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Summer School 2008

Summer School 2008

Transnational American Studies Symposium

UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies, Dublin

Keynote Speaker: Professor Donald Pease (Dartmouth College)

21st July 2007

The inter, cross, - multi-, or post-disciplinary field of American Studies is known to continuously question its own identity from various disciplinary boundaries, methodological perspectives and geographic scales. During the past two decades, the field has seen yet another paradigm shift, as many of its nation-based assumptions have been challenged by its practitioners, and the focus has steered toward its internationalization, transnationalization, and globalization.

This symposium is part of the inaugural Clinton Institute Summer School.

Venue: - William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium

Programme

8.30 - 9.30 Registration & Coffee

9.15 - 9.20 Welcome

by Liam Kennedy (UCD Clinton Institute)

9.30 - 10.45 Panels 1-2

Panel 1: - Imperial Legacies, Seminar Room 1

Chair/Comment: Benita Heiskanen (UCD Clinton Institute)

Emily Conroy (Harvard University), "Viewing American Foreign Missionaries in an Imperial Context, Or, Why Burma?"

Andrew Urban (University of Minnesota), '"An Alien Mob of Idlers, Tramps, and Criminals': Irish Immigrants and the 1870s Anti-Chinese Movement in San Francisco"

Colleen Woods (University of Michigan), “‘Bringing Progress to the People’: Elite Philippine Nationalism and
U.S. Imperial Formations”

Panel 2:- Transatlantic Nationalism, Seminar Room 2

Chair/Comment: Mike Cronin (Boston College)

Emily Brunner (University of Chicago), "Freeing America by Freeing Ireland: Left Progressives and Irish Nationalism in Post-World War 1 America"

Courtney DeStefano (Skidmore College), "The 'Fugitive President of a Mystical Republic' Comes to America: Eamon de Valera, the Irish Republic, and the Forces of Assimilation"

Madeleine Lyes (UCD Clinton Institute), "Unsettling New York Settlement from the Inside: Maeve Brennan, the Long-Winded Lady, and the Urban Dream of the New Yorker"

11.00- 12.15 Keynote Address, Clinton Auditorium

Chair: Liam Kennedy (UCD Clinton Institute)

Donald Pease (Dartmouth College), "Do Transnational American Studies Mark the End of Europe's Romance with America?"

12.15-13.15 Lunch

13.30-14.45 Panels 3-5

Panel 3: - Theorizing the United States, Seminar Room 1

Chair/Comment: John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California)

Simon Strick (Humt University), "From Exceptionalism to United States of Exception"

Pawel Laidler (University of Krakow), "An American Idea of a Perfect Legal System"

Marc Priewe ( University of Potsdam), "DesigNations: Postnational and Transnational Turns in American Studies"

Panel 4:- Narrating Resistance, Seminar Room 2

Chair/Comment: Hamilton Carroll (University of Leeds)

Melinda DiStefano (Duke University), "The Eco-Politics of Charles Eastman and Zitkala-Sa"

Michelle Har Kim (University of Southern California), "Technics of Asian American Antipodes: Anna Kazumi Stahl's Flores de un solo día and Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together"

Daphne Lamothe (Smith College), "Dancing in the Streets: Carnival, Transnationalism and Border Crossing in the Narratives of Paule Marshall and Edwidge Danticat"

Panel 5:- Cross-Cultural Consumptions, Seminar Room 3

Chair/Comment: Daniel Nathan (Skidmore College)

Liz Zanoni (University of Minnesota), '"Per Voi, Signore': Fashion, Food, and Gendered Representations of Consumption in the 1930s Italian-American Press"

Eoin Cannon (Boston University), "Drunk and Saved in the East End: An American Discourse in London"

Tony Tracy (NUI Galway), "‘A Real Businessman’: Becoming American in
The Ragman (1926)"

14.45-15.15 Coffee

15.15-16.30 Panels 6 - 8

Panel 6:- Racial Constructions, Seminar Room 1

Chair/Comment: Richard Ellis (University of Birmingham)

Alisha Gaines (Duke University), "The Postmodern Spectacle of Race and the Transatlantic Blackface Mask"

Keren Omry (University of Tel Aviv), "Hanging on a High C: Jazz Identities in Philip Roth's The Human Stain and Jackie Kay's Trumpet"

Damon Freeman (University of Pennsylvania), "Kenneth B. Clark and the Problem of Brown"

Panel 7:- "Us" vs. "Them," Seminar Room 2

Chair/Comment: Scott Lucas (University of Birmingham)

Michael Lattek (John F. Kennedy Institute), "Do it Now!' The Politics of Immediacy in 24"

Ramzi Fawaz (George Washington University), "Superman Meets the Apocalypse: Cold War, Culture Wars, and the American Superhero in an Age of 'Infinite Crisis'"

Panel 8:- Transcending Boundaries, Seminar Room 3

Chair/Comment: Nerys Williams (University College Dublin)

Hager Weslati (University of Lancaster), "Rogues, Shipwrecks and Tourists: America's Encounters with the Great African Desert"

Mauro Carassai (University of Leeds), "Hyperfiction: An 'American' Literary Genre"

Marisa Ronan (UCD Clinton Institute), "Transcending ic Boundaries: Appropriation through Mimesis in Evangelic Christian Fiction"

16.45-18.00 Panel 9-11

Panel 9:- Visual Crossings, Seminar Room 1

Chair/Comment: Ruth Barton(Trinity College Dublin)

Staci Ford (University of Hong Kong), "Hong Kong Film Goes to America"

Elaine Yee (Duke University), "American Epicoene: How Mama Knows Best in The Godfather"

Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt (Ruhr-University), "If You Want To Be Understood-Listen: Reading Babel as a Transnational Movie"

Panel 10:- Re-Imagining the Nation, Seminar Room 2

Chair/Comment: Mary Gilmartin (University College Dublin)

Victoria Kennefick (University College Cork), "Does the Southern Story Exist? Re-Imagining the Region: A Transnational Approach"

Anthony Harkins (Western Kentucky University), "The Making of 'Flyover Country': Commercial Aviation and the Re-Imagining American Cultural Geography"

Jelena Šesnić (University of Zagreb), "Regionalism, Localism and the Borderlands"

18.00-18.30 Coffee

Panel 11:- Coloring Identities, Seminar Room 3

Chair/Comment: Kathryn Nicol (University College Dublin)

Peter O'Neill (University of Southern California), "The Black and Green Atlantic"

Laura Gimeno Pahissa (Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona), "The Postbellum Slave Narrative: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes"

Catherine Eagan (Las Positas College), '"Uncle Pat's Cabin': Irish Whiteness and American Abolitionism in Irish-American Sentimental Fiction"

18.30-20.00 Roundtable

Transnational American Studies in Practice, Clinton Auditorium

Chair: John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California)

Panelists:

Comment: Audience

20.00-20.15 Closing Remarks

by Liam Kennedy (UCD Clinton Institute)

20.15- 22.00 Post-Summer School/Symposium BBQ

Registration and Fees

Registration Form

The registration form should be completed and returned to Catherine.Carey@ucd.ie by the 18th July 2007.

Fees

Registration Notes

Post registration forms and payments should be mailed to

Catherine Carey
Manager
UCD Clinton Institute
Belfield House
Belfield
Dublin 4
Ireland.

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