American Studies Conference at Fairfield University
Saturday, March 25, 2017, 12:00pm - Saturday, March 25, 2017, 06:00pm
American Studies Conference
At Fairfield University
The 5th Annual American Studies Conference
The Divided States of America
Saturday March 25, 2017, 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: Evolving Division: Feminists, Catholics, and Gays
Sandra DiDonato: “Leaning In” May Mean We’ll Never Kick Back: Neoliberalism and Women’s Empowerment in America
Richard Burke: Donald Trump and the Protestant/Catholic Divide
Steven Shymanksy: The Gay Rights Movement in America: The Most American or Un-American Thing
Chair: Dr. Peter L. Bayers, Professor of English and Director of American Studies
1:15 - 2:10pm Panel 2: Bridging Divisions: God, Disco, and Jeans
Allen Brown: Ultra Light Beams: God Dreams and Discursive Nightmares
Erik Novoa: Disco/Hustle: The Social Unification Party of the 1970s Amidst Many Divisions
Anya Cullen: Liberal Jeans: Progressivism and Levi Strauss & Co.
Chair: Dr. Johanna Garvey, Associate Professor of English
2:20 - 3:15pm Growing Divisions: Race, Refugees, and Immigrants
Delicia Alarcón: Across Political Divisions: The Lasting Appeal of the “Tangle of Pathology;” Race, Poverty and Family in American Politics
Olivia McEvoy: Dream: the Lumber 84 Commercial “The Whole Journey”
Camille Giacovas: Resilience and Refugees: The Twisted Tale of a Teenage(ish) Wasteland
Chair: Dr. Anna Lawrence, Associate Professor of History
3:25 - 4:20pm Reconstructing Divisions: Slavery, Family, and Schools
Andrew Mitchell Davenport: Tell Me That: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the American Imagination
Matt Pavia: A Time to Act: The Desegregation of the Stamford Public Schools, 1961-1973
Katie Henderson: Reluctant Emancipation in the Abolitionist Strongholds: Slave Agency and the Transitional Trials of Emancipation in Revolutionary New England
Chair: Dr. Gwen Alphonso, Associate Professor of Politics
4:30 - 5:30pm Keynote with David R. Roediger, Ph.D (University of Kansas Foundation Professor of American Studies)
David R. Roediger, Ph.D: What Is This White in White Working Class?
Introduction by Dr. Cecelia F. Bucki, Professor of History
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
