Business Meeting of the American Studies Association Caucuses
Albuquerque Convention Center Nambe

8:00 am – 9:30 am

Breakfast Forum: Framing Visual Evidence: The Position of Visual and Popular Culture in American Studies (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)
Albuquerque Convention Center La Cienega

Stacy Jameson, University of California, Davis (CA)

Joan Fragaszy Troyano, George Washington University (DC)

Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame (IN)

Shawn Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Twentieth-Century Indigenous Music at the Crossroads: Activism and Cultural Traditions in Transition
Albuquerque Convention Center San Juan

Elizabeth Archuleta, Arizona State University (AZ)

Janis Johnson, University of Idaho (ID)
Indigenous Jazz in the Early-Mid Twentieth Century: A Local Example: The Nez Perce Tribe

Kimberli Lee, Michigan State University (MI)
Floyd Red Crow Westerman: Voice for the People

Jeff D. Berglund, Northern Arizona University (AZ)
Honoring Past and Future Generations: Blackfire's Punk-Metal Sovereignty Claims

Elizabeth Archuleta, Arizona State University (AZ)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Alternative Contact I: Race and Indigeneity in Hawai'i
Albuquerque Convention Center Jemez

Amy K. Stillman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

Dean Saranillio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
Seeing Hawai'i Statehood: Cultural Politics at the Intersections of Race and Indigeneity

Jodi A. Byrd, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
The Transit of Empire: Native Hawai'ian Reorganization and the Indian Contagion

Hokulani K. Aikau, University of Hawai'i, Manoa (HI)
Indigenous or Immigrants? Settler Colonialism at Losepa, Utah

Amy K. Stillman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Visions and Revisions: How to Build a High School American Studies Program (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)
Albuquerque Convention Center Laguna

Adam Golub, California State University, Fullerton (CA)

Jay Bonner, The Asheville School (NC)

John Gregory, The Asheville School (NC)

Katherine Engstrom, Oyster River High School (NH)

David Hawley, Oyster River High School (NH)

Jeffrey Stachura, Athens Academy (GA)

Jennifer Betts, The Howard School (GA)

Adam Golub, California State University, Fullerton (CA)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Historical Crosses: Religious Culture in Earlier America
Albuquerque Convention Center Sandia

Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University (AZ)

Justine S. Murison, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Fluids, Sparks, and Spirits in Antebellum America

Kyle B. Roberts, University of Pennsylvania (PA)
Ezra Stiles Ely and the Transformation of Urban Evangelicalism

Jordan Alexander Stein, University of Colorado, Boulder (CO)
Geographies of Redemption

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Crossing Borders: Political Theory and American Studies at the Crossroads
Albuquerque Convention Center Zuni

Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia (VA)

Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia (VA)
Black World, White Nation: Toward a Du Boisian Critical Internationalism

Joel Olson, Northern Arizona University (AZ)
The Political Culture of American Fanaticism: John Brown and Operation Rescue

Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College (MA)
Race and U.S. Settler Sovereignty

George Shulman, New York University (NY)
Prophecy as Vernacular Political Theology: Rhetorics of Redemption in American Politics

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Art and Engaged Citizenship: The Case of the LAB
Albuquerque Convention Center Isleta

Adam Lerner, independent scholar

Gillian Silverman, University of Colorado, Denver (CO)

Philip Joseph, University of Colorado, Denver (CO)

Elissa Auther, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (CO)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Digital Crossroads: Online Tools for Open and Collaborative Research
Albuquerque Convention Center Apache

Sharon M. Leon, George Mason University (VA)

David Lester, George Mason University (VA)

Jeremy Boggs, George Mason University (VA)

Trevor Owens, George Mason University (VA)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Elaine Tyler May, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand, Syracuse University (NY)
Trading Spaces: The Role of Women Soldiers in Bringing the Home Front to the War Front

Laura Browder, Virginia Commonwealth University (VA)
"The Mommy Mentality Left Me and the Marine Mentality Hit Me": Motherhood and Deployment

Judith E. Smith, University of Massachusetts, Boston (MA)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Lilia Fernandez, Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)

Richard T. Rodríguez, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
"Lakeshore Drive, I Too Have Stories": Sexuality and Chicago in Rane Arroyo

Rodolfo Aguilar, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
¡Bailamos! Situating Cultural Citizenship among Chicago's Sonidero Dance Groups and Dance Circles

Mirelsie Velazquez, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Bienvenidos Fellow Americans! Revisiting Puerto Rican Migration to Chicago, 1940–1966

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Media Matters: Access, Ownership, and Diversity
Albuquerque Convention Center Acoma

Elizabeth Blackmar, Columbia University (NY)

Margaret Garb, Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
Setting Agendas, Claiming Rights: The Urban Black Press in Post-Reconstruction Politics

David Suisman, University of Delaware (DE)
Music, the Culture Industry, and the Paradox of the Democratized Audience

Elena Razlogova, Concordia University (Canada)
Postwar Disk Jockeys and the Social Production of Music Radio

Elizabeth Blackmar, Columbia University (NY)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Reexamining Early Twentieth-Century South Asian American Histories
Albuquerque Convention Center Picuris

Nayan Shah, University of California, San Diego (CA)

Vivek Bald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
Hands Across the Water: Indian Muslim Maritime Workers and U.S. Port-City Desertion, 1890–1950

Seema Sohi, University of Colorado, Boulder (CO)
Antiradicalism, Anticolonialism, and Repressing the "Hindu Menace": The Chicago, San Francisco, and Lahore Conspiracy Trials, 1915–1918

Sujani Reddy, New York University (NY)
Woman's Work for Woman: U.S.-Based Medical Missionaries and the Roots of Indian Nursing Labor

8:00 am – 9:45 am

East Goes Western: Seeing the Cowboy through Korean and Korean American Eyes
Albuquerque Convention Center Navajo

Christopher F. Packard, New York University (NY)

Cyrus R. K. Patell, New York University (NY)
The Korean American Cowboy

Jae H. Roe, Sogang University (South Korea)
The Virginian: "Only a Good Soldier" in Wister's Class War

Kyung-Sook Boo, Sogang University (South Korea)
Ever on Patrol: John Ford's Ethan Edwards and George W. Bush's America

Christopher F. Packard, New York University (NY)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Remembrance and Re-vision: Alternative Genealogies of Race
Albuquerque Convention Center Taos

Grace Kyungwon Hong, University of California, Los Angeles (CA)

Arlene Keizer, University of California, Irvine (CA)

Helen Quan, Arizona State University (AZ)

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, San Francisco State University (CA)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Black Poetry Matters: Black Poetry at the Crossroads of Subalternity and Cultural Studies
Albuquerque Convention Center Tijeras

James Braxton Peterson, Bucknell University (PA)

Herman Beavers, University of Pennsylvania (PA)
Seduction of Empire: Triads of Critique in Thieves of Paradise

Paul M. Farber, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
Poetic Looks: Documentary Toward a Queer of Color Critique

Meta DuEwa Jones, University of Texas, Austin (TX)
Does American Studies Neglect African American Poetry?

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Public Art and Historic Preservation
Albuquerque Convention Center Tesuque

Catherine Gudis, University of California, Riverside (CA)

Amber Nicole Wiley, George Washington University (DC)
School Grounds Turned Battleground for Preservation: The Case of Dunbar High School in Washington, DC

Jennifer Doyle, University of California, Riverside (CA)
Critical Limits: Difficulty and the case of Santiago Sierra's Sumision

Amy Koritz, Tulane University (LA)
Culture and Community after Crisis: Rebuilding through the Arts in New Orleans

Mary Corbin Sies, University of Maryland, College Park (MD)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Remembering and Representing Native American Pasts
Albuquerque Convention Center Ruidoso

Charles E. Mitchell, Elmira College (NY)

Andrew Newman, State University of New York, Stony Brook (NY)
Who Remembers Penn's Treaty? The Radical Early Historiography of Pennsylvania's Founding Legend

Beth Piatote, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Blessed Kateri: Transformative Journeys of a Mohawk Saint in the Works of McNickle and Alexie

Matthew Dealon Thompson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)
Another Crossroads on the Horizon: Three Narratives of the Past and More to Come as the Eastern Band Cherokee Rewrite Their History for Tourists and Themselves

María Eugenia Cotera, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Julius Bailey, University of Redlands (CA)

Michelle D. Commander, University of Southern California (CA)
Black Americans at an Intra-Diasporic Crossroad: Journeying to Bahia, Brazil, 1980–Present

Andrea O'Reilly Herrera, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (CO)
Cuban Diasporic Identity Formation in a Post-national Context

Lawrence Jackson, Emory University (GA)
The American Society of African Culture 1958–1959: the Cold War, the CIA, and the Birth of Black Literary Revolt

Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University (CA)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Race and Gender in American Dance
Albuquerque Convention Center Santo Domingo

Amira Jarmakani, Georgia State University (GA)

Brian Su-Jen Chung, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
Choreographic Citizenship: Race, Bodies, and Hip-Hop Dance Groups at the University of Michigan

Tresa Randall, Ohio University (OH)
Dance at the Crossroads: Constructing American Dance

Anthea Kraut, University of California, Riverside (CA)
Race, Gender, and the Struggle for Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance

Brian Herrera, University of New Mexico (NM)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Innocence and Complicity: Contemporary Rhetorics of Victimhood, Violence, and Justice
Albuquerque Convention Center Picuris

Renee Heberle, University of Toledo (OH)

Karen Cardozo, Amherst College (MA)
"Innocence" Found: Unmasking "Civilian" Complicity in Martha Rosler's Bringing the War Home

Jerry Miller, Haverford College in Pennsylvania (PA)
Procured Purity

Kathleen Ryan, West Virginia University (WV)
The Death Penalty and Innocence on Trial

Melanie Boyd, Yale University (CT)
Innocence and Intimacy: Testimonial Politics in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues

Renee Heberle, University of Toledo (OH)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Kill Them with Love: Punk and Performance, Race and Gender
Albuquerque Convention Center San Juan

Judith Halberstam, University of Southern California (CA)

Jayna Brown, University of California, Riverside (CA)
Go Wild! Annabella Lwin, Multicultural London, and the Post-Punk Era

Drew Daniel, Johns Hopkins University (MD)
The Special People Club: Scenes from the New Queer Minstrelsy

Travis A. Jackson, University of Chicago (IL)
Post-Punk Sound and Vision: Empire, Pastiche, and Primitivism

Tavia Nyong'o, New York University (NY)
Lipstick Traces: Punk Historiography and Sexual Dissidence

Judith Halberstam, University of Southern California (CA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Alternative Contact II: Contesting American (Indian) Lands and Nations
Albuquerque Convention Center Jemez

Chadwick Allen, Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)

Pauline Wakeham, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Volatile "Homelands" in Post-9/11 Indian Country

Jeanne Sokolowski, Indiana University–Bloomington (IN)
Dependent Nations at Home and Abroad in Gerald Vizenor's Hiroshima Bugi

Robert F. Castro, California State University, Fullerton (CA)
Purging Mixed-Blood Wars: Treaty-Making, Treaty-Breaking, and Reciprocal Captive-Taking

Tol Foster, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)
All I Know Is Just What I Read in the Papers: The Will Rogers Paradox

Chadwick Allen, Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

International Committee Talkshop III: The State of Women's Studies Around the World
Albuquerque Convention Center Cochiti

Isabel Duran, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)

Jay Kleinberg, Brunel University, Uxbridge (United Kingdom)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

The Crossroads of Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, and Desire
Albuquerque Convention Center Navajo

Neill Matheson, University of Texas, Arlington (TX)

Katie Hogan, Carlow College (PA)
Queering Environmental Justice

Rachel Stein, Siena College (NY)
The Nature of Dislocation and Desire: The Poetry of Adrienne Rich and Minnie Bruce Pratt

Giovanna Di Chiro, Mount Holyoke College (MA)
Polluted Politics? Confronting Toxic Discourse, Sex Panic, and Eco-Normativity

Noel Sturgeon, Washington State University, Pullman (WA)
Penguin Family Values: The Nature of Environmental Reproductive Justice

Stacy Alaimo, University of Texas, Arlington (TX)
Eluding Capture: The Science, Culture, and Pleasure of Queer Animals

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Masculinities Meeting at the Crossroads of Religion and Sex: The Kite Runner in America
Albuquerque Convention Center Sandia

David Harrington Watt, Temple University (PA)

Heather Rachelle White, Vassar College (NY)

Ann Pellegrini, New York University (NY)

Timothy Marr, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)

Rosemary Hicks, Columbia University (NY)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Origin Stories: National Identities and Hegemonic Memories in the American Southwest, 1898–1940
Albuquerque Convention Center Zuni

Maria Montoya, New York University (NY)

John Nieto-Phillips, Indiana University–Bloomington (IN)
The Rhetoric and Reach of "Hispanidad": From Village to Ivory Tower

Brian Luna Lucero, University of New Mexico (NM)
Spaces and Silences: Old Town and the Spanish Origin Myth of Albuquerque

Geraldo Lujan Cadava, Yale University (CT)
The Real and the Reel in Columbia Pictures' Film, Arizona (1940): Projecting Memories and Futures of the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands

Maria Montoya, New York University (NY)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Onshore and Offshore: American Studies for Export
Albuquerque Convention Center Mesilla

Zachary Schwartz-Weinstein, New York University (NY)

Liam Kennedy, University College Dublin (Ireland)
The Vanishing Americanists

Chris Newfield, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
Accelerating the Crisis: The American University Abroad

Nina Morgan, Kennesaw State University (GA)
Transnational American Studies: The Challenge of New Programs in the Context of North Africa

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Reading Contemporary U.S. Political Memoirs
Albuquerque Convention Center Acoma

Elizabeth Skewes, University of Colorado, Boulder (CO)

Jan Whitt, University of Colorado, Boulder (CO)
The Gray Zone: Hillary Clinton and the Ways We Live History

Stephanie Li, University of Rochester (NY)
The Making of Barack Obama

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Crossroads with Various Intersections: (Geo)Cultural and Ethnic "Triple/Multiple Consciousness" in a Transnational Age
Albuquerque Convention Center Apache

Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside (CA)

Jana Heczkov', Masaryk University (Czech Republic)
A Multiple Consciousness of a Text: Narrative Techniques in Jhumpa Lahiri and Jeffrey Eugenides

Birgit M. Bauridl, University of Regensburg (Germany)
Rowing for Palestine, Performing the Crossroads, Living Multiple Consciousness: Mark Gerban and Suheir Hammad

Ingrid Gessner, University of Regensburg (Germany)
Creations of a Triple-Conscious Mind: Tamiko Thiel's Transnational Virtual Reality Installations

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Elena Gutiérrez, University of Illinois, Chicago (IL)

Lena McQuade, University of New Mexico (NM)
Delivering Babies, Constructing Race: Racialized Reproductive Health in Early Twentieth-Century New Mexico

Sheryl Nestel, Independent Scholar
Feminist Projects, Imperial Locations: North American Midwifery and the Commodification of Third World Mothers

Lauren Berliner, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Reproduction in Cyberspace: The Digital Intersection Between Donors and Recipients on Fertility Clinic Web Sites

Paula Ioanide, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
Post–Civil Rights Nativism: Anti-Immigrant Housing Ordinances, Overpopulation Discourses, and the Centrality of Reproductive Politics

10:00 am – 11:45 am

At the Crossroads of Children's Studies and American Studies: Intersections, Possibilities, Challenges
Albuquerque Convention Center Tijeras

Carol J. Singley, Rutgers University, Camden (NJ)

Anna Mae Duane, University of Connecticut (CT)

Paula S. Fass, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

Lucia Hodgson, University of Southern California (CA)

Caroline F. Levander, Rice University (TX)

Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Amherst College (MA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Clashes and Alliances: Reframing America and the Middle East
Albuquerque Convention Center Isleta

Evelyn Alsultany, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

Atef Shahat Said, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
Old Wine in a New Bottle: When Egyptian Anti-Imperialism Becomes Anti-Americanism and Vice-Versa

Paul Dambowic, Pratt Institute (NY)
Beyond the Clash of Civilizations Debate: From "Dialogue Among" to "Alliance of" Nations and Civilizations

Kate McCullough, Cornell University (NY)
Articulating the Past and Present in Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz

Sally L. Kitch, Arizona State University (AZ)
Women Spoken "About" But Not "With": New Grounds for Transnational Feminist Theory

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Rita Cano Alcala, Scripps College (CA)

Mario T. Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
Pedagogy of Chicano Power: Sal Castro, Paulo Freire, and the Mexican American Youth Leadership Conferences, 1963–1968

Thomas Carrasco, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
Days of Troy: A Retrospective Ethnography of Oppositional Performance in Los Angeles' Troy Cafe, 1990–1995

Cathyrn Josefina Merla-Watson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Rendering Third Spaces: Project MASA, Decolonial Imaginaries, and the Redistribution of the Visual

Natalia Molina, University of California, San Diego (CA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

David Roediger, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)

Shaun Ramdin, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
The Guilty Subject: Frederick Douglass and the Racialized Limits of Freedom

Edlie L. Wong, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ)
Fictions of Free Travel: Black Nativism and the Law of Passports

Adam Lewis, University of California, San Diego (CA)
The Quiet Little Republic: Liberia, the United States, and the Sentiment of Success

Francesca Sawaya, University of Oklahoma (OK)
That Friendship of Whites: Philanthropy in Booker T. Washington and Charles Chesnutt

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Picturing Culture: The Politics of Image and Illustration
Albuquerque Convention Center Tesuque

Marion Leeson Rust, University of Kentucky (KY)

Derrick R. Spires, Vanderbilt University (TN)
James McCune Smith's "Heads of the Colored People" and the Politics of Representing Free Black Labor in the Antebellum United States

Benjamin Fagan, University of Virginia (VA)
A View of Jerusalem from the West: Religious Illustrations and Expansionist Discourses in The Colored American

Eric Castillo, University of New Mexico (NM)
Radical Subjectivities: Rethinking Agency on the U.S-Mexico Border

Janice Simon, University of Georgia (GA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Meredith Moody, Pittsburg State University (KS)

Stacy I. Morgan, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (AL)
Frankie and Johnny and the Uses of African American Folklore in the 1930s

Nathalie op de Beeck, Illinois State University (IL)
Industrial Folklore and Pictorial Narrative

Mikiko Tachi, Chiba University (Japan)
Transpacific Crossroads of American Folk Music: The U.S. and Japanese Constructions of Folk and Otherness

10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Business Meeting of the 2009 Program Committee
Albuquerque Convention Center Nambe

