SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2018
7:30 am – 9:30 am
277. Breakfast: Boston University American & New England Studies Program
Westin Peachtree The Overlook (Sixth)
8:00 am – 9:45 am
278. Digital Humanities Caucus: Digital Shorts
Westin Peachtree Augusta 1 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
8:00 am – 9:45 am
279. Citizenship after Citizenship?: Reclaiming, Recovering, and Reconfiguring the Radical Potential of Citizenship
Westin Peachtree Augusta 2 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Mark R. Villegas, Franklin and Marshall College
PAPERS:
Ann Holder, Pratt Institute
The Afterlife of Black Citizenship
R. Gabriel Mayora, Franklin and Marshall College
The Potentiality of Queer Latinx Citizenship
Adriana Green, University of California–Berkeley
Black to the Future: Reimagining African American Citizenship
COMMENT:
Mark R. Villegas, Franklin and Marshall College
8:00 am – 9:45 am
280. Broken Promises: Insecurity in the Muslim African Diaspora
Westin Peachtree Augusta 3 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Alexander Weheliye, Northwestern University
PAPERS:
Mohamed Abumaye, California State University–San Marcos
Askar: Militarized Police and the Somali Refugee
Ladan Siad, OCAD (Ontario College Art and Design)
Assemblages of Black Data
Muna-Udbi A. Ali, University of Toronto
Gender, War, and Welfare: Racial Neoliberalism and Welfare Fraud Discourses in Canada
COMMENT:
Alexander Weheliye, Northwestern University
8:00 am – 9:45 am
281. Emergence in the Archive: Cultural Heritage in Theory and Practice
Westin Peachtree Augusta A (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Sarah Carlson, The University of Texas at Austin
PANELISTS:
Gaila Sims, The University of Texas at Austin
Kenvi Phillips, Harvard University
Sarah Carlson, The University of Texas at Austin
Martina Dodd, Atlanta History Center
8:00 am – 9:45 am
282. Knowledge is Sovereignty: De-centering Settler Colonial States of Emergency through Indigenous Resurgence Praxes
Westin Peachtree Augusta B (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Dian L. Million, University of Washington–Seattle Campus
PAPERS:
Margaret Noodin, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Dibaajimokwewag: A Network of Women Telling Stories
Sasha Maria Suarez, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
City Resurgence: Indigenous Minneapolis, Urban Space, and Community Programs for Historic and Contemporary Trauma Healing
Shavaughna Underwood, Quinault Indian Nation
Miss Quinault's Tribal Journey: Place-Based Resurgence and Trans-Indigenous Relationship Building
Laura M. De Vos, University of Washington–Seattle Campus
Bushed Theory: Sovereignty and Cultural Continuance through Oral History
8:00 am – 9:45 am
283. Sound Studies Caucus: Emergent Auralities and Subaltern Sounds: Latinx Cultural Production and Performance
Westin Peachtree Augusta C (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Caitlin Marshall, University of Maryland–College Park
PAPERS:
Karen Jaime, Cornell University
La Modelo
: Cardi B's Diasporically Queer Sonic Feminism
Marlen Rios Hernandez, University of California–Riverside
We Will Bury You: Listening For Chicana Punk and Other Subaltern Queer Auralities on Vinyl
Patricia Herrera, University of Richmond,
Marci McMahon, The University of Texas–
Rio Grande Valley
Reclaiming Sonic Subalterity: Scratching White Supremacy and Looping Latinidad in Lin Manuel-Miranda's In The Heights
COMMENT:
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Northwestern University
8:00 am – 9:45 am
284. Disability Studies: Critical Genealogies and Emerging Futures
Westin Peachtree Augusta D (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Clare Mullaney, Hamilton College
PANELISTS:
Kevin Gotkin, New York University
Aimi Hamraie, Vanderbilt University
Louise Hickman, University of California–San Diego
Clare Mullaney, Hamilton College
8:00 am – 9:45 am
285. On the Uses of Political Theatre
Westin Peachtree Augusta E (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Patrick McCreery, New York University
PAPERS:
Lisa B. Thompson, The University of Texas at Austin
Black Women Under a State of Emergency: Black Feminist Revolutionary Theatre
Erika Ramirez Mayoral, University of California–San Diego
The Rural as Sites of Political Agency: How the Chicana Literary Play and Women's Organizing Practices Create Political Agency through Theater
8:00 am – 9:45 am
286. AIDS, Media, and Memory: Legacies and Contestations in the Ongoing Emergency of the AIDS Crisis
Westin Peachtree Augusta F (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Alexandra Juhasz, CUNY Brooklyn College
PAPERS:
Jan Huebenthal, College of William and Mary
Quarantine and Punish: Trans-Atlantic AIDS Imaginaries in 1980s West Germany
Cait McKinney, California State University Northridge
Crisis Infrastructures: AIDS Activist Legacies and Internet Regulation
René Esparza, University of Maryland–Baltimore County
Black Sexuality in Times of White Injury: The Media Orchestrated HIV Criminalization of Black Sex Workers
Marika Cifor, Indiana University–Bloomington
Viral Visions: Affect, Identification, and the Curation of Archival Images on Tumblr
COMMENT:
Alexandra Juhasz, CUNY Brooklyn College
8:00 am – 9:45 am
287. Mobility and Deportation in States of Emergency
Westin Peachtree Augusta G (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Noe Montez, Tufts University
PAPERS:
Cassandra Gonzalez, University of Colorado–Boulder
Origins Matter: Neocolonialism and Western Responses to Human Trafficking of African Immigrants to Europe
Rafael A. Martinez, The University of New Mexico
DREamers in Crisis: Re-Emergence of Performative Citizenship
8:00 am – 9:45 am
288. Program Committee: NO! The Rape Documentary in the Age of #Metoo
Westin Peachtree Chastain 1 (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Kai M. Green, Williams College
PANELISTS:
Terrion Williamson, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Savannah Shange, University of California–Santa Cruz
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Princeton University
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, University of Pennsylvania
8:00 am – 9:45 am
289. Environment and Culture Caucus: Climate Migrants and Refugees across Militarized Borders
Westin Peachtree Chastain 2 (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Laura Pulido, University of Oregon
PAPERS:
Shane D. Hall, Salisbury University
The Monstrous Insurgencies and Revolutionary Figure of the Climate Migrant
Raquel Madrigal, The University of New Mexico
Climate Migrants and the Indigenous Politics of Migrant Justice, Environmental Justice, Borders, and State Surveillance
Sara Mameni, California Institute of the Arts
Petro Emergencies
Roberta Wolfson, California Polytechnic State University–San Luis Obispo
Environmental Precarity in the Refugee Narrative
COMMENT:
Laura Pulido, University of Oregon
8:00 am – 9:45 am
290. Emergent Acts: Colonial Logics and Transnational Performances of Resistance
Westin Peachtree Chastain C (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Davorn Sisavath, California State University–Fresno
PAPERS:
Emily L. Hue, University of California–Riverside
Borderless vs. Stateless: Debates Around Refugee Subjectivity in the Contemporary International Museum
Josen M. Diaz, University of San Diego
On Marcos's Body: Tracing the Specters of Martial Law
Jennifer L. Kelly, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Welcome to Gaza: On the Politics of Invitation and the Right to Tourism
Sara Awartani, George Washington University
Solidarity Redux: Colonial Catastrophes and Contemporary Puerto Rican-Palestinian Visions of Liberation
COMMENT:
Davorn Sisavath, California State University–Fresno
8:00 am – 9:45 am
291. Identity Politics
Westin Peachtree Chastain D (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Eli Erlick, University of California–Santa Cruz
PAPERS:
V. Varun Chaudhry, Northwestern University
The Politics of an Inconsistent Identity: The Troubled Institutionalization of Transgender
Melissa Phruksachart, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
An Emergent Response to the Dematerialization of Identity Politics
Matthew Scully, Emerson College
Refractions of the Subject: Identity Politics and Voting
8:00 am – 9:45 am
292. Confronting Anti-Blackness as Decolonization Strategy in Immigrant Justice Movements and Imaginaries
Westin Peachtree Chastain E (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Vineeta Singh, College of William & Mary
PAPERS:
China Medel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Among the Stars and on the Road: Latinx and Black Futurist Maps of Sanctuary
Yuridia Ramirez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Empezó en México: Indigeneity and the Work toward Transborder Sanctuary
Barbara Sostaita, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Towards a Mobile Sanctuary: Migrant Care Practices en Camino al Norte
8:00 am – 9:45 am
293. Whose Emergency and What Crisis?: Activist Responses to the Bipartisan Justice Reinvestment Initiative on Prison Sentencing Reform
Westin Peachtree Chastain F (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Zoe Hammer, Prescott College
PANELISTS:
Nicole Porter, The Sentencing Project
Erica Fielder, Hearts for Inmates
Rebecca Hill, Kennesaw State University
John Lash, Georgia Conflict Center
8:00 am – 9:45 am
294. Ethnography Caucus: Ethnography Now I: New Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity
Westin Peachtree Chastain G (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Kathryn Dudley, Yale University
PAPERS:
Alison Kanosky, California State University, Fullerton
From Ethnographic Subject to Ethnographer: Transforming the Method through the Interdisciplinary Classroom
Ruth Yow, Georgia Institute of Technology
Power to the People: The Impossibility of Disciplining Ethnography
Rebecca H. Jacobs, Museum of the City of New York
Ethnographic Practice and Curatorial Work
Karilyn M. Crockett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Press Play: Creative Power, Ethnography, and the Politics of Narrating Place
COMMENT:
Andy Horowitz, Tulane University
8:00 am – 9:45 am
295. Black Queer Internationalists
Westin Peachtree Chastain H (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Alessandra Williams, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater
PAPERS:
