American Studies Conference at Fairfield University
Saturday, March 24, 2018, 12:00pm - Saturday, March 24, 2018, 06:00pm
American Studies Conference
At Fairfield University
The 6th Annual American Studies Conference
"Memory and Nation"
Saturday March 24, 2018, 12-6pm
Kelley Center Presentation Room
at Fairfield University
(Free and open to the public)
Schedule
12:00pm Welcome by Dr. Peter L. Bayers, Director of American Studies, Professor of English
12:10 - 1:05pm Panel 1: Tuneful Memories: Shaping American Memory Through Music and Song
Arthur Gang: August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” and the Search for Memory and Song
Alec Luri: Bitter Tears: When Johnny Cash Went Native
Erik Novoa: The Neutered Super Bowl: Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, and the Fumble of a Nation
Chair: Dr. Peter L. Bayers, Professor of English and Director of American Studies
1:05 - 2:20pm Panel 2: The Politics of Memory: Imaging, Remembering, and Creating American Political Identity
Kate Shannon: The New York City Merchants’ Struggle to Compromise with Southern Planters (1830-1861)
Cameron Barrett: Political Gerrymandering: Late Twentieth Century to Present and Southern Realignment
Kelly Kortes: Modern Day Moynihan: The Black Family and the State
John Paul Simon: The Frontier and The Wall
Chair: Dr. Gwen Alphonso, Associate Professor of Politics
3:25 - 4:20pm Panel 3: Heros and Battles: War and the Construction of National and Local Memory
Elizabeth Cavanaugh: Marching Toward Equality: African American Soldiers and the Black Press during World War I
Bryan Czel: Joseph Roswell Hawley: A True Patriot for Connecticut and the Nation
Caoimhe Stafford: Why Was the Rebel Resistance in Fairfield, Connecticut of Particular Annoyance to the British During the Revolutionary War?
Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Hohl, Assistant Professor of History
2:25 - 3:20pm Panel 4:Growing Divisions: Race, Refugees, and Immigrants
Erica Jowdy: American Mythology and Borderland Identity: A Redefinition of the ‘Dream’
Pamela Kask: Left to Discover that She Was Gone: Carrie’s Methods of Survival in Theodore Dreiser’s “Sister Carrie”
Marisa Molea: Francisco Frank Norris’ “McTeague” and Homosexuality in San Francisco
Olivia McEvoy: Progressive Era and Postcards: The Development of the American City
Chair: Dr. Peter L. Bayers, Professor of English and Director of American Studies
4:30 - 5:30pm Keynote with Jennifer Ladino, PhD (University of Idaho)
"Memorials Matter: Monumental Affects and Emotional Environments in American Culture"
David R. Roediger, Ph.D: What Is This White in White Working Class?
Introduction by Dr. Peter L. Bayers, Professor of English and Director of American Studies
5:30 - 6:30pm Reception
Location
Fairfield University (Kelley Center)
Kelley Center, Loyola Dr.
Fairfield, CT
Fairfield University: 1073 N Benson Rd, Fairfield, CT 06824
