Friday, September 25, 2015
9:00AM – 3:30PM
Graduate Center, CUNY – Concourse Level

#GCArchivalResearch

Panel Session I

9:20-10:20AM

1. The Unfinished Project of Emancipation

Chair: Herman Bennett (History)        Room: C205

• John Blanton (History)
  This Species of Property: Slavery and the Properties of Subjecthood in Anglo-American, Law, 1619-1783
• Sean Gerrity (English)
  The John Brown Moment: Imagining a Maroon Community in the Alleghenies
• Glen Olson (History)
  Slavery’s Leviathan: Visions of Federal Governance, 1815-60
• Elvira Basevich (Philosophy)
  W.E.B. Du Bois and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
• Sean Griffin (History)
  Black Utopias: African-American Workers and Cooperative Communities

2. Aesthetics, Coloniality, and Otherness

Chair: Tanya Agathocleous (English)        Room: C203

• Makeba Lavan (English)
  Another Country: Hybridity and Identity Formation in Black Europe
• Krystle Farman (History)
  Arrogant Tricksters, Saintly Figures: Afro-Mexican Religious Beliefs in Colonial Mexico
• Maria Stracke (English)
  Representations of Native Americans in Early U.S. and 19th Century Art and Letters: George Catlin and Karl Bodmer in the Archives
• Christina McCollum (Art History)
  Exhibitions of Outsider Art: The American Folk Art Museum

3. Teaching Otherwise

Chair: Katina Rogers (Futures Initiative; HASTAC) Room: C197

• Maureen Samedy (Urban Education)
  Leadership at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Talia Shalev (English)
  Where Poetics and Pedagogies Meet: Witness in June Jordan and Adrienne Rich
• Caitlyn Bolton (Anthropology)
  Negro Education from the American South to 1920s East Africa
• Laura Kaplan (Urban Education)
  P.S. 25, South Bronx: Community Control and Bilingual Education

4. Re-mixing Methods

Chair: Jessie Daniels (Public Health)        Room: C201

• James Head (Psychology)
  Abraham Maslow: Unsung Hero of “Pre-Qualitative” Psychology
• Joanna Smolenski (Philosophy)
  Dimensions of Moral Identity and Social Inequality: An International and Interdisplinary Perspective
• Rachel Chernick (Social Welfare)
  Risk Factors Involved in the Transition from Non-Medical Prescription Opiate to Heroin Use: A Qualitative Study of Young Adult Opioid Users
• Devin Heyward (Psychology)
  Genetics and Genealogy: The Search for History and Racial Identity

5. Trans-/Queer Encounters in the Archives

Chair: Matt Brim (English, CSI ; WSQ)        Room: C198

• B Lee Aultman (Political Science)
  The Epistemology of Transgender Political Resistance: Embodied Experience and Everyday Life
• Melina Moore (English)
  Gender Journeys: Embodiment and Autobiographical Form in Western Trans Life-Writing from 18th c to Present
• Frederic-Charles Baitinger (French)
  American Versus French: An Interpretation of Gender Theory
• Christopher Ewing (History)
  The Color of Desire: The Contradictions of Race in German Gay Politics
• Margaret Galvan (English)
  Feminism in Action: In the Streets, On the Page, Within the Archive

Panel Session II

10:30-11:30AM

6. Music-making and the Un/Making of ‘Self’

Chair: David Olan (Music)            Room: C205

• Julia Goldstein (Theatre)
  Transnational Process in Sundance Institute East Africa: The Crossing Boundaries Festival in Addis Ababa
• Sissi Liu (Theatre)
  Fred Ho’s Implosive Wukongist Exploration and Performance of “Asian American Jazz”
• Paul Fess (English)
  Resonant Texts: The Politics and Practices of 19th-century African American Musical Cultures of Print from Abolitionism to the Player Piano
• Elizabeth Weybright (English)
  “Pleasure only to herself”: Gender and Subversive Musicianship in the Long Nineteenth Century

7. Crafting the Global City

Chair: Sujatha Fernandes (Sociology)        Room: C203

• Nicholas Gamso (English)
  The World(s) of Robert Moses
• Morgan Buck (Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geography)
  Women In and Out of Place: The Gendered Geographies of Urban Governance in Twentieth Century Johannesburg
• Elizabeth Sibilia (Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geography)
  Space, Labor, and Law: The Global Production of a Landscape for Shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh and the Problem of Waste
• Liz Donato (Art History)
  The Intimate City: The Valparaiso Architecture School in the Urban Sphere, 1952-1972

8. Inter-/ Trans-nationalisms

Chair: Susan Buck-Morss (Political Science)    Room: C197

• Zeynep Oguz (Anthropology)
  The Radiance to Come: Nuclear Energy and the Politics of Anticipation in Turkey

• Jenny LeRoy (English)
  Cuba Rising: Approaching the Archive in a Time of Detente

• Justin Bracken (Anthropology)
  Walls as Enduring Boundaries: Investigating the Fortified Maya Site of Muralla de Leon
• Aparna Anand (Economics)
  The Economic Analysis of Domestic Workers: Role of Beliefs and Identity in Educational Choices.

