FRIDAY, APRIL 26 · 2015. 10. 21. · • Chair/Comment: Susan Cayleff (Women’s Studies, San Diego State University) • “Revisiting the Watershed Thesis: Gendered Surveillance,

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Panel 1A: “Representations and Behaviors of Women and Children in the Antebellum South”Room: AL101• Chair/Comment: Erica Ball (American Studies, California

State University, Fullerton)

• “OfalltheRelationsonEarth,NoneareMoreSacredThanThatofaMother”:RepresentationsofAfricanAmericanWomeninOralandWrittenTexts,1850-1926Moriah Gonzalez-Meeks (History, San Diego State University)

• BytheHandoftheMistress:ViolentPlantationMistressesintheAntebellumSouthAmber Tiffany (History, San Diego State University)

• ConstructingSlaveChildrenintheAntebellumSouthMatthew Vasilakis (History, San Diego State University)

Panel 1B: Radical Visions of Nature and Wilderness: Self-realization and Return, Ecofeminism, and Anarcho-PrimitivismRoom: AL102• Chair/Comment: Michael Steiner (American Studies,

California State University, Fullerton)

• “TheAmericanProtagonist’sJourneyIntotheWild(er)ness”Nicole Rehnberg (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)

• “Ecofeminism:ARevolutionaryResponsetoaWorldofWoes”Amy Kremer (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)

• “Anarcho-Primitivism,Nature,andHumanity” Patrick Heyer (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)

Panel 1C: Looking at Women: Representing Gender in Postwar AmericaRoom: AL524• Chair/Comment: Susan Cayleff (Women’s Studies, San Diego

State University)

• “RevisitingtheWatershedThesis:GenderedSurveillance,Subcultures,andPublicSpheresinPostwarAmerica”Cari Lyle (History, California State University, Long Beach)

• “ThenandNow:ChangesinAmerica’sStandardsofBeauty(1968vs.2012)”Golzar Yaghoubpour (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)

• “GoodinBirth:ContraceptionandBodiesofColorinMassMedia”Danielle Barraza (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)

Panel 1D: Cultures of MedicineRoom: AL566• Chair/Comment: Sarah Schrank (History and American

Studies, California State University, Long Beach)

• “TheMoodDisorder:EmergenceofaProblematic”Adam Hefty (History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz)

• “Identity,Activism,andHospitalPlanningin1960sLosAngeles”Daniel Simon (American Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa)

FRIDAY, APRIL 26Registration is open from 12:00pm to 5:00pm in the first floor courtyard of the Arts and Letters building.

1:00-2:30 -- Session 1

CASA Annual Meeting, April 26-27, 2013at San Diego State University

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PROGRAM

Conference hashtag:#CASA2013

All sessions are held in the “Arts and Letters” (AL) building, except the keynote address.

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2:45-4:15 -- Session 2


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COFFEE BREAK

Panel 2A: “Press on, Press On”: How Nurses, Spies, and Spiritualism Transformed Life During the Civil WarRoom: AL101• Chair/Comment: Karen Lystra (American Studies, California


• “GoNursetheSoldiers:LouisaMayAlcottandCivilWarNursing”Caitlin Wion (History, San Diego State University)

• “The‘SecretService’ofWomenduringtheAmericanCivilWar”Shane P. Bailey (History, San Diego State University)

• “‘IWouldStillBeDrownedinTears’:SpiritualismintheLincolnWhiteHouse”Michelle Hamilton (History, San Diego State University)

Panel 2B: American FoodwaysRoom: AL102• Chair/Comment: Christopher Farrish (Cultural Studies,

Claremont Graduate University)

• “Life’sTooShorttoDrinkBadBeer:ABriefNarrativeofWomen&theAmericanBeerIndustry”Lauren Terrebrood (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)

• “TableforTwo:CulturalImperialismandDecolonizingPracticesinRepresentationsofFilipinoFood”Ronaldo Noche (American Studies, Brown University)

• “WhiteDiscursiveSpacesandAlternativeFoodMovements”Kari Szakal (Women’s Studies, San Diego State University)

Panel 2C: Race and Politics in CaliforniaRoom: AL524• Chair/Comment: John Putman (History, San Diego State

University)

• “DiasporicAmerica:ABegrudgingNecessity?”Cameron Young (English, California State University, Fullerton)

• “BattleLosAngeles-The1969LosAngelesMayoralElectionbetweenTomBradleyandSamYorty”Megan Hibbits (History, California State University, Northridge)

Panel 2D: Laboring on the MarginsRoom: AL566• Chair/Comment: Carrie Lane (American Studies, California


• “‘FeedingwithClothes’:KoreansintheGarmentIndustryintheAmericas”Jin Suk Bae (American Studies, Brown University)

• “CaliforniaCleaning:SuburbanSpaceandDomesticLaborinHéctorTobar’sTheBarbarianNurseries”Sally Marie Giles (Literature, University of California, San Diego)

• “(Female)HoboPunks:OptingOuttoOptIn”Joanne Hall (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, California State University, Long Beach)


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Panel 3A: Animal Studies as American StudiesRoom: AL101• Chair/Comment: Brett Mizelle (American Studies and History,

California State University, Long Beach)

• “MyDogisMyHome:IncreasingAwarenessofInter-SpeciesHomelessnessinTheory&Practice”Christine Kim (National Museum of Animals and Society)

• “AnimalsasToolsforRepresentation:TheImplicationsofHybridityandTransformationThroughoutHistory”Giangelo Leos (American Studies, California State University, Long Beach)

• “TheEyeoftheHorse:TheCulturalImpactofPopularHorseFilms”Ned Weidner (American Studies, California State University, Long Beach)

Panel 3B: Racial Ambiguity: Meanings and Methods Across Discipline and SubjectRoom: AL102• Chair: Michele Elam (English, Stanford University)

• Comment: Allyson Hobbs (History, Stanford University)

• “‘Notclass…butposition’:GenealogicalIsolationandRacialAmbiguityintheAdoptionofAdalinePatillo”Adam Thomas (History, University of California, Irvine)

• “LongLance’sShot:RecollectingSylvesterLong’sIndianPerformativity”Alicia Cox (English, University of California, Riverside)

• “MigratingTowardBlackness”Khaled A. Beydoun (School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles)

Panel 3C: Transnational ActivismRoom: AL524• Chair/Comment: Leila Zenderland (American Studies,


• “BuildinganAmericanConsciousnessthroughTransnationalism:TheAmericanNegroandAsianIndian”Andrea M. Slater (African Studies, University of California, Los Angeles)

• “ANewGenerationofCubanPosterArtistsDeclaresItsIndependence”Daniel Belgrad (Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of South Florida)

• “¡Yabasta/Çasuffit!RevisitingtheZapatistaUprisingandtheQuebecoisSeparatistMovementTwentyYearsAfterNAFTA”Stephen Park (The Writing Program, University of Southern California)

Panel 3D: Screening RaceRoom: AL566• Chair/Comment: William Nericcio (English and Comparative

Literature, San Diego State University)

• “TheDesireofRepresentationandtheLimitsofthePost-Racial:PsychoanalysisofRaceinJamesMarsh’sThe King(2005)”Fabie Chee (Spanish, University of California, Irvine)

• “‘I’mtheMang!’:AuthenticityandSubversioninBladetotheHeat”Noel Rene Zavala (English, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana)

• “‘LettheDeadBurytheLiving’:HollywoodImaginesAmerica’sColorblindPast”Justin Gomer (African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley)

Friday Continued...


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SATURDAY, APRIL 27Registration is open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the first floor courtyard of the Arts and Letters building.

10:00-11:45 -- Session 4


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Panel 4A: Freedom and Independence in Early American LiteratureRoom: AL101• Chair/Comment: Edward Blum (History, San Diego State

University)

• “Self-MadeMeninEarlyAmerica?:ACloseLookattheWritingsofOlaudahEquianoandPaulCuffe”Jeffrey Gagnon (Literature, University of California, San Diego)

• “OllaPodrida:TranscendentalistDissentinHarrietBeecherStowe’sUncle Tom’s Cabin”Robin Miller (English, California State University, Fullerton)

• “PacificSensations:TranslocatingOrientalisminHermanMelville’s‘BenitoCereno’”Colleen Marie Tripp (American Studies, Brown University)

• “NationalDesires:ProducingChildhoodThroughHistoriesin19thCenturyAmerica”Gina Marie Occasion (English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Panel 4B: Cold War CulturesRoom: AL102• Chair/Comment: Adam Golub (American Studies, California


• “EducationalPoliticsinSouthernCaliforniaduringtheEarlyOnsetoftheColdWar”Cameron Kleinberger (History, California State University, Long Beach)

• “Truth,Justice,andtheAmericanWay?TheCultureofSuperman”Melissa Archibald and Richard Bitting (American Studies, California State University, Long Beach)

• “AmericawithHungarianEyes–HungarianImagesoftheUnitedStatesuptoandDuringtheLateColdWar”Mate Gergeley Balogh (Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Debrecen, Hungary)

Panel 4C: Revisiting the Spanish Fantasy PastRoom: AL524• Chair/Comment: Elaine Lewinnek (American Studies,


• “ConsidertheRavens:IndolenceandImperialisminCalifornia”Brett Garcia Myhren (English, University of Southern California)

• “MeetMeattheIntersectionofProfitandHomelandDesire:ASurveyingVisittoLasPlazasofSouthLosAngeles”Jorge Leal (History, University of California, San Diego)

Panel 4D: Music and IdentityRoom: AL566• Chair/Comment: Kevin Delgado (Music, San Diego State

University)

• “NativeAmericanCreationStoriesandSongsfromSouthernCalifornia:HowWereTheyTold?”Steven Elster (Center for Investigations of Health & Educational Disparities, University of California, San Diego)

• “JumpforJoy:DukeEllington,theGreatMigration,andWartimeLosAngeles”Benjamin Cawthra (History, California State University, Fullerton)

• “BorderHoppin’Hardcore:Latina/oPunksandtheFormingofaTransborderPopularCultureRevolutionarySubjectivityontheLosAngeles/TijuanaBajaltaCaliforniaBorderlands,1974-1999”Ricci Chivaz Garcia (History, California State University, Long Beach)

• “MykkiBlanco’s‘NewWorldOrder’:Hip-Hop,GenderandSexualityattheBorderlandsJamal Batts (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)


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1:00-2:45 -- Session 5


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11:45-1:00 LUNCH and CASA BUSINESS MEETING (AL524)

Saturday Continued...

Panel 5A: The Bureaucracy of American Life Room: AL101• Chair/Comment: Emily Dietsch (American Studies, George

Washington University)

• “‘You’reFired’:AnInterdisciplinaryDiscourseonFiringEmployees”Rachel Marie Wasko (American Studies, University of California, Berkeley)

• “CarceralFrontiers:PolicingRaceandMigrationinPostwarOakland,1945-1966”Robert Patrick Lee (American Studies, University of California, Berkeley)

• “RacialMicroaggresionsandthePersistenceofBlackCollegeAdministrators”Marimas Hosan (Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University)

Panel 5B: Kiddie Table Ideology: Cultural Communications through Popular Children’s MediaRoom: AL102• Chair/Comment: Pamela Steinle (American Studies,


• “‘PlayesPrinttheLetter’:Fin-de-SiècleAmericanChildhoodandPrivilegedSubalternity”Mayar Mahshid (History, Bielefeld University, Germany)

• “RehearsingtheColonialVenture:PopularManifestationsoftheAmericanImperialistImagination”Jose Zamora (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)

• “WeekendatBenson’s:Regular Show,80’sNostalgia,andRecessionalComfort”Joseph Meyer (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)

• “TendingtheGardeninPost-ApocalypticToontown”Jedediah Kuhn (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)

Panel 5C: Progressive Era Religious CulturesRoom: AL524• Chair: Sarah Azaransky (Theology and Religious Studies,

University of San Diego)

• “TheApril14,1890DayofDestruction”Alan Jacob Clark (Religion, Claremont University)

• “JourneytoAzusaStreet:TracingtheMigrationsofEarlyPentecostalstoSouthernCalifornia”Caroline Bunnell Harris (History, University of California, Los Angeles)

• “U.S.ReligiousPatriotismduringWorldWarI:ATri-FaithPerspective”Matthew Cromwell (History, San Diego State University)

Panel 5D: American Studies as Community EngagementRoom: AL566• Chair: Brett Mizelle (American Studies, California State

University, Long Beach)

• “EngagingWithCommunity:AStoryofaCommunityBasedLearningPartnership”Maria Avila and Rosemary Sandoval (American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California)

• Joanna Brooks (English, San Diego State University)

• “AnimalStudiesandAdvocacy:EngagingtheCommunityWithanOutstretchedPaw”Amy A. Breyer (Executive Director, Animal History Museum)


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4:30-6:15 -- Session 6


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3:00-4:15 -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

“Why We Left: Asking Hard Questions and Telling New Stories in American Studies”

Joanna Brooks (English, San Diego State University) Room: Little Theatre

Panel 6A: Environmental Cultural StudiesRoom: AL101• Chair/Comment: Sarah Elkind (History, San Diego State

University)

• “JackLondon’sJourneytotheSustainableFarm:TheRevivalofAgrarianismandSustainablePracticesintheEarly20thCentury”Kristin Ladd (American Studies, Utah State University)

• “TheAmericanEmbodimentofFossilFuels”Bob Johnson (History, National University)

• “SellingtheUrbanBeach:EvolvingCoastalClaimsandthePassageofProposition20”Alex Jacoby (History, University of California, Irvine)

• “(Re)ImaginingthePast:TheSouthernNevadaWaterAuthority’sPerformanceofMemory”George Rozsa (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)

Panel 6B: Sacred Spaces and Religious BelongingRoom: AL102• Chair/Comment: Roy Whitaker (Religious Studies, San Diego

State University)

• “FluctuatingImmigrantReligiosityinSouthernCalifornia:TheCaseofSantoToribio”Thomas Evans (Religion, Claremont University)

• “AmericanJewishDiversity:Conversion,Race,andCulturalChangeinContemporaryLosAngeles”Genevieve A. Okada Goldstone (Anthropology, University of California, San Diego)

• “WhoDoWeTell?HowDoWeTell?:TheLegacyofAIDSinaSanFranciscoChurch”Lynne Gerber (Religion, Politics, and Globalization, University of California, Berkeley)

• “SacredAnonymity:TheAlcoholicsAnonymousMeetingasaSacredSite”Peter Stearns (American Studies, California State University, Long Beach)

Panel 6C: Memory and Commemoration Room: AL524• Chair/Comment: Benjamin Cawthra (History, California State

University, Fullerton)

• “America’sFeverDream:TheSpanishFluandPublicMemory”Casey Ratto (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)

• “HauntingtheHalls:SpectersofMemoryattheFormerCamarilloStateHospital”Diann Rozsa (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)

• “TakingtheBeachhead:VeteransforPeaceonCaliforniaBeaches”Michael Rancourt (Communication and Rhetoric, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)


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REGISTRATIONThereisnopre-registrationforthemeetings.RegistrationwilloccuratthemeetingitselfonthefirstfloorcourtyardoftheArtsandLettersbuilding.Thereisachargeof$65forallfaculty/communityregistrantsand$25forallstudentregistrants(gradandundergrad).Allpresenters,chairs,andattendees,shouldplantoregister.

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITYThe2013CASAconferencewillbeheldonthecampusofSanDiegoStateUniversity.PanelswillbeheldintheArtsandLettersBuilding.AmapofSanDiegoStateUniversityisavailablehere:https://sunspot.sdsu.edu/map/

HOTEL RECOMMENDATIONSTheRamadaInn(4380AlvaradoCanyonRoad,SanDiego)isclosesttocampusanditisneartheGrantvilleTrolleyStop(whichtakenEASTwilllandyouattheSDSUtransitstation).

Phonenumber:(619)281-2222.Wehaveaguaranteedroomrateof$69/nightforThursday,Friday,and/orSaturdaynights.MentionthatyouarepartofCASA.

TRAVEL INFORMATIONForparticipantswhoaretravelingbyplane,theclosestairporttoSanDiegoStateUniversityistheSanDiegoInternationalAirport.

Youcanfindtrolleyinformationhere:http://www.sdmts.com/trolley/trolley.asp(noticethatSDSUisonthegreenline)

Aninteractivemapcanbefoundheretofollowfromthe“SDSUTRANSITCENTER”totheArtsandLettersBuilding:https://sunspot.sdsu.edu/map/

Youcanfinddrivingdirectionshere:http://www.sdsu.edu/campusinfo/directions.html.

PARKING ON CAMPUSThebestplacetoparkisatParkingStructure4.TherearepayterminalsonthetopfloorandwalkingtotheArtsandLettersBuildingisquiteeasy.AmapforParkingStructure4ishere:https://sunspot.sdsu.edu/map/

GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTERSTomakesurethatthereisplentyoftimeforthepresentationofeachpaperandarobustdiscussion,pleaseplanonlimitingyourpresentationsto15-20minutes.Presentersshouldsendcopiesoftheirpaperstotheirchair/commentatorbyMonday,April15,2013.

AV INSTRUCTIONS FOR CASA CONFERENCEEachmeetingroomwillbeequippedwithanLCDprojector,screen,andaconnectorcable.Theconferenceisnotsupplyingcomputers.Youwillneedtobringalaptoporsharealaptopwithsomeoneelseinthesession.Presentersshouldcollecttheirpresentationsononelaptoppriortothesession.Thiswillminimizedelaysoncethesessionbegins.WerecommendthatyoubringyourpresentationonaUSBdriveorCDasabackup.Macusersareadvisedtobringtheirownadaptorsforthedigitalprojectors.

SDSUdoeshavevisitorwirelesslogin,butonemustagreetotheUniversity’srulesandthenrebootone’scomputerortablet(sobepreparedforthetimethatmaytake).


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FOOD & DRINKParticipantsareinvitedtomeetatBanbuSushiBar&GrillaftertheFridaynightsession.

8555FletcherParkwayLaMesa,CA91942GrossmontTrolleyCenter(619)589-0071

CoffeeandteawillbeprovidedonFridayafternoon.Coffee,teaandpastrieswillbeprovidedonSaturdaymorninganddrinksandcookieswillbeavailablebetweenafternoonsessionsonbothdays.OnSaturday,lunchwillbeprovidedforallregisteredconferenceparticipants.

ThereareseveralnicerestaurantswithinwalkingdistanceoftheRamadaInnonFairmontRoad/MissionGorgeRd.nearthehotel,includingSzechuanMandarin,andonCaminoDr.RioN.,includingChili’sGrillandBar.AskatRamadaInnfrontdeskforinformation.

GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZECASAawardsaprizetothebestgraduatestudentpaperpresentedattheannualmeeting.StudentswhowishtonominatethemselvesshouldsubmitacopyoftheirpaperviaemailtoprizecommitteechairBrettMizelle([email protected])nolaterthanApril30th.

ThenationalAmericanStudiesAssociation(ASA)meetinginWashingtonD.C.,November21-24,2013willfeatureapanelofoutstandinggraduatestudentpapersdrawnfromdifferentregionalASAchaptermeetings.ThewinneroftheCASAprizeearnsaspotonthispanelandwillbeabletopresenthis/herpaperatASAinthefall.CASAwillhelpdeferthecostofstudenttraveltoASA.


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ABOUT CASATheCaliforniaAmericanStudiesAssociation(CASA)wascreatedin1982,whenthenorthernandsouthernCaliforniaASAchapterswerecombined.Annualthree-dayconferenceswereheldeveryspringfrom1983to2003,addressingfocusedtopicsanddrawingpresentersandattendeesnotonlyfromCaliforniabutalsofromotherregions.Afterafive-yearhiatus,asmallgroupofveteranandnewmembersrevivedtheassociationandheldaconferencein2008atSokaUniversityofAmerica.In2009CASAmetatUCSantaBarbara,in2010atCSULongBeach,and2011atCSUFullerton.MoreinformationregardingCASAanditsannualconferencescanbefoundattheAssociation’swebpage:http://hss.fullerton.edu/amst/casa/

2012-13 CASA Executive CommitteePresident:AdamGolub,CSUFullertonVicePresident:EdwardJ.Blum,SanDiegoStateUniversityTreasurer:JackieDonath,CSUSacramentoSecretary:ElaineLewinnek,CSUFullertonRepresentativetoASARegionalChaptersCommittee:BrettMizelle,CSULongBeach

APPRECIATIONS

ThankyoutoAdamGolubforupdatingtheCASAwebsite.

ThankyoutoMattCromwellfortheprogramlayoutanddesign.

ThankyoutoRebeccaBallingerandAnneTessierfortheirassistancewithreceptionandregistrationplanning.

CASA 2013 Conference Organizer: EdwardJ.Blum,SanDiegoStateUniversity

CASA 2013 Program Committee: AdamGolub,CSUFullertonBrettMizelle,CSULongBeachElaineLewinnek,CSUFullertonMattCromwell,SanDiegoStateUniversity


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ABOUT CASA

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1:00 - 2:30 p.m. ROOM: AL101“RepresentationsandBehaviorsofWomenandChildrenintheAntebellumSouth”

ROOM: AL102“RadicalVisionsofNatureandWilderness:Self-realizationandReturn,Ecofeminism,andAnarcho-Primitivism”

ROOM: AL524“LookingatWomen:RepresentingGenderinPostwarAmerica”

ROOM: AL566“CulturesofMedicine”

Friday, April 26

2:45 - 4:15 p.m. ROOM: AL101“‘Presson,PressOn’:HowNurses,Spies,andSpiritualismTransformedLifeDuringtheCivilWar”

ROOM: AL102“AmericanFoodways”

ROOM: AL524“RaceandPoliticsinCalifornia”

ROOM: AL566“LaboringontheMargins”

4:30 - 6:00 p.m. ROOM: AL101“AnimalStudiesasAmericanStudies”

ROOM: AL102“RacialAmbiguity:MeaningsandMethodsAcrossDisciplineandSubject”

ROOM: AL524“TransnationalActivism”

ROOM: AL566“ScreeningRace”

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

10:00 - 11:45 a.m.

ROOM: AL101“FreedomandIndependenceinEarlyAmericanLiterature”

ROOM: AL102“ColdWarCultures”

ROOM: AL524“RevisitingtheSpanishFantasyPast”

ROOM: AL566“MusicandIdentity”

Saturday, April 27

1:00 - 2:45 p.m. ROOM: AL101“TheBureaucracyofAmericanLife”

ROOM: AL102“KiddieTableIdeology:CulturalCommunicationsthroughPopularChildren’sMedia”

ROOM: AL524“ProgressiveEraReligiousCultures”

ROOM: AL566“AmericanStudiesasCommunityEngagement”

4:30 - 6:00 p.m. ROOM: AL101“EnvironmentalCulturalStudies”

ROOM: AL102“SacredSpacesandReligiousBelonging”

ROOM: AL524“MemoryandCommemoration”

11:45-1:00 LUNCH and CASA BUSINESS MEETING

3:00 - 4:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Joanna Brooks

COFFEE BREAK


Documents

FRIDAY, APRIL 26 · 2015. 10. 21. · • Chair/Comment: Susan Cayleff (Women’s Studies, San Diego State University) • “Revisiting the Watershed Thesis: Gendered Surveillance,