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ASA Sessions At-A-Glance

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2003

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

10:00 - 11:45 AM
Violent Subjectivities and the Nation
Performance of Reality and Struggle: Race, Violence and the Urban Landscape
Participating in Mass Media: Consumption, Gender, and the Production of Citizenship
Citizens, Subjects, and Exclusions
Pedagogy: Teaching American Studies
The Body in Pain: Suffering and Belonging in the New Nation
Home Bodies: Gender, Geopolitics and Expertise Post 9/11
Iconic Violence, National Belonging
Votes for Women: Historicizing American Suffrage Literature 1883-1917
Violence in Domesticity
Political Violence and Public Memory: Human Rights, Literature, and Justice
Making Space: Re-Constructing Latinoamericanidad in Canada
Braided Dreams, Tangled Nightmares: Young Women of Color, Gendered Violence, and Resistance
Bonds of Manhood: White Masculinity and American Indian Captivity

12:00 - 1:45 PM
American Exceptionalism, Another Look
Re-Orienting Orientalism: Asian Americans, Market, and Cultural Citizenship
The Emotive Body and Subjectivity at the Intersections of Race, Gender, Nation, and Sexuality
Exclusions and Inclusions: Constructing/Confronting Cultural Violence in the Plantation Fiction of Postbellum America
Domestic Communities, Domestic Security, and Cultural Violence in Cold War America
The Violence of Not Belonging: Transnational Engagements with Native American Women in Nationalist, Historical and Activist Studies
The Politics of Death and Destruction: Racial, State, and Regional Violence in 18th- and 19th-Century America
Violent Epistemologies
Real? Representations of Racial Violence: Surreal, Fantastic, and Popular Alternatives to Social Realism
Belonging to Books: The Cultural Politics of Homemade Books in the NineteenthCentury
La Falla de la Communidad / The Failure of Community
Race and the Politics of Publishing
Democratizing Art and Media: Three Perspectives on Cultural Policy in the United States
American Studies 101: Dismantling Epistemic Violence and Creating a Learning Community
The Cold War and American Memory

2:00 - 3:45 PM
Racial Memory and Media Images: The Persistence of Nostalgia in Representations of The American South
Beyond Belonging: Performing the Transnational in Butoh, Blues, and JapanPop
Race War and the National Imaginaries of the Americas
Terror and the Word: The Press's Role in Mediating Community Violence
Criminalizing/Sexualizing/Spatializing the Boxing Body: Violence or Belonging?
Don West's Southern Earth
Claiming Afghan Women: U.S. Feminism, Cyberspace, and the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (Rawa) in the Post-9/11 Era
New Modes of American Imperialism
Community-Based Organizations Respond to State Violence: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Securing the National Body: A Roundtable on Cold War Immigration Policy
Revolutionary Violence, Community, and History
Willard Motley Reconsidered
Re-Thinking Nineteenth-Century Sensationalism
Communities Reclaiming Violated Environments: Gender/Sexuality and Environmental Justice
Blood and Belonging: Racial Violence and Struggles for Equality

4:00 - 5:45 PM
Race, Space, and the City: Post-World War Two Los Angeles and the Cultural Cold War West
Remapping Sexual Geographies
Neocolonial Traumas and Tropes in American and Pacific Sites
Beauty and Pain: Aesthetics of/as Violence in the United States
Violence Seen and Unseen: The Production of African American Bodies in Hollywood and the Race Film, 1920-1929
Police in America
Word of Mouth: A Conversation about Spoken Word
U.S. Imperialisms: Old and New
Transnational Subjects in International Contexts
The Female Victim
Cold War Belonging: The Sexual, Gender and Racial Disciplining of the Inter- and Intra-Nation
Investigating Violence: Race and National Belonging in Contemporary Detective Fiction
Sexual Violence and Belonging
Belonging to a Culture of Protest: Identity and Community in the 1960s Antiwar Movement
Death and Discipline at Sea

6:00 - 7:00 PM
Special Session: Rethinking W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk, 1903-2003

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2003

8:00 - 9:45 AM
The Transformations of "Race" in the Nineteenth Century
Space Out of Place
Radio in Wartime: World War II and the Radio Front
Representational Violence: Samson Occom and the Position of the Christian Indian in Early American Studies
Premature Death: A Roundtable on Racism
Inside Out?: Storytelling, Place, and the Power of the Particular
Fairs, Pageants, and Spectacles
Blackening Europe: Turning Remembered Colonial Violence into Belonging and African America's Part in It
Situating Filipino Americans in the History of United States Conquest and Racialization: A Comparative Look
Jewish Experiences in American Culture: Belonging, Violence and Identity in American Communities
Performing Queer Femininity in Perverse Modernities
Pulp Queens and Government Girls: What WWII Did for Working Women
World War II and the Construction of Memory
Rethinking Activism and Social Movement Theory: Identities, Cultural Politics and the State
Guns, Violence, and Belonging in Late Twentieth-Century America

10:00 - 11:45 AM
The Violence of Political and Biological Belonging
Cinematic Violence: The Good, the Bad, and the Avant-Garde
Race and Carceral Spaces
A Century of Korean Immigration: (Re)viewing America through Korea/Korean-America
Americas Studies in Question: Dialogues across Borders
African Americans and Urban Violence
Neoliberal Workplaces
Race War in Twentieth-Century U.S. History
New Visual Dispensation? Sex, Gender, and Race during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
Women in US Race Riots
Antebellum Literary Geographies
Violence, Melancholia, and Death
Cultural Theory as Environmental Discourse: A Roundtable Discussion
The Violence of Belonging: Questioning "Normality"

12:00 - 1:45 PM
Perverse Belonging: in Kinship, Race, City, and Nation
Contagion and the Nation
Visual Technologies, Gazing Relations, and Violence at the Borders
Veterans' Bodies, Bodies of Veterans: American Veterans and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century
Changing Paradigms of Asian/American Studies: Confronting the American Security State and Its Subjects
Bodies, Blood, and Belonging: Cultural Difference and Self-Possession
The Political Economy of American Studies: American Studies as Area Study?
Religion, Media, and the Marketplace in Modern America
Visual Cultures of Security, Gender, and National Belonging
Strikers, Communists, and Detectives
Representing Lynching
Discourses on Colonialism: Civilizing Missions and U.S. Empire
The Embedded Object: Texts and Contexts in Material Culture
"Our Incredible City": The Place and Meaning of Postwar New York
Bomb-Makers, Strike-Breakers, and Molly Maguires: Radical and Labor Violence in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

2:00 - 3:45 PM
Religious Violence, Secular Violence: A Roundtable Discussion
Theorizing Meat: Animals, Food and Cultural Identity in the Contemporary U.S.
Representing Black Masculinity
Visualizing Violence: Murder, Identity, and Belonging
Burial Sites
Violence and the Shaping of Vietnamese American Identities
Vigilantes
Violence on the Borders
Belonging to Whom?: Self-Representation and Sovereignty
Religion and Literary Imaginations in the Far West
Rancho California: Racialized Space and Indigenous Identity in the Borderlands
Playing Indian: Primitivism and Self-Fashioning in Twentieth-Century America
Violating America: Murder and Identity in Modern U.S. Fiction and Culture
Shooting with Gun and Camera: Race, Gender, and Violence in the Works of Martin and Osa Johnson
Born of Blood and Tribulation: Civic Violence in Antebellum New England

4:00 - 5:45 PM
Terrorism, Barbarism, and War
Screening Race
Sex, Race, and the City: Architecture, Exile, Carnival and National Belonging Across Four Continents
Misrecognitions, or Racial Casting
Violent Reconstructions
Open Forum on American Studies Association Elections
History as Fantasy
Cycles of Outrage: School Violence and Popular Culture
Race and Material Culture: Enabling Objects to Speak About Racist Violence
No Lights, No Camera, No Action: African American Film and the Legacy of Violence
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
Rethinking American Studies in a Global Context
Cultural Diversity in the Material Culture of American Cemeteries: New Approaches/New Directions
Memory, Trauma, and Art
Academic Job Interviews in American Studies: A Demonstration Workshop

