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Sessions at a Glance Index

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2006

7:30 AM

Program Directors' Breakfast: Ethnic Studies and American Studies001

8:00 AM

Transnational Work: Labor and Culture Across Borders002
This session has been moved to 285B -- Documentary and Dissent: Visual Cultures of Opposition Post-1960003
Our Country: International Politics and Fragile American Ideals, 1870 to WWI004
Exhibiting "Freedom" in Public?: Using Colonial Slavery and American Wars to Construct a Suitable Past005
Seeing American Portraiture in Transnational Visual Economies006
Restaging the National Drama/Trauma007
Business Meeting of the ASA National Council008

10:00 AM

Rethinking the Origins of Multiculturalism009
Retelling America: Religious Material Culture and the Refiguring of American Culture010
The Geopolitics of Film Noir011
Transnational Foodways and Affective Economies: A Public Feelings Production012
Muslim and Middle East Americans in the Crucible of the Cold War013
The U.S. Pacific Rim as Geographic Imaginary and Colonial Horizon014
Workshop: Beyond the Buzz: What is an Internationalist American Studies Program?015
Negroes with Guns: Black Power Across Borders016
Lands Far Away and Places Long Ago: The Creation of Virtual Environments in Interwar America (Sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus) 017
From Nineteenth Century Imperialism to Today's Globalization: Race, Sex, and Violence in Júarez-El Paso Borderlands018
Intellectual Histories in a Global Age019
Roundtable Discussion: Moving Images: Transnational Circuits of Race and Photography020
Reimagining Kinship: Diasporic Queers in New Queer Documentary021
Staging Race and the Law022
Social Activism In and Out of the Nation023
The Politics of (Anti)Maternity024
Memory, Materiality and the Museum025

12:00 PM

Queer "Victories" in Bush's America: Resistance and Transformation, or Co-optation and Complicity?026
International Partnership Luncheon027

1:00 PM

Business Meeting of the American Studies Editorial Board028

2:00 PM

The United States and South Africa: Transnational Perspectives029
Transnational Beat Spiritual Identities and Poetics030
The Great American Makeover: Television, History, Nation031
The New Post-National: Mixed-Race Identities032
Transnational, Post-imperial American Studies?033
Material Culture and Identity034
Roundtable Discussion: Practical Advice for Assistant Professors035
Scenes, Means, Relays and Niches: New Takes on U.S./Transnational Cultural Production036
Transnational Experiences of Citizenship and Belonging037
Racial Bodies in Transnational Movement038
Transnational Mobility: Refiguring Latina/o Literature, Culture, and Identity039
Transnational Social Movements040
Reimagining Race: Ethnic Literature and the Negotiations of Difference in "Post-Race" America041
Internal/External Migrations of the Political042

3:00 PM

Talkshop I: Teaching America in the 21st Century: How the U.S. Presence, Role, and Image in the World Shape "American Studies" Teaching043
Business Meeting of the Regional Chapters Committee044

3:15 PM

InterTribal Friendship House: Oral History as Transnational Indigenous Activism-SRC/K12 sponsored045

3:30 PM

Business Meeting of the Minority Scholars' Committee046
Business Meeting of the American Quarterly Advisory Editorial Board047

4:00 PM

Roundtable Discussion: East Bay Labor Activism048
The U.S. Inside Out: Early American Perspectives049
Faith, Therapeutic Culture & the World: Reading & the Religious Cultures of 1940s and 1950s America050
Transnational Waste and Pollution: Communities, Consumption & Cultures051
Transnationalism and Nonstandard Histories052
Treating the Transnational Body: Public Health With(out) Borders053
Shame, Identity, Praxis054
The "Black Atlantic" Inside Antebellum America055
Predicaments of Retribution: Prison, Punishment, and the Politics of Control056
The Performative Force of Violence057
Theorizing Diaspora058
Queer Geographies: Region, Nation, Globe059
The Politics of Cultural Diplomacy060
Transnational Debts: Gender, Remittance, and Labor061

