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This is a snapshot of the program as it existed on September 1, 2015. The most up-to-date version of the program can be found online at theasa.net. Please note that Session Numbers (not page numbers) are shown below.
Business Meeting: American Quarterly Editorial Board ... 001
Business Meeting: Executive Committee ... 002
Spatio-Sexual Politics and Racial Justice in Chicago and Los Angeles ... 003
Spectacles of Misery: Violence, Resistance, and Subversive Performance ... 004
Where Misery Meets Agency: A Critique of Empowerment, Resilience, and Bearing Witness Models of Intervention ... 005
Technologies of Misery and [In]security in the Military-Industrial Complex ... 006
Temporalities of Resistance: Media and the Miseries of Race ... 007
The Angel of Misery: Temporality, Political Ecologies, and Public Feeling ... 008
The Emotion of Photography ... 009
The Miseries of Reproduction: Intractable Media and American Art of the Long Nineteenth Century ... 010
The Production of Misery in Media Forms: Neoliberalism, Resistance, and Repression ... 011
The Ambiguity of Belonging: Space and Place in the Writing of Dionne Brand ... 012
The Progressive Era's Afterlives ... 013
Indigenous Persistence Where We Meet ... 014
Monuments to (In)justice ... 015
Social Tragedies of Music Making? Child Stars, Digital Patronage, and Aging R&B Performers ... 016
Speaking Askance: Experimental Aesthetics and Social Critique in Black Expressive Culture ... 017
Black Misery in Word and World ... 018
Then Again: Race, Recurrent Misery, and Resistant Futures ... 019
Decolonial Feminism in Theory and Practice ... 020
Abolition and Decolonization in Canada and the U.S. ... 021
The Urban Environment ... 022
Business Meeting: National Council ... 023
Mapping Violence, Projecting Desire, Seeing Futures ... 024
Canadian Association for American Studies: Wildcat Currencies: America's Alternative Economies ... 025
Transnational History of Japan–North America Migration and Contact: Labour, Culture, and Transracial Relationships ... 026
Death/Work: Afterlives of the Black Mortuary ... 027
Throwaway People: The Production and Productivity of Black Urban Misery in the Long 1980s. ... 028
Depatriarchal Practice In/Against Neoliberalism: Migrations of Misery and Resistance in Las Américas ... 029
Refusing Erasure: Black Women's Bodies as Sites of National, Colonial, and Sexual Oppression and Resistance ... 030
Digital Death Worlds: Mediating Necropolitics ... 031
Diminishing Attachments: Feminist Politics and Aesthetics in the Miserable 1970s ... 032
Facing Post-gentrification: On the Politics of Home in an Era of Rapid Change ... 033
Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of (De)institutionalization, 1955–1988 ... 034
Geographies of Indigenous and Settler Immiseration, Commiseration, and Resistance ... 035
Institutions of Misery: Abjection, Sexuality, and Aesthetic Practices ... 036
Sex, Misère, and the Redemptive: Barebacking and Historicity ... 037
Hooray for the Riff-Raff: Shiftless Hustlers, Tramps and Street Punks Resisting Carcerality and Capitalism ... 038
Intimate Industries in the Making of Precarity: A Transnational Conversation on How Bodies Matter ... 039
Queer Spaces ... 040
Public Education, National Security State, and Insurgent Black Life: Tracing Genealogies and Infrastructures of the Racial State ... 041
Colonialism and the Settler State ... 042
Object Misery and the Resistant Art of Scavenge ... 043
First Story Indigneous Toronto Walking Tour (Check-In Sheraton Main Lobby) ... 044
Defiant Assembly: Resisting Misery through Performance and Visual Art in the Americas ... 045
Canadian Association for American Studies: American Realisms and the Pursuit of Unhappiness ... 046
Abjection and the Consumption of the Body ... 047
(Not) Talking Back to Empire ... 048
Boundaries and Beyond ... 049
Amateur Hour: Performances of Race in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture ... 050
Insidious Discourses: U.S. Settler Colonialism and Territorialization ... 051
American Exceptionalism and the Biopolitical Turn ... 052
Border Crossing Music ... 053
Blackness and the Miseries of Law in the Long Afterlife of Slavery ... 054
Disability and Performances of Citizenship ... 055
Forcefields of U.S. Imperialism: The Management of Warfare in the War on Terror ... 056
Forms and Fantasies of Annihilation ... 057
Hemispheric Trauma and the Latina/o-Indigenous Cultural Imagination ... 058
Feeling Shitty: The Affective Miseries of Multiculturalism and Corporeal Ways of Resistance ... 059
Infrastructure, Race, and Misery ... 060
Queer and Transgender Misery ... 061
Blackness, Relation, and Liberal Ways of War ... 062
Sites of Trauma and the Making of Disability ... 063
Negotiating Difference, Forging Solidarities ... 064
International Partnership Luncheon: Developing Transnational American Studies for Transnational Publics ... 065
Borderlands, Culture, and the State: A Conversation Across Disciplines ... 066
Canadian Association for American Studies: Free Market Fictions ... 067
International Committee: The Locations of American Studies ... 068
Redefining Freedom and Sexual Justice in the Caribbean: A Roundtable ... 069
Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity: Critical Static Across the U.S./Canada Border ... 070
Afterlives of Misery: Legacies and Prophecies in the Neo-Slave Narrative ... 071
Unseen and In Motion ... 072
And Now a Word From Our Miserable Sponsors! ... 073
Asian American Sexualities and the Reproduction of Misery in U.S. Popular Culture ... 074
Black Sites and Fugitive Visions ... 075
Defining and Contesting Miserabilism: Migrant Confrontations with Inequality in Mexico and the United States ... 076
Dis/Enabling Misery: Racial Trauma, Resistance, and the Black Body in Literature and Film ... 077
Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonialism: Thinking Through the Relationship ... 078
Fighting Choreographies: Dance and Violence in American Popular Culture ... 079
How Do We Teach Research? Pedagogical Practice in Interdisciplinary Methodologies ... 080
Finance Capital and the Reproduction of Misery: 'Moral Hazard,' Settler Colonialism, and Hashtags against Housing Violence ... 081
Public Representations of Misery ... 082
Lady Justice?: Black Women, Sexuality, and the U.S. Legal System ... 083
Race-Radical Black Feminists at the Forefront of Transformative Justice Movements in Settler Societies ... 084
Katrina: Ten Years After ... 085
Business Meeting: Minority Scholars Committee ... 086
First Peoples Resistances and Rebellions Tour at the Art Gallery of Ontario ... 087
Settler Colonialism and the Question of Indigenous Studies: A Position Paper and Three Responses ... 088
Canadian Association for American Studies: Stand Your Ground: Incarcerations, Lynchings, and Executions ... 089
Committee on Graduate Education: Precarious Resistance to the University of Austerity ... 090
Cultivating Communal Sites of Knowledge Production in the Critical Latin@ Studies Classroom ... 091
Transnational Capital, Security State, and Militarized Racial Modernity in America's Asia Pacific ... 092
Accept, Articulate, Mis(use): What's Afro-pessimism Without Misery? ... 093
States of Injury ... 094
Architecture and Narrative: The Production and Renovation of Everyday Space ... 095
Asian American Miseries: The Sounds of Silence ... 096
Miserable Circulations: Race, Sex, Labor, and Creativity ... 097
Data and Diaspora Catalogues: Black Life and Death in the Future Space ... 098
Catastrophe and American Studies ... 099
Disruptive Attachments: Kinship, Adoption, and the (Re)production of Loss ... 100
Does Misery Move You? Transnational Mobility, Affective Vulnerability, and the Gendering of Racialized Criminality ... 101
Genealogies of Diasporic Resistance: Imagining Transnational Filipina/o American Studies ... 102
This is Your Life? ... 103
