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7:00 - 9:00 AM | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S SUITE |
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Committee on Electronic Projects and Publications Breakfast Meeting |
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Conversation: Contesting the Asian American Legal Subject--Critical Race Theory and Politics of Reaction |
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MODERATOR: | Neil Gotanda, Western State University College of Law |
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FACILITATORS: | Keith Aoki, University of Oregon School of Law
Robert Chang, California Western School of Law
Margaret Chon, Syracuse University College of Law
Natsu Saito Jenga, Georgia State University College of Law
Peter Kwan, Santa Clara University School of Law
Alfred Yen, Boston College Law School
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This conversation will examine an issue, the place of the "Asian American" in the law, that is currently the focus of a good deal of discussion in legal studies in general and especially in Critical Race Theory. Initial writings that celebrated the Asian American have generated a response: One challenge has been direct--that there is no historical or cultural justification for the idea of the "Asian American" and the effort to celebrate the Asian American marks a new "racial fundamentalism." In reply, other authors have examined ethnicity--Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese--in relation to race and "Asian American," noting that race and ethnicity are frequently confused or conflated. The meaning of bi-racialism has also been explored, but no longer confined by the Black-White racial paradigm. Others have defended the use of narrative in legal writing or sought more aggressive interventions of post modern thought. These discussions are played out within a deeply politicized legal discourse about race and a continuing debate over the place of postmodern academics in legal writing. Return to Friday's Session Listing
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8:15 - 10:00 AM | CHICAGO B |
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Television and the Limits of Knowledge |
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CHAIR: | Jane Kuenz, Department of English, University of Southern Maine |
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PAPERS: | Eric Smoodin, Program in Film Studies, University of California, Berkeley
"Who Was the Sponsor of Our Mr. Sun?" TV Audiences, Frank Capra, and Science in the 1950's
Daniel Marcus, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin
Profiles in Courage: Televisual History in the New Frontier
Jodi Dean, Department of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
The Familiarity of Strangeness: Alien Abduction and Postmodern Anxieties |
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COMMENTS: | Jane Kuenz |
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8:15 - 10:00 AM | CHICAGO C |
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CHAIR: | Barry Shank, American Studies Program, University of Kansas |
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PAPERS: | Frances R. Aparicio, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Ethnifying Rhythms, Feminizing Cultures
Kyra D. Gaunt, Department of Music, University of Virginia
From the Ring Shout and Corn Shuckers to Blues Queens and Hip-hop: What Are the Drums Saying About Gender?
John Gennari, W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Harvard University
Crooners and Gangsters: Love and Violence in Black/Italian Crossover |
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COMMENTS: | Ronald M. Radano, Program in Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Wisconsin |
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Abundance or Scarcity in the "Golden Land ": Conflicts within Working Class Consumption, 1880-1960
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CHAIR: | Susan Levine, Department of History, East Carolina University |
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PAPERS: | Lawrence Glickman, Department of History, University of South Carolina
Workers of the World, Consume: Ira Steward and the Origins of Labor Consumerism
Susan Porter Benson, Women's Studies Program, University of Connecticut
Family Stories: Working Class Children's Wage Earning and Consumption in Interwar U.S.
Judith E. Smith, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Family Wage Fictions: Popularly Circulating Representations of the Fight over the Family Wage, 1943-1959 |
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COMMENTS: | Susan Levine |
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"These Honored Dead": Corpses, Commemoration, and the State |
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CHAIR: | Alan Trachtenberg, American Studies Program, Yale University |
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PAPERS: | Franny Nudelman, American Studies Program, Yale University
"The Blood of Millions": John Brown's Body and the Rhetoric of War
Gary Laderman, Department of Religion, Emory University
Postmortem Migrations: Fallen Soldiers and the Spiritual Rebirth of the State
Lisa Herschbach, History of Science Program, Harvard University
"Even Dry Bones May Live": The Union Dead on Medical Display |
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COMMENTS: | Alan Trachtenberg |
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8:15 - 10:00 PM | CHOUTEAU A |
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Why American Studies Scholars Should Study Food |
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CHAIR: | Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Cornell University |
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PAPERS: | Warren Belasco, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Why Food Matters
Amy Bentley, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University
Tex-Mex Cuisine and Cultural Poetics of Food
Netta Davis, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University
Eat, Drink, and Be American: Utopian Foodways in the Twentieth Century |
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COMMENTS: | Karal Ann Marling, Department of Art History, University of Minnesota |
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8:15 - 10:00 PM | CHOUTEAU B |
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Technologies of Pleasure: Vision, Motion, and "Play" in Amusement Parks |
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CHAIR: | Jane C. Desmond, American Studies Program, University of Iowa |
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PAPERS: | Meryem Ersoz, Department of English, University of Oregon
The Rollercoaster in the Garden: Scientific American and Nineteenth-Century Amusements
Lauren Rabinovitz, American Studies Program, University of Iowa
Seeing Is Believing: Hypertext Scholarship and the Amusement Park
Susan G. Davis, Department of Communication Studies, University of California, San Diego
Exporting the Big Screen |
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COMMENTS: | Jane C. Desmond |
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8:15 - 10:00 PM | VAN HORN B/C |
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Crossing Borders, Interpreting Cultures: The Reconstruction Work of Harriet Jacobs, Lucy McKim Garrison, and Charlotte Forten |
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CHAIR: | Shelley Fisher Fishkin, American Studies Program, University of Texas |
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PAPERS: | Jean Fagan Yellin, Department of English, Pace University
Migrations: Southern Slave Culture, Northern Reform Culture, and Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Hyman Alonso, Department of Social Sciences, Fitchburg State College
Shouts and "Sperichels": Lucy McKim Garrison's Slave Songs (1867)
Carla L. Peterson, Department of English, University of Maryland
From Slave Culture to Highbrow Culture: Charlotte Forten's Search for the "Writable" |
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COMMENTS: | Frances Smith Foster, Department of English, Emory University |
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From the Beechers to the Cleavers: Deconstructing the Myth of the American Family, 1800-1960 |
