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		Thursday, June 5
		Friday, June 6
		Saturday, June 7
		Sunday, June 8

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - June 5-8, 2003

The CSA thanks our sponsors: the Carnegie Mellon University English Department and its graduate program in Literary and Cultural Studies; the Center for Cultural Analysis, Carnegie Mellon University; the Cultural Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh

CSA Organizing Committee

Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh
Leerom Medovoi, Portland State University
Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland
Michael Ryan, Northeastern University
Imre Szeman, McMaster University
David Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University

Program Committee

Leerom Medovoi
Sangeeta Ray
Imre Szeman

Registration Hours

Outside the Forbes Ballroom

Thursday, June 5, 12:00 - 5:00
Friday, June 6, 8:00 - 5:00
Saturday, June 7, 8:00 - 1:30

Exhibit Hours

In the Forbes Ballroom

Thursday, June 5, 12:00 - 7:00
Friday, June 6, 8:30 - 7:00
Saturday, June 7, 8:30 - 3:00

Overview of the Conference

Shuttle Services

Shuttle service will be provided between Mudge House and the Wyndham Garden Hotel at the beginning and end of each conference day

Hotel Directory

Conference Schedule

Thursday, June 5, 1:00-2:30 p.m.

1. Staging Empire: Comparative Perspectives on American Colonialism

1:00-2:30 p.m., Forbes Ballroom
Chair: Shari Huhndorf, University of Oregon

• "Camp Black and Kakyaks: War and the Politics of the Black Burlesque Stage," Jayna Brown, University of Oregon
• "'In Whipping a Native, You are Speaking to Them': Violence and White Women's Travel Writing after 1898," Nerissa Balce, San Francisco State University
• "Reimagining the Colonies: the Politics of Tradition in Atanarjuat - the Fast Runner," Shari Huhndorf

2. 'Ain't No Shame, Ladies, Do Yo Thang': Black Female Singers Find Their Voice

1:00-2:30 p.m., Chatham Room
Chair: Dan Bergen, Kansas State University

• "Supa Dupa Feminist, or Missy Don't Fail Me Now," Matthew Webber, Kansas State University
• "Zora's Got Those Jane Crawford Blues," Matthew Groneman, Kansas State University
• "A 'Train'ed Connection," Dan Bergen

3. Composing Cultural Studies Pedagogy: The Production of a Composition and Cultural Studies Conference

1:00-2:30 p.m., Duquesne Room
Chair: Rachel Riedner, George Washington University

• "Running on Empty: The Myth of the Mentor," Mark Mullen
• "A First-Year Writing Conference, Citizenship and Public Space," Carol Hayes and Phyllis Ryder
• "Love and Pedagogy in the Time of Imperialism," Rachel Riedner

4. Dilemmas of Contemporary Feminism

1:00-2:30 p.m. Carlow Room
Chair: Nicole Burkholder-Mosco, Thiel College

• "Feminism and Its Ghosts: the Specter of the Lesbian Feminist," Victoria Hesford, State University of New York-Stony Brook
• "Aesthetics in Crisis," Estella Lauter, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• "Performing Feminist Critique: Resisting the Birth Mark," Gayle Austin

5. Multiculturalism and the U.S. Public Sphere after 9/11

1:00-2:30 p.m., Carnegie Mellon Room
Chair: Dawn Seckler, University of Pittsburgh

• "Recovering from September 11th: The Function of American Multiculturalism at the Present Time," Lesliee Antonette, East Stroudsburg U of PA
• "America as Risk/Securitizing the Other," Randy Martin, New York University
• "Media, Maps, and the Diva: Arab-American Identifications and the Questions of Citizenship and the Public Sphere," Keith Feldman, George Washington University

6. Discourses of Science, Medicine, Technoculture

1:00-2:30 p.m., Pittsburgh Room
Chair: Michael Rectenwald, Carnegie Mellon University

• "When the Victim Becomes the Aggressor: Constructing the HIV+ Rapist in the News Media," Viola C. Milton, Indiana University, Bloomington
• "'Two Babies, Two Races, One Womb, Three Parents': New Reproductive Technologies and Cross-Racial Births," Jennifer Musial, Bowling Green State University
• "Rethinking the History of Science," Peter Naccarato, Marymount Manhattan College

Thursday, June 5, 2:45-4:15 p.m.

7. Plenary Roundtable: Cultural Studies in the Age of Permanent War

2:45-4:15 p.m., Forbes Ballroom
Moderator: Imre Szeman, McMaster University

Speakers: Arif Dirlik, University of Oregon; Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University; Rhadika Desai, University of Victoria; Ronald Judy, University of Pittsburgh; Paul Bove, University of Pittsburgh; Henry Giroux, Pennsylvania State University

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Thursday, June 5, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

8. The "24" Panel

4:30-6:00 p.m. Chatham Room
Chair: Dale Bauer, University of Kentucky

• "The Man Who Knew Too Little: Rationalization, Technology, and Narration in 24." Gerald Sim, University of Iowa
• "This is the longest day of my life: Real Time and the Speed of Global Media." Charles Baldwin, University of West Virginia
• "Planet Hollywood: The Politics of Global Space in 24." Keith Woodward, University of Kentucky
• "English Studies as Terrorism." Dale Bauer

