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This is a snapshot of the program as it existed on November 18, 2013. The most up-to-date version of the program can be found online at www.theasa.net. Please note that Session Numbers (not page numbers) are shown below.
10:00 am
Tour: Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens—Gratis Admission (Off-site) ... 001
2:00 pm
Tour: Harriet Jacobs' Civil War Relief Work: Walking Tour of Historic Alexandria, VA (Off-site) ... 002
8:00 am
Business Meeting: National Council ... 003
Debts of Spirit and Substance ... 004
Decolonizing the Indigenous Archive ... 005
Minority Literature(s) and the Question of an Ethics of Collective Dissent ... 006
Sonic Lives of Debt ... 007
Visions of Anti-slavery ... 008
Race and Visual Cultures ... 009
Disrupting the Logic of Indebtedness: A Roundtable on Debt Discourses ... 010
Payback: The Incorporation and Marginalization of Latinas and Latinos in the United States ... 011
ASA Students' Committee: The Public Intellectual ... 012
Intellectual Debts, Modernity, and C.L.R. James: "Beyond a Boundary" Fifty Years On ... 013
Televising Multiculturalism and its Discontents ... 014
Genes, Disability, and the Challenge to Common Sense ... 015
Houses, Neighborhoods, and the American Dream Deferred ... 016
You've Been Pwned: Asian Americans, Cultural Capital, and the Logic of Competition ... 017
10:00 am
Archival Debts of Colonialism ... 018
Nineteenth-Century Public Lecturing, New Media, and Technologies of Orality ... 019
Political Melville? ... 020
Black Life and the Humanist Subject? ... 021
Transnational Circuits of Blackness ... 022
Our Debt to Michel-Rolph Trouillot: Haiti in the Americas and in the World (Dialogue) ... 023
Debt Trafficking: Sex Work, Deficit, and Radical Insolvency ... 024
In a Galaxy Not So Far Away: Aliens and Disembodiment within Latina/o Science Fictions ... 025
Photographing War, Picturing Dissent: Visualizing the Vietnam Conflict ... 026
Neoliberalizing Cultural Policies and Culture Industries ... 027
Roundtable: Indebted to Difference: Interdisciplinary Knowledge Production, Labor, and Critique ... 028
Chocolate City is No Dream: Twentieth-Century African American Poetry in Washington DC ... 029
Tour: Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens—Gratis Admission (Off-site) ... 030
12:00 pm
Book Exhibit Setup ... 031
Debts to the Future: Temporality in the Nineteenth Century ... 032
Debts and the Memories of Colonial Slavery ... 033
Elegiac Dissent and the Politics of Form ... 034
Cashing a Bad Check: Making Real the Interior Lives of Black Men and Boys ... 035
Black Poetry In Theory: Diaspora, Debt, and Dissent ... 036
Caucus – Childhood and Youth Studies: Destroyed Worlds, Unpayable Debts: Uses of Children and Childhood in Environmentalism ... 037
ASA International Committee Talkshop: Transnational American Studies and North America ... 038
On Borrowed Time: Memory as Collective Dissent in Twenty-first Century U.S. ... 039
Luncheon: International Partnership ... 040
Mapping Meaning Across Disciplines: Forging New Collectives for Landscape and Environment ... 041
Black/Camp: Disrupting Black Aesthetics ... 042
America's Pacific Empire and Resistance to Neocolonialism ... 043
Excavating the Roots of the Carceral State: Black Freedom Struggles and White Resistance, 1955–1965 ... 044
ASA Program Committee Panel: Forgotten Histories, Continuing Pasts: Unaccounted Modes of Life ... 045
Tour: Federal Reserve Fine Arts Collection at the Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building (Off-site) ... 046
2:00 pm
Caucus – Material Culture: Credit/Debit, Fealty/Faith: Doing, Subverting, and Archiving America's Business from the Antebellum Era to Jim Crow ... 047
Song, Screen, Stomach: Cultural Debt and Transnational Italian Americanism ... 048
African American Landscapes of Dissent: Creatively Contesting Economic Inequality in Urban Space ... 049
American Studies Journal: Chocolate Spaceship: Gender Politics and Afro-Futurism in Funk ... 050
