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2010 Princeton American Studies Graduate Student Conference,"Southern Nation," April 23-24
| Location: | New Jersey, United States |
| Conference Date: | 2010-04-23 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-04-02 |
| Announcement ID: |
175348 |
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The Princeton University Program in American Studies is excited to announce the following schedule for the second annual graduate student conference, "Southern Nation," which will take place on April 23rd and 24th, 2010. All panels, as well as the keynote address, are open to the public. No registration is required.
Friday, April 23, 2010
1-2 p.m. Welcome Lunch and Introductory Comments
Bobst Hall Lounge
2-3:30 p.m. Panel 1: Marketing the South
105 Bobst Hall
Commenter: Dael Norwood (Princeton University-History)
Darren Grem (University of Georgia-History): “A Perpetual Revival: Zig Ziglar, Corporate America, and the Cultural Politics of the Christian Right”
Jeremy Hill (The George Washington University-American Studies): “Opryland USA: The Role of the Suburbs in Making Country Music Middle American”
Ann Terry (University of Massachusetts-American Studies): “White House/Black Kitchen: The National Preservation of the Mammy Myth and the Maintenance of White Superiority Through Her Cooking”
3:30-4 p.m. Break, Bobst Hall Lounge
4-5:30 p.m. Keynote Address
9 Friend Center
Professor Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia, Professor of History
6-7:30 p.m. Panel 2: Imagining a Southern Past
105 Bobst Hall
Commenter: Britt Rusert (Duke University-Center for Genome, Ethics, Law and Policy)
Dana Byrd (Yale University-Art History): “Just the Man We Want’: Henry P. Moore, New Hampshire Photographer on the Sea Islands, 1862-63”
Michael D’Alessandro (Boston University-American Studies): “Childless ‘Fathers’ and Native Sons: Mythologizing the Indian in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses”
Blevin Shelnutt (New York University-English): “Re-examining the Southern Text that Swept the Nation: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind”
Saturday, April 24, 2010
8-8:30 a.m. Coffee and Bagels
Bobst Hall Lounge
8:30-10 a.m. Panel 3: Ideas and Southern Change
105 Bobst Hall
Commenter: Maribel Morey (Princeton University-History)
Ruth Martin (Cambridge University-History): “‘Southern Justice’ and Civil Liberties Groups: The Moral Quandary Facing the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild, 1961-1977”
Sarah Leonard (Columbia University-History): “Standing in Place: The Vanderbilt Agrarians and Antimodernism”
John Claborn (University of Illinois-English): “Laboring Nature in Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery and Working with the Hands”
10-10:30 a.m. Break
Bobst Hall Lounge
10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Panel 4: Southern Labor: Past and Present
105 Bobst Hall
Commenter: Eduardo Canedo (Princeton Society of Fellows-History)
James Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz-History): “Domestic Workers and the War to Save the Union in New Orleans, 1862-1865”
Tore Olsson (University of Georgia-History): “Peeling Back the Layers of Globalization: Vidalia Onions and the Nuevo New South”
Scott Alves Barton (New York University-Food Studies): “Visible Soldiers: Class Jumpers, Uncle Toms, House Servants, Stewards—Invisible Men”
12-1 p.m. Lunch
Bobst Hall Lounge
1-2:30 p.m. Panel 5: Southern Diasporas
105 Bobst Hall
Commenter: John Reuland (Princeton University-English)
A.J. Bauer (New York University-American Studies): “Southern Dispatches? Texan Journalists in Diaspora and the Politics of Cultural Identity”
Zandria Robinson (University of Mississippi-Sociology): “Barbeque Chicken Sandwiches and Sweet Tea: Selling and Eating the Black South”
Samuel Schaffer (Yale University-History): “‘The Triumph of the South’: The Meanings of Woodrow Wilson’s Election in 1912”
2:30-3 p.m. Break
Bobst Hall Lounge
2:30-4 p.m. Panel 6: Legitimizing Southern Culture?
105 Bobst Hall
Commenter: James R. Young, Jr. (Princeton University-Religion)
Eitan Wilf (University of Chicago-Anthropology): “The Ambivalence of Cultural Legitimacy: Post-Secondary Jazz Education and the Institutionalization of Jazz Music in American Culture”
Lacey Baradel (University of Pennsylvania-Art History): “‘East, one week; West, the next’: The Cabin as Nation in D.W. Griffith’s Silent Films”
Julia Gunn (University of Pennsylvania-History): “Midnight Train to Georgia: Tracing the Roots of African American Reverse Migration to the South, 1945-1970”
4-4:15 p.m. Closing Remarks
Professor Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty and Director, Program in American Studies
4:15-5 p.m. Reception
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