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CHAIR: | Priscilla F. Clement, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University |
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PAPERS: | Lori Askeland, Department of English, University of Kansas
"The Means of Draining the City of These Children": Loving Domesticity and Entrepreneurial Individualism in Charles Loring Brace's Emigration Plan, 1853-1861
Robin L.E. Hemenway, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
"A Stranger in the House": The Middle-Class Stepmother and the Rise of "Moral Motherhood," 1800-1865
Cindy B. Derrow
Defining the "Good" Woman: Social Workers and Their Clients, 1945-1960 |
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COMMENTS: | Harvey J. Graff, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas, Dallas |
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The Performance of Self in American Life: Song, Stage, and Identity, 1870 - 1990 |
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CHAIR: | David W. Stowe, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University |
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PAPERS: | Steve Rohs, American Studies Program, Michigan State University
The Shanachie and the Orator: Irish Nationalism and Print Culture in New York City
Fred J. Mayer, American Studies Program, Michigan State University
Tooting Their Own Horns: The Brass Band and Ethnic Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Detroit
Sharon Poulson Graf, School of Music, Michigan State University
National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest: Discordant Identities Harmonize |
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COMMENTS: | Michael Largey, School of Music, Michigan State University |
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CHAIR: | Laura Wexler, American Studies Program, Yale University |
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PAPERS: | Lisa Gail Collins, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Trafficking in the Visual: Slavery, History and Photography
Kathleen Diffley, Department of English, University of Iowa
Architectural Oddities: Frontier Kansas, Civil War Stories, and Fac-Simile Truth
John Raeburn, American Studies Program, University of Iowa
African-Americans Mediated: The Photo League, the "Harlem Document," Native Son, and Look Magazine |
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COMMENTS: | Laura Wexler |
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8:15 - 10:00 PM | VAN HORN A |
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Racing to the Movies: Ethnic Identity in 1930s American Cinema |
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CHAIR: | Edward Guerrero, Department of English, University of Delaware |
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PAPERS: | Matthew Frye Jacobson, American Studies Program, Yale University
The Whiteness of the Jew in Blackface
James Smethurst, Department of English, Harvard University
What De Matter Wid You, Country Boy: African American Popular Culture and the Folk in 1930s Film
Rachel Lee Rubin, American Studies Program, Yale University
The Ethnic Gangster Hits the Movies |
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COMMENTS: | Edward Guerrero |
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Dancing Identities: The Movement of Meaning |
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CHAIR: | Cynthia Willett, Department of Philosophy, Emory University |
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PAPERS: | Randy McBee, Department of History, University of Missouri, Columbia
"Shaking a Wicked Leg": Working-Class Male Culture, Heterosocial Amusements, and the Struggle over Gender, Identity, and Dance in the United States, 1910s-1930s
Ann Kilkelly, Department of Women's Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Just in Time
Mary Neth, Department of History, University of Missouri, Columbia
Counterhythms: Resistance and Tap Dancing |
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COMMENTS: | Cynthia Willett |
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Presentation/Seminar: New Technologies and American Studies (Sponsored by the Committee on Electronic Projects and Publications) |
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PRESENTER: | Randall Bass, Director, American Studies Crossroads Project, Georgetown University |
This session will present an overview of ways that teachers in American Studies are integrating new technologies into curriculum and teaching. the session will cover the World Wide Web and the Internet, interactive multimedia, and other text and image-based technologies that intersect with innovative pedagogies and new methodologies in American Studies. Return to Friday's Session Listing
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | CHICAGO C |
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No Place Like Home: Internal Migration and American Outsiders
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CHAIR: | Colleen McDannell, Department of History, University of Utah |
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PAPERS: | Karen Kidd, Department of History, Claremont Graduate School
Crashing Heaven's Gate: Carry Nation, Home & the Blessed Hope
Todd DePastino, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University, Beaver County
Where There Are No Homes There Will Be No Nation: Homelessness, Proprietorship and Citizenship in the Progressive Era
Heather Ann Ackley Bean, Department of Religion, Claremont Graduate School
Got to Find the Sky: Appalachian Migrant Women in the Urban Midwest
David Schmid, Department of English, State University of New York, Buffalo
Homeward Bound? African Americans and the Great Migration |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | EMPIRE A |
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Diasporas and Nation States |
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CHAIR: | Carole Boyce Davies, Department of English, State University of New York, Binghamton |
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PAPERS: | Juan Flores, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College
Pan-Latino/Trans-Latino: Puerto Ricans in the "Nueva York"
Tiffany Patterson, Department of History, State University of New York, Binghamton
"The Problem of the Color Line" in Africa, Asia, and Islands of the Sea
Michael Hanchard, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
The National State and the Black Nation: Tensions Within U.S. African-American Identity
Rinaldo Walcott, Division of Humanities, York University, Canada
Who Cross the Border? Theorizing the Cultural Politics of the Black Diaspora |
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COMMENTS: | Carole Boyce Davies |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | EMPIRE B |
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Visual Browsing: Billboards and the Response to Outdoor Advertising from 1890 to the Present |
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CHAIR: | Robert C. Allen, Curriculum in American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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PAPERS: | Ellen Gruber Garvey, Department of English, Jersey City State College
Outdoor Advertising, Class and Control of Public Space
Chris Rasmussen, Department of History, University of Vermont
Showmanship in Business: Popular Entertainment, Advertising and American Business, 1890-1941
Kathleen Hulser, Urban Studies, Eugene Lang College of the New School for Social Research
Beauty and the Billboard: Roadside Culture, Pop Art and Ladybird Johnson's Beautifiers at War
Catherine Gudis, American Studies Program, Yale University
The Strip and the City: Outdoor Advertising and the Post-World War II Cultural Landscape |
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | CHOUTEAU A |
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Before "Ethnicity": Defining Race and Nation, 1880-1930 |
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CHAIR: | Gary Y. Okihiro, Department of History, Cornell University |
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PAPERS: | Reynolds J. Scott-Childress, Department of History, University of Maryland
Race and the Rhetoric of Color
Russell Kazal, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
