As Area and Cultural Studies, North American Studies belongs to the Department of World Cultures.
Unioninkatu 38 A (PO Box 59)
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
tel. +358 9 191 22984
fax +358 9 191 23107
The 13th Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference - Program
Monday, May 17
5:00 p.m. - Approximately 10:30 p.m. |
Preconference program |
By invitation only |
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
Grant Award Ceremony, Fulbright Center |
House of Estates |
6:00 p.m. |
Bus leaves for reception in Kirkkonummi |
Outside of the House of Estates |
Approximately 7:00 p.m. - Approximately 9:00 p.m. |
Reception sponsored by RAY, including sauna |
Meripotti, Kirkkonummi |
Approximately 10:30 p.m. |
Bus returns to Helsinki |
Central Helsinki |
Tuesday, May 18
10:00 a.m. |
Registration begins |
Registration desk, Department of World Cultures (Renvall Institute), Unioninkatu 38 A, ground floor. |
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. |
Conference Opening |
Small Festive Hall, University Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor |
| Professor Markku Henriksson, Conference President |
Welcoming Address |
| Vice-Rector Professor Jukka Kola | Opening of Conference |
| The U.S. Ambassador to Finland H. E. Bruce Oreck |
Ambassador's Greeting |
| The Ambassador of Canada to Finland H. E. Christopher Shapardanov |
Ambassador's Greeting |
1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Opening Keynote |
Perhr Kalm Lecture |
Small Festive Hall |
| Larry Gerber (Auburn University) |
Professionalization and Faculty Governance in American Colleges and Universities: A Historical Overview |
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Opening Keynote |
Fubright Lecture |
Small Festive Hall |
| Raymond DeMallie (Indiana University) |
Black Elk's European Adventure: A Lakota Explores the World of the White Men |
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Opening Keynote |
Maple Leaf Keynote |
Small Festive Hall |
| Stephen Clarkson (University of Toronto) |
Values and the Economy: How The War on Terror and the War on Drugs are Transforming North America from a Market-Driven Economic Region into a Government-Driven Security Zone |
5:30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. |
Reception, by invitation only |
Reception sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
Uni Cafe Topelias (Unioninkatu 38) |
Wednesday, May 19
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. |
Parallel Morning Sessions |
Educational Issues |
F211 |
| Cheryl Greenberg (Trinity College, Hartford) |
Culture, Class and Community in American Higher Education: |
| Keith Battarbee (University of Turku) |
The Value(s) and Cost(s) of Language Policies in North America: some Cross-border Comparisons |
| Larry Gerber (Auburn University) |
Academic Capitalism: |
Economic Crisis and Tribal Survival |
A205 |
| Nicholas Belle (Red Cloud High School / Indiana University) |
Off the Powwow Trail: Stresses of the US Economy on Contemporary Intertribalism |
| Rainer Smedman (University of Tampere) |
“The Children are starving”: The Socioeconomic Status among the Oglallas in 1889 |
Rani Andersson |
The Lakota and the Disappearance of the Buffalo: A Crisis in Economy and Cultural Values |
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Parallel Early Afternoon Sessions |
Money and Value(s) in Popular Culture |
A132 |
| Mimi White (Northwestern University) |
The Value of Art on TV, According to Barry Chappel |
| Elena Ivanova (People's Friendship University of Russia) |
Hollywood Values (and Money) Reflected in Stereotypical Models |
| Peter Krats (University of Western Ontario) |
The "fascinating panorama INCO paints,": The INCO Triangle as a site of Corporate Imagery strategy, 1936-1998 |
Health and welfare, private or social? |
F211 |
| Katri Sieberg (University of Tampere) |
Health Care - Private Underprovision |
| Markku Ruotsila (University of Helsinki) |
America’s Third Way? |
American Values and Myths |
B107 |
| Artur Jaupaj (University of New York/Tirana) |
Failure of the Myth: The American West as a Fraud |
| Ilmar Anvelt (University of Tartu) |
Money in American Art |
| Marianne Kongerslev (Copenhagen Business School) |
Hegemonic Freedom: |
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Parallel Late Afternoon Sessions |
American Dreams and Landscapes |
A132 |
| Jane Weiss (Kingsborough Community College of CUNY) |
Money in the Garden: Horticulture and American Values in the Nineteenth Century |
| Pirjo Ahokas (University of Turku) |
The American Dream and Transnational Adaptation in Gish Jen's The Love Wife and Anne Tyler's Digging to America |
| Marja-Liisa Helenius (University of Helsinki) |
Journey through the Gardens in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes |
Violence, Sovereignty and Native American Rights in North America |
B107 |
| Lawrence Berg (University of British Columbia) |
Banal Terrorism: Terror, Scale and White Supremacy |
| Daniel Cobb, (Miami University) |
From Modernization to Decolonization: The Native American Rights Movement in Cold War America |
| Ingela Sjögren (Stockholm University) |
The Conceptions of Political and Economical Sovereignty in Native American Identity during the early 1970s |
Literature and Identity |
F211 |
| Bent Sørensen (Aalborg University) |
Economies of Passing - Identity Lessons and Tragedy |
| Philis María Barragán (University of Texas at Austin) |
Subverting Capitalism and Racialization: The Economics Behind Latinidad in Ernesto Quiñonez's Bodega Dreams |
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. |
