KEYNOTE SPEAKERS FOR 2018 MLE CONFERENCE
Amy Kaplan (University of Pennsylvania)
Amy Kaplan is working in the interdisciplinary field of American studies, her scholarship and teaching focusing on the culture of imperialism, comparative perspectives on the Americas, prison writing, the American novel, and mourning, memory and war. A past president of the American Studies Association, Kaplan received her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, with a specialty in late-nineteenth-century American literature. Her first book was The Social Construction of American Realism (U Chicago P, 1988). She co-edited, with Donald Pease, Cultures of U. S. Imperialism (Duke, 1993). In her book The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (Harvard UP 2002) Kaplan shows how imperial expansion abroad—from the US-Mexico War of 1848 to the First World War—profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home. She has received an NEH Fellowship and the Norman Forster prize for the best essay in American Literature in 1998 for “Manifest Domesticity.” A wide-ranging critic of contemporary American culture and policy, Kaplan has published essays on the place of Guantanamo Bay in American history, the discourse of “homeland security” in response to 9/11, analogies between the American and Roman Empires, academic life in Palestine in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, as well as articles on Mark Twain and Herman Melville. She is currently writing a cultural history of American representations of Israel.
Amy Kaplan’s speech at MLE will be: Invincible Victim: Representations of Israel in US Culture
Alan Taylor (University of Virginia) Alan Taylor was born in Portland, Maine on June 17, 1955, Alan Taylor attended Colby College, graduating in 1977. After serving as a researcher for historic preservation in the United States Virgin Islands (1977-79), he pursued graduate study at Brandeis University, receiving his Ph.D in American History in 1986. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Virginia), he taught in the history department at Boston University from 1987 to 1994. From 1994 to 2014 he was a professor at the University of California at Davis, since 2014 he has held the Thomas Jefferson Chair in American History at the University of Virginia. In 2002 he won the University of California at Davis Award for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement and the Phi Beta Kappa, Northern California Association, Teaching Excellence Award. In 2016 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As an awarded author of numerous books he has, for example, won the Pulitzer Prize for American History twice, for both The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (New York: W. W. Norton Co., 2013) and for William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early Republic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996).
Alan Taylor’s speech at MLE will be: Thomas Jefferson’s Education
Grame Wynn (University of British Columbia)
Graeme Wynn (PhD) is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia and an author of several monographs and edited volumes. He is the general editor of Nature/History/Society book series for UBS Press and editor of BC Studies and a former co-editor of Journal of Historical Geography. Professor Wynn is also fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and received Massey Medal of Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2012. His publications include Timber Colony: A Historical Geography of Early Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick (1980); Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History (2006), and Home Truths: Highlights from BC History with Richard Mackie (2012).
Graeme Wynn’s speech at MLE will be: Ideas, Ideals, and Ideologies: Maps of Canadian Nature
PANELS
PANEL: “The Fierce Urgency of Now”: The Long Civil Rights Movement in Popular Memory and Public History
by Francoise Hamlin (Brown University), Patrick Miller (Northeastern Illinois University); & Elliott Gorn (Loyola University)
This session embraces diverse perspectives on how the past informs the present. Instructively, the title quote is attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr. during the classic years of the Civil Rights Movement, but that phrase was taken up on several occasions fully fifty years later by Barack Obama in presidential laments and eulogies. Our respective projects speak to the significance of ‘civic remembering’: specifically the politics linking popular memory and public history. The papers of the panel are: Gorn: “Forgetting Emmett. Then Remembering Him”; Hamlin: “Remembering Anne Moody and Coming of Age in Mississippi”; and Miller: “From Charleston to Charlottesville: Race and the Politics of Popular Memory.”
PANEL: Fascism Comes to the US: Three Fictional Renderings of the Rise of American Nazism
by Bent Sørensen (Aalborg University); Howard Sklar (University of Helsinki); & Bo Pettersson (University of Helsinki)
The questions of “what-if” and “what-might-have-been” hold particular fascination for people in all places and times. This is perhaps especially true in connection with periods of tremendous danger and trauma, as occurred during the 1930s and 1940s, when German Nazism gained ascendance. What if Hitler had won? What if the Nazi ideology had found a stronger foothold in the United States?
This panel explores these questions through the prism of three fictional alternative “histories,” by Sinclair Lewis, Philip K. Dick, and Philip Roth, respectively. Each of these novels, despite their reassuring status as “fictions,” hew close enough to historical and/or autobiographical truth to lend the works the semblance of plausibility. In this sense, they serve as vehicles for commenting on nationalism, ideology, race, religion, and other significant issues. Equally importantly, as each presenter will demonstrate, they provide a prescient commentary on the divisive and volatile political and social climate of present-day America.
PANEL: Mutatis Mutandis?: Honor Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century South
by Anna Koivusalo (University of Helsinki); Lawrence T. McDonnell (Iowa State University); & Sarah E. Gardner (Mercer University)
This panel explores honor’s contours in the American South during the mid-nineteenth century. Anna Koivusalo examines a duel that never took place, noting the ways in which fluency in the language of honor could stave off physical violence while simultaneously safeguarding the eloquent wordsmith’s reputation. Lawrence McDonnell then turns to competing status systems ascendant at mid-century that threatened to pervert – if not overturn – honor’s code of ethics. Sarah Gardner concludes the panel by examining the ways in which the Civil War’s carnage, contingencies, and destruction undercut Confederates’ faith in honor to stabilize and order a society destroyed.
PANEL: The United States and Finland: Managing Identities and Membership in Racially Complex Societies
by Paul Spickard; Rana Razek; & Jasmine Kelekay (University of California, Santa Barbara)
The United States has long been known as a racially complex society, with large percentages of its population coming from every continent and country around the world. Indeed, many would argue that the management of racial and ethnic relationships has been the most consistent social and political issue throughout all of United States history. Throughout American history, full membership in society has been powerfully impacted by race. Since a person’s life chances were determined to such a great extent by race, Americans have been at great pains to parse out just what should be the social position of people who possess multiple racial ancestries. That parsing has changed several times over US history, most dramatically in the most recent generation.
Finland, by contrast, has long thought of itself as homogeneous. There were ethnic minorities in Finnish society, to be sure: Sami in the north, a Swedish-speaking population in the southwest, plus some connections with Russia and the other Baltic states. But Finland has until recent decades been able to conceive of itself as a monoethnic state. A title like “True Finn” has both an association with an assumed set of Finnish values and a clear ethnic connotation. By comparison, “True American” might have a slight racial tinge but it speaks mainly to an assertion of a particular set of values.
In recent decades, Finland has become much less monoethnic. Migrants have come from other parts of Europe, from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and elsewhere in large enough numbers to have a substantial impact on the popular consciousness. Many have children born as Finnish citizens, but who do not perhaps experience full social membership in Finnish society. More than a few have made families with ethnic Finns, adding a dimension of racial complexity to their identities. So parts of the experience that the United States has had for centuries are now coming to Finland.
The papers in this session offer perspectives on these issues. Two of them talk about issues such as racial identity, racial multiplicity, racial positioning, and indeed racial change in the United States. One brings this mode of analysis to Finnish society, and examines racial identity, multiplicity, and belonging in multiracial Finland, specifically as a reflection of themes and issues generated in the American context.
PANEL: Presidential Politics, Clashing Ideologies, and the Future of the Two-Party System in the United States
by James Henson (University of Texas); Jerry Pubantz (University of North Carolina); & chaired by John Moore (California State Polytechnic University)
The late eminent political scientist Austin Ranney once entitled an article “Political Parties and Article VIII of the Constitution.” Of course, there is no Article VIII in the US Constitution. Ranney, however, argued that the two-party system was essential to make the Constitution’s adversatively balanced arrangement work. For him, provision for two parties was equivalent to a necessary additional Article to the founding document. Yet recently, some scholars have noted that presidential campaigns—and now a presidency—have increasingly been “candidate-centered,” not “party-centered.” Have prevailing politics made Ranney’s insistence an inadequate premise for our time? What is the future of the U.S. two party system? This panel, bringing together a diverse group of scholars, will probe these and related questions. In the event, the panel should dovetail harmoniously with the overall theme of the 17th Maple Leaf & Eagle Conference: “Ideas, Ideals, and Ideologies.”
