October 28-31, 1999
Complete Schedule of Sessions and Events
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Crossing Borders/Crossing Centuries
October 28-31, 1999
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8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
8:30 - 10:00 AM, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Sovereignty and Beyond: Indigenous Societies in a Global Age
The Politics of Consumption in Depression Era America
(Dis)ordering Chicanos in Nation and Empire:
Racing to and from Whiteness
Performance and Performativity: A Roundtable on
New Initiatives in American Studies
Consumerism and the Twentieth-Century Child:
Boundaries Crossed, Boundaries Sustained
In Search of the Modern
Border-Line Identities: The Image and Self-Image of Jews in the
United States and Canada
Postbellum Art
Visible Fictions? Visioning Race, Desire and Technologies
Re-inventing Museums at the Millennium: Across Institutional and Cultural Borders--A Roundtable Discussion
Caribbean Crossings
Frontiers and Media
Which Public(s)?
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Women's Committee Business Meeting
12:30 - 2:30 PM
2:00 - 3:00 PM
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Sexual Orientation and the Workplace: A Cross-Border Discussion
Class and Mobility
Gender and American Discourses of Genius, 1880-1930
Paul Robeson's Identities
Trust and Distrust: Anishinaabe Treaty Making and Negotiation
War, Memory, and Post-Nationalist American Studies
Getting Lost in Translation: Film and Musical Adaptations of
Identity and the "Real," 1894-1940
Capitalism and Culture
Prisons
Rethinking Border Theory in the Context of Globalization
Dislocating the Nation: The Caribbean in the Nineteenth-Century American National Imaginary
Languages and Identifications of Asians in America
Theory of Borders I
3:00 - 7:00 PM
3:30 - 5:30 PM
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Conversations and Contestations in Queer/Disability Studies
Native American Issues
Nation, Nostalgia, and Transnational Movement: Gender and
Desire in Contemporary Popular Music Culture
Paradox at the Border: A National Politics in Translation and
Language Study
The Problem of "Home" in the Filipino Diaspora
Pushing Boundaries: Energy and the Search for the Modern Body
Science and Literature
Traversing Inter-America: Variations on the Political Imagination of Hemispheric Cultural Formation
Media, Mobility and Transnational Traffic
Protecting Our (Discursive) Boundaries
Liberationists, Keepers, and Weepers: Men and Emotions at the Millennium
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Crossroads Project Advisory Board Business Meeting
4:00 PM - 12:00 AM
5:30 - 7:00 PM
6:00 - 7:30 PM
6:00 - 8:00 PM
6:30 - 7:45 PM
6:30 - 8:00 PM
7:00 - 8:30 PM
7:00 - 9:00 PM
8:00 - 9:15 PM
8:15 - 10:00 PM
10:00 - 11:30 PM
7:00 - 9:00 AM
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Ideology, Race, Film
Constructions of Whiteness
Testimony, Narrative and Nation: Constructing Collective Memory
and Identity in Québécois, African American, Puerto Rican,
and Native Canadian Culture
Black Crossings: Canada and the US
Layers in the Relationship: A Roundtable on New Directions in
the Study of History across the Canadian-American Border
The Fulbright Program: Crossing Borders, Forming Networks
"Don't Fence Me In": Representing Spaces of Internment
The Practice of Borders: New York City
Negotiating Black Women
Transatlantic Epistemes: Knowledge and Language between
Colony and Metropolis
Living in between and on Borders: Theorizing Constructions of
Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality
Bordering on Transnational America(s) Studies
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Anti-racist Strategies and Struggles: Comparative Perspectives
Chicano/Latino Film and Media
American Exploits: Imagining the US beyond Its Borders
The Boundaries of Blackness: African American Music at the
End of the Twentieth Century
Crossing Academic Borders: Marketing American Studies Degrees
The Schoolteacher as Border-Crosser
Wired Graduates: Online Projects, Praxis, Politics, and
Professionalization
It's a Good(s) Thing: Martha Stewart and the
Refinement of America
Interart Inquiry: A New Approach to Scholarly Border Crossing in the Black Expressive Arts
Work, Play, and Culture
Popular Literature of the 1920s and 1930s
American Indians, Assimilation, and the Issue of Representation
The US-Canadian Border and North American Identities
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Canadian Association for American Studies Executive Meeting
