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The American Studies Association - 2007 Annual Conference

Second-hand Cities

Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Fri, Oct 12 - 4:00pm - 5:45pm Building/Room: Philadelphia Marriott / Room 414

Session Participants:

Rags to Riches: Junk Dealers in the Nineteenth-Century American City
*Wendy Woloson (Library Company of Philadelphia)

Second-hand Cities: Race and Region in the Philadelphia Antique Trade, 1860s-1960s
*Alison Isenberg (Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ))

Culture of Thrift: Modern Second-hand Consumerism in Orlando, Florida, 1940-1990
*Jennifer Le Zotte (University of Virginia (VA))

Commentator: Helen Sheumaker (Miami University of Ohio (OH))
Commentator: Marina Moskowitz (University of Glasgow (United Kingdom))

The American Studies Association - 2007 Annual Conference

Jane Jacobs and Our Urban Myths

Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Fri, Oct 12 - 8:00am - 9:45am Building/Room: Philadelphia Marriott / Room 403
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Jane Jacobs and Our Urban Myths

Session Participants:

"Here, But Also There: Jane Jacobs's Hudson Street Doppelganger and Our Urban Myths"
*Peter L. Laurence (University of Pennsylvania (PA))

"The Feminine Mystique: Gender and the Myth of Jane Jacobs"
*Jennifer Hock (Harvard University (MA))

"The Nature of Diversity: Jane Jacobs's Urban Ecology"
*Jamin Creed Rowan (Boston College (MA))

"Elementary Republics and Little Platoons: Jacobs's Localism, White Ethnic Revival and the 1970s Neighborhoods Movement"
*Benjamin Mark Looker (Yale University (CT))

Commentator: Christopher Klemek (George Washington University (DC))

The American Studies Association

Seeing in Color: Visual Culture and Racial Politics in Philadelphia (Sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus)

Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Thu, Oct 11 - 10:00am - 11:45am Building/Room: Philadelphia Marriott / Room 404
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Seeing in color: visual culture and racial politics in Philadelphia

Session Participants:

Session Organizer: Tanya Sheehan (Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ))

Chair: Tanya Sheehan (Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ))

"If this war is to be forgotten, ...what shall men remember?": The African American presence at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition
*Susanna W. Gold (Temple University (PA))

Imprinting race: The Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop and the visual politics of race in the 1930s
*Erin Park Cohn (University of Pennsylvania (PA))

From Africa and the streets of Philadelphia: Georges Adéagbo's America in "Abraham - the Friend of God"
*Emily Hage (Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA))

Commentator: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw (University of Pennsylvania (PA))

The American Studies Association - 2007 Annual Conference

Living in the City of Angels

Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Thu, Oct 11 - 10:00am - 11:45am Building/Room: Philadelphia Marriott / Room 403
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Living in the City of Angels

Session Participants:
Session Organizer: ASA Staff (ASA)
Chair: Jose Manuel Alamillo (Washington State University, Spokane (WA))

A Ban on a Noisy Existence: The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Ban, Spatialized Whiteness and the Gardeners' Struggle for Dignity
*Daniel Olmos (University of California, Santa Barbara (CA))

Gay Mexican Immigrants Arriving and Surviving in Los Angeles: Intersecting Identities and Transnational Social Networks
*James Paul Thing (University of Southern California (CA))

Photodocumenting Cultural Landscapes: The (Re)production of Latino Vending 'Street-Scapes' in Los Angeles.
*Lorena Munoz (University of Southern California (CA))

Commentator: Jose Manuel Alamillo (Washington State University, Spokane (WA))

The American Studies Association - 2007 Annual Conference

Chinatowns: Then and Now

Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Sat, Oct 13 - 10:00am - 11:45am Building/Room: Philadelphia Marriott / Room 401
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Chinatowns: Then and Now

Session Participants:

Session Organizer: ASA Staff (ASA)
Chair: Lili Kim (Hampshire College (MA))
Panelist: Yong Chen (University of California, Irvine (CA))
Panelist: K Scott Wong (Williams College (MA))
Panelist: Karen J. Leong (Arizona State University (AZ))
Panelist: Rocio G. Davis (University of Navarra (Spain))