Dollars and Dreams: The Cultural Politics of Black Economic Citizenship ... 051
Caucus – Childhood and Youth Studies: The National Investment in Childhood: Reproducing National Identity from the Civil War to the Cold War (co-sponsored by Environment and Culture Caucus) ... 052
ASA International Committee Talkshop: The Bologna Process and International American Studies ... 053
Techno-Orientalism and Digital Diasporas: Neoliberal Vulnerability and Viral Legacies of Imperial Debt ... 054
Seeing and Being Seen as a Citizen: Collective Dissent in a Transnational Culture of Photography ... 055
Asian Immigrants, Housing, and Alternative Modes of Collective Dissent ... 056
Caucus – Critical Prison Studies: Downsizing Prisons or a Jubilee for Debts to Society ... 057
This Debt We Pay: Black Identity, Labor, and Performance at the Nadir ... 058
In the Presence of Absence: Black Trans Embodiment Against the Logics of Visibility ... 059
2:30 pm
Access to Capital After The Poor People's Campaign (Off-site) ... 060
3:00 pm
Business Meeting: Committee on Regional Chapters ... 061
Business Meeting: Women's Committee ... 062
4:00 pm
Business Meeting: Nominating Committee ... 063
ASA Program Committee: Another University Is Possible—Right? ... 064
Development, Empire, and the Decolonization of Debt ... 065
Cross-Cultures, Racial Subjectivity, and the Affective Politics of Space ... 066
The Biopolitics of Debt, Reproductive Labor, and Motherhood ... 067
Caucus – Politics and Policy: The Role of American Studies in Interpreting the 2012 Elections ... 068
Mutual Indebtedness: Childhood and Other American Studies ... 069
Racialized Debt and the Strangeness of Dissent in Asian/American Popular Culture ... 070
Social Justice Pedagogy: Public, Digital, and Participatory Strategies ... 071
Meet and Greet: The National Endowment for the Humanities ... 072
Legacies of Surveillance: Tallying and Resisting Technological Debts ... 073
Indebted to the Future: Developing Structural Competence ... 074
Autonomous Knowledge ... 075
The Balance Sheet of Racial Struggle: Calculating Progress in Prisons, the Arts, and Business ... 076
Transpacific Dissent ... 077
5:00 pm
Reception: Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian (co-sponsored by the ASA Site Resources Committee and Visual Culture Caucus) (Off-site) ... 078
6:00 pm
Reception: Lifetime ASA Members ... 079
7:00 pm
Reception: Welcome/Celebration of ASA Authors/Exhibits Open ... 080
8:00 pm
Community Dialogue: Social Movements in an Age of Debt (Off-site) ... 081
7:00 am
Minority Scholars' Committee Mentoring Breakfast ... 082
7:30 am
Breakfast: Networking for Program and Center Directors ... 083
8:00 am
ASA Site Resources Committee: In the Belly of the Beast: A Film and Video Festival – Day 1 ... 084
Business Meeting: American Quarterly
Editorial Board ... 085
The Logic of the Cold War State: Asian/Americans, Government Surveillance, and Political Liberalism ... 086
A Critical Look At Funding For Prison Education Programs ... 087
Borderland Intimacies ... 088
Business Meeting: Sports Studies Caucus ... 089
The "Failed Subjects" of the Mountains: Poor White People as Renewable Resources and Parasites ... 090
ASA Program Committee: Imperialism, Freedom, Refuge, Reparations ... 091
Is Asset Building the Best Kept Secret to Closing the Racial Wealth Gap? ... 092
Caucus – Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities and the Neoliberal University: Complicity and/or Resistance ... 093
ASA Students' Committee: Breakfast Forum I: Mock Job Interview Workshop ... 094
Forms of Debt in Asian/American Art ... 095
Aesthetic Strategies of the Occupy Wall Street Movement ... 096
Indebtedness: Anachronism, Exuberance, and Desire in an Age of Dependence ... 097
ASA Ethnic Studies Committee: Accumulation: Settler Colonialism and Military Occupation as Paradigms for Neoliberal State Formation I: Knowing Settler Colonialism ... 098
8:45 am
