| American Studies and War Narratives |
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Friday,
May 10
8:45 a.m.
Van pick-up at hotel for participants staying at South
Coast Inn
9:00
Registration, Pastries and Coffee
9:40
Introductory Remarks
Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, Chair, English Department
David Marshall, Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts
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10:00-12:00 p.m. |
War and Popular
History in Early America |
| Stephanie LeMenager, Chair |
| Trish Loughran, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Re-remembering the Revolution: The History, Memory,
and Meaning of Popular Fiction
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| Elisa Tamarkin, UC Santa Barbara |
The Revolution, With Due Respect: History, Loyalty,
and the British Occupation
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| Shelley Streeby, UC San Diego |
The Culture of Sensation: 1848, Empire, and American
Exceptionalism
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12:00-1:00
LUNCH |
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| 1:00-3:00 |
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“For the Union Dead”: Domestic Engagements
and Civil War |
| Mark Maslan, Chair |
| Michael Cowan, UC Santa Cruz |
Political Male Bodies and the Male Body Politic: POWs
and the Civil War
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| Shirley Samuels, Cornell University |
Facing America: Visual Culture During the Civil War
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| Christopher Looby, UC Los Angeles |
Chiefly About Hawthorne’s “War Matters”
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| 3:15-5:15 |
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Raids, Riots, and Border Wars |
| Candace Waid, Chair |
| James Brooks, UC Santa Barbara |
“They carry on the war in all respects like two
Indian nations”: American Discourses on the Navajo-New
Mexican Raiding Economy, 1848-1868
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| Curtis Márez, UC Santa Cruz |
Drug Wars are Indian Wars: The US Military Attack on
the American Indian Movement and the Recent History
of Drug Enforcement in the Americas
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| George Marsical, UC San Diego |
Osama bin Lopez or Mexicans in the American Imaginary
of Terror
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7:00 p.m.
DINNER
Mousse-Odile
18E Cota Street
Tel / 805-962-5393 |
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| Day Two |
Saturday, May 11
9:15 a.m.
Van pick-up at hotel for participants staying at South
Coast Inn
9:30-10:00
Pastries and Coffee |
10:00-12:00 p.m. |
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Legacies of the “ Good War” |
| Katherine Kinney, Chair |
| Eileen Borris, UC Santa Barbara |
World War II / Cold War on Race, Gender, and Rights
on the Job
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| Nelson Lictenstein, UC Santa Barbara |
Market Triumphalism and the Wishful Liberals
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| Ellie Hernandez, UC Santa Barbara |
Cinematic Representations of Gay / Lesbian Homoerotics
during World War II
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12:00-1:00
LUNCH |
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| 1:00-3:00 |
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Shell Shocked: Psychologies of War and Remembrance |
| Michael Cowan, Chair |
| Mark Maslan, UC Santa Barbara |
Inventing Vietnam: Trauma, Imposture, and Philip Roth’s
The Human Stain
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| Katharine Kinney, UC Riverside |
The Good War and its Other: Behind Private Ryan
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| Jack Talbott, UC Santa Barbara |
Trauma in ’14-18 and 9/11
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| 3:15-5:15 |
National Attachments,
Foreign Affairs |
| George Mariscal, Chair |
| Giles Gunn, UC Santa Barbara |
American Exceptionalism, International Human Rights,
and Nuclear War
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| John Carlos Rowe, UC Irvine |
Nationalism, Post-Nationalism, and Terrorism
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| Jim Dawes, Macalester College |
Humanitarian Guilt: Interrogating Survivors of Atrocities
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| 5:30-6:30 |
Roundtable Discussion |
Stephanie LeMenager, UCSB
Mark Maslan, UCSB
Candace Waid, UCSB
Katherine Kinney, UCR
Michael Cowan, UCSC
George Mariscal, UCSD |
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| 8:00 p .m.
DINNER
Aja
3132 State Street
Tel / 805-563-2007
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