ASA 2017 Annual Meeting: List of UT AMS-Affiliated Presenters

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From Thursday, November 9th to Sunday, November 12th, the American Studies Association will hold its Annual Meeting at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Chicago, IL.  Below is a list of the members of the UT-Austin American Studies community, including graduate students, core faculty, and affiliated faculty, who will be presenting papers and serving on panels at the conference.   The list is in chronological order.

Thursday, November 9th

Carrie Andersen: “War Games: Virtual Drones and the Production of American Empire”The Imperial Dynamics of Counterinsurgency Warfare Thursday, November 9th, 8 – 9:45 A.M.Soldier Field, Concourse Level West Tower

Christine Capetola: “Gimme a Beat!: Janet Jackson, New Musical Technologies, and Vibrationally Breaking the Silences on Black Life in 1980s America”Black and Latinx Musical Resitances Thursday, November 9th, 10 – 11:45 A.M.Atlanta, Ballroom Level West Tower

Cary Cordova - Panelist Program and Site Resources Committee: Public Art and Activism in US Cities Thursday, November 9th, 10 – 11:45 A.M. Comiskey, Concourse Level West Tower

William H. Mosley: “Fugitive Genders and Performed Dissent in Alexis De Veaux’s Yabo.”Reinventing the Black Literary Thursday, November 9th, 10 – 11:45 A.M.Dusable, Third Floor West Tower

Simone Browne - Panelist Power and Authority in the Era of Trump: A Roundtable on the New American EmpireThursday, November 9th, 12 – 1:45 P.M.Regency B, Ballroom Level West Tower

Snehal Shingavi - Panelist Defying Erasure: Imagining a Palestinian Future Thursday, November 9th, 12 – 1:45 P.M.Haymarket, Concourse Level West Tower

Lisa B. Thompson - Chair Aesthetics in/and African American Cultural Formations Thursday, November 9th, 2 – 3:45 P.M.Addams, Third Floor West Tower

Elissa Underwood: “Creative Pedagogies: Storytelling as Revolutionary Practice”Critical Pedagogies: Storytelling as Revolutionary Practice Thursday, November 9th, 2- 3:45 P.M.Gold Coast, Concourse Level West Tower

Nicholas Bloom: “Off Your Asses and Into the Gas Fields: Lessons in Citizenship for Poor White Men.”Troubling White Nationalism and Whiteness Thursday, November 9th, 4 – 5:45 P.M.McCormick, Third Floor West Tower

Janet Davis - Panelist Rethinking History and Methods in the American Studies ClassroomThursday, November 9th, 4 – 5:45 P.M.Wright, Third Floor West Tower

Natalie Zelt: “The Feeling is Real: LaToya Frazier, The Photograph and Fact.”Alternative Views: Photography, Self-Representation, and Fact in Contemporary American Art and CultureThursday, November 9th, 4 – 5:45 P.M.Gold Coast, Concourse Level West Tower

Friday, November 10th

Christine Castro: “Busters and Beats: Negotiations of Confinement, Public Space, and Identity in Nuestra Familia Music”Liner Notes on Soundscapes of Memory Friday, November 10th, 8 – 9:45 A.M.McCormick, Third Floor West Tower

Briyana D. Clarel: “An Exercise in Unapologetics: Centering Black Queerness as Self-Care and Pedagogy.”Radical Self-Love as Decolonial Education Friday, November 10th, 10-11:45 A.M.San Francisco. Ballroom Level West Tower

Anne Cvetkovich - Panelist Avery F. Gordon’s The Hawthorne Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins: A RoundtableFriday, November 10th, 10 – 11:45 A.M. Gold Coast, Concourse Level West Tower

Joshua Kopin: “Leave It to Linus: Charles Schulz’s Peanuts and Parents as the Children of the Fifties”Artifacts of Dissent: Comics and Emotions in Dark Times Friday, November 10th, 10 – 11:45 P.M.Hong Kong, Ballroom Level West Tower

Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez - Panelist Dissenting Documents: A Roundtable on Teaching with Special CollectionsFriday, Nov. 10th, 2-3:45 P.M.Wright, Third Floor West Tower

Amanda Gray - Panelist The Work that Makes All Other Work Possible: The Pedagogies and Solidarities of Care WorkFriday, November 10th, 4 – 5:45 P.M.Hong Kong, Ballroom Level West Tower

Saturday, November 11th

Omi Jones: “Resonant Frequencies/Physics and Embodiment”Dialoguing Physics and BlacknessSaturday, November 11th, 10 – 11:45 A.M.Addams, Third Floor West Tower

Emily Roehl: “Anti-Pipeline Performance and the Mise-en-scene of Environmental Justice Struggle”Race, Environmental Justice, and Public Lands Saturday, November 11th, 10 – 11:45 A.M.McCormick, Third Floor West Tower

Julia Mickenberg - Panelist The Russian Revolution at 100: Lessons, Lineages, and Legacies for Radical Practice Today Saturday, November 11th, 4 – 5:45 P.M.Skyway 260, Skyway Level East Tower

Robert B. Oxford: “Fracking, Social Justice and Assembling the Eco Counter Archives: Documenting Environmental Activists in Houston”Teaching Environmental Justice at the Intersections of Activist Practices and Critical AnalysisSaturday, November 11th, 12 – 1:45 P.M.Field, Third Floor West Tower

Caroline Pinkston: “Remembering Ruby: Akili Academy, Civil Rights Memory, and the Remaking of New Orleans Public Education”Remembering the 1960s Saturday, November 11th, 2-3:30 P.M.Dusable, Third Floor West Tower

Sunday, November 12th

Sequoia Maner: Reviving Tupac Shakur in the #BlackLivesMatter Era: Kendrick Lamar, G-Funk, and the Performance of Dissent” Three Generations of Funk: Performances of Dissent in Kendrick Lamar, Jessica Care Moore, and Sarah Webster Fabio Sunday, November 12, 10 – 11:45 A.M.Skyway 260, Skyway Level East Tower

Shirley E. Thompson - Chair, Visibility, Visuality, and Incarceration, Sunday, November 12th, 12 – 1:45 P.M.McCormick, Third Floor West Tower 

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