The papers and commentaries presented during this meeting are intended solely
for the hearing of those present and should not be tape recorded, copied,
or otherwise reproduced without the consent of the authors. Recording, copying,
or reproducing a paper/presentation without the consent of the author(s) may
be a violation of common law copyright and may result in legal difficulties
for the person recording, copying, or reproducing.
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Renaissance
West A
Networking Breakfast for Program Directors
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Renaissance
West B
Program Directors Workshop: American Studies outside the Classroom
This
workshop, held in conjunction with the networking breakfast of the Standing
Committee on Local Programs, the sponsor of this workshop, will examine the ways
in which American Studies programs can be connected to the public sector
through curricula, faculty research, student projects, and service activities.
CHAIR:
Eric Sandeen, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming
PANELISTS:
Maria Balshaw,Creative Partnerships Birmingham, UK
Benjamin Filene, Minnesota History Center
Richard Horwitz, Coastal Institute, Rhode Island
Marguerite Shaffer, Department of History and American Studies, Miami University, Ohio
COMMENT:
Audience
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM MR-8
Business Meeting of the ASA National
Council
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Renaissance West B
Credentials Please! The Value (and Devaluation) of American Studies Degrees
Sponsored
by the Committee on American Studies, this panel assesses the value of American
Studies degrees in the contemporary job market. Remarks by chairs of doctoral
training programs, students, and public practitioners will address the role
American Studies plays during the evolution of the American intellectual
landscape.
CHAIR:
Michael Cowan,
Department of American Studies and Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
PANELISTS:
David Katzman, American Studies Program, University
of Kansas
Lauren Rabinovitz, American Studies Department, University of Iowa
James Deutsch, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian
Institution
Kim Simpson, American Studies Department, University of Texas, Austin
COMMENT:
Audience
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM MR-7
Business Meeting of the Committee on American Studies Programs
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Renaissance
West A
Luncheon of the International Initiative Partnerships
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Renaissance
West A
Talkshop I: Teaching the Cold War, coordinated by R. J.
Ellis, Nottingham Trent University, UK
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
MR-6
Business Meeting of the American Studies Editorial
Board
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM MR-18
Business Meeting of the Women's Committee
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM MR-19
Business Meeting of the Minority Scholars' Committee
2:00 - 3:45 PM MR-3
Gender and the State of
Exception: Japanese Internment and Occupation
CHAIR:
Shirley Suetling Tang, Department of American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
PAPERS:
Jane Dusselier, Department of American Studies, University
of Maryland, College Park Enacting Subjectivity and Re-Territorializing Place: The Life and Art of
Estelle Ishigo
Yuka Tsuchiya, Faculty of Law and Letters, Ehime University,
Japan Primer of Democracy (1949): How the U.S. Occupation Forces Educated Japanese
Women to Become Citizens of a "Free" Nation
Jeanne Sokolowski, English Department, Indiana University,
Bloomington Mine Okubo's Feminist Geography of the Camps
COMMENT:
Shirley Suetling Tang
2:00 - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom
North
Girls and Grrrls
CHAIR:
Julia
Mickenberg, Department of American
Studies, University of Texas, Austin
PAPERS:
Nazera Wright, Department of English, University of
Maryland, College Park Floyd's Flowers and the Social Construction of Black Girlhood
Gretchen Sinnett, History of Art Department, University
of Pennsylvania "In Full Possession of the Public Scene": John Sloan's Female Adolescents
Alison Piepmeier, Women's Studies Program, Vanderbilt
University "The World is Still Crazy and Terrifying and Filled with Hope": Grrrl Zines
as Spaces for Feminist Resistance to Cynicism
COMMENT:
Julia Mickenberg
2:00 - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom
Central
Technologies of
Mobility: Railway, Subway, Highway
CHAIR:
Chris
Rasmussen, School of Political Science
and History, Fairleigh Dickinson University
PAPERS:
Jennifer Beckham, Program in American Culture, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor Mobility, Public Space, and the Traveling Woman in Nella Larsen's
Quicksand and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
Sunny Stalter, Department of Literatures in English,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick On the Subway with Elmer Rice
Cotton Seiler, Department of American Studies, Dickinson
College "How Can the Driver Be Remodeled?": Highway Engineering and Liberal Citizenship
COMMENT:
Chris Rasmussun
2:00 - 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom
South
Silent Films and the
Authentic Body
CHAIR:
Elizabeth Abele, English Department, Nassau Community College
PAPERS:
Alison Landsberg, Department of History and Art History,
George Mason University Squaw men and Indian Wives: Mapping Gender, Race, and National Belonging
in the Silent Western
Jefferson Slagle, Department of English, Ohio State
University The Body Authentic: William S. Hart and Western Stardom
Taylor S. Lake, Department of Communication, Indiana
University Northwest "The Real Fullness of Her Nature": Mary Pickford and the Utopian Space of
the Acting Body
COMMENT:
Stanley Corkin, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati
2:00 - 3:45 PM Renaissance
East
Exile, Assimilation,
Performance
CHAIR:
Michael
Aaron Rockland, Department of American
Studies, Rutgers University
PAPERS:
Wendy H. Bergoffen, Department of English, University
of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Myths of Jewish Cowboys: The Limits of Assimilation in Argentina
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, English Department & American
Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Cambodian American Places and Spaces: Refugee Subjectivities, Memorialization,
and Citizenship in Chanrithy Him's When Broken Glass Floats
Derek Goldman, Theater and Performance Studies Program,
Georgetown University Hymn to Elsewhere: A Performance about Home, Exile, Migration and Belonging
COMMENT:
Michael Aaron Rockland
2:00 - 3:45 PM Reniassance
West B
Religion and Culture in the
Postwar Era
CHAIR:
Judith
Weisenfeld, Department of Religion,
Vassar College
PAPERS:
Thomas Ferraro, Department of English, Duke University Sacraments of Genre Post-Vatican II
Susie Woo, American Studies Program, Yale University Healing Korea: American Missionaries, Transnational Adoptees, and New Visions
of Family
Wendy Wall, History Department, Colgate University Symbol of Unity, Symbol of Pluralism: The "Interfaith Idea" in Cold War
America
COMMENT:
Judith Weisenfeld
2:00 - 3:45 PM Auditorium
Revolutionary Struggles in
Las Americas
CHAIR:
Rachel
Adams, Departments of English and
American Studies, Columbia University
PAPERS:
Esther Lezra, Department of Literature, University
of California, San Diego Transatlantic Nations: Las Americas, Spain and the Relational Formations
of the "Nation"
Ivonne Garcia, Department of English, Ohio State University Contested Spaces in Colonial Places: "Out-law" Form in Tomás Vargas
Morales' Novelized Testimony, Se–al de Primavera (Sign of Spring)
Mark Sanders, English Department, Emory University The Autobiography of Ricardo Batrell Oviedo and the Afro-Cuban Struggle
for Racial Democracy
Devra Weber, History Department, University of California,
Riverside Re-imagining Mexican Migration and Social Movements: Fernando Palomarez,
Partido Liberal, and the Industrial Workers of the World
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM MR-17
Indigenous
Space and Place
CHAIR:
Andrew
Fisher,
Department of History, College of William and Mary
PAPERS:
Colleen Boyd, Anthropology Department, Ball State