PANEL: Cold War Neighbors: North American Ideals and Visions of the Soviet Menace
by Lauren Turek (Trinity University, TX); Susan Colbourn (University of Toronto); & Simon Miles (Duke University)
During the Cold War, the United States and Canada worked together to promote a global order conducive to their shared ideals of peace, order, and liberty. Collaborative efforts to confront Soviet communism and decrease Cold War tensions emerged both at the grassroots level through cross-border citizen activism and at the highest diplomatic levels through cooperative state relations. Despite the significance of this relationship, these joint efforts remain underexplored in the scholarly literature. This panel will consider several key moments of Cold War collaboration between the United States and Canada (or U.S. and Canadian citizens) in order to explain how core national values, ideologies, and visions for the future influenced international politics. Turek will examine Christian human rights activism targeting Soviet religious persecution during the 1970s as part of a larger effort to compel Soviet compliance with international norms. Colbourn will explore how Canadian and U.S. citizens worked to reduce tensions between the superpowers and thus reduce the threat of nuclear war in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Miles will discuss U.S. and Canadian efforts to improve relations between the superpowers during the Reagan administration.
PANEL: Peace With Honor? Nation-Building and Human Rights in the Twilight of American Empire
by Sheyda Jahanbani (University of Kansas); Sarah B. Snyder (American University); Vanessa Walker (Amherst College), and Chair Elliott Gorn (Loyola University Chicago)
Over the past decade, scholars of US foreign relations have directed new attention to the size and scope of the US’s “soft power” arsenal in the years after World War II. Seeking to engage more fully with the breadth and depth of America’s postwar empire, historians of the US & the world have focused on development/nation-building and human rights promotion as among the most significant “soft power” activities, both for the US and the rest of the world. This panel brings together three of these scholars to reconsider the shifting sands under US “soft power” in the years in which the US’s postwar hegemony began to wane. How did challenges to American power transform the state’s “soft power” activities? How did these challenges reshape political activities and networks in the US and abroad? Attending to the ideas that undergirded discourses of nation-building and human rights promotion in American social and political thought, as well as to the manifestations of these changes in domestic and foreign policy, these papers present a new paradigm for thinking about the US and the world in the twilight of empire.
PANEL “Words Can Change”: Identities, Ideology, Boundaries, and Revision in the Writing of Louise Erdrich
by John Moe (Ohio State University); Tina Parke-Sutherland (Stephens College); Mark Shackleton (University of Helsinki) and chairing by John Moe
The so-called Native American Renaissance began in the late 1960’s and continued on for two decades, at which point the reading public began to expect even more writers to appear. Beginning with the 1969 Pulitzer Award winning House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momday, published in 1968, followed with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, published in 1977, and Silko’s national recognition as an important writer in receiving the MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1981, many Native American writers have emerged. Among those writers, Louise Erdrich received many honors including the National Book Award for Fiction (The Round House) and has emerged as perhaps the most widely read Native American writer.
The scope of many writers shrink beside Erdrich’s growing library of marvelous novels. Louise Erdrich began her writing career with Love Medicine in 1984. This panel will address three areas of concern in Erdrich’s writing: first, what has become known as the “justice triology”, the novels: The Plague of Doves (2008), The Round House (2012), and LaRose (2016); secondly, Erdrich’s penchant for revision of earlier texts, primarily the novel entitled Antelope Woman (2016), earlier known in two versions as Antelope Wife (1998 and 2012) and thirdly, Erdrich’s concern for tribal, nation, boundaries and borders that yield information concerning Native American legal standing within the American legal system. Erdrich herself notes about revision, “After all, a book is a temporary fix on the world, a set of words, and words can change.” (Erdrich, 2016)
Each of the panelists address, in one way or another, the timeless questions of Native American, or First Nation, identity, legal dual-ness, the dual identity paradigm, journey, and the complex historical American experience. The dominant tropes within Louise Erdrich’s fiction have been and continue to be; justice and reconciliation for Native American peoples, the nature of geographical and legal boundaries, and fundamental biological identification by blood, mixed blood, and family/clan identity. Louise Erdrich addresses these questions and, over time, articulates the constant revision of the Native American position in North American society. The panel will include an opportunity for audience participation on the entire range of Louise Erdrich’s fiction.
