Hot Off the (Digital) Presses: The AMS 2012-2013 Newsletter!
AMS :: ATX isn't the only game in town when it comes to updating you readers about the goings-on of our department. Yesterday, the 2012-2013 newsletter was released, and you can check it out here!
Features include pieces from current faculty, students, alumni of both the graduate and the undergraduate program, updates from our faculty and graduate community, and a few words on two of our digital projects (The End of Austin, spearheaded by Dr. Randy Lewis, and, well, AMS :: ATX).
Happy Thanksgiving from AMS :: ATX!
To all of you, a very happy Thanksgiving from the AMS :: ATX team."The different characters of the trees appear better now, when their leaves, so to speak, are ripe, than at any other season; than in the winter, for instance, when they are little remarkable, and almost uniformly gray or brown, or in the spring and summer, when they are undistinguishably green.... It is with leaves as with fruits and woods, animals and men: when they are mature, their different characters appear." -Henry David Thoreau, "Autumn," September 30, 1851
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
Announcement: Dr. Eric Tang awarded prize for best essay in American Quarterly
American studies affiliate faculty member Dr. Eric Tang has been awarded the Constance M. Rourke Prize for the best article published this year in American Quarterly. Congratulations, Dr. Tang!
The announcement comes to us from the African and African Diaspora Studies Department:
Each year the American Studies Association awards the Constance Rourke prize to the best essay published in the journal American Quarterly. This year's prize goes to Eric Tang, Assistant Professor in African and African Diaspora Studies and the Center for Asian American Studies. Tang won for his essay entitled "A Gulf Unites Us: The Vietnamese Americans of Black New Orleans East" 63:1 (March 2011), which examines the forms of life and solidarity created by Black and Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
The prize will be announced at the annual American Studies Association Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Friday, November 16, 2012. Stay tuned this week for a full listing of UT American Studies folks presenting at the annual meeting!