American Studies

American Studies

Colloquium Series

All colloquia are free and open to the public.

Fall 2009 Colloquia

Past Colloquia

Professor Theo Gonzalves, UH Manoa "Stage Presence: Conversations with Filipino American Performing Artists"

Professor Scott Morgensen, Queen's University
"Decolonizing Health: Native AIDS Organizing and Indigenous Methodologies"

Professor Duchess Harris, Department of American Studies "Jefferson’s Legacies: Racial Intimacies & American Identity"

Professor Cynthia Wu, University at Buffalo
“Japanese American Identity, Disability, and Citizenship”

Professor Sarita Gregory, Vassar College
“We are the Youth of Banlieues Bleues: Immigrant Youth, Citizenship, and Re-Contextualizing the Cultural Politics of France"

Kim Park Nelson
Macalester College graduate
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota
“Cultures of Korean American Adoption: National, Racial and Cultural Crossings”

Adam Waterman
Macalester College graduate
Ph.D., New York University "Black Hawk's Body and the Metaphysics of Value"

Professor Jason Ruiz, Notre Dame
"Landscapes of Difference: U.S. Travel to Veracruz & Narratives of Mexican (Anti)Modernity, 1910-1920"

Professor Christopher Scott
Asian Languages and Cultures, Macalester College
"A Dark, Distorting Mirror: Blackness in Le Kenzabur's "Shiiku."

Nalo Jackson
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
"The History of the Legal Rights Center: A Study in Coalition Building between the Black and the American Indian Communitiesof Minneapolis"

Ebony Adams
Visiting Professor, Macalester College
"Pumping Iron: American Body Culture and the Logics of Hypermasculine Display"

Professor P. Albert Lacson
Grinell College
"El Buchón's Legacy: Native Leadership in the Creation of Catholic Mission Communities in Eighteenth-Century California"