You are cordially invited to this Spring’s American Studies symposium, “Twice-Told Tales 2025” on Friday, May 9, 2025, at the Women’s Faculty Club on the UC Berkeley campus.
Since 1995, the Interdisciplinary Program in American Studies has hosted this small gathering. During this informal, half-day symposium, we will hear from four of our colleagues on campus, and celebrate together the end of another academic year.
Attendance is free, no RSVP is required. This event is open to faculty, staff, and alumni, and we also welcome graduate students and especially American Studies majors and minors to attend.
Twice Told Tales 2025
BERKELEY AMERICAN STUDIES SYMPOSIUM
Friday, May 9, 2025
Women’s Faculty Club
Lucy Ward Stebbins Lounge
UC Berkeley
9:30 AM
Coffee, Tea, Pastries
9:40 AM
Informal Welcome
9:50 AM
Henry Washington, Jr. (African American Studies)
“‘Put a Little Growl In It’: The Transcendent Promise of the Gospel Word and the Dissonant Vocality of Twinkie Clark”
10:30 AM
Nathan Atkinson (Rhetoric)
“Attitudes Towards Images”
11:10 AM
Break
11:20 AM
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (History)
“On whose skirt is the stain?”: White Women and the Afterlives of Slavery.
Noon
Sarah Gold McBride (American Studies)
Book Launch: Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America
12:50 PM
Parting Words
1:00 PM
Adjourn