First Urban Cultural Winter Faculty Symposium - Saturday, February 25, 2005 9am – 3:30 pm
Plenaries by Ann Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Harvard University (“Tracking Intellectual Footsoldiers in Early Modern Europe: Reflections on Praxis and Method in Centers of Print Culture”) and Tilottama Rajan, Canada Research Chair in English and Theory, Western Ontario, University of Western Ontario (“The Prose of the World: Romanticism, the Nineteenth Century, and the Reorganization of Knowledge”). Faculty presentations on research, teaching and service using urban cultural history by:
Nancy Stieber, Art Dept.
Ana Aparicio, Anthropology Dept.
Alex Des Forges, Modern Languages Dept.
Judy Smith, American Studies Dept.
Woodruff Smith, History Dept.
Conclusing discussion of future of a Center for Urban Cultural History. Symposium Program
10:00am-2:30pm, Campus Center, Bayview Conference Room 3540 Lunch Provided
This symposium was devoted to faculty interests related to historical and contemporary urban culture. There were presentations, discussions, and workshops dealing with interdisciplinary work as it relates to research and/or teaching projects, collaborative research, teaching, or grant projects with others interested in similar areas of concentration.
Faculty Seminar: March 22, Pepi Leistyna, Applied Linguistics, presented his new documentary film, "Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class" (2006)
Faculty Seminar: April 10, Esther Kingston-Mann, History Dept, "The Return of Pierre Proudhon: Property rights, crime, and the rules of law"
Urban Spaces lecture: April 21, Nancy S. Seasholes, Urban Historian, presented a slide lecture based on her book, Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston (MIT Press, 2002)
Urban Green Spaces Lecture: May 1, Patricia Klindienst, author, read from her new book, "The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Memory, and Justice in the Gardens of Ethnic America" (Beacon Press, 2006)
The Betty and Matt Flaherty Lecture, September 18, 2006, "Gaining Ground in South Boston"
Dr. Nancy Seasholes presented "Gaining Ground in South Boston," a slide lecture on the history of landmaking in South Boston and its surrounds. The evening included a discussion with Dr. Seasholes following her lecture and a reception.
Documenting Cities Lecture: September 26, Mark Cooper, Boston College, Making Art Together: How Collaborative Art-Making Can Transform Kids, Classrooms, and Communities (Beacon Press, 2006)
Faculty Seminar: Oct 23 Pam Jones, Art Dept., speaking on Saint Charles Borromeo’s Self-Fashioning.
The 2006 Urban Spaces Symposium: October 26, 2006 "Urban Green Spaces, Buried Memory"Presentations by:
Documenting Cities Lecture, November 10, Linda Morganroth, discussion of her book Boston Firsts: 40 Feats of Innovations and Invention that Happened First in Boston and Helped Make America Great (2006)
Faculty Seminar: November 20, Malcolm Smuts, History Dept., presenting the introduction to Political Culture, State Formation and the Problem of Religious War in Britain, c. 1580-1642.
Faculty Seminar: Dec. 4, John White, GCOE, speaking on religious history in Later 19 th-century Ireland.
Documenting Cities Lecture: Feb. 22, 2007, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919,
Lecture by UMB alum Stephen Puleo on the Great Molasses Flood that took place in Boston in the early part of the 20th century from his book
Faculty Seminar: Feb. 26 Eve Sorum, English Dept., "Narrating No Man's Land in Parade's End"
Urban Spaces Symposium: February 27, 2007 "Built Spaces: Museums and Their Publics"
Rountable Discussion by:
With Scholarly Response by Andrew McClellan, Tufts University, and Roundtable Moderation by Paul Tucker, Art Dept.
Faculty Seminar:March 26, Elora Chowdhury, Women’s Studies Dept, “Re/Genderings: A Feminist Reading of Race and Nation Within a Global economy”
Faculty Seminar: April 23, Matthew Brown, English Dept., speaking on "The Spatial Constructions of Terror and Terrorism"
Documenting Cities Conference: April 27, 2007 "The Documenting Cities Hypermedia Conference"
Hypermedia Projects presented by:
Roundtable Moderator: Malcolm Smuts, UMB History Dept.
Documenting Cities Hypermedia Conference: Photos and Lectures
The Flaherty Urban Cultural History Student Award
Inauguration of this prize. A $500 prize for the best undergraduate project in the CLA on or relating to urban cultural history.
May 3rd at 6pm, May 4 and 5 at 8pm, May 6 at 2pm, May 8 and 9 at 6pm in the McCormack Theatre, McCormack Blding, 2nd fl. $7 students, $10 general admission
UMB Student Performance of this late 18th-century play, The Witlings, with lecture by British drama specialist Thomas Crochunis following the May 6th, 2pm performance.
Lecture, Discussion and Reception. September 10, 2007 5:30-7:30pm Healey Library 0011B
Faculty Seminar: Oct 15, Neal Bruss, English Dept., “C. S. Peirce on the Job: Alexander Dallas Bache’s Nineteenth-Century American Research Revolution and its Legacy for the Composition Pedagogy of Urban Public Higher Education”
Presentations by Jean Humez, Women's Studies; David Landon, The Fiske Center; Luis Apontes-Pares, CPCS; Vincent Cannato, History; Shirley S. Tang, American Studies
Faculty Seminar: Nov 14, Thomas Johnson, History Dept.; “The Old Slavery and the New”
Faculty Seminar: March 31, Ananya Vajpeyi, History Dept, "Righteous Republic: The Political Foundation sof Modern India"
Faculty Seminar: April 28, Leonard von Morze, English Dept, "Intellectural History: Commerce, Character and Credit"
Urban Spaces Lecture I, February 29, "Destruction Layer: Tracing Palestine Inside Israel"
Linda Dittmar, UMB Emeritus, English Dept, and Deborah Bright, Rhode Island School of Design, Photography Dept.
Urban Spaces Lecture I I, March 5, Gwendolyn Wright, Professor of Architecutre, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, "Excavating the History of American Modern Architecture"
Urban Populations and Mobility Symposium: March 28, "Gender and Cultural Significance"
Presenters:
Urban Spaces Conference: April 25-26, Cosmopolitan Culture, Consumption and the Making of Taste, 1600-1770, co-sponsored with the Confucious Institute, April 25-26, Healey Library 0011B
April 25th, 5-7:45pm, Coffee tasting by Peets Coffee, Chocolate tasting by Sparrow Chocolates. Plenaries by Marcy Norton, George Washington University and Brian Cowan, McGill University
April 26th, 9am - 4:30pm, Plenaries by Linda Levy Peck, George Washington University and Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California Irvine. Panel talks by: Tamara Griggs, University of Chicago; Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University; Joanne Waley-Cohen, New York University; Timothy Brooks, Oxford University and University of British Columbia; Nancy Berliner, The Peabody Essex Museum.
The Betty and Matt Flaherty Lecture: September 15, Arthur Krim, Urban Historian, “Route 66: Iconography of an American Highway”
Faculty Seminar: September 29, Woodruff Smith, History Dept., “Morality, the Public Sphere, and the Construction of Social Categories in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.”
RCUCH Urban Spaces Symposium: October 6, "Constraint and Mobility in the City"
Talks by: Tyrone Simpson, Vassar College; Betsy Klimasmith, UMB English; Sarah Luria, Holy Cross
Faculty Seminar: October 20, Malcolm Smuts, History Dept., will present his work-in-progress on "France, England and the Protestant Atlantic, c. 1580-1640"
Urban Ecohistory Symposium: Ecopoetics and Cultural History Symposium: Featuring Jonathan Skinner, Bates College, “Time, Extinction, Language: Poetry at the Wetlands Ecotone”; Bonnie Costello, Boston University, “Ecopoetics and the Pastoral Elegy”; Eve Corum, UMass Boston, “Prosodic Places: Geography and Meter in Hardy’s Elegies”; Patrick Barron, UMass Boston, Moderator
Documenting Cities Symposium: November 10, "City, Cindad, Ciudad, Cité: Teaching & Thinking Cities, presentations by UMB Honors students
Urban Populations and Mobility Lecture:"East Meets West,"November 17, Lecture By Ross Forman, Singapore University,
"Universal Omnivores and Universal Expositions: Chinese Food in Late 19th-Century Britain"
Urban Populations and Mobility Symposium: November 18, "Gender, Trade, and Western Interventions in China"
Speakers:
Faculty Seminar: December 4, Rajini Srikanth, Honors Program and English Dept.: "Proximate Antipathy versus Distant Empathy"
Urban Ecohistory Lecture: February 27, “Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place” Film Screening. Talk by Henry Ferrini
Faculty Seminar: March 30, Marisol Negron, American Studies, Whose “Latin” Thing? The Spaces, Cultural Practices, and Discourses of the 1970s New York Salsa “Boom”
Urban Spaces Symposium: Terror: An Interdisciplinary Conference For UMB Students, March 25
Speakers:
Urban Populations and Mobility Lecture: April 7, Ruth Butler Lecture Professor Emerita. Discussing her book, Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, and Rodin (Yale University Press, 2008)
Faculty Seminar: April 20, Michael Jaros, Salem State, presenting on 20th-century Irish Literature
Urban Ecohistory Lecture: Michael Branch, April 28, "Ladder to the Pleiades" and "The V.E.C.T.O.R.L.O.S.S. Project," from his current project, a book of environmental, place-based nonfiction tentatively titled "Home Work.”
