Multiple Publics/Civic Voices

American Studies Association
Washington D.C., November 8 - 11, 2001

Online Panel Discussions

A collaboration of the American Studies Association, Crossroads, and H-Amstdy

Girls' Public Spheres: Voicing Shared Identity in the Twentieth Century

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• Janice Radway, Chair
  
• Kelly Schrum, "'Damn Good Jazz': Music and Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920-1950"
  
• Kate Kruckemeyer, "Susan Dey, Supermodel, or Laurie Partridge, Budding Feminist?: Teen Girl Culture in the Early 1970s"
  
• Kimberley Roberts, "Contesting Contemporary Girls' Culture: When Girls Talk, Feminists Should Listen"
  
• Janice Radway, Comment

Imperial Nature: the Construction and Presentation of an American Imperial Identity

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• Katherine Manthorne, Chair
  
• M. Elizabeth Boone, "Castilian Days: John Hay, Joseph Pennell, and the Obfuscation of Politics by Art"
  
• Anne Paulet, "Public Presentations and Imperial Designs: The 1904 World's Fair and American Foreign Policy"
  
• Anthony Lioi, "'Nature Faking' in American Periodicals and the Repression of Empire"
  
• Katherine Manthorne, Comment

Temporal Politics

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• Carlene Stephens, Chair
  
• Julia Ott, "Reading Hamilton's Clocks: Time Consciousness and Commercial Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century America"
  
• Thomas M. Allen, "The Geological Revolution in American Time"
  
• Alexis McCrossen, "Hands and Faces: Public Clocks in American Cities after the Civil War"
  
• Eric Wilson, Comment

Cultural Solutions to Political Problems: Anti-Fascism and Anti-Semitism in the Hollywood Social Problem Film

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• Patrick McGilligan, Chair
  
• Benjamin L. Alpers, "Anti-Fascism in Soft Focus?: Frank Borzage's German Trilogy"
  
• J.D. Connor, "'Now You Know Everything': Method Semitism in Gentleman's Agreement"
  
• Jennifer Langdon-Teclaw, "'You Can't Do That': Anti-Fascism, Anti-Semitism and Homosexuality in Crossfire"
  
• Patrick McGilligan, Comment

Configuring Cyberculture: New Directions in Cyberstudies and Cybercultural Production

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• Martha Nell Smith, Chair
  
• Kimberly J. Surkan, "Virtually Home Now: Transgender Culture in Cyberspace"
  
• David Silver, "Intervening in the Cyber Canon: Introducing Voices of Diversity to an Emerging Field of Study"
  
• Sidney Eve Matrix, "Console Cowboys in Cubicleville: Cyberfiction and the Invention of Cyberculture"

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• Warren Belasco, Chair
  
• Brett Williams, "Washington, D.C.: The City as Text"
  
• Ed Orser, "If All Politics are Local, Then All Local Projects are Political: Local Studies as 'Contested Turf'"
  
• Kelly Quinn and Mary Sies, "Civic Domesticity/Multiple Publics: Learning From Langston Terrace and Virtual Greenbelt"
  
• Warren Belasco, Comment

Objects of Contestation

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• Pamela Warford, Chair
  
• Paula Kopacz and David Patrick, "Quilting Coldes in Antebellum America: A Website Approach to History and Myth"
  
• Laura Browder, "Sheep Hill Memories, Carver Dreams: Creating a Living Newspaper Today"
  
• Lawrence Hashima, "Public Memories, Community Discord: The Battle over the 'Japanese American Creed'"
  
• Julia Brown, Comment

Making It Public: Putting Multicultural Research Online

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• Joshua Brown, Chair
  
• Cora Agatucci and Kathleen Walsh, "Going Online to Develop and Communicate Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers"
  
• Daryl J. Maeda, "Whose History Is It? The Desho Project, Online Access, and the Narration of Japanese American History"
  
• Kathleen Fox, "The Invisible Student in a Web-Based Classroom"
  
• Danielle Bouchard, "Educating in the Politics of Knowledge Production: Using Voices From the Gaps as the Central Focus of a Course"
  
• Audience, Comment

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• J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Chair
  
• Vicente M. Diaz
  
• Joanne Barker
  
• Marvette Perez
  
• Audience, Comment

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• A. Joan Saab, Chair
  
• Mark Rice, "Juggling all of the Pieces: Chairing American Studies at a Small, Liberal Arts College"
  
• Catharine O'Connell, "Serving Many Masters, Mastering Many Services: Costs and Benefits of Versatility in the American Studies Program"
  
• Sara A. Robertson, "Falling Into Place: Finding the Right Major at a Small, Liberal Arts College"
  
• Arlette Miller Smith, Comment

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