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| SUNDAY, JULY 14 Introduction to the Institute |
12:30 PM 1 PM 1:35 PM 2:45 PM 3 PM 3:30 PM 5 PM | Lunch, Registration Introductions - Donna Thompson and Josh Brown Overview and discussion of week's agenda - Donna Keynote Speaker: Louis Masur, Picturing the U.S. Past Break Whole group discussion Featured Speaker: Randy Bass, What is the Learning in Learning to Look? Group dinner: Edward's, 136 W. Broadway (btw Duane and Thomas Streets)- 212.333.6436 |
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ASSIGNED READING: Louis Masur, "Reading Watson and the Shark," New England Quarterly 67 (September 1994): 427-454. Katharine Martinez, "Imaging the Past: Historians, Visual Images and the Contested Definition of History," Visual Resources 11 (1995): 21-45. |
| MONDAY, JULY 15 Slavery and Sectional Conflict |
9 AM 10:45 AM 11 AM 11:30 AM 12 Noon 1 PM 2:15 PM 2:30 PM 3-4:30 PM |
Featured Speaker: Peter Wood, Imaging Slavery, Sectional Conflict and Reconstruction Break Emancipation Revisited - John McClymer e-reflective writing Lunch Slavery and Sectional Conflict:Inquiry Learning Activities - David Jaffee and Gloria Harper Dickinson Break Small group discussion NMC National Faculty Project: Digital Storytelling - Discussion and Writing - Tracey Weis and Randy Bass |
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ASSIGNED READING: Peter Wood, "Waiting in Limbo: A Reconsideration of Winslow Homer's 'The Gulf Stream'," in The Southern Enigma: Essays in Race, Class, and Folk Culture, ed. Walter J. Fraser Jr. and Winfred B. Moore Jr. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983): 75-94. Albert Boime, "Burgoo to Bourgeois: The Images of a Border-State Consciousness," in The Art of Exclusion: Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990), 125-152. |
| TUESDAY, JULY 16 The Postbellum West |
9 AM 10:45 AM 11 AM 11:30 AM 12 Noon 1 PM 3 PM 4 PM |
Featured Speaker: Kirsten Swinth, The Post-Civil War West Break Small group/whole group discussion - Donna Thompson e-reflective writing Lunch Online Archives: Product or By-Product of Learning - Susan Kilgore and Bill Condon Standards and Visual Literacy - Leila Rivard, Cathy Smith and Jan McFarlane Why Create My Own Course Materials?: Looking at Publishers' eSupplements for U.S. History - David Jaffee |
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ASSIGNED READING: William Cronon, "Telling Tales on Canvas: Landscapes of Frontier Change," in Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), 37-87. Joni Louise Kinsey, Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), 43-92. |
| WEDNESDAY, JULY 17 The Turn of the Century City |
9 AM 10:45 AM 11 AM 11:30 AM 12 Noon 1 PM 3 PM |
Featured Speakers: Josh Brown and Pennee Bender, The Turn of the Century City Break Learning from Art Historians: The CUNY Graduate Center Learning to Look Program - David Jaffee e-reflective writing Lunch Collaborating with Local Museums and Historical Societies: Problems and Possibilities - Tracey Weis (facilitator), Cynthia Copeland (New-York Historical Society), and Eliza Fabillar (American Social History Project) Choice Workshops Scanning Images Using PhotoShop (Andrea Ades Vasquez) Copyright and Research Issues for Visual Resources (Lauren Mucciolo) Dreamweaver (Andre Pitanga) Blackboard (Susan Oliver) or Free Time |
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ASSIGNED READING: Joshua Brown, "'A Spectator of Life‹-A Reverential, Enthusiastic, Emotional Spectator,'" American Quarterly 49:2 (June 1997): 356-84. Neil Harris, "Iconography and Intellectual History: The Halftone Effect," in New Directions in American Intellectual History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), 196-211. |
| THURSDAY, JULY 18 The Great Depression and the New Deal |
9 AM 10:45 AM 11 AM 11:30 AM 12 Noon 1 PM 3 PM |
Featured Speaker: Alan Trachtenberg, The Great Depression and the New Deal Break Levels or Layers of Connotation: Photographs of the Farm Security Administration - Susan Oliver e-reflective writing Lunch Peeling Back the Layers - Learning to Look at Dorothea Lange's Work NMC National Faculty Project: Dorothea Lange Project - Discussion & Writing - Susan Oliver Demonstrations of ASHP/CML (NML) new media projects: The Lost Museum - LeeAnn Pomplas Bruening The September 11 Digital Archive - Fritz Umbach Virtual New York - Luke Waltzer Labor at the Crossroads - Simin Farkhondeh 19th Century Photography in the Age of Digital Reproduction - Fernando Azevedo Museum Night: The Jewish Museum, The New Museum of Contemporary Art |
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ASSIGNED READING: Lawrence Levine, "The Historian and the Icon: Photography and the History of the American People in the 1930s and 1940s," in Documenting America, 1935-1943, ed. Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly W. Brannan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), 15-42. Alan Trachtenberg, "From Image to Story: Reading the File," in Documenting America, 1935-1943, 43-73. Maren Stange, "'Symbols of Ideal Life': Tugwell, Stryker, and the FSA Photography Project," in Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890-1950 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 89-131. |
| FRIDAY, JULY 19 Planning for the Year (half-day) |
9 AM 9:45 AM 10:45 AM 11 AM 12 Noon 2 PM |
Reflective writing exercise: Looking back at the
week's experience - Donna and Bill Condon Planning for the Year Ahead - Donna Tools for program documentation Issues for new Centers How we will work together Break Sharing plans Wrap-up, evaluations - Donna and Josh Lunch Individual meetings as necessary End |