SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2017

8:00 am – 9:45 am

428. Aided, Inspired, Multiplied: Web 2.0, Collaborative Writing, and Social Reading (Online Format)

Hyatt Regency Chicago Acapulco, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Jeremy Dean, hypothes.is

PAPERS:

Jeff Allred, Hunter College (CUNY)
Research, Interpretation, Play: Billy Budd as Role-Playing Game via Ivanhoe for Wordpress

Lawrence Hanley, San Francisco State University
Exploiting the Network: Student Learning on Collaborative Platforms

Erin Glass, University of California, San Diego
Towards Dialogical Student Publics: An Emancipatory Approach to Networked Writing Tools in the Classroom

COMMENT:

Jeremy Dean, hypothes.is

8:00 am – 9:45 am

429. Oceanic Practices of Assent and Dissent in Early American Maritime Manuscripts

Hyatt Regency Chicago Addams, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Mark Hertzman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PAPERS:

Kate Wersan, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Assenting to the Universe at their "Finger Ends": Learning Timekeeping at Sea, 1770-1850

Mark Kelley, University of California, San Diego
Affective Assent and Dissent in Age of Sail Shipboard Manuscripts

Matthew A Knip, Hunter College (CUNY)
Erotic (Dis)Identification in the Journals of Philip C. Van Buskirk

COMMENT:

Daniel Walden, Baylor University

8:00 am – 9:45 am

430. Pedagogy of the Prison: Theorizing and Practicing Prison Education as Dissent

Hyatt Regency Chicago Atlanta, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Megan Sweeney, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

PANELISTS:

Georgia M. Roberts, University of Washington Seattle

Patrick Alexander, University of Mississippi

Rebecca Ginsburg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Garrett Felber, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Anoop Mirpuri, Portland State University

8:00 am – 9:45 am

431. Against the Tide: Transpacific Imaginaries, Caribbean Counter-Narratives, Pleasure and Politics

Hyatt Regency Chicago Burnham, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Vivian Halloran, Indiana University Bloomington

PAPERS:

Sharada Balachandran, University of Maryland at College Park
Experimental Pedagogies: The Pleasures and Politics of Reading Latinx Literature

Shane McCoy, University of Washington Seattle
Reading for Dissent: Counter-Narratives in Michelle Cliff's Abeng (1984)

Bonnie Etherington, Northwestern University The Trans-Pacific in Linda Hogan's People of the Whale
and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

Sara C. Kaplan, University of California, San Diego
Of Zombis and Other Lessons: Toni Cade Bambara and Erna Brodber's Pedagogies of Crossing

8:00 am – 9:45 am

432. Consent as Dissent in an Age of Co-Option

Hyatt Regency Chicago Columbian, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Bill Johnson-Gonzalez, UUniversity of California, San Diego

PAPERS:

Anna Watkins Fisher, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Dissent in an Age of Embeddedness

Coleman Nye, Simon Fraser University, Canada
The Accumulation of the Primitive: Racializing Nature to Intervene in the Propertization of Human Genes?

Alexander Pittman, Barnard College
On Capitalist Masochism, Financial Domination, and the Racialization of Consent

Johanna Gosse, Columbia University
In Correspondence: Ray Johnson's Mail Art as Mimetic Critique

8:00 am – 9:45 am

433. Principled Separatists: Representations of Withdrawal and Dissent in American Literature and Culture

Hyatt Regency Chicago Comiskey, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Leonard Cassuto, Fordham University

PAPERS:

Les Harrison, Virginia Commonwealth University
'The Other Side of that Stone Wall': Thoreau, Proximity, and the Space of Dissent

Nicolette Gable, College of William and Mary
The Gospel of Inaction: Ralph Adams Cram and the Politics of Withdrawal

Isaac Ginsberg Miller, Northwestern University
Bob Kaufman's Exodus: The Ethics of Refusal and the Surrealism of Silence

Matthew Mosher, Stony Brook University (SUNY)
'As the world has shuttered slowly closed': Isolation and Dissent in Doctorow's Homer & Langley

8:00 am – 9:45 am

434. Corporeal Dissent: The Flesh, Clothing & Tattoos

Hyatt Regency Chicago Dusable, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Jolie A. Sheffer, Bowling Green State University

PAPERS:

Alvin Henry, St. Lawrence University
Black Flesh Rendered Queer: Richard Wright's Island of Hallucination

Ashley E. Palmer, University of Tampa
Looking Backwards: Lessons from Progressive-Era Consumer Reform

Andrea Quintero, Yale University
Object Lessons: Personal Adornment and Dissent in Multiethnic New York City

Bonnie C. O'Neill, Mississippi State University
The Sartorial Symbolism of Dissent, From Petticoat Tyranny to Pussyhat Protest

8:00 am – 9:45 am

435. Lana and Lilly Wachowski's Cinematic Pedagogy of Dissent

Hyatt Regency Chicago Field, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Susan Stryker, University of Arizona

PAPERS:

Cael M. Keegan, Grand Valley State University
Trans Pedagogies of Perceptive Dissent: The Matrix Trilogy as Emblematic Cinema

Micha Cárdenas, University of Southern California
A Telepathic Chicago Cop Meets a Telepathic Black Woman: Science Fiction as Pedagogy of Dissent

Laura Horak, Carleton University, Roxanne Samer, University of Southern California Forging Collectivities Through Embodied Spectatorship: Sense8, Resistance, and Radical Imagination

8:00 am – 9:45 am

436. Resisting Erasure: AIDS and Modalities of Dissent

Hyatt Regency Chicago Gold Coast, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Octavio R. Gonzalez, Wellesley College

PAPERS:

Rene Esparza, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Propertied Belongings: AIDS Evictions, Neoliberal Subjection, and the Spatialized Politics of Homonormativity

Jan Huebenthal, College of William and Mary
A Tsunami of Feeling: ACT UP New York and Affective Biopolitics

Marika Cifor, University of California, Los Angeles
Undetectable: HIV/AIDS Activism, Biomedical Development and Archival Consequences

David Román, University of Southern California
Longterm Survivors

COMMENT:

Octavio R. Gonzalez, Wellesley College

8:00 am – 9:45 am

437. Worrying the Line: Black Talk/Black Being

Hyatt Regency Chicago Haymarket, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Lynn Hudson, University of Illinois at Chicago

PAPERS:

I. Augustus Durham, Duke University
Troubling Schwa: Insertion-Deletion and the Politics of Pronunciation in William Melvin Kelley's dem

Janee Moses, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
"'This is a man's world': Black Cultural Nationalism and Revolutionary Domesticity"

Malcolm Tariq, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Master P's Ghettocentric (No Limits) Culture

8:00 am – 9:45 am

438. Dissenting Practices: Pedagogical Projects Mobilizing Against State Violence

Hyatt Regency Chicago Hong Kong, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Therese Quinn, University of Illinois at Chicago

PANELISTS:

Paula C. Austin, California State University, Sacramento

José Luis Benavides, University of Illinois at Chicago

William Estrada, University of Illinois at Chicago

Skyla S. Hearn, DuSable Museum of African American History

Alice Kim, Chicago Justice Torture Memorials Project

8:00 am – 9:45 am

439. I Object: Making the Difference of Minoritarian Dissent Matter

Hyatt Regency Chicago Horner, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Fiona I. B. Ngo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PAPERS:

Chris A. Eng, Syracuse University
Re-collecting Camp: Trashy Object Lessons of Orientalist Kitsch

Elliott H. Powell, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
When the Sample Speaks Back: Hip Hop and the Vocality of Raje Shwari

Summer Kim Lee, Dartmouth College
Caked Make-Up and Skin Sounds: The Flesh of Yellowface in Mila Zuo's Carnal Orient

Christina León, Princeton University
Pack Metaphors: Opaque Animality and Kinship in Justin Torres' We the Animals

Julian Gill-Peterson, University of Pittsburgh
Racial Plasticity and the Formlessness of Refusal: HeLa Cells and Synthetic Hormones at the Limit

8:00 am – 9:45 am

440. We Demand: A Special Session for Undergraduate Students

Hyatt Regency Chicago McCormick, Third Floor West Tower

This session, sponsored by the Northwestern American Studies Program, in collaboration with its ethnic Studies and gender Studies units, provides opportunity for undergraduate students attending the annual meeting, to discuss We Demand: The University and Student Protests, with the author and ASA President-Elect Roderick Ferguson. ASA President Kandice Chuh will moderate. A light breakfast will be served. *This session is part of a new initiative to increase undergraduate student engagement with the ASA. Please note that this event reserved for undergraduate students and faculty advisors accompanying them.

PANELISTS:

Roderick Ferguson, President-elect of the American Studies Association and University of Illinois at Chicago

Kandice Chuh, President of the American Studies Association and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

8:00 am – 9:45 am

441. Geographies of Dissent and Pedagogies of Central American Cultural Studies

Hyatt Regency Chicago New Orleans, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Claudia Milian, Duke University

PAPERS:

Angie C. Bonilla, University of California, Santa Cruz
Visualizing Migration, Enfleshing Migration: Alternate Paradigms of Central American Gender and Sexuality

Ester N. Trujillo, DePaul University
Documenting the Salvi Diasporic Imaginary: Second Generation Challenges to Misrepresentations

Raquel B. Torres, University of Texas at San Antonio
Performing Central American Realities and Identities: Cultural Production and Activism in Virtual Spaces

8:00 am – 9:45 am

442. Militarization of Borders, Politics of Aid, and Policing the Refugee Crisis: The Case of Palestinian and Syrian Refugees in Greece after the EU-Turkey Deal

Hyatt Regency Chicago Ogden, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Crystal Baik, University of California, Riverside

PANELISTS:

Nadia Barhoum, University of California, Berkeley

Banah Ghadbian, University of California, San Diego

Leena Odeh, Independent Scholar

Loubna N. Qutami, University of California, Riverside

8:00 am – 9:45 am

443. Non-liberal Dissent in Illiberal Times: Envisioning Practices Outside the Modern Nation-state Framework

Hyatt Regency Chicago Roosevelt 3AB, Concourse Level East Tower

CHAIR:

Helen Jun, University of Illinois at Chicago

PAPERS:

Jen-peng Liu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
He Zhen's "Women's Revolution": A Vision from Anarchist Communism in Natural Justice

Naifei Ding, National Central University, Taiwan
Two Material Feminist Texts: Gilman and Kollontai on Public Kitchens and Sex