9. Progressing Blackness: (Re)Thinking the Issues of Color and Cultural Representation in 21st Century Health Issues, Black Intellectualism, and Mass Media

4:30-6:00 p.m. Duquesne Room
Chair: Keon Gilbert, Indiana University-Bloomington

• "Lights, Camera, and . . . Let The Church Say Amen: The Travis Smiley CSPAN Symposiums," April Smith, Indiana University-Bloomington
• "Transcending the Border of Black Masculinity: (Drag)Racing Across the Mobile Frontier in To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar," Byron Craig, Indiana University-Bloomington
• "A Yahoo Mississippi Delta Case Study of the Social Reality of Black Health" Keon Gilbert

10. Writing the Female Subject

4:30-6:00 p.m. Carlow Room
Chair: Rebecka R. Rutledge, Miami University

• "The Body Speaks: Merging the Mother and the Sexual Self." Amy Hagenrater, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• "Writing Rape: Autobiography, Memoir, and the Rise of Contemporary Sexual Violence Fiction," Robin Field, University of Virginia
• "We Are All Pawns," Elaine Cardenas, George Mason University
• "Speaking of Cancer: Illness, Outrage, and the (Non)Breasted Woman," Jennifer Driscoll, Marist College

11. Dynamics of the New Economy

4:30-6:00 p.m., Carnegie Mellon Room
Chair: Daniel Wild, University of Pittsburgh

• "New Technology as Celebrity: The Internet Stock Bubble and Cultural Desire," Kirsty Best, York University
• "'Working 90 Hours a Week and Loving It': The Legacy of the 'New Economy' Workstyles for Urban Life," Alice Crawford,
• "Beyond Napster: Reimagining the Commodity Status of Music," Ted Friedman, Georgia State University
• "Converging on the Agents of Consumption: When Moore's Law Meets Parkinson's Law," Michelle Rodino, University of Maryland

12. Cultural Studies and the Institution of Knowledge

4:30-6:00 p.m. Pittsburgh Room
Chair: David Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University

• "Excellent Cultural Studies." Miranda Joseph, University of Arizona
• " The Apostrophic Moment of Culture." Jeffery Williams, University of Missouri
• "Historical Perspective on Interdisciplinary," Elizabeth Mazzolini, Pennsylvania State University
• "The Disorganization of US Cultural Studies," Vincent Leitch, University of Oklahoma

Thursday June 5, 6:00-7:00 p.m.

Opening Reception: Forbes Ballroom

Sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Cultural Studies Program

Thursday June 5, 8:30-10:00 p.m.

Business Meeting: Forbes Ballroom

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Friday, June 6, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

13. Information, Desire, Critique: How to Handle Globalization

8:30-10:00 a.m. Forbes Ballroom
Chair: Lee Medovoi, Portland State University

• "The Information Empire," Mark Poster, University of California-Irvine
• "Disinterested Desire - The Territory of Empire," Roger Cook, University of Missouri
• "The Business World and Business in the World: A Radical Pedagogy of "Business German" as "No-Business-As-Usual German," Benjamin Robinson, Northern Illinois University
• "Transnationalism as Critique," Peter Hitchcock, City University of New York

14. Rethinking Postcolonial Studies

8:30-10:00 a.m. Chatham Room
Chair: Delores Phillips, University of Maryland

• "(Dis)placing the 'Indian': Policy, Ethnography, and the Repots of Indian Commissioners," David Medei, University of Michigan
• "Pasifik Camp, Satire and Silliness in Tali's Angels, Milburn Place and Eaten Alive," Sarina Pearson, Auckland University
• "Wedded to the Republic: Fabricating Intimacy Oriented Publics and Republic Day Exhibits in Turkey," Esra Ozyreck, University of Pittsburgh

15. Marketing as Culture

8:30-10:00 a.m. Duquesne Room
Chair: Kathy Newman, Carnegie Mellon University

• "The (Brand) Name's Bond: Trademark Effects, Product Placement, and Brand Loyalty," Aaron Jaffe, University of Louisville
• "Speculations on Value, 'Entertainment Value,' and Transvalue: Cultural Studies and the Political Economy of the Trailer," Donald Hedrick, Kansas State University
• "Invisible Men: The Popular Consumption of Student-Athletes," Bruce Smith, University of California-Berkeley
• "Moments of Zen: A Uniting Factor in Reality Television," Hugh Curnutt, University of Pittsburgh

16. Screening the Nation

8:30-10:00 a.m. Carlow Room
Chair: Michael Ryan, Northeastern University

• "Kashmir as Image in Mission Kashmir: Paradise Lost?" Alpana Sharma, Wright State University
• " 'With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility': Spider-Man and the Technological Construction of Heroism," Jasmine Trice, Indiana University
• "The Korean Partition Films of the 1990s: How Does Korean National Cinema Present a Nationalist Voice?" Seong-Wook Lee, Wayne State University
• "BBC's Video Nation as a Participatory Media Practice," Nico Carpentier, Free University of Brussels

17. Sport and Cultural Studies

8:30-10:00 a.m. Carnegie Mellon Room
Chair: David Andrews, University of Maryland

• "Third Wave Feminism and the Women's Basketball Association," Mary McDonald, Miami University
• "The (In)Visible Whiteness of NASCAR Mythology, Darcy Plymire, Townson College
• "World Bank Golf," C.L. Cole, University of Illinois
  "Locating Sport," David Andrews

18. New Directions in the Study of Modernity and Modernism

8:30-10:00 a.m. Pittsburgh Room
Chair: Srila Nayak, Carnegie Mellon University

• "Great Escapes: Modernity, Alienation and Male Spaces of Possibility," Rob Holton, Carleton University
• "A Cultural Studies Perspective on Modernism as a Scholarly Object," Charles Cunningham, Carnegie Mellon University
• "E's not your Father: Angela Carter's Wise Children and the Lineages of Post-Imperial Culture," Edmond Caldwell, Emmanuel College

Friday, June 6, 10:15-11:45 a.m.

19. Cultural Studies and Asian Studies: A Critical Roundtable

10:15-11:45 a.m., Forbes Ballroom
Chair: Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland

Speakers: Arif Dirlik University of Oregon; Zhang Xudong, NYU; Mirana Szeto, UCLA; Shih Shu-mei, UCLA

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20. Theorizing Class

10:15-11:45 a.m., Chatham Room
Chair: Charles Cunningham, Carnegie Mellon University

• "Beyonds Subcultures, Job Titles, and the PMC: Rethinking Class Fractions." Nathan Scott Epley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• "A Productive 21st Century Workforce: State Policy and Cultural Representations of Cyborg Labor" Mobina Hashmi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "Negotiations of Class in the Homesteading Movement: An Ethnographic Study of Class in a Cultural Context" Teresa Heinz, Indiana University-Bloomington
• "If You Think You Are Middle Class Raise Your Hand: African Americans and the Changing Significance of Class." Channelle James and Debra C. Smith, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

21. Mediated Women

10:15-11:45 a.m., Duquesne Room
Chair: Fran Bartkowski, Rutgers University-Newark

• "Chick Flicks, Chick Lit, and the Postmodernist Reinvention of the Single Girl." Roberta Garrett, University of East London
• " 'My Name is Janice, and My Daughter is a Lesbian': TV Melodramas and Lesbian Youth," Tara Kachgal, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• "Taking Back the Night: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Female Gaze," Heather Duda, University of Pennsylvania
• "The Costume of Identity: Contemporary Korean and Korean-American-Women Artists," Anne Ciecko, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

22. Global Imaginaries

10:15-11:45 a.m., Carlow Room
Chair: John Eperjesi, Carnegie Mellon University

• "Visceral Cosmopolitanism and the Anti-War Movement in UK," Mica Nava, East London University
• "The IKEA Experience: Selling 'Swedish modern' in Global Consumer Markets," Kari Dehli, OISE/University of Toronto

23. "The Simpsons" and Culture/Subculture

10:15-11:45 a.m., Carnegie Mellon Room
Chair: Michele Janette, Kansas State University

• The Simpsons and Ideological Interpretation. Hugh O'Connell, Kansas State University
• Mmm ... Social Critique: The Simpsons, Authority, and the ISA, Sarah Hamblin, Kansas State University
• The Simpsons, Guest Stars, and the Production of a Pop Cultural Canon, Megan Bygness, Kansas State University

24. Political Interventions into Cultural Studies

10:15-11:45 a.m., Pittsburgh Room
Chair: Courtney Maloney, Carnegie Mellon University

• "The Cultural Production Thesis: The Challenge of New Media to Cultural Studies," P. David Marshall, Northeastern University
• "What Will Cultural Studies Become, Anyway? The Continuing Relevance of Materialism, Realism, and Populism for Cultural Studies," Joel Woller, Carlow College
• "The Political Promises of Rhizomatic Children in A Thousand Plateaus," Kirk A. Astle, Michigan State University

Friday, June 6, 11:45-1:00 p.m.

Lunch Break

Friday, June 6, 1:00-2:30 p.m.

25. Plenary Roundtable: Public Feelings

Forbes Ballroom
Moderator: Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland, College Park

Speakers: Ann Cvetkovich, University of Texas-Austin; Janet Staiger, University of Texas-Austin; Sasha Torres, University of West Ontario; Lisa Duggan, New York University; Ann Reynolds, University of Texas-Austin

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Friday, June 6, 2:45-4:15 p.m.

26. Defining and Locating Neo-Liberalism and Neo-Conservatism: A Roundtable Discussion

2:45-4:15 p.m., Forbes Ballroom
Chair: James Hay, University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana

Speakers: Anna McCarthy, New York University; Toby Miller, New York University; Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; James Hay

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27. Mediated Re-presentations: Visuality, Identity, Subjectivity

2:45-4:15 p.m., Chatham Room
Chair: James Cahill, University of California-Irvine

• "Time Well Spent and Time-Being-Spent: The Tourist's Imaging of Good Times," Heidi Cooley, University of California-Irvine
• "Electromagnetic Specters: Remediating the 21st Century Supernatural," Rachel Leah Thompson, University of California, Irvine
• "Mediating Invisibility: Masked Spectacle and the Crisis of Representation in Post-Quake Mexico City," James Cahill

28. Transnational Asia Culture

2:45-4:15 p.m., Duquesne Room
Chair: Gerald McCausland, University of Pittsburgh

• "The Global Circulation of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," John Eperjesi, Carnegie Mellon University
• "Taiwanese Triads in the Transnational Imagination: Mahjong and Good-Bye South Good-Bye," Gina Marchetti, Ithaca College
• "Asian Values and Communitarian Democracy: The Media Construction of Consensus and the Legitimization of One-Party Rule," Soek-Fang Sim, Indiana University-Bloomington

29. Youth: Cultures and Subcultures

2:45-4:15 p.m., Carlow Room
Chair: Victor Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University

• "'Wigger' in Contemporary Youth Culture," Robert Clift, Indiana University
• "Mentoring Black Men: The Interaction Between Culture and Identity Formation During the Undergraduate Experience," Lisa Rasheed, Georgia State University
• "Girls Just Wanna¡K Shop?: Rethinking Girlhood, Expanding Girls Studies," Mary Kearney, University of Texas-Austin
• "Lowrider Space," Ben Chappel, University of Texas-Austin/Bridgewater College

30. Rethinking Cultural Studies: Theoretical Interventions from the Disciplines

2:45-4:15 p.m., Carnegie Mellon Room
Chair: Michael Ryan, Northeastern University

• "The Paradox of the Local and the Global in Cultural Studies," Anthony Grajeda, University of Central Florida
• "What Does Cultural Studies Want from History? Electronic Books, Media Historiography, and the Logic of Intermediation," Ted Striphas, Ohio University
• "Beyond Mimesis and Psychoanalysis: Cognitive Analysis for Theatre History and Cultural Studies," Bruce McConachie, University of Pittsburgh
• "Television, Technology and the Form of Cultural Studies," Sudeep Dasgupta, Amsterdam

31. Sexual Representations

2:45-4:15 p.m., Pittsburgh Room
Chair: Thora Brylowe, Carnegie Mellon University

• "Traveling Orientalism: Interrogating Stereotypical Representations of Arab Female Sexuality," Amira Jarmakani, Emory University
• "Funny: Queering the Hetro/Homo Binary," Jillana Enteen, Northwestern University
• "Impotence, Viagra and 'Structures of Feeling,'" Kristin Brown, University of Minnesota
• "Migration, Mobility, and Women: Media and the Traffic in Women," Gretchen Soderlund, University of Chicago

Friday, June 6, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

32. Internet Democracy and its Troubles

4:30-6:00 p.m., Chatham Room
Chair: Chris Neuwirth, Carnegie Mellon University

• "E-Discourse: Narrative Communities Beyond the English Classroom," Josh Slifkin, Taylor Allderdice High School, and Jean Schulte, Duquesne University
• "Traveling Along Data's Highway: Who Gets Mapped Out?" Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green University
• " 'Say It Ain't So John'; or, How an Arizona Senator Became a Player in a Hegemonic War of Position Around the Internet, Privacy and Capitalism," Linda Baughman, Christopher Newport University

33. Aesthetics, Value, Culture

4:30-6:00 p.m., Duquesne Room
Chair: Mario Castagnaro, Carnegie Mellon University

• "The Politics of Style: Historicizing the Aesthetic," James Newcomb, Memphis University
• "'Art's Useless Utility': The Double Reality of Aesthetic Value in a Jeff Koons Boot," Ellen L. Gorman, George Mason University
• "Punk Cinema," Stacy Thompson, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

34. Production of Spaces and Places

4:30-6:00 p.m., Carlow Room
Chair: John Trenz, Carnegie Mellon University

• "From Movie Palaces to Little Boxes: The Production of Screen Spaces and Everyday Life," Ivan Zatz-Diaz, Pratt Institute
• "Space for Media and Space By Media," Inkyu Kang, University of Wisconsin
• "Feasts and Feats: Identity, Performance, and the Commodification of Polar
• Exploration in the Peary-Cook Controversy." Andrea Becksvoort, Yale University
• "Belle Isle: Cultural Representations of an Iconic Detroit Space," Donald Levin, Marygrove College

35. Age: A Missing Category in Cultural Studies

4:30-6:00 p.m., Carnegie Mellon Room
Chair: Kathleen Woodward, University of Washington-Seattle

• "Age and the Repressed Origins of Identity Discourse," Leerom Medovoi, Portland State University
• "Critical Age Autobiography: Reading the American Dream as a Narrative about Aging over the Life Course," Margraet Gullette, Brandeis University
• "Aging as Anachronism," Kathleen Woodward

36. Constructing African-American Identities

4:30-6:00 p.m.., Pittsburgh Room
Chair: Megan Simpson, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona

• "Degeneration through Photography: Race and Daguerreotypy in the Nineteenth Century," Andrew Smith, Lafayette College
• "(Il)legible Bodies/(In)visbile Text: Kate Drumgold's A Slave Girl's Story," Elizabeth Wright, Pennsylvania State University-Hazelton
• "Cross-Cultural Engagement: Reading Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge," Megan Simpson

Friday, June 6, 6:00-7:00 p.m.

Cash Bar: Forbes Ballroom

Saturday, June 6 8:30-10:00 a.m.

37. Rethinking Late Capitalism: Culture and Society in the Twentieth-Century America

8:30-10:00 a.m., Forbes Ballroom
Chair: Lee Medovoi, Portland State University

Speaker: David Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University; Jim Livingston, Rutgers University; Bruce Robbins, Columbia University

38. Slacker Culture

8:30-10:00 a.m., Carnegie Mellon Room
Chair: Lisa Fluet, College of the Holy Cross

• "Madison Avenues Generation X," James Davis, Denison University
• "The Accumulation of Slack," Roger Bellin, Princeton University
• "Slackers in Love: Zadie Smith, Dentistry and Organic Intellectuals," Lisa Fluet

39. New Approaches to Popular Music: Technology, Identities, Mediation and Aesthetics

8:30-10:00 a.m., Carlow Room
Chair: Andrew Weintraub, University of Pittsburgh

• "The New Organology," Jonathan Sterne, University of Pittsburgh
• "Signifying Nothing: The Pet Shop Boys, AIDS, and the Use of Camp," Des Harmon, University of Pittsburgh
• "Music Between Performance and Plasticity: Toward an Aesthetic Theory of the Recorded Arts," Ian Reyes, University of Pittsburgh
• "Aesthetics and Popular Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective," Andrew Weintraub

40. Localizing Cultural Studies

8:30-10:00 a.m., Duquesne Room
Chair: Stephanie Batiste, Carnegie Mellon University

• "African Visual Culture: Minding a Fractal World," Cynthia Ward
• "Provincializing Cultural Studies, In Hawaii, For Example," Houston Wood, Hawaii Pacific University
• "Transnational Asian Feminism: Bridging Ties Between Black Cultural Studies and Asian Cultural Studies," Anh Hua, York University

41. Memory and History

8:30-10:00 a.m. Chatham Room
Chair: Seth Graham, University of Pittsburgh

• "Eventful Deaths: The Constitution of Collective Memory in Quebec," Patricia Clermont, Universitie de Montreal
• "Heritage Rebranded: The North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish and the Performance of Nation," Ryan Trimm, University of Rhode Island
• "Play or Display: Marx Playsets as History," Mark Best, University of Pittsburgh
• "Memory, Restorative Justice, and Reparations in the work of Wole Soyinka," Sabrina Freeney, Georgia State University

42. Changing the Interpretation of Disability in Mainstream American Culture

8:30-10:00 a.m., Pittsburgh Room
Chair: Miriam Hertz, University of Pittsburgh

• "Living in Two Cultures: Reflections from Both Sides of the Mirror," Al Condeluci and Lucy Spruill, United Cerebral Palsy of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh
• "Emergences: Disability Culture and the American Scene," Carol Marfisi, Temple University
• "At the Interstices of Classification: Cultural Modeling of Disability," Patrick Devlieger, University of Leuven (Belgium)
• "Changing the Interpretation of Disability: Special Educators with Disabilities," Beverly Barkon, Carlow College
• "Under our Skins: Living Disability," Lin Wei-Lee, University of Pittsburgh
• "Disability Studies across the Curriculum: Selected Initiatives and Challenges," Ellen R. Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, and Miriam Hertz

Saturday, June 7, 10:15-11:45 a.m.

43. Youth Under Siege

10:15-11:45 a.m., Forbes Ballroom
Chair: Imre Szeman, McMaster University

• "Education, Enforcement, and Inequality: Youth Under Siege," Henry A. Giroux, Pennsylvania State University
• "Education for National Security," Kenneth J. Saltman, DePaul University,
• "Teaching for Terror: Writing the Police State," Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University
• "The Drug War is The New Jim Crow: Legislating Black Educational Exclusion in the Post-Civil Rights Era," Susan Searls, Pennsylvania State University

44. American Popular Culture after 9/11, Part II

10:15-11:45 a.m.,Chatham Room
Chair: Gregg Caruso, Carnegie Mellon University

• "Terror Cinema, Global Capitalism, and Fractured Manhood," Neal King, Virginia Tech University
• "39 vs. 9/11: The Professional Athlete As National Hero After 9/11," Matt Yockey, Indiana University
• "Global Media Flows and 9/11: What Terror Can Teach," Stacy Takacs, Oklahoma State University
• "Containment Redux: 24, Alias, and the New Cold War," Michael Kackman, DePaul University

45. Theorizing Feelings and Affective Life

10:15-11:45 a.m., Duquesne Room
Chair: Andrew Kurtz, Bowling Green State University, Firelands College

• "The Use Value of Horror: Bataille, the Abject, and the Extraterrestrial," Mark Harrison, University of Pittsburgh
• "Thresholds of the Flesh: Interrogating Disability, Desire and Death," Janice Hladki, McMaster University
• "Humiliating Images, Humiliating Theory: On the Terrain of Reality TV," Alison Hearn, Northeastern University

46. Rethinking Diaspora

10:15-11:45 a.m., Carlow Room
Chair: Marian Aguiar, Carnegie Mellon University

• "Scatterbrained: (Un)Doing Diaspora Down Under," Nabeel Zuberi, Auckland University
• "Roda Mundo, Roda Gira: Capoeira, Brazilian Immigration, and the Improvisation of Circular Diasporas," Jason Stanyek, University of California-San Diego
• "Desi Goes to Hollywood: Reflections of Cultural Negotiations in Films by Indian Diaspora," Radhika Seth, Georgia State University

47. Literary and Cultural Representations of Mixed Race Identity

10:15-11:45 a.m., Carnegie Mellon Room
Chair: Lori Harrison-Kahan, University of Pennsylvania

• "The Search for Solid Ground: Race in Danzy Senna's Caucasia," Shelby Crosby, State University of New York-Buffalo
• "Passing for Black, White, and Jewish: Multiple Identities in the Biracial Bildungsroman," Lori Harrison-Kahan
• "Bad Breeding and the White Woman?s Burden in Waiting for the Verdict," Lydia Fisher, University of Pennsylvania

Saturday, June 7, 11:45-1:00 p.m.

Lunch Break

Saturday, June 7, 1:00-2:30 p.m.

49. Plenary Roundtable. The Institution of Cultural Studies: What is Cultural Studies Now? What Should it Become?

Forbes Ballroom
Moderator: David Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University

Speakers: Grant Farred, Duke University; Lalitha Gopalan, Georgetown University; Dick Hebdige, University of California-Santa Barbara; Peter Hitchcock; Bruce Robbins, Columbia University; Kathleen Woodward, University of Washington-Seattle

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Saturday, June 7, 2:45-4:15 p.m.

50. Bollywood Cinema: an Incitement to New Theories of Film and Culture

2:45-4:15 p.m., Chatham Room
Chair: Prakash Younger, University of Iowa

• "A Marginal Mainstream: How Film Studies Ignores Popular Hindi Cinema," Corey Creekmur, University of Iowa
• "Competing Frames -- Studying Indian Popular Cinema," Jyotika Virdi, Windsor University
• "Crossover Bollywood, the 'NRI Viewer' & Other (ed) Tautologies," Ajay Gehlawat, City University of New York
• "Bollywood Cinema and Rasa Aesthetics," Prakash Younger

51. The Politics of Children's Culture

2:45-4:15 p.m., Duquesne Room
Chair: Petre Petrov, University of Pittsburgh

• "Walmart, Kmart, Target: Playful Variation in a Scripted Commercial World," Anna Beresin, University of the Arts
• "'Ohana Means Family, Family Means Nobody Gets Left Behind': Disney's Family Films," D.K. Peterson, North Dakota State University
• " 'Children Get Your Culture': The Individual and the National in Jamaica's Museums" Rebecca Tortello, Adelphi University

52. The Sounds of Hip Hop

2:45-4:15 p.m., Carlow Room
Chair: Andre Brock, Carnegie Mellon University

• "Pop Goes the Rapper: A Close Reading of Eminem's Genderphobia," Vincent Stephens, University of Maryland-College Park
• "The Source: Theorizing Identity, Rethinking Hip-Hop Culture," Shawan M. Wade, University of Michigan
• "Keepin' it Real: Eminem, Danny Hoch, and the Politics of Cross-Racial Empathy," Kim Chabot Davis, Cornell University

53. Home Bodies: Exclusion of the Domestic in Cultural Studies

2:45-4:15 p.m., Carnegie Mellon University
Chair: Jane Juffer, Pennsylvania State University

• "Love's Labors Lost," Paul Youngquist, Pennsylvania State University
• "Survival at Work," Megan Brown, Pennsylvania State University
• "Dirty Diapers," Jane Juffer

54. Cultural Studies in Education: Of Returns, Renewals and/or Redoublings

2:45-4:15 p.m., Pittsburgh Room
Chair: Patti Lather

• "Cultural Studies/Education: Dealing with that Damn Slash," Handel Kashope Wright, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
• "Cultural Studies, Education, and Curriculum: Towards a Pedagogy of Relations," Lisa Weems, Miami University
• "From Mental Game To Cultural Praxis: Transforming Sport Psychology," Tatiana Ryba,
• "The Foundations/Curriculum/Cultural Studies Nexus: Displacement, Evolution, or Rhizome?" Patti Lather

Saturday June 6, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

55. Fetishism, (dis)Continunity and Media Studies

4:30-6:00 p.m., Chatham Room
Chair: Dina Smith, University of Kentucky

• "Myths of Function, Myths of Continuity: Modern Decor and the Classic Hollywood Style," Tracy Cox-Stanton, Kalamazoo College
• "Character and Continuity: Philip Marlowe, 1944-1978," Thomas Cohen, Rhodes College
• "Digital Reconfiguration," Alan Clinton, Georgia Institute of Technology
• "Writing (in) the Cinema," Dina Smith

56. Race, Popular Culture and Television

4:30-6:00 p.m., Duquesne Room
Chair: Dana Gliserman, Carnegie Mellon University

• "The Train that had to Come: The Case of Soul Train in Post Civil Rights African American Popular Media and Music," Tim Anderson, Denison University
• "Screening Post-Civil Rights Blackness: Negotiating Race in Seventies U.S. Television." Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia
• "Black Humor: African-American Sitcoms and Consumerism in the 1970s," Camille Peters, University of Pittsburgh
• "Buffy and Race," Paul Lai, University of North Carolina

57. Issues in Popular Music Studies

4:30-6:00, Carlow Room
Chair: Will Straw, McGill University

• "Jay Chou's Fantasy: Identities in Taiwanese Popular Music," Tzu-Hsuan Chen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "My Way: Rock Autobiographies," Thom Swiss, University of Iowa
• "Erasure of Language in the Globalization of Rock Music: Sigur Ros and the Politics of Hopelandic," Rebecca Romanow, University of Rhode Island

58. The Embodiment of Citizenship

4:30-6:00 p.m., Carnegie Mellon Room
Chair: Carrie Rentschler, University of Pittsburgh

• "Economic Rights and U.S. Citizenship," Jayson Harsin, Northwestern University
• "Screening the Body at the Border" Kelly Gates, University of Illinois
• "The Non-Aggressive Music Deterrent" Jonathan Sterne, University of Pittsburgh
• "Wounded Journalists and the Cosmopolitan Ideal" Carrie Rentschler

59. Queer Theories

4:30-6:00 p.m., Pittsburgh Room
Chair: Miranda Joseph, University of Arizona

• "Toward a Gay Science of Governmentalities: A Critical Framework for Work in Cultural Studies," Shawn Kimmel, University of Michigan
• "Stop Making Sense: Sex and Incoherence in American Television," Sasha Torres, University of Western Ontario
• "Accumulation and the Performance of Straight Masculinity: Reading Michel Aglietta and Judith Butler Together," Kevin Floyd, Kent State University
• "Revisiting Queer Theory in Postcolonial Taiwan," Chun-Chi Wang, University of Southern California

Saturday, June 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Special Event: Book Launch Party at the Frick Fine Arts Building on Pitt Campus

Sunday, June 8, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

60. Foucault and Deleuze: Subjects, Spaces, and Production

8:30-10:00 a.m., Chatham Room
Chair: Richard Day, Queen's University

• "The Italian Foucault: Subjectivity, Valorization, Autonomia," Mark Cote, Simon Fraser University
• "Examining Educational Space: Shifting Desks and the Productive Child," Christopher Canning, Queen's University
• "Citizen, Nomad, Smith: Political Spaces and Their Denizens," Richard Day

61. Biomedicine as Popular Culture

8:30-10:00 a.m., Carnegie Mellon Room
Chair: Kate Dorney, Sheffield University

• "Unpacking Newsweek's Special Report on Health and Technology," Brad Lewis, New York University
• "The Contradictions of Genetically Modified Spiderman," Joanne Rendell, Nottingham University
• "Medicine and Metaphysics," Kate Dorney

62. What's Missing from Cultural Studies?

8:30-10:00 a.m., Carlow Room
Chair: Elizabeth Heffelfinger, Carnegie Mellon University

• "A Cultural Study of Friendship and Changing Social Relationships," Deborah Chambers, Nottingham Trent University
• " 'Unthinking Albion': British Cultural Studies, 'White Ethnicity' and the Irish in England," Sean Campbell, Anglia Polytechnic University
• "Irish Nationalism and the State in Victorian Culture: A Genealogy of the Discourse of Terrorism," Amy Martin, Mount Holyoke University
• "Black Critical Ambivalence and the End(s) of Critical Pedagogy," Handel Kashope Wright, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

63. Genealogies of Human Rights and Justice

8:30-10:00 a.m., Duquesne Room
Chair: Brett Ingram, Northeastern University

• "Founding Fictions: International Human Rights and the Novel of Human Development" Joseph Slaughter, Columbia University
• "Secularism Versus Secularization: Artisan Politics and the Cultures of Scientific Naturalism," Michael Rectenwald, Carnegie Mellon University
• "Executing Justice: America and the Death Penalty," Dick Hebdige, University of California-Santa Barbara

64. Racial Formations

8:30-10:00 a.m. Pittsburgh Room
Chair: Geoffrey Glover, Carnegie Mellon University

• "Hybrid Matters: The Mixing of Idenity, the Law and Politics," Carolyn Tyjewski
• "Cultural Representations of Mixed Race in Korean National Space," J. P. Song, Marygrove College
• "Spectacles of Citizenship: Arnold Genthe and the Girls of Chinatown," Thy Phu, University of California-Berkeley
• "Towards a Dialogic Understanding of Print Media Stories
• About Black/White Interracial Families," Victor Kulkosky, University of Georgia

Sunday, June 8, 10:15-11:45 a.m.

65. Cinema and American Modernity

10:15-11:45 a.m., Chatham Room
Chair: Jeffrey Hinkelman, Carnegie Mellon University

• "Carl Van Vechten, Joseph Cornell, and Jane Smoot: Collecting and Arranging Hollywood Images," Janet Staiger, University of Texas-Austin
• "Self-Promotion: The Making of a Consumer Subject in Films of the 1920s," Michael Ryan, Northeastern University
• "High Modernism and the Specter of Folk in Yamekraw," Stephanie L. Batiste, Carnegie Mellon University

66. Critical Perspectives on TV Journalism

10:15-11:45 a.m., Carlow Room
Chair: Allen Larson, University of Pittsburgh

• "Public Service--Sold!: The Commodification of Local Television News," Thomas Baggerman, University of Pittsburgh
• "Economics, Fear, Resistance: Local TV News in the 1990s," Carol Stabile, University of Pittsburgh
• "An Education in Trauma: News Industry Responce to Catastrophe," Carrie Rentschler, University of Pittsburgh
• "'Diversity Indexes' and Economies of Democracy: Why It's Time to Rethink Media Reform," Allen Larson

68. Reflections on Mixed Race Identity

10:15-11:45 a.m., Carnegie Mellon Room
Chair: Nikki Jones University of Pennsylvania

• "Signifying Hair, Signifying Family: Hairstyle as Racial Signifier in Inter-Racial Families," Susan Leggett, Muhlenberg College, and Marjorie Hass, Muhlenberg College
• "Crossing Lines: Mixed Race and the Perils of Collaborative American Writing." Marc Coranado, University of California-Santa Barbara
• "Why I Don't Do Wine and Cheese: the Price of Admission for the Bi-Racial Subject in the Academy," Heather Tirado Gilligan,

69. Episodes in the Cultures of U.S. Nationalism

10:15-11:45 a.m., Duquesne Room
Chair: Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri-Columbia

• "Propaganda and the American Television Public: The Network Series "The Marshall Plan in Action" Promotes the Free World," Elizabeth Heffelfinger, Carnegie Mellon University
• "Hellen Keller: American Culture's Cultured Freak," Susan Crutchfield, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
• "Culture and Crisis in the Pedagogical State: From National Guides to National Subjects." Meg Wesling, Cornell University

Sunday, June 8, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

70. News and the Unfolding of Tragedy in Early America

12:00-1:30 p.m., Chatham Room
Chair: Hazel Dicken-Garcia, University of Minnesota

• "Early New England Tragedy Verse and the Scribal Origins of the American Folksong Tradition" Daniel A. Cohen, Florida International University
• "Shocking News! A Historical Ethnography of Early Nineteenth-Century newspaper Readers' Ritual Response to Tragedy." Ronald J. Zboray, University of Pittsburgh, and Mary Sracino Zboray, Independent Scholar
• "A Pepper-box for Diseased or Slow Stomachs': Prostitutes, Press Whores, and Crime Reporting," Carol A. Stabile, University of Pittsburgh

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71. Modernist Interventions into Progress?

12:00-1:30 p.m., Pittsburgh Room
Chair: Peter Kerry Powers, Messiah College

• "Perverse Economics and Gendered Bodies in Dreiser and Charlotte
• Perkins Gilman," Carey Mickalites, University of Michigan
• "Racial Bodies and the Abject Limits of 'Civilization,'" Tim Christensen, University of Michigan

72. Genres of National Display

12:00-1:30 p.m., Carlow Room
Chair: Neeta Bhasin, Carnegie Mellon University

• "Fashioning the Nation: White Femininity, Technologies of Fashion, and the Mediation of Princess Diana," Raka Shome, Arizona State University
• "Multi-National Beauty: Media Coverage of Nigeria's World Beauty Contest," Marian Aguiar, Carnegie Mellon

73. Theorizing Resistive Agency

12:00-1:30 p.m., Carnegie Mellon Room
Chair: Kathalene Razzano, George Mason University

• " 'All I Need is One Mic': Mobilizing Youth for Social Change in the Twenty-First Century," Andreana Clay,
• "Grounding Theory: Cultural Politics in Mexican Social Movements," John Stolle-McAllister, University of Maryland Baltimore County
• "Reversing the Gaze: Cultural Apprehension of Activism in 'The Awful Truth,'" RuAnn Keith, Georgia State University
• "Crisis Capitalism and Cowboy Bebop," Donald LaCoss, Wisconsin- La Crosse

74. Representing Labor and Capital

12:00-1:30 p.m., Duquesne Room
Chair: Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon University

• "Looking Back: Workers and Photography at J&L Steel, 1880-1950," Courtney Maloney, Carnegie Mellon University
• "The New Solidarity: Cross-Border Labor Networks and Mural Art in the Age of 'Empire,'" Barbara McCloskey, University of Pittsburgh, and Fred Evans, Duquesne University
• "The Conspiracy of Capital: American Popular Radicalism and the Political Imagination of Conspiracy in the Early 20th Century," Michael Cohen, Duke University