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SUMMARY:Manchester American Studies Conference
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DESCRIPTION:This two-day conference will showcase the work of our postgra
 duate students\, as well as the work of staff and students in American s
 tudies at Brown University\, University of Copenhagen\, and University o
 f Mississipi. All welcome\n\nThursday 17 May\, C1.18 Ellen Wilkinson Bui
 lding \n\n9.00-9.15   Registration\n\n9.15-10.15  Opening Keynote Addres
 s: Leigh Anne Duck\, " Neoliberal Nostalgia: Re-purposing Katrina's Ruin
 s in Hollywood South"\n\n10.30-12.15  Panel 1: Representation and Preser
 vation\n\nChair: Douglas Field\n\nNatalie Zacek (Manchester)\, "Picturin
 g Slavery and Abolition: Thoughts from an Exhibition"\n\nJeffrey T. Jack
 son (Mississippi)\, "Researching and Interpreting Slavery at the Univers
 ity of Mississippi:A Brief History of the University of Mississippi Rese
 arch Group"\n\nJoseph Morton (Manchester)\, "Doors to Yesterday: Practic
 es of Historical Collecting in Early Twentieth-Century Southern Californ
 ia"\n\nAnni Pullagura (Brown)\, "Reusing Violence: Emmett Till and the P
 olitics of Preservation"\n\n12.15-13.15  Lunch (atrium)\n\n13.15-14.45  
 Panel 2: Performing the Literary and the Popular\n\nChair: Peter Knight 
 \n\nStefanos Despositos (Manchester)\, "Suicide as a Social(ist) Fact: A
  Literary Examination of Henry James and Ivan Turgenev\n\nLouisa Hann (M
 anchester)\, "Subverting Millenarianism: American HIV/AIDS Theatre at th
 e fin-de-millenaire"\n\nGwynne George (Manchester)\, "Queering Whitney H
 ouston"\n\n15.00-16.30 Panel 3: America in Crisis\n\nChair: Molly Geidel
  \n\nLouise Clare (Manchester)\, "Media and Cultural Influences in the P
 relude to the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War"\n\nNicole Gipson (Manchester)
 \, "Paupers\, Paper Tigers\, Triage\, and Turf Wars in Washington DC"\n\
 nPatrick Massey (Manchester)\, "Representing New Orleans and Recovering 
 the Victim in the Cultural Response to Hurricane Katrina"\n\n16.30-17.00
  Coffee (atrium)\n\n17.00-18.30 Panel 4: Slavery in Mississippi\n\nChair
 : David Brown\n\nChet Bush (Mississippi)\, "Too Much His Own Master’: Fa
 ith and Resistance in the Slave Community at the University of Mississip
 pi”\n\nSuzanne R. Davidson (Mississippi)\, “The Big House as Home: Afric
 an Americans and Sites of Slavery in Mississippi”\n\nJodi Skipper (Missi
 ssippi)\, “Behind the Big House: Contested Spaces and the Politics of Re
 presenting Slavery in Mississippi”\n\n\n\nFriday 18 May--NEW LOCATION: R
 oom A7\, Samuel Alexander Building\n\n10.00-11.45  Panel 5: Writing and 
 Identity\n\nChair: Kerry Pimblott\n\nMartyn Bone (Copenhagen)\, “Race\, 
 Sex\, and Danish-American Intertextual Geographies: Cecil Brown’s The Li
 fe and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger\n\nLucy Burns (Manchester)\, “Black M
 ountain College in the Program Era”\n\nMartina Koegeler-Abdi (Copenhagen
 )\, “The Repertoire of Respectability: Syrian-American Perspectives”\n\n
 Ralph Rodriguez (Brown)\, “Latinx Literature Unbound: Undoing Ethnic Exp
 ectation”\n\n11.45-12.45 Lunch (EAC Common Room\, W.1.14)\n\n12.45-14.15
   Panel 6: Ritual and Process\n\nChair: Thomas Tunstall Allcock\n\nJenni
 fer Ford (Mississippi)\, “ ‘Try to Meet Me in Heaven’: Mississippians\, 
 Death\, and Ritual in the Aftermath of the American Civil War”\n\nKather
 ine Reed (Manchester)\, “ ‘The prison where I have found myself’: Graffi
 ti at Ellis Island Immigration Station\, New York 1900-14”\n\nChrista Ho
 lm Vogelius (Copenhagen)\, “The Bilingualism of Jacob Riis’s Image-Text”
 \n\n14.15-14.45 Coffee (EAC Common Room\, W.1.14)\n\n14.45-16.15 Panel 7
 : Slavery and the Market\n\nChair: Eithne Quinn\n\nGunvor Simonson (Cope
 nhagen)\, “Race\, Slavery\, and the Market: African Lives in Eighteenth-
 Century Copenhagen”\n\nAmy Bride (Manchester)\, “Back from the Dead and 
 Demanding Dollar: American Gothic Monsters\, Finance\, and Slavery”\n\nF
 elicia Bevel (Brown)\, “Remembering the Past in the Present: The Old Pla
 ntation Exhibit at the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair\n\n16.30-17.30 Closing
  Keynote Address: Matthew Guterl (Brown)\, “Things Falling Apart: Race a
 nd the Memories of the Irish and Harlem Renaissances”\n\n\n\n\n\n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:C1.18\, Ellen Wilkinson Building\, Manchester
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