Martial Expatriates
Sanda Mayzaw Lwin, Department of English & American Studies Program, Yale University
Citizens' Bodily Demands: United States v. Dolla and Questions of Legal Belonging
Priscilla Wald, Department of English, Duke University
Genetics and Citizenship
Alys Eve Weinbaum, Department of English, University of Washington
Beyond Race? Belonging, Genomics, and the New Bio-Logic

COMMENT:

Susan Gillman, Literature Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Cinematic Violence: The Good, the Bad, and the Avant-Garde

CHAIR:

Brian Lloyd, Department of History, University of California, Riverside

PAPERS:

Katherine Kinney, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
Blown Back to Their Senses: The Violent Endings of the 1960s
Theresa Webb, Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles
Representations of Crime in Hollywood Films Released in 1994
Kathleen McHugh, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Violence and History in Cinematic Self-Narration

COMMENT:

Brian Lloyd

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Race and Carceral Spaces

CHAIR:

Eric Lott, Department of English, University of Virginia

PAPERS:

Ethan Blue, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin
Contesting the Carceral: Music, Space, and Time
Naomi Murakawa, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Racialized Punishment Expansion as Consensus Political Space
Tyrone R. Simpson, II, Department of English, Indiana University
Jailed In: Internal Colonialism and Ghetto Immobility

COMMENT:

Eric Lott

10:00 - 11:45 AM

A Century of Korean Immigration: (Re)viewing America through Korea/Korean-America

CHAIR:

Youn-Son Chung, Department of English, Korean Military Academy, Seoul

PAPERS:

Grace Kyungwon Hong, Department of English & Program in American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Why Immigration Isn't Romantic: Korean American Cultural Production and the Crisis in Masculinity
Min-Jung Kim, Department of English, Ewha Woman's University, Seoul
Nation, Immigration, and National Identity in Ronyoung Kim's Clay Walls
Sung-Ho Kim, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University, Seoul
Making of a Korean Patriot: Yu Kil-jun in America

COMMENT:

Don-ho Sohn, School of English, Hankook University of Foreign Studies, Seoul

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Americas Studies in Question: Dialogues across Borders (A Roundtable)

This roundtable discussion will be animated by questions that ask how we define contemporary debates within area studies about its knowledge formation; what place do issues of indigeneity, diaspora, transnationality and the nation state have in formulating the field knowledge of each area studies; to what extent do field formations rely upon each other, whether positively or negatively, in articulating a proper object of study; to what extent and in what ways does "interdisciplinary" resonate as central to each field's critical practices; and what historical, national, transnational, professional, institutional, etc. influences operate within our analysis.

CHAIR:

Robyn Wiegman, Women's Studies Program, Duke University

PANELISTS:

Walter Mignolo, Literature Program, Duke University
José David Saldivar, Ethnic Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley
Ileana Rodriquez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Ohio State University
Bill Maurer, Department Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

COMMENT:

The Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM

African Americans and Urban Violence

CHAIR:

Clyde Woods, African American Studies Department, University of Maryland

PAPERS:

Jay Mechling, American Studies Program, University of California, Davis
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Rosewood, Florida
Robert M. Zecker, Department of History, Saint Francis Xavier University
"We Never Locked Our Doors at Night": Reinventing Newark on the 'Net Minus the Mob
Frank D. Rashid, Department of English, Marygrove College
Urban Violence, Communitarian Response: History, Literature, Memory

COMMENT:

Clyde Woods

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Neoliberal Workplaces

CHAIR:

Andy Doolen, Department of English, Clemson University

PAPERS:

David Parry, Department of English, State University of New York, Albany
The American Nightmare: The Representation of the Working Class in Contemporary Fiction
Jessica Livingston, Department of English, University of Florida
Jobs without Wages: Workfare and the Flexible Labor Market
Melissa W. Wright, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University
Protests, Politics and the Worth of Women for Ciudad Juarez Modernity

COMMENT:

Andy Doolen

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Race War in Twentieth-Century U.S. History

CHAIR:

Mary Renda, Department of History, Mt. Holyoke College

PAPERS:

Paul Kramer, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
From Hide to Heart: The Philippine-American War as Race War
Craig Cameron, Department of History, Old Dominion University
Forces of Light, Forces of Darkness: Contradictions in American Racial Policies and Behaviors During the Second World War
Daryl Maeda, Department of History, Oberlin College
"I Am a Gook Also": Asian American Opposition to the U.S. War in Vietnam

COMMENT:

Mary Renda

10:00 - 11:45 AM

New Visual Dispensation? Sex, Gender, and Race during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

CHAIR:

Peter Buckley, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union

PAPERS:

Katherine Manthorne, Program in Art History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Young Maidens, Drummer Boys, and Fugitive Slaves: Eastman Johnson and the Embodiment of Reconstruction
Barbara Balliet, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Rutgers University
Illustrating the City: Georgina Davis, New Women, and Illustrated Papers
Joshua Brown, American Social History Project, The Graduate Center, City University of New York The Days' Doings: The Gilded Age in the Profane Pictorial Press

COMMENT:

Sarah Burns, Department of History of Art, Indiana University

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Women in U.S. Race Riots

CHAIR:

Julie Cary Nerad, Department of English, Georgia State University

PAPERS:

Judith Mulcahy, Department of English, City University of New York, Graduate Center
"The Last Bulwark of Freedom": Anti-Slavery Women and Race Riots in the Antebellum North
Alice I. Rutkowski, Department of English, University of Virginia
Women and the Novelization of the 1863 Draft Riots
Steven Weisenburger, Department of English, University of Kentucky
Gendered Race-War: The 1898 Wilmington Massacre
Delia Mellis, Department of History, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
"Literally Devoured": Women in the Capital's 'Race War' of 1919
Kevin Meehan, Department of English, University of Central Florida,
Bernadette Adams Davis, Playwright
Dramatizing the Role of African American Women in the 1920 Ocoee Riot

COMMENT:

The Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Antebellum Literary Geographies

CHAIR:

Hsuan L. Hsu, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Antebellum Transnationalism and the Scale of Literary History

PAPERS:

Anne Baker, Department of English, North Carolina State University
Word, Image, and Manifest Destiny: Print Culture and Popular Art in the Antebellum U.S.
Martin Bruckner, Department of English, University of Delaware
Geographic (Be)Longing and the Aesthetic of Violence in Antebellum America
Susan L. Roberson, Department of English, Texas A & M University, Kingsville
Geographies of the Self in Nineteenth-Century Women's Travel Writing

COMMENT:

Hsuan L. Hsu

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Violence, Melancholia, and Death

CHAIR:

Sandra Gunning, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

PAPERS:

Lori Merish, Department of English, Georgetown University
Harriet Wilson's Our Nig: Race, Class, and the Violence of Domesticity
Shirleen R. Robinson, Department of English, Cornell University
This Violence Belongs to Me: How Black Melancholia Speaks through Self-Inflicted Violence in the Narratives of Angelina W. Grimké
Sara Clarke Kaplan, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Regendering Jubilee: Death and Collectivity as Black Performances of Refusal

COMMENT:

Sandra Gunning

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Cultural Theory as Environmental Discourse: A Roundtable Discussion

CHAIR:

Noël Sturgeon, Women's Studies Program, Washington State University

PAPERS:

Catriona Sandilands, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Queer Theory and Environmental Politics: Toward a Decadent Ecology?
Leesa Fawcett, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Spare Parts, Gift, Or Kin? Environmental Ethics of Transgenic Animals
John Hausdoerffer, American Studies Program, Washington State University
An Ethics of Consent: Hegemonic and Fetish Theory as Environmental Discourses
Jeff Sellen, General Education Program, Washington State University
The Legal Discourses of Property

COMMENT:

The Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM

The Violence of Belonging: Questioning "Normality" (Dialogue)

"Normality" is a potent epistemological category of the American past and present, yet it is a category which has only recently begun to be seen as a subject of study. Structured in the DIALOGUE format, this panel will address the idea of normality head-on, but from a range of disciplinary and geographical positions. After brief, opening comments describing how they each have theorized normality in their own work - on discourses of disability, the 19th-century body, early 20th-centuy science, mid-century mass culture, and American democracy - the five panelists will interrogate normality, along with the audience. How has this seemingly static notion been redefined, reinvented, and re-invoked over time? Is normality a descriptive or prescriptive category? Is the desire for normality a desire for belonging? Does the need for belonging arise as a response to violence? What violence underlies the construction of normal bodies, minds, or communities?

CHAIR:

Lennard J. Davis, Department of English & Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois, Chicago

PANELISTS:

Anna Creadick, Department of Writing and Rhetoric, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Walter Grünzweig, American Literature and Culture Department, University of Dortmund, Germany
Jessica Shubow, History and Literature Program, Harvard University
Kerry Duff, Department of American Studies, Michigan State University

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Perverse Belonging: in Kinship, Race, City, and Nation

CHAIR:

Lisa Lowe, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego

PAPERS:

Martin Manalansan, IV, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Race, Violence and Queer Citizenship in the Global City
Roderick A. Ferguson, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
Nayan Shah, Department of History, University of California, San Diego
Sex, Violence, and the Paradoxes of Belonging in Male Migrant Worlds
David L. Eng, Department of English, Rutgers University
The Language of Kinship

COMMENT:

Lisa Lowe

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Contagion and the Nation

CHAIR:

Ed Cohen, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Rutgers University

PAPERS:

Barbara Browning, Department of Performance Studies, New York University
Buzz Words: Blackness, Immunity and National Musics at the Time of the Spanish-American War
Doug Thomas, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
Vx Nation: Computer Viruses, Infection, and National Identity
Kirsten Ostherr, Department of English, Rice University
Communicable Disease? Mediations of Anthrax

COMMENT:

Ed Cohen

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Visual Technologies, Gazing Relations, and Violence at the Borders (A Roundtable)

This roundtable will examine the relationship between visual technologies and gazing relations, historically and at present, in re-inscribing racialized, gendered, sexual, and geopolitical violence at U.S. borders in the context of global capitalism. Participants will provide brief presentations, and then engage one another and the audience in a dialogue on this topic.

CHAIR:

Rosa Linda Fregoso, Department of Latin American/Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

PANELISTS:

Cynthia L. Bejarano, Criminal Justice Department, New Mexico State University
Eithne Luibheid, Department of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University
Jose Palafox, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Erica Rand, Department of Art, Bates College

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Veterans' Bodies, Bodies of Veterans: American Veterans and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century

CHAIR:

David A. Gerber, Department of History, State University of Buffalo

PAPERS:

John M. Kinder, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Seeing is Dis/Enabling: The Wounded Soldier's Body in Post-World War I Visual Culture
Stephen R. Ortiz, Department of History, University of Florida
"The New and Greater War of American Citizenship": Overseas Veterans, Masculinity, and Citizenship in the Great Depression
William F. Fagelson, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Veteran Neurosis: World War II Veteran Problem Literature and Postwar Masculinity

COMMENT:

David A. Gerber

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Changing Paradigms of Asian/American Studies: Confronting the American Security State and Its Subjects (A Roundtable)

This roundtable will address the various forms of violence emanating from the U.S. state as it relates to Asians in the U.S. both historically and at present. Panelists will discuss how academic knowledges might collude or confront this type of violence, and what in the received paradigms of Asian/American studies might be changing in relations to the forms of power and kinds of subjects produced by the "security state" focused on combating "terrorism" globally and protecting the security of "Americans."

CHAIR:

Inderpal Grewal, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Irvine

PANELISTS:

Mimi Nguyen, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Louisa Schein, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University
Purnima Mankekar, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Glen Mimura, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine
John Kuo Wei Tchen, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, New York University

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Bodies, Blood, and Belonging: Cultural Difference and Self-Possession

CHAIR:

Robert S. Levine, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park

PAPERS:

Cindy Weinstein, Department of English, California Institute of Technology
"To Whom Do You Belong": Slavery and Sentimental Fictions
Maria Karafilis, Department of English, California State University, Los Angeles
Trauma, Race, and the Unassimilated
Valarie Rohy, Department of English, University of Vermont
Blood Lines: Race, Evolution, Heterosexuality

COMMENT:

Robert S. Levine

12:00 - 1:45 PM

The Political Economy of American Studies: American Studies as Area Study?

This panel will address whether American Studies should be seen as an area study. Questions addressed include: What is lost or gained by such a (re)conceptualization of the field? Does an approach to American Studies on the area studies model enable or disable critical perspectives on the contemporary configuration(s) of U.S. imperialism?

CHAIR:

Yuan Shu, Department of English, Texas Tech University

PANELISTS:

Paul Bove, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
Eva Cherniavsky, American Studies Program, Indiana University
Joan Hawkins, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University
Rob Wilson, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Religion, Media, and the Marketplace in Modern America (Sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)

CHAIR:

R. Laurence Moore, History Department, Cornell University

PAPERS:

Erin A. Smith, American Studies Program, University of Texas, Dallas
Religious Renaissance and the Literary Marketplace: The 1920s
Matthew S. Hedstrom, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Harry Emerson Fosdick and Joshua Loth Liebman in Print and on Radio, 1927-1948
Lynn Schofield Clark, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder
Spirituality Online: Rethinking Religious Authority in the Context of Teen Friendship Circles and New Media

COMMENT:

R. Laurence Moore

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Visual Cultures of Security, Gender, and National Belonging

CHAIR:

Meredith Raimondo, Women's Studies, California State University, Fullerton

PAPERS:

Wendy Kozol, Gender and Women's Studies, Oberlin College
Anxiety and Comfort Under the Mushroom Cloud: Masculinity, Militarism, and National Belonging
Wendy Hesford, Department of English, The Ohio State University
"The Afghan Girl": Visual Rhetoric, Human Rights, and the Politics of Pity
Rebecca Dingo, Department of English, The Ohio State University
Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin: Contradictions in the Christian Right's Representations of Islam

COMMENT:

Meredith Raimondo

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Strikers, Communists, and Detectives

CHAIR:

Jonathan P. Eburne, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University

PAPERS:

Sangeeta Medieratta, Department ofLiterature, University of California, San Diego
Detecting Infraction: Representations of Indianness and the "Mutiny" in U.S. Popular Culture, 1857-1877
Victor Cohen, Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University
Proletarian Writers, Hard-Boiled Fiction, and the Politics of 1930s Mass Culture
Dennis Broe, Department of Media Arts, Long Island University
Labor, Class, and the Homefront Detective: Hammett and Chandler in 1940s Hollywood and Beyond

COMMENT:

Jonathan P. Eburne

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Representing Lynching

CHAIR:

Aldon Nielsen, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University

PAPERS:

Amy Louise Wood, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University
"A Genuine Lynching Scene": Moving Pictures and Southern Crowds
Martha Jane Nadell, History and Literature, Harvard University
Envisioning Violence: Race, Lynching, and the Illustrated Text
Bettina M. Carbonell, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
Where Does Violence Belong?: Memory, Museums, and the Institutional Re-Presentation of Human Suffering

COMMENT:

Aldon Nielsen

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Discourses on Colonialism: Civilizing Missions and U.S. Empire

CHAIR:

Ira Dworkin, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Miami

PAPERS:

Michelle Ladd, Department of Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University
Smoke Rings: Cigar Labels, Masculinity, and Pleasure in the Gilded Age
Diana L. Ahmad, Department of History and Political Science, University of Missouri, Rolla
American Samoa: The Happiest Colony of the United States
Elise White, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Forming the Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society: The Shadow of Empire in Turn-of-the-Century Black America
Geoffrey Jacques, Department of English, City University of New York, Graduate Center
The Idea of a Colony: Wallace Stevens and the Language of the Colonial Uncanny

COMMENT:

TheAudience

12:00 - 1:45 PM

The Embedded Object: Texts and Contexts in Material Culture

CHAIR:

Gretchen Townsend Buggeln, Program in Early American Culture, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

PAPERS:

Holly Heinzer, Department of History, Yale University
Benjamin Johnson, Stranger: Objects and Belonging in the Study of Travel
Cynthia Munro, Department of English, University of Delaware
"Wrought by Diana Cogswell": The Tradition of the Marking Sampler and its Place in a Community of Literacy
Peter Brownlee, American Studies Department, George Washington University
Dialectical Images, Dialectical Objects: The Daguerreian Viewing Experience Reconsidered
Melissa Duffes, Sully Plantation, Chantilly, Virginia
Garden Furniture as a Liminal Category in Material Culture Studies
William Gleason, Department of English, Princeton University
Late Nineteenth-Century Collage Albums and the Architectural Imagination
Michael J. Murphy, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University
Faux Col: Celluloid Collars and Normative Masculinity in America
Ellen Avitts Menefee, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
Visions of Belonging: House Merchandising in Late Twentieth-Century America

COMMENT:

Gretchen Townsend Buggeln

12:00 - 1:45 PM

"Our Incredible City": The Place and Meaning of Postwar New York

CHAIR:

Max Page, Department of Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

PANELISTS:

Julia L. Foulkes, Core Faculty, New School University
Karene Grad, American Studies Program, Yale University
Michael Chapman Kimmage, History of American Civilization, Harvard University
Nichole T. Rustin, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Joshua A. Shannon, Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Bomb-Makers, Strike-Breakers, and Molly Maguires: Radical and Labor Violence in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

CHAIR:

Frances Pass, Bloomfield Public School System, Bloomfield, Connecticut

PAPERS:

Anthony DeStefanis, Department of History, College of William and Mary
"In the Islands, We Done Exactly the Same Thing": The Spanish-American War, Strike Duty and the Colorado National Guard
Ann Larabee, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University Technologies of Revolution: Radicalism and Bomb Making in the Nineteenth Century
Andrew B. Arnold, Department of History, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
A Pinocchio Story: How the Molly Maguires Became Real Live Women

COMMENT:

Jeffory A. Clymer, Department of English, Saint Louis University

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Religious Violence, Secular Violence: A Roundtable Discussion

Using a case study approach, the five participants in this roundtable discussion examine the ways in which "the religious" and "the secular" intersect in U.S. public life—and so often to violent effect.

