Monthly Archives: October 2011

CUNY@ASA: Reflections on the 2011 ASA Conference

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Frances Tran

Two weeks ago I attended the American Studies Association (ASA) conference for the first time. It was also the first conference I attended where I did not have to present a paper. As a second-year student in the English PhD … Continue reading →

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CUNY@ASA: Imagining Class, Occupying CUNY

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Justin Rogers-Cooper

ASA from one perspective: Occupy Wall Street. Last Friday Jesse Schwartz and I attended the Imagining Class panel at ASA, organized by Joseph Entin and Kathy Newman. Andrew Ross, Tera W. Hunter, Shalini Shankar, and Judith Smith were also there. It was … Continue reading →

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Priscilla Wald at the GC, 3-4 November!

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Kandice Chuh

Wald poster

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CUNY@ASA!

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Kandice Chuh

CUNY affiliated faculty and students made a collective splash at ASA in Baltimore this past weekend.  Check this site for upcoming posts about some of the imprint that CUNY made at the meeting, by RAS colleagues who were in attendance … Continue reading →

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Intersectional Solidarities

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Kandice Chuh

Thought this might be of interest to the RevAmStudies group — a thoughtful take on the work to be done to craft solidarities across substantial differences: http://blog.fedcan.ca/2011/10/18/developing-intersectional-solidarities-a-plea-for-queer-intersectionality/#more-1969

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CUNY@ASA

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Kandice Chuh

Hey, CUNY-folks, if you’re going to ASA in Baltimore, come meet up with other CUNY-folks at the ASA President’s reception following her address: 9:30 PM – 10:30 (Co-Sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University Press) Hilton Baltimore Key Ballroom 07! See … Continue reading →

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Opening Remarks for Leti Volpp Seminar

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Cambridge Ridley Lynch

Dear all, I hope you found Friday’s events as interesting as I did–between the two papers we discussed at 12:30 pm (“‘Obnoxious To Their Very Nature’: Asian Americans and Constitutional Citizenship” and “The Citizen and the Terrorist”) and Professor Volpp’s … Continue reading →

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Leti Volpp is coming!

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Kandice Chuh

  Please come join us for two events featuring Professor Leti Volpp.  First, from 12:30-1p on Friday, 14 October, Professor Volpp will be participating in the Graduate Center’s Center for the Humanities Revolutionizing American Studies seminar series.  For information and … Continue reading →

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