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American Studies and the British Association for American Studies The Irish Association for American Studies and The British Association for American Studies 61st Annual BAAS Conference 46th Annual IAAS Conference Thursday 7 – Saturday 9 April 2016 Queen’s University Belfast IBAAS Conference, Belfast 2016 151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 1 30/03/2016 09:16 Conference Logo designed by Catherine Gander 2 THE BRITISH AND IRISH ASSOCIATIONS FOR AMERICAN STUDIES 151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 2 30/03/2016 09:16 IBAAS16 WELCOME Dear delegate Welcome to Belfast, welcome to Queen’s, and welcome to IBAAS16. We hope that the 3 days you spend with us here will be as memorable as they are productive. As the first joint annual conference of BAAS and the IAAS in 25 years, we hope that over these few days new alliances will be forged, old friendships renewed, and plans for future collaborations hatched. When Queen’s accepted the task of staging this event we were not quite sure how large a conference it was going to become. Bringing two American Studies associations together was always going to make for something a little different. As it’s turned out, across 10 sessions and 95 panels, 300 delegates from all corners of the world will be presenting at IBAAS16. In addition, it is our very great pleasure to welcome Professors John Howard, from King’s College London, and Deborah Willis, from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, as our plenary speakers, sponsored by the Eccles Centre and the Journal of American Studies, respectively. Each year, as part of the IAAS conference, the plenary speaker delivers the Alan Graham Memorial Lecture in honour of one of the Association’s founding members, and former Queen’s University historian, the late Alan Graham. This year, in a slight, but very exciting, change to the format, Richard Ford will read from new work on the evening of Saturday 9 April. This event, along with the IBAAS Gala Dinner, will take place at Titanic Belfast, and will conclude our conference. Hopefully you will have time to sample some, but not too much, of our city’s hospitality. We extend our appreciation and thanks to our sponsors, in particular the US Embassy and the Eccles Centre for their continued support. A particular note of thanks goes to Peter McKittrick in the US Consulate in Belfast (which itself celebrates its 220th anniversary this year) for his assistance in pulling a lot of things together behind the scenes, as well as the Visit Belfast team for all of their help. For now, we raise a virtual glass to everyone who has worked so hard up to this point to make this conference possible, and to all of you for your contribution to a special three days in Belfast. #IBAAS16 THE BRITISH AND IRISH ASSOCIATIONS FOR AMERICAN STUDIES 3 151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 3 30/03/2016 09:16 Contents Welcome 3 Keynote Speakers 5-7 Conference Programme Overview 8 Full Conference Programme 9-32 Maps 33-34 Logos 39 4 THE BRITISH AND IRISH ASSOCIATIONS FOR AMERICAN STUDIES 151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 4 30/03/2016 09:16 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Professor Deborah Willis Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Social & Cultural, Africana Studies, where she teaches courses on photography and imaging, iconicity, and cultural histories visualizing the black body, women, and gender. Her research examines photography’s multifaceted histories, and visual culture. She received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and was a Richard D. Cohen Fellow in African and African American Art, Hutchins Center, Harvard University and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. Professor Willis received the NAACP Image Award in 2014 for her co-authored book (with Barbara Krauthamer) “Envisioning Emancipation.” Other notable projects include “The Black Female Body A Photographic History,” “Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers - 1840 to the Present;” “Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present;” “Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs,” a NAACP Image Award Literature Winner, and “Black Venus 2010: They Called Her ‘Hottentot.’” THE BRITISH AND IRISH ASSOCIATIONS FOR AMERICAN STUDIES 5 151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 5 30/03/2016 09:16 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Professor John Howard John Howard was born, raised, and educated in the American South, culminating in a Ph.D. in American Studies from Emory University in 1997. After teaching in the history departments at Duke University and the University of York, he moved to King’s College London, where he has served as Professor of American Studies for over a decade. John has published six books, including an edited collection, two literary editions, the documentary photobook White Sepulchres (University of Valencia Press, 2016), and two monographs— Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow (2008) and Men Like That: A Southern Queer History (1999), both from University of Chicago Press. With colleagues in the states, John was co-author of the Amici Curiae Brief of Professors of History, U.S. Supreme Court, Lawrence v. Texas, 2003. In the 1990s, he was a member of ACT UP and Queer Nation; lately he supports CND and the campaign to Free Chelsea Manning. John has received awards from the AHRC, British Academy, Delfina, Fulbright, Rockefeller, and King’s College London Students’ Union. 