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Reading by N. Scott Momaday |
N. Scott Momaday, one of the leading American Indian writers of fiction and professor of literature at Arizona State University, will read selections from his works. Momaday has published numerous works, including the classics House Made of Dawn and The Way to Rainy Mountain. Delving into such themes as the interconnections between Indian identities of the past and present, the continuity of spirit, and the importance of place has made these books and other Momaday works vital points not only in American literature classes, but also in American intellectual and cultural history courses. Most recently, Momaday has appeared as a commentator in Ken Burns's documentary series, "The West." A related session on teaching Momaday's work will be held at 2:15 PM, in the same room.
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12:30 - 2:00 PM | CHICAGO C |
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Conversation: Global Migration, American Cultures, and Asian Americans (Sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies) |
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MODERATOR: | Gail M. Nomura, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan |
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PANELISTS: | Robert G. Lee, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Asian Americans: A Case of Nineteenth-Century Transnationalism
Stephen H. Sumida, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Dialogical Pluralism, Nationality, and Diaspora in Asian American Literature
Madhulika Khandelwal, Asian American Center, Queens College
Identities Across Boundaries: South Asian Americans in the United States |
This session seeks to stimulate a lively conversation on global migrations and Asian Americans. The moderator and panelists will discuss issues centering on diaspora, borders, transnationalism, pluralism,and national, ethnic, and racial boundaries in the United States. The remainder of the session will be devoted to points raised by audience members.
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Film: Tales from Arab Detroit |
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CHAIR: | Ronald Johnson, American Studies Program, Georgetown University |
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COMMENTS: | Michael Suleiman, Department of Political Science, Kansas State University
Joan Mandell, Olive Branch Productions, Los Angeles
Melba Joyce Boyd, Department of Africana Studies, Wayne State University |
Winner of the American Anthropological Association's top film prize, Tales from Arab Detroit opens as members of an Arab American community center bring an Egyptian poet from a Nile Delta village to Detroit to perform a 1000-year-old epic ballad. The result is a familiar American tale: parents trying to pass on cherished traditions and language, while their children are at home in a world of McDonald's and MTV. With mesmerizing imagery, humor, and warmth, Tales from Arab Detroit blend voices, poetry, song, and dance into everyday stories of cultural conflict and resilience within the largest Arab community in North America. From a fiddle-playing bard to an Arab American rapper, from the celebration of a Lebanese wedding to the rhythms of Yemeni dancers in a neighborhood park, you will visit with Arabs, both traditional and Americanized. Hang with the Warren Street Boys and root for the Fordson girls basketball team, as Tales from Arab Detroit leads you to explore the often contradictory ways a community weaves new traditions with the threads of old.
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Dressing Up, Cross-Dressing, and Dressing Down |
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CHAIR: | George Chauncey, Department of History, University of Chicago |
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PAPERS: | Jill Wacker, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Redressing America: The Sweatshop Cinderella's Material Voice
Sarah Wheelock, American Studies Program, Yale University
Sexing the Subject: Cross-Dressing in Popular Prostitutes' Autobiographies of the 1910s
Mark Pittenger, Department of History, University of Colorado
Yankee Investigators and Immigrant Workers: Re-imagining a Multi-Ethnic Workplace, 1919-1924 |
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COMMENTS: | George Chauncey |
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(Re)Imagining Latino Popular Culture |
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CHAIR: | Alicia Arrizón, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside |
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PAPERS: | Tiffany Ana López, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
More Is More: Installing the Body in Latino Performance Art
Brenda Jo Bright, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Dartmouth College
Latino Popular Culture and the Languages of Authority
Katherine Kinney, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
The Uncanny Borderlands of The X-Files |
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COMMENTS: | Alicia Arrizón |
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12:30 - 2:00 PM | CHOUTEAU A |
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Men, Women, and Tears: Literary and Pictorial Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth Century |
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CHAIR: | Mary Kelley, Department of History, Dartmouth College |
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PAPERS: | Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Department of American Studies, Amherst College
"Then When We Clutch Hardest": On the Death of a Child and the Reproduction of an Image
Stephen P. Knadler, Department of English, Spelman College
"To Exist by Sympathy, Not Antipathy": William Wells Brown and the Tradition of Black Male Sentimentalism
Lesley Ginsberg, Department of English, Stanford University
"I am your slave for love": Race and the Ideology of Love in Stowe's Writings for Children |
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COMMENTS: | Mary Kelley |
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12:30 - 2:00 PM | CHOUTEAU B |
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Imaginary Migrations: Reading Nationalism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
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CHAIR: | Jeffrey A. Douglas, Director of the Library, Knox College |
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PAPERS: | Martin Brueckner, Department of English, Brandeis University
Walking the Nation: Geographical Imaginations in the Early Republic
Shirley Teresa Wajda, Department of History, Kent State University
Children's Cabinets of Curiosities, 1790-1860
Paul Gutjahr, Department of English, Indiana University
The Promise of the Promised Land: American Protestant Pilgrimages to Palestine in the Nineteenth Century |
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COMMENTS: | Jeffrey A. Douglas |
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12:30 - 2:00 PM | VAN HORN B/C |
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CHAIR: | Richard W. Fox, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University |
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PAPERS: | Susan Kollin, Department of English, Montana State University
Edward S. Curtis and the Vanishing Alaskan
Paul Kramer, Department of History, Princeton University
An Empire in Transit: The Origins of the Philippine Ethnological Survey, 1899-1904
Lori M. Jirousek, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University
The Immigrant as Traveling Ethnographer: Mary Antin, Science, and Cultural Critique |
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COMMENTS: | Richard W. Fox |
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Reality, Reform, and Context: Meeting the Challenge of Secondary Education Reform (Sponsored by the Committee on Secondary Schools) |
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CHAIR: | Kathleen Wells-Morgan, David Hickman High School, Columbia, Missouri |
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PRESENTERS: | Patti Watts, Department of Social Studies, David Hickman High School, Columbia, Missouri
Hank Landry, Assistant Principal, David Hickman High School, Columbia, Missouri
Bill Priest, Department of Social Studies, David Hickman High School, Columbia, Missouri |
Three Missouri teachers and administrators will discuss their experiences with a variety of educational reform in the state: Bill Priest, who is serving on the committee to create the state's new education standards; Hank Landry, who has worked to implement Ted Sizer's coalition reforms at Hickman High; and Patti Watts, who has developed two multidisciplinary courses at Hickman High.
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Heritage Tourism and the Global Packaging of Ethnicity |
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CHAIR: | Douglas C. Comer, Applied Archaeology Center, National Park Service, Silver Spring, Maryland |
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PAPERS: | Chris Wilson, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico
Tourist Commodification, Ethnic Polarization, and the Possibility of Native-Newcomer Alliances in Santa Fe (A Newcomer's Narrative)
Sylvia Rodríguez, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
Fiesta Time and Plaza Space in Taos: A Native Ethnography |
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COMMENTS: | John Dorst, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming
Dona Brown, Department of History, University of Vermont |
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Urban Site(s): Mexican Immigration and Identity |
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CHAIR: | Ricardo Romo, Vice Provost, University of Texas |
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PAPERS: | Valerie M. Mendoza, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Race, Gender, and the American Legal System: The Case of Mexican Immigrants to Kansas City, 1914-1930
Stephen Pitti, Department of History, Stanford University
One Hundred Percent Americans? The Community Service Organization, MAPA, and the American G.I. Forum in San José, 1952-1970
Jaime Cárdenas, Jr. , Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Mexico Abroad, Mexico at Home: Mexican Immigrants and Popular Culture in 1950s Los Angeles | |
COMMENTS: | Norma E. Cantú, Department of English, Texas A&M International University |
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12:30 - 2:00 PM | VAN HORN A |
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Representing Hillary Clinton: Constructing and Deconstructing Gender in the Contemporary United States |
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CHAIR: | Bryant Simon, Department of History, University of Georgia |
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PAPERS: | Allida Black, American Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
Lightening Rods for Reform: First Ladies, Politics, and Gender
Susan Jarratt, Department of English, Miami University
Picturing Hillary: A Gendered Rhetoric of Photographic Representation
Marguerite R. Waller, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Riverside
The Mystery of the "Mystery" of Hillary Rodham Clinton |
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COMMENTS: | Cynthia E. Harrison, Department of History, George Washington University |
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Roundtable Discussion: Politics, Praxis, and the Utopian Imagination |
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CHAIR: | Karen Kilcup, Department of American Studies, University of Hull, United Kingdom |
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PANELISTS: | Carol A. Kolmerten, Department of English, Hood College
Communitarian Utopianism and Individual Rights in the 1840s
Hoda M. Zaki, African American Studies Program, Hood College
The Power of Utopia: 19th-Century African American Intentional Communities
Jean Pfaelzer, Department of English, University of Delaware
The Politics of Utopian Desire in the film "Salt of the Earth"
Deborah Rosenfelt, Women's Studies Program, University of Maryland
Love Among the Ruins: Dystopian Landscapes and Utopian Reclamations in Women's Fictions of the 1990s |
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12:30 - 2:00 | EXECUTIVE CONFERENCE ROOM |
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American Quarterly Board Meeting |
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12:30 - 2:00 PM | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S SUITE |
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Crossroads Testsite Luncheon |
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2:15 - 4:15 PM | CHICAGO A/B |
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Teaching N. Scott Momaday and Being N. Scott Momaday |
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CHAIR: | Phil Deloria, Department of History, University of Colorado |
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PANELISTS: | Lucy Maddox, Department of English, Georgetown University
Craig Howe, McNickle Center, Newberry Library
Alan Velie, Department of English, University of Oklahoma
Denise Horn, Central Middle School, Kansas Public School
Hertha D. Wong, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley | |
COMMENTS: | N. Scott Momaday, Department of English, University of Arizona |
Panelists in this session, following on the reading by Professor Momaday (see 12:30 PM for description), will attempt to place the Kiowa writer within an American pedagogy that has long emphasized writers of European origin. Panelists will share their different approaches to Momaday's works, the variety of school audiences--from secondary school students to undergrads to grads, in a variety of disciplines--they have introduced to Momaday, and lessons that might be gained from placing American Indian authors firmly within the American literary canon. Momaday will then reflect on his work as a personal odyssey and on what others have made of his writings.
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Conversation: Languages of What Is Now the United States |
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MODERATOR: | Werner Sollors, Afro-American Studies and English, Harvard University |
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FACILITATORS: | Orm Øverland, Department of English, University of Bergen, Norway
Melinda Gray, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Xiao-huang Yin, American Studies Program, Occidental College
Marc Shell, Department of English, Harvard University
Dag Blanck, Department of Ethnic Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Augustana College
Alide Cagidemetro, University of Udine, Italy
Jules Chametzky, Department of English, University of Massachusetts
Karen Majewski, Department of English, University of Michigan
Gönül Pultar, Bilkent University, Turkey
Te-hsing Shan, Academica Sinica, Taiwan |
This conversation, organized by the Longfellow Institute (lowinus@fas.harvard.edu; http:/www.fas.harvard.edu/~lowinus), will focus on culturally fascinating, historically important, and aesthetically outstanding non-Anglophone texts written or published in what is now the United States, ranging from works in Amerindian languages and Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and Russian colonial writings to immigrant literature in all European languages and Arabic texts by African Americans. These little-studied texts, now in the process of being republished bilingually, raise explosive issues of language policies, national identity, and education, and they are especially suited to interdisciplinary and international scholarly collaboration. Of all the pluralisms, language pluralism may be the most significant factor in the history of the U.S., yet also the factor least studied and explored in past debates on multiculturalism inside and outside of the ASA, as the history of multilingualism has largely been ignored by multiculturalists and conservatives alike. Our conversation will address such questions as: What is the connection between the multilingual past and the current debate about bilingualism? Or, which exemplary non-Anglophone texts may force a questioning of past generalizations about "literature and culture of the United States"?
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Race, Empire, Ecology: American Culture and Cold War Discourse |
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CHAIR: | Mary Helen Washington, Department of English, University of Maryland |
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PAPERS: | James C. Hall, Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
Gender, Jazz, and the Cold War: Mary Lou Williams' Cultural Critique
Geraldine Murphy, Department of English, City College, City University of New York
Roman and American Empires: The Uses of Spartacus in the American Century
Thomas Hill Schaub, Department of English, University of Wisconsin
Rachel Carson and the Cold War |
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COMMENTS: | Mary Helen Washington |
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Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and the Subjects of Asian American Studies |
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CHAIR: | Karen Shimakawa, Department of English, Vanderbilt University |
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PAPERS: | Colleen Lye, Department of English, Columbia University
National Liberation and Civil Rights
Wendy Chun, Department of English, Princeton University
Press "1" for Postcolonial or "2" for Asian American; Or, Making the Critical Difference
Kandice Chuh, Department of English, University of Washington
"America's" Aliens: Toward a Transnationalist Reading Practice |
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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Proclaiming the Social Order: Race, Gender, and the Instability of the Migratory Site |
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CHAIR: | Rob Corber, Independent Scholar, Pasadena, California |
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PAPERS: | Lee Quinby, Department of English, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Apocalyptic Masculinity: The Dangerous Promise of the Promise Keepers
Marlon Ross, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
Dis/Arming the Black Champ: Joe Louis and the Legacy of Racial Uplift in the Post-Civil Rights Moment
Alan Nadel, Department of Language, Literature, and Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"I Never Bargain!" Justice Black and White for The Fugitive and Rodney King |
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COMMENTS: | Donald Pease, Department of English, Dartmouth College |
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2:15 - 4:15 PM | CHOUTEAU A |
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Art, Civic Culture, and the State |
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CHAIR: | Casey Nelson Blake, American Studies Program, Indiana University |
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PAPERS: | C. Todd Stephenson, Department of History, Louisville Collegiate School
Mount Rushmore and the State
Hélène Lipstadt, Institut de Recherche en Histoire de l'Architecture, Montréal, Canada
The Exposition, the Building, the Arch: Civic Celebration and National Commemoration of Thomas Jefferson in St. Louis
Leslie Prosterman, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Art at Law: Civic Culture Through Competing/Cooperating Public Discourses |
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COMMENTS: | Alan Wallach, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
Cecilia O'Leary, Center for Arts, Human Communication, and Creative Technologies, California State University, Monterey Bay |
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2:15 - 4:15 PM | CHOUTEAU B |
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The United States and Mexico: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of the U.S. Presence in Mexico |
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CHAIR: | Kate Delaney, Cultural Attache, U.S. Embassy, Warsaw, Poland |
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PAPERS: | Mary Alcocer, Department of International Relations, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico
A Century of American Expatriates in Mexico
Edward Simmen, Department of Language and Literature, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico
American Writers of Fiction in Mexico: From Crane to Kerouac
David Davila, Department of International Relations, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico
U.S.-Mexican Relations during Three Periods of Friendship: Lincoln-Juarez, F.D. Roosevelt-Cardenas and Camacho, Clinton-Zedillo
Randall S. Hanson, Department of History, Colby College
Harry S. Truman and the Niños Heroes: The 1947 U.S.-Mexico Presidential Visits
Isidro Morales, Department of International Relations, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico
NAFTA and the Future of Mexican National Identity: Is Mexico Becoming "Mexamerica" or Coming Back to Its "Own Roots"? |
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COMMENTS: | Pedro Castillo, Board of Studies in History, University of California at Santa Cruz |
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2:15 - 4:15 PM | VAN HORN B/C |
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Conversation: Museums and Multiculturalism |
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MODERATOR: | Katharine T. Corbett, Interpretation Director, Missouri Historical Society |
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FACILITATORS: | Margaret C. Conrads, Curator of American Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum
Catherine M. Lewis, American Studies Program, University of Iowa
Wendi L. Perry, Collections Division, Missouri Historical Society
Laura Santigian, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Rebecca Zurier, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan |
Recent controversies surrounding exhibits raise important questions about the role of art and history museums in American life, the process of exhibit planning, and the future of multiculturalism in public institutions. How have museum professionals, academics, and community members sought to challenge, share, or preserve the traditional authority of museums to interpret artifacts and culture? Participants in this session will address these issues from divergent, but complementary perspectives. Because this session is intended to be a conversation, each panelist will speak briefly to encourage full audience participation. Members of the local museum community are encouraged to attend.