10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Breakfast Forum: Getting Great Advising: A Workshop for Graduate Students (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)
Albuquerque Convention Center La Cienega

Ami Sommariva, University of California, Davis (CA)

Sharon Heijin Lee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

Jenny Moffitt, Florida State University (FL)

Joan Fragaszy Troyano, George Washington University (DC)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Coloring Outside the Lines: Performing Race in Children's Books
Albuquerque Convention Center Santa Ana

Cecelia Tichi, Vanderbilt University (TN)

Jennifer A. Hughes, Emory University (GA)
The Right to Laugh: Children, Race, and Humorous Publication in Antebellum America

Michelle H. Martin, Clemson University (SC)
Performing Race, Performing Music, and Black Identity: The Sad-Faced Boys of Arna Bontemps

Philip Nel, Kansas State University (KS)
The Black Cat in the Hat: Seuss and Race in the 1950s

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads
Albuquerque Convention Center Navajo

David Pellow, University of California, San Diego (CA)

Lisa Park, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Race, Migration, and the Politics of Environmentalism: The Case of Aspen, CO

Kim Ruffin, Roosevelt University (IL)
Toil and Soil: Authorizing Enslaved Ecological Work and Rites

Julie Sze, University of California, Davis (CA)
Women and Water: Violence and Environmental Justice at the U.S. Borders

Mario Sifuentez, Brown University (RI)
Whip that Hoedad in the Ground: Race and Nation in the National Forest

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Policing the Crisis: On the Importance of Stuart Hall
Albuquerque Convention Center Mesilla

Avery F. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)

Hazel Carby, Yale University (CT)

Nikhil Pal Singh, New York University (NY)

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, University of Southern California (CA)

Adam Green, University of Chicago (IL)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Beautiful Kitsch and Random Form: The Role of Aesthetics in the Politics of Access
Albuquerque Convention Center Tijeras

Barry Shank, Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)

Janice Radway, Duke University (NC)

Gayle Wald, George Washington University (DC)

Mimi Thi Nguyen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Alternative Contact III: Mixed-Race Indigeneity
Albuquerque Convention Center Jemez

Renya K. Ramirez, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)

Mark J. Miller, City University of New York, Hunter College (NY)
Massa, Massa-Mister, Mister: The "Degraded African" in William Apess' A Son of the Forest (1829)

Karen Mary Davalos, Loyola Marymount University (CA)
Guadalupe/Tonanzin/Coatlicue: Indigeneity in the Art of Yolanda M. Lopez

Lindsey Claire Smith, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater (OK)
Global Indigeneity in Greg Sarris's Watermelon Nights

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran, Michigan State University (MI)
(Not) New Mestizas: Inter-Indigenous Sovereign Protocols and Chicana/Tribal Native Womanist Literary Praxes

Renya K. Ramirez, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Cultural Crossroads: Middlebrow and the (Re)making of American Studies
Albuquerque Convention Center Apache

Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester (NY)

Jaime Harker, University of Mississippi (MS)

Julia Ehrhardt, University of Oklahoma (OK)

Lisa Botshon, University of Maine, Augusta (ME)

Deborah Lindsey Williams, Iona College (NY)

Jennifer Parchesky, Arizona State University (AZ)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Shirley Samuels, Cornell University (NY)

Robin Bernstein, Harvard University (MA)
Joel Chandler Harris's Reconstruction of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Ellen Gruber Garvey, New Jersey City University (NJ)
Scissoring In: Black Newspaper Reading, Scrapbooks, and the Public Sphere

Holly Jackson, Skidmore College (NY)
Resisting Reunion: The Failed National Marriage Plot in Anna Dickinson's What Answer?

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: A Figurational Approach to American Studies
Albuquerque Convention Center Isleta

Astrid Gabriele Franke, Universitaet Tuebingen (Germany)

Christa Buschendorf, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Germany)
Civilizing Process and Power: Race Relations as Established-Outsider Figurations—The Case of Jesse Hill Ford's "The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones"

Anthony Baker, Campbell University (NC)
Between Civilization and Barbarism: Norbert Elias, "Figuration," and the Nat Turner Rebellion

Jesse Battan, California State University, Fullerton (CA)
"De-Civilizing" Sexuality? Intimacy, Erotic Life, and Social Change in Modern America

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Taking the "Crossroads" Literally: Reenactments of Historical Journeys and the Bodily Performance of America
Albuquerque Convention Center Taos

Carol Medlicott, Northern Kentucky University (KY)

Robert Heinrich, Brandeis University (MA)
"To Walk in the Footsteps of History": Civil Rights Movement Anniversary Celebrations in Montgomery, Alabama

Sandra Koelle, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
Rites of Passage: The Corps of Discovery Bicentennial and the Commemorations of Indian Trails

Jeffrey Kosiorek, University of Mississippi (MS)
Memory, Republican Virtue, and Commemoration in Nineteenth-Century America

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

U.S. Latinos/as at War: Identity and Citizenship at the Crossroads and in the Cross Hairs
Albuquerque Convention Center Pecos

Hector A. Torres, University of New Mexico (NM)

Jesse Aleman, University of New Mexico (NM)
Wars of Rebellion: U.S. Latino/a Writings and the American Civil War

Catherine Ramirez, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
Queering the Zoot Suit

Lorena Oropeza, University of California, Davis (CA)
The War at Home: Chicano/a Activism against the Vietnam Conflict

Hector Amaya, Southwestern University (TX)
Deadly Civics: Performing Citizenship, Latino Masculinities, and Military Service

Ernesto Chavez, University of Texas, El Paso (TX)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Ghost Notes and Spirit Moves: What Jazz Studies Doesn't Hear
Albuquerque Convention Center San Juan

Scott A. Saul, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

Paul Anderson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
Moodsville: Ellington's Indigos and the Domestic Policy of Jazz

Emily J. Lordi, Columbia University (NY)
Disembodied Voices: Ralph Ellison on Mahalia Jackson

Brian Hochman, Harvard University (MA)
Ghost Notes: Nathaniel Mackey on Miles Davis

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism in the Progressive-Era Settlement Movement
Albuquerque Convention Center Zuni

Daphne Spain, University of Virginia (VA)

Emily Mieras, Stetson University (FL)
College Students, Social Responsibility, and Settlement House Work in the Progressive-Era United States