6 THE BRITISH AND IRISH ASSOCIATIONS FOR AMERICAN STUDIES 151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 6 30/03/2016 09:16 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Richard Ford In the 40 years since his first novel A Piece of My Heart was published, Richard Ford has established himself as one of the pre-eminent authors on contemporary America or, as The Washington Post referred to him, “one of the finest curators of the great American living museum”. Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944 and raised both there and in Little Rock, Arkansas, Ford’s early writing bore witness to a wide- ranging literary inheritance. In more recent times he has moved beyond comparisons with other American writers to establish himself as the voice of a particular set of US circumstances: schooled in Emersonian optimism, yet constantly aware of the shortcomings of the American project, Ford’s universe is peopled by complex, yet at times comedic, characters treading a line that simultaneously defines failure as well as short-term successes. His novels include The Ultimate Good Luck (1981), The Sportswriter (1986; one of Time magazine’s list of 100 best English language books), and its first sequel Independence Day (1995) which won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize, the first book ever to achieve this feat. In The Sportswriter and Independence Day, Ford created a narrator in Frank Bascombe who has developed into one of the key figures of late-twentieth and now early-twenty-first-century American literature as he continues his middle-age and senior citizen adventures in The Lay of the Land (2006) and Let Me Be Frank With You (2014). In 2012, Ford published what critics argue to be his masterpiece, Canada, a novel that he worked on for twenty years. Amidst the novels there have also been the short story collections Rock Springs (1986), the incomparable Women with Men (1997), and the ten tales of adultery amid regular American lives that comprise A Multitude of Sins (2001). This collection features the story ‘Charity’, set in part in Belfast, Maine, “a town in transition” though not “the one where they fight”. Now this other Belfast is also in transition and extends a heartfelt welcome to one of America’s finest writers. THE BRITISH AND IRISH ASSOCIATIONS FOR AMERICAN STUDIES 7 151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 7 30/03/2016 09:16 BAAS/IAAS Conference Overview Time Day Activity Area 9 – 11am Thursday Coffee, Registration and Exhibition set up Whitla Hall 11- 12.30pm Thursday Parallel Session A Various 12.30- 1.30pm Thursday Lunch Whitla Hall 1.30- 3pm Thursday Parallel Session B Various 3-4.30pm Thursday Parallel Session C Various 4.30- 5pm Thursday Coffee Whitla Hall 5-6.30pm Thursday Keynote lecture - John Howard Larmour Lecture Theatre 7-8pm Thursday Drinks Reception Belfast City Hall 9-10.30am Friday Parallel Session D Various 10.30-10.45am Friday Coffee Whitla Hall 10.45-12.45pm Friday Parallel Session E Various 12.45-1.45pm Friday Lunch Whitla Hall 1.45-3.15pm Friday Parallel Session F Various 3.30-4pm Friday Coffee Whitla Hall 3.30-5.30pm Friday BAAS AGM Larmour Lecture Theatre 5.30-7pm Friday Keynote lecture – Deborah Willis Larmour Lecture Theatre 7 – 8pm Friday Drinks Reception Great Hall Queen’s 9-10.30am Saturday Parallel Session G Various 10.30-11am Saturday Coffee Whitla Hall 11-12.30pm Saturday Parallel Session H Various 12.30-1.30pm Saturday Lunch Whitla Hall 12.30-1.30pm Saturday IAAS AGM Graduate School TR6 1.30-3.30pm Saturday Parallel Session I Various 3.30-3.45pm Saturday Coffee Whitla Hall 4pm Saturday Exhibition dismantle Whitla Hall 3.45- 5.15pm Saturday Parallel Session J Various 5.30pm Saturday Bus departure to Titanic McClay Library 6.30pm Saturday Richard Ford Reading Titanic 7.30pm Saturday Conference Dinner Titanic 8 THE BRITISH AND IRISH ASSOCIATIONS FOR AMERICAN STUDIES 151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 8 30/03/2016 09:16 IBAAS Conference 7 – 9 April 2016 Activity Venue Time Thursday 7 April 2016 Queen’s University 9.00am – 11.00am Coffee and Registration Whitla Hall Larmour Lecture 10:40am – 10:55am Conference Opening Theatre Parallel Session A 11.00am – 12.30pm A1.
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