Chien-Ting Lin, National Central University, Taiwan
Intimacies in Ruins: "Barefoot Doctors" and the Socialist Revolutionary Medicine under Cold War Divisions

Amie E. Parry, National Central University, Taiwan
Barefoot Septons against Lawful Containments: Envisioning Non-liberal Knowledge Dissemination and Practices of Care

COMMENT:

Helen Jun, University of Illinois at Chicago

8:00 am – 9:45 am

444. Latinx Speculative Dissent: Lessons on Debt, Power, & Spirituality in Literature

Hyatt Regency Chicago San Francisco, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Tanya Gonzalez, Kansas State University

PAPERS:

Jeannine Murray-Román, Florida State University
Revaluing Exchange and Puerto Rican "Debt" in Raquel Salas-Rivera's El terciario/the tertiary

Domino Renee Perez, University of Texas at Austin
"I should have been there to guide your powers": Self-Education in YA Latinx Fiction

Jennifer Lozano, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Spirituality as Queer Narrative in Junot Díaz's The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)

8:00 am – 9:45 am

445. Post-Soviet Pedagogies of Dissent

Hyatt Regency Chicago Skyway 260, Skyway Level East Tower

CHAIR:

Brian Kruzick Goodman, Arizona State University

PAPERS:

Marta Usiekniewicz, University of Warsaw, Poland
Translating Myself into English, Translating My Work into Polish

Anna Kurowicka, Polish Academy of Sciences
Affective Politics of Coming Out in Polish Academia

8:00 am – 9:45 am

446. Outsider Pedagogies: Collectivity and Dissent in the North American Classroom

Hyatt Regency Chicago Soldier Field, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Gregory C. Mitchell, Williams College

PANELISTS:

Lori Barcliff Baptista, University of Illinois at Chicago

Pavithra Prasad, California State University, Northridge

Gregory C. Mitchell, Williams College

8:00 am – 9:45 am

447. Human Rights in the Trump Era

Hyatt Regency Chicago Stetson E, Exhibit Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Alexander Hartwiger, Framingham State University

PAPERS:

James Dawes, Macalester College
Human Rights Reporting in the Trump Era

Alexandra S. Moore, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Teaching Human Rights in the Literary Studies Classroom Today

Peter Hitchcock, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
A World in 'Small' Hands? A Political Economy of Rights

Sophia McClennen, Penn State University
Humor Rights as Human Rights: Satire and Violence in the Trump Era

8:00 am – 9:45 am

448. Material Pedagogies of Activism and Dissent: Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Hyatt Regency Chicago Wright, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Jack Gieseking, Trinity College

PAPERS:

Krystyna Michael, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
The Queer Pedagogy of Edith Wharton's Domestic Interiors

Jennifer Pettit, Independent Scholar
To Make a Better Home: The National Association of Colored Women and the Politics of Beauty

Mary M. Humstone, University of Wyoming
Free the Caged Woman! Historic Preservation in the Equality State

Helis Sikk, College of William and Mary
Landmarks of Dissent: National Park Service and the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative

COMMENT:

Jack Gieseking, Trinity College

8:00 am – 9:45 am

449. Science Fiction as Dissent

Hyatt Regency Chicago Wrigley, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Kirin Wachter-Grene, New York University

PAPERS:

Matt Tierney, Penn State University
Toward Things Not as They Are

Ainehi Edoro, Marquette University
Nnedi Okorafor's Utopian Ecology: A Case for Human Extinction

Sean A. Guynes, Michigan State University
Punking Science Fiction: Silkpunk and the Aesthetics of Generic Dissent

8:30 am – 10:30 am

450. Business Meeting: Students' Committee

Hyatt Regency Chicago Stetson A, Exhibit Level West Tower

10:00 am – 11:45 am

451. Dissonant Bodies: Excess, Discard, and Metabolism in Critical Eating Studies

Hyatt Regency Chicago Acapulco, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Margaret S. Kelley, University of Kansas

PAPERS:

Rachel Vaughn, University of California, Los Angeles
Food, Blood, Vitamins: On Eating Placenta, DIY Post-Partum Encapsulation, & Discard Commodification

Sarah E. Tracy, University of California, Los Angeles
Delicious Destruction: Breakdown and ReValue in Big Food Science

Michelle Yates, Columbia College Chicago
Crisis in the Era of the End of Cheap Food: An Ecofeminist Reading of Soylent Green

Christy Spackman, Harvey Mudd College
Ordering Volatile Openings: Instrumentation and the Rationalization of Bodily Odors

10:00 am – 11:45 am

452. Circuits of Knowledge Production: Manuals, Tours, Public History

Hyatt Regency Chicago Addams, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Betsy J. Erkkila, Northwestern University

PAPERS:

James Davis, Brooklyn College (CUNY), Lonneke Geerlings, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Protest Poetry and Subversive Education: Rosey E. Pool's Lecture Tour through Southern HBCU's

Brenna Casey, Duke University
Sojourner Truth in the Midwest: Photography, Indigeneity and Freedom

Diego A. Millan, Brown University
Taught Happiness: Advice to Freedmen, Disciplining Enjoyment, and Black Joy

Robert Fanuzzi, St. John's University
Public Humanities and Community (Dis)Organizing: African American Histories of the Present

10:00 am – 11:45 am

453. System Breakdowns: Teaching, Imagining, and Negotiating Dissent in Everyday Structures of Control

Hyatt Regency Chicago Atlanta, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Laura Y. Liu, The New School

PAPERS:

Shana Agid, Parsons School of Design
Designing (in) the Known World: Possibilities of Dissent in Systems and Service Design

Melissa Burch, University of Texas at Austin
Delicate Negotiations: Power, Meaning, and Dissent in Constructing the Conviction Script

Kathryn S. Drabinski, University of Maryland at Baltimore County
Take a Walk: Teaching Dissent and the Everyday

COMMENT:

Daniel Berger, University of Washington Bothell

10:00 am – 11:45 am

454. Post-9/11 Fictions and Reconfigurations

Hyatt Regency Chicago Burnham, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Sarah L. Wasserman, University of Delaware

PAPERS:

Fareed Ben-Youssef, New York University 9/11 Transformed the Whole Planet, Not Just America: Cristi Puiu's Sieranevada
and the Resistant Pedagogy of Conspiracy Theory

Eric Andrew James, Northwestern University, Sarah Katherine Lingo, Northwestern University Imagining Cold War Memory: Bathesda's Fallout
and a Generation that Never Knew the Soviet Union

Susan Lurie, Rice University
Lessons of the Holocaust in Post-9/11 Cultures of Dissent

Jennifer N. Ross, College of William and Mary
Words of Dissent: Re-Teaching History in Post-Hurricane Katrina Literature

10:00 am – 11:45 am

455. Dissent and Sensibility: Anticolonial and Antiracist Aesthetic Pedagogies

Hyatt Regency Chicago Columbian, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Karen Jaime, Cornell University

PAPERS:

Leticia Alvarado, Brown University
Dissent by Dismemberment: The Comparative Aesthetics of Enrique Chagoya and Yinka Shonibare

Jennifer S. Ponce de Leon, University of Pennsylvania
Anticolonial Critique & Utopian Speculation in Transmedia Art

COMMENT:

Karen Jaime, Cornell University

10:00 am – 11:45 am

456. Reform in the Progressive Era: A Primer in Dissent

Hyatt Regency Chicago Comiskey, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Benjamin Johnson, Loyola University Chicago

PAPERS:

Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
'Imperialism is Hostile to Liberty and Tends Toward Militarism': Revisiting Anti-imperialist Critique and Activism

Nathaniel Cadle, Florida International University
Transnational Networks of Reform: The Mexican Revolution and U.S. Progressivism

Julie Naviaux, University of Alabama Huntsville
Traditionally yet Progressively American: Black Performances on the Early 20th Century's Great White Way

Heather Chacon, Greensboro College
There's Sickness in the Water: Resisting Environmental Racism from the Progressive Era to Flint, Michigan

10:00 am – 11:45 am

457. Visualizing Indigenous, Black & Asian American Dissent

Hyatt Regency Chicago Dusable, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Edward Tang, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa

PAPERS:

Cheryl Spinner, Duke University
Darkrooms of Dissent: James VanDerZee's Glamour Photography

Guoqian Li, University of Hawai'i at Ma\noa
Dissident and Diasporic Memory in Liu Hung's Self-Portraits

Belquis Elhadi, University of Michigan
Wrapped in Controversy: Hijab, Playboy, and Modes of Self-Representation

Joanna Hearne, University of Missouri
Stills from a Film that is Missing: Indigenous Images and the Photographic Interval in Early Cinema

10:00 am – 11:45 am

458. Dissident Art: Objection, Abjection, and the (Un)Teachable

Hyatt Regency Chicago Field, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Anna Thompson Hajdik, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater

PAPERS:

Gustavus Stadler, Haverford College
Woody Guthrie's Shame

Nicholas Sammond, University of Toronto, Canada
Horrible Prettiness: Strategic Ugliness and the Resistant Art of Emory Douglas

Jennifer Doyle, University of California, Riverside
Unteachable Moments

10:00 am – 11:45 am

459. Suicidal Pedagogies

Hyatt Regency Chicago Gold Coast, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

C. R. Snorton, Cornell University

PANELISTS:

C. R. Snorton, Cornell University

Eric Stanley, University of California, Riverside

Bobby Benedicto, McGill University, Canada

10:00 am – 11:45 am

460. Pedagogies of Black Travel

Hyatt Regency Chicago Haymarket, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Gary Totten, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

PAPERS:

Miriam Thaggert, University of Iowa
Off the Tracks: Teaching and Researching Black Women's Travel Narratives

Laila Amine, University of North Texas
Homecoming: A Lesson on Exile in William Gardner Smith's Fiction

Shaundra Myers, Northwestern University
Transient Intimacies: Contemporary Black Prose and the Form of Travel

COMMENT:

Gary Totten, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

10:00 am – 11:45 am

461. From Southern California to the New South: Regional Racial Formations and their Undoing

Hyatt Regency Chicago Hong Kong, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University

PAPERS:

Genevieve Carpio, University of California, Los Angeles
Tinted Windows: Countermobility in Postwar Los Angeles

Perla M. Guerrero, University of Maryland
Second Generation Latina/o Southerners: Racialization, Education, and Marginalization