Melinda DiStefano, Duke University (NC)
"Our feet are mired in the same soil": Cultivating Natural Citizens in the Settlement House

Jamin Rowan, Boston College (MA)
The Quest for "Cosmopolitan Affection": W. E. B. Du Bois and the Settlement Movement

Marcia Chatelain, University of Oklahoma (OK)
Louise de Koven Bowen's The Colored People of Chicago: Racial Uplift and African American Childhoods

Daphne Spain, University of Virginia (VA)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

At the Crossroads of Feminism, Race, and American Studies
Albuquerque Convention Center Cochiti

Jennifer D. Williams, Michigan State University (MI)

Stephanie Batiste, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
The Gods Were Dancing and We Were Soon to Join Them: Performance, Knowledge, and the Body in Hurston and Dunham

Kimberly Nichele Brown, Texas A&M University, College Station (TX)
Black Like Who? Blackface as Catharsis and Revolution in Grace Halsell's Soul Sister

Eve E. Dunbar, Vassar College (NY)
"Between Laughter and Tears": The Difficulty of Black Cosmopolitanism in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men and Tell My Horse

Lynn Makau, Michigan State University (MI)
Sycophants and Slaves: Codependency in American Women's Literature

Christina Sharpe, Tufts University (MA)
Race at the Crossroads of Belonging

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Black Detroit and Beyond: At the Crossroads of Color, Culture, and Community.
Albuquerque Convention Center Sandia

Angela D. Dillard, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

Elizabeth Esch, Barnard College (NY)
The Ford Motor Company: Colonization from Detroit to the Detroit of South Africa

Anthony Foster Macias, University of California, Riverside (CA)
"Detroit Was Heavy": "Creative Jazz Music" and African American Expressive Culture

Scott Kurashige, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
Rereading Vincent Chin: Race, Masculinity, and the Crisis of Community in Postindustrial Detroit

Angela D. Dillard, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

"See-Saw": A Performance by Jeffrey Q. McCune
Albuquerque Convention Center Ruidoso

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Andrew Ryan Cornell, New York University (NY)

John Carr, University of New Mexico (NM)
Activist Research and the Stories We Tell: Lessons from Youth-Based Public Scholarship

Masumi Izumi, Doshisha University (Japan)
Dharma Activists: Transnational Connections in Identity and Activism of Japanese and Japanese American Buddhists

Maureen Fitzgerald, College of William and Mary (VA)
Sovereignty and Social Justice: Twenty-First-Century Immigrant Activism and the Construction (or Deconstruction) of the Nation State

Dan Berger, University of Pennsylvania (PA)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming (WY)

David William Seitz, University of Pittsburgh (PA)
Let Him Remain Until the Judgment in France: Letters About Burying World War I Dead

Chris Rasmussen, Fairleigh Dickinson University (NJ)
Political Satire in the 1930s: The Veterans of Future Wars

Kathy M. Newman, Carnegie Mellon University (PA)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Asia/Pacific/America: Contact Zones
Albuquerque Convention Center Santo Domingo

Larry L. Stuelpnagel, Northwestern University (IL)

Robin Li, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Peripheral Vision: Chinese/American Women and Cinematic Consumption in the Mid-Century Period

Da Zheng, Suffolk University (MA)
Sampan, A Bilingual Bridge: On Sociocultural Functions of Bilingualism

Yuka Tsuchiya, Ehime University (Japan)
The U.S. Cold War Information Dissermination Campaign in Asia: Local Contexts and National Identities

Wen Jin, Columbia University (NY)

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

K–16 Collaboration Committee Luncheon
Albuquerque Convention Center Laguna

Please note that the K–16 Collaboration Luncheon requires a ticket. Early reservations are advised because tickets are available in limited quantities. NO tickets will be sold after 5:00 pm Friday, October 17, 2008. Cost of tickets is $15 for regular members, $8 for students, $5 for international scholars.

Lois Rudnick
Change We Can Believe In: American studies and the (Re)formation of Education

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Orientalism and American Studies: Locating Edward Said
Albuquerque Convention Center Mesilla

Moustafa Bayoumi, City University of New York, Brooklyn College (NY)

Alex Lubin, University of New Mexico (NM)
Black Orientalism

John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California (CA)
Edward Said's Critique of Orientalism and American Studies

Malini Johar Schueller, University of Florida (FL)
Neoliberal Feminism, Orientalism, and the Middle East

Harilaos Stecopoulos, University of Iowa (IA)
Orientalism and U.S. Empire Studies

Moustafa Bayoumi, City University of New York, Brooklyn College (NY)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Maneuvering Race, Labor, and Place in America's Cities: Tactical Survival in an Urban Context
Albuquerque Convention Center Apache

Kevin Mumford, University of Iowa (IA)

Elizabeth Ruth Schroeder, College of William and Mary (VA)
"The Stroll," 35th and State Streets: Black Public Space on the South Side of Chicago

Robert Hawkins, Saint Louis University (MO)
"Natural Born Eastmen Don't Have to Work": Masculinity, Vagrancy Law, and Furry Lewis's Kassie Jones

Brooke Butler, University of California, Davis (CA)
Fortune-tellers in the Great Southern Babylon: Work Display as Cultural Production in New Orleans' Jackson Square

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Critical Regionalism and American Studies: The Comparative Case of Chicana/o Regionalisms (Sponsored by the Site Resource Committee)
Albuquerque Convention Center Cochiti

Michael L. Trujillo, University of New Mexico (NM)

Jose E. Limon, University of Texas, Austin (TX)
Northern New Mexico and Southern Texas: Critical Regions?

