Families and Others: The Strange and Intimate Ties of the Body Politic
Public Communication and Public Health: Infectious Disease as a Site for Cultural Narrative
Mediating the Crossroads: Representing Arab Women in American Culture
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood": Black Women, Performance, and Power
Authorizing Union in Early America
‡ Roundtable-Workshop: International and U.S. American Studies Program Directors
Who's Laughing Now?: Contemporary Ethnic & Racial Humor in Popular Culture
Blues at the Crossroads of Cultures
Adjudicating Racial Anomaly
Bodies at the Crossroads: The Corporeal Terrain of American Colonialism
Disciplines, Interdisciplines and the Job Market for American Studies Degrees
Feedback, Hybridity, Nationalism: Three Views
Extreme Exploration
Painting Politics, the Past and Perfection: Velarde, Demuth, Rivera and Henry
Crossroads in the Classroom: American Studies as Honors Curriculum
Cold War Politics and the Formation of Ethnic Identities
Urban Crossroads: The Scholar in the City
Indianness and the Everyday Workings of Racial Dominance
Writing Them In, Writing Them Out: Personal Mythologies and American Careers
"The Wings of Atlanta": Atlanta and the Black Public Sphere
Crossroads Blues: Race, Masculinity and Popular Culture in the 1970s
Regional Racial Formations: At the Crossroads of Race, Space, and Place
‡Beyond Interdisciplinarity: The New Goals of American Studies
Strange Affinities: Centering Gender and Sexuality in Comparative Race Analyses
Cultural Geography: Rethinking the Rivalry between Boston and New York
Crafting Ancestry: Race and the Politics of Family History
Wielding the Engraver's Knife: Popular Illustration as Ideological Tool in Civil War America
Locating History: Mexicana and Chicana Politics of Space
Bodies of Evidence
Space, Race, and Social Control: Ideal Communities and the Regulation of the Foreign
Constructing Urban Spaces: Conflict, Control, and Citizenship
The Figure of "the Indian" in the African American Imaginary
Seeing is Believing?: Visual Culture, Material Culture, and Selling Culture to Travelers
Female Cultural Production at the Crossroads: Ya Ya Sisters, Alicia Keys, and a Radical Feminist Rock Critic
Roundtable: Crossroads of Working-Class Studies
Copying the Right: Racial Appropriation, Parody, and Performance
Intimate Relations, Class Negotiations: Gratitude, Trust, and Suspicion in the Service Economy
Johnny Cash and Popular Culture
Racialized Economies / Economies of Race
Danger at the Crossroads? 9/11, American Studies and the Future of Area Studies
Far From the Fifties: The Post-War Era in Contemporary Culture
Cultural Paradigms of Third Wave Feminism
The Ethics of Advocacy in U.S. Culture
What the Rest Think When Not Contemplating the West: A New Anthropology of Art in Native American (And Other . . .) Contexts
The Unstable Eye: American Travel Writing and Cultural Presentation
Atlanta: Past, Present, Future
Scottsboro as Discourse: Race, Ethnicity, Sexuality, Nation
Making Music in America
Crossroads of Character
Cross Waters: The United States and the West Indies in the Nineteenth Century
The Worlding of Hip-Hop I
The Filipino Imaginary in the Wake of U.S. Imperialism
Beyond and Back: Locating Chicanas and Latinas within Transnational Feminist Theories
Is it Real Yet? Examining Virtual Community after Ten Years on the Web
Race, Media, and Brown v. Board of Education
Print Culture(s) and Social Reform
Dancing to the Music: Identity and Performance.
The U.S. and Cultural Policy in a Global Context
Interrogating Heterosexuality, Challenging Heteronormativity
Race, Gender, Sexuality: Environmental Justice Perspectives
Representin(g) the Black South
Mediated Border Crossings: Popular Culture of the 1960s in Comparative Perspective
Photographing Americans, American Photographers
The Confidence Men: Reexamining the Culture of Capitalism in the Age of Panics
Sites of Memory: Managing Mythmaking
Chicana/o Studies at San Quentin: The Challenges for American and Ethnic Studies Inside a State Prison
Fitness: The Body at the Crossroads of Science, Culture and Politics
The Worlding of Hip-Hop II: Hip-Hop Fashion, Masculine Anxiety and the Discourse of Americana
Baldwin's "The Evidence of Things Not Seen": A Twenty Year Retrospective
Mapping Men and Asian America
Digi-Cultural Crossroads
'Bringing Folks Together': Musical Intersections of Race and Class
Who's Keeping House?: Interpreting Servitude in Historic House Museums
The Curse of Caste; or, the Slave Bride: A Rediscovered 19th-Century Novel by Julia C. Collins, an African American Woman
Varieties of Religious Experience
Violence and Popular Memory
Space, Standing and Silence: Raising the Roofs and Speaking of Truths
Classical, Vernacular, High and Low Culture: Music, Dance, and Architecture in America
Mixed Messages, Dissonant Tones, Covert Agendas: Writing "Race" at the Turn into the Twentieth Century
Seeing Masculinity, Reading Maleness
The Victorian Body in the American Imagination
American Studies and Composition
Alternative Civic Spaces and Experiments with Public Culture in Los Angeles
The Americas as Crossroads from Prehistory to the Present: Cultural Collisions and National Delusions
Playing Race: Performing and Construing Racial Identity in the Works of William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. and Raúl R. Salinas
E/Race/ings: Gay Melancholia and Male (Homo)sexual Identities in Recent American Fiction
Audience Reception and the Politics of Recent Latino Cultural Production
American Artifice: Revisiting the Operational Aesthetic
Disciplines of All Nations?: Ethnographies of Religion and the Media
Domestic Internationalisms, Imperial Nationalisms
Shared Pleasures, Digitized: Creating CD-ROM & Web-Based Databases of Cultural History
Crossroads of Cultures: Asia and the United States
Educational Crossroads: Collaborations between Universities and Secondary Schools in an "Age of Accountability"
Musical Encounters, Cultural Crossings
At the Crossroads of Interdisciplinarity
Money Talks: The Politics of US Spanish Language & Bilingual Media
The Existential Moment
Cultural Landscapes of Resistance and Self-Definition for the Race in Urban America
Teaching, Thinking, Servicing In and Through the Neoliberal University
American Professors and Asian Students: The Classroom as a Crossroads of Cultures
Between Cultural Studies and American Studies
Food and Identity in Twentieth-Century Southern Culture
Historically Black and Tribal Colleges and Universities as Crossroads of Cultures
Crosscurrents of Desire: Accidents and Incidents in Queer Visual Culture
Reception Geographies, Methodological Crossroads: The Places of Audiences
Religion, Corn Bread and Coal Shutes: Black and White Women Travelers at the Crossroads of Middle-Class Identity
Rethinking Traditional American Values in a Global Context: Korean Experiences
Popular Cultures Across the Color Line: New Perspectives in Early American Music and Dance
American Copyright, American Critique: What Are We Missing?
Where Is Class at the Crossroads?
Crossroads to Immigration
Keeping HOPE Alive: The Scholarship Program at the Crossroads
Race, Religion, and Identity in African American Fiction
Ann Petry at the Crossroads of Black Radicalism
Transculturations: Crossroads of Cultures, (Inter-)Cultural Translation, and the Dialogics of American Studies in a Globalizing World
At the Crossroads of the Word and the Image: Latina American Performative Cultural Practices
A Sense of the South: Seeing, Hearing, and Feeling an American Region
Crossing Time, Constructing Memory: Revisiting the Japanese American Concentration Camp Experience
"Slavery in the Contemporary Literature Imagination: The Neoslave Narrative Genre
Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity
Migrating Subjectivities: Distanciated Relations in the Wake of the Global Economy
Scenes From a New Nation: Visual Culture in Early America
Research/Actions Action/Research: Strategies for Community/ University Collaboration in the Arts and Humanities
Geographies of American Studies
Between Iraq and a Hard Place: American Studies in the Middle East
Modeling Minorities: Countering Twentieth Century Racial Schooling
"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Roundtable Discussion with Beverly Daniel Tatum and Users of Her Text
Getting Published in American Studies/Performance Studies
"Na Raspu'te": At the Crossroads of Russian and US Literary Cultures
Hollywood por otros ojos: Film Spectatorship in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, Pre-Revolutionary Cuba and 1960s Peru
Race, the Body, and the Question of the Human
Culture, Activism, and Power: Social Reform and Strategies for Change
Competing Notions of Citizenship and Identity: Race, Gender, Erasure, and Chicano/a Historiography
Making Place in Atlanta
Women's Missionary Literature From the Crossroads of Culture
Afro-Asian Style in US Popular Culture
‡Workshop of International American Studies Journal Editors
Transracial/Transnational Adoptions in Literary and Cyber Space
Recovering the Nineteenth Century Borderlands
Making Gangsters: Image, Myth, and Symbol
There's No Place Like Home: Domesticity, Race, and Region in the Late Nineteenth-Century U.S.
Black, White, and the Visual Record: Intersections of Race and Photography, 1940-1975
Queer Arts/Queer Theory
Two Distant Cultures Intersecting: Turkish and American Perspectives Intertwined
The Americas and American Indian Connections: Cultures, Intersections and Coincidences
The Dialectic of Transnationality: Reconfiguring the Local and the Global in Asian American Studies
From CA and DC: (Central) American Studies from the District of Columbia and California
Academic Job Interviews in American Studies: A Demonstration Workshop
The Crossroads of American Studies and Diplomatic History: A Roundtable Discussion
Bodies at Play: An Exploration of Nature, Culture, and Leisure
‡Workshop of International American Studies Journal Editors (Roundtable)
Afro/Asian Crosscultural Encounters
"Lifting as We Climb": Mentors and Mentees
At the Crossroads of American Cultural Landscapes: Stories from the Keeping
and Creating American Communities Program
5:00 - 7:00 PM
The U.S.-Abu Ghraib Continuum: Torture, Prisons, Militarism, and the Racial
State
Killer Amusements: Scrutinizing the Military-Entertainment- Industrial Complex
"Stompin' at the Savoy"
Envisioning the Rational State: Modernity, Technology, and Visual Culture
Breakfast with Champions (Sponsored by ASA Women's Committee, Minority Scholars' Committee, the Students' Committee, and the Committee on Ethnic Studies)
At the Crossroads of Art and Identity: A Discussion on the Formation of American Visual and Performance Aesthetics From Modern to Contemporary
Blood and Anxiety: Miscegenation in America.
Private Enterprise/Public Sites: Speculation at the Crossroads of Interest
A Conversation on the Status of Ethnic Studies in the Academy
The Not So "Invisible Minority": Portuguese Americans and the American Scene
Unruly Subjects: Race, Gender, & Sexuality in Marginalized Communities
Contact Zones and End Zones: Sports Culture and the Cultural Pedagogy of "Indian" Mascots
Imagining Terror: Representing Violence, Race, and Reality
American Diasporas
"Not all Moonlight and Magnolias": Exhibiting the American South
Spectors of War: Black Internationalism/ Black Imperialism
"Blackness" at the Crossroads: Struggles over Televisual Representations in the Sixties
Modernizing Women: The Cultural Crossroads of Gender and Modern Art
Familial Crossroads: The Cultural Contradictions of Asian International Adoption
American Kitsch: Souvenir Kulture
Latino Workers in Atlanta and the South: Conflicts, Collaborations, and Communities
Cinema, Race, and Urban Space
Color-Lines and Borderlands in American Comparative Ethnic Studies Seminar
Reconstructing Resistance: Frances E.W. Harper and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Interdisciplinary Methodologies: A Roundtable
Bodies over the Edge: Reclaiming Dance Culture for American Studies
Queering the Man: Masculinity, Mathematics and Migration
Of Books, Short Stories, and Self-Marketing: Publishing in the 19th Century
Listening Critically to New Voices in Georgia's Literature
Queer Ciudad: Urban Latino/Latina Cultures
Engendering Health: Nursing, Medicine, and Reforming Women
Radical Fairies, Superstars, and Scandal's Refusal: Citing Sixties Sex
Close Encounters of a Different Kind: The Racial (Mis)Understandings of Cultural Contact
Graphic Memory
Imagining Terrorism: The War on Terrorism in Popular Culture
Performing at the Crossroads: Latina/o Performance and Popular Imaginaries
A Thin Line: Race, Lynching, and the Death Penalty—From an ASA Program Committee Member
Labor and Technology: Changes at Work
Hybridity, Mestizaje and Racial Degeneration: A Comparative Approach to Narratives of Resistance in the Américas: 1854-1930
Ethnic Communities in the Public Eye: The Implications of Visual Knowledge
Contact Zones: Making Identity and Place Through Image and Text
Of Recipes, Restaurants, and Revolutions: Food and Eating from the Early Republic to the Atkins Years
Racialized Geographies: Remapping Southern Contact Zones
Enforcing Sexuality: Documenting Hate Crime in the West
Musical Urbanism: Race and Rhythm in the American City
Music, Pictures, Text: Crossing Generic Boundaries from the 1850s to the Present
Same-Sex Unions and Construction of Marriage
Comparative Mestizajes and Hybridities: A Workshop in the Discourse and Politics of Race and Place
Cultures Cross the Road: Southern White Student Activists Respond to the Black Liberation Struggle: From Freedom High to Black Power, the Southern Student Organizing Committee
Cold War Cultural Trajectories in the Americas
The Unregenerate: Investigating the Anti-Reformist Imagination
Crossroads City: The Expressive Culture, History, and Historiography of 1940s Los Angeles
Feminist Pedagogies in Action: Women's Studies Meets American Studies
Both Here and There: (In)fusing Southeast Asia/America through Contemporary Community Formations
Hawai'i: Cultures in Contact, Cultures in Revival
Pedagogy in the Here and Now
Public Feelings
Performing Activism: Institutionalized Power and the Discourses of Change
Tales of Mayan Technologies: A Performance
At the Crossroads of Community and Identity: Artists, Installations, Institutions
Authentic Eating: In Search of "The Real Thing"
Performance/Spaces
Publishing in the 20th Century: Of Superheroes, Humor, and Bilingual Markets
On Common Ground?: State-Funded Communities at a Crossroads
Gone with the Wind as Cross and Crossroads
Ingest Chemicals, Alter Your Genes, Purchase Our Product, and Become the American Dream: Merchandising Technological Consumerism
The Ideology of Architecture: Identity, Race and Nation
Branding the Globe: Clothing, Cosmetics, and Capitol Records
Asian-Black: Representing the Other
Triangulations of Asian America
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Expulsions: The Trail of Tears and Beyond
8:30 - 10:00 PM
Imagining America: Film Premiere
The Trans-Atlantic Literary Imagination: Fantasies of Mixed Races and Nations
American Jews as Crossroads Figures: Talk
Rethinking the Political Rationalities of Community, 1965-1975
Cultures of Censorship
Exemplar, Example, Exception: Rhetorical Crossroads and American Democracy
Revolutionary Daughters, Diasporic Daughters: Défilée's Legacy in Literary Texts by Haitian Diasporic Women Writers
Narrating Hybridity
Internationalism, Racialism, and Diplomacy
New Perspectives in Postcoloniality
Science and Race in 19th-Century America: New Histories and Interpretations
Caribbean Encounters at the Cultural Crossroads: Diaspora, Subjectivity, Cultural Geographies, and Temporality in American Studies
Anti-American Discourse as Terror, Politics, and Commodity
Housing Labor: Camps, Villages, and Emporia in Twentieth-Century North America
Varieties of American Conservation
Immigration and Identity: Community, Conflict and Correspondence
Creating Children's Commercial Culture
Citizenship Crosscurrents in Nineteenth-Century Children's Periodicals
Finance and Cultural Criticism
Rethinking American Feminism in the Post-War Years
Legal Crossroads: Brown v. Board of Education to Nguyen v. the Immigration and Naturalization Service
Public Practice and the Academy in American Studies: A Roundtable on Scholarship, Methods and Careers
Youth at the Crossroads: Assembling Politicized Cultures from the Margins
Women in Print: Stories of Feminist Bookstores and Publishing, Past, Present, and Future
Making a Learning Community: Ethics as Crossroads in the American Studies Classroom
Performing and Re-forming Gender: Tomboys, Cross-dressing, and Medical 'Wisdom'
U.S. Poets in the International Context
Films, Movie, Cinema
Transcendentalism and Translation
Telling Narrative Identities: Travel, Translation, and Trauma
Queering the Gaze: Spectacle, Respectability, and Redemption
20th-Century Gender
Seeing the Dead
Body Politics: Health, Activism and the Nation
Crossroads of Colonialism and Empire: The Emergence of the United States as an Imperial Power Seen from Cuba and Italy in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries
Crossing Racial Borders Via Literary Texts: Construction of (Racial and/or Gendered) Passing in Velina Hau Houston's Waiting for Tadashi, Writer Robert Morales and Artist Kyle Baker's Comic Book Series Truth: Red White and Black and Patricia Powell
Editing Women's Papers: The Activism of Florence Kelley, Harriet Jacobs and Abby Kelley Foster
Asian and African Americans at the Crossroads of Class
Reading Class in 19th-Century African American Literature
Toni Cade Bambara's Cross Cultural Work in Atlanta
Queer Southerners and Queer Souths: Culture, Community, and Region
Seeing Jews: Jewish Bodies at a Theatrical Crossroads
The Black Bourgeoisie at the Turn-of-the-Century: Cotton, Consumption and Cosmetics
Antebellum Public Discourse: Readers, Speakers, Boarders
Reading Revolutions
After the Revolution
From Critique to Vision: The Unfinished Work of American Studies
The Disabled Body: Memoir, Movement and Masculinity
Crossing Paths in the Eighteenth Century: Religion, the Frontier, and North America
Cuba and Haiti Nationalism, Ethnography, and a Child's-Eye View
What American Studies Can Teach Libraries and Vice Versa
"I am a Man of My Times, But the Times Don't Know It Yet": New Black Masculinity
in the Academy