5:00 PM

Business Meeting of the Material Culture Caucus062
California American Studies Association and Regional American Studies Programs Reception and Open Gallery at the Oakland Museum of California-SRC Sponsored063

6:00 PM

Teaching American Studies in Transnational Perspective064
Constructing Motherhood in the Transnational Era065
Roundtable Discussion: Rethinking Center and Periphery: Making the "Foreign" Central to American Studies066
Transnational Feminist Politics067
Roundtable Discussion: U.S. Inside Out: Race, Genomics and Global Health068
Past, Present, and Future: Constructing and Reconstructing American Tourist Destinations069
Performing Racial Identities in the Transoceanic Sphere070
Roundtable Discussion: The "Republican Mother" Turns 30: Reflections on an Article and a Concept071
The Revolutionary Transatlantic072
Visual Culture, Transnational Spectacle073
The Problem of Reality and Television Studies074
The Politics of Repressive Tolerance075
The Imperial Mission076
Business Meeting of Early American Matters Caucus077
Academic and Community Activism Caucus078
The Black Panther Party, Reflections in Light of Forty Years-SRC Sponsored079
Berkeley Art Museum Tour and Dinner-Students' Committee Sponsored080

7:00 PM

Reception of the University of New Mexico081
Welcome Reception for International Scholars 082
Curating Community: Navigating the Terrain Between the Museum-world and the Communities (SRC Sponsored)083

8:00 PM

Sweetback Screening084

8:30 PM

Reception of the Minority Scholars' Committee, Ethnic Studies Committee, Women's Committee & Queer Caucus 085

10:00 PM

Nao Bustamante: Performing American Studies086

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2006

7:30 AM

Business Meeting of the Crossroads Advisory Board087
Business Meeting of the Editors of International Journals088

8:00 AM

Nineteenth-Century Latinidades: Latina/o History and Literature Beyond/Before the Nation-State089
Roundtable Discussion: Intimate but Indirect: Examining the Relationship between Music and Politics090
Roundtable Discussion: American Studies and the Cultural Politics of the Middle East091
"Asians and Americas: International Politics and Domestic Racialized Practices"092
¿Good Neighbors? Cultures of U.S-Latin American Transnationalism in the Mid-Twentieth Century093
Abolitionist Places094
More than the Collective Self: Constructing identity and Building Group Experience095
At the Interstices of Identity: Transnational Asian-American, African, and Latin(a) American Popular Cultural Production and Performance096
Blackness Visible: Urban Space, Race, and Economic Justice097
Race and Comparison098
Historicizing the Transnational: Comparing Racial Formations Across Borders099
Listening to the Black Atlantic100
Extraterritoriality, Extranationality101
The Emergence of Afro-Asian Racial Imaginaries102
Breakfast: Borders, Law and Immigration-Students' Committee Sponsored103
Emerson's Insane Angels: Douglas Anderson's Philosophy Americana104

9:00 AM

San Francisco Bay Trail Tour Around Oakland Embarcadero. Walking tour (wheelchair accessible)-SRC/K12 sponsored105
Tour of the Port of Oakland and West Oakland-SRC/K12 sponsored106

9:30 AM

Oakland's Chinatown, a walking tour—SRC/K12 sponsored107
Breakfast: Pedagogy in the US and Abroad-Students" Committee Sponsored108

10:00 AM

Roundtable Discussion: Transnational Commodity Culture109
Garbo, Groucho and Drescher: Gender, Ethnicity and Popular Culture in Transnational Perspective110
Consuming Visions: The Politics of Consumption in Modern America111
Identity and the Nation-State: Race, Mixed-Race, and the U.S. Census112
Celebrity and the Politics/Praxis of Racial Cross-Dressing113
Afro/Asian Art and Activism in the 1960s and Post-60s Era114
Dynamics of Mobility: Toward Trans-Oceanic American Studies115
Interplays: Postcolonial Reflections on White Feminist Innocence and Accountability116
Empire of Freedom?: American Internationalism and the Discourses of Liberation and Civilization, 1890-1925.117
Mexicali, Managua, Mexico, and the Mission: situating ethnic transnationalism in everyday Americas culture118
Empire, Globalization, and its Discontents: Filipinos and the Making of "The American Dream"119
"Vietnamese American Writers" [SRC Sponsored]120
Social Movements, Community Organizing, and the Production of Oppositional Politics121
Prison and the National Body122
Native American Sovereignty and Reterritorialization123
Reinscribing National Narrative124
Business Meeting of the Keeping and Creating American Communities125
Board Meeting of the Encyclopedia of American Studies126

