All persons attending the convention must register. To be eligible for the pre-registration fee reduction, your registration form must arrive by mail BEFORE September 29, 2006 (this does not include forms postmarked on this date). ASA members, program participants, and others who pre-register will receive a complete program book and supplement with their badges and tickets at the convention registration desk. Additional copies of the book may be purchased at the registration desk for $5.00.
Please note: membership and registration fees are neither refundable nor
transferable.
Forfeited registration fees will automatically transfer to the Baxter Travel
Grant Fund. The Baxter Grants provide partial travel reimbursement to advanced
graduate students who are members of the ASA and will travel to the convention
in order to appear on the Annual Meeting program.
Purchase conference registration, tour, and special events tickets at the ASA Storefront www17.serrahost.com/servlet/theasanet/StoreFront or by mailing the printable form (downloadable at the Storefront) with a check or money order payment. Mail your registration form, with your check or money order, payable to the American Studies Association:
Please note that this is not a correspondence address. Use it only to remit payments. Please do not send hotel registration forms or room payments to this post office box.
The pre-registration form must be received by September 29, 2006 if arriving by mail. Forms arriving late risk remaining unprocessed, and you will be required to pay again on-site at the convention. If there is a duplicate payment, the larger amount will be refunded after the convention. If you are unable to mail your form by September 29, 2006, bring it with you to the convention, where you may register at the on-site rate.
The registration desk will be in the Jewett Atrium of the Oakland Marriott and Convention Center. The desk will be open the following hours:
| Wednesday, October 11 | 1:00 pm-5:00 pm |
| Thursday, October 12 | 7:00 am-5:00 pm |
| Friday, October 13 | 7:00 am-5:00 pm |
| Saturday, October 14 | 7:00 am-5:00 pm |
| Sunday, October 15 | 7:00 am-11:00 am |
Session chairs and participants arriving on the day of their scheduled session must check in at the registration desk thirty (30) minutes prior to the session in order to receive registration materials.
Badges must be presented for admission to all sessions, receptions, and the book exhibit. Badges are obtained through the payment of registration fees and should be picked up on site at the conference registration desk.
The Program Committee has organized several special sessions on issues and themes that will be of interest to large numbers of ASA members. The Program Committee's hope is that these sessions will generate extensive conversation among meeting participants about common interests and concerns. Some are also meant to forge a common ground between the ASA and the larger Oakland public. Most have been scheduled in the late afternoon and evening on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, where they will not compete with regular sessions.
These sessions are intended primarily for an audience that has read the papers
in advance and followed whatever on-line discussion they may have generated.
The session will be devoted to formal commentary and group discussion.
Do You Know What It Means?: Post-Katrina New Orleans
http://lumen.georgetown.edu/projects/postertool/index.cfm?fuseaction=poster.display&posterID=3278
The "Black Atlantic" Inside Antebellum America
http://lumen.georgetown.edu/projects/postertool/index.cfm?fuseaction=poster.display&posterID=3279
Keywords of Transnational (American Cultural) Studies
http://lumen.georgetown.edu/projects/postertool/index.cfm?fuseaction=poster.display&posterID=3280
The Long Shadow of Scopes: The Visual, Educational, and Institutional Legacies
of the 1920s Evolution Debates
http://lumen.georgetown.edu/projects/postertool/index.cfm?fuseaction=poster.display&posterID=3271
Visualizing Oakland and Bay Area Communities
http://lumen.georgetown.edu/projects/postertool/index.cfm?fuseaction=poster.display&posterID=3277
This year's annual meeting will explore the creative opportunities of K16 collaboration—the partnership of K12 teachers with college and university teacher-scholars—that are offered within the ever-renewing field of American Studies. K16 collaboration is an educational initiative that has been growing dramatically over the past ten years, and expanding into broadening areas of public humanistic practice in museums, libraries, theaters, and other community centers. Both K12 and college/university teachers are invited to participate in these sessions.
This roundtable will bring together interdisciplinary educators from secondary schools and colleges. Participants will engage the following questions:
This session is a K16 collaborative curricular workshop involving one professional historian and two high school teachers, who will discuss approaches to teaching the antebellum South and the problem of slavery (with particular attention to California State History Standards 8.7 and 8.9). It will consist of the following: a 15-minute warm-up lesson on "The Expansion of Slavery" using maps and graphs; a scholarly presentation on the historiography of slavery; and a classroom-ready lesson using Nat Turner's Rebellion as a case-study in the power of literacy for slaves.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will speak on "When Is It Time for Multicultural Learning?: U.S. Peace and Perils." Please note that the K-16 Collaboration Luncheon, 12:00-1:45 pm, October 14, 2006, requires a ticket. Early reservations are advised because tickets are available in limited quantities. NO tickets will be sold after 5:00 pm October 13, 2006. Cost of tickets is $15 for regular members, $8 for students, $5 for international scholars.
This session is a K16 collaborative curricular workshop involving one professional historian and two high school teachers, who will discuss approaches to teaching the history of the Civil Rights Movement (with particular attention to California State History Standard 11.10). It will consist of the following: a 15-minute warm-up lesson on the time-line of the Civil Rights Movement; a scholarly presentation on the historiography of Civil Rights; and a classroom-ready lesson on the Students' Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the role of grass-roots activism in the movement.
The Program Directors' Breakfast is a three-part meeting: it begins with breakfast and an informal discussion among attendees. Presenters then offer remarks about models of Ethnic Studies and issues and challenges for their programs in adapting, reshaping and configuring Ethnic Studies. Finally, attendees break-out in groups for discussing and brainstorming the ideas introduced by the speakers and possibilities for different types of programs, with groups reporting their summaries to the whole assembly. Please note that the Networking Breakfast for American Studies/Ethnic Studies Program Directors, 7:30-10:00 am, October 12, 2006, requires a ticket. Early reservations are advised because tickets are available in limited quantities. NO tickets will be sold after 5:00 pm, October 11, 2006. Cost of tickets is $15 for regular members and $5 for international members.
We welcome all representatives of U.S. and non-U.S. American Studies programs interested in exploring possible international partnerships as well as existing partnerships. Please note that the International Partnership Luncheon, 12:00-2:30 pm, October 12, 2006, requires a ticket. Early reservations are advised because tickets are available in limited quantities. NO tickets will be sold after 5:00 pm, October 11, 2006. Cost of tickets is $5.
The 2006 ASA Program Committee and the ASA International Committee are co-hosting the annual reception for international scholars and visitors from 7:00-8:00 pm, Thursday, October 12, 2006. Although there is no charge for this year's reception, registration for the event is required for admission.
The speaker for the Breakfast for Women in American Studies will be Alicia Arrizon, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Riverside, "Revelations of the Mestizo Body: Pinay-Chicana Connections."
Please note that the Breakfast for Women in American Studies, 8:00-10:00, October 14, 2006, requires a ticket. Early reservations are advised because tickets are available in limited quantities. NO tickets will be sold after 5:00 pm, October 13, 2006. Cost of tickets is $15 for regular members, $8 for students, and $5 for international scholars. You may register online at the ASA Storefront for this event.
The Site Resource Committee has worked hard to make connections between local and transnational American Studies, with an emphasis on community-based projects. We have brought grassroots scholarship into the conference and we invite ASA members and Oaklanders to take part in special off-site sessions that we have organized in the community.
Thirty years after the end of the Vietnamese-American War, the United States is home to more than a million people of Vietnamese descent. This panel introduces local Vietnamese American writers, still marginalized in society. The aim is to insist on the existence and validity of these voices and create new public images outside of war. These artists highlight new voices from the Vietnamese American community, showing what it means to be a minority in the United States. They bring forward an alternative writing of the Vietnam War and its aftermath.
