2007   Mid America American Studies Association Annual Conference

                  Teaching as if American Studies Matters

                              ( Preliminary Program)

                                        April 13 – 14, Kansas City, Missouri

                                                Kauffman Conference Center

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 13

8:00 – 9:00  Continental Breakfast

 

Paseo Room

9:00 – 10:30   “Practicing American Studies:  The Value of Crossing Borders” 

 

     “Transnationalizing American Adolescence:  What American Studies Can Learn       About American Teenage Girls by Looking at Them from Abroad”                 

                           Anne Dotter, University of Kansas

     “Literary Scholars as Tourists:  Looking Back at the Writer and the Writer’s

     Word”

                           Hilary Isis Lowe, University of Kansas

     “Globalizing the American Studies Classroom:  The Value of Transnational

     Context”

                           Noel Marie Rasor, University of Kansas

                 Moderator:  Fred Nielsen, University of Nebraska, Omaha

 

Brush Creek Room

9:00 – 10:30   “Practicing American Studies:  The Value of  Crossing Disciplines”

    

     “It’s All About Me:  American Studies and the U.S. History Survey”

                           Jane Simonsen, Augustana College

 

     “Teaching Music as if American Music Matters”

                            Melinda Russell, Carleton College

 

     “Contesting Visions of the Past:   Historic Sites as the Medium and the

     Message”

                              Linna Place, University of Missouri-Kansas City

                              Edeen Martin, Independent Scholar and Consultant

 

                 Moderator:  

 

Troost Room

9:00 – 10:30   Roundtable:  “If I Only Knew Then….’ Pedagogical Advice for/from Graduate Instructors Teaching Across the Academy”

                 Stephen Young, University of Minnesota

                 Liz Miller, University of Kansas

                 Jason Barrett-Fox, University of Kansa

                 Melissa Williams, University of Minnesota (Moderator)    

 

    

 

 

10:30 – 12:15   Plenary Session   “Redefining American Studies for the 21^st Century:

                                                         Voices from the Front Lines”

 

                                      James Farrell, St. Olaf College

                                      Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas

                                      Barry Shank, Ohio State University

                                       Joshua E. Barkan, University of Minnesota

 

12:30 – 2:00  Presidential Luncheon

                     

                      “Indian Misfortunes, Indigenous  Matters:  Indigeneity and the Futures      of American Studies”

                        D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark

                        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

 

       Paseo Room

 

       2:15 – 3:45           Roundtable:  “Variations on a Course Description,

                                                            Or Teaching “Understanding America”

 

                                     Michael Sweeney, University of Kansas (Moderator)

                                      Lindsey Feitz, University of Kansas

                                      Mark Okuhata, University of Kansas

                                      Megan Williams, University of Kansas

 

         Brush Creek Room

 

         2:15 – 3:45         “American Art and Architecture:   Past and Present”

 

                                     “ The Reiterated Sacrifice to Pecuniary Profit:  Architecture and

                                         Temporality in  The American Scene”

                            

                                       Nick Yablon, University of Iowa

 

                                        “Art on the Block:  A Ten Month Journey into Culture with

                                           Cameras”

 

                                        Daven Gee, University of Missouri – Kansas City

 

                                        Moderator:  Mary Ann Wynkoop, University of Missouri-

                                                            Kansas City

          Paseo Room

 

            4:00 – 5:30     “Maximizing Interdisciplinarity in the Classroom:

                                     Visualizing  History and Historicizing Visuals

 

                                     “Teaching Historiography and Media Literacy:  Student                                  

                                        Filmmakers as Students of History-Making”

 

                                       Megan Feeney, University of Minnesota

 

                                       “Teaching History and Visual Literacy through World War II

                                         Posters:  The Poster as Practical Pedagogy”

 

                                         David Gray, University of Minnesota

                                        

                                        Moderator:  Jeffrey Miller, Augustana College

 

            Brush Creek Room

 

             4:00 – 5:30         Roundtable:  “Redesign and Instructional Teamwork in an

                                         American Studies Classroom”

 

                                         Cheryl Lester, University of Kansas

                                          Jennifer Church-Duran, University of Kansas

                                          Tami Albin, University of Kansas

                                           Deborah Dandridge, University of Kansas

           

              Troost Room

 

              4:00 – 5:30      “Disciplinary Intersections:   American Studies and                                         

                                        Composition”

                                        

                                         “Reflections on Teaching, Practices and Goals”

                                           Andrea Weis, University of Kansas

                                            Ray Pence, University of Kansas

 

                                          “You Talked about What in class?  English Comp Courses

                                             The American Studies Way”

                                             Melinda Zepeda, Northwest Vista College

      

                                              Moderator:           

 

             6:00 – 7:30            Reception, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Rozelle Court

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 14

 

8:00 – 9:00       Continental Breakfast

 

Paseo Room

 

9:00 – 10:30    Roundtable:  “American Studies and General Education”

 

                         Richard Schur, Drury University  (Moderator)

                         Rebecca Denton, Drury University

                         Erin Kenny, Drury University

                         Cheryl Ragar, Drury University

 

Brush Creek Room

 

9:00 – 10:30    Roundtable:  “Teaching the 1960s: Voices from the Midwest”

 

                          Robbie Leiberman, Southern Illinois University

                          Rusty Monhollon, Hood College

                          Mary Ann Wynkoop, University of Missouri-Kansas City (Moderator)

 

 

Paseo Room  

 

10:30 – 12: 15      Roundtable:  “Critical Race Pedagogy”

 

                              Thomas Chen, Brown University

                              Jasmine Kar Tang, University of Minnesota

                              Cathryn Merla Watson, University of Minnesota

 

Brush Creek Room

 

10:30 – 12:15     “Ways of Seeing:  American Studies and Media”

 

                            “Teaching Controversial Images and Issues:  Religion and Film”

                              Michael O’Keefe, Saint Xavier University

                              Kathleen Waller, Saint Xavier University

 

                            “Black Irish/Black Boy:  Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai

                              As Social History”

                             Jeffrey S. Miller, Augustana College

 

                             “Televisual Encounters with Post-Communism:  Romanian Orphans

                               On US Television News”

                              Andaluna Borcila,  Michigan State University

 

                               Moderator:

                           

Troost Room

 

10:30 – 12:15        “American Studies as if Teaching Matters”

 

                               “American Studies as if Teaching Matters”

                                 Robert Vodicka, University of Kansas

 

                               “Un-Hiding Agendas:  Why Do We Teach and What Does

                                 It Matter?”

                                 Angela Galik, University of Missouri

 

                                 “Dispatches from the First Year:  Creating an American

                                   Studies Minor at a Small College”

                                  Corinne Wohlford Taff,  Fontbonne University

 

                                  “Pedagogies of Contested Spaces”

                                    Kristen E. Hassen, Ohio State University  

                    

                                   Moderator:

 

12:15 – 2:00              Luncheon

                                   “Teaching American History in a Global Era”

                                     Tim Borstelman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln