The Canadian Association for American Studies will be holding a virtual conference on October 16th and 23rd via Zoom. Please see page (1) for Conference Schedule and page (2) Conference Program. Those interested in participating can contact Dr. Peter Robert Brown.
Conference Schedule
October 16, 2020
10:50-11:00: Greetings and Opening Remarks: Ross Bullen (CAAS President)
Session One: 11:00-12:15: Poetics, Politics, and Aesthetics
Moderator: Ross Bullen
Geordie Miller: “Not Quite as Slowly as the Rest”: The Revolutionary Letters of Diane di Prima and Wendy Trevino
Maria Rovito: Towards a New Madwoman Theory: Reckoning the Pathologization of Sylvia Plath
LUNCH BREAK: 12:15-1:45
CAAS Executive Meeting: 12:30-1:30
Session Two: 1:45-3:15: Pulp, Noir, and Crime in the Golden State
Moderator: Peter Robert Brown
Arthur Redding: “Los Angeles and Me Had Had Enough of Each Other”: Donald Goines on the West Coast
Katrina Younes: The Mimetic Femme Fatale in Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest
Susan Ingram: The Places and Politics of Violence: Investigating Twenty-First Century Crime Scenes
Session Three: 3:30-5:00: Race, Ethnicity, and Erasure
Moderator: Jenna Hunnef
Laura Beard and Lindsay Sorell: “Notwithstanding the treaty rights”: A Life Narrative of the Black Hills
Suchismita Dutta: “What the Schools Didn’t Do for Me”: The Politics of Arab American Visibility in Najla Said’s Looking for Palestine
Jenna Hunnef: Painted Indians and an All-Black Cast of Oklahoma: The Meta-Politics of Race in HBO’s Watchmen
Friday, October 23, 2020
Session Four: 1:45-3:15: Political Narratives from the 1960s to the Present
Moderator: Geordie Miller
Stephen Schryer: Gary Wills’s Conservative Apostasy
Hasmet Uluorta: Neoliberal Supremacy and the Class and Race Based Sacrifice of Dissent: From Reagan to Trump
Lindsey Banco: Techo-Conspiracies and Petrocolonialism: The Strange Case of Dr. Judy Wood
Session Five: 3:30- 5:30: Just for You: A CAAS Mixtape
Moderator: Paul Downes
Jennifer Harris: Fashion, Fitness, and Freedom in the 1890s: Recuperating Ringwood’s Afro-American Journal
Tricia George: Orienting Around Animality in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
Luke Bresky: John Guare’s “Non-Controversial Mapplethorpe”: Six Degrees of Six Degrees
Sarah Blanchette: “no magic bullet solutions or happy endings”: Graphic Memoir, Mental Health Literacy, and Biomedical Recovery in Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo,+ Me.
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