This session presents organizations that build community leadership for social justice and social change. Their respective and overlapping concerns include labor rights; gender discrimination on institutional and cultural levels; education and training as a right and a way toward sustainable lives for individuals, families, and community; immigrant rights and experience; health and human services policies and politics; discrimination and stigma; social-economic class as a significant cultural element of U.S. society; physical, emotional, political, community health; and leadership development among historically marginalized groups. All of these organizations serve constituencies that are made up largely or entirely of women of color. The panelists will describe their theories, strategies, and practice for developing leadership. We expect and will encourage audience participation, eliciting the experience and wisdom of ASA members.
The current demographics of the city of Oakland illuminate the wide range and complex racial and ethnic diversity of the United States in the new millennium. According to the U.S. Census 2000, whites comprise approximately 31% of Oakland's population, African Americans 35%, Asians 15%, Latinos 21%, and Pacific Islanders 0.5%. This panel will provide an important visual corrective to the traditionally binary black and white ways race has been imagined in Oakland through an exhibit-format panel that brings together visual work on Chinese, Iranian, Latino, African, and Tongan American communities that have not shared a common space. In contrast to the traditional one-at-a-time group-by-group exhibit approach, this panel will provide a space for exploring the relation of these communities to one another.
Like the United States, Native America itself is transnational, composed of many "nations." As a consequence of the Eisenhower Administration's "termination" policies that ejected/seduced Native Americans from their reservations with promises of housing, jobs, and services in cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area, many Native people now reside in "pan-Indian" urban communities. This panel explores the flow of cultural practices and political policies between urban and reservation Native Americans, between the U.S. and Japan, and throughout the world.
Thursday, October 12, 3:15-5:45 pm. 523 International Blvd (1.6 miles from the Oakland Convention Center). The ASA annual meeting begins on October 12, Indigenous People's Day. In keeping with indigenous tradition, we begin the conference with an acknowledgement of the people and land we are visiting. This off-site session will begin with an introduction and tour of the InterTribal Friendship House, followed by the panel focusing on the importance of oral storytelling for the survival of local and transnational indigenous communities. The InterTribal Friendship House has served as a community center for the pan-Indian community that has settled in Oakland over the past four decades. Panelists include InterTribal Friendship House staff person Stephanie Lindsay, Allene "Chockie" Cottier, Lakota Harden, and other elders of the community. Moderated by Elizabeth Castle, oral historian and scholar of Native American activism. This session will be open to the local Native American community and to the public.
Transportation from the Convention Center will be provided. Meet in Convention Center lobby at 3:00 PM or at 3:45 PM. Bus will return to the Convention Center after 5:45 PM and will then proceed to the Oakland Museum of California (see below). Please pre-register for transportation.
Thursday, October 12, 5:00-7:00 pm. 1000 Oak Street (.77 mile from the Convention
Center- 9 blocks). CASA and several American Studies programs from around California
welcome ASA members to the Golden State. Light refreshments will be served.
The California History Gallery of the Oakland Museum of California will be
open for a visit.
Cowell Hall of California History
In the Oakland Museum
What makes California, California? Explore that
question in the Cowell Hall of California History in the permanent exhibition
California: A Place, A People, A Dream. Meet the people who have shaped California
-- natives, adventurers, wealth-seekers, health-seekers, colonists, settlers,
newcomers, old-times, sun-worshippers, reformers, upper class to underclass --
people of all colors -- and the dreams they have pursued. Explore the forces
that have shaped California -- the environment, the Gold Rush, earthquakes, wartime,
the computer chip, Hollywood, the automobile, social and political protest, countercultures,
discrimination, leisure and benevolent climate, freedom and opportunity. Encounter
the objects that tell this history The history of California does not date from
the arrival of the first European and the written reports of explorers and friars,
but from eons earlier in the tales told by ancient storytellers around tribal
campfires. Listen to the voices and hear the California story.
Transportation
will be available. Two trips: meet at 4:45 PM or at 6:05 PM in the Convention
Center Lobby. Please pre-register for transportation and RSVP for reception.
Thursday, October 12, 6:00-7:45 pm. 2006 Marks the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. This panel brings together former members, allies, and interpreters of the Panthers' legacy to consider how their response to police violence and larger issues of economic and racial exploitation in the past raises relevant questions for today. The political terrain of the city of Oakland was fundamentally transformed by the Black Panther Party, whose local presence led to the election of the first Black mayor. The simultaneous attention to global imperialism, states of war, and the spatialization of race in a changing urban context gave the Panthers a unique means of conveying the urgency of local conditions. But the stylized mode of performing their resistance allowed the Panthers to capture the imaginations of people around the world. Speakers will address the current efforts to revisit Panther history, gender politics and community organizing, former struggles for international solidarity and contemporary translocal networking, state repression and prison abolition.
Thursday, October 12, 2006, 7:00-9:00 pm. Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street (.77 miles from Convention center- 9 blocks). Directly following the CASA reception. This session, to be held at the Oakland Museum of California, is designed to explore some of the questions and challenges provoked by shifts in the museum world, in the expectations of the public, and in the very definition of who is the museum's public. Panelists represent a range of institutions. All of these institutions reflect in their missions and exhibits pre-national as well as local and transnational worlds. Presenters will describe their institutions' history, missions, and strategies. The session will culminate with a discussion among panel members and the audience.
This session will be open to the public. We will especially invite members of the participating local museums and sites, as well as constituencies of other local and regional collections. Transportation will be available. Meet in the Convention Center Lobby at 6:45 PM or come from the InterTribal Friendship House at 5:45 PM.
Saturday, October 14, 6:00-9:30 pm. First Unitarian Church of Oakland, 645 14th Street
(.37 miles from the Convention Center- 5 blocks). This public town hall style meeting points to the continuity of African Diaspora presence in the Bay Area. It highlights the need for unity between the long-standing African American Community and recent immigrants from Africa. It will be held directly following a tour of the African American Museum and Library, which is located next door to the church. The panel and audience discussion will be moderated by KPFA-Pacifica Radio's Walter Turner, host of the weekly "Africa Today" program. Panelists include Pastor Kelvin Sauls of Downs Memorial United Methodist Church, Nunu Kidane of the Priority Africa Network, and DJ Kalemba, of California State University, East Bay. This is a public event, co-sponsored by local community organizations. We especially invite audience members from local Asian, Latin American, and European immigrant communities to share their unity-challenging and unity-gathering experiences.
Transportation will be available, although the event is a fairly easy walk or wheel chair ride. Meet in the Convention Center lobby near the 10th street entrance at 5:45 PM or 6:45 PM.
Sunday, October 15, 12:00 pm noon. 2465 34th Avenue (6.15 miles from the Convention Center). The rich heritage of Native Peoples and early Spanish and Mexican settlers—and the stories of diverse neighbors today—will take center stage at the Festival Celebration of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park's expansion and renovation. This nationally significant historical site located in Oakland's Fruitvale District was the headquarters of the Peraltas' Rancho San Antonio, one of the largest Spanish land grants ever made. The rancho covered nearly all of present-day Alameda County. New elements for the park include a play area with climbing structures shaped like the grizzly bears and redwood trees, a 100-foot long, 3-foot thick adobe wall that commemorates the massive adobe wall that once surrounded the Peralta family hacienda, a spectacular fruit tree promenade lined with community stories; a native plant garden with sculptures that reflect the special relationship of the native peoples of the East Bay to the natural world.
The celebration begins at noon with performances throughout the day: Plans call for a Native American blessing, Native American dancers, cooking demonstrations, longhorns, horses, games and an "archaeological dig" for kids. Guided tours, children's crafts activities, Native American crafts booths, a community tile project to decorate the site's new massive adobe wall and lots of food from many cultures.
The Site Resources Committee and the Students' Committee have assembled a list of tours of interest. You should assemble for the tour in the Convention Center lobby (near the 10th Street entrance) 15 minutes before published start time. The tour guide or the designated representative of the tour will meet you in the lobby. The SRC's Supplement to the Program Guide includes additional local tours and sites to visit. You may contact the hotel's concierge for additional resources. You may pay registration for any of these tours at the ASA online store.
