A SYMPOSIUM
UC BERKELEY
APRIL 20, 1996
9:00 am to 5:30 pm / 142 Dwinelle Hall
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FEATURING RICHARD HUTSON AND CONSTANCE PENLEY!
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PROGRAM:
9:00 am - 11:30
Panel I: The Written Word
(respondent: Annalee Newitz, English, UC Berkeley)
"Writing the End of the Frontier"
Richard Hutson, English, UC Berkeley
"Leaping Goats and Red Roaring Abolitionists: The Penny Press and
the Origins of the US Mass Media" Ben Reiss, English, UC Berkeley
"A Community of Cynics:
The Mores of American Journalists in Interwar Moscow" David C.
Engerman, History, UC Berkeley
"The Terms of the Debate:
Proposition 187 and the (de)Formation of Cultural and National
Community" Catherine S. Ramirez, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
11:30 - 1:00
Wine, Coffee, Snacks
1:00 - 3:00
Panel II: Mass Media
(respondent: Freya Johnson, English, UC Berkeley)
"Pornography and Popular Culture"
Constance Penley, Film Studies, UC Santa Barbara
"Sex, Lies and the Movie House:
Community and Deviance in 1930s Movie Theaters" Garth Jowett,
Communications Studies, University of Houston
"'A Reaction to Our Own Creation':
The Use of Canned Laughter on American Television, 1953 - 1980"
Joshua A. Ozersky, History, Notre Dame
3:30 - 5:30
Panel III: Computer-Aided Communities
(respondent: Jesse Berrett, History, UC Berkeley)
"Apollo Computers and Vestals of Dionysus: A Silicon Valley
Artists' Community"
Mike Mosher, Multimedia Studies, San Francisco State University
"Home Pages on the World Wide Web"
Steven Rubio, English, UC Berkeley
"From Mud to Ether: Building 'Burning Man'" Matt Wray, Ethnic
Studies, UC Berkeley
--- this symposium is brought to you in part by the American
Studies Working Group, the American Studies Program, and the
Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley ---