12-4 PM Check In, Lobby Hanover Inn
7 PM Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
opening session, "Re-Configurations of American Studies"
including Seminar Orientation
-Donald Pease (Dartmouth College)
-Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northesastern University)
-Winfried Fluck (JFK Institute, Freie Universität, Berlin)
-Eric Lott, University of Virginia
7:30 PM Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 1
* John Carlos Rowe: "The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies"
* Winfried Fluck: "Where Is America in Transnational American Studies?"
* José David Saldivar:"Americanity Otherwise."
11:00 PM, Opening Reception, Filene Foyer, Moore Hall
9:30 AM-1:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 2
* Anna Brickhouse: TBA
* Lee Medovoi: "Rethinking Racial Formation: The Jew, The Muslim, and Permanent War"
* Donatella Izzo: "A Hall of Mirrors: The Sublime Object of Justice in Dexter"
2:00-5:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
* Rooms: Baker Ticknor Room (Baker 213), Baker Room 234, Berry Library Room 277, Dartmouth Hall Rooms 103, 108, 206, Kemeny Hall Bradley Lecture Hall (008), Moore Hall Rooms 110, 150, 202, B03
7:30-10:30 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall,
Plenary 3
* George Lipsitz: "The Bitter But Beautiful Struggle: Why American Studies Matters Now."
* Nancy Bentley: "African American Expression and the Counterfactual"
9:30 AM-1:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 4
* Russ Castronovo: "Epistolary Propaganda"
* Soyica Diggs Colbert: "Sounding Civil Rights: James Baldwin's 'Blues for Mister Charlie'"
* Chris Castiglia: "Ideality Politics."
2:00-5:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
* Rooms: Baker Ticknor Room (Baker 213), Baker Room 234, Berry Library Room 277, Dartmouth Hall Rooms 103, 108, 206, Kemeny Hall Bradley Lecture Hall (008), Moore Hall Rooms 110, 150, 202, B03
6:00-7:45 PM, BEMA
* Picnic at BEMA
8:00-10:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 5
* Andrew Hebard: " The Naturalist Floor Plan: Frank Norris and the Aesthetics of Imperial Administration "
* Nancy Fraser:"Struggles for Recognition in the Context of
Capitalist Crisis."
9:30 AM-1:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 6
* Cindi Katz, Elizabeth Dillon: "Accumulation"
* Anthony Barrymore Bogues:"" And what about the Human : Black Radical Anti-Colonial Thought and the Politics of the Human : A Contemporary Reflection on Frantz Fanon's Black Skin White Masks."
* Donald Pease: "States of Fantasy"
2:00-5:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
* Rooms: Baker Ticknor Room (Baker 213), Baker Room 234, Berry Library Room 277, Dartmouth Hall Rooms 103, 108, 206, Kemeny Hall Bradley Lecture Hall (008), Moore Hall Rooms 110, 150, 202, B03
7:30-10:30 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 7
* Tim Dean: "Toward a Theory of Consensual Rape"
* Macarena Gomez-Barris: "Andean Gateways: Seekers, Cosmologies, and the Social Exclusion of Racial Difference"
* Jose Munoz: "Feeling Utopia"
9:30 AM-1:00 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 8
* Judith Halberstam: "Queer Negativity"
* Ramon Soto-Crespo: "Anthropologies of Lust: Jacobo Schifter and the Reinvention of Sexuality in the Americas."
* Eric Lott: "Back Door Man: Howlin Wolf, Freud's Wolf Man, and Jim Crow Rocking"
2:00-5:00 PM: Seminar Rooms
* Rooms: Baker Ticknor Room (Baker 213), Baker Room 234, Berry Library Room 277, Dartmouth Hall Rooms 103, 108, 206, Kemeny Hall Bradley Lecture Hall (008), Moore Hall Rooms 110, 150, 202, B03
7:30-10:30 PM, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Plenary 9
* Cindi Katz, Elizabeth Dillon: "Countertopographies"
* Jeffrey Glover: "Pequot, Inc."
* Anders Olsson: "Travel Matters"
11 PM, Closing Party, location TBA