Thursday, October 12, 5:00 pm. Free. Travel via the Bay Area Regional Transit. Visit the Berkeley Art Museum to see the exhibition "The Bancroft Library at 100: A Celebration, 1906-2006." Dinner is not provided, but there are many restaurants within walking distance of the museum.
Friday, October 13, 9:30 am-about 1:00 pm. $10+self-pay lunch. Register online at the ASA Storefront. Limited to 30 people. Under 2 miles round trip. Led by journalist and Chinatown historian William Wong, the tour will include the history of Oakland's Chinatown, architectural insights, and visits to cultural sites, as well as a stop at the Asian Resource Center to talk with representatives of community organizations. The tour will end at noon at a Chinatown restaurant. Oakland's Chinatown is located within a few blocks of the Convention Center.
Friday, October 13, 9:00–11:00 am. About 3 miles round trip. Cost: $10. Register online at the ASA Storefront.
Walk down Broadway (Oakland downtown's main drag) to Third Street. At Third begin at the Bay Trail historic marker visiting buildings that were part of the original downtown Oakland. Discuss architecture from that era. Walk east to the AMTRAK Station sculpture of C.L. Dellums, principle organizer of the Brotherhood of Pullman Porters and mainstay of Oakland's African American community in the early part of the 20th century. Walk back through Jack London Square and sculpture of Jack London. Then west to see the first historic marker on 2nd Street, discuss development of early immigrant neighborhoods, railroad employment, Port of Oakland development, and develop an overview of the Bay Trail project around the San Francisco Bay and in Oakland. Led by Lee Huo of SF Bay Trails and Kathryn Hughes, Bicycle/Pedestrian Program Manager for the City of Oakland. http://baytrail.abag.ca.gov/about.html
Friday, October 13, 9:00 am–about 1:00 pm. $10+ self-pay lunch. Register online at the ASA Storefront. Accompanied by community members, including representatives from current community organizing campaigns, and local scholars. This tour will move through Jack London Square to the Port of Oakland (third largest port on the West Coast and pioneer in container shipping) and proceed into West Oakland, home of the large African American community that formed at the beginning of the 20th century, around the 16th and Wood Street train station, the West Coast terminus of the transcontinental railway. The tour will visit the railroad station and visit DeFremery Park, a center for Black Panther Party organizing in the 1960s and 70s. In 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake destroyed the Cypress Freeway. The opened site of the overhead freeway is now the Mandela Parkway, a center for community revitalization efforts. The tour will visit a community organic garden, pick up box lunch from a local restaurant, and picnic at the Middle Harbor Bayshore Park, a 38 acre grassy site adjacent to the port and overlooking the San Francisco Bay. The tour will include a virtual visit to the "Remembering 7th Street: The Oakland Jazz & Blues Clubs Virtual Reality Project," which recreates the bustling center of West Oakland's community of the 1940s and '50s. This virtual tour has been created by a University of California Berkeley School of Journalism.class led by journalism professor Paul Grabowicz and professor of architecture Yehuda Kalay. http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/jazzclubs/
Saturday, October 14, 9:00-11:30 am. Cost: $10. Register online at the ASA Storefront. This bus tour, accompanied by community scholars and activists, will begin in Jack London Square, pass by the Port of Oakland, visit West Oakland, stop at the Bayshore Park overlooking the Bay, come back by DeFremery Park and the West Oakland Library (sites of Black Panther Party organizing during the 1960s and 70s), come back into downtown, stopping at Preservation Park (Victorian and Queen Anne style buildings moved from other parts of Oakland, renovated, and now used as headquarters of non-profit community benefit organizations), travel around Lake Merritt, stop at the Oakland Museum of California, through Chinatown, and return to the Convention Center. The tour will include history of Oakland, including founding, expansion in the wake of the 1906 earthquake, labor and land use history, industrialization, race and politics, the 1946 general strike, growth of the Port, the Black Panther Party, immigration, development as a racially and culturally diverse city, up to recent gentrification, political organizing around tenants' rights, land use, environmental racism, and community revitalization.
Saturday, October 14, 2:30–5:00 pm. Cost: $10. Register online at the ASA Storefront for this bus and walking tour. Led by Annalee Allen, Coordinator of the City of Oakland Tours Program and Kathryn Hughes, Bicycle/Pedestrian Program Manager for the City of Oakland. Gertrude Stein, expatriate U.S. writer and important catalyst in 20th century visual arts movements, lived in Oakland from the time she was five years old until she was 17. It was during a lecture tour in 1934 that Stein, attempting to visit the sites of her childhood, found them destroyed by natural disaster (the 1906 earthquake) and unnatural (urbanization). This was the context of her dismayed and often-quoted observation about Oakland, "There is no there there."
The tour will begin by bus, with a visit to the lakeside Camron-Stanford House of the same era, built in 1876. The tour will visit the house museum as an example of Victorian culture in which Stein was immersed during her childhood. The tour will visit the nearby Oakland Hotel lobby, similar to the Tubbs Hotel where Stein lived. The tour will then return to the Convention Center and proceed as a walking tour with a visit to Old Oakland. The tour will then walk to the Pardee Home Museum at 11th Street and Castro, built in 1868-69. George C. Pardee was Governor of California during the 1906 earthquake and co-founder of the Progressive Party in California. The tour will visit Preservation Park, a collection of Victorian and Queen Anne style houses that were moved from various neighborhoods of Oakland and have been occupied as headquarters of non-profit community organizations. This visit will also highlight the increasing gentrification of Oakland. The tour will end at the African American Museum and Library of Oakland (AAMLO), which is housed in a building originally constructed in 1902 as one of around 2000 free libraries industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie donated to communities in the U.S. between 1881 and 1917.
Saturday, October 14, 5:00–6:00 pm. 659 14th Street (.35 miles/ 5 blocks from Convention Center). The tour of the African American Museum and Library will begin at the culmination of the Gertrude Stein's Oakland Tour and end next door at the "Challenges to Umoja: Africans and African Americans in Oakland" session at the First Unitarian Church.
AAMLO's archival collection is a unique resource on the history of African Americans in Northern California and the Bay Area. The over 160 collections in the archives contain the diaries of prominent families, pioneers, churches, social and political organizations. Freedom's Journal, the Liberator, California Voice, Sun Reporter, Muhammed Speaks, and the Black Panther newspapers are available on microfilm. Using AAMLO's oral history collection researchers can listen to interviews with local civil rights activists, educators, writers, and musicians. AAMLO is home to the Eternal Voices video library containing more than 80 years of African American East Bay history and Susheel Bibb's Meet Mary Pleasant DVD (scholarly interviews, key issues and documents). The microfilm collection includes primary research information on African American enslavement, military service, California census records 1910-1930, Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, W.E.B. Dubois, Benjamin Banneker, Mary Church Terrell, Paul Robeson and others. Tour will be led by AAMLO staff.
The Convention Book Exhibit will be in the East Hall of the Oakland Convention Center. Admission will be by registration badge only. Hours of the book exhibit are:
| Friday, October 13 | 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Saturday, October 14 | 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Sunday, October 15 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
The 2006 ASA Annual Conference will be located at the Oakland Convention Center
and the Oakland Marriott City Center, which is directly connected to the Convention
Center, in downtown Oakland. The Oakland Convention Center is approximately
nine miles from the Oakland International Airport. Information about the Oakland
International Airport may be obtained through its website at www.flyoakland.com.
Hotel Accommodations
The Oakland Marriott, our headquarters
hotel, the Courtyard Marriott, and The Best Western are now sold out. The Jack
London Inn has also sold out its ASA room block. Check back with those hotels
in the event of cancellations. Please read on for assistance in making reservations
at other Oakland area hotels.
