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7:00 - 9:00 AM | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S SUITE |
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Task Force on International Women in American Studies Breakfast Meeting |
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Students' Committee Working Breakfast: Proposing Panels and Papers |
Members of the 1996 ASA Program Committee will be present to discuss writing successful paper and panel proposals. Students are invited to bring along an abstract and/or panel proposal for the 1997 meeting for possible critique. Copies of these can also be put on the board provided throughout the meeting for drumming up interest in tentative proposals. Coffee and tea will be offered gratis to graduate students courtesy of the ASA. Muffins, bagels, and the like will be available for purchase.
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8:00 AM - 12:15 PM | EXECUTIVE CONFERENCE ROOM |
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1997 Program Committee Meeting |
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Tour: Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kansas |
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Tour: Jesse James Museum and Watkins Mill Tour |
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GUIDES: | Linna Place, Independent Scholar, Shawnee Mission, Kansas
Louis W. Potts, Department of History, University of Missouri, Kansas City |
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8:15 - 10:00 AM | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S SUITE |
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Business Breakfast of the Task Force on International Women in American Studies |
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8:15 - 10:00 AM | CHICAGO B |
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Immigrant Acts: Rethinking American Studies in the Transnational Era |
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CHAIR: | George Lipsitz, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego |
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PAPERS: | José David Saldívar, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Border Matters and Immigrant Acts: The Significance of Asian American Diasporic Writing for Chicano Studies
Tricia Rose, Department of History, New York University
Race, Gender, and Immigrant Acts: Black Women and Transnational Culture
K. Scott Wong, Department of History, Williams College
Immigrant Acts and Asian American Studies |
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COMMENTS: | Lisa Lowe, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego |
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8:15 - 10:00 AM | CHICAGO C |
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Breaking Down: Masculine Nervousness in the Nineteenth Century |
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CHAIR: | Eric Caplan, Department of History, University of Chicago |
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PAPERS: | James N. Mancall, Department of English, New York University
A Prayer for the Advancement of the Race: Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance and Antebellum Nervousness
Lisa Long, Department of English, University of Wisconsin
"The Sickness of Battle": American Nervousness and the Civil War
Kathleen Green, Modern Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Double Vision: Nervousness, Nationalism, and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward |
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COMMENTS: | Eric Caplan |
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Racial Nationalisms and the Migrant Imaginary |
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CHAIR: | Suzanne Oboler, Department of American Civilization, Brown University |
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PAPERS: | Michelle Stephens, American Studies Program, Yale University
New Ethnicities and the Politics of National Identity: West Indian Intellectuals in Harlem, 1920s and 1930s
Sandhya Shukla, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Ethnic Nationalism Beyond the State: The Non-Resident Indian (NRI) as a Category for Diasporic Identities
Vilashini Cooppan, Literature Board, University of California Santa Cruz
Racial Formation in a Free State: Negotiations of Race and Class in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
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COMMENTS: | Julie Greene, Department of History, University of Colorado |
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Beyond Sound: New Meanings and Understandings of African American Music |
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CHAIR: | Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua, Associate Director of the Teachers Academy, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture |
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PAPERS: | Herman Beavers, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
"Jazz Must Be a (Wo)Man": Orchestrations of the Masculine Self in the Literature of Jazz
Danille Taylor-Guthrie, Department of Minority Studies, Indiana University, Northwest
The Circle and the Cross: African American Music and New Paradigms for Understanding the Black Experience
Farah Jasmine Griffin, English Department, University of Pennsylvania
Lady of the Day: The Myths and Meanings of Billie Holiday |
