American Studies Conference at Fairfield University
Saturday, March 30, 2019, 12:00pm - Saturday, March 30, 2019, 06:30pm
The 7th Annual American Studies Conference
"Protest in American Culture"
Saturday March 30, 2019, 12:00-6:30pm
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
12:05 - 1:05pm PANEL 1: BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM
Oliva McEvoy and Alec Lurie: “Fairfield’s Rebellious Slaves: Their Methods and Tactics”
Arthur Gang: Plessy v. Ferguson: Some Citizens Are Less Equal Than Others
Kate Shannon: “Learning Through Protest: The Experience of Northern Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement”
Chair: Peter L. Bayers, PhD, Director of American Studies and Professor of English
1:10 - 2:10pm PANEL 2: PROTESTING WAR, PROTESTING VIOLENCE
Patrick Carpinelli: “Unrest in America During the Vietnam War”
Matt Pavia: “The Ghosts of Vietnam: the Shadow-Legacy of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement”
Sabina Dirienzo: “Bodies in the Streets: Precarity and Parkland”
Chair: Louise Palmer, PhD, Department of History
2:15 - 3:15pm PANEL 3: EMBODYING PROTEST – WOMEN, LABOR, AND DISABILITY RIGHTS
Erynn Murphy: “From Suffrage to the Women’s March: Women’s Marches and Protests in American History”
Danielle Sahni: “Building Steam and Catching Fire: Jewish Protest After Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire”
Justine Spina: “The Protest for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act”
Chair: Dr. Johanna Garvey, Associate Professor of English and Director of Black Studies
3:20 - 4:30pm PANEL 4: EXPRESSING PROTEST THROUGH ART — AMERICA AND NATIVE AMERICA
Emily Pepe: “Deferring the Dream? The Call for Civil Rights in the Poetry of Langston Hughes”
Erik Novoa: “Dance as Protest in America”
Chelsea Garth: “Native American Ledger Drawings: Acts of Cultural Preservation and Artistic Activism”
Brendan McCarthy: “The Paradox of Justice within Louise Erdrich’s Round House”
Chair: Emily Orlando, PhD, E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities & Social Sciences and Professor of English
4:40 - REMARKS
Peter L. Bayers, PhD Director of American Studies, Professor of English
4:45 - 5:45pm FILM SCREENING: “WARRIOR WOMEN”
Introduction by Dr. Peter L. Bayers, Professor of English and Director of American Studies
KEYNOTE AND Q&A: Madonna Thunder Hawk and Marcella Gilbert, activists and stars of the “Warrior Women” documentary film.
5:45 - 6:30pm Reception
Location
Fairfield University (Kelley Center)
Kelley Center, Loyola Dr.
Fairfield, CT
Fairfield University: 1073 N Benson Rd, Fairfield, CT 06824