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2003

8:00 - 9:45 AM
Traumatic Teaching in James Baldwin, Tino Villanueva, and the Writing Classroom
Race and Independent Media Project
The Way We Come with Such Brute Force: Musical Violence and/as Community
Gender, Racial, and Sexual Transgressions
It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
Violence and Violations: Seizing the Law
Race, Gentrification and the Violence and Politics of Space
Constructing Local and Immigrant Identity in Hawai'i Through Responses to Violence
"I Belong Here": Programs Facilitating Poor and Working-Class Student Access and Achievement in Higher Education
Minority Scholars in the Twenty-First Century: Conditions of Existence, Conditions of Possibility
Roundtable on Interdisciplinarity
Writing the Indigenous
Panthers, Paranoias, Pathologies
Expanding the Field of Vision: Image and Text in Asian North America
After the PhD: Doing American Studies in the Academy and Beyond

10:00 - 11:45 AM
Overlooking Violence: American Visuality at the Century's Edges
Dislocations
Soul, Smart, Shul: Keywords in the New Jewish Studies
Subversive Laughter
Left of the Color: Race, Radicalism and Modern Literatures of the United States
September 11: Past and Present Voices, Present and Future Pathways
Exhibiting Music: Making Meaning of Popular Music in Museum Exhibitions
Women Who Fly: Black Women, Popular Music, and the Quest for Community
Disciplinary Critiques
Far and Away: Imperial Longing in the Formation of Early U.S. Cultures
Native American Studies and the ASA: Indigenous Presence in Comparison
Youth and Queer Violence in the Schools
* Documenting the Violence and Belonging of the City
Of Blood and Thunder: Violence and Belonging in American Superhero Comic Books
Road Trips

12:00 - 1:45 PM
* Reconstructing Native New England: A Roundtable Discussion with Native Scholars, Educators, Museum Directors and Community Leaders
Film and Revolution
"And What Next?": Charting Your Career After Your First Book/Tenure
Innocence
The Popular Avant-Garde: The Violence of Belonging
American Jews, Israel, and the Palestinian Question
Latino Performances
Translating Race and Ethnicity in the Global Mediascape
(Police) State Violence and Captive Radicalisms: Theorizing Praxis in the Face of Racist Terror
"This Ball is a Drag!" Dance, Queer Belonging, and Black Cultural Politics, 1940-1989
Going Public: American Studies Outside the Academy
Regionalism and American Studies in the Twenty-first Century
Race and Gender in Cultural Performance
Japanese American Internment
Gilded-Age American Literary Magazines and Their Readers

2:00 - 3:45 PM
Love and Money: Beyond the Recognition/Redistribution Divide
Navigating Biography and Theory
On Racial Profiles
Confronting and Refiguring the Past: Historical Memories of Violence in American Literary Culture
Contemporary Prison Writing: A Reading and Dialogue
Transatlantic Discourses: The United States and Europe After 9-11
Arab/Arab-American Feminists and America Studies Roundtable I: The Enemy Within: Nation, War, and Belonging
American Suburbs: Shapes and Social Life
Return of the Racialized: Violence, Legitimation, and the Limits of the Nation-State
Opportunities in Publishing: A Guide to the Publishing Process for Graduate Students
* Feeding Community, Teaching Ourselves: Placing Local Agriculture in Connecticut's Classrooms
Domestic Violence/Domestic Silence: The Activist Response to Shaming Rituals
"Enacting" Belonging(s): Indigenous Performance and Identity in the U.S. and Mexico
Professional Issues for Queer Faculty
* Hartford Documentary Film Project Screening
Violent Environments: Within Communities, Histories, Cultures

4:00 - 5:45 PM
Rethinking Thurgood Marshall
Religion: Beginnings and End Times
Black Masculinity, War and National Belonging
Violence, Politics, and Patriotism in Mid-Twentieth-Century Children's Literature
Writing Indians: Inscription and Literature Between Cultures
Arab/Arab-American Feminists and American Studies Roundtable II: Spaces of Empowerment, Communities of Resistance?
Dyke Subcultures across Time and Space
Activism in Times of Repression
New National Visions: Re-Thinking the FSA-OWI Photographs
Geneologies of Belonging: Mambo, Orientalism, and the American Revolution
Violence, Memory, and Imagination in Women's Poetry and Fiction: Transnational Perspectives
Violent Domesticities: Narratives of Fractured Families in Early America
*Schools and Hometowns Belonging to Each Other: Building and Sustaining the New England Community Heritage Project
*Hartford 1969/2003: A Documentary Film Project
Obscenity and Community in Nineteenth-Century America

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

 

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2003