The Blood of Nations: German American Catholics and the Meanings of Race in Early Twentieth-Century Philadelphia
Eric Goldstein, Department of History, University of Michigan
"What's the colah ov a Jew?" Race and the Dilemma of Jewish Identity in Black and White America, 1880-1924
Gerald Ronning, Department of History, University of Colorado
Constructing Race: Native American Ironworkers and the Role of the Primitive |
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COMMENTS: | Marilyn Halter, American Studies Program, Boston University |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | CHOUTEAU B |
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American Indian Identities: Constructions, Appropriations, Transformations |
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CHAIR: | Barbara Babcock, Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies Program, University of Arizona |
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PAPERS: | Castle McLaughlin, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Imaging "Indians at Work": New Deal Nationalism and Photography at Fort Berthold
Gretchen Green, Department of History, Rockhurst College
Iroquois Appropriations of Plains Imagery
Leah Dilworth, Department of English, Long Island University
Tradition and the Individual Talent: Nampeyo as a Modern Artist
Lea S. McChesney, Department of Sociology, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Hopi Potters and Artists: Marketplace Media and the Transformation of Identities |
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COMMENTS: | Raymond Fogelson, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Barbara Babcock |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | VAN HORN B/C |
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"Words Walking Without Masters:" Migration, Remigration, and the New Negro Renaissance |
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CHAIR: | Maryemma Graham, Department of English, Northeastern University |
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PAPERS: | Joyce Hope Scott, Humanities Department, Massachusetts Maritime College
Sacred Words in Secular Places: Packaging Culture in African American Women's Texts
Theresa Leininger-Miller, School of Art/Art History, University of Cincinnati
Learning the Language "That Only Montparnasse Teaches": The Impact of Study in Paris on Key New Negro Artists
Mary Battenfeld, Humanities Department, Wheelock College
"Shapin Words t Fit M Soul": Cane and the Obstructions of Voice
Carolyne Lamar Jordan, Dean of Academic Affairs, Cape Cod Community College
Soul-Singing in the Key of Life: Black Artists and the Transportation of Musical Culture |
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COMMENTS: | Maryemma Graham |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | BENTON A |
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Roundtable Discussion: Dilemmas of Transnational Feminist Practice-- Immigration, Gender, Race, Nation, and the State |
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CHAIR: | Caren Kaplan, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley |
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PRESENTERS: | Inderpal Grewal, Department of Women's Studies, San Francisco State University
Women in Diaspora: Immigrants and Refugees in the Nation State
María Josefina Saldaña, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Traveling Labor: The Complicity of Race and Capital in the Liberal State
Hyun Sook Kim, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Wheaton College
The Migrant Body: Possessed, Incarcerated, and Ex-Nominated
Minoo Moallem, Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley
"Foreignness," Survival, and Be/longing: Migrancy, Transnationalism, and Entrepreneurship |
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Out There: Politics and Interplanetary Migration in Contemporary Popular Culture |
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CHAIR: | Sabrina Barton, Department of English, University of Texas |
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PAPERS: | Constance Penley, Film Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
Earth to Captain Baldwin: On Tribulations 99: Alien Anomalies Under America
Thomas Dumm, Department of Political Science, Amherst College
The Alien and the President: The Politics of Influence
Karen Cadora, Modern Thought and Literature Program, Stanford University
Going Lesbian: Feminism, Ethnography, and Science Fiction
Lora Romero, Department of English, Stanford University
TrustNo1: Alien-ated Affections and Abduction Narratives
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | FREMONT |
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Chicano/a, Latino/a Narratives |
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CHAIR: | Inés Salazar, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania |
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PAPERS: | Arturo Aldama, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
The Chicana/o "Other" Talks Back: Theories of the Speaking Subject in a Post (?) Colonial Context
Monica Brown, Department of English, Ohio State University
Making Nation(Hood): Patriotic Resistance and Revision in Twentieth-Century Urban Narratives
A. Gabriel Meléndez, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico
Bio-Narrative Credentialing: Chicano/a Biographies as Forms of Historiographic Representation and Social Communitas
Mónica Russel y Rodríguez, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado
Embracing Coyotismo: Chicana Authenticity and Biraciality |
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COMMENTS: | Inés Salazar |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | VAN HORN A |
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Nation, Narration, and Migration: Caribbean Writers Construct the Americas |
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CHAIR: | Sandra Pouchet Paquet, Department of English, University of Miami |
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PAPERS: | Patricia Joan Saunders, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
The Pleasures/Privileges of Exile in Contemporary Caribbean Literature: Erna Brodber and George Lamming
Kevin Meehan, Comparative Literature Program, University of Maryland
Caribbean Versus U.S. Racial Categories in Three Caribbean-American Coming of Age Stories
Nicole R. King, Department of English, University of Maryland
C.L.R. James's America |
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COMMENTS: | Sandra Pouchet Paquet |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | NORTHRUP |
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Musical Sites: Local, Regional, Marginal, and Migratory |
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CHAIR: | David Sanjek, BMI Archives, New York |
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PAPERS: | Darrell Y. Hamamoto, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis
Migratory Music: The Art of Asian Refugees in the United States
Murray Forman, Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University, Canada
Homeboys and Production Posses: Localism and Regionalism in Rap Music
Brenda F. Berrian, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh
From the Shadow of Love: Kassav's Romantic Songs |
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COMMENTS: | David Sanjek |
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Project MUSE: Placing American Quarterly On-Line |
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PRESENTERS: | Marie Hansen, Associate Director and Journals Manager, Johns Hopkins University Press
Michael Jensen, Electronic Publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press |
The publishers of American Quarterly demonstrate the capabilities that electronic publishing can provide to AQ's readers. Project Muse, a joint project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the JHU MSE Library, is digitizing the Press's journals for online publication via the World Wide Web. This groundbreaking project has captured the attention of the library and scholarly community. AQ, one of the jewels of the Press's list, is an important part of this experiment. ASA members, who can receive free access to AQ through online signup mechanisms, will have the implications of digital publishing on American Studies scholarship illuminated in this session through the microcosm of AQ.
All members of ASA are permitted free access to the online issues of American Quarterly from the Project Muse file server. In this session, members will be shown how to get passwords and log on to the database from their home or office computers with a direct Internet or SLIP/PPP connection. They will learn how to find their way around the AQ materials and get ideas of what usages they might make of this content. The presenters will also demonstrate features of the new ASA/AQ members-only Home Page.
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12:15 - 2:15 PM | CHICAGO A/B |
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Women's Committee Luncheon: Affirmative Action Faces the Twenty-First Century (Co-Sponsored by the Minority Scholars Committee) |
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CHAIR: | Carol Miller, Department of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota |
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PANELISTS: | Ellen Messer-Davidow, Department of English, University of Minnesota
Renato Rosaldo, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
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Two recent events have significantly altered the role and effectiveness of affirmative action in higher education: the Regents of the University of California's decision to abolish affirmative action in student admissions and faculty hires, and the Hopwood Decision by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court upholding the abolition of considerations of race in law school admissions. And a third action, the so-called California Civil Rights Initiative, now threatens affirmative action more than ever. This initiative asserts that affirmative action, rather than (as is in fact the case) right-wing rhetoric, has shifted from endorsing equal opportunity to condoning reverse discrimination under the name of preferences. The new legislation argues for color-blind hiring and admissions processes. This luncheon session will consider (1) both sound-bite and more considered alternatives to the new right-wing rhetoric; (2) reasons for the failure of affirmative action, including the lack of resources dedicated to its implementation and the way in which its legal definition made it particularly difficult to execute; (3) successful strategies of the right in defeating affirmative action, particularly their appropriation of the liberal discourse of inequality and discrimination; and (4) the consequences of both this conservative discourse and affirmative action for women in the academy. At 12:45 the doors will be opened for those who wish to hear the speakers without taking part in the luncheon.
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12:30 - 2:00 PM | CHICAGO C |
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The Cultural Politics of Jazz: Education, Art, and Masculinity |
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CHAIR: | Guthrie Ramsey, Department of Music, Tufts University |
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PAPERS: | Patrick Hill, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Jelly Roll Morton, Black Sporting Culture, and the Problem of Manliness in Prohibition-Era Chicago
Anthony Macías, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
"If You Don't Live It, It Won't Come Out of Your Horn": Detroit Jazz Musicians During the Bebop Era, 1940-1960
Eric Porter, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
The Poetics and Politics of Charles Mingus |
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COMMENTS: | Guthrie Ramsey |
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Even Their Simplest Statistics are Sublime: Democracy, Empire, Exploration, and Narrative |
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CHAIR: | Carol Henderson, Department of English, University of Delaware |
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PAPERS: | Kenneth Haltman, Department of Art History, Michigan State University
Expeditionary Art as Expeditionary Narrative by Other Means
Geoff Cohen, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
"An Object Which Was Supposed To Be an Indian": The Confidence Man and the U.S. and Mexican Boundary Commission
John M. González, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Migrating in Place: Californios, Narrative, and the Racializing of U.S. Nationalism |
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COMMENTS: | David Nye, Center for American Studies, Odense University, Denmark |
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Strategies of Democratic Citizenship in Antebellum America |
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CHAIR: | Lawrence Buell, Department of English, Harvard University |
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PAPERS: | Frank Albers, Visiting Fellow in Comparative Literature, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Rousseau, Emerson, and Natural Citizenship
Thomas Augst, Program in the History of American Civilization, Harvard University
The State of Our Attention: Emerson, Enterprise, and the Politics of Character
Brian Walker, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Everyday Life as Democratic Self-Fashioning |
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COMMENTS: | Lawrence Buell |
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12:30 - 2:00 PM | CHOUTEAU A |
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Traveling Detroit: Migration/Nostalgia/Souvenirs |
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CHAIR: | William Tuttle, Department of History and American Studies Program, University of Kansas |
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PAPERS: | Nancy Jones, Curator of Education, Detroit Institute of Arts
Speaking of Nostalgia...Performing the Past in the Art Museum--A Performance Piece
Jason Young, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
The City Nostalgia
Jerry Herron, American Studies Program, Wayne State University
Detroit: Modernity/Nostalgia/Souvenirs |
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COMMENTS: | Cheryl Lester, Department of English and American Studies Program, University of Kansas
Gary Griffin, Department of Metal Smithing, Cranbrook Academy of Art |
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12:30 - 2:00 PM | CHOUTEAU B |
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Outsiders Again: Contemporary Versions of Asian American Masculinity |
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CHAIR: | Rudy Busto, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University |
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PAPERS: | Jennifer Jang, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
"Yan Can Cook": Martin Yan and the Performance of the Domesticated Asian American Male
Brian Locke, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Here Comes the Judge: The Dancing Itos and Televisual Construction of the Enemy Asian Male
Cynthia Tolentino, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Caring About White Women in Ways that White Men Aren't Supposed To: Race and Nation in Bulosan and Wright |
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COMMENTS: | Rudy Busto |
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12:30 - 2:00 PM | VAN HORN B/C |
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Marketing Avant-Garde Literature in the United States |
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CHAIR: | Janice Radway, Program in Literature, Duke University |
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PAPERS: | Jane C. Penner, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Avant-Garde Returns: The American Popularization of Gertrude Stein and T.S. Eliot
A.H. Selch, Department of English, Duke University
Marketing Modernism on the Air: Archibald MacLeish's Radio Verse Plays
Catherine Turner, Department of American Studies, University of Texas
How to Enjoy James Joyce's Great Novel Ulysses |
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COMMENTS: | Janice Radway |
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Displacing Regionalism: Class, Ideology, and Immigration in Local Color |
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CHAIR: | Christine Bold, Department of English, University of Guelph, Canada |
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PAPERS: | Dalia Kandiyoti, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University
The Local and the Mobile: Immigrant Narrative and Local Color
Carrie Tirado Bramen, Department of English, State University of New York, Buffalo
Regionalism and Uneven Development in Turn of the Century America
Gordon Hutner, Department of English, University of Wisconsin
The Way West: American Fiction, Region, and Nationhood, 1930-1950 |
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COMMENTS: | Christine Bold |
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Ethnic Roles and Jewish Identity at the Turn of the Century |
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CHAIR: | Joyce Antler, Department of American Studies, Brandeis University |
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PAPERS: | Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Canada, and
Victoria Lamont, Department of English, University of Alberta, Canada
The Theatrics of Immigration: Israel Zangwill's Play The Melting Pot and the Politics of National Identity
M. Gabriella Ambrosioni, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Cagliari, Italy
Exile, Migrations and Americanization in Fin de Siècle Jewish America
Laura Browder, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University
I Am a Woman--And a Jew: Ethnic Imposter Autobiography and the Creation of Immigrant Identity |
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COMMENTS: | Deborah Dash Moore, Department of Religious Studies, Vassar College |
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Mobile Masculinity: Desire, Success, and Identity |
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CHAIR: | Gail Bederman, Department of History, University of Notre Dame |
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PAPERS: | Laura K. Arnold, Department of English, Reed College
"It Was So Long Since I Had Seen a Woman Who Was at All Attractive": Explorative Desire and the American Bachelor Abroad
Tom Pendergast, American Studies Program, Purdue University
"Horatio Alger Doesn't Work Here Any More": Masculinity in American Magazines, 1919-1940
Michael E. Staub, Department of English, Bowling Green State University
Holocaust Consciousness, Black Masculinity, and the Renegotiation of Jewish American Identity, 1957-1967 |
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COMMENTS: | Gail Bederman |
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12:30 - 2:00 PM | VAN HORN A |
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Traveling Questions: The Negro and the Indian in the Spanish Borderlands |
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CHAIR: | Lisbeth Haas, History Board, University of California, Santa Cruz |
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PAPERS: | Susan Bernardin, Department of English, University of Minnesota
South by Southwest: Reconfiguring Coordinates of Race and Region in Pauline Hopkins's Winona
Gregory S. Jay, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Confederate Indians: D.W. Griffith and the Race for Nationhood
Susan Gillman, Literature Board, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Plantation and the Hacienda: Twin Fantasy Heritages? |
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COMMENTS: | Lisbeth Haas |
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Space, Identity, and Representation |
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CHAIR: | Robert Macieski, Department of History, University of New Hampshire |
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PAPERS: | Alexander Lubin, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Claiming Space/Performing Race: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Boston School Desegregation Crisis, 1970-1974
Kathryn Kane, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Making Space: Constructions of Identity and Community in The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Adrian Gaskins, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Ethni(C)ities: Representing "Colored" Space(s) in "Black Cinema"
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COMMENTS: | Robert Macieski |
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Tour: Harry S. Truman Library, Museum/Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Temple Tour |
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2:15 - 4:00 PM | CHICAGO A/B |
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Global/Local Intersections: International Conversations on Women's Issues and Feminist Work in American Studies (Sponsored by the Women's Committee) |
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CHAIR: | Alice Kessler-Harris, Department of History, Rutgers University |
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PANELISTS: | Melani Budianta, Department of English and American Studies Program, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Nouha Homad, Department of English, Jordan University for Women, Amman, Jordan
Misako Koike, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Tokyo, Japan
Helena Maragou, Department of English and American Studies, American College of Greece (Deree), Athens, Greece
Mira Sun, United States Information Agency, American Embassy, Seoul, Korea
Elzbieta H. Oleksey, Director of Center for Women's Studies, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
Maria-Irene Ramalha de Sousa Santos, American Studies Program, University of Portugal, Coimbra, Portugal |
Panelists will address the intersections of women's issues and American Studies in their research, teaching, service, and programmatic development from the standpoint of their own national, cultural, and institutional locations. The questions they will consider include: How have "women's issues," "women's studies," and "feminist theory" been constructed in each particular institution, community, region? How have research, teaching, program building, and service been shaped by feminist/womanist commitments? What conceptual and practical problems and issues do panelists face in developing linkages between work in American Studies and work in women's studies? How might we work together to build an international community of inquiry and action among scholars worldwide who are concerned about women's and gender issues?
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Conversation: The Making of Ken Burns's Documentary Series The West |
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FACILITATORS: | David Gutiérrez, Department of History, University of California, San Diego
Richard White, Department of History, University of Washington
Stephen Ives, Series Producer
Dayton Duncan, Series Writer
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Makers of historical documentary films face a number of daunting challenges in the process of producing their work. Striving to achieve a delicate balance between telling a compelling story and accurately representing the past, the filmmaker must also strike a balance between his or her own vision and the views of the film's writers, historical consultants, and technical staff.
In this conversation, series producer Stephen Ives, writer Dayton Duncan, and consultants David Gutiérrez and Richard White gather to reflect on the making of the Ken Burns/Stephen Ives PBS documentary series, The West. Others involved with the project who will contribute to the discussion include Patricia Nelson Limerick and N. Scott Momaday. Return to Friday's Session Listing
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Open Forum: The American Studies Crossroads Project (Sponsored by the Committee on Electronic Projects and Publications) |
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MODERATOR: | Randall Bass, Director, American Studies Crossroads Project, Georgetown University |
This open forum is for anyone interested in discussing the American Studies Crossroads Project, an international Internet and Curriculum Innovation project sponsored by the American Studies Association. This will be an information session for people interested in learning more about the project as well as for those interested in learning how they can become involved.
