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California American Studies Association
2011 Annual Meeting
Schedule At-a-Glance
Friday, May 6
| 1:00-3:00 | Animal Studies as American Studies Tuffree | The Economic Power of Cool: Explorations in Contemporary Consumer Culture Gabrielino | The Land of Orange Groves and Jails Ontiveros |
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| 3:15-5:15 | Education, Culture, and Crisis in California Tuffree | Public Art and the Urban Imagination in Southern California Gabrielino | Producing Local and Global Knowledge of California Ontiveros |
| 5:30-7:30 | • Reception • Guest Talk: Douglas Sackman, “Representing the Rise and Fall of the Orange Empire” Fullerton Arboretum |
Saturday, May 7
| 8:30-10:15 | Back to Nature: Transcendentalism, Tourism, and Visions of California’s Frontier Hetebrink | California Dreaming: Production and Aesthetics in Asian American Art Tuffree | Sunshine and Noir: Mythmaking and the Culture of Tourism Ontiveros |
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| 10:30-12:15 | Fantasy Architecture and Social Control: The Spanish, Mayan, and Tudor Revivals in Southern California Hetebrink | Cultural Constructions of Race and Gender in the Southwest Tuffree | California’s World: Space, Place, and Empire Ontiveros |
| 12:30-1:30 | CASA Business Meeting Hetebrink | ||
| 1:45-3:00 | Keynote Address: Erika Doss, “Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America” Ontiveros | ||
| 3:15-5:00 | Cultural Geography and American Studies: Landscapes of Childhood, War, and Urbanity Hetebrink | California Culture and the Problems of Place Tuffree | California and Entrepreneurial Culture Ontiveros |
CALIFORNIA AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
2011 Annual Meeting
Titan Student Union
California State University, Fullerton
CONFERENCE PROGRAM FRIDAY, MAY 6 Registration, 12:00-4:30 pm 1:00-3:00 Session 1 Panel 1A: Animal Studies as American Studies Chair/Comment: Brett Mizelle (History, CSU Long Beach) Happy Cows, Sacred Cows: Addressing the Animal in the California Academy The Goldfish: Understanding an Undervalued Companion Species Do All Dogs Go to Heaven? Analyzing Pet Dogs and Christianity Rin-Tin-Tin: Star of Western Movies Panel 1B: The Economic Power of Cool: Explorations in Contemporary Consumer Culture Chair/Comment: Elaine Lewinnek (American Studies, CSU Fullerton) How Did Expensive Craft Beer Flourish in a Recession? Flash-Mobs and Questions of Personhood in Target Protests The Food-Truck Phenomenon: Transcending Class and Culture I Don’t Want Your Miracle Whip Panel 1C: The Land of Orange Groves and Jails Screening of The Land of Orange Groves and Jails, a documentary-in-progress by Judy Branfman (UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment) about labor activism and free speech battles in 1920s Los Angeles. Followed by Q&A with the filmmaker. 3:15-5:15 pm Session 2 Panel 2A: Education, Culture, and Crisis in California Chair/Comment: Erica Ball (American Studies, CSU Fullerton) What Happened in Pasadena? Race, Education, and the Cold War EOPS: A Response to Crisis “Propaganda and Poppycock:” Social Studies Controversies in 1960s Suburban Southern California Panel 2B: Public Art and the Urban Imagination in Southern California Chair/Comment: Sarah Schrank (History, CSU Long Beach) The Recontextualization of Public Art in Los Angeles During the 1930s Heroes and Contestations: The Formation of Filipino American Identity through Public Art Long Beach’s Mural Mania Panel 2C: Producing Local and Global Knowledge of California Chair/Comment: Sharon Sekhon (The Studio for Southern California History) The California of Disney’s Dreams: A Historical and Cultural Analysis of Disney’s California
Adventure Theme Park, Anaheim, CA Disney in the World and the World in Disney: Ethnographic Production and Globalization Learning California Abroad 5:30-7:30 pm Orange County Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum, Fullerton Arboretum, CSU Fullerton Guest Talk: Douglas Sackman (History, University of Puget Sound) SATURDAY, MAY 7 Registration, 8am to 4pm 8:30-10:15 am Panel 3A: Back to Nature: Transcendentalism, Tourism, and Visions of California’s Frontier Chair/Comment: Douglas Sackman (History, University of Puget Sound) Thoreau and McCandless: The Allure of Nature for Aesthetics Voyagers Displacement of Yosemite Indians: Transcendentalism, Tourism, and the American Frontier Mars Masters the Colonist: Bradbury, Turner, and the California Frontier Panel 3B: California Dreaming: Production and Aesthetics in Asian American Art Chair/Comment: Lucy Burns (Asian American