ASA Committee on American Studies Departments, Programs, and Centers: Strategies for Financial Survival in an Age of Austerity ... 099
9:30 am
Book Exhibit (Friday) ... 100
10:00 am
Business Meeting: American Studies Journal Editorial Board ... 101
Paid in Full: Autisms, Debts, Dissents ... 102
Sentimental Girls: Youth, Poverty, and the Nineteenth-Century Cultural Imagination ... 103
Contesting Strategies of Border Affirmation ... 104
Caucus – Sports Studies: Penalties, Sanctions, and Fines: Discourses of American Sports Gone Afoul ... 105
Paying Our Debt to the 1930s: The Great Recession, Historical Memory, and Critical Resistance ... 106
Socialist Legacies, Revolutionary Reformations: Rethinking Indebtedness through a Politics of Protest ... 107
ASA Program Committee: Beyond the "Debt" of U.S. Cold War "Liberation": Rethinking Transnational Circuits of Labor in the Philippines, Taiwan, and South Korea ... 108
Caucus – Digital Humanities: Digital Shorts: New Platforms of Knowledge and Dissent ... 109
ASA Students' Committee: Your First Time: Article Publishing and Professionalization for the Uninitiated ... 110
Both a Borrower and a Lender Be: Complicating Imperial Hierarchies in the American Century ... 111
Queer Politics and The Debt of Representation ... 112
Caucus – Activism: Boycott as a Non-Violent Strategy of Collective Dissent ... 113
ASA Ethnic Studies Committee: Accumulation: Settler Colonialism and Military Occupation as Paradigms for Neoliberal State Formation II: Legal Legacies ... 114
Business Meeting: Critical Prison Studies Caucus Mythbusters' Mixer ... 115
Caucus – Material Culture: About Something or for Someone? Curatorial Ethics and Cultural Debts (Off-site) ... 116
Tour: Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens—Gratis Admission (Off-site) ... 117
10:45 am
ASA Committee on American Studies Departments, Programs and Centers: Strategies for Intra-Institutional Alliances to Ensure Program Stability ... 118
12:00 pm
Business Meeting: Digital Humanities Caucus ... 119
Demons of Comparison: Ethnic Studies and the Imperatives of Imperialism ... 120
Fulbright Scholar Program Opportunities in American Studies ... 121
U.S. Indebtedness to the Americas: Interventions in Hemispheric Studies ... 122
Intimate Economies in the Age of Security ... 123
Foundational Debts ... 124
Debt, Dissent, and Decolonization: Histories of American Imperial Remainders and Colonial Reminders in the Philippines ... 125
Indebted to Death: A Traffic in Black Bodies and Suffering ... 126
One Big Mixed Race Classroom: New Models for Digital, Transnational, and Cross-Disciplinary Pedagogy ... 127
Why Policy Needs History? ... 128
The Other Sides of Debt: Credit, Labor, Value ... 129
A Debt and A Dream: The Afterlives of the March on Washington ... 130
Keywords: Debt and . . . Freedom, Government, Racialization, Society ... 131
ASA Program Committee: Economies of Dispossession (I): The Measure of Value ... 132
When Interdisciplinary Isn't Enough: Critical Approaches to Public Practice In American Studies ... 133
Aesthetics Under Obligation: Art and Performance in Asian/America (Off-site) ... 134
1:00 pm
Business Meeting: 2014 Program Committee ... 135
2:00 pm
Business Meeting: Encyclopedia of American Studies
Editorial Board ... 136
Ethnic Studies in a Moment of Danger ... 137
Theorizing Debt, Theorizing Resistance ... 138
Chicana/o-Native American Relations: Post-colonialism and Contradictions in the Spanish-Anglo Colonized Borderlands ... 139
The Financialization of Social Life ... 140
Solidarities Against Slow Violence ... 141
Debts of Empire: Representations and Politics ... 142
ASA Program Committee: Indebted Practice: Collaborative Research and Intellectual Debts ... 143
Caucus – Sound Studies: Sampling Phonographies: Sonic Memory and the Long History of Sampling ... 144
Migrant Dissent: Countering Gender Violence and Racial Governance in Immigration Law Enforcement ... 145
American Quarterly: Species/Race/Sex—A Special Issue ... 146
ASA International Committee: American Studies and the State of Collective Dissent in the Arab World ... 147
Methodologies of Debt ... 148
Deficit, Debt, and the DSM-5: The Immeasurable Costs of Psychiatric Power ... 149
Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy: An Assembly on Debt, Race, and Neo-Liberalism ... 150
Caucus – Visual Culture: Spectacles of Debt: Visualizing Indebtedness in Landscape Painting, Documentary Photography, and the Mass Media (Off-site) ... 151
4:00 pm
Business Meeting: Minority Scholars Committee ... 152
ASA Ethnic Studies Committee: Life and Debt: Race, the American Healthcare System, and Race-based Medicine ... 153
Bad Debts: History by Default ... 154
Immigrant Politics and New Social Movements ... 155
Bodies in Debt ... 156
Urban Citizenship: Violence and Desire ... 157
Tourism, Debt, and Disaster: The Politics of Touring the Toxic Everyday ... 158
The Politics of Exigency: Dispossession, Petitioning, and the Limits of Legal Recourse ... 159
Caucus – Sound Studies: Musical Debts: Appropriations, Reparations, or New Traditions? ... 160
Immigrant Matters ... 161
Default: Black Life and the Poetics of Nonpayment ... 162
ASA Students' Committee: Teaching Tips and Tricks for Graduate Students ... 163
Topologies, Ethics, Critique, Resistance: A Roundtable on Debt ... 164
Dying for Work: Latina/o Labor and the Price of American Health, 1930–1965 ... 165
Occupy Imaginaries ... 166
Caucus – Visual Culture: Recuperating Disabled Spaces: Intimacies of Visual and Tactile Cultures (Off-site) ... 167
4:30 pm
Reception: Food Culture Studies Caucus ... 168
5:00 pm
Reception: University of Iowa American Studies Department ... 169
ASA Town Hall: The United States and Israel/Palestine ... 170
5:30 pm
Reception: Southern American Studies Association ... 171
5:45 pm
Reception: Visual Culture and Material Culture Caucuses (Off-site at National Portrait Gallery) ... 172
7:00 pm
ASA Awards Ceremony ... 173
8:00 pm
ASA President's Address ... 174
9:30 pm
ASA President's Reception ... 175
8:00 am
ASA Site Resources Committee: In the Belly of the Beast: A Film and Video Festival – Day 2 ... 176
Business Meeting: Editorial Board Meeting for Common-Place ... ###
Mapping Race and Revolution in the Americas: Literary and Political Syntheses from WWII to the War on Terror ... 177
Business Meeting: International Committee ... 178
Business Meeting: International Presidents, Editors, and Representatives ... 179
Caucus – Early America Matters: Commons Democracy ... 180
Repudiating Debt Across the Americas: Latinidades, Embodied Performance, and the Archive as Site of Contestation ... 181
Climate Debt: Employing the Logic of Debt for Environmental Justice ... 182
Toxic Coverage: The National Media Imaginary on Gendered Gun Violence ... 183
ASA Students' Committee: Breakfast Forum II: Roundtable on Student Labor ... 184
Breakfast: Welcome for K–16 Collaboration Teachers ... 185
ASA Artist in Residence Ricardo Dominguez: Disturbance Research Lab: Debt Strike (Exhibit) ... 186
Queer Attachments: New Relational Economies in Experimental Art Practice ... 187
Caucus – War and Peace Studies: Keywords for American Studies, War, and Peace ... 188
ASA Program Committee: Food, Debt, and the Anti-Capitalist Imagination ... 189
ASA Program Committee: Histories, Futures, and Presents of Anarchism ... 190
Re-Working International Blackness: Where is Labor in the Transnational History of Race? ... 191
Cultures of Militarism: SPAM, Budae JJigae, and the Gender Politics of Gangnam Style ... 192
American Studies Journal: Groove Theory: Funk, Feminism, and Afro-Beat ... 193
9:30 am
Book Exhibit (Saturday) ... 194
10:00 am
ASA Site Resources Committee: Fighting Foreclosure Across Scales ... 195
Business Meeting: Academic and Community Activism Caucus ... ###
Business Meeting: Committee on American Studies Departments, Programs and Centers ... 196
Business Meeting: Visual Culture Caucus ... 197
Business Meeting: War and Peace Studies Caucus ... ###
Morbid Accumulation: The Body as Capital, Bodies in Debt, Embodied Resistance ... 198
Southern Transformations: Latina/os, Africans Americans, Labor, and Organizing in the American South ... 199
Debt as Social Obligation ... 200
Staging Race, Place, and Gender ... 201
ASA Students' Committee: Projects in Progress: Lightning Shorts from ASA Students ... 202
ASA K–16 Collaboration Committee: Education Without Fees and Degrees: Debt, Dispossession, De-occupation ... 203
Women's Brunch ... 204
American Secrecy and Transparency ... 205
Caucus – War and Peace Studies: Beyond Blood and Treasure: Reconceptualizing War Debt I (Redress and Repayment) ... 206
Caucus – Food Culture Studies: How the Other Half Eats: Race and Food Reform from the Slaughterhouse to the White House ... 207
Producing Knowledge, Practicing Dissent: Black Feminist Epistemologies and the Labor of Reimagination ... 208
Transnational Ethical Economies: Global Frontiers in Investment, Poverty, and Entrepreneurialism ... 209
Debt and "The Palestine Question" in Latin America: Colonization, Zionism, Imperialism and Dissent ... 210
"Compromised" Citizenship ... 211
Tour: Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens—Gratis Admission (Off-site) ... 212
11:00 am
Business Meeting: Material Culture Caucus ... 213
12:00 pm
Business Meeting: Ethnic Studies Committee ... 214
ASA Program Committee: Debts for DC: Multi-Scalar Histories of the National Territory ... 215
ASA Site Resources Committee: Real Estate, Revision, and Resistance: Washington DC, Then and Now ... 216
Indebted to Normativity?: Using Ambivalence to Build Collective Default ... 217
Hemispheres of Debt, Crises of Ecologies, Ethics of Collective Dissent: The Caribbean and Pacific Islands in American Studies ... 218
Caucus – War and Peace Studies: Beyond Blood and Treasure: Reconceptualizing War Debt II (Affective Obligations, Inheritances, and Economies) ... 219
ASA Graduate Education Committee: Why the Free-Standing MA in American Studies?: A Roundtable Discussion ... 220
ASA K–16 Collaboration Committee: The Digital and Human Genius of Hip Hop ... 221
ASA Artist in Residence Ricardo Dominguez: Disturbance Research Lab: Digital Disobedience (Practicum) ... 222
ASA Women's Committee: Countering Debt with Cultural Indebtedness: Trans/National Visualizations of Dis/Empowerment and Female Participation ... 223
Faithful Families' Financial Freedom: Christian Home Economics in the Service of Gendered Nationalism ... 224
Life After Debt: The Politics of Afro Pessimism and Social Death ... 225
Beasts of the Southern Wild ... 226
ASA Program Committee: Economies of Dispossession (II): Accumulation in Crisis ... 227
Indigenous and Critical Settler Cartographies: Mapping Labor and Debt in Public Spaces of Dissent ... 228
Debt, Discipline, and the Political Economy of U.S. Imperialism ... 229
Tour: Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery (Off-site) ... 230
12:30 pm
Business Meeting: ASA-JAAS Project Advisory Committee ... 231
Business Meeting: Early American Matters Caucus ... 232
2:00 pm
Business Meeting: Food Culture Studies Caucus ... 233
Neighborhoods of Debt ... 234
Cultures of Intimacy, Debt, and Servitude ... 235
Intersectionality: Foundations and Frontiers in the Shadow of the Crisis ... 236
Living Downstream in Time: Environmental Justice, Slow Violence, and Corporeal Debt ... 237
Neoliberalism as Dissent ... 238
ASA Program Committee and ASA Students' Committee: The Cruel Optimism of the University of Debt ... 239
ASA K–16 Collaboration Committee: The Student Debt Crisis ... 240
ASA Artist in Residence Ricardo Dominguez: Disturbing Gestures (Performance) ... 241
Caucus – Early America Matters: Colloquy with Annette Kolodny on In Search of First Contact ... 242
American Quarterly
: The War on Terror and Visual Culture ... 243
Public Histories of Dissent ... 244
Lessons in Hegemony from the Neoplantation/Neoliberal Laboratory: Contests for Justice in New Orleans ... 245
