Monday, June 16, 2008
7:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
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)
7:30 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
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”
11:00 PM, Opening Reception, Hayward Lounge (Hanover Inn)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
9:30 AM-1:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
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."
2:00-5:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
Baker Ticknor Room (Room 213), Baker 234, Dartmouth Hall 101, 103, 108, 206, 212
7:30-10:30 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
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
9:30 AM-1:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
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"
2:00-5:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
Baker Ticknor Room (Room 213), Baker 234, Dartmouth Hall 101, 103, 108, 206, 212
5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall: Special Event
· Hanne Winarsky (Humanities Editor, Princeton University Press)
6:00-8:00 PM
Picnic at BEMA
8:00-10:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
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
9:30 AM-1:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
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."
2:00-5:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
Baker Ticknor Room (Room 213), Baker 234, Dartmouth Hall 101, 103, 108, 206, 212
7:30-10:30 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
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
9:30 AM-1:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
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
2:00-5:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
Baker Ticknor Room (Room 213), Baker 234, Dartmouth Hall 101, 103, 108, 206, 212
7:30-10:30 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
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
9:30 AM- 1:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
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”
2:00-5:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
Baker Ticknor Room (Room 213), Baker 234, Dartmouth Hall 101, 103, 108, 206, 212
6:00-7:30 PM, Daniel Webster Room, Hanover Inn
Closing Banquet
7:30-10:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
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"