University "Stop Grieving and Start Graving": Negotiating Cross-Cultural Differences
in Time and Place
C. Jill Grady, Independent Scholar Authenticating Place and Space in Two Northwest Cultures
Mary C. Wright, American Indian Studies Department,
University of Washington Transforming the Home to a Site of Sovereignty
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM MR-16
The Geographies of Autobiography
CHAIR:
Joanne
Jacobson, Department of English,
Yeshiva University
PAPERS:
Augusta Rohrbach, English Department, Brown University
The Diary May Be From Dixie: Mapping Southern Literary History
Matthew Sutton, American Studies Program, College
of William and Mary
Lines and Spaces: Re-Mapping the South in Musicians' Autobiographies
Candace Barlow, Department of English, University
of Washington, Seattle Joan Didion's Where I Was From and theProblem of Space
in Postmodern American Autobiography
COMMENT:
Joanne Jacobson
2:00 - 3:45 PM MR-15
Class and the Creation of
Place
CHAIR:
Janice
Simon, Department of Art History,
University of Georgia, Athens
PAPERS:
John Hensley, American Studies Department, Saint Louis
University Composing Place with Class: "The Arkansas Traveler" and Ozarks Stereotypes
Scott Suter, Department of English, Bridgewater College Creating a "Modern Garden of Eden": Marketing, Class and Material Culture
in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
Jennifer Worley, American Culture Studies Department,
Bowling Green State University "Fighting for Our Share of the American Pie": Class, Culture, and Place
in the 1985 Steel Strike
COMMENT:
The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM MR-14
Sex
Trade Workers: Public and Private Lives
CHAIR:
Ronald Weitzer, Sociology Department, George Washington
University
PAPERS:
Leslie Fishbein, American Studies and Jewish Studies
Department, Rutgers University Sexual Scripts: Negotiating Gender and Sexual Norms in the Life Narratives
of Prostitutes and Madams
Penelope Saunders, Different Avenues, Inc. Name of the Game: Work, Identity and Sexual Exchange in Washington, DC
COMMENT:
Sea-Ling Cheng, Women's Studies Department, Wellesley College
2:00 - 3:45 PM MR-13
Departing from the Camps: Refiguring Japanese American Return,
Reconciliation, and Rituals ofRemembering
CHAIR:
Kavita
Daiya,
English Department, George Washington University
PAPERS:
Christine So, English Department, Georgetown University Materializing Difference: Reconciliation and Compensation in the Civil Liberties
Act of 1988
Floyd Cheung, English and American Studies Departments,
Smith College Away from and Back to Internment Camp: Narratives of Resettlement and Pilgrimage
Patricia Chu, English Department, George Washington
University Nisei Representations of World War Two Japan: Mary Tomita's Dear
Miye and Lydia Minatoya's The Strangeness of Beauty
COMMENT:
Kavita Daiya
2:00 - 3:45 PM MR-12
New Directions in
Environmental/Cultural History
CHAIR:
TBA
PAPERS:
Caroline Lee, Sociology Department, University of
California, San Diego "Creeping Horror": Landscape Aesthetics and the Transformation of Regional
Identities in Atlantic Coast Wetlands
Alex Checkovich, Department of Science, Technology
& Society, University of Virginia "Facelifting Uncle Sam's Countenance": Geographical Management in the New
Deal
Finis Dunaway, Department of History, Trent University,
Canada Gas Masks, Pogo, and the Ecological Indian: Earth Day and the Visual Politics
of American Environmentalism
John Wennerstein, Department of , University TBA
COMMENT:
Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM MR-11
Towards a Transatlantic
Exchange about Chicana/o Identity: Fiction, Film, Performance, and Life-writing
CHAIR:
Tanya Gonzalez, English Department, Kansas State University
PAPERS:
Ana Anton Pacheco, English Department, Universidad
Complutense, Madrid Transatlantic Mappings of the Western Canon: Cherr’e Moraga's
The Hungry Woman
Isabel Duran, English Department, Universidad Complutense,
Madrid Metaphors of a Frontier Identity in Chicano/a Life-Writing
Tiffany Lopez, English Department, University of California,
Riverside Barcelona Pocha: Teaching Chicano/a Studies in Spain
COMMENT:
Tanya Gonzalez
2:00 - 3:45 PM MR-10
From
