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Thursday morning

1.1 Room H Liminal Sites: The University of Anthony Spatialization of Difference California at USA Marasco in a Trans-Atlantic Context Berkeley The Ghetto: The Ghetto of Shaul Bassi Venice: From Shylock to University of Venice Italy Lubavitch The Villa: Jefferson's Villa at Monticello: An Emblem of the University of Spatialization of Difference Anthony Marasco California at USA Leading to the Waging of a Civil Berkeley War and the Drawing of a Color Line in America The City: Atlantic Crossings and Franca Bernabei (Post)-Metropolitan Transitions in University of Venice Italy Carribean Diasporic Fiction The Village: Writing Spaces: Marina Cacioppo Oxford University GB Italian Americans Writing Home

1.2 Room F University of Monika Müller (Cross)Blood Memories Germany Cologne Heather Leigh Theodore Roethke's German Georgia State USA Johnson Roots University August Wilson and James McBride: Two Tales of Euro-Afro Norfolk State Harriet Masembe USA Identity among African- University Americans Race as (Cultural) Alterity?: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle University of Monika Müller Germany Tom's Cabin and Dred and Cologne George Eliot's Daniel Deronda Ethnicity as Palimpsest in Mylene University of South David Cowart USA Dressler's The Deadwood Beetle Carolina The Dark Legacy of "Bad Blood": ; Martha Montello European-American Connections USA University of Kansas through Science and Blues Lyrics

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1.3 Room C Speaking Sites: University of New Monica Chiu USA Translingualisms Hampshire "my words will always come out like home": Privileging Non- University of Alicia Otano Spain standard English in Multiethnic Navarre Novels Trans -Memory and Diaspora: Agnieszka University of Memories of Europe and Asia in Bedingfield Warsaw American Immigrant Narratives Cortes's Legacy: The Politics and Kent State Martha Cutter Poetics of Voice in Chicano/a USA University Literature Mary Antin, Eva Hoffman, and Maria Lauret University of Sussex GB Multilingual America Mapping a "Gaelachas" Sensibility: Mr. Dooley's University College James Byrne Dialect(ic) as Delineation and Ireland Cork Creation of an Irish-American Community

1.4 Room E “New Breeds for Old Places”: Fairfield Gita Rajan USA Postcolonialism (1) University L'Abbandono: Who's (Whose) Laura Harris Meticcio in the Eritrea Italy Pitzer College USA Diaspora? Comparative Multiculturalisms: Babes-Bolyai Michaela Mudure Romania USA and Romania University Structuring Race and Subjectivity Gita Rajan in the National Imaginary: Fairfield University USA Divakaruni and Sayal The Inadequacy of the Hyphenated Asian Ethnic Wilfrid Laurie r Eleanor Ty Signifier: Reading Asian North Canada University American and European Ethnic Narratives as Global Narratives

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Ethnic and Cultural Border Sites: Begona Simal A Holographic Approach to Zadie University of La Spain Gonzales Smith and Helena María Coruña Viramontes

1.5 Room D University of Elisabetta (Re)imagining the Homeland Rome, Tor Italy Marino (1) Vergata Representations of Di Alte Heym Edward Merwin (The Old Country) in American Dickinson College USA Yiddish Drama Herman, the Cheruscan and the Winfried Herget Search for Symbols of German- University of Mainz Germany American Ethnicity Remembering Diaspora through University of Central Alan Rice GB Gravesites, Memorials and Lancashire Angela Leonard USA Performance Loyola University Memory as a Site of Abjection: University of Reshmi Dutt Interrogating What is Lost in Lost USA Minnesota in Translation and FaultLines When Globalization Goes Local: Lene Johannessen University of Bergen Norway Creating New Homes

1.6 Room G Disillusionment and University of Roy Goldblatt Finland Resignation Joensuu University of Roy Goldblatt Doctrines of Resignation Finland Joensuu Dilemma in the Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity and Culture in Timothy Seiwoong Oh Mo's Sweet Rider University USA Sour and Gish Jen's Typical American Out of Brooklin or Beijing? Cheryl Alexander Comedies of Resignation in David University of Gdansk Poland Malcolm Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly

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Heartsongs/Artsongs: Native Americans in Europe in the Case Western Suzanne Ferguson USA Fiction of James Welch and Leslie Reserve University Marmon Silko

1.7 Room I The Evolving Political Roles Catholic Mark Rozell of Ethnic/Religious Groups in University of USA Modern Democracies America Joel Fetzer, Central Michigan The Political Impact of Islamic USA, University, Immigration in France and Great J. Christopher Pepperdine Britain USA Soper University Varieties of Political Experience: Catholic University Michael Foley, USA, Local Worship Communities and of America, the Political Education of New Catholic University Dean Hoge USA Immigrants of America Comparing and Contrasting Georgetown Clyde Wilcox, USA, Political Attitudes Among White University, and Black Evangelicals in the Catholic University Mark J. Rozell USA United States of America

Thursday afternoon

2.1 Room H Gonul Pultar Circumatlantic Cities Bilkent University Turkey Venice and Vice: European and University of David Caldwell American Narratives from the USA Northern Colorado Birthplace of the Ghetto The Hard-Boiled Pattern as Discursive Practice of Ethnic Konstanze University of Subalternity in Jakob Arjouni's Germany Kutzbach Cologne Happy Birthday, Turk! and Irene Dische's Ein Job "Russian New York", or Russians State University of Elena Apenko Russia in New York? St. Petersburg The Metropolis as Site of Ethnic Identity: Bharati Mukherjee’s Gonul Pultar Bilkent University Turkey New York and Buchi Emecheta’s London

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2.2 Room F Shifting Locations: Rutgers Richard Serrano USA Americans in Paris University The Fortune Teller: Victor Séjour College of William Lynn Weiss USA and the Mortara Affair and Mary African Americans, Jews and Catholic Creoles: A Descendant's University of Rome, Elèna Mortara Italy Response to the Mortara Affair Tor Vergata and Its Literary Representation An American in Paris: Poe's City College of New Carla Cappetti USA "Murders in the Rue Morgue" York - CUNY "You're the Top, You're the Eiffel Richard Serrano Tower": Interracial Gay Couples Rutgers University USA in Baldwin and Ouologuem

2.3 Room C University of Alison Goeller Strangers in a Strange Land Maryland in Germany Europe Doctorates Earned by Black, Southern Asian, and White Women at Kul Rai Connecticut State USA American and British Universities: University A Comparison Local Multi-Faced European Ethnicity in the United States: Norma Hervey Luther College USA 20th Century Celebrations and Challenges in Iowa Dorothea Making Strange in Tourism: Center for Literary Germany Löbbermann Europeans in Harlem Studies, Berlin Strangers in a Strange Land: Civil University of Alison Goeller Germany Rights and The NAACP in Europe Maryland in Europe Charles Taylor's Communitarism: Martin Fischer Establishing a Francophone University of Mainz Germany Collective Self in Quebec

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2.4 Room E University of Yonka Krasteva (Cross)Blood Interactions Bulgaria Veliko Turnovo Eating the Eurasian Literary Text: Food, Sex, and Trans-Cultural Desire in Fred Wah's Diamond University of British Glenn Deer Canada Grill, Sigrid Nunez's A Feather on Columbia the Breath of God, and Juzo Itami's Tampopo Unnatural Union”: Race and the Northeastern Cassandra Jackson Colonial Past in The Last of the USA University Mohicans Post-ethnic Performativity and Multicultural Ambivalence: Testing the Limits of Borderlands University of Veliko Yonka Krasteva Bulgaria in Gish Jen's Mona in the Turnovo Promised Land and Meera Syal's Anita and Me "Brushing the boots of a colored Martino Marazzi man": Italian Americans and USA African Americans A Chinese Woman Becoming University of Joonok Huh Honorary Irish?: Reading Gish USA Northern Colorado Jen's "Who is Irish?"