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"Frontiers Abounding": Transnational Contexts of the Early American Republic |
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CHAIR: | Robert A. Gross, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary |
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PAPERS: | Betsy Erkkila, Department of English, Northwestern University
Toward a Comparative Cultural Practice: Rethinking the American Revolution
Chris Brown, Institute of Early American History and Culture, Department of History, College of William and Mary
The American Revolution and the Question of Slavery: Perspectives from Britain
Sharon Halevi, Department of History, Haifa University, Israel
"The Men Are Mere Indians to Their Women": Gender and Ethnicity on the South Carolina Frontier, 1750-1800 |
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COMMENTS: | Helena Wall, Department of History, Pomona College
Robert A. Gross |
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Labored Aesthetics: Work, Gender, and Literary Production in Antebellum America |
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CHAIR: | Joy Kasson, Curriculum in American Studies, University of North Carolina |
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PAPERS: | David Anthony, Department of English, University of Michigan
"Startled into Manhood": Masculinity, Labor, and White Skin in Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables
Paul Crumbley, Department of English, Utah State University
The Servant's Choice: Emily Dickinson and the Body of the Book
Eliza Richards, Department of English, University of Michigan
Unemployed Feelings: The Woman Poet in the American Marketplace, 1830-1850 |
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COMMENTS: | Amy Schrager Lang, American Studies Program, Emory University |
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Imagining Spain and Spanishness |
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CHAIR: | Matt Garcia, Department of History, University of Illinois |
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PAPERS: | Mary Goodwin, Department of Art, California State University, San Bernardino
Spanish Colonial via Parisian Modernist: Southern California's Romance with Cultural Dislocation
John Nieto-Phillips, Department of History, New Mexico State University
Blood, History, and Identity: The Making of a "Spanish American" Consciousness in Northern New Mexico, 1880-1912
Brian Allen, History of Art Department, Yale University
"Spanish Maiden in Reverie": Washington Allston's Construction of Spain and its Expression of American National Identity |
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COMMENTS: | Matt Garcia |
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2:15 - 4:00 PM | CHOUTEAU B |
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Spatial Perversions: Queer Bodies and Nationalist Discourse |
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CHAIR: | Amy Robinson, Department of English, Georgetown University |
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PAPERS: | Nan Alamilla Boyd, Women's Studies Program, University of Colorado
Beyond Lesbian Bodies: Transsexual Women in 1970s Lesbian Feminist Discourse
Elizabeth Freeman, Department of Literature, Sarah Lawrence College
Honeymoon with a Stranger: Man-Girl Love, Travelogues, and the Construction of American Cultural Competence
Molly McGarry, Department of History, New York University
Bent Girlhood: Scoliosis and Medicalized Adolescence in America
Amie Parry, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Gertrude Stein's Empty Landscapes and the Allegorical Histories of "America" |
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COMMENTS: | Amy Robinson |
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2:15 - 4:00 PM | VAN HORN B/C |
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Undercover Outrage and Role Reversal |
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CHAIR: | Karen Halttunen, Department of History, University of California, Davis |
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PAPERS: | Matthew P. Brown, Department of English, University of Virginia
Jesse Jackson in Whiteface: How Ya Like Me Now? and the Masking of African-American Dissent
Sara K. Schneider, School of Drama, University of Washington
Staging Operations: The Taped Terrorizations of Coyle and Sharpe
Gillian Johns, Department of English, Temple University
"Strategic Withdrawal": Kelley's Hoax on (Black) Novelist Convention and the "Protest" Reader in A Different Drummer
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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African Americans and the Representation of the Global |
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CHAIR: | George Hutchinson, Department of English, University of Tennessee |
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PAPERS: | Gina Dent, Department of English, Princeton University
The Cartography of Blackness: Travel and the Production of Cultural Value
Arlene Keizer, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: Late Capitalism in the "Black Atlantic"
Kenneth Mostern, Department of English, University of Tennessee
How to Imagine the Emergence of a Third World Proletariat: W.E.B. Du Bois's Position in 1928 |
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COMMENTS: | James A. Miller, Department of English, University of South Carolina |
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Global Impressions: Jazz, Rock, and the Blues |
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CHAIR: | Guenter H. Lenz, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany |
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PAPERS: | Edward Widmer, Department of History, Harvard University
"Cannibalistic Sounds": Jazz, Voodoo, and White America
Christophe Den Tandt, Department of English and American Literatures, University of Brussels, Belgium
The gendered construction of musicianship in rock ‘n' roll music
Steve Waksman, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Voodoo Chile: Jimi Hendrix and the Blues |
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COMMENTS: | William Barlow, Department of Radio, Film, and Television, Howard University |
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Creating Identity and Place in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago |
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CHAIR: | Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Department of History, Loyola University of Chicago |
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PAPERS: | Elliott J. Gorn, Department of History and American Studies Program, Miami University
Mother Jones in Chicago
Timothy B. Spears, Department of American Literature and Civilization, Middlebury College
"Exiles in Suckerland": George Ade, John McCutcheon, and the Ethnicization of Small-Town Migrants in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
Robin F. Bachin, Department of History, University of Miami
Mapping Migration: Urban Identities and the Politics of Space in Progressive-Era Chicago |
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COMMENTS: | Carl Smith, Department of English and Program in American Culture, Northwestern University |
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2:15 - 4:00 PM | VAN HORN A |
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The Social Power of the "Natural" |
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CHAIR: | Donald Worster, Department of History, University of Kansas |
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PAPERS: | Jennifer Price, Department of History, Yale University
The Natural World of Television
Mark Seltzer, Department of English, Cornell University
Techno-Primitivism
Andrew Ross, American Studies Program, New York University
A Brief History of Scarcity |
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COMMENTS: | Ann Fabian, Department of History, Columbia University |
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The Cultural Work of Little Women: Novel, Film and Television |
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CHAIR: | Barbara Sicherman, Kenan Professor of American Institutions and Values, Trinity College |
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PAPERS: | Linda Grasso, Department of Language and Literature, Columbus College
Behind the Cloak of Enchantment in Gillian Armstrong's Little Women: Feminist Affirmation or Hollywood Betrayal?
Elizabeth Francis, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Rewriting Little Women in the 1920s
Amelie Hastie, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Coincident Genres: 19th-Century Domestic Novels and 20th-Century Soap Operas |
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COMMENTS: | Barbara Sicherman |
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Country Club Plaza Walking Tour |
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GUIDE: | William Worley, Department of History, University of Missouri, Kansas City |
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Tour: American Royal Horse Show and Museum |
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Resisting Racism: Black Voices from the Great Migration |
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CHAIR: | Daniel Walden, American Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University |
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PAPERS: | Melanie Levinson, Department of English, Susquehanna University
Taking Back "the Word": African American Resistance and Iola Leroy
Donald Dingledine, Department of English, Temple University
"As Good As My Word": Narrative Ethics in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy
David Krasner, Department of Theater Arts, Southern Illinois University
"Have You Ever Seen Anyone Stick so Close to a Cracker?": Parody and Romance in Williams and Walker's Abyssina
Catherine Parsons Smith, Department of Music, University of Nevada, Reno
Transforming the Blues: Doubleness of Race, Class, Genre, and Geography in the Music of William Grant Still |
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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Workshop: High Tech Teaching and Outreach--World Wide Web Applications for Material and Visual Culture (Sponsored by the Material Culture Studies Caucus) |
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MODERATOR: | Thomas Ryan, American Civilization Program, University of Delaware |
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PRESENTERS: | Jo B. Paoletti, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
Tapping Visual Resources: The MESL and Caprina Projects
Terry Gips, Art Gallery and Department of Art, University of Maryland
Links, Pathways, and Constructions: Creative and Critical Uses of the World Wide Web
Ann Denkler, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland; David Silver, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland; Psyche Williams, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
Virtual Greenbelt: Adventures in Teaching and Outreach Using the World Wide Web
Andrew Connors, Associate Curator, National Museum of American Art
Exploring Stories Behind the Images: Bringing Latino Art and Artists to the Schools |
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
This workshop is designed to help material culture studies and visual culture studies scholars imagine the potential of the World Wide Web for teaching and museum outreach. We will include university- and museum-based as well as cooperative programs, programs aimed at students from kindergarten through graduate school, and programs that can be adapted according to differing local circumstances, budgets, and levels of familiarity with the web. The second half of the workshop will a free-for-all in which members of the audience are invited to describe their own web- or internet-based projects or to brainstorm how they might adapt these technologies and ideas to their own circumstances. Members of the audience are invited to bring multiple copies of a one-page description of their projects or web pages or gopher sites, including addresses, for discussion and exchange. Return to Friday's Session Listing
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Whiteness and Nationalism |
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CHAIR: | Traise Yamamoto, Department of English, University of California, Riverside |
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PAPERS: | Kathleen McHugh, Department of Literature and Languages, University of California, Riverside
Catharine Beecher's Domesticity: Making Home, Making Nation
Jennifer Brody, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
Miscegenation, Whiteness and Nation
Lisa Duggan, American Studies Program, New York University
A Vision in White: Jesse Helms' National(ist) Imaginary
Shawn Michelle Smith, Department of English, Washington State University
The Body as National Territory: The Daughters of the American Revolution and the Consolidation of "White" Nationalism |
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COMMENTS: | Eric Lott, Department of English, University of Virginia |
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Writing Home: Gender, Travel and the Contested Domestic |
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CHAIR: | Cassandra J. Cleghorn, Department of English and American Studies Program, Williams College |
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PAPERS: | Elizabeth Abrams, Expository Writing Program, Harvard University
Making Love to Nausicaa: Henry Adams's South Pacific Odyssey
Karen Hust, Department of English, Yale University
Cowpoke Domesticity: Isabella Bird's Home on the Range
Laura Saltz, Expository Writing Program, Harvard University
"Histories We Cannot Spell": Picturing Domesticity in the Photographs of Clover Hooper Adams |
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COMMENTS: | Cassandra J. Cleghorn |
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4:15 - 6:00 PM | CHOUTEAU A |
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Across the Pacific in the Nineteenth Century: The United States in the South Seas and East Asia |
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CHAIR: | Cristina Stevens, Department of American Studies, University of Brasilia, Brazil |
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PAPERS: | Juniper L. Ellis, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
Staging Femininity in Melville's South Pacific
Rui Yazawa Kohiyama, Department of Contemporary Culture and Communication, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan
American Missionary Experiences in the Far East
Yujin Yaguchi, Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Hokkaido University, Japan
An American Observer Observed: A Traveller's Experience in the "Japanese Interior" |
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COMMENTS: | Judith Babbitts, Peace Corps Fellows Program, U.S. Peace Corps |
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4:15 - 6:00 PM | CHOUTEAU B |
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Controlling Bodies: Interventions in the Regulation of Identities |
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CHAIR: | Terry Rowden, Department of English, University of Colorado |
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PAPERS: | Kathleen Chapman, Department of Modern Languages, University of Colorado, Denver
Maintaining the German National Body in America: German Immigrants' Turnvereine in Denver, Colorado
Marjorie Bryer, Department of History, University of Minnesota
"Another Cheap Gotterdammerung": The Policing Function of the Public Spectacle in the Destruction of the SLA, South Central Los Angeles, 1974
Michael du Plessis, Department of English and Comparative Literature Program, University of Colorado
Gender Laws, Gender Wars: Recent Local Attacks on Transgender Identities |
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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4:15 - 6:00 PM | VAN HORN B/C |
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Interrogating Whitman Internationally |
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CHAIR: | Kenneth M. Price, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary |
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PAPERS: | Guiyou Huang, Department of English, Kutztown University
A Newer Realm of Poetry: The Other Chinese Whitmanian Poet, Ai Qing
Ruth L. Bohan, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri, St. Louis
"Passage to more than India!" Joseph Stella's Brooklyn Bridge
Sonja H. Streuber, Department of English, University of California, Davis
Sensing Democratic Sounds--Resounding Democratic Sense: Walt Whitman and Paul Hindemith |
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COMMENTS: | Kenneth M. Price |
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Conversation: Higher Education and Native Americans--Assimilation or Empowerment? |
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PRESENTERS: | Bob Martin, President of Haskell Indian Nations University
David Shulenburger, Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Kansas
Dan Wildcat, Department of Natural and Social Science, Haskell Indian Nations University
Mike Yellow Bird, Department of Social Welfare, University of Kansas
Tammy Lowe, President of Student Senate, Haskell Indian Nations University
Regina Grass, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing, University of Kansas |
This conversation will feature the input of representatives from multiple levels of both the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University. These representatives will discuss the differing strengths and weaknesses of these two State institutions (the State of Kansas for one, the federal State for the other) for providing higher education for Native Americans. These neighboring institutions (both located in Lawrence, Kansas) share the complex history of their interactions, one fraught with the difficulties and conflicts suggested by the title of the conversation. Each participant will deliver brief prepared remarks that will provide the basis for a general discussion among the panelists and the audience, focusing on the role of the State in providing higher education for all American peoples.
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The Cultural Body: Tattoos, Piercings, Beauties, and Freaks |
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CHAIR: | Nigel Rothfels, Center for Twentieth-Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
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PAPERS: | Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Department of English, Howard University
Extraordinary Spectacles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Human in the Exhibition of Julia Pastrana, "The Ugliest Woman in the World"
David Serlin, American Studies Program, New York University
Exporting Our Standard of Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and Cultural Imperialism During the 1950s
Margo DeMello, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University
Telling Bodies: How middle-class tattoo wearers use personal narrative to redefine community, history, and identity
Janet Rose, American Studies Program, University of Kansas
Making It Mine: Body piercing as ritual practice to ownership of the self |
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COMMENTS: | Nigel Rothfels |
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Eco-Capitalism, Women, and Nature |
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CHAIR: | Dorothee Kocks, Department of History, University of Utah |
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PAPERS: | Brian Dolinar, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University
Eco-capitalism: Greenpeace gets a Piece of the Market
Noël Sturgeon, Women Studies Program, Washington State University
U.S. Ecofeminist Appropriations and Transnational Environmentalisms
Amanda Rees, American Studies Program, University of Kansas
Rethinking the Narrative Construction of Landscape: Envisioning the Future of the Great Plains |
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COMMENTS: | Virginia Scharff, Department of History, University of New Mexico |
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4:15 - 6:00 PM | VAN HORN A |
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The Cultures of Mass Culture |
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CHAIR: | Mark Winokur, Department of English, Rhodes College |
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PAPERS: | Loren Glass, Department of English, Duke University
Mariolatry as Mass Culture in the Progressive Era
Spencer Bennett, Department of Religious Studies, Siena Heights College
Jazz Goes to the Movies: The Vitaphone Shorts
Jonathan Veitch, Department of English, University of Wisconsin
Fortune or Fortuna: The Construction of Hollywood in the American Imagination |
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COMMENTS: | Mark Winokur |
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James Baldwin as Migratory Intellectual: Theoretical Soundings on Music, Sex, and the State |
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CHAIR: | Stephen Best, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley |
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PAPERS: | José Muñoz, Performance Studies Program, New York University
James Baldwin's Migratory Ethics of Self-Enactment
Josh Kun, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Life According to the Beat: James Baldwin and the Perilous Sounds of Love
Fred Moten, Department of English, University of Iowa
Baldwin's Baraka, His Mirror Stage, The Sound of His Gaze
Robert Reid-Pharr, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University
James Baldwin, Piri Thomas, and Competing Visions of Nationalism |
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COMMENTS: | Stephen Best |
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6:15 - 7:45 PM | SAN FRANCISCO |
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Confrontation Versus Harmony: Perception Gaps in U.S. /Japan Relations (Sponsored by the International Committee) |
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CHAIR: | Alice Kessler-Harris, Department of History, Rutgers University |
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ADDRESS: | Yasuo Sakakibara, Teikyo Heisei University, 1996 Fulbright Distinguished Fellow, Japan
Economic Reality and Cultural Static: Toward More and Better Dialogue Between the U.S. and Japan |
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RESPONDENTS: | Steven Lubar, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Linda K. Kerber, Department of History, University of Iowa |
This session is sponsored by the International Committee and the Fulbright Commission as part of the fifty-year anniversary of the Commission and its work in international educational exchanges. Professor Sakakibara will deliver the major address and will focus on U.S. / Japan relations in economics and trade and the impact of cultural differences on those interactions. Following the address panelists will comment on related issues involving various aspects of U.S. / Japanese cultural interactions. Steven Lubar will reflect on his experiences as part of a team that mounted a major Smithsonian exhibit on American society and culture in Japan. Linda Kerber will comment on her involvement, as ASA president, in establishing ongoing cooperation and scholarly exchange between the Japanese Association for American Studies (JAAS) and the ASA. Following this session there will be a reception for all international scholars and those interested in international scholarship Return to Friday's Session Listing
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Reception for International Scholars and Visitors (Co-Sponsored by the International, Minority Scholars, and Women's Committees) |
The ASA Officers, ASA Council, and International, Minority Scholars, and Women's Committees invite all colleagues from abroad to attend, as well as those registrants in the international practice of American Studies. Return to Friday's Session Listing
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Kansas City Pub Crawl and Barbecue Dinner |
Dine at a local barbecue restaurant in the historic city market area, and visits to three local clubs featuring jazz, blues, and contemporary music.
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