Retired black millworkers take viewers on a tour of 75 years of workplace discrimination, making visible the restrictive job "ghetto" which defined 20th century black industrial life, and which was not overturned in the steel industry until 1974. The film provides a vital--and often missing--historical framework for current debates over affirmative action.
CHAIR:
- Sharon Patricia Holland, Department of English, Stanford University
PAPERS:
- Reshela DuPuis, Department of History, University of Michigan
Omissions, Silences, and Multiple Metaphors: The Possibilities and Limits of Public History in Hawaiian Community-Based Video
- Graciela Hernández, American Culture Program, University of Michigan
Re-deeming History: Political Uses of the Past, Culture, and Memory
- Michelle S. Johnson, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Salvation or, (W)holistic Impulses in Zora Neale Hurston's Polk County
COMMENT:
- Sharon Patricia Holland
MODERATOR:
- Madhulika Khandelwal, Asian/American Center, Queens College, City University of New York
FACILITATORS:
- John Cheng, Department of History, George Mason University
- Phil Tajitsu Nash, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
- Gail M. Nomura, American Culture Program, University of Michigan
- Christina Maria Teixeira Stevens, Department of Foreign Languages, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
Conference participants are invited to actively participate in this conversation discussing Asian American issues in defining public culture(s) in the Americas. Topics will include the issues of Asian Americans and the cultural politics of manufactured publics; Asian diaspora and trans-nationalism; public policy issues including immigration and affirmative action; the historical aspects of (re)defining public cultures; and transnational "transgressive boundaries."
CHAIR:
- Judith Weisenfeld, Department of Religion, Barnard College
PAPERS:
- Martha L. Finch, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Signs, Stocks, and Scaffolds: Ritualizing the Criminal Body in Seventeenth-Century New England
- Elizabeth A. De Wolfe, Department of Anthropology, University of New England, Westbrook College Campus
Heaven Daring Rebels: Shaker Apostate Performers
- Jenna Weissman Joselit, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Shabbos Shoes and Sunday Best: Clothing and Religion in America in the 1920s1950s
COMMENT:
- Jesse T. Todd, The Theological School, Drew University
CHAIR:
- Leith Mullings, Department of Anthropology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
PAPERS:
- Carla L. Peterson, Department of English, University of Maryland, and Rhonda M. Williams, Afro-American Studies Program, University of Maryland
Neither White Nor Male: Locating Black Women in the Public Discourses of Woman's Rights and Affirmative Action
- Bonnie Thornton Dill, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland
Single Mothers, Race and Welfare
- Taunya L. Banks, University of Maryland School of Law
Gendered Borderline Sites: "Decentering Whiteness" in the Nanny Tax Debate
COMMENTS:
- Leith Mullings
CHAIR:
- Margaretta M. Lovell, Department of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
- Anne A. Verplanck, Maryland Historical Society
Patina, Persistence, and the Role of Privacy in Antebellum Portraiture
- J. Christopher Cunningham, Literature Program, Duke University
Why Britannica? The EB and the Making of an American Encyclopedia
- Christophe Den Tandt, Department of English, University of Brussels, Belgium
MIDI City/Planet MTV: Redefining Rock 'n' Roll Musicianship in the 1980s and 1990s
COMMENT:
- Kirsten Swinth, Department of History, Fordham University
CHAIR:
- Stanley Corkin, Department of English, University of Cincinnati
PAPERS:
- Kelly Mayhew, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University
"One of the Finest Women to Ever Walk the Street": Making Visible Mae West's Working Class (Hetero)Sexuality in Diamond Lil and She Done Him Wrong
- Harry Stecopoulos, Department of English, University of Virginia
Blackness, the Blacklist and the Buddy Film
- Jacqueline Ellis, Department of Humanities, Greenfield Community College
Representing Roseanne: Working Class Identity in American Popular Culture
COMMENT:
- Margaret M. Mulrooney, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
CHAIR:
- George Lipsitz, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
- Jerma Jackson, Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research
Sister Rosetta Tharpe with her Spirituals in Swing
- Penny Von Eschen, Department of History, University of Texas
Who's the Real Ambassador? Contesting Cultural Exchange in the State Department's Jazz Tours
- Kevin Gaines, Department of History, University of Texas
Jazz and Black Diaspora Consciousness in the Era of Civil Rights and Anticolonial Movements
COMMENTS:
- George Lipsitz
CHAIR:
- María Gonzalez, Department of English, University of Houston
PAPERS:
- José F. Aranda, Jr., Department of English, Rice University
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Public Ventures Out East
- Vincent Pérez, Department of English, Texas A&M University
Teaching the Hacienda: Cultural Memory in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don
- John Michael Rivera, Department of English, University of Texas
The Rules of Chicana/o Cultural Production: The Evolution and Dialectics of the Chicana/o "Field"
COMMENT:
- María Gonzalez
CHAIR:
- Bruce Burgett, Department of English, University of Wisconsin
PAPERS:
- Glenn Hendler, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
Martin Delany's Counterpublic Sphere
- Robert Fanuzzi, Division of Humanities, St John's University
"Female Excitement" and "Foreign Scoundrels": Democracy by Any Other Name
- Carla Kaplan, Department of English, Yale University
Taking Feminism Seriously: Cacophony, Discourse Ethics, and the Possibility of a New Collectivity
COMMENT:
- Joyce W. Warren, Department of English, Queens College, City University of New York
CHAIR:
- Paul M. Wright, University of Massachusetts Press
PAPERS:
- Gregory S. Jackson, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
The Long Arm of Parlor Authority and the Sentimental Tradition: Culture's Counter Spheres and Technologies of Representation in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Our Nig
- Lisa Radinovsky, Department of English, Duke University
Diverting Publicity: Elizabeth Stoddard's Remote Outspokenness
- Barbara Hochman, Department of Foreign Literature, Ben Gurion University, Negev, Israel
Creating a Public at the Turn of the Century: The Popularity of "Trilby"
COMMENT:
- Paul M. Wright
CHAIR:
- Wendy Chun, Department of English, Princeton University
PAPERS:
- Marilyn Mehaffy, Department of Languages and Literatures, Eastern New Mexico University
Virtual Fetuses: The Limit of Cyborg Theory
- Ted Friedman, Department of Literature, Duke University
Making Cyberspace a Household Word: Science Fiction's Relation to the American Public Sphere
- Dean Rehberger, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
The Virtual Garden in the Machine: Cyberspace and U.S. Nationalism
COMMENT:
- Howard P. Segal, Department of History, University of Maine
- Wendy Chun
CHAIR:
- Rodger C. Birt, Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities, San Francisco State University
PAPERS:
- Mary Panzer, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
"The National Portrait Gallery": Mathew Brady's Imagined Community on Broadway, 18441860
- Julie K. Brown, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
"spreading out . . . works to the public gaze": Photography and Industrial Fairs in Mid-Nineteenth Century America
- Elspeth Brown, American Studies Program, Yale University
Photography and the Industrialized Body: Publicizing Scientific Management
COMMENT:
- Rodger C. Birt
CHAIR:
- Lori Landay, Department of English and Journalism, Western Illinois University
PAPERS:
- Judith Smith, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Working-Class Heroines in 1960s and 1970s Film
- Linda Dittmar, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston
"Badness" in Recent Feminist and Queer Films and Video Art
- Janice Welsch, Department of English and Journalism, Western Illinois University
Transgressive Heroines in 1990s Hollywood Film
- Christine A. Homlund, Department of Romance and Asian Languages, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Channelling Desire, Making Whoopi
COMMENT:
- The Audience
CHAIR:
- George Chauncey, Department of History, University of Chicago
PAPERS:
- Kate McCullough, Department of English, Miami University
The Making of the American Man: Public Productions of Radicalized Retro-Sexual Roles
- Magdalena Zaborowska, Department of English, Aarhus University, Denmark
A Terrific Scandal: Publicizing American Masculinity in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room
- Leigh Corrette, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University
You Can Kiss Me if I'm Irish But You Can't Kiss Me if I'm Queer: Construction of Gay and Lesbian Identity in St. Patrick Day Parades
COMMENT:
- George Chauncey
CHAIR:
- Sarah Chinn, Department of English, Randolph-Macon College
PAPERS:
- Vilashini Cooppan, Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University
Private Bodies and Public Selves: Abolitionist Discourse in 19th Century Americas and Cuba
- Augusta Rohrbach, Department of English, Oberlin College
Truth Stronger and Stranger Than Fiction: the Economics of Abolition and the Origins of Literary Realism in the United States
- Shawn Smith, Department of English, Washington State University
Private Spheres and Public Portraits: Photography, Identity, and Surveillance
COMMENT:
- Catherine Saunders, Department of English, Princeton University
CHAIR:
- Maureen Ogle, Department of History, University of South Alabama
PAPERS:
- Charles Reagan Wilson, Department of History, University of Mississippi
Inventing the Public "South": The Rituals, Myths and Images of Reconstruction
- Kathleen Diffley, Department of English, University of Iowa
Reconstructing Antietam
- John Lowe, Department of English, Louisiana State University
Recovering a Public for the Plantation: Reconstruction Myths of the Bi-racial Southern "Family"
COMMENT:
- Maureen Ogle
CHAIR:
- Patricia Nelson Limerick, Department of History, University of Colorado
PAPERS:
- Edward Royce, Sociology Department, Rollins College
Academics as Public Intellectuals: Practices, Problems, Prospects
- Susan Fraiman, Department of English, University of Virginia
Cool Men and the Second Sex: Reading Left Intellectuals
- Andrew McAlister, Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University
Oliver Stone: Of the People, By the People, For the People
COMMENT:
- Katha Pollitt, Editor, The Nation (Invited)
- Patricia Nelson Limerick
CHAIR:
- Patricia Hills, Department of Art History, Boston University
PAPERS:
- Thomas A. Denenberg, American Studies Program, Boston University
Consumed by the Past: Ideology and the Return to Craft in "Old" New England
- Roger B. Stein, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia
Illustrating the Past: Text and Image in the Thirties Reconfiguration of New England
- William H. Truettner, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
The Colonial Revival and Small-Town America
- Bruce Robertson, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara
Modernist New England
COMMENT:
- Stephen Nissenbaum, Department of History, University of Massachusetts
GUIDE:
- Elaine Todd, Director of the Integrated Curriculum Development Project at Duke Ellington School of Arts
GUIDE:
- Kathryn Schneider Smith, Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
GUIDES:
- Jorge Somarriba, Mural Painter
- Teresa Grana, Independent Historian
This collaborative venture between black and Jewish filmmakers goes behind the headlines and stereotypes to examine the uneasy relationship between these two groups. Eschewing both accusation and Panglossian assurances, it explores the underlying basis for realistic cross-cultural dialogue and joint action.
