That other conference: ASA

I know most of you will be heading to Chicago for the AAR, but just south of you ... in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the American Studies Association will be meeting. Everything from questions about Joseph Smith's whiteness (and straightness) to Zombie Apocalypse, from Jesus to Islamophobia. Here's a list of the panels related to religion (as I could locate them).

Thursday

008. Caucus: Early American Matters: Religious Empires

and American Indigeneity

Puerto Rico Convention Center 103B

CHAIR:  Gregory S. Jackson, Rutgers University, New

Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ)

PAPERS:

• Sandra Gustafson, University of Notre Dame (IN)

Retaking the Americas: Religion and Indigenous Resistance from the Acoma Revolt to Almanac of the Dead

• Sarah E. Rivett, Princeton University (NJ)

Grammars of National Origins: The Millennial Promise of America Written in Algonquian Words

• Jared Hickman, Johns Hopkins University (MD)

John Marrant’s Master Narrative: Redface, Whiteface, and Forms of Black Atlantic Critique

• Peter Coviello, Bowdoin College (ME)

How the Mormons Became White; or, Was Joseph Smith Straight?

COMMENT:  Gregory S. Jackson, Rutgers U

Thursday

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

034. Beyond Islamophobia: Islam and American Empire

Puerto Rico Convention Center 104C

CHAIR:  Kambiz Ghaneabassiri, Reed College (OR)

PAPERS:

Timothy Marr, University of North Carolina, Chapel

Hill (NC)

Moro and American Resistance against Japanese Imperialism in Muslim Mindanao, 1941–1945

Marisa Egerstrom, Harvard University (MA)

After Biopolitics: Religion and Regime in Guantanamo Bay

Perin Gurel, Dickinson College (PA)

The Marriage of Anti-Americanism and Moderate-Islamophobia in Turkey: Cracking the Conspiracy

Codes

COMMENT:  Kambiz Ghaneabassiri, Reed College (OR)

Thursday

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

072. Is There a Place for Jewishness in American Studies?

A Keywords Roundtable

Puerto Rico Convention Center 101B

CHAIR:  Josh Lambert, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

(MA)

PANELISTS:

Lori Harrison-Kahan, Boston College (MA)

Caroline Rody, University of Virginia (VA)

Dalia Kandiyoti, City University of New York, College

of Staten Island (NY)

Gayle Wald, George Washington University (DC)

Joseph Litvak, Tufts University (MA)

Jonathan Freedman, University of Michigan, Ann

Arbor (MI)

Josh Lamberbert, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

(MA)

Is There a Place for Jewishness in American Studies?

A Keywords Roundtable  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 072

Thursday

Blackness and the Sacred Performative  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 077

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

077. Blackness and the Sacred Performative

Puerto Rico Convention Center 104A

CHAIR:  Michelle D. Commander, University of Tennessee,

Knoxville (TN)

PAPERS: Amey Victoria Adkins, Duke University (NC)

“Ain’t I A Woman”: Black Madonnas, Mammys, and

the Performative Aesthetics of Darkness

Ashon Crawley, Duke University (NC)

Breathing Towards Lynching Critique: Whooping in

Black Pentecostal Praying and Preaching

Terrion L. Williamson, Michigan State University (MI)

Black Sacred Dance and the Reverberations of

Christian Sexuality

COMMENT:  Johari Jabir, University of Illinois, Chicago (IL)

Religion and the Construction of Racial Fantasies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Friday

Religion and the Construction of Racial Fantasies 

Scheduled Time: Fri, Nov 16 - 8:00am - 9:45am Building/Room: Puerto Rico Convention Center, 207

Session Participants:
Worse than Mormonism: Religion, Race, Sex, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
Joshua Paddison (Indiana University-Bloomington (IN)

Laredo’s Red Men: Approximating Native American Cosmologies and Producing American Empire
Elaine Peña (George Washington University (DC))

Toyohiko Kagawa and the Color Line in U.S. Liberal Protestantism
Matthew S. Hedstrom (University of Virginia (VA))

Chair: Joseph Kip Kosek (George Washington University (DC)) 
Comment: Joseph Kip Kosek (George Washington University (DC))

8:00 am – 9:45 am

115. Slavery in the Atlantic World: Body, Flesh, and Spirit

Puerto Rico Convention Center 208A

CHAIR:  Danielle C. Skeehan, Northeastern University (MA)

PAPERS: Heather Victoria Vermeulen, Yale University (CT)

As altho’ She had Just been Concern’d with men:

Lordean Erotics in Thomas Thistlewood’s Diaries

Mary Caton Lingold, Duke University (NC)

Eat or Be Eaten: Resistance, Consumption,

Colonization, and Slavery

Jamie Rosenthal, University of North Carolina,

Chapel Hill (NC)

Gender, Slavery, and the Limits of Sentimental

Rhetoric in Lady Nugent’s Journal

Aisha Finch, University of California, Los Angeles

(CA)

Sacralizing Black Epistemologies: Alternative Lexicons

of Freedom in Diasporic Slave Communities

COMMENT:  Danielle C. Skeehan, Northeastern University (MA)

Friday

10:00 am – 11:45 am

144. Beyond Frederick Douglass’ Narrative

Puerto Rico Convention Center 209C

CHAIR:  Robert Levine, University of Maryland, College Park

(MD)

PANELISTS:  Elizabeth McHenry, New York University (NY)

Alex Black, Cornell University (NY)

Xiomara Santamarina, University of Michigan, Ann

Arbor (MI)

Brigitte Fielder, Cornell University (NY)

Robert Levine, University of Maryland, College Park

(MD)

Friday 

Ministry, Missionaries, and Empire  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

166. Ministry, Missionaries, and Empire

Puerto Rico Convention Center 209B

CHAIR:  Hannah Waits, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

PAPERS: Marc Jean-Bernard, University of Puerto Rico, Río

Piedras (PR)

The Theological, Political, and Diplomatic Resonance

of Jacques Maritain’s Thinking in the Ibero-American

World

Edward Andrews, Providence College (RI)

Native Missionaries in the Anglo-American Atlantic:

Cultural Imperialism and Anti-Colonialism

Lydia Willsky, Vanderbilt University (TN)

The Missionary at Your Door: Mormons in America

and the New Purpose of Proselytization

COMMENT:  Hannah Waits, University of California, Berkeley (CA)

Friday

The “Rights of Discovery,” 1500–1800: Politics, Religion, and the

Letter of the Law in Colonial American Encounters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

2:00 pm – 3:45 pm

189. The “Rights of Discovery,” 1500–1800: Politics, Religion, and the

Letter of the Law in Colonial American Encounters

Puerto Rico Convention Center 208C

CHAIR:  Raúl Marrero-Fente, University of Minnesota, Twin

Cities (MN)

PAPERS: Ivonne Del Valle, University of California, Berkeley

(CA)

José de Acosta, Violence, and Rhetoric: The

Emergence of Colonial Baroque

Ralph Robert Bauer, University of Maryland, College

Park (MD)

The Devil and the New World: Ethnography,

Demonology, and the “Rights of Discovery” in the

Early Modern Atlantic World

Yael Ben-zvi, Ben Gurion University (Israel)

Universalism and the Trials of Imperial Law

COMMENT:  Santa Arias, University of Kansas (KS)

Saturday

Race, Religion, and Representations of a Savior in America:

A Panel Discussion of The Color of Christ: The Son of God

and the Saga of Race in America (Sept. 2012)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

8:00 am – 9:45 am

243. Race, Religion, and Representations of a Savior in America:

A Panel Discussion of The Color of Christ: The Son of God

and the Saga of Race in America (Sept. 2012)

Puerto Rico Convention Center 208B

CHAIR:  Stephen Prothero, Boston University (MA)

PANELISTS:  Sonnet Retman, University of Washington, Seattle

(WA)

Wallace D. Best, Princeton University (NJ)

Richard A. Bailey, Canisius College (NY)

COMMENT:  Edward J. Blum, San Diego State University (CA)

Sunday

8:00 am – 9:45 am

370. Race/Religion/War: Triangulations of the Political under Empire

Puerto Rico Convention Center 208C

CHAIR:  Peter Hitchcock, City University of New York, Baruch

College (NY)

PAPERS: Keith Feldman, University of California, Berkeley

(CA)

Moynihan’s Cartography of Race: Metaphors of

Democracy and the Party of Liberty

Leerom Medovoi, Portland State University (OR)

Anti-Fundamentalism and the Racial Enemy of

Globalization: 1979–2012

Ronak Kapadia, New York University (NY)

Affects of the Long War: U.S. Counterinsurgency and

the Crisis of Knowledge

COMMENT:  Peter Hitchcock,

Race/Religion/War: Triangulations of the Political under Empire  . . . . . 370

Sunday

10:00 am – 11:45 am

393. To What End?: Apocalyptic Imaginings in Twentieth- and

Twenty-first-Century Consumer Cultures

Puerto Rico Convention Center 209C

CHAIR:  W. Scott Poole, College of Charleston (SC)

PAPERS: Lisa Roy Vox, University of Massachusetts, Boston

(MA)

“God Damn You All—I Told You So”: British and

American Visions of the End, 1945–1991

Michael J. McVicar, Ohio State University, Columbus

(OH)

“God Will Triumph Mightily”: Post-Millennialism and

the Business of Preparedness

Jennifer Carlberg, University of Chicago (IL)

“Singing In the Church of Wishful Thinking”: The

Religious Placeholder, Conceptual Blending, and

Popular Music

COMMENT:  W. Scott Poole, College of Charleston (SC)

Sunday

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

402. Cultural Evangelism

Puerto Rico Convention Center 201A

CHAIR:  Anton L. Smith, Loyola Marymount University (CA)

PAPERS: Clare Croft, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)

Dancing Neoimperialism/Intercultural Collaboration:

The U.S. State Department and Contemporary Black

Dance

Louis G. Prisock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/

Piscataway (NJ)

Preaching Prosperity: The Black Religious Right’s

Materialist Theology as a Dimension of Empire

Kimberly Pendleton Bolles, George Washington

University (DC)

Sex Trafficking, Media, and Evangelical Mission

Afia Ofori-Mensa, Oberlin College (OH)

To Teach the World Peace: Miss Universe and Global

Harmony in the Early Cold War

COMMENT:  Anton L. Smith, Loyola Marymount University (CA)