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2008-2009 Main Events
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April 17, 2009: In collaboration with the Honors Program at Lincoln Center, American Studies sponsored a Tour of Green-Wood Cemetery, led by Jeff Richman, the official cemetery historian. We learned the history of Green-Wood, and viewed the final resting place of Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Horace Greeley, Samuel Morse, and others.
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April 1, 2009: American Studies sponsored a lecture by Benjamin Reiss, Associate Professor of English at Emory University: “Saneface Minstrelsy: Blacking Up in a Nineteenth-Century Insane Asylum,” drawn from Reiss’s recent work exploring the connections between early psychiatric institutions and cultural currents in the nineteenth century in his book Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. |
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March 3-4, 2009: American Studies sponsored the appearances of performance studies scholar, oral historian, and performance artist E. Patrick Johnson. On March 3 at CUNY’s Proshansky Auditorium, Johnson presented Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales, a one-person show in which Johnson embodies the stories of some of the men he interviewed for his book Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South. Sweet Tea is based on conversations with more than 70 black gay men, ranging in age from 19 to 93, who were born, raised, and continue to live in the southern U.S. Then on March 4 at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus he presented "Going Home Ain't Always Easy: Southern (Dis)Comfort and the Politics of Queer Historiography" a lecture on the ethical conundrums of conducting oral history research and the politics of moving it from the page to the stage.
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February 12, 2009: As part of a Mellon Seminar co-organized with the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute, American Studies sponsored a discussion with Professor Juan Flores of NYU and CUNY on his book The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribbean Latino Tales of Learning and Turning. |
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November 21, 2008: American Studies sponsored a lecture by Sean McCann, Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University and author of A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government and Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism, which received honorable mention for the American Studies Association's John Hope Franklin Prize for the best book in American Studies The lecture was titled "Everybody is a Leader": Thomas Pynchon, the New Left, and the High Tide of Presidential Government.” |
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November 8, 2008: American Studies hosted the New York Metro American Studies Association‘s annual conference. Attended by over 100 scholars from the region and beyond, representing multiple disciplines (including anthropology, communications, literary studies, history, sociology) and interdisciplinary fields, this year’s conference was organized around the theme Circulations: Economies, Currencies, Movements in American Studies and culminated in a roundtable discussion featuring scholars from Fordham, CUNY, University of Maryland, and St. Johns.
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December 2007: American Studies senior theses |
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