Thursday, October 16
Friday, October 17
Saturday, October 18
Sunday, October 19
Table of Contents
ASA Program Book
Session Details
Thursday, October 16, 2008
The papers and commentaries presented during this meeting are intended solely for the hearing of those present and should not be tape-recorded, copied, or otherwise reproduced without the consent of the authors. Recording, copying, or reproducing a paper/presentation without the consent of the author(s) may be a violation of common law copyright and may result in legal difficulties for the person recording, copying, or reproducing.
7:30 am – 9:00 am
Graduate Programs in American Studies: Present and Future (Directors' Breakfast Workshop)
Albuquerque Convention Center Pecos
George Sanchez, University of Southern California (CA)
This year, the Committee on America Studies Programs is collaborating with the Committee on Graduate Education on an assessment of the condition and future of graduate programs in American Studies. NO tickets will be sold after 6:00 pm, October 15, 2008. Cost of tickets is $15.
8:00 am – 9:30 am
American Studies Editorial Board Meeting
Albuquerque Convention Center Nambe
8:00 am – 3:00 pm
ASA National Council Business Meeting
Albuquerque Convention Center Apache
9:30 am – 11:00 am
Changing the Culture: Tenure and Promotion Policy for the Engaged University
Albuquerque Convention Center Pecos
10:00 am – 11:30 am
Women's Committee Business Meeting
Albuquerque Convention Center Nambe
10:00 am – 11:30 am
Business Meeting of the Minority Scholars' Committee
Albuquerque Convention Center San Juan
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Queering Modernist Regionalism: Taos, Santa Fe, and Seattle
Albuquerque Convention Center Picuris
Cady Wells and Southwest Modernism
Mark Tobey and the Northwest School
Cady Wells and Martha Graham: The Body and the Animated Landscape
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Global Circulation of Images: Middle East Meets West in U.S. Motion Pictures
Albuquerque Convention Center Tesuque
Transnational Wheel of Images: Hollywood Makes a Plea for Mutual Understanding Between Middle East and West
Anti? Arab Portrayal in the NBC Series "West Wing"
Committing (Symbolic) Violence: Arabs in Hollywood and the United States in Arab Cinema
Arabs from an American Perspective: Challenging U.S. Problematic Portrayals of Arabs
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Faith Activity: Case Studies in Religious Activism
Albuquerque Convention Center Dona Ana
Of One Blood: The Evangelical Protestant Reconstruction of California
Animating the Promise Keepers: Bodily Devotion
"God Hates Fags": A Rhetorical Analysis
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Listening to the Land: At the Crossroads of Ecofeminism, Transnationalism, and Native American Studies
Albuquerque Convention Center Taos
An American Road
Remapping Storied Landscapes in Diane Glancy's Pushing the Bear: Trauma, Diaspora and the Environmental Imagination
From Noble Savage to Angel in the Ecosystem: The Ecofeminist Vision in Transnational Media
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Theorizing Race and Performance in Colonial Contexts
Albuquerque Convention Center Jemez
Tambo and Bones in Africa: The Minstrel Show in Pre-Industrial South Africa, 1862–1873
Habaneras, Past and Present
Colonialism's Popular Culture: American Entertainers and Hawai'i in the Nineteenth Century
Oceanic Imagination, Racial Performance, American Empire
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Evolutionary Empires, Unstable Identities: Circum-Atlantic Darwinism and the Colonial Imagination
Albuquerque Convention Center Laguna
Accidental Anthropologists: Of Kinship, Conquest, and Narrative Anxiety in the Writings of Charles Darwin and Jacob Riis
Vanishing Indians, Lost Citizens: U.S. Naturalist Narratives about Evolution and the Colonial Imagination
Savage Homes and Primeval Mates: Evolution and the Colonial Imaginary in Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes
10:00 am – 11:45 am
American Studies Outside the Academy: Workshop (Sponsored by the ASA Students' Committee)
Albuquerque Convention Center Aztec
W. Clark Whitehorn, University of New Mexico Press (NM)
Patrick Hebert, AIDS Project Los Angeles (CA)
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Pragmatism, Ethics, and Democracy: Self and Other Down at the Crossroads
Albuquerque Convention Center Cimarron
The Education of Zitkala-Sa: How Pragmatism Goes Native
The Professor's House and the Ethics of Authenticity
Promises, Promises: Theories of Democratic Practice in Croly, Wilson, and Dewey
10:00 am – 11:45 am
The Politics of Relation: Creolization and the Invention of America
Albuquerque Convention Center Isleta
Prophecy and Creole Knowledge in the Colonial Americas: The Great Comets of 1680–81
Creolization and Americanist Discourse: Las Casas/Raynal/Jefferson
The U.S. Audience of Haitian Political Memoirs, 1805–1820
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Crossroads in New Orleans: Storytelling and Counterhegemonic Geographies in Pre- and Post-Katrina New Orleans
Albuquerque Convention Center Santa Ana
Remembering Segregated Roads: Narratives of Rejection in Jim Crow New Orleans
Stories at the Center: Story Circles and Youth Organizing in Pre- and Post-Katrina New Orleans
"We Are Open, Fully Prepared, and Eager to Welcome All of Our Visitors Again": Tourism Stories and Post-Katrina Realities in New Orleans
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Expansions of War: National Security, Transnational Internment, and Racial Disciplines
Albuquerque Convention Center Zuni
Racial Rehabilitations of the Cold War
Native/Alien Binds: Reframing Internment in the White Pacific
Estranged: Discourses of Citizenship, Security, and Nonpersonhood
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Bowling Across Boundaries: An American Leisure Activity Revisited
Albuquerque Convention Center Tijeras
CHAIR:
Thomas Jessen Adams, University of Chicago (IL)PAPERS:
Molly Hudgens, University of Chicago (IL)
Strips and Strikes: The Military-Industrial-Leisure Complex and Cleansing of an American PastimeMegan Biddinger, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
They're Nihilists, Donny: Bowling and the Performance of Masculinity in Hollywood CinemaMatthew Allan Ides, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
Reframing the Lanes: Communist, Native American, Gay, and Lesbian Bowling in Late Twentieth-Century Los AngelesCOMMENT:
Thomas Jessen Adams, University of Chicago (IL)
10:00 am – 11:45 am
King of the Crossroads: Theorizing the Art and Impact of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Albuquerque Convention Center Santo Domingo
Basquiat and the Beats
Still "Not for Sale": Race, Commodity, and the Jean-Michel Basquiat Shoe
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Ecocriticism from Melville to Yamashita
Albuquerque Convention Center Cochiti
Green Pastures of Plenty: Ecocriticism and Citizenship in Bound for Glory
Losing Ground: Edward Abbey, Ken Kesey, and the Politics of Environmental Mourning
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Race, Identity, and Educational Politics
Albuquerque Convention Center Sandia
Attacking Trust: Kamehameha Schools in the Cross Hairs
Melting Pot of America: Mexico and the Discursive Representations of Pluralism in 1930s New Mexico
Mixing Bodies and Minds: Race, Class, and Educational Politics in Two Southern Cities, 1874–1889
New Mexico in 1998: Celebration, Contestation and the Lived Consequence of Identity
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Law and Cultural Studies: Understanding Asian/American and Latino/a Racial and Gendered Subjects across Spatialities
Albuquerque Convention Center Laguna
Between Chinese Prostitute and White Slave: Sexual and Racial Boundaries of National Domestic Subjects
No Brown Towns: Anti-Immigrant Ordinances and Equality of Educational Opportunity for Latina/os
Race, Exceptionalism, and the Right to Trial by Jury in Puerto Rico
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Histories of the Dust Heap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice
Albuquerque Convention Center Tesuque
Touring Waste and Memory Fatigue: Resisting Environmental Injustice
Enviroblogging: Green Spaces in the Virtual World
Debasing Mount Everest
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Sites and Transits: Indigenous and Indigenized Environmental Ethics and Poetics
Albuquerque Convention Center Taos
Beyond Literary Representations: Understanding "the Spiritual Ecology of Place" in the Native Southwest
TEK and Native American Literary/Cultural Studies: Indigeneity in Gordon Henry's The Light People
Toward Ecofeminist Praxis for Repossessing Bodies: Performance and Resistance in Cherríe Moraga's Plays
Gary Snyder, Native American Literature, and the Posthuman
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Feminist Subjects in "America": Violence, Recognition, and Citizenship
Albuquerque Convention Center Zuni
Witnessing Atrocities
Race, Violence and Terror: The Cultural Defensibility of Heteronormative Citizenship in the Virginia Tech Massacre and the Don Imus Affair
Freedom vs. Violence in the University of Agreement
Monstrous Women: The Violence of Partial Birth Abortion and the Transgressions of Citizenship
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Looking for Home in Unexpected Places: James Baldwin and the Politics of Return
Albuquerque Convention Center Santo Domingo
Home to Harlem, and Away Again: James Baldwin's Returns
Queer Orientalisms, or Baldwin's Another Country Re/Sited
Encircled by Disaster: Sonny's Blues on the Urban Theatre Stage
Keeping It Reel: James Baldwin's Film Script of Giovanni's Room
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
American Labor: Invisibility in National, Transnational, and Colonial Contexts (Sponsored by LAWCHA and the Working Class Studies Caucus)
Albuquerque Convention Center Cochiti
The Invisible Labor of Prisoners
Invisible Wards of the United States: Filipino and Puerto Rican Sugar Plantation Workers in Hawai'i
Globalization and the Training of the Voice: Bilingual Call Centers in Postwar El Salvador
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Race, Sex, and Science at the Crossroads: Synthetic Personhood in Visual Popular Culture
Albuquerque Convention Center Sandia
"Alien States"
Loving Robots
"Artificial" Intelligence, the "Intentional Stance," and Racial Contradictions in Battlestar Galactica
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
TA to Tenure: Rethinking Academic Labor and Unionization (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)
Albuquerque Convention Center Picuris
Shana L. Redmond, Yale University (CT)
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Technologies of Control
Albuquerque Convention Center Santa Ana
Empirically Queer
Confronting Neoliberal Queer Praxis
Surveillance of What? State Racism, Social Work, and Sociology
Paranoid Hysterical Thinking
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
The Power of Mobility? Cultural Intersections, Identity, and Travel
Albuquerque Convention Center Isleta
Spatial Stories: The Road-Carved Distances of Light in August
Forks in the Road: Arbitrating Taste and Race in Restaurant Guidebooks, 1930–1955
Uprising on Route 66: Citizenship, Community, and Cruising on the Main Street of America
Cruising Through East Los Angeles: Chicano Lowrider Stories
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
National Identities, Transnational Figures
Albuquerque Convention Center Aztec
Para Español Oprima el Número 2: Transnationalism, Translation, and Spanish
"All Along the Watchtower": Transnationalism and the Act of Detention
"A Very Novel Speculation": Creoles and Commodities in Mary Seacole's Wonderful Adventures
An Aural Cartography: A Social History of Border Radio
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Three Ways of Looking at Bodies
Albuquerque Convention Center Cimarron
"Male (Semi)Nude in Bathroom": Photographic Production On The Front Lines of the Changing Male Body Image
Watching Pain
The Dead Body as Cabinet of Medical Curiosity: Corpses, Cadavers, and the Human Anatomy Lab
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Circulating Scandal in Antebellum Periodicals
Albuquerque Convention Center Dona Ana
Scandal to Order: The Popular Press in Antebellum New York and the Perils of Authorship
Debunking John B. Gough: Public Responses to the Temperance Lecturer's 1845 Relapse
Making Criticism Personal: Poe and "The Literati of New York City"
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Theory Meets Practice: "American Sabor: U.S. Latinos in Popular Music" and the Possibilities of Public Scholarship in the Museum Context
Albuquerque Convention Center Jemez
Shannon Dudley, University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
Michelle Habell-Pallan, University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
Brenda Romero, University of Colorado, Boulder (CO)
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Black Native Race/Identity from the Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth
Albuquerque Convention Center Tijeras
Cultural Ethnogenesis, Identity Formation, and Racial Construction Among the Black Seminoles of Florida, 1754–1842
Representing the Race: Activism and Public Identity in the Early Twentieth Century
The Night the Stars Fell: Historical Convergences on the Southern Plains
Turning Indian, Empowering African American Identity: Hopkins' Turn-of-the-Century Manifest Domesticity in Winona
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
International Partnership Lunch
Albuquerque Convention Center Pecos
We welcome all representatives of U.S. and non-U.S. Americans Studies programs interested in exploring possible international partnerships as well as existing partnerships. NO tickets will be sold after 6:00 pm, October 15, 2008. Cost of tickets is $5.