Studies, UCLA) Pinoise Rock: Re-Imagining Filipino America LA Dreaming in Taipei Somewhere Tropical Panel 3C: Sunshine and Noir: Mythmaking and the Culture of Tourism Chair/Comment: Matthew Becker (University of Nevada Press) A Paradise for Some: Nature and Mythmaking in The Land of Sunshine, 1895-1901 DUDE! Representations of California in Popular Culture Hollywood Noir: Dark Tourism, Memory, and the Geography of Death and Scandal in Los Angeles 10:30-12:15 Panel 4A: Fantasy Architecture and Social Control: The Spanish, Mayan, and Tudor Revivals in Southern California Chair: Michael Steiner (American Studies, CSU Fullerton) The Mayan Revival Movement in Southern California and the Search for American Authenticity English Style Fakery: Examining Tudor Style Buildings in Orange County “Just Four Walls and a Roof:” Placelessness and the Built Environment in T.C. Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain Panel 4B: Cultural Constructions of Race and Gender in the Southwest Chair/Comment: Gustavo Arellano (Managing Editor, OC Weekly) Matchbook Microaggressions: Circulating Notions of Race and Culture on Southern California’s Matchbooks Introduction to Trailer Park Studies: Whiteness and the Sub/Urban Landscape The Bonita Senorita of Los Angeles in the Public and Private Arenas: Social Construction of the Mexican American Female Persona through Behavior and Appearance Panel 4C: California’s World: Space, Place, and Empire Chair/Comment: Raymond Rast (History, CSU Fullerton) A Blemish and Boon: The Making and Meanings of San Francisco’s Nineteenth-Century Vice
District Alcatraz Island in the Surplus Years: 1963-1969 Haunting Foundations: Whaley House Museum Ghosts and US Colonialism in San Diego, CA Lunch, 12:30-1:30 pm CASA Business Meeting, 12:30-1:30 1:45-3:00 pm Session 5 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Ontiveros Erika Doss (American Studies, University of Notre Dame) 3:15-5:00 pm Session 6 Panel 6A: Cultural Geography and American Studies: Landscapes of Childhood, War, and Urbanity Chair/Comment: Jonathan Taylor (Geography, CSU Fullerton) My Cross-Country Trek to California’s Suburbia: A Multi-Regional Topoanalysis and Community Retrospective Radiation from Sea to Shining Sea: Examining the Impact of World War II on the American Landscape “He Adored New York City”: Symbolic Landscapes and Architecture in Woody Allen’s Manhattan Panel 6B: California Culture and the Problems of Place Chair/Comment: Michael Willard (Liberal Studies, CSU Los Angeles) Mapping the Skids: The Function of Maps in Public Artworks Made for & with Los Angeles’ Skid Row Community Bad Faith Biker Flicks: Joan Didion’s Existential Critique of Roger Corman The Two Californias Panel 6C: California and Entrepreneurial Culture Chair/Comment: Carrie Lane (American Studies, CSU Fullerton) From the Far East to the Far West: Pasadena Art Dealer Grace Nicholson A Little Bit of the Golden State in the Big Apple: The California Shop, 1938-1942 L.A. Gets Physical: Health Clubs, Jane Fonda Workouts, and the Transformation of the Fitness Movement GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZECASA awards a prize to the best graduate student paper presented at the annual meeting. Students who wish to nominate themselves should submit a copy of their paper via email to prize committee chair Sarah Schrank (sschrank@csulb.edu) no later than May 9th. The national American Studies Association (ASA) meeting in Baltimore, October 20-23, 2011 will feature a panel of outstanding graduate student papers drawn from different regional ASA chapter meetings. The winner of the CASA prize earns a spot on this panel and will be able to present his/her paper at ASA in the fall. CASA will help defer the cost of student travel to ASA. REGISTRATION AND LOGISTICSREGISTRATION There is no pre-registration for the meetings. Registration will occur at the meeting itself. There is a charge of $65 for all faculty/community registrants and $25 for all student registrants (grad and undergrad). Because we lack the ability to process credit cards, please be prepared to pay for registration with a check (made out to California American Studies Association) or with cash. All participants, including presenters, chairs, and commentators, should plan to register. TITAN STUDENT UNION The 2011 CASA conference will be held on the main level of the Titan Student Union. Maps of the TSU are available at: http://asi.fullerton.edu/tsu/map.asp GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTERS To make sure that there is plenty of time for the presentation of each paper and a robust discussion, please plan on limiting your presentations to 