11:00 AM

This session has been cancelled -- Junior Faculty and Grad Student Breakfast I: "Affirmative Action"-Students" Committee Sponsored127

12:00 PM

Hot Dish: In Honor of Karal Ann Marling's Work in Visual and Material Culture Studies128
_Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song_ and Racy, Transnational Moves129
Roundtable Discussion: Developing Leadership: Local and Transnational Grassroots Women's Organizations. SRC Sponsored130
Crossing Borders and Bodies: Racial Mixing and the Imagined Nation131
Roundtable Discussion: Perspectives from the Cracks: Transdisciplinarity + Transnationalism=Transformation?132
Expanding the Boundaries of Race and Performance in American Studies133
Visualizing History: A Responsibility to Images134
Consumer Citizenship and the Making of National and Transnational Values135
Recasting Cinema in the Americas: Bilingualism, Borrowings, and Hauntings136
"Reconfiguring Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: 'What is Africa to Me?'"137
Performing Both and Between—Theorizing Bodies on the Hyphen138
Roundtable Discussion: Performing Diaspora: Gendered and Sexual Transgressions, Transformations and Transactions139
Adopted Communities: Constructing Transnational Families140
Navigating the World Post 9/11141
The Biopolitics of Globalization: Docile Bodies I142
(De)Regulating the Imperial Imaginary143
ASA-JAAS Roundtable: The American Studies Association-Japanese Association for American Studies Project: Critiques and Accomplishments144

1:30 PM

Talkshop II: Alternative Affiliations: Beyond Citizenship, the Nation, and Inter-national American Studies145

2:00 PM

Roundtable Discussion: Developing American Studies Globally: The Fulbright Experience146
Roundtable Discussion: "Which Way Is Redemption?" Remembering Lorenzo Thomas, 1944-2005147
Roundtable Discussion: Globalization in the Classroom: Addressing Student Resistance to the "Anti-American" Text148
Feminism, Progressivism, and Transnationalism149
Trans-Alternative: Germs, Sweetbacks, Butchlalis & Screen Tests150
Academic Job Interviews in American Studies: A Demonstration Workshop (Sponsored by the ASA Students" Committee)151
Diversity on Display: Liberalism and the Uses of Multiculturalism in the 1970s152
Academic Crossroads: Debating Transnationalism's Second Phase153
Performance: Visualizing Citizenship: Images of Workers and the Struggle for Social Identity154
Comparative Sound Cultures: Spaces of Music, Politics, and Representations in the Metropolis155
Waao, wabaskinameskata! The Border Crossed Us! Transnational American Studies and the Indian-Nation Perspective156
Latina/o Studies in a Transatlantic Context: Fiction, Film, Performance, Memoir157
The Double Inscription of African-American Bodies Across Ideological Borders: I158
The Military-Industrial-Detention Complex159
The Biopolitics of Globalization: Docile Bodies II160
Transnational Latino Formations161
Business Meeting of the Women's Committee162

