American Studies

Colloquium Series

All colloquia are free and open to the public.

Fall 2009 Colloquia

Photographer Wing Young Huie- "Identity and the American Landscape"

Daniel Gilbert, Visiting Assistant Professor at Macalester- "Seattle’s Global Mariners: Baseball’s Politics of Location, 1970 – 2001"

Examples of Past Colloquia

Terry Janis, Indian Land Tenure Foundation, Macalester Alumnus & Visiting Instructor- "American Indian Homelands-the Indian Land Tenure Foundation"

Beth Cleary, Associate Professor of Theater and Dance, and Peter Rachleff, Professor of History, Macalester College- "Refiguring and Representing Race: The Jubilee Singers of the Buffalo Historical Marionettes and the Federal Theatre Project."

Theo Gonzalves, Associate Professor at UH Manoa- "Stage Presence-Conversations with Filipino American Performing Artists"

Leola Johnson, Associate Professor at Macalester- “Barack the Magic Negro: A Discussion of Race and Politics in the Age of You Tube”

Ralina L. Joseph, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington- “Post-racial, Mixed-Race Obama:
Reading Racial Flexibility in Obama Imagery”

Waziyatawin, Indigenous Peoples Research Chair, Associate Professor, University of Victoria in British Columbia- "Maka Cokaya Kin (The Center of the Earth): From the Clay We Rise”

David Serlin, Associate Professor at UC San Diego- "Performing Disabled Masculinities from World War Two to the War in Iraq"

Scott Shoemaker, CSMP Fellow and Visiting Instructor at Macalester- “kiilaahkwaliaminciki They Speak to Us: ReclaimingMiami Cultural Sovereignty of Museum Collections”

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

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

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

Sarita Gregory, Assistant Professor 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 alumnus, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota-
“Cultures of Korean American Adoption: National, Racial and Cultural Crossings”

Adam Waterman,
Macalester College alumnus and Visiting Assistant Professor-
"Black Hawk's Body and the Metaphysics of Value"

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

Christopher Scott,
Assistant Professor 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"

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