ALL SPEAKERS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Rani-Henrik Andersson, University of Helsinki
Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: A Transnational Study on Indigenous Places and Public Spaces
Wilma Andersson, University of Helsinki
Burial rites, Identity and Acculturation in Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese Daughter and Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men
Mátyás Bánhegyi, Budapest Business School & Judit Nagy, Károli Gáspár University
Ideas and Ideals of Koreanness in Canada: Teaching Materials for the English Classroom
Mike Barthelemy, University of New Mexico
Hidatsa Iruck-pah-goo-ah Ida Awadi – Hidatsa and Mandan geographies: Using Indigenous Topographies to further our Understanding of Indigenous Perspectives in the Historical Narrative
Michel S. Beaulieu, Lakehead University, Canada
“On The Highway of Destiny”? Reconceiving the Lakehead as a Liminal Space
Adela Belly-Scratcher, Manchester Metropolitan University
161 Crew’s American Mission
Jan Björke, University of Tampere
Texas — Part of West or South in Movies and Television Series about Texas Rangers
Mark A. Brandon, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
Aleš Hrdlička and the Boundaries of Whiteness
Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., University of South Carolina
Citizenship and Patriotism: Wendell Berry in the Global Age
Marlene Broemer (Finlandia University, MI)
Sam Shepard (1943-2017): The Legacy of the Ideals of the West
Rachael Cassidy, University of New Mexico
Buried History: Reclaiming Native Sovereignty in the Nation’s Capital
William H. Chafe, Duke University
Personality and Politics: The Modern American Presidency
Daniel M. Cobb, University of Helsinki
“Long Time Gone?”: The Poor People’s Campaign Turns Fifty
Thomas Cobb, University of Birmingham
Decade of Disarray: Hollywood allegories of US foreign policy, 1999-2009
Susan Colbourn, University of Toronto
Creating Détente From Below: Canadian and US Citizen Diplomacy in the Late Cold War
Margaret Connell-Szasz, University of New Mexico
The Tribal Nation College: An Idea Rooted in the Tradition of Storytelling
Boyd Cothran, York University
Spreading Freedom Around the World: Discourses of Economic and Political Liberalism in the United States in 1873
Sean Dinces, Long Beach City College, California
Cookies, Capital, and Labor on Chicago’s South Side: A Case Study in Urban American Employment Policy since 1980
Jie Feng, Freie Universität Berlin
Memory, Amnesia, and Diasporic Revelations: The Melodramatic Memory of 1989 in Yiyun Li’s Novel Kinder Than Solitude
Frédérick Gagnon, University of Québec, Montreal
“I Love Canada”: Pessimistic and Optimistic Scenarios for Canada-U.S. Relations in Donald Trump’s Time
Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University
“What Like a Bullet Can Undeceive?”: Honor’s Failings in the Wartime Confederacy
Sasha Gora, University of Munich
Seal: Food, Ideology and Indigenous Sovereignty
Elliott Gorn, Loyola University
Forgetting Emmett. Then Remembering Him
Constante González Groba, University of Santiago
Making Black Lives Matter: Keeping the Memory of Emmett Till Alive in Southern Autobiography
Cheryl Greenberg, Trinity College in Hartford, CT
Teaching the Civil Rights Movement in the Age of Trump
Christian Gunkel, University of Tübingen
Eco-Capitalism: A Short Cut to Sustainability or just a Band-Aid Solution?
Jonathan C. Hagel, University of Kansas
“Man’s Most Dangerous Myth”: The Global Fight Against Fascism and the Origins of Modern Antiracist Ideology
Françoise N. Hamlin, Brown University
Remembering Anne Moody and Coming of Age in Mississippi
Mihaela Harper, Bilkent University
The Mechanics of American Guilt: The Leftovers and the Impasse of Contemporary Life
Michael Hawes (See the joint paper with Kirkey.)
Niko Heikkilä, University of Turku
Ideology and Race in the Cultural Politics of the Civil Rights-Era Klan
James Henson, University of Texas
Conservative Ideology in the U.S. at the Intersection of the Tea Party and Donald Trump: Some Evidence from Texas
Mark D. Hersey, Mississippi State University
The Ecology of Segregation: Race and the Southern Landscape in the New Deal Era
Maria Holmgren Troy, Karlstad University
Adapting Ideologies: Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital and Matt Reeves’s Let Me In
Hanna Honkamäkilä, University of Oulu
How the United States influenced the development of the Finnish higher education system: The founding of the University of Oulu in 1958
Reetta Humalajoki, JMC, University of Turku
Lifting the ‘Buckskin Curtain’: Native Intellectual Writing in the U.S. and Canada in 1969
Sheyda Jahanbani, University of Kansas
“New Directions:” Nation-Building After Vietnam
Clara Juncker, University of Southern Denmark
Inhabiting Fantasyland: J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy (2016)
Pasi J. Kallio, University of Helsinki
The Eagle of Minerva Flies Only at Dusk? Classic U.S. (Idea of) History Meets the Conundrum of History
Amy Kaplan (See Keynotes.)
Saara Kekki, University of Helsinki
New and Old Networks at Heart Mountain: Applying Historical Network Analysis to Japanese American Incarceration during World War II
Jasmine Kelekay, University of California, Santa Barbara
Who Gets to be Finnish? Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Afro-Finnish Hip Hop
Jenna Kirker, McMaster University
“Ferocious Women”: Questions of gender, ethnicity and race surrounding the 1909 Freight Handler’s Strike
Christopher Kirkey, State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh & Michael Hawes, Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the USA (Fulbright Canada)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Directions in Canadian Foreign Policy: Historical Forces and Current Trends
Anna Koivusalo, University of Helsinki
Humiliating Attack and Gentlemanly Riposte: Safeguarding a Reputation with Honorable Emotional Expression in the Nineteenth-Century South
Pekka Kolehmainen, University of Turku
“Not a high form of patriotism, but there is in the coltishness something very American:” Ideas of Rock in Defining “Americanness” in the National Review during the 1980s
Tuula Kolehmainen, University of Helsinki
Narrating Disability, Narrating Ideology: Toni Cade Bambara’s Short Fiction
Anna-Leena Korpijärvi, University of Helsinki
Bitter Tea on the Shanghai Express: Race, religion and womanhood in the films The Bitter Tea of General Yen and Shanghai Express
Peter V. Krats, University of Western Ontario
Northern Barrens, Treasure Chests, Resource Wastelands and Environmental Successes: Changing Ideologies of Staples and Nature in the Keweenaw, Michigan and Sudbury, Ontario regions
Jeanine E. Kraybill, California State University, Bakersfield
Tweeting Congressional-Executive Relations: A Case Study of President Trump and the Healthcare Debate
Parker Krieg, University of Helsinki
Networks beyond Extraction: The Aesthetics of Peripheral Oil Industries
Roman Kushnir, University of Jyväskylä
Music in Constructing Transcultural Finnish American Identities in a Selection of Finnish American Fiction
Elise Lemire, Purchase College, NY
Maurice Richard, the Quiet Revolution, and the Symbol of the Maple Leaf in “Le Chandail de Hockey”
Chang Liu, Heidelberg University
Between Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism: On American Media’s Beijing APEC Blue Narrative
Brian Lloyd, University of California, Riverside
Gary Snyder, the Great Subculture, and the 1960s
Elizabeth McCallion, Queen’s University
Towards a Gender Equal Senate
Lawrence T. McDonnell, Iowa State University
The Scoundrel in the Wax Museum: Honor, Celebrity, and Crime in Antebellum America
Jeffrey L. Meikle, University of Texas at Austin
Virtual Identities and Ideologies: Laurie Anderson’s United States I-IV
Simon Miles, Duke University
The War Scare That Wasn’t: Able Archer 83 and the Myths of the Second Cold War.
Patrick B. Miller, Northeastern Illinois University
From Charleston to Charlottesville: Race and the Politics of Popular Memory
John F. Moe, Ohio State University
Contemporary Ideologies of American Indian Identity, Dual Identity, Spanning Boundaries, and a Sense of Belonging: Literary and Historic Judgment in the Writing of Louise Erdrich
John Allphin Moore, Jr., California State Polytechnic University
James Madison, David Hume, and Modern Political Parties
Barbara Mossberg, University of Oregon
The Origin of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Yosemite Grant: The Underestimated Role of Poetry
Kaveh Mowahed, University of New Mexico
Insanity in Late Territorial New Mexico
Judit Nagy (See for the joint paper, Bánhegyi)
Roger L. Nichols, University of Arizona
The Wild West and Tourism
Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, University of Oulu
Isolationism or help to Finland as Congressman Francis H. Case’s Dilemma
Marc-William Palen, University of Exeter
American Anti-Imperialism and Economic Liberalism, 1846-1921
Tina Parke-Sutherland, Stephens College, Missouri
Beadworking the Page: Louise Erdrich and The Antelope Wife
Bo Pettersson, University of Helsinki
The Problems with Liberalism: J. S. Mill, Sinclair Lewis, Timothy Snyder
Andrew J. Ploeg, Bilkent University
Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and the Legacy of John Brown
Małgorzata Poks, University of Silesia
The Non-Human Damné and the Colonial Paradigm of War
Jerry Pubantz, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The Preeminence of the Rural/Urban Divide in Contemporary U.S. National and State Elections
Mona Raeisian, Philipps Universität Marburg
(De)-constructing Bodies: Ideology and Representation of the Human Body in American Serial Killer Fiction
Rana Razek, University of California, Santa Barbara
Between Arab and Black: Zammouri, Race, and Arab American Identity
Josh Reid, University of Washington
Indigenous Activism in the Era of Standing Rock: The Limits of Liberty
Markku Ruotsila, University of Helsinki
Trump and the Christian Right: The Political Theology Behind the Mutual Attraction
Luana Salvarani, University of Parma
“Rushing up to a giant manhood”: Educational Roots of American Exceptionalism
James Schwoch, Northwestern University
So Proudly We Hailed: Imagined Communities, Patriotism, and American Weather Forecasting
Mark Shackleton, University of Helsinki
Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy: Can Old Wounds be Healed, Can Justice Be Found?
Sherri Sheu, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Ghastly Relics of a Merciless Slaughter”: Visualizing Extinction at the 1888 Ohio Valley Exposition
Howard Sklar, University of Helsinki
Memoir as Counter-Narrative: Re-imagining the Self in Roth’s The Plot Against America
Hanna Smyth, University of Oxford
“Here Canada has poured forth her soul”: Canadian and American First World War graves as negotiations of identity
Sarah B. Snyder, American University
Pistolas de la Paz: Challenging Ideas about U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1960s
Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara
Shape Shifters: A Theory of Racial Change
Scott Manning Stevens, Syracuse University
Indigenous Travel as Activism
Inna Sukhenko, University of Helsinki
Nuclear Narrative within the North American Literary Energy Studies: From “Nuclear” Interviews to Nuclear Soft Diplomacy
Bent Sørensen, Aalborg University
Ideologies and Realities in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle (1963)
Alan Taylor (See Keynotes.)
Lauren F. Turek, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
To Free Georgi Vins: U.S.-Canadian Baptists and the Fight for International Religious Liberty
Vanessa Walker, Amherst College
Normalization and Human Rights: The Curious Case of Carter and Cuba
Jane Weiss, Kingsborough Community College of CUNY
“Oughtn’t We To Think About People?” Nineteenth-Century American Domestic Fiction and Reformist Ideals
Mimi White, Northwestern University
“Living the American Ideal in Made-for-Hallmark Movies”
Oscar Winberg, Åbo Akademi University
Family Viewing Hour: The Fights over Censorship of Television Entertainment in the 1970s
Allan M. Winkler, Miami University, Ohio
American Folksongs: A Reflection of American Culture (musical performance)
Greame Wynn (See Keynotes.)
Wenjun Yang, University of Kansas
“Sweet” Odor: History of Manure in Kansas (1870-1920)
WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS
- University of Helsinki (University Management, Department of Cultures, PYAM/PSRC Doctoral Program)
- Finnish National Agency for Education, GSA Program
- TSV, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
- Embassy of Canada to Finland | Ambassade du Canada en Finlande
- Fulbright Finland Foundation
- NACS, Nordic Association for Canadian Studies
