An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Organized by the Alliance of History Graduate Students
Schedule
Friday, February 14, 2014
Keynote Panel: Framing Racial Formation, Racial Blindness, 6:00-7:30PM | UW-Milwaukee Student Union, Fireside Lounge
Moderated by Robert S. Smith, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Cultures & Communities Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Paul Street: A journalist, author, historian, and commentator, Street is a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society and holds a PhD in U.S. History from Binghamton University. He has worked as a senior staff person at the Chicago Urban League and is the author of five books.
Heather Ann Thompson, An Associate Professor in History and African American Studies at Temple University, Thompson’s research focuses on crime, punishment, and prison activism during the 1960s and 70s. She is currently finishing a comprehensive history of the 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion and its legacy.
Chia Youyee Vang, An Assistant Professor in History at UW-Milwaukee, Vang’s research explores 20th century U.S.-Asia relations, Asian American history, refugee migration, and transnational and diaspora communities. She is the author of Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
8:00AM-9:00AM
Registration and Breakfast.
UW-Milwaukee Student Union, Fireside Lounge.
9:00-10:30AM
Film: Control: The Impact of Runaway Prison Expansion on Youth
9:00-10:30AM
Panel: Communities and Kinship in Indigenous America
Location: Lubar S165
Chair: Jennifer Picard
“A Different Kind of Race: How Native Racial Practice Affected Kinshipin the Old Northwest,” Alexis Smith, UW-Milwaukee
“Wisconsin’s Cheyenne Valley: An Analysis of the Rise and Fall of a 19th-20th Century Tri-Racial Community,” Michele Felski-Smith, UW-Milwaukee
“Some Observations Regarding Mixed-Blood Ojibwe Mentioned in Historical Documents 1830s to 1850s,” Linda Bryan, Independent Researcher
10:45-12:15PM
Panel 2A: Transnational Movement: Immigrant Communities, Identities and Economies
Location: Lubar S165
Chair: Kristin M Sziarto, UW-Milwaukee
“The Relationship between Race, Labor, and Immigration among Haitians in the Bahamas,” Charmane Perry, UW-Milwaukee
“An Unexpected Journey: Arabs in Cedar Rapids, 1890s-Present.” Hannah Werner, Marquette University
“’Mostly of Spanish Extraction’: Migration, Citizenship, and Racial Formation in Puerto Rican Chicago, 1946-1965,” Michael Staudenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:45-12:15PM
Panel 2B: Race, Education, and the City
Location: TBA
Chair: Daniel McClure, UW-Milwaukee
“Transformative Chicago: Urban Race Relations in the Pre and Postwar Periods.” Nicholas Cress, Illinois State University
“A Necessary Safeguard: The Latino Strategy to Create and Expand Bilingual Bicultural Education in Milwaukee, 1969-1979,” Louis Mercer, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Latinos Vagos: the origins of Latino Milwaukee,” Antonio Ramirez, University of Michigan
12:15-1:15PM
Lunch and Community Panel featuring Emilio DeTorre, ACLU of Wisconsin
Location: Student Union, Fireside Lounge
1:30-3:00PM
Panel 3A: Culturally Representing Race
Location: TBA
Chair: Christine Evans, UW-Milwaukee
“Cinematic Depictions of Hmong-Americans,” Lucas Wolff, UW-Milwaukee
“Kung Fu Cinema and American Society: Generational Traits and Reception of Outsiders,” Richard Lartz, UW-Milwaukee
“Sylvia Plath’s Poetic Reclamation of Civil Rights for African-Americans, Julia Gordon-Bramer, Lindenwood University
1:30-3:00PM
Panel 3B: Whiteness and the Stakes of Racialized Space
Location: TBA
Chair: John Terry, UW-Milwaukee
“Imagining a “Real” Milwaukee: Germanness and Racializing the Pabst Brewery,” Joe Walzer, UW-Milwaukee
“Strategic Resistance: John C. Stennis, Brown v. Board, and the Battle to Preserve White Supremacy,” Jesse Curtis, Kent State University
“Were They Segregationists or Working-Class White Women?: The Mothers’ League of Central High School and the Issue of Black Womanhood,” Misti Nicole Harper, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
3:15-4:45PM
Panel 4A: Drawing the Color Line: The State and Race
Location: TBA
Chair: Monique Liston
“The Origins of Binary Racism and Slavery in Virginia” Abe Schreier, Ball State University
“Political Exigencies, Anti-Drug Statecraft, and the Carceral Consequences of Legislating Wisconsin’s War on Drugs,” Will Tchakirides, UW-Milwaukee
“Not So Docile After All: How Native American Girls and Women Challenged the Indian Boarding School System 1879-1934 with Everyday Acts of Resistance,” Katie Witz, UW-Milwaukee
3:15-4:45PM
Panel 4B: Those Left Outside: Law, Gender, Activism
Location: TBA
Chair: Aims Guinness
“¡Latin Power to Latin People!” Mike Gonzales, UW-Milwaukee
“The Others: Legal Case Studies on Race, Immigration and Status in American Society,” Naquitta Kemper, Pima Community College
“The Evolution of African American Women throughout the Nation’s History,” Raven J. Crowder, University of Houston-Victoria
4:45-5:00 PM: Closing Remarks
Location: Student Union, Fireside Lounge
