Business Meeting of the Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of American Studies
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 7

8:00 am – 9:45 am

H. Bruce Franklin, Rutgers University, Newark (NJ)

Michael Coventry, Georgetown University (DC)
"A Soldier's Creed": Camp Newspapers, Syndication Practices, and Soldier Publics in Great War America

Edwin Martini, Western Michigan University (MI)
Forest Fire as a Military Weapon: The American War on Nature in Vietnam

Martin Collins, independent scholar
The Military, the Market, and the Post–Cold War World: The Entangled Case of Global Satellite Telephony

Caren Kaplan, University of California, Davis (CA)
Air Power's Visual Culture: Surveillance, Security, and Aerial Perspective

H. Bruce Franklin, Rutgers University, Newark (NJ)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Queer Belongings: Alternative Modes of Citizenship and Community
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 11

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

Geoffrey W. Bateman, University of Denver (CO)
This Land Is Herland: Queer Citizenship on the Feminist Frontier

Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado (CO)
Business Culture and Queer Epistolary Networks in the U.S. Midwest, 1930s–1960s

Emma Perez, University of Colorado, Boulder (CO)
Why Do We Need Decolonial Queer Theories?

Sandra K. Soto, University of Arizona (AZ)
¡Femme! ¿ Qué?

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Racial Narratives of Belonging and Practices of Cultural Citizenship for Asian America
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 13

Rick Bonus, University of Washington, Seattle (WA)

Linda Trinh Vo, University of California, Irvine (CA)
The "Cry for Freedom" Exhibit: Vietnamese Americans, Project Ngoc, and Displaying Nation

Shilpa S. Dave, Brandeis University (MA)
Speaking American: Assertions of Race, Masculinity, and Nationality in "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay"

Linda N. Espana-Maram, California State University, Long Beach (CA)
Transnational Filipino Communities and "PacMan the Destroyer": Boxing Narratives as Practices of Citizenship

Mary Yu Danico, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CA)
Riding the Hallyu (Korean Wave): Korean Americans and the Global Impact of Korean Pop Culture

Rick Bonus, University of Washington, Seattle (WA)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Spatializing Culture: The Production of Difference in the Built Environment
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 16

Arlene Davila, New York University (NY)

Jill Ann Gibson, Western Michigan University (MI)
"What We Think That Is Progress": Producing Citizenship from Little Rock's Urban Renewal

Samantha J. Boardman, Rutgers University, Newark (NJ)
Small Town America: Cold War Heritage Tourism and the Miniature Village

Priscilla Leiva, University of Southern California (CA)
Los Doyers for Life! (Re)constructing Dodger Fandom from the Margins

Justin Maher, University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Selling the Faces of Urban Renaissance: Rhetorics of Diversity in the (Re)development of Washington, D.C.

Arlene Davila, New York University (NY)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Robyn Wiegman, Duke University (NC)

Inderpal Grewal, University of California, Irvine (CA)

Eva Cherniavsky, University of Washington, Seattle (WA)

Minoo Moallem, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

Robyn Wiegman, Duke University (NC)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Grotesque Masculinities in Contemporary American Art and Culture
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 8

John Howard, King's College (UK)

Cary Levine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)
Manly Crafts: Mike Kelley's (Oxy)moronic Gender Bending

Harry Thomas, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)
"Some Are Beauties, Others Beasts": Female Masculinity in American Professional Wrestling

Rachel Adams, Columbia University (NY)
The Anti-grotesque, or, A Defense of Normalcy

John Howard, King's College (UK)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

American Quarterly Editorial Board Panel I: Between Life and Death: Race, Social Death, Necropolitics, Disposability
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West A

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, University of Southern California (CA)

Grace Kyungwon Hong, University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Truth and Life, Error and Death: Necropolitical Answers to Marxist Questions

Thu-Huong Nguyen-vo, University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Interruptions: Necropolitics and the Ethics of Specters

Kara Keeling, University of Southern California (CA)
"Soul Spaceship": Uncommon Senses and the (Im)possible Politics of Afro-Futurism

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, University of Southern California (CA)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Republic in Fragments: Identity, Belonging, and Nationhood after Loughran
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 15

Duncan Faherty, City University of New York, Queens College (NY)

Chad Luck, California State University, San Bernardino (CA)
Belongings: Slave Space and Slave Property on the Antebellum Plantation

Jon W. Blandford, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN)
Stephen Burroughs, Virtual Citizen

Melissa M. Adams, University of Chicago (IL)
Building Regional Identities: Implications of Dislocation in Sansay's A Secret History

Duncan Faherty, City University of New York, Queens College (NY)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

The Courts of Public Memory: Trauma, Nation, and Reconciliation
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 14

Lisa Yoneyama, University of California, San Diego (CA)

Robert Eap, University of Southern California (CA)
Rethinking Impunity: A Critique of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

Naomi Angel, New York University (NY)
Memory, Nation, and Social Transformation in the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Zenia Kish, New York University (NY)
Remembering Ukraine's Famine-Terror of 1932–1933: Post-Soviet Memory as National Politics

Julie Thi Underhill, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Elusive Justice: Democratic Kampuchea's Cultural Genocide of the Muslim Cham

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Migration, Science, and Technology
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 10

Crystal Anderson, Elon University (NC)

Christine L. Manganaro, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Social Science on the Racial Frontier: Chicago Sociologists Migrate to Hawai'i

Monique Laney, University of Kansas (KS)
"Rocket Scientists" and Race Relations in Northern Alabama

Jasmine Kar Tang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Atomic Hospitality: Asian Scientists Meet the
U.S. South

Nicole Ishikawa, University of Kansas (KS)
Cyberspace and Immigration: (Not) Winning in the U.S. Green Card Lottery

Crystal Anderson, Elon University (NC)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Tools for Teachers: American Studies Resources for the K–16 Classroom
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 9

Jennifer Betts, independent scholar

Barbara Ashbrook, independent scholar

Richard Schramm, independent scholar

Emily Anderson, independent scholar

Bernadette May-Beaver, Winona State University (MN)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

The Contradictions of Environmentality (On line Session)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 18

Ashley Dawson, City University of New York, Graduate School (NY)

Leerom Medovoi, Portland State University (OR)
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Ecology: Sustainability as the Reproduction of the Conditions of Production

Janice Tanemura, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Booker T. Washington's Ecofeminist Approach to the New South

Peter Hitchcock, City University of New York, Graduate School (NY)
The Nature of Exchange: On the Ecopolitics of China/U.S. Trade

Ashley Dawson, City University of New York, Graduate School (NY)
Environmental Security

Panel papers now available on-line, along with a pre-conference blog. To learn more, read the papers, and join the discussion, click here under the Forum section.

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Something to Declare: Latina/o and Caribbean Place-Making Performances
The Renaissance DC Hotel Auditorium

Michelle J. Wilkinson, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture

Wilson Valentin-Escobar, Hampshire College (MA)
El Puerto Rican Embassy: Civic Agency, Cultural Interventions, and Surrealist Counterpublics

Darrel Enck-Wanzer, University of North Texas (TX)
Tactics of Puerto Rican Cultural Production in East Harlem: Murals, Flags, Casitas, and Gardens

Jerry Philogene, Dickinson College (PA)
Wyclef Jean: Don't Believe the Hype, Lips Do Lie

Kirstie A. Dorr, University of California, San Diego (CA)
"You can't have a revolution without songs": Neighborhood Soundscapes Meet Multiscalar Activism

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Breakfast Forum: Transnational Methodologies: Toward a Substantive Practice of Transnational American Studies (sponsored by the Students' Committee)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West B

Brenda Yosseti Beza, University of Texas, Austin (TX)

Jason Oliver Chang, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

Justine Pas, Oberlin College (OH)

Anne Magnussen, University of Southern Denmark

Denise E Brennan, Georgetown University (DC)

Elaine Peña, George Washington University (DC)

Jasmine Mitchell, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Sustaining Happiness: Commercial and Personal Pleasure during the Great Depression
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 19

Julia Foulkes, New School University (NY)

John F. Kasson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)
Sustaining a Smile through the Great Depression:
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

LaKisha Michelle Simmons, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
Sustaining Intimacy during the Great Depression: Howard Students Write about Pleasure

Sarah Zenaida Gould, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
A Child's Best Friend: Madame Alexander Dolls during the Depression

Julia Foulkes, New School University (NY)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Race, Empire, and Migratory Radicalisms: Considerations on American Anticolonialism
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance East

Martin Manalansan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)

Seema Sohi, University of Colorado, Boulder (CO)
Asian Indian Radicalism and the Contradictions of Citizenship

Ani Mukherji, Brown University (RI)
The Exilic Productions of Black Anticolonialism: Race and Politics in Interwar Moscow

Eric D. Larson, Brown University (RI)
Solidarity in Oaxaca and Beyond: Magonismo from the Porfiriato to NAFTA

Martin Manalansan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Practices of Alienation, Extinction, and Exclusion: Prison as a Problem in American Studies
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom Central

Rashad Shabazz, University of Vermont (VT)

Kelly Lytle Hernandez, University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
The Day of the Wetback Is Over: Race and Immigration Control in the Carceral Era

Jenna Loyd, City University of New York, Graduate School (NY)
"Whitey on the Moon": Spectacle, Absence, and Landscapes of State Violence

Johonna McCants, University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
In Search of an Abolitionist Discourse on Youth, Violence, and Safety

Rashad Shabazz, University of Vermont (VT)
Engendering Spaces of Civil Death: Carceral Spatiality and the Limits of Black Citizenship

Micol Seigel, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN)
Cold War Contexts for U.S. Prison Growth: The Americas Connection

8:00 am – 9:45 am

Signals and Noise: The Cultural Politics of Sound Technologies
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 17

Angela Blake, Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada)

Mara Mills, University of Pennsylvania (PA)
Codes of Behavior: Orality, Gesture, and Digital Signals

Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman, State University of New York, Binghamton (NY)
"Who Calls the Teacher Daddy-O?": Blackboard Jungle, the Sonic Color-Line, and Cold War Nationalism

Gustavus Stadler, Haverford College (PA)
Never Heard Such a Thing: Lynching and Phonographic Modernity

Angela Blake, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

10:00 am – 11:45 am

The New Black/American: The Cultural Politics of National/Racial Identity in the Obama Era
The Renaissance DC Hotel Auditorium

Alondra Nelson, Yale University (CT)

Candice M. Jenkins, City University of New York, Hunter College (NY)
"Carry the Work . . . for a Gentleman": Contemporary Hip-Hop, Gender, and Black/American Labor

Erica R. Edwards, University of California, Riverside (CA)
"The Man" in the Mirror: The Limits of "Black Leadership"

Monica Miller, Barnard College (NY)
The New "New Black Literary Aesthetic": "Reneging" (on?) Contemporary Black Identity

Alondra Nelson, Yale University (CT)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film (I and II)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 18

T. V. Reed, Washington State University, Pullman (WA)

Karen Nicole Salt, Purdue University (IN)
Haitian Soil for the Citizen's Soul

Monique Allewaert, Emory University (GA)
Becoming Animal, Becoming Citizen

Ivan Grabovac, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta (Canada)
Nativism and Nationhood: Migratory Birds, Immigrants, and the Making of Ecological Citizens

T. V. Reed, Washington State University, Pullman (WA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

American Missionaries as Transnational Cultural Critics (sponsored by the Religion and American Culture Caucus)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance East

Roberta Wollons, University of Massachusetts, Boston (MA)

Janet Davis, University of Texas, Austin (TX)
The Band of Mercy: Missionaries, Animal Welfare, and the Moral Economy of Empire

Melanie Steimle, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg (PA)
Betwixt and Between: The Ambiguous Space of Protestant Missionary Wives, 1820–1860

John Rogers Haddad, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg (PA)
A Missionary in Reverse: Samuel Wells Williams, China, and the Liminal Missionary Experience