These are the two other closest
hotels to the convention center:
-Waterfront Plaza Hotel
-Howard Johnson Express Inn
Additional Assistance:
For people still needing assistance in making hotel reservations at regular, non-group rates in the Oakland area:
Meacham Travel Service
229 East Washington Street
Iowa City, IA 52240
Ph. 319-351-1360; 1-800-777-1360
Fax 319-351-0710
Email: iowacity@meachamtravel.com
http://www.meachamtravel.com
The ASA meeting planners are aware of the housing situation in Oakland, and
have taken every possible measure to find additional affordable housing. We
filled our three hotels (120% occupancy of our room blocks at each currently)
at the end of the first week of September 2006. The Oakland hotels are holding
back rooms until it's known whether or not the A's play at home at the time
of our convention. The Black Panther party 40th anniversary is also taking place
at the Courtyard Marriott. Check back with those hotels in the event of cancellations.
Hotel reservations must be made prior to September 25, 2006. When making reservations
please indicate you are with ASA in order to receive the group rate.
SOLD
OUT Headquarters Hotel
Marriott Oakland City Center SOLD OUT
1001 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607
1-800-228-9290
510-451-4000
http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/OAKDT?groupCode=ASAASAA&app=resvlink
ASA Group Rate: $114 single, double,
exclusive of applicable local taxes. Rooms are available on a first-come, first-serve
basis. If these rooms are sold out before September 25, 2006, there will be
no additional rooms at the group rate available.
ASA Student Rate
The Marriott Oakland City Center Hotel is also offering discounted rooms to ASA annual meeting students. Please make your room reservation PRIOR to September 25, 2006. Please request ASA Student rooms when making your reservation directly with the Marriott. There are only 40 rooms available on a first-come, first-serve basis. If these rooms are sold out before September 25, 2006, there will be no additional student rooms available. The hotel front desk will require you to show student identification upon check-in. If you cannot provide student identification upon check- in, the student discount rate will not be honored; no exceptions will be made. The student rate is $85.50 per night.
Cut-Off Date: Reservations must be made no later than September 25, 2006. Please specify you are with ASA in order to obtain the group rate. Availability of rooms and the group rate after the cut-off date is subject to availability.
Distance from Oakland Convention Center: Connected
The modern 21 story Oakland Marriott City Center offers commanding views of Lake Merritt, Berkeley Marina, the bay and skyline of San Francisco, and both the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges. Centrally located the hotel is convenient to all Bay Area attractions including Napa and Sonoma Wine Country, the East Bay and Berkeley. Downtown San Francisco is just 12 minutes via the local subway system (BART). Oakland Marriott City Center is connected to the Oakland Convention Center. Visitors to Oakland enjoy a thriving Chinatown, major league sporting events, Friday Old Oakland Farmers Market, Jack London Square and Marina, and performing arts at historic Paramount Theater. Chabot Space & Science Center, Oakland Coliseum and the African American Heritage Museum are all nearby.
SOLD
OUT Overflow Hotel
Courtyard Marriott Oakland Downtown SOLD
OUT
988 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607
1-800-228-9290
510-625-8882
http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/OAKCD?groupCode=ASAASAA&app=resvlink
ASA Group Rate: $114 single, double, exclusive of applicable local taxes. Rooms
are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. If these rooms are sold out
before September 25, 2006, there will be no additional rooms at the group rate
available.
Cut-Off Date: Reservations must be made no later than September 25, 2006. Please specify you are with ASA in order to obtain the group rate. Availability of rooms and the group rate after the cut-off date is subject to availability.
Distance from Convention Center: Located across the street.