2.5 Room D “New Breeds for Old Places”: University of Rocio Davis Spain Postcolonialism (3) Navarra Immigration, Tourism, Consumerism: Shani Mootoo's Grace Kyungwon Cereus Blooms at Night and Princeton University USA Hong Hanif Koureshi's The Buddha of Suburbia Hip, Young, and Exotic?: Northwestern Dorothy Wang Diasporic Writing in San USA University Francisco and London Redefining Conquest in Ana University of País Amaia Ibarraran Spain Castillo's Sapogonia Vasco

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Rosario Ferre's The House on the Lagoon: Puerto Rican Ethnical Rosa Maria Diez University of Leon Spain and National Identities under Construction South Asians in the North American and European Rhode Island Amrit Singh USA Diasphora: Before and After College September 11

2.6 Room G Double Mirrors: American Cathy Covell University of Ethnicities Looking toward Germany Waegner Siegen Europe Claiming Europe: Native University of North Lee Schweninger American Literary Responses to USA Carolina the Old World "What the colour of my skin meant": Tracking the Rhetorical Paths of Thought in the University of Steven Mailloux USA Performance of Racial Identities California, Irvine in Nineteenth-Century America and Europe Laying the Foundations for a Polish-American Identity: Polish University of Danuta Pytlak and American Literary, Cultural Poland Warsaw and Social Inspirations in the Fiction of Helena Stas European Plays and American Ethnics: A Study of the Concept National Taiwan Iping Liang Taiwan of Play in Ishmael Reed and Normal University Gerald Vizenor Looking toward Europe: Refiguring Race, Literary Cynthia Tolentino Vassar College USA Citizenship, and Cold War Culture in America is in the Heart

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2.7 Room I Carleton Priscilla Walton Modernist Borders Canada University Transculturation and the Michael Soto Discourse of American Trinity University USA Modernism Pushing Up Daisies: Ethnicity and Priscilla L. Walton Contamination in Henry James's Carleton University Canada Italy An Unexpected Beginning: T.S. Gabrielle McIntire Cornell University USA Eliot, Race, and the Americas "Foreign to taste, foreign to courtesy, foreign to our Jodie Medd standards of Art": Obscenity and Carleton University USA the Location of European Difference in The Little Review Rita Keresztesi The Concept of "Ethnic University of USA Treat Modernism": A Polemic Oklahoma

Friday morning

3.1 Room H Sighting Ethnicity in Film and SUNY -Stony Fred Gardaphe USA Printing (1) Brook Issues of Ethnic Identity in the Issues of an Ethnic Newspaper. Sandra Rainero The Case of "Il Lavoratore University of Trieste Italy Italiano" in South East Kansas (1904-1928) Reinventing Sicily in Fred Gardaphe Italian/American Literature and SUNY -Stony Brook USA Film America and Its Black Men in Irina Novikova Soviet/Post-Soviet Film University of Latvia Latvia Representations of Manhood PostNegritude Franco-American Mark Reid University of Florida USA Visual Culture: Global Borrowings

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3.2 Room F The Performative in Ethnic Independent P.A. Skantze Italy Studies: A Site or a Stage? Scholar What Is/How Does the Performative: Independent P.A. Skantze Italy European/American Scholar Considerations Carroll Smith Constituting the New American: University of USA Rosenberg Sites of Surrogation Michigan Harry Elam, Jr Rap and the Site of Social Breach Stanford University USA University of "Where's my Parade?": On Asian Rachel Lee California, Los USA American Diva-Nation Angeles

3.3 Room C University of Pirjo Ahokas Reinscribing Womanhood (1) Finland Turku Sites of Encounters: Medea and Technical University Angelika Koehler Germany La Llorona Dresden Felicitous Spaces: Places of Refuge in Paula Gunn Allen, University of Helen May Dennis GB Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan and Warwick Leslie Marmon Silko Survival and Polish and African- Malgorzata Chrzan American Mothers in the 19th Bydgoszcz Academy Poland Century - A Comparative Study Between Home and Homeland: Anzia Yezierska and Dympna University of Tobe Levin Germany Ugwu-Oju, Two Immigrant Maryland in Europe Autobiographers