Jane Hunter, Lewis & Clark College (OR)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Aging Citizen: Queer Belonging in the Post–Baby Boomer State
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 17

Robert Reid-Pharr, City University of New York, Graduate School (NY)

Patrick McCreery, New York University (NY)
Anita Bryant and the "Rights" of Children

Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois, Chicago (IL)
Sex and the Single Girl (Over Fifty and HIV-Positive): Women, Aging, and the Politics of AIDS Prevention

Jafari Allen, Yale University (CT)
Lover, Citizen, Subject: Black Gay Male Becoming across the Life Cycle

Robert Reid-Pharr, City University of New York, Graduate School (NY)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Reframing American Studies: Hemispheric Citizenship and Transnational Affiliation in the Americas
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 15

David Luis-Brown, University of Miami (FL)

Yolanda Padilla, University of Pennsylvania (PA)
The Essential Border Mexican: Reading the Immigrant Nationalism of Leonor Villegas de Magnón's
The Rebel

Simone Drake, Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
Racial Democracy, Propaganda, and the Transhemispheric Imagination in Danzy Senna's Caucasia

Tamara Spira, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
Remembering Trauma, Refusing Disappearance: Corregidora, Bastard, and the Transnational Labors of Memory

Sharada Balachandran-Orihuela, University of California, Davis (CA)
From Flags to Freeways: Hemispheric Routes and Exchanges in the Formation of the Nation

David Luis-Brown, University of Miami (FL)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Baseball and Belonging: Practices of Citizenship on the Diamond and Beyond
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 12

Jose Manuel Alamillo, California State University, Channel Islands (CA)
"He doesn't look like a Mexican": Race, Citizenship, and the Transnational Baseball Career of Melo Almada

Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu, Michigan State University (MI)
Between and Among Two Homelands: Japanese American Baseball and the Year 2600th Celebration of Japanese Imperial Reign, 1939–1940

Daniel Gilbert, Macalester College (MN)
Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Constructions of Masculinity and Citizenship in Post-Fordist Baseball Fiction

10:00 am – 11:45 am

American Quarterly Editorial Board Panel II: Between Life and Death: Race, Social Death, Necropolitics, Disposability
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West A

Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego (CA)

Lisa Marie Cacho, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
The Violence of Value

Dennis Childs, University of California, San Diego (CA)
"Stiffs with a Gray Sameness": Chester Himes and the Ohio Penitentiary Holocaust of 1930

Dylan Rodriguez, University of California, Riverside (CA)
White Supremacy as Substructure: Toward a Genealogy of a Racial Animus, from "Reconstruction" to "Pacification"

Randall Jay Williams, University of California, San Diego (CA)
The Violence of the Postwar International

Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego (CA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Roundtable: Rethinking "Therapeutic Culture"
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 8

Joel Pfister, Wesleyan University (CT)

Timothy Aubry, City University of New York, Baruch College (NY)
"Identification"

Adeyinka M. Akinsulure-Smith, City University of New York, City College (NY)
"Empowerment"

Suzanne M. Bost, Loyola University Chicago (IL)
"Health"

Micki McGee, Fordham University (NY)
"Labor"

Trysh Travis, University of Florida (FL)
"Sobriety"

Joel Pfister, Wesleyan University (CT)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Roundtable: What Can We Learn from the Sciences? National Science Foundation Funding (sponsored by the Science and Technology Caucus)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 10

Rayvon Fouche, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)

Kelly Joyce, College of William and Mary (VA)

Frederick Kronz, National Science Foundation

Hector Postigo, Temple University (PA)

Rayvon Fouche, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

It Ain't Easy Living in the City: HBO's The Wire, Labor, and Political Economy at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom South

Megan Biddinger, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

Peter Cole, Western Illinois University (IL)
Will Unload Ships for Food: Labor and Race on The Wire

Jennifer Luff, University of California, Irvine (CA)
Featherbedding, Fabricating, and the Failure of Authority on The Wire

Graham Cassano, Oakland University (MI)
Social Class and The Wire

Thomas Jessen Adams, University of Chicago (IL)
Popular Political Economy at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: The Wire and Veronica Mars

Jennifer Klein, Yale University (CT)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Red Light, Green Light: Same-Sex Marriage, Family Policy, and the Rights of Citizenship
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 14

Sandra Patton-Imani, Drake University (IA)

Excerpt from /Red Light, Green Light: Family Values, Family Pride/, a documentary-in-progress by Sandra and Melanie Patton-Imani

Melanie Patton-Imani, Independent Film Maker

Jason Bartlett, Connecticut State Representative and Deputy Director of the National Black Justice

Lisbeth Melendez Rivera, Political Organizer and Activist

Sandra Patton-Imani, Drake University (IA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Mock Job Interview Workshop (sponsored by the Students' Committee)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West B

Lisa Duggan, New York University (NY)

Duchess Harris, Macalester College (MN)

Rachel Ida Buff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (WI)

Jane Simonsen, Augustana College (IL)

Tyrone Anthony Stewart, University of Maryland, Baltimore (MD)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Selling Soul: Publics and Markets, Grooves and Revolution
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 16

Scott Saul, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

Eric Weisbard, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
From "Shout" to "For the Love of You": The Isley Brothers and Soul Citizenship

Gayle Wald, George Washington University (DC)
Turning the Black Community On: Soul Music and Black Nationalist TV

Joshua Guild, Princeton University (NJ)
Am I Black Enough for You? Diasporic Exchange and Black Popular Music in London

Scott Saul, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Sustaining Transpacific Studies: Empire, Desert, and Circuit
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 19

Chad Heap, George Washington University (DC)

Min Hyoung Song, Boston College (MA)
Desert Poetics: Space, Deterritorialization, and Ecology in Catherine Hong Park's "Dance Dance Revolution"

Wen Jin, Columbia University (NY)
How Not to Be a Multicultural Empire: Novels of the Post-American Era in the United States and China

Peter X Feng, University of Delaware (DE)
U.S./Japan Television Collaboration as a Sustainable Industrial Practice

10:00 am – 11:45 am

We the People Under Stairs: Musical Responses to Katrina
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 13

John Bracey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA)

Rachel Lee Rubin, University of Massachusetts, Boston (MA)
Katrina, You Bitch: Singing the Flood

Jeffrey Melnick, Babson College (MA)
Sing Me Back Home: Benefiting Katrina

Matt Miller, Emory University (GA)
Rap Music and the Response to Katrina

David Leonard, Washington State University, Pullman (WA)

John Bracey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Challenging Citizenship: Historical Discussions, Enduring Debates (sponsored by the K–16 Collaboration Committee)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 9

Jennifer Jefferson, University of Texas, Austin (TX)

Floyd Cheung, Smith College (MA)

Phyllis Palmer, George Washington University (DC)

Jeannette Bellemeur, University of Texas, Austin (TX)

Adam Bush, University of Southern California (CA)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Shades of Masculinities and Queer Options: Re/dressing Citizenship
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 11

Jayna Brown, University of California, Riverside (CA)

Jennifer DeClue, University of Southern California (CA)
Butch Teen Black Family: Analysis of Dee Rees, Pariah

Deborah Najor Alkamano, University of Southern California (CA)
Racial/Sexual Terror: Alan Ball and Alicia Erian's Towelhead

Tania Hammidi, University of California, Riverside (CA)
Alternative Masculinities and Dance Citizenship: Sean Dorsey's The Outsider Chronicles

Kiana M. Green, University of Southern California (CA)
You Can't Catch Me If You Can't: Gender Transgression and the Permeability of Power in The Aggressives

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Victor Robert Greene, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (WI)

Susan Ohmer, University of Notre Dame (IN)
Animating Labor: The Walt Disney Studio Strike of 1941

John Ott, James Madison University (VA)
Brotherhood on Paper: Giacomo Patri and the Representation of Interracial Solidarity in the Labor Movement

Vincent Anthony Perez, University of Nevada–Las Vegas (NV)
Gardens in the Desert: Immigration, Belonging, and the Postcolonial City

Victor Robert Greene, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (WI)

10:00 am – 11:45 am

Epifanio San Juan, Harvard University (MA)

Mikiko Tachi, Chiba University (Japan)
Artists and Civic Responsibilities: American and Japanese Folk Singers' Concepts of Music and Politics

Anthony James Ratcliff, California State University, Northridge (CA)
Agosto Negro/Black August: Sketching Hip-Hop's Afro-Diasporic Revolution

Stephen P. Dillon, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Aboveground, Underground, and Locked Down: Prisons, Neoliberalism, and Revolutionary Violence in the 1970s United States

Epifanio San Juan, Harvard University (MA)

10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Business Meeting of the 2010 Program Committee
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 1

11:30 am – 5:00 pm

Tour of "1934: A New Deal for Artists" Exhibition
The Renaissance DC Hotel Lobby

The exhibit highlights the Smithsonian's extraordinary collection of paintings and related artifacts and features both abstract and realist works by artists such as Jackson Pollock, William H. Johnson, Marguerite Zorach, Charles Sheeler, Hale Woodruff, Stanton MacDonald-Wright and others. The tour is led by Helen Langa, Associate Professor of Art History and Gender Studies, American University. Space is limited to 20. No charge beyond the ASA's $5 registration fee. Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Corner of 8th and F Streets, NW. Meet in the F Street Lobby 15 minutes before the tour begins.

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

K–16 Collaboration Luncheon
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 9

This luncheon features Teresa Murphy of George Washington University who will address how women’s history has affected K-12 curricula in significant ways and why the curricula have not yet incorporated important new scholarship in gender and women’s studies.

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

The Practice of Labor Photography: A Conversation with Earl Dotter and Mark Rogovin
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 8

Maren Stange, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (NY)

Earl Dotter, artist

Mark Rogovin, artist

Janet Zandy, Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)

Joseph Entin, City University of New York, Brooklyn College (NY)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Harilaos Stecopoulos, University of Iowa (IA)

Malini Johar Schueller, University of Florida (FL)
Race Transcendence and the Racialized Muslim

Howard Winant, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
Obama's America: Racial Reflections

Nikhil Singh, New York University (NY)
Obama Postracial Blackness

Devon W. Carbado, University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
After Obama: Three Postracial Challenges

Harilaos Stecopoulos, University of Iowa (IA)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Sustaining Ecological Citizenship in a Transcultural World: From Colonial History and Literature to Contemporary Film II
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 18

William A. Gleason, Princeton University (NJ)

Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
The Environmental Science of Commonwealths: Richard Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1657)

Joni Adamson, Arizona State University (AZ)
Letters from an American Farmer, Babel, and The Matrix: Imagining New Forms of Ecological Citizenship

Kimberly N. Ruffin, Roosevelt University (IL)
After Levee Disaster: Learning from a Sinned Against City

Kirsten Crase, University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Marginalization, Belonging, and Local Citizenship: Wielding Place, Home, and Environment in Anacostia and Appalachia

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Sexual Citizenship and Racialized (Un)belonging
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 16

Erica Rand, Bates College (ME)

Meredith Raimondo, Oberlin College (OH)

Shana Agid, Parsons School of Design (NY)

Eithne Luibhéid, University of Arizona (AZ)

Priya Kandaswamy, Portland State University (OR)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Singing Southern, Sounding Sovereign: Alternative Countries and Country Alternatives
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 17

Pamela Fox, Georgetown University (DC)

Dustin Tahmahkera, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Out of Tune in the Key of D(ecolonization): Johnny Cash's Ambivalence in [Indian] Country Music

Jason Kirby, University of Virginia (VA)
Merle Haggard's Great Depression

Matthew Mace Barbee, Bowling Green State University (OH)
"Black You Are My Enemy": Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Race, the Liminal Body, the Liminal South

Pamela Fox, Georgetown University (DC)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Roundtable: Redefinitions of Citizenship and Revisions of Cosmopolitanism: Transatlantic Perspectives
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 15

Guenter H. Lenz, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (Germany)

Alfred Hornung, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany)

Rob Kroes, De Universiteit van Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Ruediger Kunow, Potsdam University (NY)

Deborah Lea Madsen, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Old/New Technologies of Belonging: Books, YouTube, Mobile Devices, and the Sensuousness of Sustainable Futures
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom Central

Laura Hyun Yi Kang, University of California, Irvine (CA)

Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College (CA)
Old and New Technologies of Feminism

Rachel Lee, University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Haptics, Mobile Handhelds, and other "Novel" Devices: Truong's The Book of Salt and the Tactile Unconscious of Reading across New Media

Eve Oishi, Claremont Graduate University (CA)
Video and the Terror of the Visual in Haneke's "Caché"

Laura Hyun Yi Kang, University of California, Irvine (CA)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

The Citadel of All Truths: Museum Staff and Academics Offer fNew Approaches to Domesticity and Citizenship (sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 19

Paul R. Mullins, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis (IN)

Cindy R. Lobel, City University of New York, Lehman College (NY)
"The Institution of the Household": Domesticity and Consumption in Antebellum New York City

Megan Searing Young, Greenbelt Museum
Making a Home in Utopia: Women, Citizenship, and Belonging in the New Deal Town of Greenbelt

Psyche Williams-Forson, University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
How Sweet the Sound: African American Performances of Class and Citizenship Using the Piano

Paul R Mullins, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis (IN)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Race, Music, and Performance in the Civil Rights Era
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 13

Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University, Newark (NJ)

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University (CT)
Take This Hammer: Odetta, Coffeehouse Publics, and the Tributaries of the Left, 1953–1962

Judith Ellen Smith, University of Massachusetts, Boston (MA)
Racial Performance and Protest on Television: Harry Belafonte's Network Musical Spectaculars, 1959 and 1966

Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton University (NJ)
Planet Eartha: Afrocosmopolitanism, Sonic Transnationalism, and the Diasporic Politics of Eartha Kitt's Cabaret

Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University, Newark (NJ)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

American Quarterly Editorial Board Panel III: Between Life and Death: Race, Social Death, Necropolitics, Disposability
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West A

Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University (NY)

Jodi Kim, University of California, Riverside (CA)
Disposability, Scarcity, and the Threshold of the Human

Curtis Marez, University of Southern California (CA)
New Media and Disposable People

Denise Ferreira da Silva, University of California, San Diego (CA)
No-bodies: Law, Raciality, and the Territory of Justice

Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University (NY)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Promesa y Peligro: Dominican Narrations of Representation, Identity, and (Trans)national Belonging
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 10

Lorgia Garcia-Peña, Johns Hopkins University (MD)

Lorgia Garcia-Peña, Johns Hopkins University (MD)
Negotiating National Belonging: Afro-Religiosity as a Form of Resistence.

Carlos Decena, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ)
Code-Swishing and Loca-tions: Respect and the Making of Social Boundaries in Queer Dominican Worlds

Afia Ofori-Mensa, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
Naughtiness and Nationhood: Race, Belonging, and Miss Italia 1996

Light Carruyo, Vassar College (NY)
Still in Transit: Human Rights, Citizenship Rights, and the Construction of Belonging in the Dominican Republic

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Race, Labor, and Incarceration in Early Twentieth-Century American Society and Culture
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 14

Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International University (FL)

Kate Dossett, University of Leeds (UK)
African Americans and Convict Labor in the Federal Theater Project

Vivien Miller, University of Nottingham (UK)
Good Roads, Bad Men, and the Ugliest of Conditions: Life and Labor in Florida's Chain Gangs, 1917–1945

James Campbell, University of Leicester (UK)
Incarcerated in Living Walls: Race, Labor, and Parole in the Great Depression

Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International University (FL)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Work and Family in Grad School (sponsored by the
Students' Committee)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West B

Elizabeth Freeman, University of California, Davis (CA)

Liza Burbank, Brown University (RI)

J. Samaine Lockwood, George Mason University (VA)

Dana Luciano, Georgetown University (DC)

Patricia Connolly-Shaffer, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

Erik Morales, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Longing to Belong: Sexuality and Queer Citizenship in San Francisco
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 12

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, American University (DC)

Amy Sueyoshi, San Francisco State University (CA)
Longing to Belong: Nation, Sexuality and Poetry in the Life of Yone Noguchi

Nan Alamilla Boyd, San Francisco State University (CA)
Neoliberalism, Sex/Race Tourism, and Queer Consumption in San Francisco's Chinatown and Castro Districts

Christina Hanhardt, University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Visibility and Victimization: Hate Crime and the Geography of Punishment

Horacio N. Roqueramirez, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
(Dis)appointing Identities: Supervisor Susan Leal and Latina Lesbian and Bisexual Political Debates in Mid-1990s San Francisco

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Michelle Obama as Subject and Citizen: Mass Culture and the "First" Lady
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom South

Catherine Squires, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

Ralina Joseph, University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
"Hope Is Finally Making a Comeback": First Lady Reframed

Leola Johnson, Macalester College (MN)
Reading Michelle Obama's Body

Jane Rhodes, Macalester College (MN)
A Radical in the House? Michelle Obama as Revolutionary Warrior

Catherine Squires, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Mexicans, Indians, and Crises of Conquest and Belonging
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom North

Louis Mendoza, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

Sheila Marie Contreras, Michigan State University (MI)
Mestizaje in Context: Why Canada Matters

Katie Kane, University of Montana, Missoula (MT)
Settler Colonialism, Genocide, Culture, and the Problem of Indigenous Citizenship

Ben Olguin, University of Texas, San Antonio (TX)
Reassessing Chicana/o Indigeneity in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Autobiographical Discourse

Louis Mendoza, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Lisa Gail Collins, Vassar College (NY)

Kadji Amin, Duke University (NC)
America's Next Top Model: "Model" Minorities and Pedagogies of Consumer Citizenship

Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, University of Iowa (IA)
Graphic Blackness/Anime Noir: Aaron McGruder's Boondocks and the Adult Swim

Ryan Jay Friedman, Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
A Moving Picture of Democracy: African American Film History beyond the Mirror Screen