the Home to the Archive: Preservation, Representation, and Circulation in Late
Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Scrapbooks
CHAIR:
Jean
Pfaelzer,
Department of English, University of Delaware
PAPERS:
Ellen Gruber Garvey, Department of English, New Jersey
City University Scrapbooks: Public History in Private Spaces
Kelly Williams, Department of English Language and
Literature, University of Michigan "Our Africa Story": Representing American Domesticity in Late Nineteenth-Century
Liberia
Sarah Robbins, Department of English, Kennesaw State
University Circuits of Circulation: Recovering the Passages of a Missionary's Scrapbook
Narrative
COMMENT:
Nan Enstad, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2:00 - 3:45 PM MR-9
Sites of Death:
Killing Grounds, Burial Grounds
CHAIR:
Ann
Fabian, American Studies Department,
Rutgers University
PAPERS:
Jacqueline Fear-Segal, School of American Studies,
University of East Anglia, United Kingdom The Spatial Politics of Death: Race, Removal and Reclamation at the Carlisle
Indian School
Amy Pence-Brown, Art History Department, University
of St Thomas, St Paul The Architecture of the American Funeral Home: The Albin Chapels of Minneapolis
Øyvind Vågnes, Department of English,
University of Bergen, Norway "Loss and Renewal": The Assassination Theme Park
COMMENT:
Ann Fabian
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM MR-5
Business Meeting of the Regional
Chapters Committee
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM MR-7
Business
Meeting of the American
Quarterly Advisory
Editorial Board
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-3
Going Public: American Studies Outside the Academy
Sponsored
by the Students' Committee, this roundtable is designed to explore the roles of
American Studies-trained professionals working in the public sphere.
CHAIR:
Elizabeth
Wiley,
American Studies Department George Washington University
PANELISTS:
Tehani
Collazo,
Educational Foundations and Policy, University of Michigan
Lisa Davidson, National Park Service
Franklin Odo, National Museum of
American History, Smithsonian Institution
Nancy O'Neill, Association of American
Colleges and Universities
COMMENT:
Audience
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Grand
Ballroom North
Film Screening: Bob Dylan's Masked and Anonymous
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Grand
Ballroom Central
Asian
Homelands in Diasporic Narratives: On the Transnational Construction of
Homeland Spaces
CHAIR:
Khyati
Y. Joshi,
School of Education, Fairleigh Dickinson University
PAPERS:
L. Joyce Mariano, American Studies Department, University
of Minnesota A Home in Need: The Cultural Politics of Philanthropy and the Construction
of Philippine Homelands
Sara K. Dorow, Sociology Department, University of
Alberta Faces of Home in Chinese Adoptee Stories
Jigna Desai, Department of Women's Studies, University
of Minnesota Watching "Home" Movies: Bollywood and Nostalgia in South Asian America
COMMENT:
Khyati Y. Joshi
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Grand
Ballroom South
Representations and
Practices of Black Citizenship
CHAIR:
Robert
Cottrol, Law School, George Washington
University
PAPERS:
Erica Ball, Department of History, Union College Citizens Without a State: Practicing Citizenship in the Black Convention
Movement (1840-1855)
Daylanne English, Department of English, Macalester
College Contending Forces: The Space of Fiction and the Construction of Citizenship
in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins
Melissa Leavitt, English Department, Stanford University Forty Acres, a Mule, and a New Master: Rural Space and the Legacy of Slave
Labor in the Fiction of Charles Chesnutt
COMMENT:
Robert Fanuzzi, Department of English, St. Johns University
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Renaissance
West A
A
Roundtable in Honor of the Work of Hortense Spillers
This
"talk" format roundtable honors the intellectual work of Hortense Spillers.
Panelists will consider an individual essay and explore its literary,
theoretical and academic significance. This talk format will enable and
encourage significant audience participation.