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3.4 Room E Aristotle Yiorgos "Unredeemed Lands": Sites University of Greece Kalogeras of Conflict and Exile Thessaloniki The Clash of Cultures: The Hashemite Marwan Obeidat Reception of Anglo-American Jordan University Literature in the Arab World "The Far Bank": Transtierro Virginia Military Mary Ann Dellinger versus Exile in Spanish Literature USA Institute (1939-1982) Unfixing the Boundaries and Controlling the Borders: Greek American Political and Literary Aristotle University Yiorgos Kalogeras Greece Intervention on the Question of of Thessaloniki the Greco-Albanian Frontier in Epirus, 1912-1920 From the Village to the United University of Stefano Luconi States: Nationalism and Ethnic Italy Florence Identity among Italian Americans

Sojourning to Foreign Lands: Anastasia Aristotle University Migration in Early Twentieth Greece Stefanidou of Thessaloniki Century Greek American Poetry

3.5 Room D University of Mita Banerjee Sites of German Ethnicity Germany Mainz Rap in Germany: How Ethnic University of Horst Tonn Germany Culture Travels Tuebingen Confucius' Revenge: Good University of Shobna Nijhawan Intentions and the Multi-Ethnic USA California at Berkely Divide Curiosity, Displacement and the University of Michael Nijhawan Representation of Ethnic Germany Heidelberg Scenarios in German Print Media The Ethnic Other as the Buhfrau of a White Nation: Rereading Mita Banerjee University of Mainz Germany "Tatort" through the Poetry of May Ayim

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Challenging Insular Culture: Kristin Rebien Jusuf Naoum's Das Ultimatum Stanford University USA des Bey

3.6 Room G “New Breeds for Old Places”: University of Alfred Hornung Germany Postcolonialism (2) Mainz Transnationalizing Literary Demarcations: Bharati Carmen University of Mukherjee's Asian-American USA Faymonville Wisconsin-Platteville Cosmopolitanism versus Meera Syal's British Asianness Pradyumna Salman Rushdie: Trans -Atlantic Arcadia University USA Chauhan Sites and Postmodern Melange From Mestizaje to Multiculturalism: José María Colorado School of Juan de Castro USA Arguedas, Gloria Anzaldua, and Mines Julia Kristeva on the Borderlands The Hunger of Memory: Postcolonial Migrations to the Joy Wang U.S. in Anita Desai's Fasting, Oxford University GB Feasting and Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies

3.7 Room I University of Ada Savin Islandscapes France Versailles From Wuthering Heights to La migration des coeurs: The North Carolina State Larysa Mykyta USA Surfacing of a European University Repressed -- Race and Desire Between Island and Mainland: University of Ada Savin Shifting Locations in Cristina France Versailles Garcia's Fiction

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Caribbean and Irish (De)Colonizations in Comparison: Carmen Birkle Dionne Brand's and Eavan University of Mainz Germany Boland's Recovery of the "Lost Land" The Shadow of Saint-Domingue: Representing the Haitian College of William Susan Donaldson USA Revolution in U.S. Southern and Mary Narratives Postcolonial Pastoral: Landscape Sarah Phillips Representation in V. S. Naipaul University of Mainz USA Casteel and Derek Walcott

Friday afternoon

4.1 Room H Sighting Ethnicity in Film and University of Irina Novikova Latvia Print (2) Latvia Where is the Promised Land? The Technical University Hans-Ulrich Mohr Shtetl vs. The American Dream in Germany of Dresden the Jewish/Yiddish Film The Empire Shoots Back: Ethnicity and Identity in Roehampton Isabel Santaolalla GB Spain/Spanish American Film Co- University of Surrey productions The New Cosmopolitanism and Samir Dayal Bentley College USA Immigrant Identities in Film The Brown Atlantic: The Cultural University of Jigna Desai USA Politics of South Asian Diasporas Minnesota

4.2 Room F Blackening Europe: How University of Heike Raphael- African America Changed Maryland in Germany Hernandez Europe Europe 'Jungle in the Spotlight'? Dorothea Fischer- Primitivism and Esteem: University of Germany Hornung Katherine Dunham's 1953 Heidelberg German Tour