Jose F. Aranda, Rice University (TX)
The Lincoln County War Revisited: Place, Race, and Memory

Jennifer Rose Najera, University of California, Riverside (CA)
Painting the Border: Art as Critical Regionalism in South Texas

A. Gabriel Melendez, University of New Mexico (NM)
Bifurcations and Disavowels: Americo Paredes and Angélico Chavez on the Camino Real to Aztlán

Cheryl Temple Herr, University of Iowa (IA)

Genaro M. Padilla, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Scholarly Reportage: American Studies Meets Journalism, Ethnography, and Creative Nonfiction
Albuquerque Convention Center Taos

Carlo Rotella, Boston College (MA)

Andrew Ross, New York University (NY)
The Case for Scholarly Reportage

Michael Elliott, Emory University (GA)
American Studies and Its Publics

Joan Burbick, Washington State University, Spokane (WA)
Cultural Studies as a Practice of Language

Carlo Rotella, Boston College (MA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Changing the Subject: New Perspectives on Gender and Racial Identification
Albuquerque Convention Center Sandia

Mia Bay, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ)

Miles Parks Grier, New York University (NY)
"I Was Ashamed to Be Seen to Look at Them": Black Characters in the Remaking of Transatlantic Whiteness

Stephanie Hsu, New York University (NY)
Racial Analogy and the Claustrophobia of Identity in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room

Andre Carrington, Skidmore College (NY)
The Myth of the Superwoman in Speculative Fictions of the Long 1970s

Diana Paulin, Yale University (CT)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Critical Race Feminism and the Literary Imagination of Law
Albuquerque Convention Center Acoma

Angela P. Harris, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

Denise Da Silva, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Law's Labour's Lost? The Racial Limits of the Human Rights Programme

Lynne Huffer, Emory University (GA)
Lawrence's Silence

Sora Y. Han, University of California, Irvine (CA)
The Epistolary Landscape of Mass Incarceration

Angela P. Harris, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

The Religious Left in Modern America (Sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)
Albuquerque Convention Center Pecos

Mark D. Hulsether, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (TN)

Tona J. Hangen, Brandeis University (MA)
Arks of Hope and God Boxes: Enacting Pacifism at the United Nations

Heather Rachelle White, Vassar College (NY)
Revising Sex, Defining Sin: Homosexuality in the Mainline Protestant Denominational Statements, 1967–1972

David R. Swartz, University of Notre Dame (IN)
Left Behind: The Young Evangelicals and the Politicization of American Evangelicalism, 1965–1985

Mark D. Hulsether, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (TN)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Race, Nature, and Nation at the Crossroads II
Albuquerque Convention Center Navajo

Anne Baker, North Carolina State University (NC)

Sarah Wald, Brown University (RI)
The "Clouded Citizenship" of Rooted Families: Natural Grounds of National Belonging in Hiroshi Nakamura's Treadmill

Traci Brynne Voyles, University of California, San Diego (CA)
At Home on the Front End: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Militarized Environmental Racism

Joni Adamson, Arizona State University (AZ)
Do Race, Class, and Environmental Justice Still Matter? Critiquing Breakthrough and the "New" Environmental Movements

COMMENT: Vera Norwood, University of New Mexico (NM)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Between Local and Transnational: Considering American Studies from Positions in the Regionals
Albuquerque Convention Center Tijeras

Jane Simonsen, Augustana College (IL)

Jane Simonsen, Augustana College (IL)

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Betsy Klimasmith, University of Massachusetts, Boston (MA)

Charles Kupfer, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg (PA)

T. V. Reed, Washington State University, Pullman (WA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

African American Women at the Crossroads: Identity, Memory, and the Creation of a Useable Past
Albuquerque Convention Center Santo Domingo

Terri L. Snyder, California State University, Fullerton (CA)
At the Crossroads of Despair: Suicide, Slavery, and Gender in Transatlantic Perspective

Sharon E. Wood, University of Nebraska, Omaha (NE)
At the Crossroads of Documents and Desires: Priscilla Baltimore, Liberator of Slaves?

Isabell Klaiber, University of Tübingen (Germany)
At the Crossroads of Canonization: Pauline E. Hopkins' Famous Women of the Negro Race

Angelita D. Reyes, Arizona State University (AZ)

James Sidbury, University of Texas, Austin (TX)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

If You Meet a Punk at the Crossroads, Kill the Buddha: Punk Rock and the Politics of Geolocality
Albuquerque Convention Center San Juan

Nicholas Sammond, University of Toronto (Canada)

Kevin Dunn, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (NY)

Charles Bertsch, University of Arizona (AZ)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Mock Job Interview Workshop (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)
Albuquerque Convention Center La Cienega

Thomas Gordon Perrin, University of Chicago (IL)

Jee-Eun Song, University of California, Davis (CA)

Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware (DE)

Yvette Piggush, Florida International University (FL)

Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez, Arizona State University (AZ)

Patricia Hills, Boston University (MA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Theories in American Studies III: Class
Albuquerque Convention Center Santa Ana

Mike Hill, State University of New York, Albany (NY)

Pete Franks, University of Illinois, Chicago (IL)
Teaching Class: Reading, Writing, and American Studies at an Urban Research University

Marc Bousquet, Santa Clara University (CA)
Who is the You in You Tube? Class Composition on a High-Speed Connection

Jeffrey Williams, Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Student Debt and the Spirit of Indenture

Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University (NC)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

At the Crossroads of Technology and Transnationalism: A Conversation with Michael Adas (Sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)
Albuquerque Convention Center Zuni

Carolyn Thomas De La Peña, University of California, Davis (CA)

Michael Adas, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ)

Joel Dinerstein, Tulane University (LA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Cross-Cultural Encounters: Person-Centered Approaches
Albuquerque Convention Center Isleta

Jessica Johnston, University of Canterbury (New Zealand)

Janusz Kazmierczak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
A Polish Writer's Encounter with the United States:Andrzej Kijowski's American Journey

Rukhsana Qamber, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan)
Artistic Journeys: Art and the Pakistani Immigrant Artist

Caitlin Boston, London School of Economics (United Kingdom)
Constructing the Culture of "Home": The Experiences of Korean American Transracial/Transnational Adoptees

John L. Caughey, University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Imagining Real Violence: American Experience in Contemporary Pakistan

Jessica Johnston, University of Canterbury (New Zealand)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Reflections on Race in Comparative Ethnic Studies
Albuquerque Convention Center Picuris

Daryl J. Maeda, University of Colorado, Boulder (CO)

Caroline H. Yang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Race and Labor in the "Propaganda of History": Comparative Analysis of Charles and Mary Beard's The Rise of American Civilization and W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America

Julia Lee, University of Texas, Austin (TX)
The Racial Railroad: Traversing Technology, Space, and the Color Lines in Twentieth-Century American Ethnic Literature

Nestor Rodriguez, University of Houston (TX)
Challenges of Comparative Race/Ethnic Research in Multidimensional Immigrant Settings

