American Studies Association
Canadian Association for American Studies:
Third Joint Annual Meeting

Going Public: Defining Public Culture(s) in the Americas

Schedule

8:00AM - 3:00PM
Business Meeting of the ASA National Council

9:00AM - 10:30AM
Pre-convention Workshop for American Studies Program Directors: Outreach and American Studies (Sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Programs)

11:30AM - 12:30PM
Pre-convention Workshop for American Studies Program Directors: American Studies and Ethnic Studies: Conflict/Collaboration/Synergy (Sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Programs)

1:00PM - 3:00PM
Joint Business Meeting of the Minority Scholars' and Women's Committees

Public Trials and Cultural Tribulations: Courts and the Making of Meaning in Nineteenth-Century America

Religion Addresses Public Issues

Urban Spaces, Public Places: The City Planned, Played, and Preserved

From Public Intellectuals to Public Cultures of Dissent

Is American Studies an International Space? The Practice of American Studies in a Global Context

Public Sex, Sexual Public

Northern Reflections: Constituting Canadian Public(s)

Food Fights: Struggles Over What We Eat and Who We Are

The Black Man and the Sea: African-American Seafaring in the Nineteenth Century

Bad Boys and Good Girls

Gender, Race, and Empire in Jack London's Writings

Identifying the Body: The Gender Politics of Urban Gothic

Mass Appeals: The Public Work of Women's Popular Fiction in 1790s, 1890s, and 1990s

3:30PM - 5:30PM
Mapping Contemporary Anxieties

"Acting Respectable": Race, Gender, and the Welfare State

An All-Consuming Fashion: Dressing Up for Faith, Nationalism, and Gender in American Popular Culture

Politics, Gender, and the Public Cultures of Film

It's A Girl Thing: Girls' Identities and Twentieth Century American Popular Culture

Lesbian and Gay Public(ity): History, Identity, Neighborhood, and Community

"Takin' It To the Streets": American Studies and the Wider World

African-American Comic Art: The Humor of Marginalization

Transforming Politics Between the Wars

The Many Languages of the United States: Recovering Silenced Public Cultures

Public Space and Male Racial and Sexual Identities, 1900­1960

Other Intellectuals and Their Publics

American Public Religions

5:00PM - 6:15PM
Business Meeting of the Material Culture Caucus/Visual Culture Caucus

6:00PM - 7:00PM
Business Meeting of the Electronic Projects and Publications Committee

6:15PM - 7:30PM
Business Meeting of the Visual Culture­Art History Caucus

7:30PM - 8:15PM
Awards Ceremony for ASA Prize Recipients

8:15PM - 9:30PM
President's Address

President's Reception and Harvest Dance

7:30AM - 10:00AM
Breakfast Meeting of the International Women's Task Force

Business Meeting of the International Committee

8:15AM - 9:30AM
Film Screening: Struggles in Steel: The Fight for Equal Opportunity (56 min.)

Re-cuperating, Re-membering, and Re-cycling Public and Cultural Histories: Critical Movements in Politics, Culture, and Representation

Conversation: Asian American Perspectives on Defining Public Culture(s) in the Americas (Sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies)

Criminality, Apostasy, and Fashion: Ritualizing Religious Bodies

The Color and Class of Gender: Racial Narratives and Public Policy

Regulating Public Knowledge

Gender and Working Class Identity in the Media

Global and Social Perspectives on African American Music

New Chicano/a Studies: When Private Past Becomes Public Knowledge

Incivilities

Finding a Voice, Forging an Audience

Science, Fiction, and Cyberculture

Photography and Its Public Spheres: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century America

When Film Heroines Go Public, Why Do They Go "Bad"?

Sexuality in the Public Domain

Race and Reform in the Nineteenth Century

Public Pictures of Reconstruction: Origins, Forms, and Legacies

Academic Celebrity and Gender Politics

Constructing "Old" New England in Image, Object, and Text

9:00AM - 12:00PM
Tour of Duke Ellington School of the Arts

Tour of Shaw Neighborhood

Tour: City Walls and Public Sculpture in Washington, D.C.

10:00AM - 11:30AM
Film Screening: Blacks and Jews (86 min.)

10:15AM - 12:15PM
Crossing Musical Borders: Women of Color in Jazz, Tejano, Opera, and Rock

Conversation: Levine's Opening of the American Mind

Displaced Persons: American Studies Perspectives on Urban and Rural Dislocation

African Canadian Space(s) and Place(s): Public Cultures and the (Re)colouring of the National Landscape

Domestic Stagings of Female Celebrity

The Little Tactics of the Habitat: Immigrant Geographies

Coalition or Collision: Territory, Difference, and the Institution (Sponsored by the Minority Scholars Committee)

Making Waves: Radio and Public Space

Latin American Perspectives on Chicano/a/Latino/a Literature

No More "Separate Spheres"

Performing (the) Public: Shaping Public Discourse In and Through Theatre

The World's Fair as Public Sphere

Oscar Micheaux and African American Filmmaking

Making Black (Popular) Culture

Performing Female Identities in Public Space

Roundtable: Issues and Problems in American Nature Writing: Reflections on the 1997 NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty at Vassar College (Sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Programs)

Public Cultures and Representations of Slavery and the Civil War

Constructing Cohesion During the Progressive Era: Art of the United States and Social Change

12:00PM - 1:30PM
Film Screening: The Fight in the Fields, Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle (90 min.)

12:00PM
Holocaust Museum Tour I

12:30PM
Holocaust Museum Tour II

12:30PM - 2:00PM
American Studies in a Global Context: Internationalizing Race

Global Circuits of Popular Music

Bringing the Empire Back Home

Social Transformation and Public Spectacles

Cultural Baggage: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Traveling Cultures

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Production of Asian American Public Spheres

Publics and Privates

Visual Art and Literature in Washington, D.C.

Whose Family, Whose Values

Going Public Beyond the Territory: African-Americans in Europe

Real War Stories

Applying Old Laws to New Publics: National and Transnational Cases

Picturing the South: Sectionalism and National Visual Culture

2:00PM - 2:30PM
Film Screening: A Son of Africa: The Slave Narrative of Olaudah Equiano (28 min.)

2:15PM - 4:00PM
Contested Bodies and Battlegrounds: Fighting Over American Manhood in Europe, Haiti, and the Philippines

"We Won't Go Back": Public Talk About Affirmative Action

American Disaster

American Identities and the Wars in Asia

The Global, the Local, and the Virtual: Space, Community, and Politics Online

All in the Family: The "Familization" of American Popular Culture

Race, Revolution, and the Res Publica

Abolition and the Race of National Address

Public "Vices," Private Lives and African American Literature

Producing a Reading Public: Literature and its Readership in Antebellum America

Disability and the Cultures of Women (Co-sponsored by the ASA Women's and the Minority Scholars' Committees)

Private Interest­Public Good

National Publics, Transnational Feminist Praxis: Ethnicity, Gender, Class, and Sexuality

At the Intersection: Theory, Policy, and Interpretation of Nature and Culture in Public Practice (Sponsored by the National Council on Public History)

International Blackness

Drugs and Women's Identity

Immigrant Others, Immigrant Selves

Public Arts, Identities, and the Federal Government: From "Progressive" to "Post-Liberal" America

3:00PM - 4:00PM
Film Screening: The Ad and The Ego (55 min.)

Workshop: The Adams/Saint-Gaudens Monument, Rock Creek Cemetery

Tour of the Mathew Brady Exhibition

4:00PM - 5:30PM
Lecture: Center for the Book, Library of Congress

4:15PM - 6:00PM
Audience Responses to Pop Culture Icons

The State of African American Public Culture

Urban Space and Popular Culture

Extraordinary Alliances: Cross-Cultural Politics in Turn-of-the-Century New York City

The Philippines and the Imperialist Projects

Latino Public Culture

Cold War Mentalities

Negotiating Authority in the Early Republic

Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back: Film and Discussion (Co-sponsored by the ASA Women's and the Minority Scholars' Committees)

War, Class, and National Identity

American Violence/American Paranoia

What is Natural about Mining Landscapes? Cultural Contests over Technology and Environment

Travel Guides, "Literary Ladies," and African-American Literary Groups: Going Public in Nineteenth Century Washington, DC

Ethnic Identity Consumed and Contested: Public Cultural Performances in the American West

African Americans in Public Parks: The Poetics and Politics of Urban Spaces A Screening and Discussion of Claiming Open Spaces

Carrier Narratives; Mothers, Race and Representation from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

4:30PM - 6:00PM
Film Screening: Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty (86 min.)

5:30PM - 7:00PM
University of Minnesota Reception

5:45PM - 7:00PM
Chesapeake ASA Reception: Future Scholars Network

6:00PM - 7:30PM
General Session of the Canadian Association for American Studies

6:15PM - 7:30PM
Business Meeting of ASA Disability Studies Caucus

6:30PM - 9:00PM
Group Dinner at Old Ebbitt Grill

7:00PM - 8:30PM
ASA Sexual Minority Caucus Reception

8:00PM - 9:00PM
Disabilities Studies Caucus Sponsored Session (Co-Sponsored by Gallaudet University, Howard University, and the American Studies Association)

8:30PM - 10:00PM
Canadian Association for American Studies Reception

9:15PM - 10:00PM
Disabilities Studies Reception (Sponsored by the Georgetown University American Studies Program)

7:00AM - 9:00AM
Breakfast for Women in American Studies (Co-sponsored by the Minority Scholars' Committee and the Women's Committee)

Students' Committee Workshop: Getting Published: Selling Interdisciplinary Work in an Uni-disciplinary World

8:15AM - 10:00AM
Particular Places to Go: Music and Mobility in Post-War America

Social Movement and Transformations

Inside Out--Private Emotions as Public Expression in 19th-Century America

Terrainical Appropriations: Public Space, Public Policy, and the Public Good

Visual Media, Public Space, and Historical Possibility

Water, Rest, and Pills: Popular Therapies and Medical Authority in America, 1840­1940

Sports, Race, and American Culture: In Memory of Jackie Robinson

"Making Knowledge Public": The Arts and Sciences of Human Nature

Public Lives and Private Lives: Women on the Margin

Private Lives in Public View: Photographs and American Stories

U.S. Colonialisms

Embodying Public Identities

La différend In el zocalo: Norma Alarcón's Critical/Theoretcial Production

Asserting and Questioning Female Authority

American Surrealist Subversion and Promotion: The Polemics of Abstraction

My Eyes Must Be Lyin': The Racialized Self and Evidence of Things Not Said

8:30AM - 10:00AM
Focus on Teaching Day I: N.E.H., the Secondary Schools, and the University: American Studies as a Collaborative Public Enterprise

9:00AM - 1:00PM
Tour of the Evolving Landscapes of Northern Virginia

9:30AM - 12:00PM
Tour of Frederick Douglass Home, Anacostia Neighborhood

10:15AM - 12:15PM
Border Matters: Chicano Culture, Ethnic Identity, and Contemporary Criticism

Prison for Profit: Crime Prevention or Social Control?

The Consuming Public and Business Enterprise: Corporate Perspectives on American Consumer Society

Conversation: The Future of Native American Studies in American Studies I

Memorials, Publicity, and Tourism

Ethnography in/and American Studies: Practices, Pitfalls, and Possibilities

"American Feminisms"/Transnational Constructions: A Conversation Organized by the American Studies Association International Women's Task Force

Contested Terrain: Political Uses of the Streets--Roundtable

The Place of Suburbia: The Literature of Place in Lands Called Placeless

Public Enemies: Racialized Spectacles and the Making of an American Public

Geographies of Race and Sexuality

Race, Material Culture and American Studies (Sponsored by the ASA Material Culture Caucus)

José Martí's Our Americanism and the Question of Post-National American Studies

The Politics of Whiteness

Intellectual Property v. Public Discourse

The Electronic Crossroads Project: A Report From the Test Sites (Sponsored by the Committee on Electronic Projects and Publications)

Television and the Radical Other, 1960-1975

Women, War, and Remembrance

10:15AM - 11:45PM
Focus on Teaching Day II: Using Technology to Develop and Expand Secondary-University Conversations (Sponsored by the Committee on Secondary Schools)

12:00PM - 2:00PM
Focus on Teaching Day III: Committee on Secondary Education Luncheon

12:30PM - 2:00PM
Swing Music, Swing Hopes: How 1930s America Embraced the Future Through Music, Dance and Movement

Roundtable: Feminism and Political Culture

Workshop: The Nine Nations of North America After NAFTA: A Dialogue Across Borders (Sponsored by the International Committee)

Publicity and Protest in the Visual Realm

Battles After the War: Re-Visions of the Philippine-American War in Cultural Narratives of Race and Empire

Domesticating Islam: American Orientalist Displays

Mapping Queer

Reading, Writing, and Region

Oh Public Road! Gender, Memory and the Discursive Space of the American Highway

Public Intellectuals and Intellectual Publicity

Public Art and Public Taste

Emergent American Literatures, 1870­1930

Reading Race, Reading Law: Defining the Public in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century United States

Sheltering People

Broadcasting at the Borders: Marginal Media and Public Culture

Business Meeting of the American Quarterly Board

Business Meeting of the Crossroads Testsite Representatives

1:00PM - 3:30PM
Tour of Old Downtown/New Downtown

1:45PM - 4:00PM
Focus on Teaching Day IV: Plenary Session: A National View of Model American Studies Programs in the Secondary School (Sponsored by the Committee on Secondary Schools)

2:15PM - 4:00PM
Horizontal Affiliation and Transnational Public Culture

Musical Interrogations: The Blues Tradition, The Avante Garde and the Changing Same

Staging Civil Rights

Mummies, Corpses, and Suicides: Death and the Public Sphere

The Beast Without: Animals as Symbols in Victorian Public Culture

Medical Practices and the Female Body

Nineteenth-Century Women at Home and on the Range

Exporting American Studies: The Discipline as a Global Community

National Identity and Natural Wonders

Beyond the Binary: Blacks, Whites, and Asians in American Culture

Work and Family: Public Issue or Private Dilemma

Roundtable Discussion: The Perils and Promises of Public History

Crafting Power

Reframing the Harlem Renaissance: The Race for Art and the Art of Race

Outlaws, Bums: Reading America's Team(s)01"> Cowboys, Outlaws, Bums: Reading America's Team(s)

Visualizing a Religious (Re)Public: The Mass-Production of Christian Images, 1775 to the Present

Extreme Measures: Prosthetic Technology and Public Identity in American Culture

Business Meeting of the Committee on Regional Chapters

3:00PM - 5:00PM
Meeting of the 1998 Program Committee

3:30PM - 5:00PM
Focus on Teaching Day V: Focusing on American Culture Through the Lens of Photographer Dorothea Lange: How Museums, Libraries, and Universities Can Support the Work of High School Teachers (Sponsored by the Committee on Secondary Schools)

4:00PM - 6:00PM
Beyond the Symbolic City: Investigating Washington, D.C. in Material and Electronic Forms

4:15PM - 6:00PM
Reverberations of Whiteness in the Public Sphere

American Studies 2000

The Chesapeake in Early America: Beyond Old Boundaries (Cosponsored by the Chesapeake Chapter and the Committee on Regional Chapters)

Critical Public Intellectuals

The Skyscraper, the City and Urban Culture: Architecture and the Negotiation of Public/Private Urban Space

A View of the Waterfront: Commercialism, Recreation and Public Space in America

Negotiating Public Space: Urban Planning and Race, Gender, and Ethnic Experiences

Black Modernism and Poetics

Their Own Vietnam: American Women in the Vietnam War

Film Session: The Fight in the Fields, Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle Telling Social and Chicana/o Movement Stories

Clashing Tides of Culture: Race, Empire, and the Public Scene, 1900­1940

Screening Race

Constructing the Public

Gender, Narrative, and Reform in the 19th Century

Technology, Spiritualism, and Modernity

Jewish Women and Public Culture

5:00PM - 7:00PM
Penn State­Harrisburg Reception

5:15PM - 6:45PM
Focus on Teaching Day VI: Assaults on the Profession (Sponsored by the Committee on Secondary Schools)

5:30PM - 7:00PM
University of Michigan Reception

6:15PM - 7:30PM
Business Meeting of the ASA Sexual Minority Caucus

6:30PM - 9:30PM
Business Meeting of the Nominating Committee

10:00PM - 12:00AM
1997 Program Committee Nitecap

7:30AM - 9:00AM
Students' Committee Workshop: Mentoring in American Studies Workshop

8:30AM - 10:30AM
Breakfast Meeting of the 1998 Program Committee

Shared Concerns and Opportunities: American Studies and the Society for Cinema Studies

9:00AM - 11:00AM
The Implications of Electronic Technologies for the Development of American Studies: A Roundtable Discussion (Sponsored by the Committee on Electronic Projects and Publications)

"Mi Querido Publico": Travels Through Chicana/o "Public" Theories, Histories, and Discourses

Racialized Desire

Conversation: The Future of Native American Studies in American Studies II

National and International Expositions

Policing Women's Sexuality in the Public Sphere

Selling Addiction: Discourses of Disease and Recovery in the Public Sphere

Permeable 49th: Canada and the United States as Global Border Zone

Masculinity, Political Discourse, and the Mass Media in 1980s America

The Militarization of Masculinity

The Athletic Body, The Athletic Text: Reading Race & Gender Through Twentieth-Century Sports

Out of Their Place: Overlooked Episodes in the History of Internal Migration in the United States

Complicating Color

9:30AM - 11:00AM
For Fun and Profit: Is American Studies Vocational? (Sponsored by the American Studies Students' Committee)