READING AMERICA
Fulbright American Studies Institute
on the United States through Literature

 

Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science,
New School University, New York City
(May 30-July 10, 2002)

Thursday May 30 - Saturday June 1
Sunday June 2 - Saturday June 8
Sunday June 9 - Saturday June 15
Sunday June 16 - Saturday June 22
Sunday June 23 - Saturday June 29
Sunday June 30 - Saturday July 6
Sunday July 7 - Wednesday July 10

READING AMERICA: FULBRIGHT AMERICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE ON THE UNITED STATES TROUGH LITERATURE


CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES, MAY 30-JULY 10, 2002


Review the legend below the tables to identify the location of each session if not indicated in schedule.
Locations during study trips to be announced.


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SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY
May 30

FRIDAY
May 31

SATURDAY
June 1

 

 

 

 

Arrival of Participants

Orientation

9:00-11:00

Welcoming Breakfast and Academic Orientation with Institute Director and Staff
(MACH)

11:00-12:00 Opening of Bank Accounts
(MACH)

12:30 Picture IDs (MACH)

2:00-3:00 Orientation session (MACH)

3:00-4:00 Short tour of University and its neighborhood (incl. library & computing facilitites)

Free Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:30-12:00 Breakfast at Project Director's Home

 

 

 

 

 


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SUNDAY
June 2

MONDAY
June 3

TUESDAY
June 4

WEDNESDAY
June 5

THURSDAY
June 6

FRIDAY
June 7

SATURDAY
June 8

Free Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4:30-7:30 Circle Line Boat Tour around Manhattan Island

 

Constituting America

9:00-11:00 Seminar Session:
D. Plotke, "Founding a Democracy"
(MACH)

 

 

1:30-3:30 Computer Training
(Level 1)
(FOG)

4:00-5:00 Library Training: Susan Gilfert (FOG)

Contextualizing American Studies

9:00-11:00 Introductory Lecture:
J. Veitch, "Mapping American Studies" (MACH)

 

1:00-3:00 Computer Training (Level 2) (FOG)

 

3:30-5:30 Film screening and discussion: "The Empire of Reason," with T. Lyyra (PAR)

Constituting America


9:00-11:00
Seminar Session:
D. Plotke,
"Religion, Community, and Toleration" (MACH)

2:00
Curricular Mtg I:
with J. Veitch and E. Matynia (MACH)

Constituting America


9:00-11:00 Seminar Session:
J. Schell,
"Blind Sovereign: The People, the Media and Democracy in America after 9/11" (MACH)

 

 

1:30-3:30 Workshop: "Reading Today's New York Times" with A. Schiffrin (MACH)

 

 

6:30
Welcoming Reception with the participation of GF Dean Kenneth Prewitt (WOLFF)

Imagining America

9:00-11:00 Seminar Session:
B. Morrow,
"Geography as Metaphor in Ariel's Crossing" (MACH)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4:15 Meeting with Project Director and staff (MACH)

Individual study

 

 

 

 

 

11:00
Visit to the National Museum of the American Indian


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SUNDAY
June 9

MONDAY
June 10

TUESDAY
June 11

WEDNESDAY
June 12

THURSDAY
June 13

FRIDAY
June 14

SATURDAY
June 15

Free Day

Imagining America

9:00-11:00 Seminar Session:
J. Veitch, "The Black Dahlia Murder, Crime Fiction and the Sexual Terrain of the 1940s" (MACH)

 

1:30-3:30 Computer Training (Level 1) (FOG)

4:00 Meeting:
M. Vai, Director of English Language Studies at New School University (MACH)

 

6:00
Film Screening and Discussion: "The Blue Dahlia," with J. Veitch (PAR)

Imagining America

9:00-11:00 Seminar Session:
B. Morrow, "Contemporary Innovative American Literature" (MACH)

1:30-3:30 Computer Training (Level 2) (FOG)

 4:00
On-Site Study: J. Mendelsohn "Literary New York": Guided tour of Greenwich Village

Contextualizing American Studies II

10:30-11:45 Meeting
with K. Prewitt, "Melting Pot or the Global City?" (WOLFF)

 

 

1:30-3:30
Computer Training "HTML and Web Design" (Level 3) (FOG)

 

 

 

  

4:00-6:00
Seminar Session:
S. Wheatley,
"The Search for Global American Studies" at the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS)

Free Day

 

Contextualizing American Studies III

9:00-11:00 Seminar Session:
A. Trachtenberg, "Reflections on American Studies: History, Literature and Visual Culture" (MACH)

1:30-3:30 Computer Training: "American Studies on the Internet" (Levels 1, 2 & 3) (KU)

4:00-5:30 Workshop: "Reading a Contemporary Poem," with R. Polito (MACH)

Free day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 Metropolitan Museum (Tour of the American Wing)

 

 

 

9:00 Evening of Jazz in Greenwich Village


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SUNDAY
June 16

MONDAY
June 17

TUESDAY
June 18

WEDNESDAY
June 19

THURSDAY
June 20

FRIDAY
June 21

SATURDAY
June 22

Becoming American

8:45
On-Site Study:
"Alienation and Assimilation-The Immigrant Experience": Guided Tour of Ellis Island

 

 

Becoming American

9:00-11:00 Seminar Session: C. Wilder, "Immigration and Race Relations in American Literature" (MACH)

 

 

 

 

 

4:00-6:00 Workshop: "Reading In America": Reading by and conversation with S. Sontag (MACH)

Contesting America

9:00-11:00 Seminar Session:
J. Foulkes, "The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Body" (MACH)

 

2:00-4:00
Film screening and discussion "Do the Right Thing," with J. Foulkes (PAR)

 

 

Contesting America

9:00-11:00
Seminar Session:
R. Posnock, "How it Feels to be a Problem: W.E.B Du Bois and the Making of the African-American Intellectual" (MACH)

 

2:00-4:00
Film Screening and Discussion:
"I Remember Harlem" (PAR)

 

 

 

Contesting America

9:00-11:00 Seminar Session: R. Boyers, "James Baldwin's America" (MACH)

 

 

 

4:00 Conversation: "On American Literature," with R. Boyers (MACH)

Contesting America

9:00-11:00
Seminar Session:
R. Boyers, "America as the Archives of Eden" (MACH)

 

4:00-6:00 Curricular Meeting II
with J. Veitch and E. Matynia (MACH)

Free Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7:00 Broadway Theatre:


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SUNDAY
June 23

MONDAY
June 24

TUESDAY
June 25

WEDNESDAY
June 26

THURSDAY
June 27

FRIDAY
June 28

SATURDAY
June 29

On-Site Study:

Day Trip to Harlem:


9:00
Abyssinian Baptist Church Service

10:30-12:30
Guided Tour of Harlem

12:45-2:30
Music Brunch at Sylvia's

Globalizing America

9:00-11:00 Seminar Session:
C. Patell, "Hybridity and Identity in Contemporary U.S. Emergent Literatures" (MACH)

Globalizing America

9:00-11:00 Seminar Session:
A. Snitow, "Feminist Literature: Voices from Women's Liberation" (MACH)

4:00
Curricular Mtg III
with J. Veitch: Finalizing Syllabi (MACH)

Individual Study

9:00-2:00 Completion and Submitting of Syllabi

Individual Study

 

ALL DAY: Packing of books

Contextualizing American Studies IV

9:00-11:00 Seminar Session
J. Veitch, "The Politics of Public Memory: Mythic Geographies and the Lost Histories of the American Provinces" (MACH)

 

 

 

 

 5:00-6:00 Meeting with Project Director and staff (MACH)

Free day

 

 

 11:00 Visit to the Whitney Museum (optional)

 

 

 

 

 

 6:00 Dinner at Project Director's home


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SUNDAY
June 30

MONDAY
July 1

TUESDAY
July 2

WEDNESDAY
July 3

THURSDAY
July 4

FRIDAY
July 5

SATURDAY
July 6

FLocal America

(Santa Fe, NM)

Departure for New Mexico

 

 

 

 

Arrival in Santa Fe

 

 

Local America

(Santa Fe, NM)

10:00-12:00 Seminar Session:
N. S. Momaday, T.B.A.

Free Day

(Santa Fe, NM)

 

Local America

(Santa Fe, NM)

11:00- Tour of Taos Pueblo

 

 

 

 

On-Site Study in Taos: "D.H. Lawrence and Literary New Mexico," with J. Veitch

Local America

(Santa Fe, NM)

10:00-11:30 Seminar Session: D. Lamm, "Santa Fe: At the Confluence of Three Cultures"

 

 

Fourth of July Festivities in the Plaza in Santa Fe

 

Local America

(Santa Fe, NM)

9:00-5:00 On-Site Study: Los Alamos (incl. historical museum and nuclear laboratory) and Bandelier National Monument, with S. Rochester

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FStudy Trip

(Washington, DC)

 Departure for Washington D.C.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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SUNDAY
July 7

MONDAY
July 8

TUESDAY
July 9

WEDNESDAY
July 10

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

Contextualizing American Studies V (Washington, D.C.)

9:00-12:00 Study Tour of Washington, D.C., including the Congress, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Vietnam War Memorial, with B. Mergen

1:30 Reservation at the Holocaust Museum for the permanent exhibit

Afternoon Visit to Smithsonian Institutions, National Gallery or Air and Space Museum (optional)

FStudy Trip

(Washington, DC)

 10:00

Library of Congress

Library of Congress: "American Memory" at National Digital Library, and "American Treasures" exhibit with P. Gifford (Director of Scholarly Programs)

 

6:00-8:00 Graduation Ceremony and Cocktails at the home of S. Myers

Study Trip

(Washington, DC)

 

2:00-4:00 Working Meeting at DOS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:00 Farewell Dinner

Departure of participants

(from Washington, D.C.)

 

 

 

L E G E N D


ACC Academic Computing Center, 65 Fifth Avenue b/w 13th and 14th Sts., 2nd floor.
PAR Parsons Large Auditorium, 66 5th Ave. b/w 12th & 13th Sts., ground floor.
ACLS American Council for Learned Societies, 228 East 45th St.
WOLFF Ernest Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue b/w 13th and 14th Sts., 2nd fl.
FOG Raymond Fogelman Library, 65 Fifth Avenue b/w 13th and 14th Sts., basement.
KU Knowledge Union, 55W. 13th St,b/w 5th and 6th Aves., # 908
MACH Machinist Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue b/w 13th and 14th Sts., mezzanine.

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