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Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Johanna C. Kardux Slavery Memorials in the United Leiden University The Netherlands States and The Netherlands Rap, Rebounds, and Rocawear: Cathy Covell The 'Darkening' of German Youth University of Siegen Germany Waegner Culture A.R.T., Klikk, K.A.O.S. and the University of Eva Miklody Hungary Rest: Hungarian Youth Rapping Debrecen 'Niggas' and 'Skins': African American Youth in Low-income Heike Raphael- Urban Communities and Right University of Germany Hernandez Wing Youth in Former East Maryland in Europe German Small Towns and Rural Areas

4.3 Room C The Eye and the Ear: Visual St. Petersburg Elvira Osipova Russia Arts and Music State University Semiotics of European/American Brooklyn College, Jerome Krase Ethnicity: A Visual Social USA CUNY Approach? American Jazz Expatriates: European and American Attitudes Frank Salamone Iona College USA towards Race Expressed in Attitudes towards Jazz Adria Bernadi's Italian Pilgrimage: Her Dilogy The Day St. Petersburg State Elvira Osipova Russia Laid on the Altar and In the University Gathering Woods "Across the Ocean" and being NOWHERE/NOW HERE: University of Rome, Elèna Mortara Italy Immigrants' Experience in Italian Tor Vergata Emilio Tadini's Words on Canvas The Transcultural Photograph as University of Rosalia Baena Site of Ethnicity: An Analysis of Spain Navarre Multiethnic Autobiographies

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4.4 Room E Roundtable: This Bridge We University of Maria Proitsaki Call Home -- Radical Visions Sweden Goteborg for Transformation Evelyn Alsultany Stanford University USA San Jose State Migdalia Reyes USA University Laura Harris Pitzer College USA State University Anne Waters USA New York Maria Proitsaki Goteborg University Sweden Susan M. Guerra University of Oslo Norway

4.5 Room D Center for Dorothea Mapping the Self Literary Studies, Germany Löbbermann Berlin The In-Between Spaces of Susette Min Pomona College USA Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Foucault's Objectication of the Subject and the Heterotopia of Sophia the Chicano Academic Aristotle University Greece Emmanouilidou Intelligentsia in Tomas Atencio's of Thessaloniki Resolana: A Pathway to Knowledge The Historicized Eleftheria Geography/Geographic History of Aristotle University Greece Arapoglou an Immigrant: Demetra Vaka of Thessaloniki Brown's Topology of Literature Transatlantic Sites and Phillips-University Fabienne Quennet Metaphors of Memory in Anne Germany Marburg Michaels' Fugitive Pieces Gendering Ethnicity and Space: Maria Antonia Distance Teaching Literary Tradition of American Spain Alvarez University Texts of the Self

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4.6 Room G Dominique Different Sites of the Jewish University of France Marcais Diaspora Orleans Children in American Fiction on University of Bettina Hofmann Germany the Holocaust Wuppertal Seferad and Ashkenaz in Turkey Gonul Bakay and the U.S.: Assimilation or Beykent University France Separation? Mother of All Memory: The Loss of Mother and the Search for a Andrea Lieber Usable Past in Writings by Dickinson College USA Merwin American Children of Holocaust Survivors Jewish-German Culture in Old Dominion Frederick Lubich USA Argentina University

Saturday morning

5.1 Room H Re-imagining the Homeland University of Rosalia Baena Spain (2) Navarra America as Site of Hybrid Identities: The Effect of Immigration to America on Irish Anne Cirella - Huston-Tillotson Émigrés in Tom Murphy’s USA Urrutia College Conversations on a Homecoming and Joseph O’Connor’s Red Roses and Petrol Nostalgia: (Re)imagining the Homeland in Italian and University of Milton Cantor USA Norwegian Immigrant Massachusetts Communities The Ship as a Pre-occupied Space: A Theoretical and Applied University of Teresa Fiore Approach to Migrant Cultural California, San USA Production Between Italy and the Diego United States