Nestled between Old Oakland Historic District and Chinatown, guests of the Courtyard Oakland Downtown experience an inviting residential environment here. We are within easy walking distance of Oakland's central business district, Federal and State offices, Superior Courts, shops, restaurants and BART to San Francisco, Berkeley, Walnut Creek and the Oakland Arena / Coliseum. Now with complimentary High Speed Internet access in guestrooms and free WiFi access in the Lobby, Library and Restaurant the Courtyard surrounds travelers with the conveniences that make business and pleasure travel easy. Relax and get ready for the day ahead in one of our 162 guest rooms, featuring a comfortable large, well-lit work desk with an ergonomic chair, two phones with data ports, complimentary weekday newspaper, and in-room coffee. Start your morning with a reasonably priced healthy breakfast buffet and unwind in our heated swimming pool, whirlpool and exercise room. Courtyard ... the hotel designed by business travelers.
SOLD
OUT Overflow Hotel
Best Western Inn at the Square SOLD OUT
233 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607
1-800-633-5973
(510) 452-4565
http://www.innatthesquare.com
ASA Group Rate: $90 single, double, exclusive of applicable local taxes. Rooms
are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. If these rooms are sold out
before September 25, 2006, there will be no additional rooms at the group rate
available.
Cut-Off Date: Reservations must be made no later than September 25, 2006. Please
specify you are with ASA in order to obtain the group rate. Availability of
rooms and the group rate after the cut-off date is subject to availability.
Distance from Convention Center:
8 blocks from Oakland Convention Center.
The Best Western Inn at the Square is located centrally at historic Jack London
Square Waterfront. The hotel offers complimentary in-room coffee, USA Today
newspapers, parking, cable TV and is surrounded by more than 30 restaurants.
SOLD
OUT Overflow Hotel
Jack London Inn SOLD OUT
444 Embarcadero West
Oakland, CA 94607
1-800-549-8780
http://www.jacklondoninn.com
ASA Group Rate: $114 single, double, exclusive of applicable local taxes.
Cut-Off Date: Reservations must be made as soon as possible as there is a limited
supply of rooms. Please specify you are with American Studies Association in
order to obtain the group rate.
Distance from Convention Center: 8 blocks from Oakland Convention Center.
The Jack London Inn is located directly on Oakland's Jack London Square and
is near several restaurants. The Hotel has a roof top pool and pool deck where
you'll find a spectacular view of Jack London Square and the bay. Guests may
order room service from the in-house restaurant, The House of Chicken and Waffles,
use the complimentary work station to access the internet or work out in the
fitness room.
Graduate students and part-time faculty interested in alternative accommodations
or the roommate connection service should consult the Students Committee website
at:
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/AmericanStudiesAssn/interests/student/index.html
The Oakland Marriott City Center complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, its regulations, and guidelines. So that the Oakland Marriott City Center can better assist persons with special needs, individuals should indicate their specific needs on the hotel reservation form or in an attached letter and include a telephone number where they can be reached. In addition, they should make their reservations as early as possible, and no later than September 25, 2006. For additional assistance, contact the American Studies Association at annualmeeting@theasa.net.
Individuals requesting bonded and licensed childcare during the ASA Conference can make arrangements by emailing Bananas Inc. at contact@bananasinc.org or call (510) 658-7353. More information can be found at www.bananasinc.org
Airport Transportation: The Oakland International Airport is 8 mi/13 km and 15 minutes from downtown. San Francisco International Airport is 26 mi/42 km and 45 minutes from downtown. (All times presume normal traffic conditions.)
Taxis: Outside baggage claims at both airports.
Rental Cars: Alamo, Avis, Budget, Dollar, Enterprise, Fox, Hertz, National and Thrifty.
Metro: Oakland Airport is on Bay Area Regional Transit's Orange Line. From the airport to the conference hotel, take the Orange Line in the direction of Richmond. The Oakland Marriott City Center is on the Oakland City Center/12th St. metro stop. Fare: US$1.40 (higher during rush hour).
Driving from the Airports:
Oakland - OAK
San Francisco - SFO
San Jose, California - SJC
The ASA discourages interview activities in hotel bedrooms. The ASA strongly advises that a parlor suite rather than a sleeping room be used and that a third person always be present in the room with the candidate. Interviewers using such facilities bear sole responsibility for establishing an appropriate, professional atmosphere and should take special care to ensure that all interviews are conducted courteously and in a proper manner.