American Studies

American Studies Spring 2024 Conference – Twice Told Tales: May 3, 2024, at the Women’s Faculty Club, Lucy Ward Stebbins Lounge

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9:30 AM  Coffee and Informal Welcome

10:00 Steven Lee (English) / “Cold War Subcultures: Viktor Tsoi and William Gibson’s Cyberpunk International”

10:40 Christian Paiz (Ethnic Studies) / “Walking with the comrades: a five year public history project on the UFW Movement”

11:20 Louise Mozingo (Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning) / “From Persuasive Generosity to Expendable Commodity: The Future of the Modernist Corporate Estate”

Noon-2:00 Break

2:00 PM Alec Stewart (Architecture) / “Meet Me at the Swap Meet”: Asian American Commerce and the Emergence of West Coast Hip Hop”

2:40 Laurie Wilkie (Anthropology) / Title TBD

3:20 Andrew Shanken (Architecture) / “The Work of Memorials”

4:00 Adjourn