Pedagogies of Misery: (Re)Working the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education ... 104
Re/Centering AIDS in the Age of Gay Liberalism ... 105
Does Property Resist Capitalism's Reproduction, and Does it Make Us Miserable? ... 106
I'm with Ridunculous! ... 107
Business Meeting: Nominating Committee ... 108
Business Meeting: Committee on Regional Chapters ... 109
Ferguson: A Report from Occupied Territory ... 110
Miserable Failures! American Studies and the Ideologies of Failure ... 111
Contesting Anti-Muslim Racism in Canada: An Activist/Academic Roundtable ... 112
Feminist/Queer Activism in the Post-Industrial City (A Live Oral History/Storytelling Session) ... 113
Reception: Lifetime ASA Members ... 114
Reception: American Studies at Arizona State University Celebrates International Participants ... 115
Reception: Welcome/Celebration of ASA Authors/Exhibits Open ... 116
Film Screening: Love and Solidarity (38 minutes). ... 117
Film Screening: Spirits of Rebellion and Discussion of Resistance and Misery in Black American Cinema (90 minutes) ... 118
A Staged Reading of Lisa B. Thompson's Underground: Trauma, History and the Limits of Resistance ... 119
Beyond Ayaan Hiirsi Ali: On Being Black, Muslim, and from East Africa in Liberal North American Societies ... 120
Graduate Student Cocktail Party at Imperial Pub (Offsite 9 pm – close) ... 121
Business Meeting of Editors of American Quarterly
The Misery of Settler Colonialism: Roundtable on Glen Coulthard's Red Skin, White Masks and Audra Simpson's Mohawk Interruptus ... 122
Violent Intimacies: Producing Racial Terror in American Visual and Material Culture ... 123
Caucus Critical Prison Studies: Carceral Globalization and Circuits of Resistance I ... 124
Histories of Violence I: Gender and Sexuality ... 125
Committee on Gender and Sexuality Studies: How Does It Feel? Aesthetics, Minoritarian Politics, and the Political Sensorium ... 126
Queering Governmentality ... 127
Students' Committee: Mock Job Interview Forum ... 128
From Divine Sorrow to Refugee Resentment: Tracing Transnational Vietnamese Counter-Memories ... 129
Asian American Sporting Cultures: Playing through Sporting Pleasures, Resisting Racialized Exclusions ... 130
Re/Producing Ferguson in Europe: Protest Movements from the Streets to the Classroom ... 131
Rejecting Misery: Engaging Critical Ethnic Studies in Arizona ... 132
Miserabilist Mediations: Recording, Radio, Reportage, and the Multimedia of Racial Reproduction and Resistance ... 133
Misery and Memorial: On the 9/11 Museum, its Objects, Topography, and Scale ... 134
Black Miseries and Modes of Satirical Resistance ... 135
Early American Spaces of Misery: The Alienation of Labor and Land in Homes, Cities, Frontiers ... 136
Moving Beyond Misery in the Black Queer Archive ... 137
Neoliberal Reproduction of the Cold War "Miseries" ... 138
Re/production in Biocapitalism: Feminist Speculation and Alternative Futures ... 139
Race and Resistance in the Folklorization and Reappropriation of Musical Cultures of Struggle ... 140
Race and the Age of Revolution in Hemispheric Studies ... 141
Business Meeting: Critical Disability Studies Caucus ... 142
Breakfast: Program and Center Directors Networking ... 143
Student Breakfast ... 144
Business Meeting: Academic and Community Activism Caucus
Committee on Departments, Centers and Programs: American Studies on a Shoe-String ... When You're the Shoe-String ... 145
Environment and Culture Caucus Mentoring Breakfast ... 146
Misery at Work: Resisting Racism and Other Inequities ... 147
Caucus Material Culture: Building Oppression: Misery and Resistance in the American Cultural Environment ... 148
Caucus Critical Prison Studies: Carceral Globalization and Circuits of Resistance II ... 149
Histories of Violence II: Suffering for the State: Touring and Commemorating Sites of Militarized Violence ... 150
Gendering the Trans-Pacific World ... 151
Producing the Racial Subject: Identity and Resistance Through Historical Modes of Capitalist Accumulation ... 152
