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American Studies Weekly Newsletter, April 22, 2008
American Studies is now offered at the Lincoln Center campus, too. Professor Daniel Contreras will lead a tour of El Museo del Barrio on May 3. And Professor James Kim is offering a summer graduate course in Asian American Studies , which is open to undergraduates . And there are two calls for papers attached, one for a graduate student conference, one for the New York Metro ASA conference. For details, read on.....
American Studies to be offered at Lincoln Center Campus
Effective immediately , the American Studies major will be offered at Lincoln Center! For many years American Studies has been available only to Rose Hill students, but we've just received official approval to extend the major to the Lincoln Center campus. If you have friends or students at Lincoln Center who might be interested in considering a major in American Studies, please put them in touch with Professor Hendler at amerstudies@fordham.edu . They can find details of the requirements for the major--as well as lists of the courses to be offered at both campuses in 2008-2009--at http://www.fordham.edu/AmericanStudies .
Summer Graduate course, open to undergraduates in Asian American Studies
Tuesdays and Thursdays, May 27-June 26, 1-4pm. Professor James Kim is offering a summer graduate course--open to undergraduates--on "Current Issues in Asian American Studies" ( ENGA-5915-L11) The course will examine recent work of Asian American literature as well as cutting edge research in the field of Asian American Studies. Some of the writers will visit the seminar in person, giving students an exciting opportunity to discuss the contemporary Asian American literary scene with some of its most important voice. In addition to class meetings, students will participate in a two-day symposium entitled "Future Asian Americas." Both the seminar and the symposium will take place at Lincoln Center. Professor Kim is eager to get American Studies students involved. For more information, see the attached flyer or contact Professor Kim at bjakim@fordham.edu. To register, www.fordham.edu/academics/summer_session .
Mark your calendars! A special opportunity for American Studies students!
Saturday May 3 at 2pm , Professor Daniel Contreras will lead a tour of the current featured exhibit at the Museo del Barrio , " Arte ≠Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000 . " This should be of great interest to American Studies students and others. Professor Contreras will meet all those interested at the museum (1230 Fifth Avenue, at 104th Street) and provide historical and aesthetic context for some selected works. If you're an American Studies major or minor, the program will pay your admission; otherwise, student admission is $4. You don't need to reserve a space, but it would help to have a sense of the numbers, so please RSVP to amerstudies@fordham.edu .
Fordham events
Today : Tuesday, April 22, 8:30am-5pm. Pulpit Politics: Gender, Religion, and Social Justice in 2008." Keynote speaker: Donna Brazile, political commentator and chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute. McNally Auditorium, Law School, Lincoln Center campus. Sponsored by the Center for Ethics Education and the Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy. Free and open to the public. For more information: www.PulpitPolitics.org
Wednesday, April 23 , 6pm . "Catholics in New York ," a lecture held in conjunction with an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York and the publication of Catholics in New York 1808-1846 by Fordham University Press. Speakers: Bernadette McCauley (Hunter College); James T. Fisher (Fordham); David Gibson , (filmmaker and journalist). Moderator: Terry Golway (Kean University). Sponsored by the Archbishop Hughes Institute on Religion and Culture. Free and open to the public; refreshments will be served. McNally Amphitheatre, 140 W. 62nd St. For more information: 718-817-3185.
Wednesday, April 23, 2:30-5:45pm, and -Thursday, April 24, 11:30-2:15. The International Studies program is holding an important mini-conference this coming Wednesday and Thursday. It will feature subtantive panels on important issues, a panel on careers in international studies/affairs and a reception. 113 West 60th Street. For more information, contact Professor Tom Deluca at tdeluca@fordham.edu
Upcoming New York City Events
Thursday, April 24 , 6:30-8:00pm. A conversation between Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan and James P. Rubin , former Chief Spokesman for the State Department, on Kaplan's new book DayDream Believers: How We Went to War . Baruch College, Newman Conference Center, 151 E. 25th St., 7th Floor (between Lexington and Third Avenues). Free. RSVP: visit ccc.cencom.org , email info@cencom.org , or call 212-686-5005.
Saturday, April 26 , 8:45am-2pm. "Nueva York: The Long History of Gotham's Ties to the Spanish-Speaking World." A conference featuring papers by Mike Wallace, Carmen Boullosa, Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Lisandro Perez, and James D. Fernández. Columbia University, 1150 Amsterdam Ave., Philosophy Hall, Rm. 301. Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 , 6:30pm . “Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn- of-the-Century New York,” a forum at the Gotham Center for New York City History with Bonnie Yochelson , curator and author of Berenice Abbott: Changing New York , and Daniel Czitrom , Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College. Recital Hall, Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th St. For more information email gotham@gc.cuny.edu , call 212-817-8474 or go to http://www.gothamcenter.org/forums/current.shtml .
Through June 29, 2008 . Plague in Gotham! Cholera in Nineteenth-Century New York . At the New-York Historical Society. For more info click here .
Calls for papers
The New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) is accepting proposals for papers to be delivered at its 2008 conference. The theme is Circulations: Economies, Currencies, Movements in American Studies , and the conference will be held Saturday, November 8, 2008 from 9:00am-5:30pm at a location to be announced in New York City.
University of Maryland Graduate Student conference : Rethinking Empire and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . November 7-8, University of Maryland, College Park.
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