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Schedule

9:00-9:20am — Welcoming Remarks

• Duncan Faherty (English and American Studies)
• Provost Louise Lennihan

9:20 – 10:20am — Panel Session I

10:20 – 10:30am — Break

10:30 – 11:30am — Panel Session II

11:30 – 12:15pm — Lunch

12:15 – 1:15pm — Panel Session III

1:15 – 1:30pm — Break

1:30 – 2:30pm — NYC Archivists Roundtable (Elebash Recital Hall)

2:30 – 3:30pm — Reception (Elebash Lobby)

Panel Session I — 9:20-10:20am

C205 — Aesthetics, Politics, and Difference

Chair: Kandice Chuh (English)

• Denisse Andrade (Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geography)
  “The Black Radical Movement and the Poetics and Politics of Land”
• Paul Fess (English)
  “Slavery and Anti-slavery: Sound and Text”
• Tonya M. Foster (English)
  “Umbra Writers’ Workshop: Archives and Extensions—Tom Dent”
• Saisha Grayson (Art History)
  “Cellist, Catalyst, Collaborator: The Work of Charlotte Moorman, 1963-1980”
• Stefanie A Jones (Theatre)
  “Acts of Provocation: Racial Formation and Twenty-First Century U.S. Commercial Theatre”

C203 — Print Culture and Canon Formation in the Early Republic

Chair: William Kelly (English)

• Brian Baaki (English)
  “The Black Criminal in Early American Print Culture”
• Courtney Chatellier (English)
  “Archival Research in Early American Literature”
• Nora Slonimsky (History)
  “‘The Engine of Free Expression’ [?]: The Political Development of Copyright in the Colonial British Atlantic and Early National United States”
• Nicole Zeftel (Comparative Literature)
  “‘The Economics and Poetics’ of the Nineteenth Century Dime Novel”

C197 — Mining Alternative Geographies of Race and Labor

Chair: Herman Bennett (History)

• Hector Agredano (Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geography)
  “Railroads, Railroad Workers and Geographies of the Mexican Revolution of 1910”
• Gordon Randolph Barnes Jr. (History)
  “Imperial Fears: Planter Ideology, Violence, and the Post-Emancipation Experience in the British Empire, 1800-1900”
• Megan Brown (History)
  “Which Integration for Algeria? Eurafrica and the Treaty of Rome”
• Jenny LeRoy (English)
  “Capitalizing on the Global South: Eliza McHatton’s Hemispheric Plantation Economy”
• Frances Tran (English)
  “Traces of the Coolie: An Archival Encounter”

C201 — Sexuality, Politics, and the Archive

Chair: Alyson Cole (Political Science)

• Meredith Benjamin (English)
  “Engaging Feminism’s Archive”
• Elizabeth Decker (English)
  “Recovering Edith Summers Kelley”
• Margaret Galvan (English)
  “Watching Out for Dykes in Activist Archives and Special Collections”
• Alisa Wade Harrison (History)
  “An Alliance of Ladies: Power, Public Affairs, and Gendered Constructions of the Upper Class in Early National New York City”
• Wen Liu (Psychology)
  “Untying the Knot: Archiving the Marriage Equality Movements in Taiwan, China, and the US as Recent History”

Break — 10:20-10:30am

Panel Session II — 10:30-11:30am

C201 — Cultures of Political Economy

Chair: Jessie Daniels (Psychology)

• Flannery Amdahl (Political Science)
  “Big Brother’s Keepers: Liberal Religious Organizations and the Development of the American Welfare State”
• Velina Manolova (English)
  “Queer Interventions in Racial Liberalism in the Writings of Lillian Smith, Carson McCullers, James Baldwin, and Lorraine Hansberry, 1944-1970”
• David McCarthy (Historical Musicology)
  “The Appearance of the Comedy LP (1957-1973)”
• Adam McMahon (Political Science)
  “President-Led American State Unbuilding 1953-2013”
• Sara Rutkowski (English)
  “The Federal Writers’ Project and its Influence on African American Literature”

C203 — Critical Pedagogies: Rewriting of Knowledge Production

Chair: Steve Brier (Urban Education)

• Nolan Chessman (English)
  “A Pedagogy of Possibility: Adrienne Rich in the Age of Open Admissions”
• Diana L. Epelbaum (English)
  “‘I own I love the vegitable world extremly’: The Gender of Genre and Women’s Natural History Writing, 1688-1808”
• Naja Berg Hougaard (Psychology, Human Development)
  “The Past is Not Dead: Resuscitating the Forgotten History of Danish Colonialism in the U.S. Virgin Islands”
• Laura Kaplan (Urban Education)
  “The History and Development of P.S. 25”