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COMMENTS: | Johann Buis, Department of Music, University of Georgia |
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8:15 - 10:00 AM | CHOUTEAU A |
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CHAIR: | William Solomon, Department of English, Stanford University |
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PAPERS: | Kerry Soper, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
Fresh off the Boat and Funny: An Analysis of the Function and Reception of Immigrant Types in Turn-of-the-Century Newspaper Comic Strips in the United States
Rachel C. Lee, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Shattering "the Filipino's Dream of Fraternity": Carlos Bulosan and the Sexual Politics of America
Alan Wald, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Exile/Migration in African American Literary Radicalism: The Politics of Black Music in McKay, Attaway, and Smith |
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COMMENTS: | John Cheng, Department of History, George Mason University
William Solomon |
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8:15 - 10:00 AM | CHOUTEAU B |
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Discretion Assured: American Morality and the Discourse of Decency |
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CHAIR: | Beth Bailey, Department of History, Harvard University |
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PAPERS: | David Allyn, Department of History, Harvard University
All the Advertising That's Fit to Print: The New York Times and the Regulation of "Indecent" Advertising, 1948-1977
Ian Mylchreest, Department of History, Monash University, Australia
"An Acne On Our Culture": Law and the New Cultural Freedom
Matthew Murray, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin
Sex, Sexuality, and Radio Censorship in the 1930s: Contesting the Limits in the Figure of Mae West
Leslie Taylor, American Studies Program, University of Iowa
"Up and Down the Aisles of Lesbos": (In)Decency in the New York Theater, 1926-1927 |
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COMMENTS: | Francis G. Couvares, Department of History, Amherst College |
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8:15 - 10:00 AM | VAN HORN B/C |
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Anatomies of the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century Art and Material Culture |
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CHAIR: | Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Department of History, University of Michigan |
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PAPERS: | Natalie Dykstra, American Studies Program, University of Kansas
Writing Under the Covers: Neurasthenia and the Production of Self in Nineteenth-Century America
Helen Sheumaker, American Studies Program, University of Kansas
"This Lock of Hair Once Did Grow": The Salable Body in 19th-Century Hair Fancywork
Ann Paulk, Department of Art History, University of Iowa
Thomas Eakins and Women: Sexuality and Hysteria in the William Rush Paintings |
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COMMENTS: | Regina Morantz-Sanchez |
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Across the Disciplines, Across the Grades: The National Faculty and American Studies Education (Sponsored by the Committee on Secondary Schools) |
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CHAIR: | John Howard, The National Faculty
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PRESENTERS: | Karin Calvert, The National Faculty
Melvyn Hammarberg, Program in American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania
José Limón, Department of English, University of Texas |
This workshop will examine the role of college and university faculty in the professional development of K-12 teachers. Specifically, it will focus on one organization that links university-based scholars with elementary and secondary educators--The National Faculty. Based on their work in National Faculty programs, the panelists--all members of ASA as well--will discuss the idea of interdisciplinarity, the disparities and commonalities of American Studies education across grades 9-16, and the benefits and challenges for teachers and scholars involved in collaborative work.
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Industrious Recreation: Class, Culture, and Landscapes of Leisure |
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CHAIR: | Anne Hyde, Department of History, Colorado College |
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PAPERS: | Kathleen L. Butler, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
The Virtue of the Fly: Angling, "The Honest and Patient Man's [and Woman's] Recreation"
James Buckley, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
(Re)creating Workers: The Corporate Organization of Worker Leisure in the Redwood Lumber Industry
Marjorie Walter, Department of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
Confrontation and Convergence: Thomas Eakins and the Prize Ring in Turn-of-the-Century Philadelphia |
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COMMENTS: | Anne Hyde |
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Representations of Race and Nationality in Film |
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CHAIR: | Daniel Bernardi, Department of Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles |
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PAPERS: | Charles Maland, Department of English, University of Tennessee