CHAIR:

Ann Pellegrini, Department of Performance Studies and Religious Studies Program, New York University

PANELISTS:

Michael Cobb, Department of English, University of Toronto
Janet R. Jakobsen, Center for Research on Women, Barnard College
Ranu Samantrai, Cultural Studies Department, Claremont Graduate University
Angela Zito, Department of Anthropology & Religious Studies Program, New York University

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Theorizing Meat: Animals, Food and Cultural Identity in the Contemporary U.S.

CHAIR:

Amy Bentley, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University

PAPERS:

Anna Williams, Department of Radio, TV, and Film, Eastern Mediterranean University
Beyond Commodification: Theorizing Meat in the Contemporary U.S.
C. Greig Crysler, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
"Cows On Parade": Transmuting Flesh to Fiberglass in Chicago's City-as-Museum
Jessica Sellick,School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
Animating the Lives of Cows: The Construction, Practice, and Performance of Fleshy Beings in Rural (and Other) Spaces.

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Representing Black Masculinity

CHAIR:

Marcellus Blount, Department of English, Columbia University

PAPERS:

Clarissa J. Ceglio, American Studies Program, Trinity College
Fully Loaded: Discourse with an Objectionable Object
Sandra Mizumoto Posey, Interdisciplinary General Education, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Burning Messages: The Contested Role of Branding in an African American Fraternity
Nikki A. Greene, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
"Taken to Another Level": Confronting the Black Male Stereotype in Renee Stout's Point of View

COMMENT:

Marcellus Blount

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Visualizing Violence: Murder, Identity, and Belonging

CHAIR:

Alan Rogers, Department of History, Boston College

PAPERS:

Elizabeth A. De Wolfe, Department of History, University of New England
The Murders of Mary Bean: (Re) Writing Crime and Punishment
Tiffany Johnson Bidler, Department of Art History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
The Appearance of Truth: Evidence Photography and the Trial of Lizzie Borden
Jean Murley, Department of English, City University of New York
Reading the Killer in 1960s True-Crime
Christina D. Weber, Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Buffalo
Imagining the Masculine Subject: Analyzing Murder, Violence and Death in Vietnam War Photographs

COMMENT:

Alan Rogers

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Burial Sites

CHAIR:

Judith Fryer Davidov, Graduate Program in American Studies & Departmentof English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

PAPERS:

Rachel Sailor, Department of Art History, University of Iowa Thomas Easterly's Big Mound Series: Daguerreotypes of Destruction and Community
Robin Annette Hanson, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
The Modification of Burial Customs Along the California/Oregon Trail
Eleanor Kaufman, Department of English, University of Virginia
Jewish Cemeteries on the Prairie
Timothy S. Sedore, Department of English, City University of New York, Bronx Community College
"Go, Stranger, and Tell It on Georgia": The Rhetoric of Southern Post-Civil War as Iconoclastic Communities of Violence and Belonging

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Violence and the Shaping of Vietnamese American Identities

CHAIR:

Karen Cardozo-Kane, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

PAPERS:

Nina Ha, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Enemies of the States: The Challenge of the "Children of the Dust"
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Department of Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University
Fears in Contemporary Vietnamese American Literature
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University
A Dragon's Tale: Popular Protest, Anti-Asian Violence, and the Crisis of Community Arts

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Vigilantes

CHAIR:

Dana Polan, School of Cinema and TV, University of Southern California

PAPERS:

Gabriela Nuñez, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Racial Dispossession Written into the Los Angeles Star, 1851-1864
Richard F. Nation, Department of History, Eastern Michigan University
Extralegal Violence and Belonging in Southern Indiana, 1865-1898
Michael Cohen, Program in Literature, Duke University
"The Ku Klux Government": Lynching, Vigilantism, and the Repression of the IWW
Lisa Arellano, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
Heroic Longings: Reenactments of a Vigilante Past

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Violence on the Borders

CHAIR:

Alvina Quintana, Department of English, University of Delaware

PAPERS:

Julie Ruiz, English Department, Wesleyan University
Violent Beginnings: The Mexican War in the Work of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Theresa A. Kulbaga, Department of English, The Ohio State University
From National Violence to Transnational Belonging: Documenting the Failure of Citizenship in Two Contemporary Border Texts
Delberto Dario Ruiz, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Violence in the Arizona Borderlands: Indigenous Communities, Militarization of the Border and Cultural Expressions
Iping Liang, English Department, National Taiwan Normal University
Other Frontiers: U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada Borders in Nightland and Wolfsong

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Belonging to Whom?: Self-Representation and Sovereignty

CHAIR:

Jennifer S. Tuttle, Department of English, University of New England

PAPERS:

Anne Ruggles Gere, Department of English, University of Michigan
Indians and American Art: The Case of Angel Decora
Nicole Tonkovich, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
James Stuart's Kneeling Posture: Interpreting Nez Perce Allotment, 1889-1893
Maureen Konkle, Department of English, University of Missouri
"America in Its Native State": Indian Territory/Oklahoma as Paradigm

COMMENT:

Jennifer S. Tuttle

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Religion and Literary Imaginations in the Far West

CHAIR:

Viet Nguyen, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley

PAPERS:

Darren Dochuk, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
"Saving California from Itself": Representations of Southern California in the Sermons Popular Religious Literature of Southern White "Defense Migrants"
Mark Wild, Department of History, California State University Los Angeles
Divine Madness: James Pike, Philip K. Dick, and Spiritual Community During the Urban Crisis
Roberto Lint Sagarena, School of Religion & Program in American Studies, University of Southern California
Catholic Nativism: The Impact of Literary Representations of Religion in the Southwest

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Rancho California: Racialized Space and Indigenous Identity in the Borderlands

CHAIR:

John T. Caldwell, Critical Studies Program & Department of Film, Television, and New Media, University of California, Los Angeles

FILM:

Rancho California (Por Favor), Produced and Directed by John T. Caldwell

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Playing Indian: Primitivism and Self-Fashioning in Twentieth-Century America

CHAIR:

Louise Newman, Department of History, University of Florida

PAPERS:

Eric Combest, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Pictures from the Field: Self-Presentation, Professional Authority, and the Emergence of American Cultural Anthropology
Karlyn Crowley, Department of English, St. Norbert College
"The Indian Way is What's Inside": Gender and the Appropriation of American Indian Religion in New Age Culture
Michael Leroy Oberg, Department of History, State University of New York, Geneseo
The Short but Ironic Life of Sylvester Long

COMMENT:

Louise Newman

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Violating America: Murder and Identity in Modern U.S. Fiction and Culture

CHAIR:

Sarah M. Pike, Department of Religious Studies, California State University, Chico

PAPERS:

Stephen Brauer, Department of English, St. John Fisher College
The Santee Spree Killings and the Desire for a Narrative of Logic
Christopher Schedler, Department of English, Central Washington University
Visualizing Violence as Schizo Flow in Alejandro Morales's The Brick People
Ilse Schrynemakers, Department of English, Fordham University
American Crime Fiction and the Atomic Age
Jennifer Spangler, Department of Art History, University of California, Davis
Concealing History: The Oklahoma City National Memorial

COMMENT:

Sarah M. Pike

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Shooting with Gun and Camera: Race, Gender, and Violence in the Works of Martin and Osa Johnson

CHAIR:

Thomas Doherty, Film Studies Program, Brandeis University

PAPERS:

Lisa Hermsen, Liberal Arts Program, Rochester Institute of Technology
Married to Adventure: Discipline and Difference in Osa Johnson's Autobiographical/Ethnograpical Film/Text
Andrea Becksvoort, Department of American Studies, Yale University
Narrating Natives, Performing Authenticity: Across the World With Mr. and Mrs. Johnson
Jeannette Eileen Jones, Department of History, State University of New York, Fredonia
The Reel Africa: Natural Bodies and Landscapes in Simba, Congorilla, and Baboona

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Born of Blood and Tribulation: Civic Violence in Antebellum New England

CHAIR:

David A. Grimsted, Department of History, University of Maryland

PAPERS:

Daniel A. Cohen, Department of History, Florida International University
Burning the Charlestown Convent: Voluntary Associations and Mob Violence in Antebellum America
Jeannine Marie Delombard, Department of English, University of Toronto
Riot in Court Square: The Iconography of Justice in the Slavery Controversy
Kristen Proehl, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
Reevaluating Sentimental Violence in Uncle Tom's Cabin

COMMENT:

David A. Grimsted

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Terrorism, Barbarism, and War

CHAIR:

Melani McAlister, American Studies Department, George Washington University

PAPERS:

John D. Blanco, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Civilization and Barbarism in the Philippines, ca. 1898
Timothy Marr,Curriculum in American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Running Amok: Racial Militarism and the Moro Problem in the Muslim Philippines
Justin Paulson, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Crime and Warfare in the U.S.: American Discourses of Violence, Terrorism, and Retribution

COMMENT:

Melani McAlister

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Screening Race

CHAIR:

Keith D. Leonard, Department of Literature, American University

PAPERS:

Eric N. Olund, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
To do Everything and Nothing: The Birth of a Whiteness
Curtis Marez, School of Cinema and Television, University of Southern California
Chicanas in Chinatown: Racial Masquerade in Hollywood Cinema
Delia Caparoso Konzett, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
War and the Model Minority
Daniel Boudreau, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
Belonging on Scorsese's Turf: Race and an Auteur's Anxieties

COMMENT:

Keith D. Leonard

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Sex, Race, and the City: Architecture, Exile, Carnival and National Belonging Across Four Continents

CHAIR:

Jürgen Heinrichs, Department of Art and Music, Seton Hall University

PAPERS:

Magdalena J. Zaborowska, Center for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Michigan,
Coleman A. Jordan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning & Center for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Michigan
"There Are No Untroubled Countries": Be(long)ing in Harlem, Paris, and Istanbul (or Teaching on Identity, Narrative, and Architecture Through James Baldwin's Works)
Sandra Vivanco, AIA, Architecture and Design, San Francisco
Body in Spectacle, the Urban Theater of Carnival— A Community Collaboration Studio Project

COMMENT:

The Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Misrecognitions, or Racial Casting

CHAIR:

Gary Y. Okihiro, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University

PAPERS:

Brian Eugenio Herrera, American Studies Program, Yale University
Latino/a Surrogations of the "Arabian" in 1920s Stage and Screen Performance
Karen Shimakawa, Department of English, University of California, Davis
Realism and Asian American Bodies on Stage
Shannon Steen, Department of English, Northwestern University
Racial Opacity: Yellowface vs. Blackface on Stage and Screen

COMMENT:

Gary Okihiro

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Violent Reconstructions

CHAIR:

Judith Jackson Fossett, Department of English, University of Southern California

PAPERS:

Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf, Department of American Studies, Indiana University
"Mammy" Photographs: Race and the Family Romance of the Old South
Shirley Thompson, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Chronicling Chicora Wood: Violence Against Property and the Construction of Belonging in the Post-Civil War Carolina Low Country
Sean M. Kelley, Department of History, Hartwick College
Brother Dutch: German Ethnicity in Texas Plantation Society

COMMENT:

Judith Jackson Fossett

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Open Forum on American Studies Association Elections

CHAIR:

Dana D. Nelson, Department of English, University of Kentucky

PANELISTS:

Gary Gerstle, Department of History, University of Maryland
Inderpal Grewal, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Irvine
Lary May, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Dana D. Nelson, Department of English, University of Kentucky
Jack Tchen, Asian American Pacific Studies, New York University
Mary Helen Washington, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park

COMMENT:

The Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

History as Fantasy

CHAIR:

Carla Kaplan, Department of English, University of Southern California

PAPERS:

Freda Hauser, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
Flight, Photography, and Fantasy: An Aerial Travelogue of War and Peace in Modern Women's Image/Text
James S. Miller, Department of Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Gone With the Wind: Historical Romance and the Pursuit of White Collar Heritage
Victoria Lamont, Department of English, University of Waterloo,
Dianne Newell, Department of History, University of British Columbia
"House Operas": Post WWII Women's Science Fiction and the Frontier Myth

COMMENT:

Carla Kaplan

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Cycles of Outrage: School Violence and Popular Culture

CHAIR:

Richard Butsch, Department of Sociology, Rider University

PAPERS:

Adam Golub, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Is Your School a Blackboard Jungle? Mass Culture and Education Reform in Postwar America
Amy Bass, Department of History, College of New Rochelle
Teenage Angst with a Death Count: Rebel without a Cause and Heathers
Lynne Edwards, Department of Communication Studies, Ursinus College
Buffy the Columbine Slayer: The Battle between News and Popular Media to Portray Teen Violence