Priscilla Leiva, Loyola Marymount University
Yardsticks of the Future: Domed Stadiums and New Racial Visions in Houston and Beyond

COMMENT:

Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University

10:00 am – 11:45 am

462. Imperial Surplus: Dissent in the Visual and Material Remainders of Power

Hyatt Regency Chicago Horner, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Simeon Man, University of California, San Diego

PAPERS:

Anthony Y. Kim, Hunter College (CUNY) Intimate Lighting: Queer Urban Aesthetics in Barry Jenkins' Moonlight
and Andrew Ahn's Spa Night

Davorn Sisavath, California State University, Fresno
Places of Dissent: Looking Beyond Ruins and Decay

Trung P. Q. Nguyen, University of California, Santa Cruz
Post-War Visuality: Afterimages and Images After the Corpse

Rachel H. Lim, University of California, Berkeley
Hemispheric Korean Americas: Diasporic Refusal among Korean Descendants in Mérida, México

COMMENT:

Simeon Man, University of California, San Diego

10:00 am – 11:45 am

463. Critical Disability Studies Caucus: Vulnerability/Debility/Disability: Theorizing/Finding New Forms of Dissent

Hyatt Regency Chicago McCormick, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Katerina Kolarova, Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia

PAPERS:

Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons, University of Illinois at Chicago
Beyond the Social Model: Exploring Dementia as Debility in Disability Studies

Theodora Danylevich, George Washington University
Learning from Domestic Violence: Private Vulnerability and Public Avenues of Dissent

Brady Forrest, George Washington University
Black Excess, Manic Excess: Feeling Vulnerable, Building Community, and Imagining Resistance

Alyson Patsavas, University of Illinois at Chicago
Pedagogies of Pain and the Logic of Accounting

COMMENT:

Katerina Kolarova, Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia

10:00 am – 11:45 am

464. New Pedagogical Directions in Latino/a TV and Film Studies

Hyatt Regency Chicago New Orleans, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Christopher Gonzalez, Utah State University

PAPERS:

Camilla Fojas, University of Virginia
Teaching Latino Film in the End Times

Isabel Molina-Guzman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Teaching the Cultural Politics of Hollywood Casting and the Promise of Digital Dissent

Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University
21st Century Reel & Real Latinx Literacies

Mary Beltran, University of Texas at Austin
Schooling TV Viewers with Wild (and Funny) Tongues: Cristela Alonzo and Grace Parra

10:00 am – 11:45 am

465. Foreclosing the Future? Diapers, Debt, and Dross

Hyatt Regency Chicago Ogden, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

John Gronbeck-Tedesco, Ramapo College of New Jersey

PAPERS:

Melinda Cooper, University of Sydney, Australia
A Burden on Future Generations? Challenging the Neoliberal Critique of Government Deficit Spending

Nadine Ehlers, University of Sydney, Australia
Governing the "Super-User 1%" as Debt Burden: Critical Pedagogies of Medical Hot Spotting

Shiloh Krupar, Georgetown University, Christopher Greig Crysler, University of California, Berkeley
(En)Gauging Dross: Notes on Cities and the Credit Crisis

10:00 am – 11:45 am

466. Presidential Session: Pedagogies of Anti/Fascism

Hyatt Regency Chicago Regency B, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Laura Kang, University of California, Irvine

PANELISTS:

Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut

Siobhan Somerville, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jodi Byrd, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Neferti Tadiar, Columbia University

Robin Kelley, University of California, Los Angeles

Vijay Prashad, Trinity College

10:00 am – 11:45 am

467. Kinship in Transit: Transnational Circuits of Gender, Sexuality and Family

Hyatt Regency Chicago Roosevelt 3AB, Concourse Level East Tower

CHAIR:

Francesca Royster, DePaul University

PAPERS:

Brian Connolly, University of South Florida
Sovereignty and Utopia: International Law and Marriage in the 19th Century United States

Crystal Parikh, New York University
Against American Good Life: CEDAW and the Right to Revolution

Asha Nadkarni, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"American books . . . [are] so yesterday:" Rising Asia, Pathological Masculinity, and U.S. Futures

Kimberlee Pérez, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Feeling through Ramble-Ations and D'FunQT Times: Performance and the Politics of Queer Trans/national Family Storytelling

10:00 am – 11:45 am

468. Queers, Laughs, Jabs, and Visitas: Exploring New Directions in Cuban-American Studies

Hyatt Regency Chicago San Francisco, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Maria de los Angeles Torres, University of Illinois at Chicago

PAPERS:

Julio Capo, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Queers and Competing Tourist Markets in Miami and the Caribbean, 1920–1940

Albert Laguna, Yale University
Before the Thaw: The Politics of Cuban Popular Culture in 21st Century Miami and Havana

Michael J. Bustamante, Florida International University
Confronting (and Forgetting) Return: The Visitas de la Comunidad of 1979

Christina D. Abreu, Northern Illinois University
Patria over Profits: The Story of Cuban Boxing Champion Teófilo Stevenson

COMMENT:

Maria de los Angeles Torres, University of Illinois at Chicago

10:00 am – 11:45 am

469. Three Generations of Funk: Performances of Dissent in Kendrick Lamar, Jessica Care Moore, and Sarah Webster Fabio

Hyatt Regency Chicago Skyway 260, Skyway Level East Tower

CHAIR:

Tammy L. Kernodle, Miami University

PAPERS:

Michael J. New, Saint Anselm College
Panther Teacher: Sarah Webster Fabio's Black Power

Anthony Bolden, University of Kansas
Blue Funk as Black Feminist Poetics: Jessica Care Moore's Black Tea

Sequoia Maner, University of Texas at Austin
Reviving Tupac Shakur in the #BlackLivesMatter Era: Kendrick Lamar, G-Funk, and the Performance of Dissent

COMMENT:

Tammy L. Kernodle, Miami University

10:00 am – 11:45 am

470. Rethinking Transgender Scholarship: Critical Trans Organizing in Higher Education

Hyatt Regency Chicago Soldier Field, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Toby Beauchamp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PAPERS:

Eli Erlick, Independent Scholar
Death in the Academy: Transgender Necropolitics, Commodity, and Higher Education

Mel L Ferrara, University of Arizona
The Costs of Safety: Negotiating the Role of the Neoliberal Subject in LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity Training

Sage Perdue, University of California, Merced
Trans Bodies of Knowledge: Critical Pedagogy, Doing Philosophy, and Collective Agency

Lily Zacharias, Bard College
Access Without Inclusion: Loretta Lynch, Transgender Dissent, and Pedagogies of Resistance

10:00 am – 11:45 am

471. Cultures of Dissent in the U.S. Prison

Hyatt Regency Chicago Stetson E, Exhibit Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Perry Zurn, American University

PAPERS:

Stephen P. Dillon, Hampshire College
A World Beneath the World: Feminist/Queer Coalitions Against the Prison State

Emily Hainze, Columbia University
Writing and Rebellion at the New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford Hills

Joshua Mitchell, University of Southern California
Blood, Bonds, and 16mm: Military Films and Prisoners' Wartime Labor in World War II

Sam Tenorio, Northwestern University
Leisure Time: Mobility's Utility in Carceral Space-Time and Its Effect on Dissent

10:00 am – 11:45 am

472. Processing, Preparing, and Rationing Food in the 20th Century United States

Hyatt Regency Chicago Wright, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Amy Bentley, New York University

PAPERS:

Allison Varzally, California State University, Fullerton
Realizing Immigrant Cultures and Entrepreneurship in Southern California's Restaurants

Bonnie M. Miller, University of Massachusetts at Boston
Marketing Pure Food: The Spectacle of Food Production at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915

COMMENT:

Amy Bentley, New York University

10:00 am – 11:45 am

473. Looking Back, Angry and Otherwise: Popular Media, Dissent, and Historiography

Hyatt Regency Chicago Wrigley, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Victoria Hesford, Stony Brook University

PAPERS:

Mimi White, Northwestern University
Women, Feminism, and Genre in Mad Men

Leigh Goldstein, Northwestern University
History in General: Undiscipline, Survival and the Politics of Popular Historiography

Meenasarani L. Murugan, Fordham University "Indians on TV": Master of None
and TV History's Mundane South Asian Idols

11:30 am – 2:00 pm

474. Walking Tour of the Pilsen Neighborhood's Latinx Murals (Description under General Information, p. 26)

Museum of Mexican Art (1852 W 19th St) Main Entrance

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

475. Repositories of Dissent: Unusual Archives of the Anthropocene

Hyatt Regency Chicago Acapulco, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Shane D. Hall, Salisbury University

PAPERS:

Erica M. Hannickel, Northland College
George Engelmann, the Missouri Botanical Garden Archives, and the Unmaking of Monsanto's Empire

Sherri Sheu, University of Colorado-Boulder
"Ghastly Relics of a Merciless Slaughter": Visualizing Extinction at the 1888 Ohio Valley Exposition

Sarah J. Moore, University of Arizona
"General Noble" Meets Uncle Sam: The Double Discourse of Nature at the World's Columbian Exposition

Rebecca Evans, Winston-Salem State University
Deleted, Withheld: Anti-Archives of Climate Activism

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

476. Praxis and Pedagogies of Power

Hyatt Regency Chicago Addams, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Jodi Melamed, Marquette University

PAPERS:

Sarah E. Dougher, Portland State University, Diane Pecknold, University of Louisville
Negotiating Girl Power: Normative and Transformative Community-Based Feminist Pedagogy at Girls' Rock Camps

Victoria E. Thomas, University of Washington Seattle
Soul Work: Critical Black Feminist Praxis in the Era of Hyper Incarceration

Rose Miron, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
An Indigenous Pedagogy of Dissent: Displacing Stereotypes and Centering Native Histories on the Borders of the Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation

Robert Zecker, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Carry the Light to the Masses: The International Workers Order's Proletarian Children's Schools

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

477. Theater of Dissent

Hyatt Regency Chicago Atlanta, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Nitasha Sharma, Northwestern University

PAPERS:

Ida Yalzadeh, Brown University
Disembodiment and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Nassim Soleimanpour's White Rabbit Red Rabbit

Dan DiPiero, Ohio State University
Improvisation as Pedagogy of Dissent

Rachel Miller, University of Michigan
Race, Creativity, and Labor Organizing in Vaudeville's Jim Crow

Patrick Maley, Centenary University of New Jersey
Theatrical Dissent, Performative Pedagogy: Contemporary African American Drama and Collaborative Identity Crafting

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

478. Staking Claims: Race, Space, and (Re)Settlement in Minneapolis and Detroit

Hyatt Regency Chicago Burnham, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Karine Walther, Georgetown University Qatar

PAPERS:

Thomas S. Dolan, George Washington University
Empty Space: Unsettling Empire in Arab Detroit

Kasey Keeler, University of Virginia
Little Earth Housing Complex: American Indian Resilience, Resistance, and Responsibility in Minneapolis

Joseph DeLeon, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Not on My Watch: Citizen Complaint Apps and Detroit's Spatial Legacies

Sasha Maria Suarez, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Rewriting Settler Space through Indigenous Community Outreach in Minneapolis

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

479. Visuality and Violence: Scopic Regimes in the Age of the War on Terror

Hyatt Regency Chicago Columbian, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Charlotte Lucy Kent, Montclair State University

PAPERS:

Campbell Birch, Columbia University
Blind Spots: Photography at the Limits of Exposure

Margaret U. Goddard, Brown University
"Let me look at you": Language and the Visual

Erin McElroy, University of California, Santa Cruz
Hacking the Inimical of Post-Cold War Time: Mr. Robot, the Trumpocalypse, and the Doomsday Machine

Jocelyn E. Marshall, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Standing in the Procedure: Investigating the (Un)Seen and (Un)Heard at Abu Ghraib

COMMENT:

Charlotte Lucy Kent, Montclair State University

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

480. Training for Revolution: The 1877 Strikes and the Chicago Idea

Hyatt Regency Chicago Comiskey, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

David Roediger, University of Kansas

PAPERS:

Daniel A. Graff, University of Notre Dame
The St. Louis Idea: Revisiting Region, Race, Rioting, and Radicalism in the 1877 General Strike

Gale Ahrens, Independent Scholar
More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters

Justin Rogers-Cooper, LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)
Incendiarism, Insurrection, Sabotage: Lessons from the Railroad War

COMMENT:

Rosemary Feurer, Northern Illinois University

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

481. Public Archives of Dissent

Hyatt Regency Chicago Dusable, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Lisa Goff, University of Virginia

PAPERS:

Melanie Chambliss, Northwestern University
Archival Activism: Understanding the Role of Black Archives in the Creation of Dissenting Historical Epistemologies

Johanna Taylor, Arizona State University
Art as Collaborative Dissent in New Orleans

Abram Coetsee, Cornell University
5 Pointz and the Precarity of Education: Graffiti, Ephemerality, and the Archives of Dissent

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

482. The Matter of Teaching and the Politics of Race: Technology, Markets, Institutions

Hyatt Regency Chicago Field, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Koritha Mitchell, Ohio State University

PAPERS:

Christopher Dingwall, University of Toronto, Canada
A Burst of Brilliant Color: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Art History Slideshow in the Black Radical Tradition

Korey Garibaldi, University of Notre Dame
Making America Racially and Ethnically Tolerant: Rehabilitating and Desegregating Children's Literature in the Post-Depression U.S.

COMMENT:

Koritha Mitchell, Ohio State University

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

483. Violence, Politics and the Limits of Imagination

Hyatt Regency Chicago Gold Coast, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Bakirathi Mani, Swarthmore College

PANELISTS:

Catherine O. Jacquet, Louisiana State University

Hollis Griffin, Denison University

Lisa Arellano, Colby College

Jen Manion, Amherst College

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

484. Sensing, Embodying, Creating: Pedagogical Approaches of/to the Civil Rights Movement

Hyatt Regency Chicago Haymarket, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Charles Payne, Rutgers University Newark

PAPERS:

Francoise N. Hamlin, Brown University
Courting the Senses: Experiential Learning and Civil Rights Movement Pedagogy

Paige McGinley, Washington University In St. Louis
Dramatizing Dissent: Nonviolence Training and Theatrical Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement

William Sturkey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Freedom and What it Means to Me: Pedagogies of Dissent in the Mississippi Freedom Schools

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

485. Getting the Joke: Unlaughter, Offense, and (Un)acceptable Humor

Hyatt Regency Chicago Hong Kong, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Irvin Hunt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PAPERS:

Raul Perez, University of Denver
Racist Humor without Hatred? Lisa Lampanelli and the Articulation of a Post-Racism Fantasy

Lanita Jacobs, University of Southern California
Authenticating Apologies in Black Standup Comedy

Peter C. Kunze, University of Texas at Austin
Suck It Up, Buttercup: Conservative Commentators as Comedians

Jared N. Champion, Young Harris College
'That Goal-Line Defense Still Waiting at the Pearly Gates': Tosh, Bigotry, and Fundamentalism

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

486. The Charge of Complicity

Hyatt Regency Chicago Horner, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Janet Jakobsen, Barnard College

PANELISTS:

Abigail Boggs, Wesleyan University

Nick Mitchell, University of California, Santa Cruz

Liz Kinnamon, University of Arizona

Alexis Shotwell, Carleton University, Canada

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

487. Visibility, Visuality, and Incarceration

Hyatt Regency Chicago McCormick, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Shirley Thompson, University of Texas at Austin

PAPERS:

Ruby C. Tapia, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Against "Passive Resistance": On Photography, Facelessness, and the Juvenile Exception