ASA Women's Committee: Critical Conjunctures of Debt: Women of Color, Healthcare Disparities, and Advocacy ... 246
ASA Program Committee: Economies of Dispossession (III): Life, Death, and Financialization ... 247
Solidarity in Theory and Practice: A Roundtable ... 248
Kalfou – Banking without Borders: Culture and Credit in a New Financial World ... 249
2:30 pm
Business Meeting: Environment and Culture Caucus ... 250
3:30 pm
Business Meeting: All Committee Chairs ... 251
4:00 pm
Reframing the Liberal Apotheosis ... 252
Hashtag #BlackFashion: Beauty, Glamour, and Social Media ... 253
She's Dreaming: Alternate Racial Futures and the Decolonial Imaginary in Speculative Cultural Production ... 254
Sustainable Environments ... 255
American Studies in 3D: Space, Time, Language ... 256
ASA Program Committee: What Does Money Mean?: World-Making through Currency and Credit ... 257
Caucus – Sound Studies: Connected Listening: Re-imagining Community Through Sound ... 258
Here and Now: The Critical Possibilities of the Textured Present ... 259
Show me the Money: Museum Conversations of Debt and Commerce ... 260
American Quarterly
: Classification/Contamination: Reproduction and the Value of Race-Mixing ... 261
The Good, The Bad, The Unforgivable: Black Women's Food Work as Spaces of Dissent and Strategic Acquiescence ... 262
Sonic Ledgers of Dissent ... 263
Embodied Borders, Contagious Divides ... 264
The Spaces of U.S. Empire and the Crisis in the Academy ... 265
Toxic Debt: Creative Research on Crises of Ecology, Capital, and Sovereignty in Risk Society ... 266
Reception: University of Hawai'i American Studies Department Pau Hana ... 267
5:00 pm
Reception: University of Southern California ... 268
Reception: Harvard American Studies ... 269
ASA Open Discussion: The Israeli Occupation of Palestine ... 270
6:00 pm
Reception: Early American Matters Caucus and Environment and Culture Caucus ... 271
Reception: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ... 272
Reception: University of California, Riverside ... 273
6:30 pm
Reception: University of Maryland American Studies Department ... 274
7:00 pm
Reception: ASA 2013 Program Committee ... 275
8:00 am
Caucus – Humor Studies: When Does Laughter Liberate?: Humor and Dissent in 20th-Century Popular Culture ... 276
ASA National Council: Special Meeting ... 277
Reading in the Age of NAFTA ... 278
Dissident Methodologies in Latina/o Studies ... 279
Arab Dissent, Arab Dignity: Analyzing the Unfinished Dignity Revolutions in the Middle East and Beyond ... 280
Left Alone in American Studies: The American Military and Military Culture in America ... 281
Contemporary Asian American Politics: View Through the Lens of the 1882 Project ... 282
Prison Abolition and the Queer Commons ... 283
Diversity's Debts: Difference and Biovalue in Neoliberal Multiculture ... 284
Against Debt, Dependence, and Disenfranchisement: Dissent in American Indian, Working Class, and Women's Writing ... 285
ASA Students' Committee: Making Your Work Do Work: A Conversation with ASA Regional Student Award Winners ... 286
Racial Form and the Logic of Capital ... 287
Folklorization on the National Mall: Representations of Culture through the Smithsonian Folklife Festival ... 288
Party Like It's 1899: Racial Play in the Neoliberal University ... 289
Pitied But Not Entitled?: Disability and Dissent in American History ... 290
ASA Program Committee: Television and the Politics of Consumption and Debt ... 291
Caucus – Science and Technology: Naturalizing Neoliberal and Neutralizing Networks: Power, Control, and the Normative Functions of Information Networks ... 292
Critical University Studies I: Mortgaging Higher Education ... 293
Queer Histories, Queer Methods ... 294
8:30 am
Book Exhibit (Sunday) ... 295
9:30 am
Tour: The Price of Freedom at the National Museum of American History (Off-site) ... 296
10:00 am
Deficiency, Debt, and Deportation: The Carceral Space of Migrant Removal ... 297
Business Meeting: Students' Committee ... 298
Security States and Global Governance ... 299
Latinas/os Onscreen and On/Off Air: Rethinking Contemporary Media Audiences and Discourses ... 300
Recording U.S. Debt to Palestine: Payment Overdue and Collectible with High Interest ... 301
The C.I.A. and American Studies ... 302
Caucus – Critical Prison Studies: The Debt Financing of Mass Incarceration: Prison Profiteering in High Financial Times ... 303
ASA Minority Scholars Committee: Race and the Academy: Navigating the Institution ... 304
DIY Nation (Re)marking the Boundaries of Self-Possession in Neoliberal America ... 305
Caucus – Sports Studies: Sport and the Geography of Debt ... 306
Identity Work and Identity Play Online ... 307
Dishing it Up: Food and Labor ... 308
Lessons from the Archive: Three Colleges Partner with Brooklyn Historical Society ... 309
Performance Economies of Race: Labor, Debt, and Dissent in America ... 310
After the Shutdown: A New Generation of Postindustrial Ethnography and Political Organizing ... 311
Finance, Culture, and Everyday Life: Connections, Speculations, Possibilities ... 312
ASA Program Committee: The Burdens of Our Genealogies: Intellection, Indebtedness, and American Studies ... 313
Critical University Studies II: Reordering Higher Education ... 314
The Way Queer Travels: Capitalism, Tourism, and Transnational Migrations ... 315
12:00 pm
Indebtedness To and For the Nation of Immigrants ... 316
The Urban Turn?: A Roundtable on the City (at the) Center of American Studies ... 317
File Under "Labor" ... 318
Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness: To Whom is the Human Indebted? ... 319
ASA Site Resources Committee: Activist Responses to the Policing of Sex in DC ... 320
Confronting Carceral America: Activist Responses to the Punitive Logics of Debt ... 321
White Supremacist Cultures ... 322
Movement Debts in the Age of Neoliberalism ... 323
Mobilizing Against Settler Colonialism: Idle No More and Allied Dissent ... 324
Producing Play: Labor and Leisure in Early Video Game Culture ... 325
Slavery, Trafficking, and Criminalization: Using Historical Metaphors to Assess Interlocking Systems of Oppression ... 326
American Modern Design: A Question of Cultural Indebtedness ... 327
Specters of Du Bois: Dissent as Decolonization ... 328
Muckraking, Dissent, and Social Change: Writing in the Public Interest ... 329
Genealogies of Neoliberalism ... 330
Queer Reorientations of the Good Life ... 331
Neo/Colonial Pedagogies and the Creation of Indebted Knowledges in the American Century ... 332
Refugee Archival Memory: Disrupting the U.S. Logics of Freedom and Debt in Hmong/Laotian History ... 333
2:00 pm
Historical Debts and Public Commemoration: Questioning the "Good War's" Memory and Meaning in Contemporary America ... 334
Burning Down the House: Violence, Race, and Development ... 335
New Queer Materialities: The Sexual Mattering of American Studies ... 336
Collecting Social Debt: Twentieth Century Political Reaction and Right-Wing Dissent ... 337
Carceral Logics, Anti-Violence Politics, and Abolitionist Practices ... 338
This Debt We Pay to Human Guile: Economies of Race in Neo-Passing Narratives ... 339
Pedagogies of Food and Eating: Teaching Debt, Dissent, and Identity through Food ... 340
Rosie the Riveter in an Age of Debt and Insecurity: Democracy, Race, and Work on the World War II Home Front ... 341
Settler Colonialisms and Their Discontents ... 342
States of Exception: Representing the War on Terror ... 343
The Price of Freedom App: Discussing a Collaboratively Produced Alternative Tour of the Smithsonian's History of American Wars ... 344
American Studies and Periodical Studies: Investigating a Disciplinary Debt ... 345
Fictions of Speculation: Genre, Narrative, Critique ... 346
Normalizing Debt in the Americas ... 347
Rethinking Boundaries of Belonging: Queer Practices of Citizenship ... 348
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing: The Book and the Bottom Line ... 349