15-20 minutes. Presenters should send copies of their papers to their chair/commentator by April 22nd. AV INSTRUCTIONS FOR CASA CONFERENCE Each meeting room in the TSU will be equipped with an LCD projector, screen, and a connector cable. The conference is not supplying computers. You will need to bring a laptop or share a laptop with someone else in the session. Presenters should collect their presentations on one laptop prior to the session. This will minimize delays once the session begins. We recommend that you bring your presentation on a USB drive or CD as a backup. Mac users are advised to bring their own adaptors for the digital projectors. TRAVEL INFORMATION Cal State Fullerton is located at 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton, CA 92831. For driving directions from your location to CSUF, please visit: http://www.fullerton.edu/campusmap/ Orange County’s John Wayne Airport (SNA) is located approximately 14 miles south of Fullerton. For airport information please visit: http://www.ocair.com. Other nearby airports include: Long Beach Airport (LGB) and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Fullerton’s Amtrak station is located approximately 3 miles from campus at 120 East Santa Fe Avenue in downtown Fullerton. The number 26 OCTA bus route runs from the station to the front entrance of campus on Nutwood Avenue PARKING ON CAMPUS Friday, May 6th: You may purchase a daily permit for $8.00 at one of the permit machines located on campus. Daily permits are valid in all student lots and parking structures. After 6:00pm permits are valid in all Faculty/Staff lots except Lots F, H and I. For additional information, please visit: http://parking.fullerton.edu/ For a printable campus parking map, please visit: http://parking.fullerton.edu/Maps/PrintableCampusMap.pdf HOTEL RECOMMENDATIONS The Fullerton Marriott is located just off the Nutwood exit from the 57 freeway, right next to CSUF, at 2701 East Nutwood Avenue Fullerton, CA 92831. For reservations call (714) 738-7800. Also near to CSUF is the Fullerton Holiday Inn at 2932 East Nutwood Avenue Fullerton, CA 92831. For reservations call (714)-579-7400. Located in downtown is Hostelling International Fullerton youth hostel at 1700 N. Harbor Blvd. Fullerton, CA 92832. For information call (714)-738 3721. FOOD & DRINK On Friday, May 6, all of the food services in the Titan Student Union will be open until 2 PM. On Saturday, lunch will be provided for all conference participants. Coffee, tea and pastries will be provided on Saturday morning and drinks and cookies will be available between afternoon sessions on both days. Fullerton is a city of great restaurants and bars including Rutabegorz, The Olde Ship, Twisted Vine, Steamers, and Bootlegger’s Brewery. Also available in nearby Placentia is The Bruery. Restaurants within walking distance from campus include: Cantina Lounge, Which Wich Sandwiches, El Tarasco, The Habit Burger Grill, Panera Bread, Thai Basil and more. EXPLORING FULLERTON CSUF’s Begovich Gallery will present “Manuel Pardo: The Stardust Series” open on Saturdays from 12-2pm. Downtown Fullerton boasts the Fullerton Museum Center, offering multi-disciplinary exhibitions and educational programs in the areas of history, science, and art. Visitors can explore the Fullerton Arboretum, Craig Regional Park, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, and nearby Nixon Presidential Library & Museum. Fullerton lies approximately six miles north of Disneyland and between 20-28 miles north of Laguna, Newport and Huntington beaches. For more information about Fullerton area attractions, restaurants, and other services, please visit: http://www.downtownfullerton.com/ or http://www.ci.fullerton.ca.us/ . ABOUT CASA The California American Studies Association (CASA) was created in 1982, when the northern and southern California ASA chapters were combined. Annual three-day conferences were held every spring from 1983 to 2003, addressing focused topics and drawing presenters and attendees not only from California but also from other regions. After a five-year hiatus, a small group of veteran and new members revived the association and held a conference in 2008 at Soka University of America. In 2009 we met at UC Santa Barbara and in 2010 at CSU Long Beach. More information regarding CASA and its annual conferences can be found at the Association’s webpage: http://hss.fullerton.edu/amst/casa/ 2010-11 CASA Executive Committee: President - Brett Mizelle, CSU Long Beach QUESTIONS? If you have additional questions not answered above, please contact the conference organizer, Prof. Adam Golub, at agolub@fullerton.edu. |