C197 — Representing Geographies of the Urban and the Rural

Chair: Cindi Katz (Earth & Environmental Sciences)

• Jacob Cohen (Music)
  “Experiences of New England: Urban and Rural in the Music of Chadwick, Ives, Ruggles and Crawford Seeger”
• Nicholas Gamso (English)
  “Race, Cities, and American New Wave Documentary of the 1960s and 70s”
• Marjorie Gorsline (Anthropology)
  “An Archaeology of Accountability: Race, Power, and Privilege in the Rural Northeast”
• Cara Jordan (Art History)
  “Joseph Beuys and Social Sculpture in the United States: Rick Low and Ongoing Residency”
• Katherine Uva (History)
  “Dawn of a New Day: New York City Between the Fairs”

C205 — Forum on Digital Initiatives and Fellowships

Chair: Matthew K. Gold (English)

• Amanda Licastro (English)
  “The Writing Studies Tree”
• Natascia Boeri (Sociology)
  “Community IT Centers and Organizing Women Workers in Gujarat, India”
• Micki Kaufman (History)
  “Quantifying Kissinger”

Lunch — 11:30am-12:15pm

Panel Session III — 12:15-1:15pm

C197 — Diasporic Cultures and Identity Formation

Chair: Sujatha Fernandes (Sociology)

• Anahí Douglas (English)
  “African American Ex-pats and Exiles in Mexico”
• Aídah Gil (History)
  “Arthur, Arturo, and the Archive: A History of a Historical Imagination”
• Abigail Lapin (Art History)
  “Afro-Brazilian Art, Architecture and the Civil Rights Movement in Brazil, 1960s-80s”
• Rocío Gil Martínez de Escobar (Anthropology)
  “Bordering States, Bordering Race: Afro-Indigenous Struggles for Recognition in the Coahuila-Texas Borderland”

C203 — The Performances of Citizenship and National Belonging

Chair: Eric Lott (English)

• Devora Geller (Musicology)
  “Mamele on the Yiddish Stage and Screen”
• Sissi Liu (Theatre)
  “Monkey King Performances as Alternative Discourse of Asian Americanness”
• Kristin Moriah (English)
  “Dark Stars of the Evening: Performances of African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1930”
• Melissa Phruksachart (English)
  “Cherry Blossoms in Bryant Park: Mediating Asiatic Racialization on Cold War Television”
• Hallie Scott (Art History)
  “The Driftwood Village and the Truckin’ University: Experimental Architecture Education on the West Coast, c. 1970”

C205 — The Long Project of Abolition & Black Radical Resistance

Chair: Donald Robotham (Anthropology)

• Laura Bini Carter (Anthropology)
  “Embodied & Inscribed—Gwoka: Guadeloupan Social Movement and UNESCO Immaterial Heritage of France”
• Sean Gerrity (English)
  “Uncovering the Literature and History of U.S. Slave Marronage: An Archival Study in Virginia and North Carolina”
• Timothy M. Griffiths (English)
  “Other Black Households: The Archives of Queer Black Affective Formations”
• Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geography)
  “The Consolidation of the Louisiana Carceral State, 1970-1995”
• Wendy Tronrud (English)
  “Buried Alive: Researching William Walker and Thomas Gaines”

C201 — Lost and Found

Chair: Ammiel Alcalay (English)

• Lauren Bailey (English)
• Philip Griffith (French)
• Gabrielle Kappes (English)
• Kai Krienke (Comparative Literature)
• Megan Paslawski (English)
• Alex Wermer-Colan (English)

Break — 1:15-1:30pm

NYC Archivists Roundtable — 1:30-2:30pm

Elebash Recital Hall

Welcoming Remarks by President Chase Robinson

Chair: Polly Thistlethwaite, Chief Librarian CUNY Graduate Center

Panelists:

• Steven G. Fullwood – Assistant Curator, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
• Bob Kosovsky – Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• Marilyn Satin Kushner – Curator and Head, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections New-York Historical Society
• Thomas Lannon – Assistant Curator, The New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division
• Edward O’Reilly – Curator and Head, Manuscript Department, Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New-York Historical Society
• Mary F. Yearwood – Curator, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,  New York Public Library

Reception — 2:30-3:30pm

Elebash Lobby