Daryl J. Maeda, University of Colorado, Boulder (CO)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Gatherings of Nations: American Indian Song, Dance, Art, and Exhibitions
Albuquerque Convention Center Jemez

Margaret Archuleta, University of New Mexico (NM)

Brenda Child, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
The Jingle Dress in Ojibwe History

Jenny E. Tone-Pah-Hote, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Contested Arenas: The Kiowa Five, Dance Performance, and Art Sales at Gallup Ceremonial

John W. Troutman, University of Louisiana, Lafayette (LA)
Defeating the Dance Ban: Pueblo Resistance, the Press, and the Federal Government's 1923 "Message to All Indians"

Margaret Archuleta, University of New Mexico (NM)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Shelton Waldrep, University of Southern Maine (ME)

Christopher Lindsay Turner, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian (DC)
Interlopers, Painters, and Treaty Negotiators: Representing Hybridity on the Frontier and at the National Museum of the American Indian

Charles D. Martin, University of Central Missouri (MO)
American Mummy: Manifest Destiny, the Antiquities Act, and the Native American Dead

Anne Bruder, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)
Spinning Solace in Jane Addams's Hull-House Labor Museum

Charles McGovern, College of William and Mary (VA)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Coloring America: (Dis)Identifying Hues and Shades of Latinidad(es) through Diverse Approaches to U.S. Latina/o Culture
Albuquerque Convention Center Santa Ana

Phyllis Palmer, George Washington University (DC)

Tanya González, Kansas State University (KS)
Working in the Middle: The Intersections of Chicana Theory and Latina Practice

Maythee Rojas, California State University, Long Beach (CA)
Frontin' and Forefronting: Latino Masculinity in Junot Diaz's Drown and Eric Eason's Manito

Raúl Rubio, Wellesley College (MA)
Ethnic Exoticism: The Latina/o Contingent in Queer Stand-up Comedy

Jeremy L. Lehnen, University of New Mexico (NM)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Transpacific American Studies: Texts and Methods
Albuquerque Convention Center Picuris

Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawai'i, Manoa (HI)

Gayle K. Sato, Meiji University (Japan)
Talking to the Dead: Transpacific War Memory and Asian American Literature

Te-hsing Shan, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Researching, Teaching, and Translating American Literature in Taiwan

So Jean Richard, Columbia University (NY)
Fragments of the Transpacific Cultural Front: Agnes Smedley and Lu Xun in Shanghai, 1930–1934

Chih-ming Wang, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
How Does America Mean in Chinese?: Overseas Student Writing and Transpacific American Studies

Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawai'i, Manoa (HI)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Crossroads and Crossover: American Top 40 as Cultural Exchange
Albuquerque Convention Center Zuni

Daphne Brooks, Princeton University (NJ)

Eric Weisbard, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Rocket Man: Thirty Years of Elton John in the American Top 40

Jason King, New York University (NY)
You Are My Friend: Sylvester, Social Compassion, and the Radical Possibilities of the Disco Charts

Josh Kun, University of Southern California (CA)
We Didn't Cross the Charts, the Charts Crossed Us

Alexandra Vazquez, Princeton University (NJ)
Let You Find Out: Aventura and Promiscuous Listening

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Toxic Crossroads: The Transnational Legacies of Agent Orange
Albuquerque Convention Center Navajo

Charles Waugh, Utah State University (UT)

Nhan Trong Nguyen, Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange (Vietnam)
Justice Delayed: The VAVA Lawsuit Against American Chemical Corporations

Lien Nguyen, Vietnam National University (Vietnam), Charles Waugh, Utah State University (UT)
A Portrait of America in Vietnamese Writing about Agent Orange

Diane Fox, Holy Cross College (IN)
Why Isn't America Helping People It Hurt During the War? Agent Orange Narratives from Vietnam

Edwin Martini, Western Michigan University (MI)
Incinerating Agent Orange: Operation Pacer Ho and the Global Environmental Imaginary

Charles Waugh, Utah State University (UT)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Teaching Memoirs and Oral History in the K–12 Classroom: Identities at the Crossroads (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)
Albuquerque Convention Center Laguna

Ann Fabian, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ)

Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque (NM)

Peter W. Tragos, New Trier High School (IL)

Aileen Heidkamp English, New Trier High School (IL)

Lane Reynolds Dye, Cobb County Schools (GA)

Pearl Amelia McHaney, Georgia State University (GA)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

An American Studies Worthy of Emulation: The Legacy of David W. Noble
Albuquerque Convention Center Mesilla

Roderick A. Ferguson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Freedom's Unfreedom

Shelley Streeby, University of California, San Diego (CA)
David Noble and Postnationalist American Studies

Eden Torres, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Unlikely Allies in Unlikely Places: Chicana Feminist Scholarship and the Noble Legacy

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Recasting Black Transnationalism: Race and Performance on the Global Stage
Albuquerque Convention Center Acoma

David Román, University of Southern California (CA)

Shannon Steen, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Black Cosmopolitics: Paul Robeson's Sino-Modernity

Shane Vogel, Indiana University–Bloomington (IN)
Lena Horne's Jamaica: Cold War Masculinity, the Popular Caribbean, and Mock Transnational Performance

Harvey Young, Northwestern University (IL)
Becoming Black: Lloyd Richards' Border Crossing (or Fence Jumping)

David Román, University of Southern California (CA)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Life Is Complicated: Coming to Terms with Seething Pasts, Haunting Memories, and Economies of Inequity
Albuquerque Convention Center Apache

Pamela Hunt Steinle, California State University, Fullerton (CA)

Brenda Y. Beza, University of Texas, Austin (TX)
Tambien de Dolor Se Canta: Border Crossings in Loterïa Imagery

Orlando R. Serrano Jr., University of Southern California (CA)
Coffee in the Américas: Emancipatory (Im)Possibilities

Justyna M. Pas, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
Finding Home in Babel: Translating Identity in Intercultural Writings

Kristin Ann Hass, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

At the Crossroads of Representation: Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinas/os in U.S. Culture
Albuquerque Convention Center Jemez

Stephen J. Pitti, Yale University (CT)

Amanda L. Scott-Williams, Iowa State University (IA)
The Commercial Indian

Irene Garza, University of Texas, Austin (TX)
Beyond Buenos Vecinos: The Texas Good Neighbor Commission, Pan-Americanism, and Women in Transnational Texas, 1941–1948

