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