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Teaching the Decades: 1945-1970 (Sponsored by the Committee on Secondary Schools) |
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PRESENTER: | Brooke Workman, English Department, West High School, Iowa City, Iowa |
Workman will describe his approach to teaching history and culture in depth, through a richly interdisciplinary Humanities course that focuses on the twentieth century's "decades," in which students develop collaborative learning projects through the study and use of historical documents and artifacts, poetry and pop culture, art and architecture, dance and music. Course materials and sample projects will be part of the presentation.
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The Social Construction of Visual Culture: Genius, Imperialism, and Commodification |
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CHAIR: | Patricia Hills, Department of Art History, Boston University |
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PAPERS: | Ellen Grayson, Liberal Arts Department, Maryland Institute College of Art
Colonizing the Feminine: The Gendered Politics of Genius in Early Nineteenth-Century Baltimore
David Brody, American Studies Program, Boston University
Building Imperialism: Turn-of-the-Century American Architecture in the Philippines
Liza Kirwin, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
The Rise and Demise of a "Baby-Boom Bohemia": The East Village Art Scene in the Popular Press, 1982-1986 |
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COMMENTS: | Patricia Hills |
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Re-Mapping US: A Nation at the Margins |
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CHAIR: | David Leverenz, Department of English, University of Florida |
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PAPERS: | Gayatri Gopinath, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Theorizing Transnational Sexualities: Towards a Queer South Asian Diaspora
Peter Hitchcock, Department of English, City University of New York
The Chronotope of the Shoe
Laura Stempel Mumford, Independent Scholar, Wisconsin
Soap Operas, Virtual Fans, and the Erasure of Difference
Amitava Kumar, Department of English, University of Florida
AlieNation |
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2:15 - 4:15 PM | VAN HORN A |
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Sexual Identity/Cultural Migrations |
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CHAIR: | Ann Cvetkovich, Department of English, University of Texas |
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PAPERS: | Kelly Thomas, Department of English, University of Michigan
White Trash Lesbianism: Queer Politics in Dorothy Allison's Writings
Michael Maiwald, Department of English, Duke University
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Claude: The Politicization of Sexual Identity and the Importance of Cultural Migration in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem
Siobhan Somerville, Department of English, Purdue University
"Sheik and Anti-Sheik": Jean Toomer and Racialized Sexuality
Yvonne Keller, History of Consciousness Program, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Safety of Watching: Cold War Anxieties and Voyeurism in Lesbian Pulp Novels |
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COMMENTS: | Ann Cvetkovich |
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Affirmative Action(s): Recasting American National Identity |
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CHAIR: | Alvina Quintana, Department of English, University of Delaware |
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PAPERS: | Maggie Sale, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University
Downsizing Replaces Displacement: Or, What Sarah Winnemucca and Maria Ruiz de Burton Have to Teach Us
Rosa Linda Fregoso, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Davis
Refiguring the Chicana (Mexicana) Body in U.S. Popular Culture
David Teague, Department of English, University of Delaware
Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide (Not Kevin Costner): Reconstructing Environmental Awareness in the Fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko |
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COMMENTS: | Alvina Quintana |
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2:15 - 6:15 PM | EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM |
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Business Meeting of the Committee on Regional Chapters
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CHAIR: | Bryan Le Beau, Mid-America ASA, Creighton University |
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PANELISTS: | Shelley Armitage, Hawaii ASA, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Ruth Banes, Southern ASA, University of South Florida
Thomas Blues, Kentucky-Tennessee ASA, University of Kentucky
Sarah E. Chinn, Metropolitan New York ASA, Columbia University
Emily Cutrer, Rocky Mountain ASA, Arizona State University--West
Andrea Kerr, Chesapeake ASA, Independent Scholar
Scot Guenter, California ASA, San Jose State University
Sherry Lee Linkon, Great Lakes ASA, Youngstown State University
Richard Mastellar, Pacific Northwest ASA, Whitman College
Louise Stevenson, Mid-Atlantic ASA, Franklin and Marshall College
Jennifer Tebbe, New England ASA, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences
Richard Tuerk, Texas ASA, East Texas State University |
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Tour: Kansas City's African American Heritage |
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GUIDE: | Janet Bruce Campbell, Author, Kansas City |
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Tour: Arabia Steamboat Museum
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Trails of Eviction: Resistance, Colonialism, and the Puerto Rican Diaspora |
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CHAIR: | Dionne Espinoza, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego |
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PAPERS: | Gilberto Blasini, Department of Motion Pictures and Television, University of California, Los Angeles
Exiled Desire as a Desired Exile: Puerto Rican Identity in Frances Negrón Muntaner's Brincando el charco
Victoria Santiago, Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles
Environmental Racism and Resistance in the Puerto Rican Community
Israel Cardona Gerena, Department of Sociology, Columbia-Greene Community College
Beyond "Machos y Maricones" and "Chingones y Chingadas": Toward a Reconceptualization of Latino Gay Identities
Lisa Sánchez González, Department of English, University of Texas
I Like to Live in America: Negotiating Resistance in Mainland Puerto Rican "Feminist" Narratives |
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COMMENTS: | Dionne Espinoza |
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Conversation: Becoming American/Becoming White--The Assimilative Functions of Racism |
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MODERATOR: | David M. Emmons, Department of History, University of Montana |
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FACILITATORS: | David Roediger, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Donna Gabaccia, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Gwendolyn Mink, Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
J. Anthony Lukas, New York City |
This conversation will consider the general question of the "ethnic"--that is, working class racism, whether directed toward Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, or other and "newer" European immigrants. While recognizing that Europeans did not emigrate from nations but from villages, the conversation's emphasis will be on changing cultures, on assimilation--on becoming American--rather than on cultural continuities. We believe that racism did not come naturally to these immigrant working men and women or to their children and grandchildren. They had to be taught to distinguish among different races and to exclude certain of them. We want to discuss how they were taught and by whom and to what purposes, included those under the heading of hegemonic. There exists also the possibility that racism was less taught than imposed --with the same corollary issues of how, by whom, and why. We believe further, that some women did not always learn and act on these lessons the same way men did, and that there were important differences in the racial ideas and behavior from one ethnic community to another. Our conversation will reaffirm the fact that racism was socially constructed, but we hope to add something to how the blueprints of that construction project should be read and interpreted.
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Roundtable Discussion: Material Culture Studies in Canada |
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CHAIR: | Trudy Nicks, Department of Ethnology, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada |
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PRESENTERS: | Beverly Lemire, Department of History, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Crossing Boundaries: Material Evidence and Economic History
David Thiery Ruddel, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, Canada
Reinventing the Object: Quebec Approaches to Material Culture
Adrienne Hood, Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada
Toward Collaboration? Museums, Universities, and Material Culture Studies in Canada
Sandra Niessen, Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta, Canada
Material Culture, Universities, and the Marketplace
Grant McCracken, Independent Scholar, Toronto, Canada
Meaning Manufacture in the Contemporary World |
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4:30 - 6:15 PM | CHOUTEAU A |
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Conversation: Intersections between Women's History and Feminist Biography |
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CHAIR: | Janet Sharistanian, Department of English, University of Kansas |
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PANELISTS: | Lois Banner, Department of History, University of Southern California
Biography, History, and Memory: Secrets and Suppositions
Dianne Ashton, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Rowan College of New Jersey
Women's History and the History of Memory in The Biography of Rebecca Gratz
Alice Taylor-Colbert, Social Science Division, Shorter College
Material Culture as Resource for Feminist Biography: Susanna Ridge of the Cherokee Nation
Bruce Ronda, American Studies Program, Colorado State University
Republican Motherhood, Early Female Academies, and Kindergarten Pioneer Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Britta Dwyer, Department of Art History and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
Histories of Art and Sexuality in the Lesbian Biography/Autobiography of Anna Klumpke and Rosa Bonheur
Renee M. Sentilles, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
The Identity Crisis of Adah Isaacs Menken
Harriet Bergmann, Department of English, U.S. Naval Academy
Intergenerational Relationships and Group Biography: The Culture of Women's Education in the Lives of Cambridge Women
Anna Speicher, American Studies Program, George Washington University
Beyond "Public/Private": Honoring the Real Motivations of Antislavery Movements |
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4:30 - 6:15 PM | CHOUTEAU B |
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Lynching and the Body Politic |
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CHAIR: | Kathleen Pfeiffer, Department of English, Yale University |
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PAPERS: | Simone Davis, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Lynch Law, and the Gender of the Black Body Politic
Helen Langa, Department of Art, American University
Black Bodies, Political Ambiguities, Gendered Viewpoints: Reconsidering Two Anti-Lynching Exhibitions Held in New York City in 1935
Michael Thurston, Department of English, Yale University
"The Black Christ": Representing and Revising Lynch Logic in the Harlem Renaissance |
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COMMENTS: | Bryan Wolf, Department of Art, Stanford University |
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Multi/Interculturalism and the American Studies Survey/Introductory Course: Integrating Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender (Sponsored by the Committee on Secondary Schools) |
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CHAIR: | Lois Rudnick, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston |
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PRESENTERS: | Robert Tisdale, American Studies Program, Carleton College
Alton Flynn, Stoughton High School, Stoughton, Massachusetts |
This workshop will focus on the parallels and differences between a senior high school American Studies year-long survey course and an introductory American Studies course for college-level students. The newly configured Carleton course combines immigration and ethnic studies in an attempt to contextualize American Studies within an intercultural and international framework. The Stoughton course has undergone revision over more than a decade, becoming increasingly multicultural in focus.
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Marketing Modern Beauty and the American Aesthetic |
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CHAIR: | Jan Jennings, Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University |
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PAPERS: | Mary Anne Beecher, Department of Art and Design, Iowa State University
Marketing the Modern American Interior: An Aesthetic Analysis of the Post-War Ranch House
Kathryn E. Kramer, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Purdue University
Reconstructing German Modernism
A. Joan Saab, American Studies Program, New York University
Use Is Beauty and Beauty Is Use: Selling Modernism at MoMA and Macys |
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COMMENTS: | Jan Jennings |
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Critical Acts: Domestic Terrorism in the Technosphere |
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CHAIR: | Barbara L. Tischler, Department of History, Columbia University |
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PAPERS: | Ann Larabee, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
Unabomb: Identity as Self-Destructing Artifact
Susan Garfinkel, American Civilization Program, University of Pennsylvania
The Moral Landscapes of MOVE and Waco
Steve Grant, Cambrai Liberation Collective, Raleigh, North Carolina
The Delicate Art of the Rifle |
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COMMENTS: | Thomas Doherty, Department of American Studies, Brandeis University |
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4:30 - 6:15 PM | VAN HORN A |
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One Hundred Years of Masculinity: Conflicted Embodiments of American National Culture, 1840-1940 |
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CHAIR: | Dana Nelson, Department of English, University of Kentucky |
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PAPERS: | Russ Castronovo, Department of English, University of Miami
"Slavery to the Solitary Vice": Masturbation, Self-Reliance, and Abolition
Michael H. Cowan, American Studies Program, University of California, Santa Cruz
Emaciated Male Bodies and the Reconstitution of Nation: The Narratives of Civil War Prisoners
Alexander Nemerov, Department of Art, Stanford University
Around the Horn: Turn-of-the-Century Masculinity in Carl Rungius's Wary Game
T. Walter Herbert, Department of English, Southwestern University
Manhood and Sexual Violence in Native Son |
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COMMENTS: | Dana Nelson |
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Communicating Nations: Media Culture, National Identity, and America |
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CHAIR: | Andrea Press, Institute of Communication Research, College of Communications |
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PAPERS: | Shilpa Dave, Department of English, University of Michigan
Imagining America: The New Immigrant in Vanishing Son
Tasha Oren, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin
In Another's Home: Immigration and the Meaning of National Culture
Lisa Parks, Department of Communications Arts, University of Wisconsin
America as Alien: Satellite Television as Immigrant Culture |
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COMMENTS: | Andrea Press |
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5:30 - 7:00 PM | VAN HORN B/C |
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University of Michigan Program in American Culture Reception |
All faculty, alumni, students, and friends of the Program are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. Cash bar.
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6:00 - 8:00 PM | THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART |
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Exhibition Viewing and Free Hors D'Oeuvres |
This event, open only to ASA members, takes place at the famed Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The Museum, established with funds donated by William Rockhill Nelson, who also founded the Kansas City Star, sits on the site of Nelson's estate, land given to the city by his family. After Nelson's death in 1915, the income from Nelson's estate was used to purchase the Museum's collections. His family left additional funds for the building, along with Mary McAfee Atkins, a school teacher, who willed to the city part of her estate for a museum building. The beaux art structure, designed by the firm of Wight and Wight, opened in 1933 and reflects the dream of its benefactor to provide "works of fine arts which will contribute to the delectation and enjoyment of the pubic generally." The Museum is internationally known for its extensive collection of East Asian art, as well as its American, European, and Twentieth-Century departments. The 17-acre Kansas City Sculpture Garden on the Museum's grounds features the largest collection of Henry Moore's monumental bronzes in the United States.
ASA conference participants will be able to view a special exhibit, "Discovery and Deceit: Archeology and the Forger's Craft," which shows how art historians and scientists explore the intriguing question of whether certain impressive works of art are forgeries or genuine antiquities. Comprising over eighty objects from over fifteen American museums, the exhibit present genuine sculptures, vases, and jewelry from the Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman civilizations alongside an almost equal number of forgeries. Also on display will be reworked or over-restored antiquities, ancient copies, and works whose authenticity cannot be determined. The center of the exhibition is a large interactive conservator's studio where viewers may study x-radiographs, use ultraviolet light, and work with magnifying glasses.
During the open house at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, ASA members may treat themselves to a generous, complimentary array of gourmet hors d'oeuvres, including a variety of imported soft French cheeses and breads, fresh fruits and berries, and assorted quiches. Cash bar beverages will be available as well.
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8:00 PM | NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART AUDITORIUM |
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An Evening with Calvin Trillin |
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INTRODUCTION: | Patricia Nelson Limerick, President, American Studies Association |
Calvin Trillin knows America, and he knows Kansas City. Come join Trillin for a free-flowing event that promises to range far and wide from the nation's center across America's political and cultural landscape. Trillin, one of Kansas City's favorite sons, is a syndicated columnist, a regular contributor to Time and The Nation, and staff writer for The New Yorker. As the author of "U.S. Journal" in The New Yorker from 1967 to 1982, Trillin traveled the country reporting from somewhere in the United States every three weeks. Trillin's subjects were many and diverse: from the murder of a farmer's wife in Iowa to the author's effort to write the definitive history of a Louisiana restaurant called Didee's "or to eat an awful lot of baked duck and dirty rice trying." Trillin is the author of numerous books, including Uncivil Liberties, The Tummy Trilogy, Remembering Denny, and Messages from My Father.
How to Get There:
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is located at 4525 Oak Street, a 15-minute drive from the Hyatt Regency Crown Center. ASA shuttle buses will begin operation at 5:30 PM, departing from the main entrance of the hotel. Buses will then be available to take ASA members back to the hotel beginning around 9:00 PM. Admission to these buses is free, but members must present their name badges to ride.
For those wishing to ride public transportation, take Kansas City Metro Bus #56, get off at 47th and Main, then walk 4 blocks east to Oak Street. Public buses cost $1.00 per trip, one way.
Members may also take taxi cabs to the event. Cabs are available at the hotel. Return cabs from the Nelson should be arranged with the hotel doorman. An average cab ride to the Nelson-Atkins Museum takes about 15 minutes, and costs about $7.00.
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6:30 PM | EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM |
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Business Meeting of the Nominating Committee |
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6:30 - 7:45 PM | EMPIRE A/B |
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Material Culture Studies Caucus Reception |
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SPONSORS: | The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution Press |
All students and professionals working in or interested in material culture studies are invited to attend. Cash Bar will be available.
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University of Minnesota Program in American Studies Reception |
The Minnesota Program in American Studies invites alumni, students, faculty, and friends to attend. Refreshments will be served. Cash Bar.
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