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Southern Industrialization Project Conference at Kennesaw State on June 13-14
| Location: | Georgia, United States |
| Conference Date: | 2008-06-14 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-05-09 |
| Announcement ID: |
162335 |
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The Southern Industrialization Project (SIP) is pleased to announce its triennial conference at Kennesaw State University, outside Atlanta, June 13-14, 2008. The theme for this year’s meeting is “A Great Community of Labor and Production: The Synthesis of Southern Industrialization from the Antebellum Period to the 21st Century and Beyond.” The keynote speaker for the conference is Stanley L. Engerman, the noted historian of slavery and southern economics. Registration is free, but please send an email if you plan to attend, to rpatton@kennesaw.edu
SIP first met in 1996 and seeks to foster a greater understanding of the history and culture of industrialization in the American South. It has sponsored conferences since its inception, as well as sessions as an affiliated organization at the Southern Historical Association annual meetings. SIP also sponsors a book series on Southern industrial history with the University of Missouri Press.
Our keynote speaker, Stanley L. Engerman, is the President of SIP, as well as the John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester. He is coauthor, with Robert William Fogel, of Time on the Cross, winner of the Bancroft Prize in 1974. He is also coauthor, with Lance E. Davis, of Naval Blockades in Peace and War: An Economic History since 1750 and he was editor of the Cambridge Economic History of the U.S. Dr. Engerman has written or coedited numerous works on slavery and American and British history.
The Southern Labor Studies Association is sponsoring a session at the SIP conference.
Registration for the conference is free, but we would like an advance head count if possible. Please email our treasurer, Randy Patton, at rpatton@kennesaw.edu to let him know that you will attend. He will distribute local arrangements information on lodging, etc, to those who contact him.
The conference program:
June 13 – Friday
3:15-5:00 Session I Industrial Projects in Public History Roundtable
Chair: Ray Luce, Director of the Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Jack Wynn, Friends of Scull Shoals
Margaret Calhoon, Georgia Power Corporate Archives Karen Utz,
Curator, Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark
5:30-7:00 Reception
7:00-8:00 Keynote “Apologies, Regrets and Reparations”
Stanley Engerman, President, Southern Industrialization Project
June 14 – Saturday
8:30-10:00 Session II New South Entrepreneurs
Chair: Michele Gillespie, Wake Forest University
“Georgia's Etowah River Valley as Seedbed of the New South: Gold, Iron, Coal, and the Impetus for Birmingham”
G. Richard Wright and Kenneth H. Wheeler, Reinhardt College
“Mining Black Diamonds: Extracting Coal from North-Central Alabama, 1866-1890”
James Sanders Day, University of Montevallo
“Sawmilling and the Courts in Antebellum New Orleans: A Study of the Firm of Miller & Shepherd”
John Robert Keeling, III, McNeese State University
Comment: Randy Patton, Kennesaw State University
8:30-10:00 Session III Southern Labor Studies Association
Chair: Michelle Haberland, Georgia Southern University
“‘Bearing arms to repel invasion is a part of our great American Heritage’: NASCAR, Bill France, and the Drivers’ Union Movements of the 1960s”
Dan Pierce, University of North Carolina, Asheville
Comment: Richard Starnes, Western Carolina University
Comment: Michelle Haberland, Georgia Southern University
10:15-11:45 Session IV Conflicting Views of Southern Industrialization
Chair: Michael Gagnon, Georgia Gwinnett College
Religious Criticism of Southern Industry: "An Appeal to the Industrial Leaders of the South"
Bart Dredge, Austin College
“An Industrious Generation: The Watauga Club and Industrial Education, 1884-1912”
Samuel L. Schaffer, Yale University
Comment: Angela Lakwete, Auburn University
10:15-11:45 Session V Environmental aspects of Southern Industrialization
Chair: Steven Reich, James Madison University
“Yellow Jack Rides the Rails: Jacksonville's Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1888 and Florida's Railroads”
R. Scott Huffard, Jr., University of Florida
"’You learnt to spin and you learnt to hear:’ Sensory History, Soundscapes and the Lives of Southern Millhands, 1915-1940”
Gerard J. Fitzgerald, New York University
Comment: Steven Reich
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Senior Scholar Panel: Assessing the State of Southern Economic History
Moderator: Louis Kyriakoudes, University of Southern Mississippi
Gavin Wright, Stanford University
David L. Carlton, Vanderbilt University
Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester Susanna Delfino, University of Genoa
3:30-5:30 Field Trip
Caravan to tour the Etowah Iron Works (antebellum iron works) at nearby Red Top Mountain State Park
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Randall L. Patton
Professor of History
Kennesaw State University
1000 Chastain Road
Kennesaw, GA 30144
rpatton@kennesaw.edu
770-423-6714
Email: rpatton@kennesaw.edu
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