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"