4:00 PM

Discussing Race and Success in America.163
Roundtable Discussion: China on Our Minds: Andrew Ross' Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade164
Sounds and Movements in Latina/o American Culture 164A
"Neither Here nor There: (Re)presenting and (Re)constructing Transnational Identity in Contemporary American Art. Sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus165
Wars and Consequences: South Korea, Viet Nam, the United States166
Performance: One Wound for Another/Una Herida Por Otra. Testimonios de Latin@s in the U.S. through Cyberspace 167
Native Americas: Race, Culture, and Transnationalism in the Borderlands168
Rape and its Representations in American Culture169
Roundtable Discussion: Improvisation, Transculturalism, and Social Change: Asian American Creative Music and the San Francisco Bay Area170
Interethnic Alliances and Resistance in 20th Century America171
Radically Queer: Reconsidering Homosexuality and the Left in Twentieth Century American Culture172
Race, Radicalism and Sexual Politics173
"Two Nations Under God: Representing the American Civil War in Text and Image"174
The Double Inscription of African-American Bodies Across Ideological Borders: II175
Literature as Social Document: Reading Race and Empire176
Business Meeting of the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus177
Celebration of Authors178

5:00 PM

Writing Alternative US Political Histories179
Business Meeting of the Religion and American Culture Caucus180
Reception of the Material Culture, Visual Culture, and Art History Caucuses181
Reception of the Students" Committee182

6:00 PM

Roundtable Discussion: Publishing as a Class Act183
Business Meeting of Working Class Studies Caucus/Association 184
Business Meeting of the K16 Collaboration Committee 185
Reception of the Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin 186
Lillian Robinson Memorial 186B

6:30 PM

Reception of the Mid-America ASA187
Reception of the Chesapeake American Studies Association and the University of Maryland188

7:30 PM

ASA Awards Ceremony189

8:30 PM

ASA Presidential Address190

9:30 PM

ASA President's Reception191

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2006

8:00 AM

Brokering power and identity in Asian America192
Mark Twain Abroad193
The Possibilities and Limits of Black internationalism194
Roundtable Discussion: Black Pacific? Considering and Problematizing Blackness and Other Racial Formations in the Pacific World195
Roundtable Discussion: Contemporary Slavery: Theory, Practice and Literary Representation196
Roundtable Discussion: Where Does Latin American Studies End and American Studies Begin?197
American Studies and the Transnational Classroom: A K-16 Discussion198
Transnationalizing U.S. Prison Studies199
From Mao Suits to Saris, From the Terno to Chinoiserie-Gone-Chic: National Vestments and Globalization200
Whose Music? Sounding Out the Color Line201
A Usable Past and the Transnational Turn: Conflict or Congruence?202
Eating Out: Food and the Performance of Transnational Identity203
Both Inside and Out: American (Indian) Studies and Critical Transnationalism204
This session has been moved to 164A--Sounds and Movements in Latina/o American Culture 205
Black Paris206
The Return of Tocqueville207
Breakfast for Women in American Studies208
Breakfast: Material Culture-Students" Committee Sponsored209

9:00 AM

Tour around Oakland210

9:30 AM

Breakfast: Early America-Students" Committee Sponsored211

10:00 AM

Roundtable Discussion: Teaching In or About Prison212
Contesting the Dream: California Politics in Black and Brown213
Nation and Globe: New Practices of War, Policy, and Patriotism214
In Transit - Re-imagining Spaces of Exile, Migrancy, and Diaspora215
Women of Color and Transnationalism216
Roundtable Discussion: The Specter of the Archive217
Crossing Boundaries: Interpreting Transnational Modes of Memory218
Theorizing Sexuality in Transnational Filipino and American Studies: Imperialism, Intimacy, and Queer Eroticism219
What is Blackness?: Multiple and Contested Constructions of Racial Difference in the 20th Century U.S.220
Roundtable Discussion: Keywords for Transamerican Times221
The Antebellum South and the Problem of Slavery: A K16 Workshop222
Roundtable Discussion: Fresh Approaches to Discovering Imagined Communities: Incorporating Ethnic and Diasporic Media into Teaching and Research223
The Postnational Asia-Pacific: Works in Translation224
The Underside of American Exceptionalism225
Literature as Social Document: Aesthetics and Politics226
Business Meeting of the International Committee227
Business Meeting of the 2007 Program Committee228

11:00 AM

Junior Faculty and Grad Student Breakfast II: "Women, Minority Teachers and Authority in the Classroom"-Students" Committee Sponsored229