CHAIR:
TBA
PANELISTS:
Farah
J. Griffin,
Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University
Lindon Barrett, Department of English,
Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Nahum Chandler, The Humanities Center,
Johns Hopkins University
Fred Moten, Department of English and Department of
American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California
COMMENT:
Audience
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Renaissance West B
Perceiving
Citizenship through Racial, Religious, and Sexual Identities
CHAIR:
Annette
Kolodny,
College of Humanities Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Arizona
PAPERS:
Fay A. Yarbrough, Department of History, University
of Kentucky Nineteenth-Century Cherokee Marriage Laws: Regulating Race and Sex in the
Cherokee Nation
Simon P. Newman, Department of History and Andrew
Hook Centre for American Studies, University of Glasgow The Protestant Republic: Evangelicalism and American Political Life
Michael Ditmore, Department of English, Pepperdine
University Bone of My Bone, Flesh of My Flesh: John Winthrop's Bridal Citizenship
in the Twenty-First Century
COMMENT:
Audience
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Auditorium
Critical
Human Geography and American Studies: Recovering Theoretical Terrain
CHAIR:
Matthew Farish, Department of Geography, St. John's
University, Canada
PAPERS:
Cindi Katz, Environmental Psychology Program, Graduate
Center, City University of New York Lost and Found: Imagined Geographies of American Studies
Danny Mayer, Department of English, University of
Kentucky Material and Metaphoric Space: Geography, American Studies and Vietnam
Sallie Marston, Department of Geography and Regional
Development, University of Arizona & Keith Woodward, Department of Geography and Regional Development, University
of Arizona & John Paul Jones III, Department of Geography and Regional Development,
University of Arizona Human Geography without Scale
Mona Domosh, Department of Geography, Dartmouth College Geography Lessons: Place, Race, and Geographical Knowledge in America's
Turn-of-the-Century Commercial Expansion
Karen M. Morin, Department of Geography, Bucknell
University Women, Religion, and Space: Making the Connections
COMMENT:
Jamie Winders, Department of Geography, Syracuse University
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-17
American
Studies and the Middle East
CHAIR:
Alex
Lubin,
American Studies Department, University of New Mexico
PAPERS:
Milette Shamir, English Department, Tel Aviv University "Time-Keepers of Progress": The Jerusalem Exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis
World's Fair
Ammiel Alcalay, Classics and Middle East Studies Department,
City University of New York Whose Knowledge? Poetry as History and Political Practice
Hilton Obenzinger, Honors Writing Program, Stanford
University Melting Pots and Promised Lands: Israel Zangwill, American Assimilation
and Zionism
COMMENT:
Audience
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-16
The Time and Space of
Afro-Diasporas
CHAIR:
Aldon
Nielson, Department of English,
Pennsylvania State University
PAPERS:
Monique Allewaert, Department of English, Duke University Black Orientalism
Oz Frankel, Committee on Historical Studies, New School
University Importing American Radicalism: The Black Panthers Movement in 1970s Israel
Wendy Walters, Writing, Literature, and Publishing
Department, Emerson College Groundwork or Home Soil? Writing Diaspora Space in Afro-Vampire Texts
COMMENT:
Aldon Nielson
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-15
Antebellum Worlds of Reading
CHAIR:
Brett Mizelle, California State University, Long Beach
PAPERS:
Michael Millner, Department of English, University
of Massachusetts, Lowell The Space of the Public-Sphere: The Example of the Antebellum Sporting Press
Karah Rempe, Department of English, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill Fanny Fern's Intimate Readers
COMMENT:
Meredith McGill, English Department, Rutgers Univesity
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-14
Revising Trauma, Revising
Race
CHAIR:
Arlene Keizer, Department of English and American
Civilization, Brown University
PAPERS:
Bryann Conn, Department of English, Johns Hopkins
University Phillis Wheatley's Poetry and the Traumatic Space of the Atlantic Slave
Trade
Joshua Miller, English Language and Literature Department,
University of Michigan "I am not born yet..."
