history of activism: Schedule

Graduate Student Conference
history of activism u history as activism
April 5-6, 2002, at Columbia University

u Conference Schedule

History of Activism, History as Activism
a graduate student conference

Columbia University, New York, April 5-6, 2002
Sponsored by the Columbia University History Department and GSAC

Friday April 5, 2002

9:00-9:30am Coffee and bagels -- Lobby, Buell Hall

9:30-10:00am Welcome -- East Gallery, Buell Hall
Jim Downs, Columbia University (History)

Opening Remarks
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University

10:00-11:30am

Panel One: Anarchy & Socialism -- Room 310, Fayerweather Hall

Chair: Giovanni Ruffini, Columbia University (History)

Marcella Bencivenni, City University of New York, Graduate Center (History)
"Italian American Radicalism in New York City"

Todd Emerson Bowers, State University of New York at Albany (Sociology) and
David Redmon, Gettysburg College (Sociology)
"Disrupting Citizenship/ Disrupting Anarchism: Foucault on Citizenship as 'Otherness' and Anarchist Subjectivity"

Rachel Scharfman, New York University (History)
"Beyond Class, Beyond the Party: The Race- and Gender- Conscious Socialism of Hubert Harrison and Crystal Eastman, 1901-1920"

Workshop One: Archiving Activism 1 -- East Gallery, Buell Hall

Chair: Orlando Bagwell, Documentary Filmmaker
President, ROJA Productions

Anna Kruzynski, McGill University (School of Social Work)
"Community Organizing History via the Life Stories of Women Activists: A Feminist Grassroots Method of Constructing History"

Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Harvard University (History & Literature) and
John McMillian, Columbia University (History)
"Protest Nation: Documenting the American Radical Tradition"

Zaheer Ali, Columbia University (History)
The Malcolm X Project

11:30- 1:00pm

Panel Two: The Transnational 1960s -- Room 313, Fayerweather Hall

Chair: James Tejani, Columbia University (History)

Vania Markarian, Columbia University (History)
"Debating Tlatelolco: Thirty Years of Public Debate about the Mexican Student Movement of 1968"

Matt Wisnioski, Princeton University (History of Science)
"Engineers and the Cultural Revolution? Steven Slaby and Technical Change at Princeton University"

Martin Klimke, University of Heidelberg, Germany (History)
"Between Berkeley and Berlin, San Francisco and Frankfurt The Student Movement of the 1960s in Transatlantic Perspective"

Donnacha O' Beachain, Tbilisi State University (International Relations)
"From Civil Rights to Civil War: The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association"

Panel Three: Environmental Activism -- Room 310, Fayerweather Hall

Chair: Sara Gregg, Columbia University (History)

Jeanine Clark, Northern Illinois University (History)
"The Protest Against the Byron Nuclear Facility: Who Really Won?"

Logan Hennessy, University of California, Berkeley (Environmental Science, Policy, & Management)
"Fission and Fusion: Amerindian Environmental History, Politics, and Resource Justice in Guyana

Oscar A. Forero, Imperial College, University of London (Political Ecology)
"Indigenous Knowledge and the Scientific Mind: Activism or Colonialism?"

Robert Lifset, Columbia University (History)
"Storm King Mountain and The Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism"

Jeff Shantz, York University (History)
"IWW/Earth First Local 1 and the Emergence of Green Syndicalism"

Nathan Stoltzfus, Florida State University (History)
"Public Space and the Dynamics of Activism within Totalitarianism" Green Protest in the German Democratic Republic"

Workshop Two: Perils of Publishing & Alternative Media -- East Gallery, Buell Hall

Chair: Catherine Clinton, The Citadel (History)

Tim Bartlett, Oxford University Press

Joshua Breitbart, NYC Independent Media Center
"Media Activism: History in Real Time"

Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Columbia University (History)

Philip Nobile, The Cobble Hill School of American Studies (History)Author of "Intellectual Skywriting: Literary Politics and the New York Review of Books"

1:00-2:30pm Lunch

Lunchtime Screening of "Occupation" (begins at 1:30pm) -- East Gallery, Buell Hall

Chair: Maple Razsa, Harvard University (Anthropology)

Documentary narrated by Ben Affleck on the Harvard Living Wage Campaign 21 day sit-in

2:30-4:00pm

Panel Four: Politics of Sexuality -- East Gallery, Buell Hall

Chair: Liza Yukins, City University of New York (English)

McEvoy Campbell, City University of New York, Graduate Center (English)
"A filosofia e necessario amore: the Late 19th Century Revival of Giordano Bruno and the Beginnings of Queer Activism"

David Eisenbach, Columbia University (History)
"Pride of Lions"

Carla MacDougall, Rutgers University (History)
"Lesben befreit euch!: Lesbian Feminist Organizing in West Berlin, 1974-1982"