12:00 PM

Roundtable Discussion: Julia Collins's Curse of Caste: Implications of the First Novel by an African American Woman230
Roundtable Discussion: Printing a Transcultural U.S. Feminism: California, 1969-present (Sponsored by the ASA Women's Committee)231
Roundtable Discussion: Perspectives on American Studies From Americanists Based Abroad232
Positioning Black Identity in the World: Transnational Moments in African American History233
Transnationalism and the Hemisphere across U.S. American, Latin American, and Latino Studies234
Roundtable Discussion: California Stories: California Council for the Humanities' Community Oral History Project235
Racing the Nation: Insurgent Nationalism in Ethnic American Communities236
Keywords of Transnational (American Cultural) Studies237
Transnational Activism Inside/Outside the US: Creating Communities Beyond States and Across Worlds238
Historical Witnessing and Transnational Gazes239
Evangelicalism, Insurance, and Indian Casinos: A Discourse of Futurity in the "New" American Studies240
Beyond the Islands: Haiti, Cuba, and the U.S. Imaginary241
The Traffic in Disability: Cripping Transnational Desires242
From Assimilation to Transculturalism: Americanization At Home and Abroad: I243
K-16 Collaboration Committee Luncheon244
ASA-JAAS Project Advisory Committee Business Meeting245

1:00 PM

ASA-JAAS Project Luncheon 245A

2:00 PM

Found in Translation: Globalization, Performance, and Identity in U.S.-Japan Relations246
Roundtable Discussion: Everyday Plebiscites247
Roundtable Discussion: Re-Imagining "Early America" From Inside Out248
Roundtable Discussion: Native Feminisms Without Apology I249
Roundtable Discussion: Black Music Beyond Borders250
Roundtable Discussion: Negotiating Graduate School: Practical Advice for Students' and Mentors251
International Partnerships as a Powerful Key to Transnational Learning252
Roundtable Discussion: Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country253
Roundtable Discussion: American Studies Abroad: Opportunities, Programs, and Issues254
Roundtable Discussion: Identity, Theory, and the New Biography255
Questioning Patriotism and Other Taboos: Teaching Controversial Topics in the Post 9/11 Classroom256
The Civil Rights Movement: A K16 Curricular Workshop257
The "Cultural Defense" on Trial: Transnational Issues and Perspectives258
Transnational Chican@ Style259
Visualizing the Diaspora in a Transnational American Studies Context: Resistance, Representation, and Relationships in Visual Imagery across the African Diaspora260
From Assimilation to Transculturalism: Americanization At Home and Abroad: II261
Business Meeting of the Children and Youth Studies Caucus262

2:30 PM

Business Meeting of All Chairs263
Gertrude Stein Tour264

4:00 PM

Roundtable Discussion: International American Studies: After U.S. Nationalism, What Now with the State? 265
Intellectual Histories in a Global Age 265B
Roundtable Discussion: International American Studies: After U.S. Nationalism, What Now with the State?265
Roundtable Discussion: Sexual Citizenship in Transnational America: Histories, Politics, Possibilities266
Transnational Perspectives on North American Architecture267
Roundtable Discussion: Colloquy with Joanna Brooks on American Lazarus (2003)268
Get Up, Stand Up: Comparative and Transnational Social Movement Politics in the "Long Sixties"269
Youth Voices and Youth Activism in Oakland: Transforming the Public Sphere270
The Cultural Politics of (Mis)translation: Reading Three US-Japan Cultural Interfaces271
American Studies After Totalitarianism: Toward a Progressive Pedagogy in Becoming-EU Central and Eastern Europe272
Roundtable Discussion: When and How do Discourses of "Americanization" and "Anti-Americanism" Matter?273
Roundtable Discussion: Keynotes of Sound Studies—Crossing Disciplinary and National Borders274
Roundtable Discussion: Demystifying the Dissertation275
Foreign Tastes: Appropriating National Culture in Nineteenth-Century America276
Feminism and Transnational Studies of Empire and Militarism277
Exhibit: Visualizing Oakland and Bay Area Communities: Art, History, and New Immigration (SRC-Sponsored Panel)278
Building for the Future: How the Whole Earth Counterculture Redesigned the World279
Roundtable Discussion: Losing History, Losing Culture: Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?280
Roundtable Discussion: Native Feminisms Without Apology II281

