Mon, June 4 |
9:00-9:30 |
Registration |
9:30-9:45 |
Welcome and opening |
| 9:45-11:15 |
Chair: John Wong |
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Evelyn Hu-DeHart:
Spanish Manila during the Late Ming: America's First Chinatown |
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James R. Fichter:
Anglo-American Whaling in St. Helena Archives: An Agenda for an Oceanic History |
~ Coffee Break ~ |
| 11:30-13:00 |
Chair: Julia Kuehn |
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Kendall Johnson:
Faith, Commerce and Reverend David Abeel's Global Geographic Imagination: Mapping "South-eastern Asia" in Journal of a Residence in China, and the Neighboring Countries, from 1829 to 1833 (1834) |
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Tomoko Akami:
What did sea mean for the Pacific Community? The idea of freedom of sea and imperial sea sovereignty in the 1920s |
| ~ Lunch ~ |
| 14:15-15:45 |
Chair: Gina Marchetti |
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John Carlos Rowe:
Transpacific Studies and the Cultures of U.S. Imperialism |
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Craig Santos Perez:
From Unincorporated Territory: Colonialism, Militarization, Tourism, and Indigeneity in the Archive of Chamorro Literature |
~ Coffee Break ~ |
| 16:00-17:30 |
Chair: Louise Edwards |
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Susan Y. Najita:
Land, History and the Law: Constituting the “Public” through Environmentalism and Annexation |
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Corey M. Johnson:
American Empire as a Postcolonial Phenomenon |
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Tue, June 5 |
| 9:30-11:00 |
Chair: Elaine Ho |
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Rob Wilson:
Oceania as Peril and Promise: Towards Theorizing a Worlded Vision of Trans-Pacific Ecopoetics |
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Elizabeth DeLoughrey:
Floating Words and Other Transoceanic Worldings |
~ Coffee Break ~ |
| 11:15-12:45 |
Chair: Tim Gruenewald |
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April Henderson:
The ‘I’ and the ‘We’: Imagining Samoan hip hop futures |
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Otto Heim:
Recalling Oceanic Communities: The Transnational Theater of John Kneubuhl and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl |
~ Lunch ~ |
| 14:15-15:45 |
Chair: Q.S. Tong |
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Rafael Pérez-Torres:
Latina/o Identities and Transnational Navigation |
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Yuan Shu:
The Transpacific Imagination: Chinese American Epistemology and the Art of Intervention in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Fifth Book of Peace |
~ Coffee Break ~ |
| 16:00-17:30 |
Chair: Page Richards |
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Just Memory: The Afterlife of War |
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Wai Chee Dimock:
Falling Bodies: Baghdad, Dresden, New York City |
~ Conference dinner (19:30) ~ |
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Wed, June 6 |
| 9:00-9:45 |
Chair: Selina Lai |
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin:
Transnational American Studies: Next Steps |
| 9:45-10:30 |
Chair: Douglas Kerr |
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Elizabeth Marchant:
Cultural Identity and Transnationalism in the Lusophone World |
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Brandy Nālani McDougall:
Genealogy, Colonial Entitlement, and the Politics of Translation of the Kumulipo |
10:30 |
Closing remarks by Walter Mignolo |
