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Institute Schedule (2008)

Monday, June 16, 2008

Opening Session, "Re-Configurations of American Studies" (includes Seminar orientation)

· Donald Pease (Dartmouth College)

· Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern University)

· Winfried Fluck (JFK Institute, Freie Universitaet. Berlin)

· Eric Lott (University of Virginia)

Plenary 1

· Eric Cheyfitz (Cornell University): "Whose (Post)Modernity? Thinking Beyond Western Social Formations in Navajo Oral Narratives"

· Ruth Mayer (Hannover University): "Paper Citizens and Biopolitical Identification. Immigration, Nationality, and Belonging in Chinese America during the Exclusion Era”

· John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California): "Areas of Concern: Area Studies and the New American Studies”

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Plenary 2

· Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern University): "Colony Collapse Disorder."

· Randall Fuller (Drury University): "Obscure Hurts”: American Literary History and the Civil War

· Lauren Berlant ( University of Chicago): "Intuitionists: History and the Affective Event."

Baker Ticknor Room (Room 213), Baker 234, Dartmouth Hall 101, 103, 108, 206, 212

Plenary 3

· Kirsten Silva Gruesz (University of California at Santa Cruz): “Scales of Justice”

· Caleb Smith (Yale University): "The American Curse"

· Cynthia Young (Boston College): "American Studies After 9/11."

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Plenary 4

· Hester Blum (Pennsylvania State University): "Polar Exploration's Hollow Core"

· Liam Kennedy, (University College, Dublin): "Visual Blowback: Soldier Photography and the War in Iraq"

· Elèna Mortara (Tor Vergata University of Rome): "Victor Séjour, the Mortara Case, and American Crossings"

Baker Ticknor Room (Room 213), Baker 234, Dartmouth Hall 101, 103, 108, 206, 212

· Hanne Winarsky (Humanities Editor, Princeton University Press)

Plenary 5

· Nancy Fraser (The New School): "Disputing the “Who” of Justice: National Citizenry, Global Humanity or Transnational Community of Risk"

· Harilaos Stecopoulos (University of Iowa): “Imperial Soundscapes”

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Plenary 6

· Jonathan Eburne (Pennsylvania State University): "Anti-Menckenism."

· Shalene Vasquez (Dartmouth College): "Broad Talking Women: Gender and Binaries in Paule Marshall's "To Da-duh in Memorium."'

· Hamilton Carroll (University of Leeds): “September 11 as Domestic Melodrama."

Baker Ticknor Room (Room 213), Baker 234, Dartmouth Hall 101, 103, 108, 206, 212

Plenary 7

· Winfried Fluck (JFK Institute, Freie Universitaet, Berlin): "The Romance With America."

· Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College): "Emily Dickinson's Animal Pedagogies."

· Donatellla Izzo (University of Naples): "When Monsters Come Home to Roost. Serial Killers, Sovereign Power, and the Uncanniness of War."

Friday, June 20, 2008

Plenary 8

· Nikhil Singh (University of Washington): “An Exceptional Empire? Race and War in US Globalism”

· Bärbel Tischleder (JFK Institute, Freie Universitaet, Berlin): "Nerves and Decoration: Revisiting Gilman's Scene of Writing"

· Alan Nadel (University of Kentucky): tba

Baker Ticknor Room (Room 213), Baker 234, Dartmouth Hall 101, 103, 108, 206, 212

Plenary 9

· Barrymore Anthony Bogues (Brown University): " W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction , Slave Emancipation and American Studies ."

· David Kazanjian (University of Pennsylvania): "Liberia's Speculative Freedom"

· Eric Lott (University of Virginia): "Perfect is Dead: Karen Carpenter, Theodor Adorno, and the Radio."

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Plenary 10

· Brian Edwards (Northwestern University): "Logics of Cultural Diplomacy"

· Cindi Katz (City University of New York): "Childhood as Spectacle: Relays of Anxiety and the Reconfiguration of the Child."

· Donald Pease (Dartmouth College): “Undoing Bush’s Biopolitical Settlement: From Abu Ghraib to Barack Obama”

Baker Ticknor Room (Room 213), Baker 234, Dartmouth Hall 101, 103, 108, 206, 212

Closing Banquet

Plenary 11

· Kate Baldwin (Northwestern University): "Cold War, Hot Kitchen"

· David Shumway (Carnegie Mellon University): "American National Identity Revisited."

· Michael Chaney (Dartmouth College): "Mr. Punch, Brother Jonathan, and Frederick Douglass: Visual Rhetoric and Abolitionist Humor"