5:00 PM

Reception of the University of Southern California282
African American Museum and Library-SRC/K12 sponsored283

6:00 PM

"Dare to Secure a Future": Archaeologies of Contemporary Cultural Politics284
Roundtable Discussion: The Terminator Strikes: Labor Studies in Crisis (Sponsored by the Working-class Studies Caucus)285
Documentary and Dissent: Visual Cultures of Opposition Post-1960285B
The Color of Welfare Reform: New Evidence from Las Vegas, Miami, and Los Angeles286
Online Session: The Long Shadow of Scopes: The Visual, Educational, and Instituional Legacies of the 1920s Evolution Debates287
Spatial Scale and the New U.S. Imperialism288
Transnational Native American Communities—SRC-sponsored289
Roundtable Discussion: Re-imagining the Journal: Vectors and New Modes of Digital Scholarship290
Radical Difference? Transnational Encounters, Afro-Asian Imaginings and the Search for Cross-Racial Solidarity291
Re-membering Religion in Asian America292
Reanimating the Archive: From Dance to Digital Space293
The Double Time of the Nation294
Transnational Tastes: Consuming "Exoticism"295
Race and Remasculinization296
Challenges to Umoja: Africans and African Americans in Oakland-SRC/K12 sponsored297

6:30 PM

Reception of the University of Michigan 298
Reception of the University of Minnesota299
Reception of Stanford University300

8:30 PM

Reception of Northwestern University 300A

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006

8:00 AM

Singled Out: Young Women, Femininity and Sexuality in 1960s-70s Popular Culture301
Theorizing Cuban America: Literary, Visual, and Performance Texts by United States Cubans302
Darwin and Contested Definitions of Race, Gender, and Nation in Gilded Age America and Today303
Tourism and the Production of Place304
Do You Know What It Means?: Post-Katrina New Orleans (Online Format)305
Roundtable Discussion: Questions of Travel: U.S. Americans on Teaching American Studies at the John. F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin306
Christianity, Culture, and the Cold War307
Roundtable Discussion: "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore:" Critical-constructive Dialogue on (Trans)National Identities308
Enemies at the Gates? How European Immigrants Complicated American Identity after WWII309
Roundtable Discussion: Bridging las Américas: Transnational Feminisms and Subjectivities I310
Islam, Empire, and Early America311
Transsexual, Transnational312
Transnational Pedagogies: I313
Detecting Race: Rewriting Noir314
What's Left of Activism315
Alternative African-American Modernities: From the Time of the Great Migration to Postmodernity316

9:00 AM

Business Meeting of the California American Studies Association317

10:00 AM

Animals in the Americas318
Roundtable Discussion: Challenging the Corporate University: The NYU Strike, 2005-2006319
Roundtable Discussion: Transcultural American Studies and Transdisciplinarity: Paradigms and Case Studies. A Roundtable320
Roundtable Discussion: The New Negro Woman in Philosophy, Literature, and History321
Eric Walrond, the Caribbean, and Black Transnationalism322
Bodies Politic: Toxic Exposures and Global Public Health in a Transnational Frame323
Roundtable Discussion: Telling Stories: Oral Histories, Popular Media and Historiography324
Popular Culture and the Global War on Terror: Configuring the GWOT for Consumption325
Citizens, Outcasts, and Enemies: Transnational War and Latino/a Agency326
Autobiographical Hoaxes, Inside and Out327
Notes Towards a Femininity Studies: Critical Femininities and the Cosmologies of Queer Femme328
Double Export329
Militarization and Domestic Identity330
Narrating Violence and the Violence of Narration331
Transnational Pedagogies: II332
Roundtable Discussion: Bridging las Americas: Transnational Feminisms and Subjectivities II333

12:00 PM

Peralta Hacienda Historical Park Grand Re-opening-SRC/K12 sponsored334

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