COMMENT:

Richard Butsch

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Race and Material Culture: Enabling Objects to Speak About Racist Violence

CHAIR:

Kirk Savage, History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburg

PAPERS:

Robin Bernstein, Program in American Studies, Yale University
Using Performance Theory to Analyze Racist Collectibles
Cheryl Finley, Department of Art, Wellesley College
"It's Part of My DNA": The Embedded Life of the Slave Ship Icon
Adrianne A. Santina, Division of Art Education and Art History, University of North Texas
Mythical Li(v)es: Plains Indians, Tipis, and the Concept of Indian Ethnicity

COMMENT:

The Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

No Lights, No Camera, No Action: African American Film and the Legacy of Violence

CHAIR:

Paula J. Massood, Department of Film, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

PAPERS:

Josh Stenger, Department of English, Wheaton College
Who Got the Camera? African American Cinema, Surveillance and Insurrection in Los Angeles, 1965-1992
Akin Jeje, Independent Scholar
The Undying Streets: Codes of Violence and Neocolonial Landscapes in Antoine Fuqua's Training Day
Anne Cremieux, Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
One Step Further: Violence Against African Americans in Black-Directed Hollywood Films
Alexandra Keller, Film Studies Program, Smith College
New Jack Posse: Mario Van Peebles' Violent Generic Subversion

COMMENT:

Paula J. Massood

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Framing an Execution: The Case of ABC 20/20 and Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Rhetorical Moment in the Role of Mass Media in a Culture of Capital Punishment and Mass Incarceration

PRESENTER:

Thomas N. Gardner, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

COMMENT:

Jennifer K. Wood, Communication Arts and Sciences Department, Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington
Bill Yousman, School of Communication, University of Hartford

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Rethinking American Studies in a Global Context

CHAIR:

Barbara McCaskill, Department of English, University of Georgia

PAPERS:

Wai Chee Dimock, Department of English & American Studies Program, Yale University
A Tale of Three Continents and Two Millennia: Thoreau, the Bhaavadgita, Gandhi
Timothy B. Powell, Department of English, University of Georgia
Recovering the Pre-Colonial: The Mesoamerican Roots of Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead
Joshua L. Miller, Department of English, University of Michigan
Radical Multilingualism as Violent Belonging: Temporality and Translatability in Teresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee

COMMENT:

The Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Cultural Diversity in the Material Culture of American Cemeteries: New Approaches/New Directions (Roundtable Sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus)

This panel is comprised of American scholars from the academic and curatorial community working in the research fields of cemetery history, art history, and conservation. Each member was selected from a call for papers to represent the culturally diverse approaches to the conservation and historical research of American cemeteries.

CHAIR:

Janet Headley, Fine Arts Department, Loyola College of Maryland

PANELISTS:

Kerry Dean Carso, Robert Lee Gill Fellow, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Rachel Malcolm-Woods, Department of Art History, James Madison University
Cynthia Mills, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Penelope Myrtle Kelsey, Department of Language and Literature, Rochester Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Klimasmith, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Rebecca Reynolds, Keeper of the Historical Collections, Forest Hills Educational Trust, Boston

COMMENT:

Kevin R. McNamara, School of Human Sciences and Humanities, University of Houston-Clear Lake

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Memory, Trauma, and Art

CHAIR:

Lisa Gail Collins, Department of Art History, Vassar College

PAPERS:

Shirley Carrie-Hartman, Department of English, Stony Brook University
Memory and the Collar: Subjugation and Punishment in Charles Chestnutt's The Conjure Woman
Margo Machida, Department of Art and Art History, University of Connecticut
Social Memory, Violence, and Trauma in Asian American Art
Jennifer Lemberg, English Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
"Staring into the Unsayable": Multigenerational Trauma and Autobiography
Patricia Vettel-Becker, Department of Art, Montana State University, Billings
Death Twice Removed: From Wilderness to Agrarian Landscape to Fibrous Fetish

COMMENT:

The Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Academic Job Interviews in American Studies: A Demonstration Workshop

CHAIR:

Amy Nathan, American Studies Program, University of Texas, Austin

PANELISTS:

Alicia Schmidt Camacho, American Studies Program, Yale University
Alex Lubin, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico
Deena Gonzalez, Department of Chicana/o Studies, Loyola Marymount University
David Román, Department of English, University of Southern California
Richard Yarborough, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles

CANDIDATE:

Felicity Schaffer-Gabriel, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota

COMMENTS:

The Audience

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