Kyle Frisina, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Ethical Attention to Invisible Injustice: Race, Prison, and Embodiment in Tarell McCraney's The Brothers Size

Christine So, Georgetown University
Modeling Dissent: Korematsu v. United States

Kita Douglas, Duke University
Sight and Sentence: Graphic Form, State Metrics, and Japanese American Wartime Incarceration

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

488. New Directions in Television History: Examining the Transnational Histories of Spanish-Language TV

Hyatt Regency Chicago New Orleans, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Alejandra Bronfman, University of British Columbia, Canada

PANELISTS:

Mireya Loza, National Museum of American History

Yeidy M. Rivero, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Kenton T. Wilkinson, Texas Tech University

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

489. Learning from Cuba: The Legacy of the Cuban Revolution in the Formation and Development of the US Left

Hyatt Regency Chicago Ogden, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Devyn Spence Benson, Davidson College

PAPERS:

Sarah Seidman, Museum of the City of New York
Emancipatory Pedagogies of the Black Freedom Struggle and the Cuban Revolution

Teishan Latner, Thomas Jefferson University
Unfinished Revolutions: Cuba in the Contemporary U.S. Radical Imagination

Ben V. Olguin, University of Texas at San Antonio
Barrios of the World: Aztlán, Cuba, and Revolutionary Dissensus in the Chicana/o Left

COMMENT:

Devyn Spence Benson, Davidson College

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

490. Performing Transnational Dissent

Hyatt Regency Chicago Roosevelt 3AB, Concourse Level East Tower

CHAIR:

Janet Fiskio, Oberlin College

PAPERS:

Andrew J. Brown, Western Washington University
Umzabalazo: Performing Black Queer Resistance in South Africa's Student Uprisings

Victoria Fortuna, Reed College
For the Money: Argentine Contemporary Dance and the Global Cultural Economy

Jasmine Mahmoud, Washington University in St. Louis
On 'Black Lives, Black Words' and Transnational Black Worlds: A Black Sense of Place on Stage

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

491. Philippine Trans/Nationalism: Dissent and Complicity in Second Generation Filipino America

Hyatt Regency Chicago San Francisco, Ballroom Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Robyn Magalit M. Rodriguez, University of California, Davis

PAPERS:

Joy Sales, Northwestern University
The Filipino/a Radical Tradition: A Historical Examination of Filipino/a Youth and Transnational Organizing

Mark Sanchez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cultural Activism in the Anti-Marcos Movement

Karen B. Hanna, University of California, Santa Barbara
Subversives Acts of Hiding: Filipina/o TNTs, Anti-Martial Law Activists, and Immigration Politics Under Trump

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

492. Sonic Battleground: Domination and Contestation in the Soundscape of the State

Hyatt Regency Chicago Skyway 260, Skyway Level East Tower

CHAIR:

Derek Vaillant, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

PAPERS:

David Suisman, University of Delaware
The Militarization of the Ear: Music and War-Making from Ancient Greece to LollaFallujah

Daphne G. Carr, New York University
Sound Protocols: Street Medic Public Education and Treatments for Sound Energy Injuries

Brian Hochman, Georgetown University
Little Brother, Big Brother: The Telephone Tap and the Invention of the American Surveillance State

COMMENT:

Derek Vaillant, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

493. Pedagogies of Dissent in American Literature: Critical Practices for a Changing World

Hyatt Regency Chicago Soldier Field, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIRS: Eden K. Osucha, Bates College

Carol Batker, University of San Francisco

PANELISTS:

Cassius Adair, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Sarah Ensor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Stephen Brauer, St John Fisher College

Tina Chen, Penn State University

Andrew Donnelly, Harvard University

Thomas Koenigs, Scripps College

Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

494. Pedagogies of Music, Politics, and Race

Hyatt Regency Chicago Stetson E, Exhibit Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Daniel HoSang, Yale University

PANELISTS:

Gaye Theresa Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles Oneka Labennett, Cornell University

Loren Kajikawa, University of Oregon

Ali Colleen Neff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Gabriel Solis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Regina N. Bradley, Kennesaw State University

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

495. Witnessing Faithfully Our Dissent: On the Intimate Praxis of Emotional Knowing

Hyatt Regency Chicago Wright, Third Floor West Tower

CHAIR:

Manuel Chavez, Monmouth University

PAPERS:

Shireen Roshanravan, Kansas State University
Model-Minority Dissent and the 'Spectacular Opacity' of Asian-Black Solidarity

Ernesto S. Martinez, University of Oregon
Queer Arousals in Contexts of Racialized Harm

Gabriela A. Veronelli, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Can You Hear Me Now? Performing Non-Dialogic Communication

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

496. Sport, Dissent, and Representation during the 1970s

Hyatt Regency Chicago Wrigley, Concourse Level West Tower

CHAIR:

Randy Roberts, Purdue University

PAPERS:

Johnny Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology
It's A Man's World: Baseball, Black Power, and the Meaning of Reggie Jackson

Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis
Rooting for Goliath: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Cultural Politics of Black Giants

Eric A. Hall, Northern Illinois University
The Old Man and Billie Jean: The 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" Tennis Match Reexamined

Jaime Schultz, Penn State University
Crashing the Marathon: Women's Distance Running as Feminist Activism, 1959–1972

COMMENT:

David K. Wiggins, George Mason University