301. Singled Out: Young Women, Femininity and Sexuality in 1960s-70s Popular Culture Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
To Be Announced.
PAPERS:
Katherine Lehman, University of New Mexico Censoring the "Single Girl": Young Women, Independence and Inhibition in
Early 1960s Cinema
Miriam K Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri, Kansas City Babysitters Beware!: Impulses, Ideologies, and Girls' Employment in the 1960s
Kirsten Pike, Northwestern University Gender Mixes and Liberation Fixes: Negotiating Femininity, Power and Independence on 1970s Teen Television
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
302. Theorizing Cuban America: Literary, Visual, and Performance Texts by United States Cubans Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Raul Rubio, Wellesley College
PAPERS:
Eliana Rivero, University of Arizona Comedy and Cubangst: Humor, Satire, and Scatology in Cuban American Performers
Andrea O'Reilly Herrera, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Defying Liminality': The Journeys of Cuban Artists in the United States
Jose Quiroga, Emory University Ephemera: Cubanese
Isabel Alvarez, College of the Holy Cross Loving Che: Ana Menendez and the Images of History
COMMENT:
Raul Rubio, Wellesley College
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
303. Darwin and Contested Definitions of Race, Gender, and Nation in Gilded Age America and Today Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
Jim Hofmann, California State University, Fullerton
PAPERS:
John Bruni, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Speaking Out of Place: Animal Languages and Evolution in Jack London's Fiction
Kimberly Hamlin, University of Texas, Austin Darwin and the Happily Ever After: How Evolutionary Theory Changed Courtship, Gender, and Sex
Patrick B. Sharp, California State University, Los Angeles The Darwinist Frontier: Roosevelt, Turner, and the Evolution of the West
Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln "Against the Votaries of Race Cults": Robert Lowie's Critique of Cultural Evolutionism and Eugenics
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
304. Tourism and the Production of Place Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Christopher Endy, California State University
PAPERS:
Amanda Rees, Columbus State University Dudes and Dudeesn Go West: Tourism. Popular Culture, and the Production of the American West
Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota, Duluth Educating Private Ryan: Tourism and the United States Military In Postcolonial Vietnam
Robin Bachin, University of Miami Araby on the Atlantic: Orientalism and the Creation of South Florida
Cinda Nofziger, University of Iowa Driving towards Authenticity: Tourist Advice Literature on the Alaska Highway
Jolie Anne Preau, Graduate Center, City University of New York
PAPERS:
David Beriss, University of New Orleans After Katrina: What Dinner Means in New Orleans
Julia Leyda, Sophia University Crescent City Connections: Post-Katrina Geographies of Fear
Helen Regis, Louisiana State University Grassroots Community Organizing in the Seventh Ward: Before and After Katrina
Rachel Breunlin, University of New Orleans The Neighborhood Story Project: Documenting and Rebuilding Community Post-Katrina
Shana Walton, Academic displaced by Katrina "I'm tired of beautiful sunsets": A Report on Life at Little Black Creek
COMMENT:
Don Mitchell, Syracuse University
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
306. Roundtable Discussion: Questions of Travel: U.S. Americans on Teaching American Studies at the John. F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Andrew Steven Gross, Free University, Berlin
PAPERS:
Paul Lauter, Trinity College Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Jules Chametzky, University Massachusetts, Amherst Rethinking Marxisms at the Kennedy Institute in the 1970s.
Hortense Spillers, Cornell University Reflections on Teaching at the John F. Kennedy Institute
COMMENT:
Ulla Haselstein, Free University, Berlin
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
307. Christianity, Culture, and the Cold War Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Ann Douglas, Columbia University
PAPERS:
Leilah Danielson, Northern Arizona University "Of Holy Disobedience": A.J. Muste, Christianity, and the Struggle against the Bomb
Jason Stevens, Harvard University Lest We Be Innocent: Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and the Rise of the Christian Right
Jason Bivins, North Carolina State University The Religion of Fear: Horror, Identity, and Politics in Conservative Evangelicalism This Paper will be presented by Leilah Danielson of Northern
Arizona University
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
308. Roundtable Discussion: "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore:" Critical-constructive Dialogue on (Trans)National Identities Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland
CHAIR:
James C. Early, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
PRESENTERS:
Joby Taylor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Linda Burnham, Women of Color Resource Center Paula Botelho, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Beverly Bickel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
309. Enemies at the Gates? How European Immigrants Complicated American Identity after WWII Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
William Issel, San Francisco State University
PAPERS:
Kimber Marie Quinney, California State University, San Marcos My Enemy's Enemy is My Friend: Italian Immigrants and the Campaign to Defeat Italian Communism
Maddalena Marinari, University of Kansas "For Christian Charity:" The Catholic Church, the Cold War, and Italians' mobilization against Immigration Restriction
Monique Laney, University of Kansas Rethinking "Operation Paperclip": A Transnational Perspective
Krystyna T. Zamorska, Graduate Center, City University of New York Rhetorics and Aesthetics of the Cold War: Translating Dislocation after WWII
COMMENT:
Michael Ezra, Sonoma State University
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
310. Roundtable Discussion: Bridging las Américas: Transnational Feminisms and Subjectivities I Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Patricia Zavella, University of Californnia, Santa Cruz
PRESENTERS:
Sandra K. Soto, University of Arizona Deborah A. Paredez, U of Texas-Austin Laura Gutierrez, University of Arizona
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
311. Islam, Empire, and Early America Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
CHAIR:
Elaine Kim, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Steven Tobias, University of Washington Sacred Africa in the Secular, Cosmopolitical Imagination
Jacob Berman, Louisiana State University Nineteenth Century Travel in the Near East and the Landscape of American Optimism
Charlie Samuya Veric, Yale University Long Histories: Captivity Narrative, Abu Sayyaf, and Washington Irving
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
312. Transsexual, Transnational Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Ann Pellegrini, New York University
PAPERS:
Nancy Buffington, Stanford University The Traffic in Freaks: Performing Personal and National Identities in the 19th Century Sideshow
Michael David Franklin, University of Minnesota Christine Jorgensen and the Transnational Construction of Transsexual Whiteness
Robert Hill, University of Michigan Heterosexual Transvestism and the Contours of Cold War Gender and Sexuality
Joelle Ruby Ryan, Bowling Green State University Transnational Transgender: Reading Sexual Diversity in Cross-Cultural Contexts Through Film and Video
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
313. Transnational Pedagogies: I Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Raul Fernandez, University of California, Irvine
PAPERS:
Brandi S Hughes, Yale University "Afro-" Signifying: Locating Black Ethnicity within American Studies' Transnational Gaze
Timothy Raphael, Rutgers University The Pedagogy of Performance in a Transnational Context
Jim Hicks, Smith College So Where's the Ear of America?: The Untold Story of an American Studies Foreign Legion
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
314. Detecting Race: Rewriting Noir Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 206
CHAIR:
Ed Guerrero, New York University
PAPERS:
Stanley Orr, University of Hawaii, West Oahu Carlos Bulosan, John Okada, and Returning Veteran's Noir
Eve Dunbar, Vassar College Domestic Harlem: How Chester Himes (re)created Harlem and the detective genre
Gabriela Nunez, University of California, San Diego Higher Learning? The Space of the University in Chicana/o and Mexican Detective Fiction
Theodoor Louis D'haen, K.U.Leuven University Marlowe's Japanese Mirror
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
315. What's Left of Activism Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett C
CHAIR:
Katherine Kinney, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Hellen Lee-Keller, University of California, San Diego Regulating the "Social Evil": Representing Racialized Labor in San Francisco, 1868-1872
Mikiko Tachi, Chiba University Localizing Protest Songs: American Folk and Topical Songs in Japan in the 1960s and the 1970s
Jill Martins Swiencicki, California State University, Chico The Function of Polemic in Transnational Activist Rhetoric: The Case of Arundhati Roy
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
316. Alternative African-American Modernities: From the Time of the Great Migration to Postmodernity Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Elaine Kim, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Akiyo Ito Okuda, Keio University "Husbanding the Nation's Manhood": Walter Hines Page as a Promoter of American Imperialism
M. Giulia Fabi, University of Ferrara Transnationalism in Early African American Utopian Fiction
Paige McGinley, Brown University Mobile Modernisms: Staging the Rural South in Four Saints in Three Acts
Rita Keresztesi, University of Oklahoma Transnational Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay's Black Atlantic
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
317. Business Meeting of the California American Studies Association Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
318. Animals in the Americas Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 205
CHAIR:
Michael Lundblad, University of Virginia
PAPERS:
Marianne DeKoven, Rutgers University Animal Characteristics: Race, Gender and Dogs in Twentieth-Century American
Bethany Ridgway Schneider, Bryn Mawr The Snake at the End of the World: The Animal Prophecies of Leslie Marmon Silko and Giorgio Agamben
Mark Feldman, Stanford University Animal Pedagogies: Evolutionary Lines and Discontinuities
Neel Ahuja, University of California, San Diego U.S. Imperialism, the Rhesus Macaque, and the Biomedical
COMMENT:
Michael Lundblad, University of Virginia
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
319. Roundtable Discussion: Challenging the Corporate University: The NYU Strike, 2005-2006 Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 207
CHAIR:
Miabi Chatterji, New York University
PRESENTERS:
Michael Palm, New York University Adam Green, New York University Gordon Lafer, University of Oregon
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
320. Roundtable Discussion: Transcultural American Studies and Transdisciplinarity: Paradigms and Case Studies. A Roundtable Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland
CHAIRS:
Gesa Mackenthun, University of Rostock Guenter H. Lenz, Humboldt University, Berlin
PRESENTERS:
Antonis Balasopoulos, University of Cyprus Markus Heide, Humboldt University, Berlin Liam Kennedy, University College, Dublin Sheila Hones, University of Tokyo Rob Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
321. Roundtable Discussion: The New Negro Woman in Philosophy, Literature, and History Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett AB
CHAIR:
Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Hamilton College
PAPERS:
Kathryn Gines, Vanderbilt University Anna Julia Cooper: from the Black Women's Club Movement to New Negro Women
Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts, Boston "The Organized Anxiety of Women": New Negro Womanhood and the Compulsion of Beauty
Anastasia Curwood, Vanderbilt University The Marriage of the New Woman and the New Negro
COMMENT:
Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Hamilton College
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
322. Eric Walrond, the Caribbean, and Black Transnationalism Oakland Marriott City Center CS 1
CHAIR:
Prudence Cumberbatch, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
PAPERS:
Michelle Stephens, Mount Holyoke College The Archipelagic Americas: Eric Walrond's "Tropic Death" and the Continent of the New World
Rhonda D. Frederick, Boston College Genre and Eric Walrond's Equivocal Vision
James Davis, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Anticolonial on the River Avon: Eric Walrond's Black British Writing
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
323. Bodies Politic: Toxic Exposures and Global Public Health in a Transnational Frame Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 202
CHAIR:
Adam Sitze, Amherst College
PAPERS:
L. Joyce Z. Mariano, University of Minnesota Exposing a New Diaspora: Transnational Filipino American Organizing Around Public Health and Environmental Justice
Susanna Rankin Bohme, Brown University "Inconvenient Forum"?: The National and Transnational in the Pesticide-Affected Workers' Movement
Mary Elizabeth Strunk, Mount Holyoke College Vinyl Blues: Documenting Transnational PVC Poisonings in "Blue Vinyl: A Toxic Comedy"
COMMENT:
Susan Craddock, University of Minnesota
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
324. Roundtable Discussion: Telling Stories: Oral Histories, Popular Media and Historiography Oakland Marriott City Center CS 2/3
CHAIR:
Mary Desjardins, Dartmouth College
PAPERS:
Steven Classen, California State University, Los Angeles Topicality, Orality and Media Histories
Mark Williams, Dartmouth College Riffs and Alliances: Oral History, Jazz, and Historiography
Devorah Heitner, Northwestern University Finding Black Activists in the White Pages: The Pleasures and Ironies of Oral History
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
325. Popular Culture and the Global War on Terror: Configuring the GWOT for Consumption Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 203
CHAIR:
Anna Froula, University of Kentucky
PAPERS:
Karen Randell, Southampton Solent University After Iraq: Cultural Trauma and Hollywood
Jonathan Vincent, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Left Behind in America: Rapture Culture and the Army of One in the GWOT
Jeff Birkenstein, Saint Martin's University The First Broadside: The Op/Ed Fight Over Master and Commander
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
326. Citizens, Outcasts, and Enemies: Transnational War and Latino/a Agency Oakland Marriott City Center California
CHAIR:
Michael Soto, Trinity
University, San Antonio
PAPERS:
John M. González, University of Texas, Austin Cheno Cortina and Mexican-American Civil Rights in the Era of Jim Crow
Ben Olguin, University of Texas, San Antonio The Soldado Razo as Floating Signifier and the Limits of Latina/o Spatial Ontology
Jaime Javier Rodriguez, University of Notre Dame A War of Words: American Rhetorical Violence and Cultural Anxiety During the Mexican War
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
327. Autobiographical Hoaxes, Inside and Out Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 204
CHAIR:
Leigh Gilmore, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Julia Watson, Ohio State University Autobiography, Sham Lives, and "Truthiness"
Leigh Gilmore, University of California, Berkeley Transparency
Gillian Lea Whitlock, University of Queensland Traplines
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
328. Notes Towards a Femininity Studies: Critical Femininities and the Cosmologies of Queer Femme Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 208
CHAIR:
Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Stanford University
PAPERS:
Juana Maria Rodriguez, University of California, Davis Femme Gestures: Fragments from a Sexual Archive
Laura Harris, Pitzer College Confessions of the Pillow Queen: Sexual Practices & Queer Fem-ininities
Catriona Esquibel, San Francisco State University Entre dos Luces: A performance
Joon Oluchi Lee, Rhode Island School of Design Masturbating a Glitter: How to Make an American Vulva
Stacy Iene Macias, University of California, Los Angeles Femme Ontology: Queer Femininities and the Politics of Race On-line
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
329. Double Export Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 201
CHAIR:
Santiago Colas, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Robert Adams, University of Michigan Double Export Strategies of Colonel Sanders and Chairman Mao
Jerry Herron, Wayne State University Inside/Out Detroit and the Double Export of American Studies
Jason Young, University of Michigan Mutual Construction
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
330. Militarization and Domestic Identity Oakland Marriott City Center OCC 210/211
CHAIR:
Ji-Moon Suh, Korea University
PAPERS:
Christine Knauer, University of Tuebingen The African American Strife for the Integration of the Military and Questions of Manhood
Carrie Anne Platt, University of Southern California Takes a Family to Raise a Soldier: Racialized Masculinity and Militarism in Contemporary Army Recruitment
Laura Browder, Virginia Commonwealth University "Love My Rifle More than You": On the U.S. Female Soldier in Iraq
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
331. Narrating Violence and the Violence of Narration Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett GH
CHAIR:
Mariam Lam, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Joshua Chambers-Letson, New York University A Provisional Defense for the Cultural Defense: People v. Wu, Culture and Law
David Jason Leonard, Washington State University, C. Richard King, Washington State University Replaying Empire: Racialized Violence, Insecure Frontiers, and Displaced Terror
in Contemporary Video Games - This Paper Will Be Delivered In Absentia
A. Freya Thimsen, University of Pittsburgh The Tortured Subject: Confession and Testimony in States of Exception
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Babson College Living in the 'Awakened Dark': Racism and Genocide in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
332. Transnational Pedagogies: II Oakland Marriott City Center CS 4
CHAIR:
Kristen Brunnemer, University of California, Riverside
PAPERS:
Gregory Jay, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Teaching Transnationalism Through Service Learning
Betty Anderson, Boston University The American University of Beirut (AUB): Conflicts of Coeducation
Laura Bettencourt Pires, Universidade Católica Teaching American Studies in Portugal as a contribution to the future of university
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
333. Roundtable Discussion: Bridging las Americas: Transnational Feminisms and Subjectivities II Oakland Marriott City Center Jewett F
CHAIR:
Michelle Habell-Pallán, University of Washington
PRESENTERS:
Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, University of California, Santa Cruz Michelle Tellez, Arizona State University, West Maylei Blackwell, University of California, Los Angeles
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
334. Peralta Hacienda Historical Park Grand Re-opening-SRC/K12 sponsored Peralta Hacienda Historic Park (SRC 4) Peralta Hacienda Historic Park