Aurelis Troncoso, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Orisha Tradition as Resistance: Transnational and Resilient Experiences of Queer Afro-Latinx Practioners in Ifá-Ocha
Amber Rose Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
Reimagining National Emergence in the Caribbean: Queer(ed) Bodies, Poetics, and Surrealism
Shireen Roshanravan, Kansas State University
The (De)Coloniality of Queer Rupture
8:00 am – 9:45 am
296. Chests, Nests, and Capsules: Material Culture and its Containers
Westin Peachtree Chastain I (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Robert Saint-George, University of Pennsylvania
PAPERS:
B. A. Harrington, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Hadley Chests: The Fullness of Empty
Sarah Anne Carter, Chipstone Foundation
A Box of Ideas: Object Lessons, Material Things, and Intellectual History
Nick Yablon, University of Iowa
P.O. Boxes to the Future: A Genealogy of the Time Capsule, 1876–1939
Susan M. Stabile, Texas A&M University–College Station
Surrogate Nests
COMMENT:
Robert Saint-George, University of Pennsylvania
8:00 am – 9:45 am
297. Maps for the Territory: Walks, Words, and Counter-Worlds in Palestine
Westin Peachtree Chastain J (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Simone Browne, The University of Texas at Austin
PAPERS:
Linda Quiquivix, Independent Scholar
The Reinvention of Territory: Palestinian Counter-Maps and Indigenous Counter-Worlds
Lubna Alzaroo, University of Washington–Seattle Campus
Narratives of Indigenous Resistance in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
and Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks
Meryem Kamil, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Waze of Seeing: Palestine and Crowdsourced Mapping
Jeffrey Sacks, University of California–Riverside
The Poetic Emergence of Palestine
8:00 am – 9:45 am
298. Pacific Currents and Visions
Westin Peachtree Peachtree 1 (Eighth)
CHAIR:
Patty Ahn, University of California–San Diego
PAPERS:
LiLi Johnson, Yale University
Emergent Kinship: Transnational Adoption From China and the Racialization of Family
Kerry Knerr, The University of Texas at Austin
Mai Tai at the End of the World: Nuclear Testing and Tiki
Rebecca Hogue, University of California–Davis
Pacific Women Speak: Anti-Nuclear Trans-Indigenous Women's Writing of Oceania
8:00 am – 9:45 am
299. Race, the State, and Political Imaginaries
Westin Peachtree Peachtree 2 (Eighth)
CHAIR:
Kevin Leonard, Middle Tennessee State University
PAPERS:
Amrit Deol, University of California–Merced
States of Emergency and Interrogations of New Global Imaginaries through Sikh and Ghadri Anti-Colonial Thought
Stephen P. Dillon, Hampshire College
Hauling Up the Morning: Fugitivity, White Supremacy, and Queer-Feminist Futures Under the Prison State
Saugher Nojan, University of California–Santa Cruz
Emerging Agency: Afghan-Americans' Consciousness, Commitments, and Desires Amidst Racialization
Peter O'Neill, University of Georgia
White Nationalism and Irish America: A Cultural History
8:00 am – 9:45 am
300. Teaching through Terror #Charlottesville
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 1 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Daylanne English, Macalester College
PANELISTS:
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman, Brown University
Daylanne English, Macalester College
Laura E. Goldblatt, University of Virginia
Renee Hudson, University of Massachusetts–Boston
Lisa Woolfork, University of Virginia
8:00 am – 9:45 am
301. Public Space As / In States of Emergence
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 2 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Rebecca Amato, New York University
PAPERS:
Anne Marie E. Butler, University at Buffalo
Public Space Is Community Space: The El Mural De Los Trabajadores Agricolas
Project and the Politics of Undocumented Visibility in Rural Western New York
Ana Grujic, University at Buffalo
Shrines on the Road: Performative and Digital Remapping of Black Geographies
Lisa Daily, New York University
The Empathy Arms Race: Re-Imagining Cities through Augmented Disaster
Basak Durgun, George Mason University
Transforming Public Space through Collective Gardening in Istanbul
8:00 am – 9:45 am
302. States of Emergence in the Labor of Suffering
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 3 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Asha Nadkarni, University of Massachusetts Amherst
PAPERS:
Jay C. Sibara, Colby College
Spectacles of Suffering: An Analysis of the Agent Orange Aftermath Exhibition at the War Remnants Museum
Lisa Marvel Johnson, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Queer Un-Emergence in the Intransience of Viral Videos of Black Death
Lyndsey Beutin, Oberlin College
Appropriation and Alternatives in Anti-Trafficking's Use of Modern Day Abolition
Christian Ravela, University of Central Florida
From White Trash to White Folk: Progress and White Misery
10:00 am – 11:45 am
303. Eva Cherniavsky's Neocitizenship: Political Culture after Democracy
Westin Peachtree Augusta 1 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Robyn Wiegman, Duke University
PANELISTS:
Nick Mitchell, University of California–Santa Cruz
Inderpal Grewal, Yale University
Chris Newfield, University of California–Santa Barbara
Eva Cherniavsky, University of Washington–Seattle Campus
10:00 am – 11:45 am
304. Entanglements of Blackness and Brownness in the Aesthetic Production of the Americas
Westin Peachtree Augusta 2 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Brian Eugenio Herrera, Princeton University
PAPERS:
Christofer Rodelo, Harvard University
Spanish Acts: Black-Brown Performances and Aesthetic Production in the 19th-Century Americas
Anahí A. Douglas, SUNY College at Old Westbury
Writing from the Crossroads of Empire and Race: Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes's The Pasteboard Bandit
Maryam I. Parhizkar, Yale University
The Aztec Hieroglyph and the Black Dancer: Rosa Covarrubias and Walter Nicks at El Eco
10:00 am – 11:45 am
305. Migrant Emergencies, Climate Change, and Narratives of Securitization
Westin Peachtree Augusta 3 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Nina Morgan, Kennesaw State University
PAPERS:
Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University–Tempe,
Matthew Henry, Arizona State University–Tempe
Migrant Ecologies: Representations of Climate Migration, Securitized Borders, and Neoliberalism in the United States and Australia
Vivian Halloran, Indiana University–Bloomington
Devastated Paradise vs Hordes of Climate Migrants: The Rhetoric of Hurricanes and Climate Change in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico
Kara Hisatake, University of California–Santa Cruz
Micronesian Migrants: Militarism in the Poetry of Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Craig Santos Perez
COMMENT:
Nina Morgan, Kennesaw State University
10:00 am – 11:45 am
306. Queer / Feminist Liberatory Futures
Westin Peachtree Augusta A (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Christopher A. Eng, Syracuse University
PAPERS:
MT Vallarta, University of California–Riverside
Call Out Queen: Queer Liberation, Transgression, and Futurity in Mark Aguhar's Poetics
Lou Cornum, CUNY Graduate School and University Center
How Does it Feel to be Unsovereign: A Reading of Black and Indigenous Relationality in Samuel Delany's Dhalgren
Isabel Millan, University of Oregon
Obstructing Childnormativity: Political Urgency and Upheaval in Queer of Color Children's Literature
William H. Mosley, The University of Texas at Austin
Emergent Black Feminism: Intimacy, Interiority, and Tenderness in Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Spill
10:00 am – 11:45 am
307. Emergent Dimensions in Native American and Indigenous Studies I
Westin Peachtree Augusta B (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Lisa Brooks, Amherst College
PANELISTS:
Samantha Majhor, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, University at Buffalo
Daniel Radus, SUNY College at Cortland
Caroline Wigginton, University of Mississippi
COMMENT:
Lisa Brooks, Amherst College
10:00 am – 11:45 am
308. Sound Studies Caucus: Listening to Race: Black and Brown Voice-Overs and Accents on Television and Film
Westin Peachtree Augusta C (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Priscilla Peña Ovalle, University of Oregon
PAPERS:
Shilpa Davé, University of Virginia
Accents and Global New York in Netflix's Master of None
Jade D. Petermon, Miami University–Hamilton
Insecure Spaces: Soundscapes of Gentrification
Jennifer Collins Bloomquist, Gettysburg College
Donkeys and Dragons: What Children Learn about Blackness from Animated Film
Sara Veronica Hinojos, University of Houston
Sonic Legacies of Mexican Animated Villains
10:00 am – 11:45 am
309. Critical Disability Studies Caucus: Cripistemologies of Continuous Crisis II: The Cultural Etiologies / Exacerbations of Crisis States
Westin Peachtree Augusta D (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Theodora Danylevich, University of Maryland–Baltimore County
PAPERS:
Rose G. Miyatsu, Washington University In St. Louis
A Harm to Self or Others: Using the Crisis of Suicide to Demonize Mental Difference
Meghann E. O'Leary, University of Illinois at Chicago
Recovery's Reliance on Debility
Angela M. Carter, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Cripping PTSD: Toward a Feminist Queer Crip Theory of Trauma
Alyson K. Spurgas, Trinity College
The Freedom to Fall Apart: Feminine Fracturing and the Affective Production of Gendered Populations
COMMENT:
Elizabeth S. Freeman, University of California–Davis
10:00 am – 11:45 am
310. Virtuosity
Westin Peachtree Augusta E (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Jayna Brown, Pratt Institute
PAPERS:
Aimee M. Cox, Yale University
The Skill to Heal?: Virtuosity and Black Yogis in Brooklyn
Malik Gaines, New York University
Something Extra: Black Overperformance
R. Scott Heath, Georgia State University
Larry B. Scott Plays the Failed Black Nerd
Ariel Osterweis, CalArts
Prophylactic Aesthetics
COMMENT:
Jayna Brown, Pratt Institute
10:00 am – 11:45 am
311. HIV and AIDS in the States of Emergence: The Ongoing Crisis as a Condition of Possibility
Westin Peachtree Augusta F (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago
PAPERS:
Dázon Dixon Diallo, Community Organizer
Intersections at the Grassroots: A Reproductive Justice Analysis of Atlanta's HIV Epidemic
Theodore Kerr, The New School
The Cultural Inheritance of AIDS: Gay White Men and the Shaping of AIDS History in the U.S.A.