Students' Committee: Job Materials ... 153
Beyond Pleasure Reading: Race and Genre Fiction ... 154
Caucus Sports Studies: The (Re)production of Sexual Violence in Sports and Ways of Resistance ... 155
American Quarterly: Special Issue on Pacific Currents ... 156
Critical Ethnic Studies Committee: Ethnic Studies Past, Present and Future ... 157
Iconographies of Suffering, Wars, and the Empire's Media ... 158
Indigeneity, Immiseration, and Affective Despair I ... 159
Black Experimentation: Politics and Aesthetics Beyond Resistance ... 160
Caucus Early American Matters: Colloquy with Ed Baptist on The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism ... 161
Queer: A Funky, Old, Nasty, Mess ... 162
Modes of Misery, Genres of Grief: Narrative Forms of Environmental Suffering ... 163
The Politics of Transnational Conservative Ascendency ... 164
Caucus Sound Studies: (Re)Sounding Misery and Resistance: Chicana Feminist Listening Practices in Radio, Film, and Television ... 165
Chemical Harvests and Hideous Progeny: Visualizing the Miseries of Reproduction ... 166
Business Meeting: American Studies Journal Editorial Board ... 167
Canadian Association for American Studies Executive Meeting ... 168
Camera Atomica Tour at the Art Gallery of Ontario ... 169
Misery and Resistance in the Great Recession ... 170
Caucus Material Culture: Representing Terrible Things: The Material Culture of Misery in America ... 171
Caucus Critical Prison Studies: The Contradictions and Changing Permutations of the Prison Industrial Complex ... 172
Histories of Violence III: State of the Field ... 173
Lisa Lowe's The Intimacies of Four Continents: A Roundtable ... 174
Caucus Science and Technology Studies: Machines and Proletarians: (Re)Producing and Resisting Misery ... 175
Students' Committee: Innovative Assignments ... 176
Beyond Recovery: Neoliberal Health Governance and the Limits of Resistance ... 177
Caucus Sports Studies: Troubling a Racial Slur: Researching and Resisting the use of R*dskins in Sport ... 178
Re-situating American Quarterly in Hawai'i, Pacific, and Asia ... 179
Critical Ethnic Studies Committee: Rebuilding and Re-presenting Port-au-Prince and New Orleans Through the Lens of Black Misery: Five and Ten Years Post-Disaster ... 180
Disorganizing Knowledge ... 181
Indigeneity, Immiseration, and Affective Despair II ... 182
Chinese Railroad Workers in North America: Recovering the Production of Misery and Ways of Resistance ... 183
Caucus Early American Matters: Troubling Region: The Problem of Geography in Teaching "the Early Americas" ... 184
Ordinary Crises: Visual Rites of Survival and Resistance ... 185
Non-Profit Blues: Affective Economies in/of the NPIC ... 186
Oh, That's Fierce: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Queer Performance ... 187
Caucus Sound Studies: A Miserable Racket: American Music, American Noise ... 188
Chains, Fences, and Bonds ... 189
Business Meeting: Critical Korean/American Studies Scholars ... 190
Evergreen Brick Works Tour (and Walking Tour of Lower Don River) Check-In ... 191
Business Meeting: 2016 Program Committee ... 192
American Studies and the Theoretical Legacies of James Baldwin ... 193
Caucus Visual Culture: Photographic Returns ... 194
International Committee: Indigenous and Critical Race Perspectives on Transnational Power ... 195
Caucus Academic and Community Activism: Resisting Perpetual (Re-)Productions of Misery? Transnational Multimedia Life Writing ... 196
International Dimensions of Black/Jewish Politics: Apartheid and Black Power ... 197
Caucus Critical Disability Studies: Affect Theory Meets Mad Studies: A Roundtable ... 198
Students' Committee: Overcoming Misery: Accessing Structures of Support in the University ... 199
Settler Colonialism, the Philippines, and American Empire ... 200
Caucus Sport Studies and Critical Prison Studies: Between Misery and Resistance: The Connections between the Carceral State and Sporting Cultures ... 201
Workshop on American Quarterly Review and Editorial Process ... 202
Tense and Tender Ties: Critical Ethnic Studies and Critical Mixed Race Studies; Race and Multiracialism ... 203
Liberating Politics Through Culture: Recovering the Voices of African American Activist-artists Through Talk and Performance ... 204
Ideas from El Imperio: American Political Thought in Cuba and Beyond ... 205
Committee on Departments, Programs and Centers: What Is This Thing Called Interdisciplinarity? ... 206
Queer Misery: Queer Lives, Queer Texts, and Producing the Possible in Early America ... 207
Asian/American and Latina/o Aesthetics of Resistance: A Dialogue on Etiolation, Abnormality, Brownness, Opacity and Rage ... 208
New Directions in Latina/o Scholarship ... 209
Race and Wellbeing in Middle Eastern America: Resisting White Singularity and Challenging Histories of Misery ... 210
Caucus Sound Studies: Listening to Breaking Windows: Urban Mobility and Sonic Disorder in New York City ... 211
Caucus Digital Humanities: Digital Shorts: The (Re)production of Misery and the Ways of Resistance ... 212
Business Meeting: Committee on Gender and Sexuality Studies ... 213
Business Meeting: Environment and Culture Caucus ... 214
Broken Hearts: Misery Takes Its Toll ... 215
Caucus Visual Culture: Race, Labor and Misery Under the Photographic Lens ... 216
Beyond the Misery of the Archive: Doing Memory Work in Contemporary Black Canadian Art and Activism ... 217
A Conversation on Race and Critical Theory (with members of the Living Commons Collective) ... 218
Golem Theory?: Critical Jewish Studies in/and ASA ... 219
Caucus Critical Disability Studies: Building Intersectionality: American Studies Meets Critical Disability Studies ... 220
Committee on Graduate Education: Perfecting Your Pitch: Graduate Student Professionalization with the Pros ... 221
Resistance and Resilience in Native America ... 222
Asian/American and Latina/o Aesthetics of Resistance: A Dialogue on Negativity, Inscrutability, Burning Out, and the Proximal ... 223
Black (Re)Production, Biocapital, and the Legacies of Colonial Science and Slavery and in the Americas ... 224
Resistance in Academia: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Academic Labor ... 225
Canadian Writers Read ... 226
Exiled Intimacies: Visual Culture and Transnational Asia/America ... 227
Committee on Departments, Programs, and Centers: Beyond the Buzz? The Pleasures and Miseries of Internationalization ... 228
Early Environmentalisms ... 229
Misery Loves Complicity: Pedagogies of Social Justice Within and Beyond Corporate Universities ... 230
Normativity and the Hetero-state ... 231
Black Queer Diaspora Praxis and Its Manifold Futures ... 232
Caucus Sound Studies: Spinning Dystopia: DJ Practice, Urban Soundscapes and Techno-Sonic Intervention ... 233
Caucus Digital Humanities: The Shadow Archive: Digital (Re)Assemblages of Ephemera ... 234
Business Meeting: Critical Prison Studies Caucus ... 235
Business Meeting: Sports Studies Caucus ... 236
Reception: Early American Matters Caucus and Environment and Culture Caucus ... 237
Reception: Southern American Studies Association (SASA) ... 238
Histories of Violence Organizational Meeting (Open to all interested) ... 239
Reception: University of Southern California ... 240
Reception: Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA) ... 241
Reception: Claremont Graduate University School of Arts and Humanities ... 242
Business Meeting of the Graduate Education Committee
Annual Awards Ceremony ... 244
Presidential Address ... 245
President's Reception ... 246
Post-Presidential Mash Up at Harlem (Offsite 10 pm – close) ... 247
Welcome Breakfast for K–16 Collaboration Teachers ... 248
The Settler Colonialism Analytic: A Critical Reappraisal ... 249
Misery, Shame, and Tragedy: The Struggles and Strategies of Women Performers ... 250
K–16 Collaboration Committee and Critical Prison Studies Caucus: The Carceral University I ... 251