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Regional Chapters Committee Meeting
Albuquerque Convention Center Nambe
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Genre Discontinuities: Allegorizing the Vietnam War in American Television and Film
Albuquerque Convention Center Zuni
Shooting the Anti-Vietnam Western: 1965–1979
Television and the Imagined Community: Urban Riots as the Other Living Room War
Sexual Violence and AI in Battlestar Galactica (2003): Bringing Vietnam to the War on Terror
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
The Western Frontier as International Metaphor: Mapping Morphing Cultural Boundaries since 1945
Albuquerque Convention Center Isleta
American Studies and Europe, Old and New: A Comparison of Cold War Internationalism and Global Transnationalism
The Use of the Frontier Topos in Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron
Turtles Can Fly: Invasion, Influence, and Inevitability Along the Frontier
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Where Is "America" in Transnational American Studies?
Albuquerque Convention Center Aztec
Winfried Fluck, Freie Universitaet, Berlin
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Thinking with W. E. B. Du Bois at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice
Albuquerque Convention Center Jemez
Habitations of the Veil: Souls, Figure, Form
W. E. B. Du Bois's Agitprop
Criminal Discourse: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Study of Negro Crime
On the Conundrum of the Three-Fifths Clause in Color and Democracy
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Theories in American Studies I: Sex
Albuquerque Convention Center Santa Ana
Rethinking the Intersections: Sexual Regulation and Racialized Citizenship
Another Country: Rethinking Queer Urbanity
Caught in the Cross Hairs: Hypervisibility, Invisibility, and the Alibi of Black Sexuality
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Mexican Americans and Whiteness
Albuquerque Convention Center Santo Domingo
Still the Other White Race? Mexican Americans, Other Latinos, and the Whiteness Debates Today
Crème con Café: How Whiteness Affects Mexican American Identity
The Class Dimensions of Brownness
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Homeland, Heartland: Creating and Remembering People and Place
Albuquerque Convention Center Tesuque
Jonathan Milligan, poet/writer student
Andrea Padilla, poet/writer student
Marcella Sanchez, poet/writer student
Jacob Valdez, poet/writer student
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Thinking Race at Its Limits: The Future of the Past
Albuquerque Convention Center Cimarron
"Maharani's Misery": Gender, Rape, and Silence at the Intersection of Nineteenth-Century Asian and African Diasporas
Existentialist Transnationalism: The Dialectics of Race and the Body's Collective
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Self-Locating in Academe and Activism: Identity Politics at the Crossroads
Albuquerque Convention Center Picuris
Jeffrey Shepherd, University of Texas, El Paso (TX)
Evan Heimlich, Kobe University (Japan)
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices and Regional Diversity in the 1930s
Albuquerque Convention Center Laguna
Feet in the Grass Roots: Josephine Herbst's Proletarian Midwest
Radical by Nature: Sanora Babb and Ecological Disaster on the High Plains, 1900–1940
Educating Races and Regions: Don West, the Agrarians, and Higher Education
Twelve Million Black Voices in No Man's Land: The Dialectics of Regionalism in Richard Wright
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity: Intersections of Native American and Queer Studies
Albuquerque Convention Center Taos
Mark Rifkin, Skidmore College (NY)
Janice Gould, Arizona State University (AZ)
Louis Esme Cruz, Artist
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Rereading American Studies Origins
Albuquerque Convention Center Sandia
Interdisciplinary American Studies and the Cold War: A New, Archival History from the Records of the Library of Congress
Mary Kelley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
The Animal Nature of Human Social Relations
Albuquerque Convention Center Tijeras
Clearing the Zoological Slum: Race and Renewal at the National Zoological Park
Race and Rabies: Public Health and Political Power in Cold War Los Angeles
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
9/11 Vernaculars
Albuquerque Convention Center Dona Ana
Dengue Fever's "22 Nights": Performing the State of Exception from Cambodia to the United States
Remembering 9/11: Vernaculars of Trauma
Timestamp: Temporality and Visual Culture in the Global War on Terror
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
New Native Literature: Readings from Performative Works by Diane Glancy and Laura Tohe
Albuquerque Convention Center Cochiti
Laura Tohe, Arizona State University (AZ)
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Business Meeting of the Students' Committee
Albuquerque Convention Center San Juan
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Business Meeting of the American Quarterly Advisory Editorial Board
Albuquerque Convention Center Navajo
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Imperial Formations and Manifest Destinies: Israel/Palestine and Circuits of Exceptionality
Albuquerque Convention Center Cimarron
Post-Westphalian Raciologies: The Jew, the Muslim, and Permanent War
Silenced Conversations: American-Israeli Exceptional Relationship and What It Means for Arabs and Arab Americans
Norman's Muslim Problem—and Ours: A Colorblind Genealogy of the Long Struggle against Islamofascism
Why Do They Hate Us? Sexual Exceptionalism and Denial of Palestinian Rights Post-9/11
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Not in Isolation: Solidarity, Responsibility, and Sacrifice throughout the U.S. Southwest, 1900–2007
Albuquerque Convention Center Santo Domingo
Entering the Fray: Mexican American Women and Civil Rights Organizing
Fotos y Recuerdos: A History of South Texas Blacks, Ethnic Mexicans, and Ethnic Anglos through Photography, 1900–1945
Banking in the "Community": South Central Los Angeles and the Demands of Change, 1970–2007
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Alternative Suburban Geographies
Albuquerque Convention Center Jemez
Relocations: Incidental Suburbanism in Contemporary Queer Theory
The Changs Next Door to the Diazes: Regional Racial Formation in Los Angeles's San Gabriel Valley
¡Los Angels de Anaheim! Media, Markets, Place, and the Melodrama of a Name Change
Cross Burnings, Bombings, and Incarcerations: Documenting Racialized Crossings into White Suburbia
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Rethinking Global Hollywood: Old Myths and New Realities
Albuquerque Convention Center Sandia
Hollywood Film? Foreign Film? Globalization and the Erosion of National Boundaries in Contemporary Cinema
The Foreign Labyrinth: Two Competing Memories in the Age of 9/11
Global Hollywood and China's Counter-Hegemony Strategy
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Scandalous Selves: Properties of Early Black Personhood
Albuquerque Convention Center Taos
Abolition's Scandals: The Case of Mary Prince
Beyond Black Virtue: Crime, Public Presence, and African American Literature
Famous Farmers? Fugitive Intellectuals and the Scandals of Real Property
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Bodies and Spirits: Reconsidering the American Occult
Albuquerque Convention Center Tijeras
Magical Mediums: The Black Female Spirit Medium in American Film Culture
Muybridge in the Parlor
Ernest Loomis and Occult Force in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Theorizing Native Studies
Albuquerque Convention Center Picuris
Creating "Fields of Care" and Dismantling the Spaces of Settler Colonialism
Native Studies at the Horizon of Death: Theorizing Ethnographic Entrapment
Decolonization, Tribal Histories, and Recovering Ourselves
The Sovereign Body: Indigenous Political Form and Genealogics of Rule
An Approach to Native-State Relations Framed in Transnational Theory
"F . . king with Theory an Island Way"
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
International Committee Talkshop I: Obtaining Resources to Teach American Studies Internationally
Albuquerque Convention Center Pecos
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Humor at the Crossroads of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration
Albuquerque Convention Center Tesuque
Portnoy and His Children: The Legacy of a Comic Masterpiece
"Trickster Mulattos": The Humor of Passing in The Intuitionist and Oxherding Tale
The Brief Wondrous Career of Junot Diaz
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Going Mobile: Global Flows of Media and the American Experience with Portable Technology (Sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)
Albuquerque Convention Center Laguna
One Laptop Per Child? Mobile Technology, Gadgetry, and Community
Kindle: The New Bookmobile, or, The Labor of Reading in an Age of Ubiquitous Bookselling
Taking It to the Streets: Urban Civility, Energy Conservation, and Alternate Reality Games
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Bodies without Borders: Intimate Knowledges, Public Embodiments, and the Trans-Global–American Crossroads
Albuquerque Convention Center Cochiti
"Gertrude Stein, love is not a bowl of quinces": Intimacies of Queer Transnationalism in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt
The Drama of Disintegration: American Bodies and Diaspora Geographies in Ama Ata Aidoo's Dilemma of a Ghost
Pot Roasts, Babies, and Protests: Disability as Productivity in My Year of Meats
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture (Sponsored by the Environment and Culture Caucus)
Albuquerque Convention Center Santa Ana
Nature
Place
Eco-Art
Sustainability
Environmental Justice
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
American Antipodes: Transnational Culture/National Identity in Australia and New Zealand
Albuquerque Convention Center Dona Ana
Movie Stars, Gleaming Cars, and Cancer Clusters: U.S. Cultural Influence in Peter Carey's Fiction
Antipodean/American Crossings: Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and The Last Wave (1977)
Little Fish in Transnational Ponds: New Zealand Accents in Hollywood
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Global Axes of American Studies
Albuquerque Convention Center Zuni
Mapping the Global South Against American Studies
The Truman Show: Cold Wars of the Mind in the Neoliberal Present
The Special Relationship: Contemporary European American Studies and the State
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
The Transnational West
Albuquerque Convention Center Isleta
An Enemy of Reactionary Demagogues: Southwestern Folklore, Civic Engagement, and the Multifaceted J. Frank Dobie
Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy: At the Crossroads of Gender, History, and Literary Form
The Eastern Bloc Meets the Mythic West: East Germany, Hollywood, and the Western
The Bushman and the Cowboy: Australian and American Frontier Mythology, Transnational Popular Culture, and National Identity
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Writers and Migrancy
Albuquerque Convention Center Aztec
If the Writers of the World Get Together: Allen Ginsberg in Sandinista Nicaragua
Itinerant Citizenship: Delany, Webb, and African American Transnational Labor Migration
5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
American Studies Association Welcome Reception
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Get away from the conference center and hotel and join with fellow ASA members in a welcome reception at the National Hispanic Cultural Center! All members and guests are encouraged to attend. Free, easy shuttle buses will begin leaving the hotel at 4:45 pm and will circulate every 10 minutes, making it easy to join us. Check out the NHCC, and particularly the featured exhibit of the work of Einar and Jamex de la Torre, whose fascinating work graces this year's program cover. Enjoy some great food and relaxed conversation, and then take in the stunning performance of Guillermo Gomez-Pena, "El Mexorcist: Last Mexican Standing." Or continue to explore the Cultural Center, and depart at your leisure.
6:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Business Meeting of the ASA Nominating Committee
Albuquerque Convention Center Navajo