Announcement: UT American Studies at ASA in Puerto Rico

Like many of you, several members of our department will be traveling to Puerto Rico this weekend to present and participate in events at the annual American Studies Association meeting. If you'll be there, be sure to check out their panels!John ClinePanel: Musical MovementsPaper: "Familiar Islands: The U.S., the Bahamas, and the Permeable Boundaries of 'Folk' Music"Saturday, November 17 / 2:00 p.m. - 3:34 p.m. / Room 102BEric CoveyPanel: Mercenaries, Missionaries, and Explorers: 150 Years in AfricaPaper: "'Swallowed by the East?' Or the Red, White and Blue on the Nile?"Friday, November 16 / 10:00am - 11:45am / Room 209BDr. Janet DavisASA Committee on American Studies Programs and Centers: Revising and Developing American Studies Curricula/Programs in the Twenty First CenturyFriday, November 16 / 10:00am - 11:45am / Room 204Daniel GerlingPanel: Sanitary Imperialism: U.S. Efforts to Clean and Beautify Puerto RicansPaper: "Tropical Prophylaxis: U.S. Envoys of Continence in Early 20th Century Imperialism"Friday, November 16 / 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. / Room 104BAndrea GustavsonCaucus: Visual Culture: Pictures in Motion: American Photography and EmpirePaper: "Snapshots and Scrapbooks: Private Photographs, Public Feelings, and American Empire during the Cold War"Saturday, November 17 / 12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. / Room 208BJennifer KellyPanel: Liberalism in the Service of Empire: Past, Present, and FuturePaper:  "The Politics of Response: Justice Tourism in Palestine and Israel"Thursday, November 15 / 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. / Room 202ALily LauxPanel: Pedagogies of EmpirePaper: " Teaching Texas: Education as a Practice of Empire"Saturday, November 17 / 8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. / Room 208CDr. Julia MickenbergInsights from Outside: Approaches to the Study of Americans AbroadThursday, November 15 / 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. / Room 102BRebecca OnionCaucus: Childhood and Youth Studies: Space, Place, and Privilege: New Geographies of ChildhoodPaper: "Childhood, Animality, and New Geographies of Extinction in the 1970s"Saturday, November 17 / 12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. / Room 204Dr. Naomi PaikThe Violence of Life Itself: Progress, Design, Beauty, HumanitarianismThursday, November 15 / 12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. / Room 203Elissa UnderwoodCaucus: Critical Prison Studies: State of the Field: Critical Prison and Carceral State Studies, Current Scholarship and New DirectionsSaturday, November 17 / 2:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. / Room 103BJeannette VaughtPanel: Animal Dimensions of American Empire: 1830-2012Paper: "A Saddlebag Full of Syringes: Rodeo’s Technoscience Frontier"Sunday, November 18 / 12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. / Room 207