present

Kathleen Neils Conzen: Historical Legacies

A daylong public conference honoring Dr. Conzen, winner of the American Historical Association's 2012 Eugene Asher Award for Distinguished Post-Secondary Teaching, for her 40 years of service to the historical profession, her contributions to the fields of immigration history, urban history, and western history,and her mentoring of scores of doctoral students.

Thursday 5 January 2012 The Newberry Library 60 West Walton Street Chicago, Illinois

The conference schedule follows below. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Ann Keating at adkeating@noctrl.edu.

Conference Schedule:

9:00 am Newberry Library Opens

9:10 am Welcome – Kathleen A. Brosnan, University of Houston

ALL QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS BY AUDIENCE MEMBERS

9:15-10:15 am Panel 1: Politics and Reform

Taking Anti-Reform Seriously: Sabbath Politics and Moral Freedom in Late Antebellum America

Kyle G. Volk, University of Montana

The Peoples Privilege: The Franking Privilege, Constituent Correspondence and Political Representation in Mid-19th- Century America

Roman Hoyos, Southwestern Law School

Tippling Women: Gender, Space, and Drink in Chicago, 1871-1914

Emily A. Remus, University of Chicago

Chair: Andrew W. Cohen, Syracuse University

10:15 am Break

10:25-11:25 am Panel 2: The City and the Country

The Naturalists: Three Gilded Age Chicagoans and their Legacies

Susan Barsy, Independent Scholar

“Get the Ideas of More Farmers": Banking Policy and Social History

Christopher Shaw, University of California, Berkeley

A Seamless Landscape: James F. Brown, the Rural-Urban Nexus, and the Antebellum Hudson Valley

Myra Young Armstead, Bard College

Chair: Susan Gray, Arizona State University

11:25 am Break

11:35 am-12:35 pm Panel 3: Public Health

A ‘Civilized’ Disease: Botulism and an Emerging Public Health Policy

Stephanie Fuglaar Statz, University of Houston

Los Angeles and Hospital Development at the Turn of the Century

Jennifer Vanore, University of Chicago

The Politics of Health and Citizenship in the Railroad Bracero Program, 1942-1945

Chantel Rodríguez, University of Minnesota

Chair: Cathleen Cahill, University of New Mexico

12:35-1:15 pm Lunch at the Newberry

1:15-2:15 pm Panel 4: Urban Space Makers

The Learned Professions in Frontier Chicago

Deborah Haines, Independent Scholar

David Rockefeller and the 24-hour City: Finance and Residence in Lower Manhattan

Aaron Shkuda, Carnegie Mellon University

Bypassing Chicago: Constructing the Illinois Tollway and the Metropolitan Future

David Spatz, DePaul University

Chair: Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, University of New Mexico

2:15 pm Break

2:25-3:40 pm Panel 5: America and the World

From Family Bibles to Birth Certificates: Documenting American Identities, 1840 to the Present

Shane Landrum, Brandeis University

Misters Fong and Inouye Go To Washington, Taipei, and Tokyo: Cold War Diplomacy and the Paradox of Hawaiian Statehood

Ellen Wu, Indiana University

Your Feed Lot Touches the World: World War II and the Global Midwest

Peter Simons, University of Chicago

Everybody’s Past: History Learning in America

Keith A. Erekson, University of Texas-El Paso

Chair: Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota

3:40 pm Break

3:50-5:00 pm Panel 6: Scholar, Colleague, Mentor

Robin Einhorn, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Greene, Newberry Library
Jan Goldstein, University of Chicago
Susan Rugh, Brigham Young University
Chair: Ellen Eslinger, DePaul University

5:15 pm Newberry Library Closes

5:30 pm Tapas at Café Iberico – 737 N. LaSalle