Lisa Gail Collins, Vassar College (NY)

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Academic Freedom and the Right to Education: The Question of Palestine (sponsored by the Program Committee)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Auditorium

Fred Moten, Duke University (NC)

Omar Barghouti, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

David C. Lloyd, University of Southern California (CA)

Steven Salaita, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Daniel Heath Justice, University of Toronto (Canada)

Lisa Brooks, Harvard University (MA)
Becoming Human: Birth and Belonging in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative

Yael Ben-zvi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
Slavery, Belonging, and the Transformations of Birth: Equiano's Nativity and Beyond

Shona N. Jackson, Texas A&M University, College Station (TX)
Creole Aesthetics and Indigenous Identity in the Caribbean

Daniel Heath Justice, University of Toronto (Canada)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Queer (Be)longings: Sex, Race, and Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Literature on the Left
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 17

Michelle Ann Stephens, Colgate University (NY)

Cheryl Higashida, University of Colorado, Boulder (CO)
Rosalind on the Black Star Line: Minstrelsy and Nationalisms in Alice Childress' A Short Walk

Aaron Lecklider, University of Massachusetts, Boston (MA)
"Shrieks, Outcries, and Fainting Boys": Intersections of Race and Homosexuality in 1930s Proletarian Literature

Gary Holcomb, Ohio University (OH)
A New Spelling of Her Name: Audre Lorde's Queer Black Marxism

Michelle Ann Stephens, Colgate University (NY)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Christopher Klemek, George Washington University (DC)

Stanley Corkin, University of Cincinnati (OH)
The Cinema of Gentrification: Representations of New York, 1969 to 1979, and the Rise of the Global City

Jaclyn Kirouac-Fram, Saint Louis University (MO)
Picturing the Community: The McRee Town Neighborhood in Saint Louis, Missouri

Cameron James Logan, University of Melbourne (Australia)
Historic Witness or Missing Tooth? Rhodes Tavern and the Politics of Preservation in Washington, D.C.

Christopher Klemek, George Washington University (DC)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Bad Citizenship and Good Games: Video Gaming, Criminality, and Citizenship
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West A

Carly A. Kocurek, University of Texas, Austin (TX)

Kiri Miller, Brown University (RI)
Tourism and Citizenship in Grand Theft Auto's America

Kyle Riismandel, George Washington University (DC)
New Trouble in River City: Arcades and the Regulation of Teens in Suburban Public Space

Kathryn della Bitta, University of Toronto (Canada)
Cosmopolitan Citizenship and the Playing of "Japanese" Games

Drew Lyness, University of Wyoming (WY)
Destitution in the Digital City

Carly A. Kocurek, University of Texas, Austin (TX)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Media Society=Media Citizenship? Postwar Activism Pushing the Limits of the National Public Sphere
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 14

Jason Loviglio, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (MD)

Michael J. Kramer, Northwestern University (IL)
The Psychedelic Public: Flickers of Global Citizenship in Sixties Rock Music

Matthew Delmont, Scripps College (CA)
Making Philadelphia Safe for "WFIL-adelphia": Television, Segregation, and Media Citizenship in Postwar Philadelphia

Lars Lierow, George Washington University (DC)
Black Cultural Politics and Urban Counterpublics: The Politics of Black Arts Media Activism

Jason Loviglio, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (MD)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Studying War and Peace through American Studies / Studying America by Studying War and Peace
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 16

Beth Bailey, Temple University (PA)

David Kieran, George Washington University (DC)

Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)

Hector Amaya, University of Virginia (VA)

Stephanie Jill Schwartz, Bryn Mawr College (PA)

Kristin Ann Hass, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

Jennifer Middelstedt:, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Main Campus (PA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Revolution '67 in Newark, New Jersey: Documentary Film in the K–16 American Studies Classroom
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 9

Barbara L. Tischler, Horace Mann School

Jerome and Mary Lou Bongiorno, independent scholars

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Regimes of Memory and the Power of Forgetting
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom North

Eric Lott, University of Virginia (VA)

Marita Sturken, New York University (NY)
The Memorialization of the Iraq War and the Politics of Visibility

Franny Nudelman, Carleton University (Canada)
Sleeping In: Rest and Resistance at Dewey Canyon III

Laura Wexler, Yale University (CT)
Chinese Family Photographs and American Collective Memory

Eric Lott, University of Virginia (VA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Balancing Civic Engagement and Graduate Education (sponsored by the Students' Committee and the Graduate Education Committee)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West B

Nikhil Singh, New York University (NY)

Kathleen Franz, American University (DC)

Dylan Rodriguez, University of California, Riverside (CA)

Luis Moreno, Michigan State University (MI)

Sasha Costanza-Chock, University of Southern California (CA)

Kevin Bott, New York University (NY)

Steven Lubar, Brown University (RI)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Psychiatric Biopower and Practices of Resistance
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 10

Lisa Diedrich, State University of New York, Stony Brook (NY)

Victoria Hesford, State University of New York, Stony Brook (NY)
"What If You Freak Out?": Kate Millett's Loony-Bin Trip and the Madness of Feminism

Lisa Diedrich, State University of New York, Stony Brook (NY)
Being the Shadow: Witnessing Schizophrenia

Bradley Lewis, New York University (NY)
Psychiatric Power: The Icarus Project Joins the Fray

Jonathan Metzl, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Locating Latina/o Studies in the East Coast
The Renaissance DC Hotel Auditorium

Laura Halperin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC)

Suzanne Oboler, City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (NY)

Antonio López, George Washington University (DC)

Ricardo Ortíz, Georgetown University (DC)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Sustaining Everyday Democracy: New Interdisciplinary Approaches
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 18

Nicholas Bromell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA)

Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia (VA)

Nancy S. Love, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Main Campus (PA)

George E. Marcus, Williams College (MA)

Dana D. Nelson, Vanderbilt University (TN)

Chris Castiglia, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Main Campus (PA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Race, Neoliberalism, and Citizenship
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 12