9. Aesthetics and Politics

Chair: Barbara Webb (English)            Room: C201

• Kannaki Bharali (Sociology)
  Bare Bodies, Performance, and Identity of Life Models in New York
• Timothy Griffiths (English)
  Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Late-Nineteenth Century Black Uplift
• Sean Kennedy (English)
  Global Gangster Culture under Late Capitalism: Researching the South African Case
• Wendy Tronrud (English)
  Doing Time, Incarceration and Freedom in William Walker and Thomas Gaines’s Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) for a Quarter of a Century: Life of William Walker (1892)

10. Re/visioning Education

Chair: Michelle Fine (Urban Education)        Room: C198

• Matthew Chrisler (Anthropology)
  Youth Contestations of Education Reform: A Study of TFA-Phoenix
• Chloe Asselin (Urban Education)
  Social Movement Unionism: Organized Teachers’ Struggles and Successes in Defending and Transforming Public Education in Philadelphia
• Danica Savonick (English)
  “Aesthetic of the Outsider”: Audre Lorde’s Pedagogy and a Different Relationship to Difference
• Brian Jones (Urban Education)
  The Tuskegee Revolt: Blackness, Learning, and the Legacy of Booker T. Washington
• Lynne Beckenstein (English)
  Pain as Feminist Pedagogy: Audre Lorde and the Sisterhood in the Spelman College Archives

Panel Session III

12:15-1:15PM

11. Alternative Media in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chair: Hildegard Hoeller (English)        Room: C205

• Yair Solan (English)
  London in Hollywood: Jack London’s Autobiographical Novels and the Social Problem Film
• Nicole Zeftel (Comparative Literature)
  Nervous in America: Urbanization, Anxiety, and Labor in Late-19th-Century American Literature
• Krystyna Michael (Comparative Literature)
  Circulating Domesticity: Home Periodicals, Domestic Ideology, and the 19th- and 20th-Century American City
• Courtney Chatellier (English)
  Research on the Circulation of French Literature in Late Eighteenth Century Philadelphia
• Elizabeth Decker (English)
  Fannie Hurst: Beyond Imitation

12. On Roots and Routes of the Black Diasporas

Chair: Robert F. Reid-Pharr (English)        Room: C205

• Kristin Moriah (English)
  Das Kabarett: Das Programm, Multiculturalism and Internationalism in the Pre-WWI Berlin Theater Scene
• Leila Harris (Art History)
  Picturesque Labor: Photography, British Colonialism, and the Tea Trade 1860-1914
• Gordon Barnes (History)
  Revolt and Refusal: Organized Violence, Individualized Resistance, and the Challenge to Planter Power in the British Empire, 1810-1900
• Abigail Lapin (Art History)
  Visualizing a Black Presence in Brazil: Art and the Civil Rights Movement in Salvador da Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, 1950s-80s

13. Militarism, Security, and the Environment

Chair: Duncan Faherty (English)        Room: C205

• Sobukwe Odinga (Political Science)
  Hostages to Fortune: Strategic Resources, Hard Bargaining, and US-African Security Cooperation
• Alexandra Schindler (Anthropology)
  Displacing Crisis through Escape: ‘Border Practices’ of Syrian Refugees in Urban Cairo
• Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geography)
  Contesting the Louisiana Carceral State
• Laurel Turbin (Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geography)
  Geographies of Desecration: Race, Indigeneity, and the Militarization of Hawai‘i

14. Criminalization, Reform, and Resistance

Chair: Donald Robotham (Anthropology)    Room: C205

• Chunrye Kim (Criminal Justice)
  Intimate Partner Violence among Korean Immigrants in New York City

• James Andrew Sevitt (Psychology)
  Everyday Acts of Struggle, Survival, Resilience and Resistance: The Emergence of New Economic Cultures in the Aftermath of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis

• Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land (Sociology)
  The Genealogy of Social Democratic Responses to Crime

• Robert Jackson (Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geography)
  In Certain Respects, the Future Looks Bright: Migration, Criminalization, and Race-Making in 21st Century Alabama

15. Dissent and Scandalous Expressions

Chair: Claire Bishop (Art History)        Room: C205

• Thomas Muzart (French)
  Beyond the Scandal: Rethinking the Relationship between Censorship and Marginalized Artists in Contemporary France
• Sydney Stutterheim (Art History)
  Accomplices in the Work of Lynn Hershman Leeson
• Nora Slonimsky (History)
  “The Engine of Free Expression” [?]: The Political Development of Copyright in the Colonial British Atlantic and Early National United States
• Meng Jiang (Comp Lit)
  Between the State and the Market: Translocality in Chinese Postsocialist Art Cinema
• Jessica Mahlbacher (Political Science)
  Releasing the Genie: Tracing the Trajectories of Authoritarian Mobilization of Mass-Nationalism in China and Russia

NYC Archivists Roundtable

Elebash Recital Hall

1:30-2:30

Welcoming Remarks by Duncan Faherty, Director Early Research Initiative

Panelists:

• Karen Hwang
  Consultant, artasiamerica
• María Isabel Molestina-Kurla
  Reader Services Librarian, The Morgan Library & Museum
• Thomas Lannon
  Assistant Curator, The New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division
• Shola Lynch
  Curator, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
• Edward O’Reilly
  Curator and Head, Manuscript Department, Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New-York Historical Society
• John Vincler
  Head of Reader Services, The Morgan Library & Museum