Atomic Anthropocene ... 252
Conversations about Age and Institutions in the Windy City ... 253
Indigenous Fine Arts ... 254
Religious Cultures of U.S. Imperialism ... 255
Climate Change and Ways of Resistance ... 256
Dwelling within Misery: Capital, Affect, and Social Movement(s) ... 257
Listening as Resistance or Resistant to Listening?: Ethnography, Oral History, Grounded Theory in American Studies ... 258
He's Come Undone: Black Masculinity and the Curious Art of Vulnerability ... 259
Marvels: Collective Disappointment and Collective Education in Graphic Narrative ... 260
Regime and Reckoning ... 261
Palimpsestic Stigma: 1960s Community Medicine and Community Mental Health ... 262
Students' Committee: Lightning Shorts, On Projects in Progress ... 263
Misery and Resistance in the Queer Workplace ... 264
Spinning and Spanning the Globe ... 265
Teaching with Tension: Post-racial Rhetoric, Resistance, and Reality in the Classroom ... 266
Law as Archive ... 267
Landscapes of Racialized Dispossession: Urban Carcerality, Relational Subjectivities, and Neoliberal Violence ... 268
Business Meeting: Early American Matters Caucus ... 269
Business Meeting: International Presidents, Editors, and Representatives ... 270
Fulbright Support for American Studies ... 271
Breakfast: Minority Scholars Committee Mentoring ... 272
Student Breakfast ... 273
From Ferguson to Palestine and Beyond: Geographies of Political and Cultural Resistance ... 274
Minority Scholars Committee: The Business of Diversity ... 275
K–16 Collaboration Committee and Critical Prison Studies Caucus: The Carceral University II ... 276
Contesting Inter/national Militarized Security in the "Asia Pacific" and Imagining an Otherwise ... 277
Anarchism: From the Settler Colonial State to the Anthropocene ... 278
Brave New Digital World ... 279
Religious Geographies of Suffering and Resistance ... 280
Cold War Camera and the Cultural Politics of Visuality ... 281
Crude Extractions in Media ... 282
What Does It Mean to Play a Slave? The "Follow the North Star" Experiment ... 283
Photographing Existence in the Americas: Race, Gender, Migration, and the Diasporic Lens ... 284
Locating Class ... 285
Re/membering the Misery of Blackness: A Resistance through Memory, Performance, and an Ethics of Imagination ... 286
Precarious Performances across Genres and Geographies ... 287
Doing American Studies From Abroad: Challenges and Opportunites ... 288
Unsettling Acts: Queering Ecotheory through Migration and Transience ... 289
Performances of Race ... 290
The Place of Palestinian Life Writing in American Studies ... 291
Longing, Affect, Bodies: Gendered Embodiments in North American Settler Colonies ... 292
Law and Misery: Constructing and Deconstructing Legal Regimes of Miserablism ... 293
Business Meeting: Visual Culture Caucus ... 294
Business Meeting: International Committee ... 295
Business Meeting: Science and Technology Studies Caucus ... 296
Business Meeting: Material Culture Caucus ... 297
Brunch: Women's Networking ... 298
After the Misery: What Are Critical University Studies For? ... 299
Minority Scholars Committee: The Invisibility and Performance of Labor of Diversity ... 300
Caucus Academic and Community Activism: The ASA Boycott Resolution Two Years Later: Looking Back, Moving Forward ... 301
Ralph Ellison at 100 (Race and the Word) ... 302
Environmental Misery: Confronting the Future of the Anthropocene ... 303
In/cisions and De/cisions: Oppression and Resistance in Native and Latino American Border Narratives ... 304
The (Re)production of Misery among the Religious(ly) Right(eous): Coercion, Conformity, and Resistance to Hetero/Homonormative Patriarchy ... 305
Unsettling Knowledge: Resisting the Miseries of Imperial U.S. Education ... 306
Countering the State: Misery, Surveillance, and Narratives of Resistance ... 307
Caucus Environment and Culture: How American Studies Scholars Can Address Climate Change ... 308
Criminalizing Spaces ... 309
