Day One: Friday, September 15, 2006

Registration 9:00 to 3:00

10:30-12:00 Session One

1.1  Narrative Convention as Comfort and In/Security in Popular Crime Fiction     Room 714

Monica Chiu University of New Hampshire One Crime, One Accident, Six Corpses: Death and Desire in Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field Lindsay Roberts University of New Hampshire Just Below the Surface: Spatial and Bodily Boundaries in Don Lee’s Country of Origin and Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress  Amanda Thibodeau University of New Hampshire Challenging Detection: The Lesbian Detectives of Barbara Wilson and Katherine V. Forrest Chair: Caroline Frank, Brown University

1.2  Indigenous Women Speak to Sovereignty University Events Room, 7th Floor

Audra Simpson Cornell University International Boundary Line and Narratives of Citizenships Colliding Mishuana Goeman Dartmouth College Notes on an Indigenous Feminist Sovereign Spatial Practice Andrea Lee Smith University of Michigan Indigenous Feminism, Sovereignty, and the Nation-State Chair: J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan University

1.3   Slaves & Citizens     Room 614

Edward Martin Salem State College Black Privateers: The Economics of Hope and Equality Joy Viveros University of the Pacific Tortured  Logic:  Extremities in Assaults on Antebellum Slaves Chair: Laura Saltz, Colby College

1.4 Torture and Trauma     Room 518

Sheldon George Simmons College What George Bush can Teach us about Truth and Trauma Warren Steele University of Glasgow Strange Fruit: Remaking the Iraqi Male at Abu Ghraib Prison Patrice Delevante Simmons College Seen and not Heard: The Look of Violence, Race, and Masculinity in Southern Lynching and the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal  Chair: Mary Battenfeld, Wheelock College

12:00-1:00 Box Lunch Pick up at 7th Floor Lobby, Glickman Library

1:00-2:30 Session Two

2.1  Women, Crime, and Identity  Room 423/24

Alexandra Campbell University of New England The Judges’ Gaze: Victim Blaming and the (Re)Casting of Gender Elizabeth A De Wolfe University of New England “So old a woman as I am ought to be able to tell when a  woman is pregnant”: Domestic Space and Domestic Knowledge in the Death of Berengera Caswell  Susan McHugh University of New England Native Genocide, Sororicide, or Extinction?  Perspectives on Killing Animals in Linda Hogan’s Power Chair: Cathrine Frank, University of New England

2.2  Mother/Land: Mapping Indigenous Space and Sovereignty in a Non-Reservation Environment  University Events Room, 7th Floor

Lisa Brooks Harvard University Siobhan Senier University of New Hampshire Cheryl Savageau poet  Chair: Sarah Luria, Holy Cross

2.3 Pedagogy Roundtable: Teaching September 11 Room 714

Laura Baker Fitchburg State College Margaret McFadden Colby College

2.4 USM Archives Workshop: Ties that Bind: Family in Maine's African American, Jewish, and Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Communities Room 614

Maureen Elgersman Lee The African American Collection of Maine, Sampson Center, USM Abraham Peck Academic Council for Post-Holocaust Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Studies Scholar-in-Residence, The Judaica Collection, Sampson Center, USM Howard Solomon The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Collection, Sampson Center, USM Chair: Susie R. Bock Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine and Special Collections, Glickman Family Library, USM

2:45-3:15 Poetry Reading: Cheryl Savageau University Events Room, 7th Floor

3:15-4:00 Afternoon Tea 7th Floor Lobby

4:00-6:00 Plenary Session on Sovereignty: Focus on New England Tribes University Events Room, 7th Floor

Day Two: Saturday, September 16

9:00-10:30 Session Three

3.1 Mass Media, Mediated Masses, and U.S. Literary Nationalism Room  714

Brian Sweeney Brown University “Hosts of Rags”: Harper’s, Literary Nationalism, and Melville’s "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids”   Amber Taylor University of Chicago “A Mass of Matter”: Literary Contests and Mass Authorship in Early 20th-Century America   Chair: Augusta Rohrbach, Washington State University

3.2 Racializing Immigration and Terrorism: A Roundtable University Events Room, 7th Floor

Rachel Talbot Ross NAACP, Portland Virginia Marie Rincon Tangovos Beth Stickney Immigrant Legal Advisory Program Chair: Stephen Wessler, Center for Prevention of Hate Violence

3.3   Reading Persepolis in Maine Room 423/24

Melinda Plastas Bates College      and Lisa Botshon University of Southern Maine Chair: Donna Cassidy, University of Southern Maine

3.4 World War II Room 614

Matt Elliott Emmanuel College “A Grave Sin of Omission”: Struggling Against Silence in Hisaye Yamamoto’s Post-Internment Tales Andrew Darien Salem State College The “Double V” Campaign J. J. Butts Hunter College African-American Writers and the Japanese Question during World War II Chair: Brad Martin, Bryant University

10:45-12:15 Session Four

4.1 Irish Citizenship in the United States      Room 518

Jim Byrne Trinity College, Dublin The Paddy Beyond the Pale: Racial Alchemy and an Irish Experience of American Citizenship Penny Davis-Dublin University of Southern Maine Irish Ethnicity and Maine Politics Dennis Gildea Springfield College Citizens and the Fight: The Language of Class and Power in Newspaper Coverage of an 1857 Prize Fight Chair: Anthony Antonucci, University of Connecticut

4.2  Beyond the Borders       Room 423/24

Kimberly Alexander University of Southern Maine “I no longer felt myself a stranger among them”: Constructing Race and Citizenship in Rebecca Kinsman's Macao 1843-1847   Leslie Eckel Yale University Diplomatic Shock and Awe: Frederick Douglass's Transatlantic Statesmanship Chair: Ronald J. Schmidt, University of Southern Maine

4.3  The Long Reconstruction and the  Hidden Politics of Race       University Events Room, 7th Floor

Ethan Kytle Avery Research Center for African American History “A Brief Moment in the Sun”: Alonzo Jacob Ransier and the Quest for Citizenship in the Reconstruction Era Matthew Brown University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Mis'ry’s Comin’ Aroun’”: The Virtues of Suffering in Edna Ferber’s Show Boat Blain Roberts The Citadel Beauty, Race, and the Second American Reconstruction: The Reign of the Southern  Miss Americas  Chair: Adam Tuchinksky, University of Southern Maine

4.4  Literary Geographies Room 714

Jessie Stickgold-Sarah Brandeis University “We Pay No Attention To What Isn't Real”: Land, Nation, Border in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead Catherine Michna Boston College From Gilded Cage to Pigeoniérre: Race, Sexuality, and Architecture in The Awakening Chair: Alan Isaac, Wesleyan University

12:30-2:00 Lunch with keynote speaker Priscilla Wald Dining Room, Woodbury Campus Center

2:15-3:45 Session Five

5.1  Representing Darkness: Race in the Eighteenth Century University Events Room, 7th Floor

Alisa Marko Iannucci Boston College Transatlantic Race Negotations: Samson Occom and Phillis Wheatley Michael R. LeBlanc University of Massachusetts, Boston Samson Occom: Indian and Christian Victoria Geibel University of Southern Maine “Creating a Likeness”: Joshua Johnson, a Free and Portrait Painter in post-Revolutionary Baltimore Chair: Renee Bergland, Simmons College

5.2  Sex and Citizenship: A Roundtable Room 614

Robyn Hackett University of New Hampshire  Female Dads Eve Raimon University of Southern Maine LGBT Partnership Across State Lines Alan Isaac Wesleyan College LGBT Partnership across National Borders Chair: Melinda Plastas, Bates College

5.3 Adjudicating Blackness Room 423/24

Serena Maurer University of Washington Racialized Citizenship, Criminality, and Borderland Government Adam Tuchinsky University of Southern Maine The Death of Radicalism: Liberalism, the Market, and the Making of Modern Republicanism Chair: Michael Hoberman, Fitchburg State College

5.4  Exclusion    Room 714

Jennifer S. Tuttle University of New England Unsettled Borders and Nervous Bodies: Citizenship and Exclusion in Sui Sin Far’s Chinese California   Christina Gerken Bowling Green State University Denying the Importance of Race: The Neo-Liberal Discourse Surrounding U.S. Immigration Reform, 1995/1996   Chair: Janet Dean, Bryant University

5.5 Health/Medicine and Citizenship     Room 518

Gabriel Mendes Brown University 'Harlem is Nowhere': Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic, 1946-1959 David Harris University of Southern Maine Hypertension  in African Americans: Race  in the Age of Genomic Medicine Alexandria Cornelius-Diallo Florida International University “Our Institutions and Constitutions”: Constructing the American Body during the Mid-Nineteenth Century Chair: Rebecca Herzig, Bates College

4:00-5:30 Session Six

6.1 Terror & Torture     Room 423/24

Renee Bergland Simmons College Invisible Worlds: Cotton Mather, Donald Rumsfeld, and the Genealogy of the Black Sites Troy Urquhart Fort Walton Beach High School Torture in the United States: Torture, Bio-power, and the Culture of Life in Guantanamo Bay   Jennifer Ballengee Towson University Pain and Politics:  The Rhetoric of Torture and the Media Chair: Michael Millner, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

6.2  Popular Entertainment University Events Room, 7th Floor

Phoebe Wolfskill University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana Desegregating Art Historical Discourse: The Multicultural City in the Depression-era Work of Archibald Motley, Jr. and Reginald Marsh Timothy Walsh George Washington University “Ladies Will Kindly Remove their Hats” (and Watch Out for Circus Thugs): Instruction, Admonishment, and the Policing of Public Amusements in Portland, Maine, 1898-1915   Lori Harrison-Kahan Harvard University Blackface, White Negress: Sophie Tucker’s Some of These Days Chair: Laura Saltz, Colby College

6.3  Post-Reconstruction Room 518

Ann S. Holder Harvard University Archival History/Political History: The Social Challenge to Racial Citizenship in Cosmopolitan New Orleans Brandi Hughes Yale University Re-constructing the Union: African America and the Politics of Reconciliation at the 20th and 21st Centuries    Veronica M. Savory Boston University Racial Indigestion: Black Immigrant Identities in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century America Chair: Alisa Iannucci, Boston College

5:45 Cocktail Party (Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center)

Exhibition: Can't Jail the Spirit: Art by Political Prisoner Tom Manning and Others

Sunday, September 17

9:00-11:00  NEASA Council Meeting (Open to All Members) University Events Room, 7th Floor, Glickman Library, USM