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Life-Giving or Suicidal Returns: Patrycja Kurjatto- Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret University of Tours France Renard Senses and Fawzia Zouari's Ce pays dont je meurs Re-imagining the Homelands in University of Rome, Elisabetta Marino Italy the UK/US Chinese Diaspora Tor Vergata

5.2 Room 2 Susan Citing Colonialism in the College of William USA Donaldson Americas and Mary Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Case of 'Enriquillo': An Mark DeStephano Saint Peter's College USA American Trial Against Ethnic Cleansing The Emergence of Basque Jaione Markaida- St. Lawrence Cultural Identity in the Colonial USA Golzarri University Americas The Questioning and Restoration of Cultural Identity as Reflected University of Heiner Bus in Transatlantic Captivity Tales, Germany Bamberg 1542-1810: A Comparative Analysis Stereotypes: Subjugating California State, San Carlos von Son USA Strategies in Colonial California Marcos So Far from God: Life in Mexico, Barbara Rodriguez Colonialism, Slavery and the USA Legacy of Europe

5.3 Room C Religion as Cultural Theodora University of Performance: From Greece Tsimpouki Athens Homeland to America Spaces of Faith and Inquiry in Yesim Basarir Doctorow's City of God: A University of Izmir Turkey Transantlantic Quest Inscribing the Material or Adrianne Rewriting Euro-American University of Athens Greece Kalfopoulou Catholicism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine

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Theodora The Changing Faces of Greek- University of Athens Greece Tsimpouki American Religious Experience Writing the Self , Writing the Other: American and European Assimina Karavanta University of Athens Greece Encounters in Women's Autobiographical Writings Your Myths Shall be My Myths: University of Boris Vejdovsky Switzerland Translating God, Nation and Self Lausanne

5.4 Room E University of Giulia Fabi Intertextuality as a Site of Ferrara Italy Paola Boi Ethnicity University of Cagliari The Archive and the Monument Radhouan Ben in Edward Said's and Assia University of Cagliari Italy Amara Djebar's Memoirs Contrasted Views on the Meaning University of Dominique Marcais of Savagery and Civilization in France Orleans Montaigne, Rosseau, and Melville The British Heritage: Intertextuality as a Site of University of Rome, Peter Gardner Italy Aggression in Gilded Age Labor Tor Vergata Fiction Reframing the Balance Between the Spoken and the Written, the Ethnic and the Feminine: Zora Paola Boi University of Cagliari Italy Neale Hurston and Gertrude Stein's Interplay with Words, Sounds and Body Reimagining a White Wilderness: University of Caroline A. Streeter James Baldwin, Gayl Jones and California, Los USA Andrea Lee In/On Europe Angeles

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5.5 Room D University of La Maria Frias Reinscribing Womanhood (2) Spain Coruña Sites of Race, Sites of Class: Susan E. Jessie Fauset’s and Rose Fairfield University USA Tomlinson Macaulay’s Narrative Refashionings From Low Heels to High Heels: In the African Diaspora and En University of Angelita Reyes USA Vogue with the Gendered Politics Minnesota of Location Transcending Binary Divisions: Constructing a Postmodern Pirjo Ahokas Female Urban Identity in Louise University of Turku Finland Erdrich's The Antelope Wife and Zadie Smith's White Teeth On Being Brought from Africa University of La Maria Frias and the Imposition of Religion: Spain Coruna Phillis Wheatley and Chikaba

5.6 Room G Michele Race, Trans-Nationalism and University of USA Birnbaum Modernity Puget Sound Nationalism, Race and 'America's University of Puget Michele Birnbaum USA Italy' Sound El bongo, antidoto de Wall Street!: Afro-Cuban Culture and the Vitalist Reaction to North Donna Jones Stanford University USA American Imperialism of the Cuban Avant-garde in the Inter- war Years Roots and Reason: Black Identity Baruch College, Shelly Eversley USA and the Question of Modernity CUNY Realizing ‘Race,’ Realizing ‘Nation’: Black Atlantic Northwestern Shannon Steen USA Negotiations of Asia in The Swing University Mikado Sanda Mayzaw The Color Line Belts the World Yale University USA Lwin

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