The New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) and the
Columbia Journal of American Studies (CJAS) are proud to present

Crash/Landings: Friction and Flow in the American City

Saturday, October 28th, 2006, 9:00a.m.-6:30p.m.
Columbia University
Alfred Lerner Hall, Rooms 568-569, 2920 Broadway (at West 115th Street)

This one-day conference will examine the U.S. city as contact zone and
site of multiple collisions — of race, class, ethnicity, generations,
desires, fears, and expectations. Interdisciplinary panels include:
Traffic Flows; Urban Spectacle: Power, Performance and the Public; Living
in/for the City; Water, Steel, Rust and the Urban Environment; Consuming
the Urban Other; and Case Studies in Urban Transformation.
A plenary roundtable will feature
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (editor, American Studies Beyond Exceptionalism),
geographer Rupal Oza (The Making of Neoliberal India: Nationalism, Gender,
and the Paradoxes of Globalization), anthropologist Roger Sanjek (The
Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York),
photographer Mel Rosenthal (In the South Bronx of America), and Puerto
Rican & Latino Studies scholar Alan Aja.

Registration: $20 ($10 students/unemployed). For more information, a
detailed program of events, or to register, please contact Sarah Chinn at
sarah.chinnhunter.cuny.edu or go to the NYMASA website at www.nymasa.org.

Sarah E. Chinn
English Department
Hunter College, CUNY
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021

sarah.chinnhunter.cuny.edu
212.772.5178