Lisa Sun-Hee Park, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

Pawan Dhingra, Oberlin College (OH)
Embracing Neoliberalism, Longing for Citizenship: How Asian Indian Entrepreneurs Advance Their Belonging and Marginalization

Martha Escobar, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Laboring Toward Racial Justice: The Black Alliance for Just Immigration and Its Strategy of Resistance

Karen Z. Ho, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Masters of the Universe and the Making of Markets: Race, Smartness, and Wall Street Culture

David Naguib Pellow, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Privileges of Neoliberal Logic: Environmentalism, Race, and Citizenship in Aspen, Colorado

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Intimacy, Race, and Global Citizenship
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom South

Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)

Celine Parreñas Shimizu, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
Sexual Problems: Heteronormativity, Pornography, and Asian American Men

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
The Governance of Love and Citizenship in Everyday Cyber-Marriages

Kalindi Vora, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Women We Will Never Know Who Become a Part of Our Lives: Indian Surrogacy and American Consequences

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Brown University (RI)
Mimicking Heteronormativity: The Sexual Citizenship of Filipina Transgender Hostesses

Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

James Baldwin and Devil's Work: Screening Citizenship and National Belonging in Harlem, London, and Istanbul
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 8

Lynn Orilla Scott, Michigan State University (MI)

Nigel De Juan Hatton, Stanford University (CA)
"It wasn't as good as the book": The Television Adaptation of Go Tell It and Its Problems

Quentin Miller, Suffolk University (MA)
Lost and . . . Found? Baldwin's Script and Spike Lee's Malcolm X

Magdalena J. Zaborowska, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
"Know whence You Came": James Baldwin's Queer Passings in Four Documentaries

Doug Field, Staffordshire University (UK)
London Calling: James Baldwin's Black Britain

Joshua Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Negotiations over Belonging: Figuring Hmong American Citizenship through Cultural Production
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 13

Fiona I. B. Ngo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)

Ma Vang, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Remembering and Belonging in the (Lao) Hmong Veterans' Memorials

Ly Chong Thong Jalao, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
Beginning from the Void: Hmong American Literature and the Logic of Belonging

Louisa Schein, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ),
Va-Megn Thoj, independent scholar
Playing the Perpetual Warrior: The Performativity of Hyperviolence in Gran Torino

Josephine D. Lee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California (CA)

Hilda Lloréns, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey (PR)
Transnational Bodies and the Plastic Surgery Industry

Jennifer Fuller, University of Texas, Austin (TX)
Redken's "Urban Experiment" Campaign and the Limits of Multiculturalism

Yvonne D. Sims, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg (PA)
Fair, But Not So Lovely: The Commodification of Skin Bleaching Creams among African American Women

Susannah Walker, Virginia Wesleyan College (VA)
"Independent Livings Made": African American Beauty Culturists as Negotiators of Race, Class, and Gender Identity

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Black Internationalism and Caribbean Radical Thought in the Americas
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance East

Anthony Bogues, Brown University (RI)

Peter James Hudson, Vanderbilt University (NY)
Landscapes, Maps, and Parangles: R. M. Lacovia, Black Images, and the Politics and Aesthetics of Pan-African Print Culture

Carter Mathes, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ)
Circuits of Political Prophecy: Martin Luther King Jr., Peter Tosh, Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, and the Black Radical Imaginary

Jeremy Glick, Hunter College (NY)
"Sporting Heroes": C. L. R. James's Staging of Toussaint L'Ouverture, Paul Robeson, and Black Radical Collectivity

Anthony Bogues, Brown University (RI)

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Michael Jackson and the Contradictions of Belonging
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom Central

Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton University (NJ)

James Downs, Connecticut College (CT)

Jason King, New York University (NY)

Ann Powers, Los Angeles Times (CA)

Gayle Wald, George Washington University (DC)

Greg Tate, Columbia University (NY)

2:00 pm – 4:15 pm

Hillwood Museum Open House
Hillwood Estate, Museum, & Gardens, Hillwood Museum

2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Business Meeting of All Chairs of ASA Standing Committees
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 1

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Danielle Shapiro, Division of Public Programs National Endowment for the Humanities

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Roundtable: Belonging and Culture: Making a New Literary History of America
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance East

Werner Sollors, Harvard University (MA)

Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)

Bharati Mukherjee, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

Cyrus R. K. Patell, New York University (NY)

Werner Sollors, Harvard University (MA)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Encyclopedias and the Organization of Knowledge in American Studies
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 9

Miles Orvell, Temple University (PA)

Simon Bronner, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg (PA)

David Gerstner, City University of New York, College of Staten Island (NY)

Miles Orvell, Temple University (PA)

Cecilia Tichi, Vanderbilt University (TN)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Literature as Cultural Sustenance: Practicing Citizenship in Childhood Texts
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 8

Lynne Vallone, Rutgers University, Camden (NJ)

Julia Lynn Mickenberg, University of Texas, Austin (TX)
The Interloper as Arbiter: Coediting the Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature

Courtney Weikle-Mills, University of Pittsburgh (PA)
From Subjecthood to Citizenship? Children as Citizens (and Citizens as Children) in the New England Primer

Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Amherst College (MA)
Castaways: The Swiss Family Robinson, Child Book-Makers, and Literary Salvage

Nicholas Sammond, University of Toronto (Canada)
Dumbo, Disney, and Difference: Regulating Belonging in Children's Popular Culture

Leslie Paris, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Happily Ever After: Reading Free to Be . . . You and Me

Lynne Vallone, Rutgers University, Camden (NJ)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Race, Class, and Urban Environmentalism
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 11

Paul Lai, University of Saint Thomas (MN)

Carlo Arreglo, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Cockfighting and Computers: Regenerative Violence and Virtual Realities in Bolohead Row

Christina Chia, Duke University (NC)
"We Build Dogs Fences to Set Them Free": Interspecies Bonds and Social Divides in a Southern City

Lindsey Smith, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater (OK)
Cosmopolitan Indigeneity: Joy Harjo's Poetry and Kent Mackenzie's "The Exiles"

Robert Hayashi, Amherst College (MA)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

The Color of Whiteness Studies: Studying Whiteness from an Ethnic Studies Perspective
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 19

David Roediger, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)

France Winddance Twine, University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
White Like Who? Interracial Intimacy, Racial Literacy, and Whiteness as an Object of "Black Feminist Studies"

Sarah Gualtieri, University of Southern California (CA)
How Whiteness Travels: Lebanese Immigrants and Debates on Racial Belonging in Los Angeles, 1875–1945

George Yancy, Duquesne University (PA)
Whiteness and the Black Body: Implications for Doing Philosophy in Black

Jeb Middlebrook, University of Southern California (CA)
Radical Whiteness: Antiracist Organizing and the Transformation of Racial Consciousness

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Routes to Emancipation: The Politics of Transnational Antiracist Activism
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 18

Amitava Kumar, Vassar College (NY)

Leah Khaghani, Yale University (CT)
Liberation through Empire? The Struggle for Imperial Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century

Robin J. Hayes, Santa Clara University (CA)
A Diasporic Underground: African Liberation and Black Power, 1957–1994

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Ballads for Post-Americans: Revisiting the Nationalism of the U.S. Popular Front
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 15

Michael Kazin, Georgetown University (DC)

Chris Vials, State University of New York, College at Buffalo (Buffalo State College) (NY)
Un-American Nationalism: The 1930s Left and the Etymology of Fascism in U.S. Culture

Benjamin Balthaser, University of California, San Diego (CA)
Citizens of Empire: Transnationalism and Belonging in the Literature of the Great Depression

Erin Royston Battat, Harvard University (MA)
Integrated Workplaces, Segregated Homes: Gender and Interracial Belonging in the Depression-Era Migration Narratives

Michael Kazin, Georgetown University (DC)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Speculative Science, Future Communities, and the Production of Belonging
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 17

Laura Thiemann Scales, Stonehill College (MA)

Mark Jerng, University of California, Davis (CA)
Race Suicide and Alternative Figurations of Reproduction

Alisa Braithwaite, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
Connecting to a Future Community: Science Fiction in the Caribbean Diaspora

Colin Milburn, University of California, Davis (CA)
Small Science, Big City: Nanocity and the Global Economy of Speculative Communities

Laura Thiemann Scales, Stonehill College (MA)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Alternative Models of Civil Rights Citizenship: Racial Storytelling and Aesthetic Belonging
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 13

Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University (NC)

Evie Shockley, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ)
Protest/Poetry: Anne Spencer, Civil Rights, and a Garden of "Raceless" Verse

Lynn Mie Itagaki, University of Montana–Missoula (MT)
Bystander Citizenship, Multiracial Belonging: The Trauma of the Post–Civil Rights Nation

Rebecca Wanzo, Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
From Coon to Civic Ideal: The Black Male Body and Cartoon Citizenship in the Civil Rights Era

Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University (NC)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Representation and Resistance in Assimilationist Spaces
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 14

Hsinya Huang, National Sun Yat-sen University (Taiwan)

Jacqueline Emery, Temple University (PA)
When We Talk English: English-Only Policy and the Indian Boarding School Movement

Cristina Stanciu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Civis Americanus Sum: Indian Citizenship, New Immigrant Naturalization, and the Politics of Civic Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Hayes Peter Mauro, City University of New York, Graduate School (NY)
Made in the U.S.A.: Americanizing Aesthetics at Carlisle

Hsinya Huang, National Sun Yat-sen University (Taiwan)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Sexuality, Psychology, and Normativity
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 10

Paul Anderson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

Travis Sands, University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
Kinsey's Sexual Taxonomies as Cold War Racial Biopolitics

Michael Staub, City University of New York, Baruch College (NY)
Psycho-Politics Reconsidered: Anti-psychiatry and the Long 1950s

Robert Genter, Nassau Community College, New York (NY)
Toward a Politics of Prevention: American Social Sciences and the Idea of the Democratic Personality

Emily Skidmore, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Queer Bodies, Queer Citizenship

Paul Anderson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Princeton University (NJ)

Angela M. Naimou, Clemson University (SC)
Finding Sanctuary in Gayl Jones's "Mosquito"

Eileen Leonard, Vassar College (NY)
Not One of Us: Denying the Rights of Citizenship to Convicted Offenders

Sarah K. Cowan, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Apportionment and the Right to Vote: A Further Inquiry into the Importance of American Franchise

Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Princeton University (NJ)

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Racial Inbetweeness: Subtle Constructions of Asian Americanness
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 12

Thuy Linh Tu, New York University (NY)

Heidi Kathleen Kim, Northwestern University (IL)
Foreigners in Yoknapatawpha: The Mississippi Chinese and Racial Indeterminacy in Faulkner's Corpus

Jason Chi-Chou Chang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
Illiberal Internationalism: The Repeal of Chinese Exclusion and Chinese American Racial Formation, 1943–1955

Kim Middleton, College of Saint Rose (NY)
The "Materials" of Citizenship: Asian American Fashion and the Exhibition of Good Taste

Thuy Linh Tu, New York University (NY)

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Hillwood Private ASA Reception
Hillwood Estate, Museum, & Gardens, Hillwood Museum

6:00 pm – 7:45 pm

Kevin Gaines, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania (PA)

David Levering Lewis, New York University (NY)

Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University (NJ)

Karla F. C. Halloway, Duke University (NC)

John W. Franklin, Smithsonian Institution Museum of African American History

James O. Horton, George Washington University (DC)

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Reception of the New York University Program in American Studies
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 5

6:00 pm – 7:45 pm

Reception of the Mid-America American Studies Association/American Studies Journal Anniversary hosted by The American Studies departments at the University of Kansas and University of Iowa
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 3

6:00 pm – 7:45 pm

Reception of the Early American Matters and Environment and Culture Caucuses
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 4

6:00 pm – 7:45 pm

Reception of the University of Michigan
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West B

6:00 pm – 7:45 pm

Reception of the University of Southern California and Roundtable/Exhibit for 60 Years of American Quarterly
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance East

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