Maria Karafilis, English Department, California State
University, Los Angeles The Traumatic Sublime and American Democracy
COMMENT:
Arlene Keizer
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-13
Space and (Dis) Placement in American Cultures: Alternative
Reservation, Media and Religion? Native American, African-American and Chicano/a
Negotiations of (Dis) Placement
CHAIR:
Kimberly
Blaeser,
Professor, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
PAPERS:
Laura Furlan Szanto, Department of English, University
of California, Santa Barbara Stories of Dislocation: Reconstructing Indian Space in Greg Sarris's Grand
Avenue and Watermelon Nights
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, Department of Media Arts,
University of Arizona Just to Get by: 25 Years of Black Entertainment Television
Theresa Delgadillo, Department of English, University
of Notre Dame Negotiating (Dis)Placement: Creating Cross-Border Spiritual Community in
Canicula and Flowers for Guadalupe
COMMENT:
Kimberly Blaeser
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-12
What's s/he doing in
there?: Bedrooms, Bachelor Pads, and Ballparks
CHAIR:
Sharon
O'Brien, Department of English,
Dickinson College
PAPERS:
Mary Kearney, Department of Radio-Television-Film,
University of Texas, Austin "What's She Doing in There?": Rethinking Girls' "Bedroom Culture" and Uses
of Domestic Space
Sally Robinson, Department of English, Texas A&M
University Postmodern Bachelor Pads: Gender, Consumer Culture, and Space in Recent
Films
Benjamin Lisle, American Studies Department, University
of Texas, Austin "A Giant Living Room": The Houston Astrodome and the Domestication of the
Stadium
COMMENT:
Sharon O'Brien
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-11
Caribbean
Space and the Performance of Empire in Early America
CHAIR:
Michael
Drexler,
Department of English, Bucknell University
PAPERS:
Elizabeth Maddock Dillion, English and American Studies
Departments, Yale University Culture, Commerce, and the Caribbean Stage
Kathleen Wilson, History Department, State University
of New York, Stony Brook Performances of Difference: Theatre and Counter-Theatre in Eighteenth-Century
Jamaica
Sean X. Goudie, English Department, Vanderbilt University Fortune-telling of God's Protecting Providence: Creole American Identities
in Crisis in Dickinson's Journal and Mather's Magnalia
COMMENT:
Michael Drexler
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-10
Re-Classifying
Class in the Sixties Counterculture
CHAIR:
Alice
Echols,
Department of English, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Michael J. Kramer, History Department, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Stuck Inside of Mobile: Class Interstices, Countercultural Subjectivities,
and the Global Electronic Civics of Sixties Rock and Soul Music
Mary Rizzo, Program in American Studies, University
of Minnesota Countercultural Wars: Cultural Capital and Class in Taos, New Mexico
R. B. M. Gallop, History Department, University of
Minnesota White Hippies, Red Flags: Class Masks of the Kaleidoscope Sixties
COMMENT:
Alice Echols
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM MR-9
Science and the Spaces of
Manifest Destiny
CHAIR:
Cynthia
Tolentino, Department of English,
University of Oregon
PAPERS:
Kenneth Haltman, Departments of History of Art and
of American Studies, Michigan State University Expeditionary Imagery and the Reinvention of Genre in the Early Republic
Jake Mattox, Department of Literature, University
of California, San Diego Providential Circulation: Antebellum Science, Manifest Destiny, and National
Space
Antonis Balasopoulos, Department of English Studies,
University of Cyprus Making Place for America: U.S. Science Fiction and Expansionist Geopolitics,
1889-1899
COMMENT:
Andrew Lewis, Department of History, American University
4:00 PM - 11:00 PM MR-18
Business
Meeting of the ASA Nominating Committee
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM MR-19
Business
Meeting of the Students' Committee
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
MR-6
Business
Meeting of the Material Culture Caucus
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM MR-6
Business
Meeting of the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Renaissance
East
Reception for ASA International Scholars and Visitors
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Renaissance
West A
Reception of the Minority Scholars' Committee, Women's Committee
& Queer Caucus
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Renaissance
West B
Reception of the Material Culture & Visual Culture/Art History
Caucuses(Sponsored by the Boston University's American and New
England Studies Program and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library)
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM MR-5
Business
Meeting of the Academic and Community Activism Caucus