Katie Furuyama, University of California, Irvine (CA)
Collected Voices, (Re)defining Gender and Sexuality: Anthologies of Writing by Young

Marisol T. B. Silva, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
American Dream? Latina Representations of Higher Education

Stephen J. Pitti, Yale University (CT)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Slavery, Sexuality, and the Shape of Public Memory in the United States, 1888–1985
Albuquerque Convention Center Taos

Christina Simmons, University of Windsor (Canada)

Charles Dean McGraw, Wake Forest University (NC)
Jezebels in Jacksonville: Tropes of Slavery and Red Cross Iconography

Micki McElya, University of Connecticut (CT)
Trading Bodies: Race and Memory in the Progressive-Era White Slavery Panic

Vivien Green Fryd, Vanderbilt University (TN)
Faith Ringgold's Slave Rape Story Quilt: Ending the Silence

Christina Simmons, University of Windsor (Canada)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Conditions of Production: Feminist and Queer of Color Engagements with Subjectivity, Nationalism, and Violence
Albuquerque Convention Center Santo Domingo

Sherie M. Randolph, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
We Were Observing and We Copied: Florynce Kennedy, Black Power, and the "Genesis" of Feminism(s)

Emily Katherine Hobson, University of Southern California (CA)
Queer Solidarity and Domestic Liberation: Third World Lesbians and Activism for Central America

Kara Keeling, University of Southern California (CA)
Maquilapolis, Free Indirect Discourse, and the Legacies of Third Cinema

Grace Chang, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Asian Bodies, American Mediation, Transnational Movements
Albuquerque Convention Center Sandia

Mariam B. Lam, University of California, Irvine (CA)

Asha Nadkarni, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA)
Transnational Feminist Utopias: Gilman's Herland and Hossain's Sultana's Dream

Chris Lee, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Temporal Disjuncture, Body Remains?

Fiona I. B. Ngô, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Sites of Sightlessness: Transnational Geographies of Disability, Queerness, and Violence

Mariam B. Lam, University of California, Irvine (CA)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Crossing Over: American Jews and Their Others in Suburbia
Albuquerque Convention Center Isleta

Becky Nicolaides, University of California, Los Angeles (CA)

Joanne Jacobson, Yeshiva University (NY)
Crossing the Culture Line: Jews in Suburbia on the Goldbergs

Rachel Kranson, New York University (NY)
The People of the "Picture Window": The Jewish Suburban Debate

Allison D. Smith, Yeshiva University (NY)
"Remember[ing] Better": Suburbia, Intercultural Conflict, and Liberty Heights

Becky Nicolaides, University of California, Los Angeles (CA)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Urban Crossings: Interethnic Encounters in Cultural Practice
Albuquerque Convention Center Pecos

Raul Fernandez, University of California, Irvine (CA)

Victor Hugo Viesca, California State University, Los Angeles (CA)
Xicana/o Urban Art: Graffiti, Muralism and Cross Cultural Translation in Twenty-First-Century Los Angeles

Pancho McFarland, Chicago State University (IL)
Hip-Hop as Cultural Movement: Chicano and Black Working-Class Identity and Interethnic Unity

Ben Chappell, University of Kansas (KS)
Cruising Scenes as Contact Zones: Lowriders and the Construction of Street Publics

Raul Fernandez, University of California, Irvine (CA)

Eric Porter, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Musical Cross-Pollination in Rhythm, Blues, and Rap
Albuquerque Convention Center San Juan

Lisa Thompson, State University of New York, Albany (NY)

Nora Brennan Morrison, Harvard University (MA)
Borrow, Steal, Sanitize, Sex Up: Cover Songs and Musical Cross-Pollination in Rhythm and Blues, 1945–1960

Liana Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA), Herman Gray, University of Southern California (CA)
Building the Blues: Ground Zero and the Authentication of Race and Place

Kim D. Hester-Williams, Sonoma State University (CA)
Sorry Mama: Bill Clinton, Eminem, and the 8 Mile Crossroads between Freedom and Possessive Individualism

Ulrich Adelt, University of Wyoming (WY)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Erin D. Chapman, University of Mississippi (MS)

Danielle C. Heard, Cornell University (NY)
Mongrels, Monsters, and Morons: Early American Cinema and the Extraordinary Body

Theresa A. Kulbaga, Miami University of Ohio (OH)
Narrative at the Crossroads of Life and Death: Auto/Biopolitics and Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother

Susan Zieger, University of California, Riverside (CA)
The Magic Island: Haiti, Seabrook, and the Working Dead

Joshua L. Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

David Cantrell, University of San Diego (CA)

Aaron Carico, Yale University (CT)
Plantation State: Uncle Remus and the Reconstruction of American Sovereignty

Elizabeth Anna Steeby, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Prisons without Walls: Labor, Criminalization, and Culture in the U.S. South

Aimee Bahng, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Imperial Rubber: Residues of U.S. Empire in the Brazilian Rainforest

Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University (RI)

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Mid-America American Studies Reception
Albuquerque Convention Center Cochiti

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Center for Mexican American Studies University of Texas at Austin Reception
Albuquerque Convention Center La Cienega

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

University of Southern California—Department of American Studies and Ethnicity Reception
Albuquerque Convention Center Nambe

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Film Night at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

Join the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (www.indianpueblo.org), the Site Resources Committee, the Environment and Culture caucus and the Early America Matters caucus for a co-sponsored reception at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. In addition to its regular exhibits, the Center will be hosting a show of sculpture from Jemez Pueblo. At 6:30, watch and discuss the work of two native filmmakers, Melissa Henry (Dine') and Jason Asenap (Kiowa), and join in a discussion moderated by Robert Warrior (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign) and Beverly Singer (University of New Mexico). Beginning at 4:45, buses will leave from the hotel for the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center every 10 minutes, and will circulate throughout the evening, The films last approximately 1.5 hours, with an hour of discussion to follow. The film screening and discussion will conclude at 9:00. NO tickets will be sold after 5:00 pm October 17, 2008. Cost of tickets is $6 for regular and $4 for students, K–12 educators, and international scholars.

6:00 pm – 7:45 pm

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Immigration (Sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)
Albuquerque Convention Center Laguna

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8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

University of Texas American Studies Reception
Albuquerque Convention Center Nambe

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4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

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