CHAIR:
- Kyra D. Gaunt, McIntyre Department of Music, University of Virginia
PAPERS:
- Sherrie Tucker, History of Consciousness Board, University of California, Santa Cruz
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm: Passing for Segregated/Passing for Integrated in the 1940s and the 1980s
- Deborah Vargas, Sociology Board, University of California, Santa Cruz
Cruzando Frontejas: Selena, Tejano Public Culture, and the Politics of "Crossover"
- Darla Thompson, Sociology Board, UC-Santa Cruz
Rupturing Cultural Boundaries: African-American Women Performing Opera
- Marie (Keta) Miranda, History of Consciousness Board, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Boys in the Band and the Girls Who Were Their Fans: Race, Class and Gender
COMMENT:
- Kyra D. Gaunt
MODERATOR:
- Dennis Moore, Department of English, Florida State University
PANELISTS:
- Thadious Davis, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
- Robert A. Gross, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
- Stanley N. Katz, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
- Lawrence W. Levine, Department of History, George Mason University
- Teresa McKenna, Department of English, University of Southern California
- Ellen Messer-Davidow, Department of English, University of Minnesota
- Ray Suarez, Journalist, National Public Radio
RESPONSE:
- The Audience
Rather than presenting a paper, each member of this inter-disciplinary panel will briefly spell out an issue or a question related to Lawrence Levine's The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History. Questions we will address are likely to include the following: Does this work demonstrate ways of thinking about the culture wars in terms of class? Does its historicizing of the melting-pot myth and its hopeful treatment of pluralism in generalism and multiculturalism in particular speak to the needs of university faculty and the various communities among which we function in this decade of downsizing, vitriolic talk radio, Proposition 209, and the furor over Ebonics? Central to such a discussion are questions of how to deal not only in knowledge but in social change: Does this book point to constructive ways of moving beyond discussing issues of class, race, and gender?
CHAIR:
- David Katzman, American Studies Program, University of Kansas
PAPERS:
- Amy S. Greenberg, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University
True Citizens vs Hirelings: Displaced Nineteenth Century Volunteer Fireman Consider Their Replacements
- Seth Ira Kamil, Department of History, Columbia University
From Station-House Bummers to Muni-Lodgers: Homelessness in New York City in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Gaye Theresa Marie Johnson, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Re-Writing Repatriation: Mexican-Americans and the Hidden Transcript of Resistance, 19241934
- Joseph Heathcott, American Studies Program, Indiana University
Civic Renewal and Urban Displacement in the Deindustrializing City
COMMENT:
- Daryl Michael Scott, Department of History, Columbia University
CHAIR:
- Leslie Sanders, Department of English, York University
PAPERS:
- Gamal Abdel-Shehid, Department of Sociology, York University
Bordering on Public: The "Spectre" of Ben Johnson and the Boundaries of Canadian Blackness
- Lisette Boily, Department of English, York University
"We're not going any place, we're not melting or keeping quiet": African Canadian Cultural Criticism and the Canadian Myth of "the Great White North"
- George Elliott Clarke, Department of English, Duke University
The Race Against Erasure: The Defensive Strategies of African-Canadian Culture
- Rinaldo Walcott, Division of Humanities, York University
The Politics of Belonging: Race, Space, and the Invention of Black Canada
COMMENTS:
- Leslie Sanders
CHAIR:
- Richard Meyer, Department of Art History, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
- Samuel Isenstadt, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spatial Schizophrenia in Emily Post's "The Personality of a House"
- Marie Clifford, Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
Built by Beauty: Helena Rubenstein's Art Collection, the Domestic Interior, and the Staging of Professional Identity
- Mark Goble, Department of English, Stanford University
Cameo Appearances: Gertrude Stein, "Grand Hotel," and the Celebrity Interior
- Cécile Whiting, Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
Behind the Cellophane Curtain: Florine Stettheimer's Manhattan Modernism
COMMENTS:
- Richard Meyer
CHAIR:
- Frances Smith Foster, Department of English, Emory University
PAPERS:
- Rosemary Marangoly George, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Reading the Absence of Racial Self-Identity: South Asians in Contemporary Southern California
- Margaret Chon, Seattle University School of Law
The Racial Economy of Heterosexual Desire: Technology and Public/Private Distinctions in the Law
- Rafael Pérez-Torres, Department of Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Translating Space: Identity, Transnationalism, and Place in the Borderlands
- Sabine Haenni, Department of English, University of Chicago
"A Community of Consumers": German American Theater and the Public Sphere
COMMENTS:
- Sivagami Subbaraman, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland
CHAIRS:
- Alvina Quintana, Department of English, University of Delaware
- Doris Friedensohn, Women's Studies Program, Jersey City State College
PAPERS:
- Johnnella Butler, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
"Once More to the Bridge, Horatio!"
- Judith Newton, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Davis
Bridges to the Twenty-first Century? Making Cultural Studies--And Making It Work
- T.V. Reed, American Studies Program, Washington State University, Pullman
American Ethnic Studies, Ethnic American Studies: Same Difference?
COMMENT:
- Paul Lauter, Department of English, Trinity College
CHAIR:
- Susan Smulyan, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
PAPERS:
- Richard Butsch, Department of Sociology, Rider University
Crystal Sets and Scarf-pin Radios: Gender, Technology, and the Construction of American Radio Listening in the 1920s
- Derek Vaillant, Department of History, University of Chicago
Making Waves: Urban Musical Subcultures, Radio Regulation, and the Struggle Over Chicago's Electronic Public Sphere, 19221930
- Joel Huerta, American Studies Program, University of Texas
There's No Space Like Home: Football Talk Radio on the Border
COMMENT:
- Susan Smulyan
CHAIR:
- Pedro Castillo, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
PAPERS:
- Claire Joysmith, Centro de Investigaciones Sobre América del Norte, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
A Mexican Perspective on Chicana Literature
- Stelmaris Coser, Department of Literature, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil
Cristina Garcia and Oscar Hijuelos: African Echoes in Their Cubaness
- Maria Graciela Adamoli, College of the Humanities, Universidad Nacional de la Pampa, Argentina
The Female Presence in Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima and Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan and The Second Ring of Power
- Roland Walter, Department of Literature, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Narrative, Ideology, Identity, and Utopia in the Novels of Ana Castillo
- Karina Rosignolo, Department of English, Universidad Nacional de la Pampa, Argentina
Rodolfo Anaya's Novels: Is Women's Place in a Patriarchal Society Revealing Itself or is it Opening Up to New Challenges?
- Sonia Torres, Department of Modern Literature, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Chicana Travelogues: Revisiting Imagines Communities
COMMENT:
- The Audience
CHAIR:
- Cathy N. Davidson, Department of English, Duke University
PAPERS:
- Dana D. Nelson, Department of English, University of Kentucky
No Cold or Empty Heart: Science, Sentiment, and Professionalization in the Polygenesis Debate
- Maurice Wallace, Department of English, Yale University
The Androgynous Zone: Gender Obfuscation in Nineteenth-Century American Freemasonry
- Paul Ryan Schneider, Department of English, Duke University
Personal Loss/Public Intellectual: Grief-Work and Sentiment in Emerson
COMMENT:
- Lora Romero, Department of English, Stanford University
CHAIR:
- Harry Elam, Department of Theater, Stanford University
PAPERS:
- Alberto Sandoval Sanchez, Department of Spanish and Italian, Mt. Holyoke College
Carmen Miranda and Desi Arnaz: Foundational Images of Latinidad on Broadway and Hollywood
- David Roman, Department of English, University of Southern California
Rent's Due: AIDS and the Broadway Musical
- Josephine D. Lee, Department of English, University of Minnesota
To Body Forth the Monster: Racial Stereotype, Public Fantasy, and Theatrical Appropriation
- Karen Shimakawa, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
Going Public: Asian American Theatre/Community
COMMENT:
- Harry Elam
CHAIR:
- Barbara Babcock, Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies Program, University of Arizona
PAPERS:
- Bill Brown, Department of English, University of Chicago
1893: Social Spaces, Public Spheres, and the Sight of the Interstitial
- James C. Davis, Department of English, Indiana University
Ida B. Wells At but not In the World's Columbian Exposition
- Joseph Murphy, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Realism and Hyperreality: Howells, World's Fairs, and the Problem of Narrative
- Timothy J. Fox, Missouri Historical Society
Premodern, Modern, Postmodern: A New
World('s Fair) Order in St. Louis
COMMENT:
- Barbara Babcock
CHAIR:
- Joanne Braxton, American Studies Program, The College of William and Mary
PAPERS:
- Pearl Bowser, African Diaspora Images, Brooklyn, New York and Louise Spence, Media Studies Department, Sacred Heart University
Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul and the Burden of Representation
- Charles Musser, Film Studies Program, Yale University
Rethinking Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul: Reappropriation and Critique of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones and All God's Chillun Got Wings
- Corey Creekmur, Department of English, University of Iowa
Telling White Lies: Oscar Micheaux and Charles W. Chesnutt
- Arthur Knight, American Studies Program, The College of William and Mary
Oscar Micheaux's Swing!: Deforming the American Musical
COMMENT:
- Joanne Braxton
CHAIR:
- Jeffrey C. Stewart, Department of History, George Mason University
PAPERS:
- Caroline Gebhard, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Tuskegee University
White, Black Publics, Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Revaluation of Slave Culture
- Harvey Cohen, Department of History. University of Maryland
The Marketing of Duke Ellington, 19271957
- Claire Joly, Department of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
Richard Wright and the Book-of-the-Month Club: On the Challenge of Making Race a Public Issue
COMMENT:
- James C. Hall, Department of African-American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Jeffrey C. Stewart
CHAIR:
- Melinda Knight, Department of Communication, University of Rochester
PAPERS:
- Jennifer Costello Brezina, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
Women, Public Space and Modernity: Maggie on the Street
- Anne Sheehan, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Sharon vs. Sharon: The Construction of Race and Gender in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
- Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Department of Afro-American Studies, Indiana University
Representing Her People: Mary McCleod Bethune and the Press
COMMENTS:
- Phyllis Frus, Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University
CHAIR:
- H. Daniel Peck, Department of English, Vassar College
PANELISTS:
- Lawrence Buell, Department of English, Harvard University
- John Elder, Department of English, Middlebury College
- William Howarth, American Studies, Princeton University
- Elisa New, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
- Vera Norwood, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico
- Hertha D. Wong, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
This session will be a roundtable discussion of issues and problems in the emergent and rapidly developing scholarship and teaching of American nature writing. Focusing this discussion will be the proceedings of the 1997 NEH Summer Institute for College and University faculty at Vassar College. The Audience will be invited to join this discussion.
CHAIR:
- Ronald Johnson, American Studies Program, Georgetown University
PAPERS:
- Maria Diedrich, Department of English, University of Münster, Germany
The Iron Arm of the Black Man: Ottlie Assing's Representation of the Civil War
- Christopher Mulvey, School of Cultural Studies, King Alfred's University, United Kingdom
The Geography and Geometry of African American Studies: W.E.B. Du Bois, Eric Williams, and the Black Atlantic
- Carl Pedersen, Center for American Studies, Odense University, Denmark
Slavery and Contemporary Public Culture
- Harold Weaver, The Du Bois Institute at Harvard University
Film and Representations of Slavery
COMMENTS:
- The Audience
CHAIR:
- Sarah J. Moore, Department of Art, University of Arizona
PAPERS:
- Sally Webster, Program in Art History, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Public Memory and Learned Authority: The Hall of Fame for Great Americans
- Kymberly Pinder, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Howard Pyle's Arthurian Past for Popular America
- Ilana Abramovitch, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
Pageants in the Progressive Era
- Susan Luftschein, Department of Liberal Studies, Parsons School of Design
Panama-Pacific International Exposition: A Study in Contrasts
- Elizabeth Hutchinson, Department of Art History, Stanford University
"Ample Room for All Acceptances on High Standard": Native American Art at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
COMMENT:
- Anne Knutson, Department of Design, Carnegie Mellon University
This film is a premiere screening covering the history of migrant farmworkers in California and the rise of Chicano activism in the 1960s and 1970s. The documentary details "the indomitable spirit of the worker through the life and times of the U.F.W.'s charismatic leader, Cesar Chavez." The film includes seldom-seen archival footage and depicts the lives and struggles of the many migrant groups who helped build one of the world's most powerful agricultural economies.
CHAIR:
- Nikhil Pal Singh, American Studies Program, New York University
PAPERS:
- David Kazanjian, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
H.C. Carey's "Colonized Colonizer": U.S. White Settler Colonialism in a Global Frame
- Brent Edwards, W.E.B. Dubois Institute, Harvard University
Unspeakable Crossings: Morrison and Said Across Borders I
- Alys Eve Weinbaum, Pembroke Center, Brown University
Unspeakable Crossings: Morrison and Said Across Borders II
- David Eng, Department of English, Colombia University
Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies
COMMENT:
- Nikhil Pal Singh
CHAIR:
- John Gennari, American Studies Program, University of Colorado
PAPERS:
- Bob McMichael, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Humanities, Stanford University
Leonard Feather and the Tangled Web of Whiteness in Post War Jazz
- Murray Forman, Communications Program, McGill University
Straight Outta Mogadishu: The Public Expression of Hip Hop Sensibility Among Somali High School Students
- Carol Vernallis, Arts and Humanities Unit, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Ethnicity, Genre, and Place: the Function of the Settings in Music Video
COMMENT:
- John Gennari
CHAIR:
- Gail Bederman, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
PAPERS:
- Amy Kaplan, Department of English, Mount Holyoke College
At Home Abroad: Traveling Domesticity and Imperial Settlements
- Desley Deacon, American Studies Department, University of Texas, Austin
The Primitive at Home: Elsie Clews Parson's Feminist Ethnographies of New York Society
- Micaela di Leonardo, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University
Margaret Mead and American Public Culture: The Empire that Dared Not Speak Its Name
COMMENT:
- Gail Bederman
CHAIR:
- Nöel Sturgeon, Women's Studies Program, Washington State University
PAPERS:
- Leslie Goddard, Theatre and Drama Program, Northwestern University
Making a Spectacle: Theatricalism in the U.S. Women's Suffrage Movement
- Melinda Plastas, Department of American Studies, State University of New York, Buffalo
Goodwill on Parade: the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Search for Racial Harmony
- Allen Larson, Department of Rhetoric and Communication, University of Pittsburgh
"Seizing the Spectacle": ACT UP's Strategies of Performative Protest in Television News
COMMENT:
- Nöel Sturgeon
CHAIR:
- Nancy A. Hewitt, Department of History, Duke University
PAPERS:
- Ardis Cameron, American and New England Studies Program, University of Southern Maine
Women in Motion: Case Records as Travel Stories
- Mark Neumann, Department of Communication, University of South Florida
The "Poetics of Displacement": Tourism at the Grand Canyon
COMMENT:
- Karen Sacks, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
- Nancy A. Hewitt
CHAIR:
- Gary Y. Okihiro, Department of History, Cornell University
PAPERS:
- Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Department of Sociology, Brown University
Little Saigon's Public Spaces: Shaping Identity and Community
- Susie Jin Lee, Department of History, Cornell University
The Representations of Maya Lin and National Memory
- Eric Estuar Reyes, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Citizenship and Asian American Public Spheres
COMMENTS:
- Nayan B. Shah, Department of History, State University of New York, Binghamton
CHAIR:
- Cathy Cohen, Department of Political Science, Yale University
PAPERS:
- Lauren Berlant, Department of English, University of Chicago and Michael Warner, Department of English, Rutgers University
Sex in Public
- Lisa Duggan, American Studies Program, New York University
The Incredible Shrinking Public: The Politics of Sexual Privacy from Jesse Helms to Andrew Sullivan
COMMENT:
- Cathy Cohen
CHAIR:
- Alan Wallach, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
PAPERS:
- John Davis, Department of Art, Smith College
Secret City: Eastman Johnson's Negro Life at the South and Slavery in Washington, D.C.
- Perry Frank, President, American Dreams and Associates, Inc., Washington, D.C.
A People's Art: The Outdoor Wall Murals of Washington, D.C.
- Diana Baird N'Diaye, Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, Smithsonian Institution
When Community Events "Go Public": African Immigrant Community Culture at the Smithsonian
COMMENT:
- Alan Wallach
CHAIR:
- Wendy Kozol, Department of History, Oberlin College
PAPERS:
- Kimberly Springer, Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University and Meredith Raimondo, Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
Popular Culture Can Make You Feel Dirty: Atlanta's Dildo Wars
- Janet R. Jakobsen, Women's Studies Program, University of Arizona
Reproducing the Family: Value, Values, and the Production of American-ness
COMMENT:
- Phyllis Palmer, American Studies Department, George Washington University
- Wendy Kozol
CHAIR:
- Leslie Harris, Department of History, Emory University
PAPERS:
- Audrey Fisch, Department of English, Jersey City State College
African American Identity in a Box
- Jean Fagan Yellin, Department of English, Pace University
From the Confederate States of America to Britain: Harriet Jacob's Civil War Letters and the Boundaries of African America
- Donald B. Gibson, Department of English, Rutgers University
Booker T. Washington's European Tour
COMMENTS:
- Will Coleman, Columbia Theological Seminary
CHAIR:
- Barbara L. Tischler, Department of History, Columbia University
PAPERS:
- Richard Martin, The Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art
A Story of the Great War: J.C. Leyendecker's World War I Covers For The Saturday Evening Post
- Sabrina Fuchs, Department of English, Columbia University
The Vietnam War and the Role of the Public Intellectual: A Debate with Mary McCarthy, Diana Trilling, and Susan Sontag
- Joan Seeman Robinson, School of Fine Arts, University of Cincinnati
Cover-Up and Exposé: My Lai, American Artists, and the American Identity
COMMENT:
- Barbara L. Tischler
CHAIR:
- Pamela S. Thoma, American Studies and Women's Studies, Colby College
PAPERS:
- Elena Glasberg, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Irvine
Publics Without People
- Allen Douglas,Department of History, Rutgers University
"No Fiction, No Symbol": Corporate Personality and the Legal Construction of Identity
- Barbara Eckstein, Department of English, University of Iowa
"Distinctly Private" Public Accommodations: Taking New York City Local Law #63 to New Orleans
COMMENT:
- Pamela S. Thoma
CHAIR:
- Karen Dalton, Director and Curator, Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, Harvard University
PAPERS:
- Toby Chieffo, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
The Public Face: Joshua Johnson's Portrait of the Reverend John Carroll
- Jessie Poesch, Newcomb Department of Art, Tulane University
David Hunter Strother: Images of the Upper South for National Consumption
- Matt Cohen, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
Making the View From Overlook Mountain: James Cameron and the Whiteside Family
COMMENTS:
- David C. Miller, Department of English, Allegheny College
Equiano's was perhaps the most influential of the slave narratives. This faithful account by the BBC--employing archival material, dramatic reconstructions, and scholarly interviews--brings Equiano to life and provides a unique look at his 18th century Atlantic world.
CHAIR:
- Robert Rydell, Department of History, Montana State University
PAPERS:
- Kristin Hoganson, Department of History, Harvard University
Imperial Degeneracy: Anti-Imperialists' Subversive Use of Manhood in the Philippine Debate
- Mary Renda, Department of History, Mt. Holyoke College
American Bodies, Haitian Bodies: Picturing Manhood and Imperialism, 19151940
- Cynthia Wachtell, History of American Civilization Program, Harvard University
Sex and the Single Soldier: Measuring Manhood in World War I Literature
COMMENT:
- Oscar V. Campomanes, Institute of Filipino Studies, Oakland, California
- Robert Rydell
CHAIRS:
- Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Department of History, University of North Carolina
PANELISTS:
- Mari Matsuda, School of Law, Georgetown University Learning to Talk about Affirmative Action
- Charles R. Lawrence III, School of Law, Georgetown University
The Deep Meaning of Affirmative Action
COMMENT:
- Roger Wilkins, Robinson Professor of History and American Culture, George Mason University
CHAIR:
- Patricia Bellis Bixel, Journal of Southern History, Rice University
PAPERS:
- Ann Larabee, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
Archiving Disaster: The Oil Spill Information Center and the W.I.P.P. Marker Project
- Thomas Birkland, College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York, Albany
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill as Focusing Event: Politics, Policy, and Symbols
- Steven Biel, Department of American Studies, Brandeis University
Disasters Aren't What They Used To Be: The Titanic in Popular Memory
COMMENT:
- Carl Smith, Department of English, Northwestern University
CHAIR:
- Jae-Min Kim, Department of English, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea
PAPERS:
- Youn-Son Chung, Department of English, Korea Military Academy
A Crusade in Failure: American Literary Responses to the Korean and Vietnam Wars
- Benedict Giamo, Department of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
Public History and the Formation of National Cultures (The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Smithsonian Enola Gay Exhibit)
- Chang-Il Ohn, Department of International Relations, Korea Military Academy
Wars in Asia and American Foreign Policy
COMMENT:
- Joel Hodson, Graduate School of American Studies, Doshisha University, Japan
CHAIR:
- Randall Bass, Director, American Studies Crossroads Project, Georgetown University
PAPERS:
- Gilbert Rodman, Department of Communication, University of South Florida
The Net Effect: the Public's Fear and the Public Sphere
- J. Macgregor Wise, Department of Communication, Clemson University
Technology, Affect, and the Politics of Cyberspace
- Beth E. Kolko, Department of English, University of Texas, Arlington
Writing Cyberspace: Virtual Selves and/in Public Spaces
- Lisa Nakamura, Department of English, Sonoma State University
"Where Do You Want to Go Today?": Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality
COMMENTS:
- The Audience
CHAIR:
- William Paul, Program in Film and Video Studies, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
- Susan G. Davis, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Space Jam: "Family Values" in the Entertainment City
- Ellen E. Seiter, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Boycotting "Barney": Fundamentalists and Family Entertainment
- Robert C. Allen, American Studies Program, University of North Carolina
Home Alone Together: The "Familization" of Hollywood
COMMENT:
- William Paul
CHAIR:
- Fredrika Teute, Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
PAPERS:
- Sandra Gustafson, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
The Negotiated Identities of Hendrick Aupaumut
- Philip Gould, Department of English, Brown University
Liberalism and Anti-Slavery Discourse in the Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic
- Frank Shuffleton, Department of English, University of Rochester
Submerged by Revolution: Phillis Wheatley in Freedom
COMMENT:
- Fredrika Teute
CHAIR:
- Kathleen Brown, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
PAPERS:
- Christopher Castiglia, Department of English, Loyola University of Chicago
Abolition Pedagogy and the Whitening of the Nation: The Public Address of Robert Finley and William Lloyd Garrison
- Margaret Kellow, Department of History, University of Western Ontario
Escape From the Seraglio: Contradictions in Feminist Antislavery Discourse
- Christopher Looby, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
A Literary Colonel: Reading and Doing in a Black Army Regiment
COMMENT:
- Kathleen Brown
CHAIR:
- Claudia Tate, Department of English, Princeton University
PAPERS:
- Mason Stokes, Department of English, Skidmore College
Charles Chesnutt and the Masturbating Boy
- Robert Reid-Pharr, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University
Pornography and Publicity
- Gayle Wald, Department of English, George Washington University
The Sporting Life
COMMENTS:
- Claudia Tate
CHAIR:
- Peter J. Bellis, Department of English, University of Miami
PAPERS:
- Debby Applegate, American Studies Program, Yale University
Authorship in the 1850's: Sympathy, Celebrity, and the Ideological Foundations of the Middle Class
- Isabelle Lehuu, Department of History, University of Quebec, Montreal
Books, Women, and the Reading Public in the Old South
- Elizabeth McHenry, Department of English, University of Texas
Reaching Out to Readers: Coordinating a Reading Public in Antebellum African American Contexts
COMMENT:
- David S. Reynolds, Department of English, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
CHAIR:
- Claudine Pannell-Goodlett, National Training Laboratories (NTL) Institute
A Brief Introduction to the American With Disabilities Act
PAPERS:
- Simi Linton, Department of Educational Foundations and Counseling Programs, Hunter College
Mining Feminist Epistomologies
- Sandra Patton, Women's Studies Program, University of Maryland
Gettin' Dissed: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Disability
- Adrienne Asch, Program in Biology, Ethics and the Politics of Human Reproduction, Wellesley College Disability, Nurturance, and the Family
- Michelle Banks, Artistic Director and Founder, Onyx Theater Company
Being an African-American, Deaf Female in Theater is a Challenge
COMMENT:
- Susan Bordo, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky
CHAIR:
- Kevin Lewis, Department of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina
PAPERS:
- Douglas Levin, Department of English, Yale University
Manufacturing Public Spheres in the Political Arena
- Brett Gary, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University
Private Interests, Public Goods: The Problem of Media Oligopolies
- Julie McGee, Department of Art, Bowdoin College
The Bloch Cancer Survivors Parks: Living Through Memory
COMMENT:
- Ellen Garvey, Department of English, Jersey City State College
CHAIR:
- Caren Kaplan, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
- Rachel Lee, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
About Face: The "Public" in Asian American Literary and Cultural Criticism
- Martin Manalansan, Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS
Home and Mourning: Gender and Death in the Filipino Diaspora in the U.S.
- Jasbir Puar, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets
- Ann Cvetkovich, Department of English, University of Texas
Immigration and Queer Identity: Sexual and National Trauma in Transnational Cultures
COMMENT:
- Jean Walton, English/Women's Studies, University of Rhode Island
CHAIR:
- Dwight Picaithley, Chief Historian, National Park Service, Washington, D.C.
PAPERS:
- Tonia Woods Horton, Department of History, Arizona State University
Sustainable History: The Intersection of Nature and Culture in the Public Landscape
- Marilyn W. Nickels, Chief of Cultural Resources, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, D.C.
Cultural Resource Management in an Ecosystem Context
- Jeffrey P. Pappas, Park Ranger, Yosemite National Park
Research, Interpretation and the National Park Service
COMMENT:
- Constance Werner Ramirez, Director, Cultural and Environmental Affairs Division, General Services Administration, Washington, D.C.
CHAIR:
- Nicole R. King, Department of English, University of Maryland
PAPERS:
- David Luis-Brown, Literature Board, University of California, Santa Cruz
Making the Negro International: The Harlem Renaissance, Negrismo, and Indigenismo
- William Maxwell, Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Negroes in America
- Lisa Gail Collins, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Visible Roots and Visual Routes: Africanisms and the Sea Islands
COMMENT:
- Robin W. Kilson, Department of History, University of Texas
CHAIR:
- Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Department of History, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
- Carolyn Thomas de la Pe U, American Studies Program, University of Texas
All By My Own Effort: Women's Early Advocacy of Drugs in Childbirth
- Jason Mittell, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin
Her Life is Less Frenzied: The Gendered Introduction of Tranquilizers in the Late 1950s
- Kerry Brooks, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Better than Well? Prozac and Self in the United States
COMMENT:
- Regina Morantz-Sanchez
CHAIR:
- Elaine Tyler May, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
PAPERS:
- Carla McKenzie, American Culture Program, University of Michigan
Thinking Through Quotas and Family Reunification: Membership Rules in 1952 and 1965 Immigration and Nationality Acts
- Anna Pegler Gordon, American Culture Program, University of Michigan
Can I See Your I.D.? Documentation and Identity in Immigrant America
- Nhi T. Lieu, American Culture Program, University of Michigan
Forging Public Identities in Global Spaces: Vietnamese American Creations of "Viet Kieu Culture"
COMMENT:
- Elaine Tyler May
CHAIR:
- Michele H. Bogart, Department of Art, State University of New York, Stony Brook
PAPERS:
- Alan Trachtenberg, American Studies Program, Yale University
The "National American Indian Memorial," 1913: An Imaginary Monument to the "Vanishing Race"
- Diana L. Linden, Department of Art, Pomona College
Representing Jewish Identity to the American Public: Ben Shahn's Federal Mural Proposals in the Context of the European Refugee Crisis
- Casey Nelson Blake, Department of History, Washington University
The N.E.A. and Public Art after the Fall: Going Public in Post-Liberal America
COMMENT:
- Michael Leja, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This first comprehensive exploration on film of our ad world performs a cultural psychoanalysis on late 20th century American "homo consumeris." The video goes beyond deconstructing individual ads to ask how living in an advertising saturated environment influences the way we perceive the world--and our selves.
CO-CHAIRS: Charles Vandersee, Department of English, University of Virginia
- Cynthia J. Mills, Department of Art and Archeology History, University of Maryland
SPECIAL GUEST:
- David Downes, General Manager, Rock Creek Cemetery
This on-site workshop, beginning at 3:00 pm at the Adams/Saint-Gaudens Monument in Rock Creek Cemetery, will ask participants to view this striking example of public art with a series of questions in mind. Some of the questions connect with Adams's commentary in The Education and in letters, and others are suggested by the unusual site and figure. After discussion, the co-conveners will supply some information drawn from existing commentary and from their own study. The bus will load starting at 2:30 pm in front of the Hyatt Regency. (See General Information, page 16, for further details).
GUIDE: