CHECK IN: Monday, June 20 from 2:00- 5:00 PM, Occom Common in the Goldstein Residence Hall. If you foresee that you may not be able to make it during this time frame, please email Alex at futures@dartmouth.edu with your cell phone number, how you are traveling to Hanover, and when you expect to arrive. Thanks!
INSTITUTE LOGISTICS
The Institute itself begins at 6:30 PM on Monday, June 20 and concludes in the evening on June 25, 2011. Participants are housed in recently constructed Dartmouth College dorms Goldstein, Byrne II, and Thomas. Linens are provided. Check out is by 11 AM on Sunday, June 26. Sunday, there will be a labeled drop box for your key. DO NOT LEAVE YOUR KEY IN YOUR ROOM. If you lose your key or leave it in your room, you will be charged a $50 fee.
We open at 6:30 PM on Monday, June 20 with a session about both the mechanics and the intellectual goals of the coming week. This is followed by the first plenary; the evening closes with a reception in the foyer of Filene auditorium. The typical schedule for Tuesday-Saturday will be morning plenary (9:30 PM-1:00 PM), afternoon participant seminar (2-5 PM), and evening plenary (7:30-10:30 PM). A picnic dinner is scheduled for Wednesday evening (details will be provided when you arrive) and the final evening of the Institute features a banquet for all participants and speakers (details will be provided when you arrive). With the exception of these events, you will be on your own for dining. There are a number of restaurants in downtown Hanover including, but not limited to: Molly’s, Jewel of India, the Orient, EBA’s, Yama, Murphy’s, the Canoe Club, the Hanover Inn, and My Thai. A more detailed schedule, with speaker and room assignments will await you upon your arrival.
In general, the Institute has two primary pedagogical forms: plenary sessions that feature talks by invited speakers and ongoing afternoon participant seminars that function as intensive workshops for work-in-progress by Institute participants. All plenaries will feature two or three invited speakers whose work will help to define the contours of the Institute theme; each talk will be 25-30 minutes in length, with the same amount of time reserved for questions and discussion by participants at the Institute.
SEMINARS
Afternoon seminar sessions will be led by 8 different Institute faculty. The seminars are organized according to the critical specialties of the participants and matched as well as possible to the expertise of the seminar faculty. During the afternoon seminars, each Institute participant will have the opportunity to present a conference paper version of his or her work. These presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes (10 pages of written work). The presentation will be followed by a critical discussion of the paper that is approximately 25-30 minutes.
In the past, Institute participants have found the seminars useful for a variety of purposes—presenting and discussing dissertation or book proposals, essays in progress, and portions of chapters. The seminars operate according to a workshop format; it is best to present work that is in progress and that will benefit from feedback from the group. Some participants in the past have brought photocopies of their presentations for all members of the group (14-15) or other forms of handouts (outlines, visual images, etc.). We have requested “smart” classrooms and, as such, can accommodate multi-media (e.g. PowerPoint, A/V, etc) presentations for the seminars. The intensity of the Institute schedule tends to preclude the possibility of reading everyone’s work before it is presented. Copying facilities are available in Hanover if you need to make photocopies once you arrive.
Plenary speakers will attend the afternoon seminars and you will be encouraged to invite a speaker to attend your seminar group if his or her work has particular bearing on yours. In general, we would like to have as much interaction between speakers and participants as possible. If you are interested in discussing a course you have taught or plan to teach, please bring copies of your syllabus.
2-5 PM Check In, Occom Common at Goldstein Residence Hall. At the corner of College Street and Maynard Street, Hanover, NH 03755.
6:30-7 PM Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
opening session
including Seminar Orientation
-Donald Pease (Dartmouth College)
-Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northesastern University)
-Winfried Fluck (JFK Institute, Freie Universität, Berlin)
-Eric Lott (University of Virginia)
7:00 PM-10:00 PM Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 1
Brian Edwards "After The American Century"
Eric Cheyfitz "Disinformation and the End of Ideology
Dylan Rodriguez "Racial Genocide and Slavery's Present Tense: Toward a Re-Narration"
10:30 PM Welcome Reception, Filene Foyer in Moore Hall
9:30 AM-1:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 2
John Carlos Rowe "Transpacific Studies and The Cultures of U.S. Imperialism"
Winfried Fluck "American Studies and Figurational Sociology: How Do We Live 'In-Between'?"
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon "Zombie Biopolitics"
2:00-5:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
7:30-10:30 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall,
Plenary 3
Jonathan Elmer "War Games"
Colleen Boggs "Wounded Citizens"
Jordan Stein " How *Pamela* Won The French Revolution"
9:30 AM-1:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 4
Cindi Katz "Superman, Tiger Mother: Aspiration Management and the Reproduction of Waste"
Hamilton Carroll "History's Actors: Narrative Cinema and the 'War on Terror.' "
Alan Nadel " 'We Have Some Planes': Postmodernism, Pop Culture, and _The 9/11 Commission Report_."
2:00-5:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
5:15 -6:45 PM: Barbecue at the BEMA (see map)
7:30-10:30 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 5
Nancy Fraser "Can Society Be Commodities All The Way Down? Polanyian Reflections on Capitalist Crisis"
J. Martin Favor "The Triple Axel: Dick Button, Johnny Weir, and the Melodrama of Nation"
Eng-Beng Lim "Mind the G.A.P (Gay Asian Princess)!"
9:30 AM-1:00 PM, Dartmouth 105, Dartmouth Hall
Plenary 6
Daniel T. O'Hara "Visionary Contact in the Interzone"
Danuta Fjellestad "Appropriating 'American' Images in Sweden, Or, Toward Glocal American Studies"
Aimee Bahng "Drones, Clones, and Cylons: Posthuman Asians and the Artificial Intelligence of National Security"
2:00-5:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
7:30-10:30 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 7
Russ Castronovo "Ben Franklin and Wikileaks"
Kun Jong Lee "Black Amerasians Abandoned at the Frontline of US Empire:Representations of Black Amerasians in Korean and Korean American Literatures"
Gordon Hutner "The 21st Century American International Novel: A Short History"
9:30 AM-1:00 PM, Dartmouth 105, Dartmouth Hall
Plenary 8
Tony Bogues "Revolution, The Radical Imagination, and Human Freedom : Reflections on the Problem of Human Emancipation at the End of History"
Cristina Giorcelli "Margaret Fuller and Cristina di Belgiojoso: James' Haunting Presence"
Jonathan Flatley "The Black Marilyns: Liking, Likeness, and the Color-Line in Warhol"
2:00-5:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
7:30-10:30 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 9
Walter Benn Michaels, "Neoliberal Aesthetics or, the Attractions of Indifference"
Tim Dean "Obscene, On-Scene, an Other Scene: The Ethics of Looking at Pornography"
Eric Lott "Tar Baby and the Great White Wonder: Joni Mitchell's Pimp Game"
9:30 AM-1:00 PM, Dartmouth 105, Dartmouth Hall
Plenary 10
Ramon Soto-Crespo "Biotropics: Conjuring a Neoliberal Bugarron in the Caribbean"
Rebecca Biron "Thinking Through Catastrophe: 21st-century Mexico"
Soyica Diggs Colbert "Life After Death: African American Studies in the 21st Century"
2:00-4:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
4:00-5:00 PM: Lecture by Gordon Hutner, "How to Get Published," Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
5:30-7:00 PM Final Banquet for Participants and Faculty, Daniel Webster Room, Hanover Inn
7:30-10:30 PM, Filene Auditoriu, Moore Hall
Plenary 11
Liam Kennedy "Witnessing US Foreign Policy"
Donatella Izzo "The Tea Party Is Going International, Baby" :Tea Party Italia and the Politics of Free Translation"
Donald Pease "Black Orpheus: Obama's Governmentality"
11 AM Check out. Please check your rooms to make sure you haven't forgotten anything, place your keys in the drop box that has been provided for you in one of the dorm common spaces, and have safe travels!
