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Racing
Across Borders:
National and Transnational
Narratives
An Interdisciplinary Graduate
Student Conference
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Centennial House, UC Santa Barbara
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Conference
Schedule
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| 8:30-9:00: Registration and
Light Breakfast
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| 9:00-9:10: Welcoming Remarks:
Kathryn Dolan, Sarah Hirsch and
Eric Martinsen (Conference Organizers)
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9:10-10:30:
Transnational Race
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Moderator:
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Professor of English, UCSB |
| Yanoula Athanassakis |
(English, UCSB) |
“Like being born
again”: Resistance to Identity Formations in
Jean Rhys’ Voyage in the Dark |
Abstract
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| Jacob Berman |
(English, UCSB) |
Pentamento Geographies: Nativity,
Nation and the Construction of Arab-ness in 19th Century
American Travel Narratives |
Abstract
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| Christina Bertrand |
(English, CSU Long Beach) |
"The magic land at the end
of the road:" Sal Paradise's Construction of
the Other in Jack Kerouac's On The Road |
Abstract
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10:30-10:40:
Break
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| 10:40-12:00:
Mapping Empire |
Moderator:
Stephanie LeMenager, Associate Professor of English,
UCSB |
| Stephanie A. Amsel |
(English, U Texas,
San Antonio) |
Her Own Sense of Belonging:
Viramontes’ and Olsen’s Cultural Landscapes |
Abstract
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| Kathryn Dolan |
(English, UCSB) |
Cannibal Nation: The Donner Party
and the Crisis of Manifest Destiny |
Abstract
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| Danielle La France |
(Comp Lit, UCSB) |
White Women Writing Women of Color
in the Late Nineteenth Century U.S.: The Catholic
as the Sympathetic Other |
Abstract
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12:00-1:00:
Lunch
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| 1:00-2:20: Keynote:
Shelley
Streeby, The Sensational West: Cultural Memories of
the US-Mexico War and the Civil War during the Mexican
Revolution
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2:20-2:30:
Break
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2:30-2:50:
Film Screening: Bleach: A
short digital video by Nicole Starosielski (Film Studies,
UCSB)
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2:50-3:50:
Memory Traces
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Moderator:
Bishnupriya Ghosh, Associate Professor of English,
UCSB |
| Nicole Starosielski |
(Film Studies, UCSB) |
Discussion of Bleach:
Short digital video by Nicole Starosielski |
Abstract
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| James Groom |
(English, CUNY) |
Imperial Designs: Nationalizing
Race in the Barbary Captivity Narratives |
Abstract
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| Jennifer L. Roscher |
(Literature, UC Santa Cruz) |
Fictional Histories: The Memory
of Haiti in the 20th Century Novel |
Abstract
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3:50-4:00: Break
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| 4:00-5:20:
Media Migration |
Moderator:
James Kyung-Jin Lee, Assistant Professor of Asian
American Studies, UCSB |
| ShiPu Wang |
(Art History, UCSB) |
“Japan Against Japan:”
Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s War Posters for the U.S. Propaganda
during World War II |
Abstract
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| Noah Lopez |
(Film Studies, UCSB) |
Soy Loco Por Ti
America: Denigrated Hip-Hop and Filesharing in
the Brazilian Favela Imagination |
Abstract
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| Aimee M. Woznick |
(English, UCSB) |
"We're All Others:" Pop
Culture Narratives of Race and the Global in Lost |
Abstract
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5:20-5:30: Closing Remarks: Carl Gutierrez-Jones, ACGCC
Director and Professor of English, UCSB
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