Glenda M. Russell, Antioch New England Graduate School (Clinical Psychology) and
Jason Even Mihalko, Antioch New England Graduate School (Clinical Psychology)
"Queer Activism in Historical Perspective: What We Learn from Letters to the Editor"

Panel Five: Accessing Healthcare -- Room 313, Fayerweather Hall

Chair: Walter Lear, Institute of Social Medicine and Community Health

Esyllt W. Jones, University of Manitoba (History)
"Witnessing the Social History of Disease: the Historian's Self and Working Class Experience in Winnipeg'sIinfluenza Epidemic, 1918-1999"

Naomi Rogers, Yale University (School of Medicine, History of Medicine)
"Bringing Health to the People: American Medicine, Student Activism and the 1960s"

Barbara Levy Simon, Columbia University (School of Social Work) and
Rufina Lee, Columbia University (School of Social Work)
"For Those 'Betwixt and Between': The Half-Way House Movement in NYC"

Panel Six: Nationalisms and Resistance -- Room 310, Fayerweather Hall

Chair: Toru Umezaki, Columbia University (History)

Justin Isaac, University of Connecticut (History)
"The Anti-Imperialist League of 1898-1900"

Michael Livingston, St. John's University (Psychology)
"Resisting Imperialism: The Movement against the Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991"

Kristin Mulready-Stone, Yale University (History)
"Resisting Collaboration: The Three Principles of the People Youth Corps in Shanghai, 1940-1941"

Tugba Tanyeri, Boston University (Archeology)
"Remembering and Inventing an Ancient Past for the Future: History and Archaeology in the Early Years of the Turkish Republic"

4:00 pm-5:30 pm

Roundtable: Academia and Activism: Can We Bridge the Gap? -- East Gallery, Buell Hall

Chair: Jennifer Manion, Rutgers University (History)

Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University (History)
Jesse Lemisch, City University of New York (History)
Gary Okihiro, Columbia University (Ethnic and Race Studies)
Graham Willett, University of Melbourne (Australian Centre)

6:00-7:00pm Social Hour -- East Gallery, Buell Hall

Saturday April 6, 2002

9:00-9:30am Coffee and Bagels -- Lobby, Buell Hall

9:30-11:00am

Panel Seven: Historians as Activists -- Room 310, Fayerweather Hall

Chair: Claire Bond Potter, Wesleyan University (History)

Sarah Van Beurden, University of Pennsylvania (History)
"The Mother of Us All: Eleanor Flexner and the Writing of 'Century of Struggle (1959)'"

Aykan Erdemir, Harvard University (Anthropology & Middle Eastern Studies)
"History as the Battlefield of Activism: Politics of Alevi Historiography in Turkey since 1980"

Christopher W. Schmidt, Harvard University (History of American Civilization)
"Historians and Brown v. Board of Education"

Workshop Three: Archiving Activism 2 -- East Gallery, Buell Hall

Chair: Peggy Frankland, Activist and Project Coordinator
"Do Not Tear Up My Earth" Documenting Women's Voices in Louisiana 1970-1990

Jennifer Abraham, T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, Assistant Director and

Mary Ellender, Ellender & Company, Activist and

Maureen O'Neill, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Sr. Policy Advisor

"Do Not Tear Up My Earth" Documenting Women's Voices in Louisiana 1970-1990

11:00 12:30pm

Panel Eight: Mobilizations Motivations & Means -- Room 310, Fayerweather Hall

Chair: Theresa Ventura, Columbia University (History)

Luther Adams, University of Pennsylvania (History)
"No Room For Possum or Crawfish: Black Migrants' Activism in Louisville, Kentucky 1930-1960"

Claudine Leysinge, Columbia University (History)
"Petitions Analyzed: The Rhetoric of Workers and Landowners in Chiapas, Mexico (1934-1946)"

Orlando Plaza Delgado, New York University (History, African Diaspora & Latin American Studies)
"Nuyorican: Identity in Movement"

Brian Purnell, New York University (History)
"Drive Awhile for Freedom": Brooklyn CORE and the 1964 Fair "Stall-In"

Panel Nine: Gender, Sexuality, & Healthcare Advocacy -- East Gallery, Buell Hall

Chair: Erme Maula, University of Pennsylvania (School of Nursing)

Mathew Johnson, University of Michigan (Anthropology & History)
"AIDS: Present, Future, and Past"

Barron Lerner, Columbia University (Public Health & Medicine)
"Winning The Right to Choose: The History of Modern Breast Cancer Activism"

Dinh Tran, Rutgers University (Law School)
"Call Me By Her Name: Legal Surveillance of Trans-Gender Identity"

12:30 2:00 Lunch

Lunchtime Labor Roundtable Campus Organizing -- East Gallery, Buell Hall

Chair: Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University (Political Science)

Shannan Clark, Columbia University (History) GSEU and Local 2110 UAW

Kitty Krupat, New York University (American Studies) GSOC and UAW

Anita Seth, Yale University, Graduate Student Union Representative

2:00-3:30pm

Panel Ten: Women's Movements, Movement Women -- East Gallery, Buell Hall

Chair: Jennifer Tammi, Columbia University (History)

Marcia M. Gallo, City University of New York Graduate Center (History)
"Different Daughters: The Daughters of Bilitis and Lesbian Organizing in the 1950s"

Abigail Lewis, Rutgers University (History)
"The YWCA and the Creation of a 'Woman-Centered' Space in the Civil Rights Movement."

Erik McDuffie, New York University (History)
"'Twenty-Five Hours a Day, Eight Days a Week': Four Black Women Activists in the American Communist Movement During World War II."

Erica Poff, Sarah Lawrence (History)
"The Cadillac Crowd Goes South: Witnessing the Freedom Struggle through Wednesdays in Mississippi, 1964-1965"

Panel Eleven: Unconventional Activisms -- Room 313, Fayerweather Hall

Chair: Nancy Kwak, Columbia University (History)

Guy Geltner, Princeton University (History)
"Fighting from the Ivory Tower: Guillaume de St. Amour and Political Activism at the University of Paris, 1253-1270"

John T. McGuire, State University of New York, College at Oneonta (History)
"From Union Square to Plowshares: The Catholic Worker Movement, 1933-2000"

Janice Traflet, Columbia University (History)
"Shareholder Activism: A Relic in Need of Reviving"

Workshop Four: Radical Teaching -- Room 310, Fayerweather Hall

Chair: Johanna Fernandez, Columbia University (History)

Corey Dolgon, Worcester State College (Sociology)
"Democracy is In the Streets: An Alternative History for Service Learning"

Eileen Eagan, University of Southern Maine (History)
"Teaching Student Activism in Historical Perspective"

3:30pm-5:00pm

Panel Twelve: Art as Activism -- Room 310, Fayerweather Hall

Chair: Sharon Musher, Columbia University (History)

John P. Bowles, University of California, Los Angeles (Art History)
"Activism as Art, Art as Context: Adrian Piper's Political Turn"

Scott Gac, City University of New York, Graduate Center (History)
"Concert By The Hutchinson Family Singers É Abolitionists as Entertainment?"

Mark Andrew Huddle, University of Georgia (History)
"Re/visioning the Counter-Culture: Punk Rock, DIY Culture and the Anti-Authoritarian Left"

Julia Bryan-Wilson, University of California, Berkley (Art History)
"No Art for War: Art Strikes in the Vietnam Era"

Panel Thirteen: Alternative Approaches -- Room 313, Fayerweather Hall

Chair: Unique Fraiser, Rutgers University (History)

Caitlin Love Crowell, Yale University (History)
"The Mingling of Congenial Souls": Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women Activist's Friendship Networks"

Peggy Anne Phillips, University of Miami (History)
"Crestwood and the Wisconsin Idea"

Daniel Rivers, Stanford University (History)
"Radical Motherhood: A History of Lesbian Mothers' Activism in the United States, 1969-1980"

Aaron Wunderlich, University at Albany (Sociology & History)
"The Stelton Modern School"

Roundtable: Fatal Women, Feminist Futures, & the Past That Would Have Been -- East Gallery, Buell Hall

Chair: Temma Kaplan, Rutgers University (History)

Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University (Political Science)
Ellie DiLapi, University of Pennsylvania (Women's Center)

5:00-6:30pm

Closing Faculty Panel -- East Gallery, Buell Hall

Chair: Jim Downs, Columbia University (History)

Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University (History)
Linda Gordon, New York University (History)
Farah Griffin, Columbia University (English and African American Studies)
David Rosner, Columbia University (Public Health and History) and
Gerald Markowitz, City University of New York
Marcia Wright, Columbia University (History)

6:30-7:30pm Social Hour -- East Gallery, Buell Hall

Conference Location:

The conference activities will take place in Buell Hall (printed on the map as Maison Francaise) and Faywerweather Hall, home of the Columbia History Department. Both are located North of 116th , between Broadway and Amsterdam, in the heart of campus. The conference will only use one room in Buell Hall the East Gallery. Several rooms on the third floor of Fayerweather will be used. Check in will be in the Lobby of Buell Hall. The map below can also be found at www.columbia.edu/cu/french/maison/

Conference Co-Directors

Jim Downs and Jennifer Manion

Committee

Aparna Balachandran

Lisa Ford

Laura Hornbake

Nancy Kwak

Tom Mullaney

Ted McCormick

Anatoly Pinsky

Lisa Ramos

Giovanni Ruffini

Jennifer Tappan

James Tejani

Nick Turse

Toru Umezaki

Theresa Ventura

The Committee would like to thank the following people for supporting the conference and for their help in making this event possible: Alan Brinkley, Elizabeth Blackmar, Catherine Clinton, Nancy Hewitt, and Jesse Lemisch

Sponsored by Columbia University History Department and GSAC

In memory of Lynda Hart

For understanding why we dare more

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