Plenary Session Sponsored by the Finnish Foundation for Gaming Research |
Indian Gaming |
Small Festive Hall, University Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor |
Kathryn Rand and Steven Light |
Two Decades of "Indian Gaming" in the United States: What a Story! |
| Kate Spilde (San Diego State University) |
Tribal Government in the United States: Changing Cultural Currencies |
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. |
Reception hosted by the University of Helsinki |
University Main Building |
Thursday, May 20
10:00 a.m. - noon |
Parallel Morning Sessions |
The Business of Politics |
F211 |
| William Chafe (Duke University) |
Bill and Hillary Clinton: Indispensable Partners, Incompatible Personalities |
| Juhani Rudanko (University of Tampere) |
Opposition to the Bill of Rights in the House of Representatives in 1789 |
| Saara Kekki (University of Helsinki) |
Japanese American Internment |
North American |
A205 |
| Timothy Macholz (University College, Oxford University) |
Kanaka Maoli I Haiuku Kaleponi Kula: Lost Hawaiian Voices from the California Gold Rush |
| Benjamin Madley (Dartmouth College) |
Forgotten '49ers: The Rise and Fall of American Indians in the California Gold Rush |
| Outi-Kristiina Hännikäinen (University of Helsinki) |
The Changing Identity-
Political Landscape in New Finland, Canada |
Noon - 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Parallel Early Afternoon Sessions |
Translation and Analysis |
A205 |
| Laurie Champion, (San Diego State University) |
'I Was a Money-Making Machine': Socioeconomics in Richard Russo's The Risk Pool |
| Dalia El-Shayal, (Cairo University) |
To Kill a Mockingbird: A Challenging Translation |
| Camelia Elias (Roskilde University) |
I Love Myself: Economies of Love in Gertrud Stein |
Money in Literature |
A206 |
| Danny Robinson (Bloomsburg University) |
Mark Twain in the Popular Imagination: Evolving Images and American Values |
| Asta Helsper-Balciunaite (INHolland University of Applied Sciences) |
Transformation of the Work Ethic in Joyce Carol Oates's Recent Novels |
| Bo Pettersson (University of Helsinki) |
Moby Dick for Economists |
Environment and Economy |
F211 |
| Ruth Alexander (Colorado State University) |
Re-thinking Humans' Relationships to Nature in the 1960s: The Writings of Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, and Betty Friedan |
| Mike Chopra-Gant (London Metropolitan University) | Corporate Capitalism, Environment and Traditional Values: Viewing an American Paradox through the Lens of 1970's Popular Culture |
| Thomas Jundt (McGill University) |
The Bomb, Big Business, and the Origins of American Environmentalism |
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Parallel Late Afternoon Sessions |
Depressions, Past and Present |
F211 |
| Michael Parrish (University of California, San Diego) |
Politics and Policies in Two Economic Crises: The United States, 1929-1935 and 2007-2010 |
| Tina Parke-Sutherland (Stephens College) |
Great Novels from the Great Depression |
| Christopher Kirkey (State University of New York College at Plattsburgh) |
International Structure and National Responses: The Case of Canada’s Commitment to Afghanistan |
Value(s) in Literature |
A205 |
| Matti Savolainen (University of Tampere) |
Native Autobiography, Indigenous Knowledges, and Cultural Value: Leslie Marmon Silko and Lee Maracle |
| Katrin Korkalainen (University of Oulu) |
Money versus Morals: |
| Raili Põldsaar (University of Tartu) |
Business is America’s Business, and a Manly One: |
War and Conflict |
A206 |
| Keith Olson (University of Maryland) |
If South Vietnam Falls: Projections of the Future |
| John Moe, (Ohio State University) |
The Changing Landscape of American Innocence: War and the Impulse toward a 20th Century Modernist Narrative |
4:30 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
4:50 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. |
Special Musical Session |
The Sound of Protest: |
F211 |
Allan Winkler (Miami University), Daniel Cobb (Miami University)
|
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. |
Reception hosted by the City of Helsinki |
Old City Hall, Aleksanterinkatu 20 |
Friday, May 21
10:00 a.m. - noon |
Parallel Morning Sessions |
The Value of Place and Change |
F211 |
| Janne Lahti (University of Helsinki) |
Colonialism and the Value of a Place: The Case of the U.S. Army and the Nineteenth-Century Southwest |
| Douglas Parks (Indiana University) |
Language Maintenance and Revival of Plain Indian Languages |
| Sami Lakomäki (University of Oulu) |
"Since a Living in Our Former Way has Become Impracticable": Economic Change and Political Strife among the Ohio Shawnees 1795-1833 |
Labor and Trade
|
A205 |
| Marc-William Palen (University of Texas at Austin) |
100 Years before NAFTA: The 1890 McKinley Tariff and the Demand for Canadian-American Unity |
| Roger Nichols (University of Arizona) |
Economic Expansion and 19th Century US
and Canadian Treaty Making |
Noon - 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Parallel Early Afternoon Sessions |
Biography |
F211 |
Biography roundtable:
William Chafe (Duke University), Elliott Gorn (Brown University), Allan Winkler (Miami University).
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Endnote and Conference Closing |
Endnote Lecture |
F211 |
| Andrés Reséndez (University of California, Davis) |
The Other Slavery |
Conference Closing |
F211 |
| .Markku Henriksson (University of Helsinki) |
Conference Closing |
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Reception Hosted by the U.S. Embassy |
The National Library (Yliopistonkatu 1) |