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Web Schedule
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Thursday, Oct. 2
2:30 p.m. “Gentri-Tour” with PODER (People Organized in Defense of the
Earth & Her Resources); tour East and downtown Austin to learn about how
gentrification is impacting local communities. If interested in participating,
please contact Conference Chair Irene Garza at irene.garza@mail.utexas.edu.
7 p.m. Keynote with Dick Hebdige, “Becoming Animal: Race, Terror, & the American Roots”
Gearing 105 (on UT Campus)
8:15 Keynote Reception at the Hole in the Wall (2538 Guadalupe Street)
Friday, Oct. 3
Registration and Hospitality Open: 9 a.m.-5p.m.
Lone Star Room, 3rd floor
Texas Union—unless otherwise noted, all panel sessions will take place in
the Texas Union.
Panel Session 1: 9:30-10:50 a.m.
Mapping Place & Power: Hybridity and Transgression
Eastwoods Room, 2.102
The Global Space of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Who Put the
“Imperial” in Imperial Valley?
Jason Oliver Chang--UC Berkeley, Dept. of Ethnic Studies
Two Parallel Motions: Mapping Hong Kong
Jennifer Cheng--University of Iowa, Nonfiction Writing Program
Mongrel Bodies, Mongrel Technologies in Quiroga's Cinema Stories
Allison Schifani--University of CA Santa Barbara, Dept. of Comparative Literature
Moderator: Andrew Jones—UT Austin, American Studies
Bodies & Boundaries: Skirting the Gender Lines
Sinclair Suite, 3.128
My Wonder Woman: The “New Wonder Woman,” Gloria Steinem, and the
Appropriation of Comic Book Iconography
Andrew Friedenthal--UT-Austin, American Studies
The Radio Girls Will Show You!’ Women and Politics in Early 1920s Radio
Anne Gessler---UT-Austin, American Studies
Performing Prison: Dress, Modernity and the Radical Suffrage Body
Katherine Feo---UT-Austin, American Studies
Moderator: Allison Wright Munro—UT Austin, American Studies
Framing Identity: Production & Representation of Race in Art
Asian Culture Room, 4.224
Laboratory Space: Experiments in Modernism, Medicine, and
Racial Categorization at 291 Fifth Avenue
Tara Kohn---UT-Austin, Dept. of Art & Art History
Histories Buried in Clay: Appropriation, Cultural Diffusion, and the
Pottery of Jerry Brown
Sarah Melton---University of Alabama, Dept. of American Studies
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Performing Other, Performing Self: American Identities in Nikki S. Lee's“Projects;
Anna Warbelow---Washington University, Dept. of Art History
Moderator: Jackie Smith—UT Austin, American Studies
Panel Session 2: 11:00-12:20
Marginality, Racialization, and the Politics of Exclusion
Eastwoods Room, 2.102
Political Liminality: The Case of Puerto Rican Inbetweenness
Parissa Majdi-Clark---UCLA, Dept. of Political Science
Theoretical Construction of the “Other,” Toward the “illegal” as Human Day
Laborers in the U.S. Empire
Albert Ponce---UCLA, Department of Political Science
Becoming Americans: Self-Fashioning a Japanese American Identity in
Dorothea Lange’s Internment Photographs
Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt, Washington University, Dept. of Art History
Moderator: Amy Ware---UT Austin, American Studies
Selling “American Dreams”: Consumerism & Appropriation
Sinclair Suite, 3.128
(Re) Framing Revolutionary Politics: The Black Panthers at 40 and the
Dynamics of Collective Memory
Anne-Marie Angelo---Duke University, Dept. of History
The Bug Conquers the U.S.: The Americanization of the Volkswagen Beetle
Peter Kovacs---UT-Austin, Dept. of Radio, Television, & Film
Of Kitchens and Conglomerate Ownership: The Money and Meanings
Behind Kelly Ripa’s Electrolux Commercials
Katherine Haenschen---UT-Austin, Dept. of Radio, Television, & Film
Moderator: Stephanie Kohlberg—UT Austin, American Studies
Cultural Politics of the City
Chicano Culture Room, 4.206
Screening Memories: Deaccessioning Eakins in Philadelphia 2006 – 2008
Laura Holzman---University of CA-Irvine, Program in Visual Studies
Changes in the Landscape: East Austin and the Cultural Politics of Gentrification
Andrew Busch—UT Austin, American Studies
Urban Exploration as Historical Preservation: Brooklyn, Paris, Niagara Falls
Anthony Fassi,—UT Austin, American Studies
Moderator: Rebecca D’Orsogna
From Racial Containment to a Post-Racial America?
Asian Culture Room, 4.224
The Swirl: Dancing and Romancing in a Vision of Post-Racial America
Inna Arzumanova---USC, School of Communication
“You’re Well-Protected”: The Racial Politics of Youth and Containment Culture in
West Side Story
Alyxandra Vesey, UT-Austin, Dept. of Radio, Television, Film
Rethinking the Investment in Race: The 2000 Census and the Multiracial Movement
Jasmine Mitchell, University of Minnesota, Dept. of American Studies
Moderator—Andrew Friedenthal, UT-Austin, American Studies
LUNCH
Panel Session 3: 1:30-2:50p.m.
Encountering the “Other”: Masculinity, Race, and Representation
Eastwood Room 2.102
What I Tell You Three Times Is True: The Texian Tale of Peppery-Skinned Mexicans
Annette Rodriguez--University of New Mexico, M.A. in American Studies
Representations of Race and Manhood in the Western Dime Novel; Or,
Daniel Boone, Hawkeye Harry, and the Half-Blood’s Vengeance
Paul Scwhinn---UCLA, Dept. of History
Cooper's Ordeal: Racial Construction in the Order of the Arrow, Boy Scouts
of America
Josh Holland---UT-Austin, Dept. of American Studies
Moderator: Marvin Bendele, UT-Austin, American Studies
Power & Paranoia: Challenges to Racial Categorization
Sinclair Suite, 3.128
Separation or Mongrelization: Senator Theodore Bilbo’s Extreme Rhetoric of
Racial Purity
Erin Boade---UT-Austin, Dept. of English
Body Signs: Bodies and Communities in Cynthia Kadohata's
In the Heart of the Valley of Love
Nikki Rabin---Clark University
Moderator: Rebecca Onion, UT-Austin, American Studies
Negotiating Faith Politics in America
Chicano Culture Room, 4.206
Rhetorical Positioning: Pro-Life Youth and the Meaning of Resistance
Justin Philpot---Bowling Green University, Dept. of American Studies
Constructing America’s Religious Identity: Treatments of Mormonism
in Scholarly Surveys of Religion in the United States
Cristine Hutchinson-Jones--- Boston University, Division of Religious
and Theological Studies
The Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints: At the Borders of Utah, Arizona, and
American Political Culture
Cassie Ambutter---University of CA Santa Cruz, Dept. of Political Science
Moderator: Nadine Romig, UT-Austin, American Studies
Making “American” Places, Designing “American” Identities
Asian Culture Room, 4.224
'Cultivated Americans’: The Hull-House Circulating Collection and the
Creation of Feminine Identity
Rebecca Arnfeld---UC-Davis, Dept. of History
America Spread Your Golden Wings: Disney Theme Park Imagining of
American Identity
Daniel R. Vogel---Texas Christian University, Dept. of History
Remaking Chinatown: Conceptualizing Chinese American Space and Identity
in Cold War America
Jennifer Fang---University of Delaware, Dept. of History
Moderator: Anna Thompson-Hajdik, UT-Austin, American Studies
Panel Session 4: 3:00-4:30pm
Interrogating “mongrel” america: Personal Narratives
Eastwood Room, 2.102
Brown and White in the Borderlands
Marisol Cortez UC-Davis, Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Celina Rodriguez—UC-Davis, M.A. in Education, Socio-Cultural Studies
“Anyone Else Like Me?”The Hapa Project on MySpace: Social Networking
and Multiracial Identity
Alexander Cho—UT-Austin, Dept. of Radio, Television, & Film
Moderator: Irene Garza, UT-Austin, American Studies
*Note: this panel will address the use of the term “mongrel” in the conference title.
Listen to Us!: Performing Culture & Resistance Through Music
Sinclair Suite 3.128
Psychobilly: Acting Out a Historical Fantasy
Kim Kattari--UT-Austin, Dept. of Radio, Television, Film
Puro Punk, ¿y què? : Piñata Protest and the Making of Cultural
Identity in San Antonio
Sandra D. Garza & Sylvia Mendoza, UT—San Antonio, Dept. of
Bilingual & Bicultural Studies
The Politics of Patti Smith: Horses and the Rhetoric of Music
Shayna Maskell---Univ. of Maryland, Dept. of American Studies
Moderator: Jason Mellard, UT-Austin, American Studies
Bridging Identities in Language & Literature
Chicano Culture Room, 4.206
The Ethics and Rhetoric of a “Mongrel” Authenticity in Kingston’s
The Woman Warrior
Sarah Hart---Texas A&M, Dept. of English
Rewriting Chicano Hybridity and Indigeneity in Juan Felipe Herrera’s
Mayan Drifter
Marzia Milazzo---University of CA Santa Barbara, Dept. of Comparative
Literature
The Two Tourisms of Pacific Writing
Craig Santos Perez, UC-Berkeley, Dept. of Ethnic Studies
Moderator: Tracy Wuster, UT-Austin, American Studies
Reading “Culture” through Linguistic Liminality
Asian Culture Room, 4.224
Harryette Mullen: Language, Identity, and Innovation at the Crossroads of Difference
Jennifer Reimer---UC Berkeley, Comparative Ethnic Studies
“We Are All Mongrels”: Hybridity and Self-Determination in Muse & Drudge
Kristen Ames---York University, Dept. of English
“Lion-heart, frate mio, and so on in two languages”: Louis Zukofsky and the
Dismantling of the Hebrew-Yiddish Polysystem
Rachel Wamsley, UC-Berkeley, Dept. of Comparative Literature
Moderator: Jeannette Vaught
8p.m. Conference After-Party
1216 E 7th Street; Austin, TX 78702
All conference participants and attendees are invited to attend the
post-conference party/kickback at 1216 E. 7th Street, cross street of Lydia & 7th,
three blocks east of I-35.
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For more information or any questions please feel free to contact committee chair: Irene Garza or send general inquiries to utamst08@gmail.com