Cinematic Representations of Race in Early 1960s Canonized Films: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Cool World, and Nothing But a Man
Andrew B. Smith, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
"Nefarious Undertakings": Race and the Villain in Early Film Westerns, 1907-1915
Leslie Gutiérrez-Jones, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Finding Home, Keeping House: Acculturation and Domestic Management in El Norte and Housekeeping |
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COMMENTS: | Daniel Bernardi |
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8:15 - 10:00 AM | VAN HORN A |
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Art, Corporate Power, and Leisure, 1851 - 1939 |
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CHAIR: | Geraldine Wojno Kiefer, Independent Scholar, Rocky River, Ohio |
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PAPERS: | Sarah J. Moore, Department of Art, University of Arizona
Labor, Allegory, and Corporate Power: John White Alexander's Murals at the Carnegie Institute, 1907 - 1910
Patricia Bellis Bixel, Journal of Southern History, Rice University
America's Port of Quickest Dispatch: Selling the Port of Galveston by Image |
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COMMENTS: | Geraldine Wojno Kiefer, Independent Scholar, Rocky River, Ohio |
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Local Migrations, Global Readings: The Boas School |
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CHAIR: | John Hartigan, Jr., Department of Anthropology, Knox College |
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PAPERS: | Michael Elliott, Department of English, Columbia University
Changes in the Literary Form of Descendants of Immigrants: Reading Franz Boas
Julia E. Liss, Department of History, Scripps College
Diasporic Identities: The Science and Politics of Marginalization in the Work of Franz Boas and W.E.B. Du Bois
Stanley Corkin, Department of English, University of Cincinnati, and Phyllis Frus, Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University
Race, Culture, and the Problem of Relativism: Hurston, Boas, and Herskovits |
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COMMENTS: | John Hartigan, Jr. |
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was born in the U.S. the year the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified and died in Ghana on the eve of the March on Washington. Often remembered for his promotion of the "Talented Tenth" philosophy and his debates with Booker T. Washington regarding assimilation and accommodation, Du Bois ought to be known for much more than this. A master of the rhetorical flourish who, as fate would have it, possessed a keen sense of dramatic timing, Du Bois was at various times a mentor to a generation of black intellectuals, a leading civil rights activist, a path-breaking interdisciplinary scholar, a Pan-Africanist, a "Socialist of the Path," an aristocratic agitator, a magazine editor, and an expatriate Communist. In keeping with the theme of Global Migration, American Cultures, and the State, these two featured panels explore the life and legacies of W.E.B. Du Bois.
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FILM: W.E.B. Du Bois--A Biography in Four Voices |
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CHAIR: | Gerald Horne, Department of History, University of North Carolina |
Project advisor Gerald Horne will present this four-part, two-hour video biography. Recently released by California Newsreel and now available for classroom use, this film biography is narrated by four prominent African American writers--Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, and Amiri Baraka--each of whom narrates successive periods of Du Bois's life and discusses his impact on each era and on their work. The film is comprised of archival footage, rare audio recordings and photographs, as well as interviews with Du Bois's colleagues and biographers.
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | EMPIRE C |
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Conversation: Re/Locating W.E.B. Du Bois in American Studies |
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CHAIR: | Adolph Reed, American Studies Program, Northwestern University |
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FACILITATORS: | Kevin Gaines, Department of History, Princeton University
Jonathan Holloway, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Mary Dudziak, College of Law, University of Iowa
Brenda Gayle Plummer, Department of History, University of Wisconsin
Mia Bay, Department of History, Rutgers University |
This conversation comes at a time when Du Bois's life and thought are being re-examined in print, film, and video. Recent works have ranged from a magisterial biography of the first half of his life to a collection of essays reflecting upon "double -consciousness," an important theme of the 1903 masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk. This session brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars engaged in new and critical projects that touch upon or revolve around Du Bois. To challenge popular and iconographic views of Du Bois that restrict his legacy to his famous rivalry with Booker T. Washington, panel participants will focus on Du Bois's significance as a black intellectual who employed internationalism as a framework for engaged social criticism.
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | CHICAGO A |
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Debating/Affirming Ex-Tensions in American Studies (Sponsored by the Minority Scholars Committee) |
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CHAIR: | Nina Morgan, Department of English, Kennesaw State University |
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PAPERS: | Emory Elliott, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside
The Globalization of American Studies
Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Confronting a Rhetoric of Blindness: American Studies Meets the Regents of the University of California
Sivagami Subbaraman, Women's Studies Program, University of Maryland
Re-Colonizing "American" Outposts: Issues in Remapping American Literary Studies
Sharon Holland, Department of English, Stanford University
"It's Tight Like That": "Studies" and "Programs" Vying for Institutional Space in the Year 2001 |
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | CHICAGO B |
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CHAIR: | Herman Gray, Sociology Board, University of California, Santa Cruz |
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PAPERS: | Lawson Fusao Inada, Department of English, Southern Oregon State College
"Come Along With Me": The Jazz Poetry of Eddie Jefferson
Lorenzo Thomas, Department of English, University of Houston, Downtown
Going to Kansas City: Color, Economics, and Milt Larkin's Territory Band
Nick Evans, Department of English, University of Texas
Kansas City Jazz: Cultural Migrations and the Politics of Racial Authenticity | |
COMMENTS: | Burton Peretti, Division of Humanities, Pellissippi State College |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | CHICAGO C |
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Transnational Subjects Within and Against the Nation-State |
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CHAIRS: | Sarah Deutsch, Department of History, Clark University |
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PAPERS: | David Kazanjian, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Race Within/Against the Liberal State: Thomas Jefferson, David Walker, and Maria Stewart's Debate over Recolonization
Miranda Joseph, Department of Women's Studies, University of Arizona
Good Cop, Bad Cop: Gay Versus Christian, State Versus Nation in the NEA Debates
Alys Eve Weinbaum, Department of English, Columbia University
Transnational (Re)Production and U.S. Feminism
Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Department of Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
Mexicana Inter-states: Global Restructuring and the Production of Difference in the Maquiladoras | |
COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | EMPIRE A |
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Transnational Sexualities: Narrations of Normativity
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CHAIR: | Norma Alarcón, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley |
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PAPERS: | Amarpal K. Dhaliwal, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Love, Sex, and the State: Discourses of Dating in Narratives of (Im)Migration
Eithne Luibheid, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
INS Visa Processing: Constructions of Immigrant Women's Sexualities
Jasbir K. Puar, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Queer and Here: Closeted Subalterns in South Asian Diasporic Imagineries
Katherine Sugg, Program in Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"The Ultimate Rebellion": Sexuality and Community in Contemporary Chicana Writing | |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | EMPIRE B |
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"Unmentionable Vice," Sluttishness, and Alien Bodies: The Puritan Origins of American Sex |
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CHAIR: | Jenny Franchot, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley |
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PAPERS: | Nicholas F. Radel, Department of English, Furman University
Sodomical "Perversion": Reprobacy, Homophobia, and the Emergence of Sexual Subjectivity in 17th-Century England and New England
Tracy Fessenden, Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University
"Must Be a Woman": The Convent, the Whorehouse, and the Antebellum Protestant Woman's Sphere
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, Department of English, Furman University
White, Straight, and Protestant: Americanizing Male Alien Bodies in Abraham Cahan's Works | |
COMMENTS: | Jenny Franchot |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | CHOUTEAU A |
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Regionalism and the (Post-) Modern State: Midwestern and Western Case Studies (Sponsored by the Committee on Regional Chapters) |
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CHAIR: | Eric J. Sandeen, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming |
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PAPERS: | Elizabeth Raymond, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno
Does the Corn Belt Still Matter? The Midwest in American Culture
William Riebsame, Department of Geography, University of Colorado
Wither Regionalism in the New West? |
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COMMENTS: | Michael C. Steiner, Department of American Studies, California State University, Fullerton
Eric J. Sandeen |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | CHOUTEAU B |
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Wild Desires and Ideal Landscapes: Perceiving and Consuming America's National Parks |
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CHAIR: | Hal K. Rothman, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
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PAPERS: | Mark David Spence, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
"Visitors Not to Remain": Americans, American Indians, and the Idea of Wilderness
Peter J. Blodgett, Manuscripts Department, Huntington Library
Using Uncle Sam's Playgrounds: National Parks, Tourism, and Outdoor Recreation Between the World Wars
Joan M. Zenzen, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
Thomas Moran and Wonderland: The Changing Meaning of National Parks | |
COMMENTS: | Susan Neel, Department of History, Montana State University
Hal K. Rothman |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | VAN HORN B/C |
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Virtual Neighborhoods: Re-mapping Local and Global Identities |
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CHAIR: | Eric Sandweiss, Director of Research, Missouri Historical Society |
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PAPERS: | Robert Zecker, American Civilization Program, University of Pennsylvania
Pilgrims for Masaryk: Mapping the Creation of a Slovak-American Community
Matthew Ruben, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Same Place, Different Worlds: Globalization and Class Formation in Urban Space
Elisabeth E. Orr, Department of History, Indiana University
Politics and Culture in Suburbia: The Impact of Little Saigon
Dean Rehberger, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
Virtual Frontiers and Cyber Migration: U.S. Nationalism and the Internet |
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COMMENTS: | Mary Corbin Sies, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | BENTON A |
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Developing American Studies Programs in the High Schools (Sponsored by the Committee on Secondary Schools) |
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CHAIR: | Ardis Cameron, American and New England Studies Program, University of Southern Maine |
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PRESENTERS: | Deborah Schmalholz, Elgin High School, Elgin, Illinois
Jennifer Yates, Hoffman Estates High School, Hoffman Estates, Illinois |
Two high school teachers who have written their doctoral dissertations on secondary schools and who have developed American Studies courses will discuss the results of their extensive research on curriculum development, team-teaching, and pedagogical approaches to interdisciplinary courses. They will address such questions as: What are the dynamics of successful teams? What does a task analysis of American Studies assignments reveal about student learning in an interdisciplinary context?
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | BENTON B |
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Educating the Eye: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century America |
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CHAIR: | Angela Miller, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University |
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PAPERS: | Stephen Matterson, School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Not Educating the "I": Seeing and Not Seeing in Melville
Andrea Volpe, Department of History, Rutgers University
Bodily Attitudes: The Posing Stand in Cartes de Visite
Photography
Emily Godbey, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Picture Me Sane: Photographic Magic Lantern Slides in a Nineteenth-Century Insane Asylum
Edward L. Schwarzschild, Department of English, Sweet Briar College
Visual Generations: The Peale Family and the Imagining of America |
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COMMENTS: | Angela Miller |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | FREMONT |
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The Personal Is Professional on TV |
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CHAIR: | Susan J. Douglas, Department of Communications Studies, University of Michigan | |
PAPERS: | Charlie Bertsch, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
The Personal Is Paranormal: The X-Files and the Situation of Working Professionals
Gillian Epstein, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Beverly Hills 90210: Class and Gender Play in the Cult of the Personal
Annalee Newitz, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
ER, Professionals, and the Family Problem
Jillian Sandell, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Friends and the Families We Choose |
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COMMENTS: | Susan J. Douglas |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | VAN HORN A |
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Disease and American Culture |
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CHAIR: | Richard P. Horwitz, American Studies Program, University of Iowa |
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PAPERS: | Barbara Ryan, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Germs with Legs: Revisiting the "Servant Problem"
Meredith Raimondo, Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University
Mapping AIDS in the American South
Eileen Margerum, Communications Program, Salem State College
Fighting the "Unseen Enemy": Advertising, the Germ Theory and the Depression
Emily W. Salus, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
Cures and Treatments: American Perceptions of the Capabilities of Medical Science |
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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10:15 AM - 12:15 PM | NORTHRUP |
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Remembrance of Traumas Past |
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CHAIR: | Michiko Hase, Women's Studies Program, University of Colorado |
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PAPERS: | James Deutsch, American Studies Program, George Washington University
Fairy Tales for the Inner Child: Recovered Memories and American Identity
Kristin Hass, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Mourning for America: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, The POW/MIA Movement, and American Public Memory
Patrick Hagopian, American Studies Program, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales
How (Not) to Remember the "Forgotten War": The Korean War Veterans Memorial |
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COMMENTS: | Ed Linenthal, Department of Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh |
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10:15 - 12:15 | EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM |
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Open Discussion: Post-National American Studies |
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CHAIR: | John Carlos Rowe, Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine |
The residential research group on the topic "Post-National American Studies," which is currently working on this project at the University of California's Humanities Research Institute, invites interested scholars to meet with this group to discuss current innovations in curricular design and pedagogy in American Studies.
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