Narratives of Resistance: Rethinking the Politics of Health and Illness ... 310
Visuality, Blackness, and Misery's Company ... 311
Uneven Miseries: The Incommensurate Politics of Comparative Racialization ... 312
Ecologies of Misery: Domesticity and Disaffected Labor ... 313
Spectacular Humiliations: Matters of Performance, Misery, and Failure ... 314
The Black Radical Internationalist Tradition: Culture, Media, and Resistance to Racial Capitalism ... 315
The Cold War, the Asia-Pacific, and Transnational American Studies ... 316
Maritime Melancholies: Oceanic Archives of Resistance ... 317
Invisible is a Lonely Number: (Re)Presenting Race and Gender in the Digital Humanities ... 318
Business Meeting of the War and Peace Studies Caucus ... 319
Business Meeting: Committee on American Studies Departments, Programs and Centers ... 320
Business Meeting: ASA-JAAS Project Advisory Committee ... 321
Misery Tour at the Art Gallery of Ontario ... 322
The Miseries of Marriage: What Do Queers Lose When We "Win"? ... 323
Come (back) to the Opera! War, Trauma and Mourning on the American Stage ... 324
International Committee: American Studies and the U.S. State ... 325
Ralph Ellison at 100 (Ellison the Interdisciplinarian) 326Black Liberations (Repeat) ... 327
International Formations: The Horizons of Solidarity and Accountability ... 328
Re(Productions) of Early America in the Reader's Mind: Imagining Ambivalent Beginnings ... 329
K–16 Collaboration Committee: In Anger and Violence: The Cruxes of Misery through U.S. Public Schooling ... 330
Counter-Optics: Reworking the Image in an Age of Structural Violence ... 331
From Bhopal to Port-au-Prince: Environmental and Health Disasters in the Global South ... 332
Polarization on the Potomac and the Jordan: American Political Cultures and Israel-Palestine Gridlock ... 333
Global Legacies of Black Radicalism: War, Law and Class ... 334
Racial Genocide and the U.S. Carceral State: A History of the Present ... 335
Inventing Blackness ... 336
Emergent Themes in Middle East American Studies ... 337
Sports on Screen: Visual Economies of Representation in Film, Television, and Digital Media ... 338
The Company Loves Misery: Labor Organizing in the Service Economy ... 339
Transpacific Entanglements: American Studies, Asian Studies, Asian American Studies ... 340
Methodological Miseries and Race along the Seams of Empire ... 341
Epistemologies of Skin: Visual, Biomedical, and Affective Technologies of Health, Race, and Beauty ... 342
Business Meeting: Task Force for American Studies in Higher Education in the United States and Globally ... 343
Business Meeting: Marxism Caucus ... 344
Committee on Graduate Education: The Ethics of Graduate Education in the 21st Century Academy ... 345
Caucus Environment and Culture: Crude Production, Hidden Miseries: Reimagining Global Oil's Commodity Life Cycle ... 346
K–16 Collaboration Committee: Radical Partnerships: Building Sustainable Academic, Activist and Community Collaborations ... 347
The Tragedy and Resistance of Labor: Race, Technology and Revolutionary Imaginaries ... 348
Non-Aligned: Global Dispossession and Solidarity 60 Years after Bandung ... 349
The Pleasures and Perils of the Open Road ... 350
Freedom from Violence: Resistance as Imperative and Question ... 351
Collateral Damage in the Family ... 352
Contagion and Containment: Epidemiological Surveillance and Biomedical Misery in Contemporary Transnational Cultures ... 353
Narratives of Colonial Loss and Ways of Resistance in Hawai'i ... 354
Committee on Gender and Sexuality Studies: Globalizing Sexuality in the Queer Studies Curriculum ... 355
The Black Radical Biography: Repression, Pain and Resistance ... 356
The Ne(ur)oliberal Subject: Doing American Studies in the Age of Brain Science ... 357
Just Deserters: Allegiance and American Desertion ... 358
Entanglements of Pathologization and Criminalization ... 359
The Politics of Black Cultural (Re)Production ... 360
The Misery Index: Sites of Resistance and Revitalization in Southeast Asia ... 361
The Sense and Scale of Asian Misery ... 362
Millenial Black Urban: Living for the City ... 363
Entrepreneurial Miseries: Neoliberalism and the (Trans)Formation of White Masculinity ... 364
Business Meeting: All Committee Chairs ... 365
Business Meeting: Digital Humanities Caucus ... 366
Reception: 25th Anniversary of the UCSD Ethnic Studies Department
Film Screening: In His Own Home (30 minutes) ... 367
Digital Humanities Caucus: Digital Humanities Mentoring ... 368
Reception: University of Michigan ... 369
CANCELLED:
Boodle Fight: Competitive Eating, Toronto's Foodways, and the Philippine Diaspora ... 371
To Keep from Crying: Aamer Rahman Stand-Up ... 372
AIDS and its Aesthetic, Cultural, and Legal Afterlives ... 373
Miserable on Main Street ... 374
Misery Loves Company: Reimagining Disability/Transgender ... 375
On Black Lives Matter ... 376
Misery Machines: An Investigation into Therapeutic and Affective Technologies ... 377
Theorizing Settler Societies ... 378
Pedagogical Resistance to "Paradigms of the Obvious" ... 379
Queer and Feminist Forms: Aesthetics Practices of Affiliation and Disidentification ... 380
The Death Panel ... 381
Regimes of Health and Medicine ... 382
Reproduction, Reconstruction, and Dispossession ... 383
Senses of Exile: Perception and the Afterlives of Slavery in the Americas ... 384
Resistance and Consent ... 385
School Daze ... 386
Sentimental Modes: The Historical Deployment of Misery in Visual Culture ... 387
Soundings in African American Studies ... 388
Business Meeting: Students' Committee ... 389
Jane's Walk Tour Check-In ... 390
Immaterialism, Repetition, and Disability: Medical Counter-Narratives as Sites of Resistance and Recovery ... 391
Miserable in its Own Way? Disasters, Solidarity and Resistance ... 392
Misery Loves Company: Ruins, Risk, and Creative Contingencies ... 393
Radical Midwest: Resistance, Racial Justice, and Sexuality in De/Industrial America ... 394
Miseries and Commiseration in the Mix ... 395
Comprehending Trauma ... 396
North of Misery: Migration, Affect, and Action ... 397
Re-Alignments and Resistance: Queer Migration Interventions into State-Sanctioned Misery ... 398
Radical Organizing and Imperial Contradictions Across the Pacific ... 399
Critical Latino Indigeneities: Transborder Cultures, Mobility, and Movements ... 400
Woe Is Me? Resisting Misery in Politically Engaged South Asian Diasporic Art and Literature ... 401
Sad Children: Social Misery in the Real and Imagined Spaces of Childhood ... 402
Resisting Misery and Remembering Resistance: Race, Genocidal Carcerality and Social Movement Histories in California ... 403
Resisting Whiteness: Queering Race, Disability, and Gender in the U.S. since 1900 ... 404
Writing Wrongs ... 405
Slavery, Miseries, and Recuperations ... 406
Chronicity and Contagion: Reimagining Queer-Crip Biosociality ... 407
Miserable Systems: Affect, Materiality, and Resistance in Intermediated Networks ... 408
Misery as Muse: Reifications, Appropriations, and Transformations of Black Suffering in Jazz ... 409
Oh, the (In)humanity: Biopolitics, Misery, and the Limits of the Human ... 410
Talking Back or Suffering in Silence: Female Misery and the Resistance of Voice ... 411
Food at Every Speed ... 412
Not Funny, Not Fun: Unlaughter, Anti-Jokes, and the Empire's Others ... 413
Regional Chapters Committee: A Discussion with ASA Regional Student Award Winners ... 414
Re-making Institutions for Resistance: The Present and Future of the Public Intellectual ... 415
War and Sacrifice ... 416
Writing Black Lives: Misery, Resistance and Resilience ... 417
Scenes of Crime in the Landscape of Urban Redevelopment ... 418
Representing Misery without Civil Society ... 419
Risen From the Ashes: Speculative Fiction at the End of the World ... 420
Sexual Dissidents and the Perverse Appeal of Marriage ... 421
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