Tacoma Action Collective, Independent Scholar
#StopErasingBlackPeople: Protest as Prevention
Ivan Bujan, Northwestern University
Absent Bodies: Several Close Readings That Circumvent Predominantly White Representation of HIV and AIDS
COMMENT:
Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago
10:00 am – 11:45 am
312. Wake Work: Recovering the Legacies of Black Radicalism in a Reactionary Moment
Westin Peachtree Augusta G (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Angela Dillard, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
PAPERS:
Sarah E. Ehlers, University of Houston
Transfiguring Propaganda: W. E. B. DuBois's Radical Poetics
Konstantina Karageorgos, SUNY Oneonta
The .02%: Locating the Black Radical Tradition Between Critique and Celebration
Nathaniel Mills, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Dictatorship and the Black Radical Tradition
10:00 am – 11:45 am
313. Arab American Studies Association: What Time Is It?: Queer and Women of Color Relations and Re-memory across U.S. Settler Empire
Westin Peachtree Chastain 1 (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Hokulani K. Aikau, University of Utah
PAPERS:
Lisa Kahaleole Hall, Wells College
Genealogy, Recognition, and Survivance in the House of Difference
Juliana Hu Pegues, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Sex Work and Settler Feminism: Histories of Homocolonialism in the Alaskan Frontier
Kris Klein Hernandez, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Salt Mines and Color Lines in México-U.S. Landscapes: Black, Mexican, and Native Comparative Racializations
10:00 am – 11:45 am
314. Environment and Culture Caucus: Intersections in Environmental Humanities
Westin Peachtree Chastain 2 (Sixth)
CHAIR:
H. Louise Davis, Miami University–Oxford
PANELISTS:
Joni Adamson, Arizona State University–Tempe
Jennifer James, George Washington University
Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Salma Monani, Gettysburg College
Marguerite S. Shaffer, Miami University–Oxford
Phoebe Young, University of Colorado–Boulder
Priscilla Wald, Duke University
Sarah D. Wald, University of Oregon
Tony C. Perry, University of Virginia
10:00 am – 11:45 am
315. Business Meeting: International Committee
Westin Peachtree Chastain A (Sixth)
10:00 am – 11:45 am
316. ¡Alta a Las Deportaciones!
Westin Peachtree Chastain C (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Michelle Tellez, University of Arizona
PAPERS:
Cinthya Martinez, University of California–Riverside
Migrant Women's Abolitionist Possibilities in Body and Touch
Bernadine Hernández, The University of New Mexico
Cross Border Feminicidio and the Death Toll: A Tale of Two Locales
Damian Vergara Bracamontes, Yale University
Unsettling Voluntary Departure: Migrant Knowledge Combats Removal
10:00 am – 11:45 am
317. Labor and the Body: Theorizing the Racialized Production of Gender from Antislavery Campaigns to #MeToo
Westin Peachtree Chastain D (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Stephanie S. Li, Indiana University–Bloomington
PAPERS:
Koritha Mitchell, The Ohio State University
Why Americans Know Frederick Douglass but Not Frances Harper
Toby Beauchamp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
TSA Cares: Gender, Disability, and Security as Care Work
Meg Wesling, University of California–San Diego
The Labor of Gender: Crisis, Contestation, and #MeToo
COMMENT:
Stephanie S. Li, Indiana University–Bloomington
10:00 am – 11:45 am
318. The End of Cheap Food: Power, Precarity, and Human Disposability
Westin Peachtree Chastain E (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Stephanie Opperman, Georgia College and State University
PAPERS:
Aaron Eddens, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Emergent Vulnerabilities: Linking Food Security and the Security State in Financialized Climate Change Adaptation
Rachel Vaughn, University of California–Los Angeles
Divieto Dare Da Mangiare: Disposability, (Anti)Migrant Angst, and Policing the Edible in Italy
Michelle Yates, Columbia College–Chicago
Blight, White Flight, and Food Precarity: Aggrieved Entitlement in Interstellar's Climate Fiction Film
Joshua Sbicca, Colorado State University–Fort Collins
Food Justice Dialectics and the Expansion of Food Politics
10:00 am – 11:45 am
319. Program Committee: Sureños en Nueva Tierra: Desde TLC a Abolición / Southerners On New Ground: From NAFTA to Abolition
Westin Peachtree Chastain F (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Lisa Beard, Western Washington University
PANELISTS:
Kate Shapiro, Southerners on New Ground (SONG)
Mary Hooks, Southerners on New Ground (SONG)
Pat Hussain, Southerners on New Ground (SONG)
10:00 am – 11:45 am
320. Ethnography Caucus: Ethnography Now II: New Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity
Westin Peachtree Chastain G (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Charity Fox, Pennsylvania State University–Harrisburg
PAPERS:
Maryam Kashani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Visual / Domain Awareness: Ethnographic Filmmaking, and Always Being Seen
Mohammad Bilal Nasir, Northwestern University
What Might an Anthropology of Islamophobia Look Like?: Ethnography, Concepts, and Tradition
Matt Sakakeeny, Tulane University
Ethnography as Intervention in the School Reform Movement
Shalini Shankar, Northwestern University
Ethnographers for Hire: The Corporatization of Field Research
10:00 am – 11:45 am
321. Global Emergencies, Caribbean Responses
Westin Peachtree Chastain H (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Jeannine Murray-Román, Florida State University
PAPERS:
Tanya Gonzalez, Kansas State University
Diasporic Elegies: Death, Darkness, and a Latina / o / x Gothic Aesthetic
Lauren L. Nelson, The University of Texas at Austin
Some Third-World Sized Hole: Narrative Tourism in Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings
Leah R. Rosenberg, University of Florida
Make It Tourism, Again, Make It Your Own: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers Critique Neocolonialism in the 1980s
Victor Goldgel-Carballo, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Forty Years a Slave: Open Secret, Distance, and Testimony in 19th Century Cuba
10:00 am – 11:45 am
322. Material Culture Caucus: Cultural Landscapes as Sites for Emergence and Activism
Westin Peachtree Chastain I (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Anne A. Verplanck, Pennsylvania State University–Harrisburg
PAPERS:
Reed Gochberg, Harvard University
Advertisement, Ornament, Improvement: The Useful Arts of Patent Models
Laura W. Rouleau, Michigan Technological University
The Emergence of Privacy in Public, 1880–1930
PJ Carlino, Boston University
Commercial Furniture and the Gendering of Office Work
Thomas A. Guiler, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Will Price's Craft Refuge at Rose Valley, Pennsylvania
COMMENT:
Anne A. Verplanck, Pennsylvania State University–Harrisburg
10:00 am – 11:45 am
323. Emerging Minds, Bodies, and Values: The Concussion Crisis in American Youth Football
Westin Peachtree Chastain J (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Samantha N. Sheppard, Cornell University
PAPERS:
Kathleen E. Bachynski, NYU Langone Medical Center
Better and Safer: The NFL's Role in Framing the Risks of Youth Tackle Football
Brett Siegel, The University of Texas at Austin
Protect Our Kids!: Friday Night Tykes
and the Ideological Crisis for Youth Tackle Football
Craig Yugawa, Washington University in St. Louis
Do No Harm: Medical Ethics in the Age of Better and Safer Football
10:00 am – 11:45 am
324. Empire and Asian American Studies
Westin Peachtree Peachtree 1 (Eighth)
CHAIR:
Anita Mannur, Miami University–Oxford
PAPERS:
Malini Johar Schueller, University of Florida
Campaigns of Knowledge and Their Afterlives
Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut
Imperial Coordinates, Asian American Literature, and Asian Americanist Critique
Takashi Fujitani, University of Toronto
Racism and Its Disavowal: Asian Americans in the Contest of Empires
Lisa Yoneyama, University of Toronto
On Trans-Pacific Nuclear Emergence / y
Mimi Thi Nguyen, University of Illinois
The Empire of Beauty
10:00 am – 11:45 am
325. Reconstructing Secularisms
Westin Peachtree Peachtree 2 (Eighth)
CHAIR:
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University–Tempe
PANELISTS:
Ashon Crawley, University of Virginia
Phillip Maciak, Washington University in St. Louis
Molly McGarry, University of California–Riverside
Vernon C. Mitchell, Washington University in St. Louis
Lindsay Reckson, Haverford College
10:00 am – 11:45 am
326. Conversations in the Feminist Public Humanities: Concepts, Nuts and Bolts, and New Publics
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 1 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Krista Comer, Rice University
COMMENTS: Linda Garcia Merchant, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Krista Comer, Rice University
Yesenia N. Hunter, University of Southern California
Michelle Habell-Pallan, University of Washington-Seattle Campus
10:00 am – 11:45 am
327. Urban Imaginaries: Visual Practices and the (Un)Making of Home
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 2 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Francis Gourrier, Kenyon College
PAPERS:
Jacqueline N. Brown, CUNY Hunter College
There's No Place Like Home: New York Exceptionalism and the Problem of the Color Line
Thea Quiray Tagle, University of Washington–Bothell Campus
A Clean Sweep: Home(lessness) Making and Recycling Initiatives in the San Francisco Bay Area
Falu Bakrania, San Francisco State University
Discrepant Designs: Immigrant Home-Making in Silicon Valley
Eric J. Pido, San Francisco State University
The Balikbayan House: The Precarity of Return Migrant Homes
10:00 am – 11:45 am
328. Racial Terror in the United States: Black Geographies and Popular Culture
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 3 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Malinda Lindquist, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
PAPERS:
Lisa Del Sol, Columbia University
The Re-Killing of Michael Brown and Emmett Till
Kidiocus Carroll, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
North, or the Cartography of Racial Terror in the Midwest
Thomas Seweid-DeAngelis, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Racializing Terror: 9 / 11, O. J. Simpson, and Osama Bin Laden
Tabias Olajuawon Wilson, The University of Texas at Austin
Born to Fly: Black Fugitivity, the Language of Freedom, and the Branding of Outlaws
COMMENT:
Malinda Lindquist, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
10:00 am – 11:45 am
329. Business Meeting: Children and Youth Studies Caucus
Westin Peachtree Savannah D (Ninth)
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
330. Brunch: Generational Gifts: A Convivial Celebration of Mentoring, Scholarship, and the Future of American Studies
Westin Peachtree The Overlook (Sixth)
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
331. Program Committee: Nikhil Pal Singh's Race and America's Long War
Westin Peachtree Augusta 1 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Avery F. Gordon, University of California–Santa Barbara
PANELISTS:
Brenna Bhandar, SOAS
Chandan Reddy, University of Washington–Seattle Campus
Arun Kundnani, New York University
COMMENT:
Nikhil Singh, New York University
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
332. Los Angeles Geographies and Archives
Westin Peachtree Augusta 2 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Genevieve Carpio, University of California–Los Angeles
PAPERS:
Luis Trujillo, University of California–Riverside
Anti-Displacement Organizing in Los Angeles Latinx Neighborhoods: The Making and Meaning of Spaces in Displacement
Ana Isabel Fernandez, The University of Texas at Austin
Contemporary Muralism, Performance, and the Emergence of a Zapotec Visual Archive in Los Angeles
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
333. Reclaiming Our Time: Re-Centering Intersectional Feminism in Research, Teaching, and Everyday Realities
Westin Peachtree Augusta 3 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Sujey Vega, Arizona State University–Tempe
PANELISTS:
Aida Hurtado, University of California–Santa Barbara
Tammy C. Ho, University of California–Riverside
Simone Drake, The Ohio State University
Sujey Vega, Arizona State University–Tempe
Heidi R. Lewis, Colorado College
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
334. Digital Humanities Caucus: Mapping Sweet Auburn: Geo-Locating Atlanta's Spaces of Black Crisis and Emergence Through Digital Humanities Making
Westin Peachtree Augusta A (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Jesse P. Karlsberg, Emory University
PANELISTS:
Nedra Deadwyler, Civil Bikes
Lauren Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology
Katie Rawson, University of Pennsylvania
Brennan Collins, Georgia State University
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
335. Emergent Dimensions in Native American and Indigenous Studies II
Westin Peachtree Augusta B (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Chadwick Allen, University of Washington–Seattle Campus
PANELISTS:
Angela Calcaterra, University of North Texas
Theresa McCarthy, University at Buffalo
Mark Rifkin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Kelly Wisecup, Northwestern University
COMMENT:
Chadwick Allen, University of Washington–Seattle Campus
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
336. Queer of Color Politics
Westin Peachtree Augusta C (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Dylan McCarthy Blackston, Hamilton College
PAPERS:
Jasleen Singh, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sikh Americans and the Subversion of Racial Discourses in American Queer Politics
LeiLani Desiree Dowell, CUNY Graduate School and University Center
The New Brooklyn: Black Queer Narratives and Newark, New Jersey's Urban Renewal
Kita Douglas, Duke University
Museum in Exile: Martin Wong and New York Graffiti Writing
Rebecca Balon, Independent Scholar
Showdown at Donut Time: An Afro-Pessimist Theory of Irreconcilable Black and Trans Temporalities of Emergence in Tangerine
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
337. Embracing the Mess, Engaging the Complex: Disability Politics and Anti-Ableist Practices among Poor and Racialized Populations
Westin Peachtree Augusta D (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Jess Waggoner, University of Houston
PAPERS:
Sami Schalk, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Disability Politics in the Black Panther Party: A Genealogical Precursor to Disability Justice Today
Akemi Nishida, University of Illinois at Chicago
Interdependency and Mechanism of Respectability Politics: Desiring Toward Entanglement in Messy Dependency
Julie Avril Minich, The University of Texas at Austin
The Poetics of Public Health: Reading Rafael Campo in a Health Care Crisis
Juliann Anesi, University of California–Los Angeles
Untangling the Disabling Processes of Ableism and Colonialization in Education and Disability Activism
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
338. Creating States of Emergence: Scholar-Artists and the Life-Giving Capacities of the Arts
Westin Peachtree Augusta E (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Rebecca Peabody, Getty Research Institute
PAPERS:
Dorinne K. Kondo, University of Southern California
Reparative Creativity as Creative Emergence: Staging the Afterlife of Historical Trauma
Omi Jones, The University of Texas at Austin
The Block Party as Intervention
Traise Yamamoto, University of California–Riverside
Emergent Forgettings: The Poetics of Memory and Internment
Imani Uzuri, Independent Scholar
Come in My Room, Come on in the Prayer Room: Sister Gertrude Morgan's Subversive Salvation
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
339. The Emergence of Black Feminist Health Science Studies
Westin Peachtree Augusta F (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Nicole Charles, University of Toronto–Mississauga
PANELISTS:
Moya Z. Bailey, Northeastern University
OmiSoore H. Dryden, Thorneloe University
Nicole Charles, University of Toronto–Mississauga
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
340. Unruly Solidarities and Re-Emergent Internationalisms of the Trans-Pacific World
Westin Peachtree Augusta G (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Keith Camacho, University of California–Los Angeles
PAPERS:
Wendy Cheng, Scripps College
The Taiwan Revolutionary Party and Sinophone Political Praxis in New York
Jinah Kim, California State University–Northridge
Adrift Across the Trans-Pacific
Dean Saranillio, New York University
Propaganda of Occupation: Hawai'i Statehood and the Cold War
Jih-Fei Cheng, Scripps College
Choreographies of Flesh: The Geopolitics of Visceral Violence in Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
(2011)
COMMENT:
Keith Camacho, University of California–Los Angeles
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
341. Program Committee: Arab Voices and the De-centering of America
Westin Peachtree Chastain 1 (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Waleed F. Mahdi, University of Oklahoma
PANELISTS:
Eid Mohamed, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
Talaat Farouq, Al-Azhar University
Waleed Hazbun, The University of Alabama
Waleed F. Mahdi, University of Oklahoma
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
342. Environment and Culture Caucus: American Studies in the Plantationocene
Westin Peachtree Chastain 2 (Sixth)
CHAIRS: Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
Rebecca M. Evans, Winston-Salem State University
PANELISTS:
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
Rebecca M. Evans, Winston-Salem State University
Nicole Labruto, Johns Hopkins University
Jarvis C. McInnis, Duke University
Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin–Madison
David N. Pellow, University of California–Santa Barbara
Patricia Catherine Simpkins, Wallace State Community College–Dothan
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
343. Business Meeting: Minority Scholars Committee
Westin Peachtree Chastain A (Sixth)
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
344. Emerging Geographies of Freedom: The Power of Transnational African American Mobilities
Westin Peachtree Chastain C (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Heike Raphael-Hernandez, University of Würzburg
PAPERS:
Pia Wiegmink, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Mobility, Belonging, and Antislavery Critique in Antebellum African American Women's Travel Accounts
Veronica Jackson, The Jackson Design Group
Restructuring Respectability, Gender, and Power: Aida Overton Walker Performs Modernity
Selina Lai-Henderson, Duke Kunshan University
Riddle of the Universe: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Transnationalism through W. E. B. Du Bois's Encounters in China
Ousmane Power-Greene, Clark University
Geographies of Liberty: The Influence of Slave Narratives in Contemporary African American Fiction
COMMENT:
Heike Raphael-Hernandez, University of Würzburg
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
345. (In)Visible Emergences: Decolonial Queer / Trans Theories and Methods as Resistance and Hope
Westin Peachtree Chastain D (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Joshua Javier Guzman, University of California–Los Angeles
PAPERS:
Emma Perez, University of Arizona
The Will to Feel: A Decolonial Queer / Trans Analytics
Amani Husain, University of Colorado–Boulder
We Are All Queer Here: How Contemporary Migration Metaphors Enact Differential Belonging
Francisco Galarte, University of Arizona
Turning Your Back on Your Sex, Your Raza: Brown Trans*Figuration and Fleshing Out Chicana / o FTM / Butch Borderlands
Macarena Gomez-Barris, Pratt Institute
Decolonial Queer Femme Methods
COMMENT:
Joshua Javier Guzman, University of California–Los Angeles
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
346. Synthetic Forms
Westin Peachtree Chastain E (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Justine Murison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PAPERS:
Anne A. Cheng, Princeton University
Yellow Femme, Synthetic Forms
Erica Fretwell, SUNY at Albany
Organic and Sexual Chemistry
Hsuan Hsu, University of California–Davis
Synthesis and Conviviality in Olfactory Art
COMMENT:
Justine Murison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
347. Critical Prison Studies Teach-In: An Organizer's Toolkit for Opening the University to Post-Incarcerated People
Westin Peachtree Chastain F (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Michelle Jones, New York University
PANELISTS:
Christopher Ryan Beasley, University of Washington–Tacoma
Rob Scott, Cornell University
Musonda Mwango, Community Activist
Michelle Jones, New York University
Jarrod Wall, Community Activist
Megan Ybarra, University of Washington–Seattle Campus
Rebecca Ginsburg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
348. Sound Studies Caucus: Sound Studies and the Long Sixties
Westin Peachtree Chastain G (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Laura Sachiko Fugikawa, Colby College
PAPERS:
Cheryl Higashida, University of Colorado–Boulder
Citizens Band: Radio, Race, and Rights in the Sixties
Alex W. Corey, Harvard University
Natural Woman
in Transit: Toward a Trans Listening Practice
Jennifer L. Stoever, SUNY at Binghamton
Living Room Revolutions: Record Collecting and Black Feminist Listening Praxis
Mary-Helen Washington, University of Maryland–College Park
Can the Black Left Sound Black Enough?
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
349. The Critical Sounds and Colors of Caribbean Cultures
Westin Peachtree Chastain H (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Gavriel Cupita-Zorn, Yale University
PAPERS:
Damon Sajnani, University of Wisconsin–Madison
HipHop Subalterity in Black Countries: Theorizing HipHop Artists' Counterhegemonic Identity Construction in Senegal and Trinidad and Tobago
Korka Sall, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
Connections in Color: Suzanne Césaire and the Blended Resistance
Melanie White, Brown University
Creole Women's Art, Life Histories, and Visions of Emancipatory Futures
Brenna Casey, Duke University
Of the Brown People of the Earth: Sui Sin Far's Authorial Emergence in Jamaica
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
350. Material Culture Caucus: Emerging Pedagogies and Material Culture across the Disciplines
Westin Peachtree Chastain I (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Sarah Anned Carter, Chipstone Foundation
PANELISTS:
Elijah Gaddis, Auburn University
Catherine Holochwost, La Salle University
Karen Parsons, Loomis Chaffee School
Gerald Ronning, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
351. Our Borderline Concepts
Westin Peachtree Chastain J (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Ana Schwartz, The University of Texas at Austin
PANELISTS:
Jonathan B. Field, Clemson University
Evelyn Soto, University of Pennsylvania
Isaac Gabriel Salgado, University of Pennsylvania
Olivia Mena, The University of Texas at Austin
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
352. The Aesthetics of Militancy
Westin Peachtree Peachtree 1 (Eighth)
CHAIR:
Anne G. Mahler, University of Virginia
PAPERS:
John Lennon, University of South Florida
Kilroy Was Here and Handala: Graffiti and the Political Aesthetic Practices of Militancy
Eric Morales-Franceschini, University of Georgia
Pa'lante: Decolonial Aesthetics and the Sublime Object of Militancy
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
353. Black and Indigenous Ephemeralities
Westin Peachtree Peachtree 2 (Eighth)
CHAIR:
Jodi Byrd, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PAPERS:
RJ Boutelle, Florida Atlantic University
Common Ground: Forging Consensus at the 1854 National Emigration Convention
Agleska Cohen-Rencountre, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Watering Sandcastles
Samuel Ng, Smith College
A Crusade of Prayer: Black Women and the Anti-Lynching Campaign, 1917–1923
Magdalen Zapedowska, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Settler Mourning as Native Protest: Vanishing Indian Poems in Elias Boudinot's Cherokee Phoenix
COMMENT:
Jodi Byrd, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
354. Institutionalizing Emergence: On (Re)Producing Institutions of Crisis
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 1 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Megan Black, London School of Economics
PANELISTS:
Justin L. Mann, Boston University
Lindsay Greer Davis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Kathleen M. Brian, Western Washington University
Michael Hames-Garcia, University of Oregon
Megan Black, London School of Economics
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
355. The Emergence and State of the Urban Humanities
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 2 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Benjamin Looker, Saint Louis University
PANELISTS:
Shannon P. Jackson, University of California–Berkeley
Aaron Shkuda, Princeton University
Jamin Rowan, Brigham Young University–Provo
Carlo Rotella, Boston College
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
356. Technological Emergence and Political Emergencies at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Resistance
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 3 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Neda Atanasoski, University of California–Santa Cruz
PANELISTS:
Kalindi Vora, University of California–Davis
Elizabeth Losh, College of William and Mary
Eunsong Kim, Northeastern University
Mitali Thakor, Wesleyan University
Heidi Hoechst, National Nurses United
Neda Atanasoski, University of California–Santa Cruz
12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
357. Business Meeting and Luncheon: ASA-JAAS Project Advisory Committee
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 4 (Twelfth)
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
358. Ethnography Caucus: Roundtable and Syllabus Swap for Teaching Ethnography
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 5 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Jennifer L. Pierce, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
PANELISTS:
Ben Chappell, University of Kansas
Amanda Reinke, Georgia College and State University
Dawn Pankonien, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Ana Croegaert, University of New Orleans
Jennifer Huynh, University of Notre Dame
Nancy A. Khalil, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
COMMENT:
Jennifer L. Pierce, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
359. Temporalities of Catastrophe
Westin Peachtree The Overlook (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Lisa Lowe, Tufts University
PAPERS:
Marisol LeBrón, Dickinson College
Counting Death and Making Death Count: Puerto Rico before and after Maria
Alyosha Goldstein, The University of New Mexico
Dwelling in the Irreparable
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, University of California–Irvine
The Trial of Andrew Zondo: Defending Black Children / Criticizing the Racial State
Joanne M. Barker, San Francisco State University
The Empire's Terrorist: Indigeneity and the State
COMMENT:
Lisa Lowe, Tufts University
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
360. Program Committee: Intersectionality at 30: States of Emergence
Westin Peachtree Augusta 1 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Daniel HoSang, Yale University
PANELISTS:
Tricia Rose, Brown University
Kimberle Crenshaw, University of California–Los Angeles
Ezra Young, Law Office of Ezra Young
Devon Carbado, University of California–Los Angeles
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
361. My Music: Anti-Colonial Feminist Punk Rock
Westin Peachtree Augusta 2 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Shaun Cullen, Middle Tennessee State University
PAPERS:
Jedediah H. Kuhn, University of Toronto
Redbone: Public Racial Identity and the Emergence of a Native American Rock Band
Kate Grover, The University of Texas at Austin
The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band and Emergences of Rock and Roll Feminism
Judith Rodriguez, University of California–Irvine
Punk Primitivx: Boricua Punk and the Anti-Colonial Imaginary
Stefano Morello, CUNY Graduate School and University Center
No Future, No Place: Subcultural Emergences in the East Bay
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
362. Trans-Pacific Studies after the TPP: Political Response and New Coordinates
Westin Peachtree Augusta 3 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Martin J. Ponce, The Ohio State University
PAPERS:
Aimee Bahng, Pomona College
Theorizing a Trans-Pacific Undercommons: Decolonizing Ecosystems Theory and the Bio-Political Management of the Ocean
Christopher Patterson, University of British Columbia
Is There a Trans-Pacific Studies Without the TPP?: On Oceanic Cartographies and Pacific Simulations
Lily Wong, American University
Trans-Pacific Engagements: Recoding Affect in Seeking Asian Female
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
363. Digital Humanities Caucus: Emerging Digital Humanities
Westin Peachtree Augusta A (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Amanda Phillips, Georgetown University
PANELISTS:
Lauren Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology
Josef Nguyen, The University of Texas at Dallas
Laila Shereen Sakr, University of California, Santa Barbara
Catherine Knight Steele, University of Maryland–College Park
Jacqueline Wernimont, Dartmouth College
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
364. Institutionalizing Emergency: Boarding Schools and the Crises of Colonialism
Westin Peachtree Augusta B (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Robert Warrior, University of Kansas
PAPERS:
Sarah Fong, University of Southern California
Industrial Boarding Schools and the Late-19th Century Crisis of Property
Hannah A. Bailey, University of Kansas
In Institutions the Death Rate Is Always High: Constructions of Emergency in Kansas
Farina King, Northeastern State University
Diné Experiences of Emergency Education
Thomas A. Dichter, Harvard University
Carlisle and the Domestication of the Indian Problem
COMMENT:
Robert Warrior, University of Kansas
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
365. Securitized Subjects, Militarized Time(s): The Everyday Life of Violence
Westin Peachtree Augusta C (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Kelly Moore, Loyola University Chicago
PAPERS:
Nicole Nguyen, University of Illinois At Chicago
It Feels like You're Looking down a Barrel of a Gun: The Slow Violence of Counterinsurgency
Jackie Orr, Syracuse University
Slow Disaster: Subreal Infrastructures and the End of Time
COMMENT:
Kelly Moore, Loyola University Chicago
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
366. Critical Ethnic Studies Committee: The Visual Culture of Mixed Race Representations
Westin Peachtree Augusta D (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Ralina Joseph, University of Washington–Seattle Campus
PAPERS:
Jennifer Caroccio, Rutgers University–Newark
Mixed Race Utopia and Racial Embodiment in Saga
Meshell Sturgis, University of Washington–Seattle Campus
The Future Is Here, Not Her: Mixed Race as Place and Space
Stacey Moultry, Dickinson College
My Crafting, Like My Feminism, Is Intersectional: The Aesthetics and Politics of Jasika Nicole
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
367. Women and Drones in the Perpetual State of Exception
Westin Peachtree Augusta E (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Elizabeth Verklan, Cottey College
PAPERS:
J. D. Schnepf, Princeton University
Securing the Lady of the House: The Domestication of Drone Form
Molly Geidel, University of Manchester
Waiting for Supergirl: Educated Girls in the Global War on Terrorism
Natalia Cecire, University of Sussex
Those Various Scalpels: Female Precision and Drone Aesthetics
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
368. How Does a State Feel?: The Aesthetic Lives of Administrative and Bureaucratic Violence
Westin Peachtree Augusta F (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Laura Finch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PAPERS:
Adrienne Brown, University of Chicago
Redlining's Curious Color Palette
Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Pomona College
In / Civility: Aesthetics, Hygiene, Administrative Violence
Yuhe Faye Wang, Yale University
Fire in Brief: On Infrastructure Panic and Bureaucratic Racisms
Rachel K. Watson, Howard University
Murder as Masterpiece: Police Procedure and the Beauty of Crime
COMMENT:
Laura Finch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
369. Telling the Truth: Poetry, Politics, and Remembering the Life and Legacy of Activist, Public Intellectual, and Beloved Teacher June Jordan
Westin Peachtree Augusta G (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Lauren Muller, City College of San Francisco
PANELISTS:
Durell M. Callier, Miami University–Oxford
Dominique C. Hill, Amherst College
Kelly E. Navies, National Museum of African American History
Melissa Tuckey, Split This Rock
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
370. Performance Studies Caucus: Nao Bustamante's Always Already Emerging Art
Westin Peachtree Chastain 1 (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Pavithra Prasad, California State University–Northridge
PAPERS:
Rebecca Schneider, Brown University
What Might Yet Have Been: Nao Bustamante's Revolutionary Redress
Laura G. Gutiérrez, The University of Texas at Austin
Divas, Exoticism, and Freakery in Nao Bustamante's Filmformance Silver and Gold
(2009)
Nao Bustamante, University of Southern California
In Real Life: The Slow Production of Nao Bustamante
COMMENT:
Pavithra Prasad, California State University–Northridge
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
371. Racial Capitalism, Environmental Capitalism, and Survival in the South
Westin Peachtree Chastain 2 (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Miranda Joseph, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
PAPERS:
Sasha Ann Panaram, Duke University
Conjuring Faith in the Ocean: Landing on Water in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow
Adriane M. Bezusko, Texas Christian University
They Told Us To Salvage the Bones: Hurricane Katrina, Global Capitalism, and Entrepreneurship
Jessica Calvanico, University of California–Santa Cruz
Disaster and Carceral Girlhood in New Orleans: Hurricanes and the House of the Good Shepherd
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
372. Business Meeting: Early American Matters Caucus
Westin Peachtree Chastain A (Sixth)
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
373. International Committee Talkshop III: Transnational Publications from Emergency to Emerging Projects
Westin Peachtree Chastain C (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Udo J. Hebel, University of Regensburg
PANELISTS:
Sabine Kim, University of Mainz
Wilfried Raussert, Universitat Bielefeld
Asimina (Mina) Karavanta, University of Athens
Nina Morgan, Kennesaw State University
COMMENT:
Udo J. Hebel, University of Regensburg
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
374. Queer Art of Emergency: Racial Proximity and the Aesthetics of Repair
Westin Peachtree Chastain D (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Lettycia Terrones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PAPERS:
Leticia Alvarado, Brown University
Cannibalistic Cut: Enrique Chagoya and Yinka Shonibare in Relation
Katherine Brewer Ball, Wesleyan University
Ricky Tagaban and the Matter of the Story
Jennifer Doyle, University of California–Riverside
Working in the Dark: Rafa Esparza's El Hoyo
Roy Perez, Willamette University
Enter The Night's Asian Pharmakon: Fornés, AIDS, and Racial Approximation
COMMENT:
Lettycia Terrones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
375. Creative Resistance: Visual Cultures as Political Cultures
Westin Peachtree Chastain E (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Abraham Weil, California State University–Long Beach
PAPERS:
Carly Thomsen, Middlebury College
Queering Reproductive Justice: The Aesthetics of Anti-Crisis Pregnancy Center Activism
Rosemary Hennessy, Rice University
Dialectical Images of Race in a 1930s Disaster: From Emergency to Emergence
Jessyka Finley, Middlebury College
2 Bees from Oakland: Truthful Lies, Sincere Realities, and Freedom Dreams in Black Women's Comedy
Kelly Sharron, University of Arizona
Remembering Ferguson Amidst Emergency: A Look at a Retrospective Account One Year Later
COMMENT:
Abraham Weil, California State University–Long Beach
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
376. Critical Resistance South at Fifteen: The 21st-Century Landscape of Abolition in the U.S. South and Beyond I
Westin Peachtree Chastain F (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Ruthie Wilson Gilmore, CUNY Graduate School and University Center
PANELISTS:
Li Kung, Alliance for Safety and Justice
Tamika Middleton, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Paula C. Austin, California State University–Sacramento
Daniel Horowitz Garcia, StoryCorps
Masai Ehehosi, Al-Ummah Masjid
Ellen Reddy, Nollie Jenkins Family Center
Amelia Kirby, Critical Resistance South
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
377. Marxism Caucus: The Legacies of 1968
Westin Peachtree Chastain G (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Christopher Vials, University of Connecticut
PAPERS:
Diane Fujino, University of California–Santa Barbara
The Asian American Movement in the Shadow of Bandung
Kathleen Cleaver, Emory University
Radical Beliefs and Goals of SNCC and Black Panther Activists
Charisse Burden-Stelly, Carleton College
1968 Is Black: World-Systemic Revolution and Radical Blackness in the United States
Rabab I. Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University
Who's a Marxist? A Critical Review of the Palestinian New Left
James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
1968 and the Cohesion of the Black Arts Movement
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
378. To Be Black and Brown All Around: Afro Indigenous / Latinx Coalitions
Westin Peachtree Chastain H (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Kinohi Nishikawa, Princeton University
PAPERS:
Eve W. Eure, University of Pennsylvania
Testimonies of Kinship: Afro-Indigenous Literary Practices of Family and Belonging
Laura Lomas, Rutgers University–Newark
In Between States: NY-Caribeño Borderlands and Postcolonial Latinx Studies
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
379. States of Material Emergence: Object-Based Explorations of Power and Political Expression, 1700–1980
Westin Peachtree Chastain I (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Catherine Whalen, Bard Graduate Center
PAPERS:
Judith Ridner, Mississippi State University
Clothing the Body Ethnic in the Early Mid-Atlantic
Mariah R. Gruner, Boston University
Representative Suffering: The Politics of Sympathy in Abolitionist Women's Needlework
Kelsey Gustin, Boston University
The Working Class Playground and the Cultural Landscape of Play in Progressive Era New York, 1890–1920
Tesa Lark Burns, Pennsylvania State University–Harrisburg
Silenced Voices: Interpreting History in Privately-Compiled Collections
COMMENT:
Catherine Whalen, Bard Graduate Center
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
380. (Re) Emergent Bones: Settler Colonial Spaces and the Accumulation of Human Remains
Westin Peachtree Chastain J (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Kyla Schuller, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
PAPERS:
Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Accumulation, Bodies, Surplus, Loss: An American Arithmetic of Death and Disappearance
JB Brager, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones: Returning the Body, the Bones, and the Meat
Brittany L. Webb, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art, Artifact, Archive: The Surface of the Black Body in Exhibitions
Claire Urbanski, University of California–Santa Cruz
Settler Surveillance and Sacred Formations: Shellmound Desecration and Colonial Occupation in the San Francisco Bay Area
COMMENT:
Kyla Schuller, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
381. War, Empire, and Anti-Muslim Racism
Westin Peachtree Peachtree 1 (Eighth)
CHAIR:
Imed B. Labidi, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
PAPERS:
Shelina Kassam, University of Toronto
Cloaking Whiteness: The Acceptable Muslim and Racialized Boundaries of Inclusion
Atiya Husain, University of Richmond
Black for Empire: Blackness, Islamophobia, and Countering Violent Extremism
Nadeen Kharputly, University of California–San Diego
Defying Responsibilitly: Ayad Akhtar and the Burden of Muslim American Representation
Timothy W. Marr, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Governor Frank Carpenter and the Imperial Administration of the Muslim Moros in the Philippines
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
382. Biopolitical Emergenc(i)es: Toward a New Genealogy of Race, Gender, and Liberal Dispossession
Westin Peachtree Peachtree 2 (Eighth)
CHAIR:
Matt Sandler, Columbia University
PAPERS:
Ashley Byock, Edgewood College
Biopolitics and Resistance to Corporeal Dispossession in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Caleb Knapp, University of Washington–Seattle Campus
Celia, A Slave
: The Sexual Politics of Black Radical Resistance
Srimayee Basu, University of Florida
Race and Bioethics: Black Women and Reproductive Justice
April D. J. Petillo, Kansas State University
State Sanctioned Precarity and Consumption: Colonial Conquest Fantasy Legally Rendered on the Ethnoracial Body
Tala Khanmalek, Princeton University
Legal Binds: Reexamining the Gendered Language of Motherhood in Brazil's 1871 Free Womb Law and Gayl Jones' Corregidora
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
383. The Black Athlete in States of Crisis across Time and Space
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 1 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Eric A. Hall, Northern Illinois University
PAPERS:
Jermaine Scott, Northwestern University
The Storm Hasn't Calmed Down Yet: Black Teamwork, Postcolonialism, and Dutch Multiculturalism
Maryam K. Aziz, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kicking Black: How U.S. Militarism Enabled Black Liberation Martial Arts and Third World Athletic Resistance
Samantha White, Rutgers University–Camden
Race, Sport, and Black Childhood: The Black Athlete and the Olympics in Ebony Jr!
COMMENT:
Eric A. Hall, Northern Illinois University
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
384. Tracking Tensions of Race, Space, and Neoliberalism
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 2 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Teresa I. Gonzales, University of Massachusetts–Lowell
PAPERS:
Rebecca J. Kinney, Bowling Green State University
Creating AsiaTown Cleveland: Community, Development, and the Emerging Logics of Asian American Place
Natchee B. Barnd, Oregon State University
Cedar and Indigeneity: Columbia River Art and Public Assertions of Native Space
Jessi Quizar, Northern Arizona University
A Logic of Care: Grassroots Claims to Place in Detroit
Juan C. Herrera, University of California–Los Angeles
Development for the People: Oakland's Fruitvale Transit Village and the Politics of Urban Redevelopment
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
385. The Anthological Impulse: Pedagogy and Social Justice
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 3 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
PAPERS:
Danica B. Savonick, SUNY College at Cortland
Anthologizing Alternatives: June Jordan and Feminist Pedagogies of Publishing Student Writing
Molly D. Appel, Pennsylvania State University
Embodying (Re)vision: The Anthological Impulse of the Third World Liberation Front
Jean-Paul Konda Ntusi, Community College of Allegheny County / Boyce Campus
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: You Shouldn't Use This Anthology in Your Class
Joshua R. Deckman, Marywood University
Pedagogies of the Oppressed: Historical Recovery and Revolutionary Love in Afro-Latinx Hip Hop
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
386. Business Meeting: Committee on Programs, Departments, and Centers
Westin Peachtree Savannah D (Ninth)
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
387. Program Committee: 10 Years of Casting Out
Westin Peachtree Augusta 1 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Junaid Rana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PANELISTS:
Joanne M. Barker, San Francisco State University
Sohail Daulatzai, University of California–Irvine
Inderpal Grewal, Yale University
Zareena Grewal, Yale University
Denise Ferreira da Silva, University of British Columbia
Nadine Naber, University of Illinois at Chicago
COMMENT:
Sherene H. Razack, University of California–Los Angeles
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
388. Queerness and Race in Atlanta
Westin Peachtree Augusta 2 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Eva Hageman, University of Maryland–College Park
PAPERS:
Lucas Hilderbrand, University of California–Irvine
Gay Atlanta in Black and White: Coalition Organizing and the Limits of Legal Liberalism
Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez, Yale University
Hay Que Divertirse Un Rato: Mexican Bands and Bailes in Metro Atlanta, 1980s–1990s
Aisha K. Finch, University of California–Los Angeles
Implementing the Civil Rights Industrial Complex: Atlanta, the Domestication of Civil Rights, and the Practice of Southern Neoliberalism
Margaret T. McGehee, Emory University
Vienners at Odum's: Deaundra Peek and the Atlanta Televisual Drag Scene
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
389. Race, Property, and Aesthetics
Westin Peachtree Augusta 3 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, New York University
PANELISTS:
Roderick Ferguson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jordy Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts–Amehrst
J. Kameron Carter, Indiana University–Bloomington
Brenna Bhandar, SOAS
David Lloyd, University of California–Riverside
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
390. Committee on Gender and Sexuality Studies: Teaching Feminism in the American Studies Classroom
Westin Peachtree Augusta A (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Jennifer Nash, Northwestern University
PANELISTS:
Shoniqua Roach, University of Oregon
Sara Marie Matthiesen, George Washington University
Stephen Molldrem, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
391. Varieties of Groundings in Black Studies
Westin Peachtree Augusta B (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Minkah Makalani, The University of Texas at Austin
PAPERS:
Yuichiro O. Onishi, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Japanese Dream: A Trans-Pacific Inquiry into Afro-Diasporic Feminist Thought
Ariko S. Ikehara, Osaka University
Con / Textualizing the Black Pacific through the Praxis of Nuchidu Takara
Natasha Moore, University of California–Santa Barbara,
Niggas Know
COMMENT:
Minkah Makalani, The University of Texas at Austin
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
392. Site Resources Committee: F.I.L.A. and Atlanta's Evolution as a Hip Hop City
Westin Peachtree Augusta C (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Jack Hamilton, University of Virginia
PANELISTS:
Jack Hamilton, University of Virginia
Regina N. Bradley, Kennesaw State University
Christina Lee, Music and Culture Journalist
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
393. Business Meeting: Critical Disability Studies Caucus
Westin Peachtree Augusta D (Seventh)
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
394. Radical Black Dharma Strategies: Black Femmes and Black Queers on Living in the Dark Age
Westin Peachtree Augusta E (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Shanté Paradigm Smalls, St. John's University
PANELISTS:
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, University of Pennsylvania
Savannah Shange, University of California–Santa Cruz
Jasmine K. Syedullah, Vassar College
Shanté Paradigm Smalls, St. John's University
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
395. Emergent Alliances, Feminist Masculinities
Westin Peachtree Augusta F (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Liam Oliver Lair, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
PAPERS:
Cameron Awkward-Rich, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
Refuse: The Border Wars and Trans(Masculine) Emergence
Mairead Sullivan, Loyola Marymount University
Dude, What's a Fag?: Negotiating Feminist Masculinities
Nicholas L. Clarkson, New College of Florida
Encountering Transmasculine Embodiment, Refiguring Gay Masculinity
Julian Kevon Glover, Northwestern University
(T)hank (G)awd (I)'m (F)emme: Emergent Black Femme Embodiment Among Individuals Assigned Male at Birth
COMMENT:
Liam Oliver Lair, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
396. Critical University Studies: Disability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Westin Peachtree Augusta G (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Jay T. Dolmage, University of Waterloo
PAPERS:
Ellen Samuels, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Race, Gender, and Crip Time: Privilege and Precarity in the Academy
María Elena Cepeda, Williams College
Twice Unseen: Navigating Invisible Disability within the Neoliberal Academy
Vincent Schleitwiler, University of Washington–Seattle Campus
After the End of Multiculturalism: Ethnic Studies and the Sites of Institutional Politics
Cynthia Wu, Indiana University–Bloomington
Queer Academics of Color in Samuel Delany's The Mad Man
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
397. Performance Studies Caucus: Peggy Phelan's Unmarked at 25
Westin Peachtree Chastain 1 (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Christopher Grobe, Amherst College
PANELISTS:
Patrick Anderson, University of California–San Diego
Jill Lane, New York University
Paige McGinley, Washington University in St. Louis
Joseph R. Roach, Yale University
Monica Huerta, Princeton University
Colleen Kim Daniher, Amherst College
COMMENT:
Peggy Phelan, Stanford University
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
398. Early American Matters Caucus: (Dis)Ability, Race, the Superhuman, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Slavery
Westin Peachtree Chastain 2 (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Cassander Smith, The University of Alabama
PAPERS:
Nicholas R. Jones, Bucknell University
They're Chatterboxes with Their Feet: Black Dances, Speech Impediments, and Black Disability in the Early Ibero-Atlantic World
Mary Caton Lingold, Virginia Commonwealth University
Super-Elders of the Slave Trade: Heroes of History or Emblems of Racialized Difference?
Delia Steverson, University of Florida
Conceptions of Disability and Enslaved Embodiment in the Narratives of William Grimes and Israel Campbell
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
399. Business Meeting: Graduate Education Committee
Westin Peachtree Chastain A (Sixth)
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
400. Alien Emergences: Multiracial Intimacies and Queer Solidarities in Transnational Encounter
Westin Peachtree Chastain C (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Jason Ezell, University of New Orleans
PAPERS:
Sony Coráñez Bolton, Amherst College
Dos X: Filipinx and Latinx Queer Temporalities
Michael Pascual, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
If I Were There: The Archipelagic Poetics and Solidarities of Aimee Suzara's Souvenir
Elliott H. Powell, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
The Queen of Bollyhood: Hip Hop, Bollywood, and the Queer Career of Raje Shwari
Mejdulene A. Shomali, University of Maryland–Baltimore County
The Pulse of Queer Life: Arab Bodies in Gay Bars
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
401. Queer and Unusual Objects: On Trans / Gender Archives
Westin Peachtree Chastain D (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Julian Gill-Peterson, University of Pittsburgh
PANELISTS:
Liz Kinnamon, University of Arizona
Joan Lubin, Cornell University
Jeanne Vaccaro, University of California–Davis
Julian Gill-Peterson, University of Pittsburgh
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
402. Sans Emergence: Aesthetics of Immersion, Technology-Mediated Corporealities, and Weaponized Landscapes
Westin Peachtree Chastain E (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Stephanie Dimatulac Santos, Rice University
PAPERS:
Chien-Ting Lin, National Central University
Barefoot / China
Amy Sara Carroll, Cornell University
States of Immersion: Alejandro González Iñárritu's Carne y Arena
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
403. Critical Resistance South at Fifteen: The 21st-Century Landscape of Abolition in the U.S. South and Beyond II
Westin Peachtree Chastain F (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Lydia Jean Pelot-Hobbs, CUNY Graduate School and University Center
PANELISTS:
Elissa Underwood, The University of Texas at Austin
Shana M. Griffin, INCITE!
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Highlander Center
Taylor Money-Worthy, Southerners on New Ground (SONG)
Wesley Carver Ware, Critical Resistance South
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
404. Marxism Caucus: Marxism, the University, and the Legacies of 1968
Westin Peachtree Chastain G (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Jodi Melamed, Marquette University
PANELISTS:
Jennifer Marley, The University of New Mexico
Alan Wald, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Joshua I. Heckman, The University of New Mexico
Benjamin Balthaser, Indiana University–South Bend
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
405. Gendering Memory and Archive across the Americas
Westin Peachtree Chastain H (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Christina D. Abreu, Northern Illinois University
PAPERS:
Sarah M. Quesada, University of Notre Dame
Diasporic Latinidad: The Emergence of West African Memory in Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's Daughters of the Stone
(2009)
Whitney C. DeVos, University of California–Santa Cruz
Poetics as Ecospiritual Ritual: The Politics of Intimacy and Precarity in the Work of Cecilia Vicuña and CA Conrad
Megan Vallowe, Dalton State College
Finding Nancy Ward: Indigenous Emergences in the Archive
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
406. Material Subcultures: Production and Consumption on the Margins
Westin Peachtree Chastain I (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Modupe Labode, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
PAPERS:
Camille Bethune-Brown, University of Maryland–College Park
Selective Memories: The Civil Rights Movement and Museum Space in the 20th Century
GVGK Tang, Temple University
Stags and Surprises: Queer Identity Politics in Early 20th-Century Euro-American Film
Eric Nolan Gonzaba, George Mason University
A Mini Rage: Parsing Race and Racism in Late 20th-Century Queer Activist Apparel
COMMENT:
Modupe Labode, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
407. Visualizing Sovereignty: Anti-Colonial Futures Emerging through Indigenous Political and Cultural Praxis
Westin Peachtree Chastain J (Sixth)
CHAIR:
Sonia Saldivar-Hull, The University of Texas at San Antonio
PAPERS:
Megan A. Baker, University of California–Los Angeles
Chahta, Nahullo, Lusa (Choctaw, White and Black): Sovereignty and Racial Formations in Southeastern Oklahoma
Sarah Montoya, University of California–Los Angeles
Designing for Decolonization: Indigenous Sovereignty, Critical Infrastructure Studies, and the Digital Humanities
Pauline E. Alvarez, California State University–Northridge
Indigenous Ink: A Visual Intergenerational Transfer of Indigenous Knowledge(s)
Laura L. Terrance, University of California–Los Angeles
Violence and Pleasure: Indigenous Cultural Production and Anti-Colonial Subjectivity
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
408. State of the Nation: Emerging Perspectives on the Nation of Islam
Westin Peachtree Peachtree 1 (Eighth)
CHAIR:
Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California–Berkeley
PAPERS:
Maytha Alhassen, Pop Culture Collaborative
The Asiatic Asmar Man: Translating Mahmoud Shawarbi's Chapter on the Nation of Islam
Toussaint Losier, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
The Education of Theron X Washington: Nation of Islam Prison Converts and the Pedagogy of Racial Separatism in the Civil Rights Era
Zaheer Ali, Brooklyn Historical Society
Some of This Good Earth: The Nation of Islam and the Quest for Urban Space
Alaina M. Morgan, Stanford University
In the Spirit of Bandung: Afro-Asian Solidarities and the Nation of Islam
Garrett Felber, University of Mississippi
Registered with Allah: The Nation of Islam, World War II, and the First Prisoners' Rights Movement
COMMENT:
Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California–Berkeley
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
409. Emergent Research and Reading Strategies: The American Studies Now Series
Westin Peachtree Peachtree 2 (Eighth)
CHAIR:
Curtis Marez, University of California–San Diego
PANELISTS:
Alex Lubin, The University of New Mexico
LaMonda Horton-Stallings, Georgetown University
Julie Sze, University of California–Davis
COMMENT:
Niels A. Hooper, University of California Press
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
410. Sex, Emergency, and the Emerging Child
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 1 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Emily Horowitz, St. Francis College
PAPERS:
Gillian Harkins, University of Washington–Seattle Campus
Virtual Pedophilia and Childhood Emergency
Paul Renfro, Florida State University
Swat Team for Kids: The Gender Politics of Stranger Danger in the Post-9 / 11 World
Scott De Orio, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Constructing the Child in U.S. Sexual Politics in the Long 1970s
COMMENT:
Emily Horowitz, St. Francis College
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
411. Critical Stories of Crossings in and through the Americas
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 2 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Vivian Truong, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
PAPERS:
Heidi Tinsman, University of California–Irvine
Anti-Chinese Massacre as Cover Story: Mapping Race and Nation in the War of the Pacific
Sandhya Shukla, University of Virginia
The Visual and Textual Lives of Harlem Solidarity: Yuri Kochiyama's Relation to Malcolm X
Jason O. Chang, University of Connecticut
The Sea Is Their Home: Race and Justice Among Asian Seafarers in the U.S. Orbit
Lok Siu, University of California–Berkeley
Emergent Visibility: Ethnic Museums, High Art, and the Mediation of Chinese Caribbean Culture
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
412. Ulterior Emergencies: Aesthetics, Labor, and Re-Sighting Policy
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 3 (Twelfth)
CHAIR:
Kathy O'Dell, University of Maryland–Baltimore County
PAPERS:
Faye R. Gleisser, Indiana University–Bloomington
Answering to the Politics of Prevention in 1970s Performance Art
Huong Ngo, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Performing the Stateless Archive
Jackie Wang, Harvard University
Unmasking the Automated Carceral State: An Intervention
Sarah Wilbur, Duke University
How to Dance in a Crisis: Emergency Maneuvers Within the U.S Department of Veterans' Affairs
Jasmine Mahmoud, Seattle University
Re-sighting Policy: Choreographing a Black Sense of Place in Ferguson with the Mirror Casket
COMMENT:
Kathy O'Dell, University of Maryland–Baltimore County
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
413. Business Meeting: Material Culture Caucus
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 4 (Twelfth)
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
414. Business Meeting: All Chairs
Westin Peachtree Savannah D (Ninth)
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
415. Reception: Social Text Collective: "The Here and Now (Under Erasure)" Special Issue Launch
Westin Peachtree Savannah Terrace Foyer (Ninth)
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
416. Reception: James Baldwin Review
Westin Peachtree The Overlook (Sixth)
6:00 pm – 7:45 pm
417. Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice
Westin Peachtree Augusta 1 (Seventh)
CHAIR:
Saliem Shehadeh, University of California–Los Angeles
PANELISTS:
Mamyrah Prosper, CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Robin Kelley, University of California–Los Angeles
Margo Okazawa-Rey, Mills College
Rabab I. Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University
Madonna Thunder Hawk, Warrior Women, Standing Rock
Elizabeth Castle, Warrior Women, Standing Rock
Jaime Veve, Transport Workers Union, Local 100 (Retired)
Shariana Ferrer, Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, Puerto Rico
6:00 pm – 7:45 pm
418. Business Meeting: Critical Prison Studies Caucus
Westin Peachtree Piedmont 6 (Twelfth)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
419. Reception: Reception: New York University
Max Lager's (320 Peachtree Street NE), Peachtree Tavern Room
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
420. Reception: Yale University
Westin Peachtree Peachtree Terrace (Eighth)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
421. Reception: University of Michigan
Westin Peachtree Savannah A (Tenth)
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
422. Reception: University of Minnesota
Westin Peachtree Augusta Foyer (Seventh)
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
423. The Work My Soul Was Called to Do: Black Lesbian Activism in the New South
Charis Books (1189 Euclid Ave NE)
CHAIR:
E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University
PANELISTS:
Mary Anne Adams, ZamI Nobla
Pat Hussain, Southerners on New Ground (SONG)
Cherry Hussain, Community Activist
Aida Rentas, Salsa Soul Sisters
Darlene Hudson, Southern Unity Movement
Leslie M. Harris, Northwestern University
Michelle Wright, Substance Abuse and Spiritual Counselor