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Dissent and Difference in Colonial America
American Dramas Set in Foreign Lands
Children's Literature
Searching for the Jazz Truth: Art, Identity, and Politics in the
Crucible of Modern Jazz
Sexual Visibility and Public Citizenship in Asian/American
Cultural Productions
Bringing the Social Sciences Back into American Studies: A Forum
Crossing Borders without Passport or Visa: Using the Internet for International Exchange in American Studies
African American Photographers: Revisioning African
American Identity
American Jesus
Nationalisms and Sexuality: Queer Citizenship
Interrogating the Border: The Meanings and Implications of Interdisciplinarity in American Studies
Crossing Borders in the Caribbean and Latin America
Still at Issue: Legacies of Progressive Era Women
12:00 - 2:00 PM
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Re-positioning American Studies in the (Inter)National Context
"Degrees of Shame": Adjunct Faculty in the Academy
Artistic Boundaries
Monsters and Media
Staging Racial Biology: The Negotiation of Essence in
Nineteenth-Century Popular Performance
Bodies and Spirits at the Turn of the Last Century
Conversation on Affirmative Action: The Shape of the River
and the National Agenda
Marriage and Modernity
Women in the 1930s
American Studies, Geography, and Global Knowledge
Identities and Interdisciplinarity: Border Work in Academic
Institutions--A Roundtable
Between Subject and Citizen: Film, Television and the Internet as
Cultural Processes
Figments of Someone Else's Imagination: Border Crossings in
Canadian and American Native Fiction
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Graduate Student Town Hall Meeting
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Bridging the Pacific
The Ethnic 1950s
The "Sporting" Press in 1840s New York: Three Interpretations
Indigenous Sovereignty in Canada and the United States: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Implications
Tongue Smell Color
Critiquing the High/Low Hierarchies: Reorienting Models across
North America
American/Canadian Lives and Borders
Asian-American Border Crossings
19th-Century Literature and Women
Reading and Emotional Life in America
4:30 - 6:00 PM
6:00 - 7:30 PM
Music of the Americas Caucus Reception
6:00 - 8:00 PM
7:00 - 7:45 PM
8:00 - 9:30 PM
9:30 PM - 12:30 AM
7:00 - 9:00 AM
7:30 - 9:45 AM
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Border Skirmishes: (Post) Modernities of the Americas
Creating New England: Regionalism, Cultural Studies and the
High School Curriculum
Political Art, Censorship, and Surveillance
From the Monster's Entrails: José Martí's America and Other Fin de Siecle Modernities
Low End Theories: Expanding Hip-Hop Scholarship
North America's Hidden Mestizo History: Intermarriage and
Identity in Comparative Perspective
Dealing with Disability: Eugenics and Euthanasia
in the Industrial Age
Collective Memories, Images, and the Atrocity of War
Mutual Influences: Canadian Immigrants and Life in the
United States
Materiality across Disciplines: Supplementing the Text in Performance Studies, the History of the Book, and Media History
Reconstructing Historical Readers: Goals and Methods--
A Roundtable
Reimagined Boundaries/Reinvented Identities: Sites of Literary and Performative Transgression in 19th-Century American Culture
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
10:00 - 11:00 AM
10:00 - 11:45 AM
1950s and Cold War
"American Identities": A University and Secondary School
Collaborative Course
Pan Pacific
Geographies of Power: Slavery and Its Permeable Borders
Blue(S)ubjects
Transgressive Sexualities
Identity Crossings in Nineteenth-Century America
Race and Revision in Contemporary Art and Culture
Popular Forms of Cultural Consumption
Discourses of Civil Rights/Affirmative Action--A Roundtable
Today's Job Crisis
Art, Commerce and the Slave Trade: The Political Economy
of the Black Atlantic
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Performing America
Focus on Teaching Day Luncheon
The Craft and Art of Community Politics: African American and
Chicano Cultural Centers in Postwar Los Angeles
Writing American Studies for Larger Audiences: The Right Tools
for the Right Job
Outside Poetry: Poetics Inside & Outside the Poem
Crossing the Border of Faith: Some Early American
Religious Conversions
"The People Have Never Stopped Dancing": Issues in American
Indian and Aboriginal Contemporary Dance
Remembering Place/Constructing Place
Hyphennationalisms
Ideal Interiors: Domesticity, Ideology, and Social Change in
Turn-of-the-Century America
Where in the World is American Studies?
International Editors' Forum
Crossing Centuries, Remaking Boundaries: Abortion Politics
and the Politics of National Identity
Chinese Cross the Racial Border of Law and Culture
1:00 - 4:00 PM
2:00 - 3:45 PM
The New Right
Teaching American Studies: Choosing and Developing Materials
Creating the Latino Cultural Heritage Center of Washington, DC:
A Roundtable
The "Good," the "Bad" and the "Feeble-minded":
Comparative Perspectives on Mothers and Daughters in Britain,
the USA, and Canada, 1920s-1960s
Re-crossing Borders: Assessing American Multi-Ethnic Society and Literature Back Home
Science and Science Fiction
American Studies Association President's Forum: Practicing
American Studies: The Academy and Beyond
Polluted Relations, Diluted Bodies: Racial Intermarriage and
Mixed Race Identity in Post-WWII America
Postcards from the Edge: American Vision in the
Cinematic Contact Zone
Nervous Bodies at the Turn of the Century
Uses of the Past, Citizenship, and Cultural Identity in the
United States and Europe
The Significance of Place in Native American Identity
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Gender of the Color Line
2:00 - 6:00 PM
3:00 - 8:00 PM
4:00 - 5:00 PM
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Girls and Tomboys: The Genders of Youth Rebellion in
Popular Culture
Screening of La Sarrasine
Native Terrains: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Urban Indian Spaces of Resistance
Poetic Crossings and American Studies: Hart Crane, 1899-1999
20th-Century Musics
The Politics of Queer Border Crossings in North America
Public Art in the 1920s and 1930s
Crossing Borders/Crossing Genres: Hollywood and Latin America
during World War II
Theory of Borders III
Jeux Sans Frontières, or Can We Play American Studies, Too?--
A Roundtable Discussion
Borders of Black Studies
5:00 - 6:00 PM
5:00 - 6:30 PM
American Indian Caucus Reception
6:00 - 7:00 PM
7:00 - 8:00 PM
8:30 - 10:00 PM
Milk of Amnesia: A Performance by Carmelita Tropicana
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Media I: T.V. and Radio
Japanese Americans/Canadians: Interrogating the
Racialized Border
Rethinking the 60s
Crossing Boundaries: Religion and Culture in the Early
American Colonies
African-American Culture at the Turn of Three Centuries
The Life and Work of Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna):
Literary, Geographic, and Ethnic Border-crossing in the
Early Twentieth Century
Science Fictions: Crossing Borders between Science and Culture
Women Writing: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
New World Studies: A Conversation
Richard Wright and Social Frames
Situational Sexualities
Articulating Liberation, Democracy, & Citizenship
20th-Century Women's Writing
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Media II: Film
North American Dynamics: Social, Political and Cultural Aspects
Transgressing Borders in Early American Studies
Cosmopolitan Outlaws: Lola Montez, Mabel Dodge Luhan,
Mae West
Business Matters: Artistic Deals with America
"Dark Alliances": Drugs and the Policing of Race, Class,
and Sexuality
Representations of Social Conflict in the Elite and Popular Arts
Declarations of Crisis and Promises of Solace: Prophetic Narratives
at the Intersection of American Religious and Political Culture
Redefining Boundaries and Reconstructing Cultural Identity
Feminism: A Class Act
Re-thinking the Afro-Asian Century
Performances of Crossing--A Roundtable
White Responses to Race after the Civil War
Thursday, October 28, 1999
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Business Meeting of the ASA National Council
Pre-Convention Workshop for American Studies Program Directors: American Studies and the New Media
Dread Disease as Cultural Commodity
Minority Scholars' Committee Business Meeting
Committee on American Studies Programs Business Meeting
Women's Committee/Minority Scholars' Committee Joint Meeting
Imaging the Nation
American Quarterly Board Meeting
Task Force for International Women in American Studies
Business Meeting
Gender and Race in US-Japan Relations
American Studies Editorial Board Meeting
ASA Nominating Committee Business Meeting
Workshop for Ethnic Studies Program Directors,
Faculty and Students
International Committee Reception
Mid-American American Studies Association Reception
Material Culture Caucus, Annual Business Meeting
New England/New York Metro American Studies
Association Reception
Minority Scholars' Committee, Women's Committee, and
Sexual Minority Scholar(hip) Reception
Students' Committee Business Meeting
Visual Culture Caucus, Annual Business Meeting
Canadian Association for American Studies President's Forum:
American? . . . Not! New Directions for American Studies
in Canada
Canadian Association for American Studies Presidential Reception
Friday, October 29, 1999
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International Women's Breakfast
Across Borders in a Tri-cultural Realm: Cutting for Sign in the
Mexican-American, Native-American Borderland Region
Student Hospitality Lounge
Marriage, Property and Violence
International Committee Business Meeting
ASA Students' Committee Mock Interviews
Talking Back: Performing and Reforming Indian Speech
in Early America
Disability Studies Caucus Business Meeting
Becoming a "Western" Writer: Crossing Borders and
Forging Identities
Canadian Association for American Studies Business Meeting
Making Early American Studies Matter--A Roundtable Discussion of Evidence, Discipline and the Institution
Environmental Studies Caucus Orginizational Meeting
Material Culture/Art History Caucuses Reception
University of Minnesota Reception
Awards Ceremony for ASA Prize Recipients
President's Address
President's Reception and Dance
Saturday, October 30, 1999
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Breakfast for Women in American Studies
GLASA Program Committee Breakfast Meeting
Sympathetic and Satiric Laughter: The Intervention of Race and
Ethnicity in American Comic Expressions
Student Hospitality Lounge
Society of the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
(SHARP) Caucus Business Meeting
Theory of Borders II--Post-colonial Theory and "Native"
Immigrants and Image-Nation
ASA Students' Committee Mock Interviews
Japanese-American Tensions
Regional Chapters' Committee Business Meeting
Business Meeting of the 2000 Program Committee
Thomas King: A Reading
Technophobia: The Millennium, the Human(ities), and the
Machine
ASA Nominating Committee Business Meeting
Lecture by Nell Painter
University of Michigan Reception (Co-Sponsored by the Great Lakes American Studies Association)
Shamans' Circle: A Performance by Jerry Longboat
Preaching to the Perverted: A Performance by Holly Hughes
Sunday, October 31, 1999
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Crossing Borders: Traversing the Academic/Community Boundary--A Roundtable
Gendered Tensions in African-American Marriage, 1880-19406