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November 17-18, 2005 |
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2005 Registration 12:00 noon ~ 6:00 PM SESSION I The Business of Women Gender and Identity in Early Federalist New
York: Jemima Wilkinson and The Publick
Universal Friend Patricia Murphy, SUNY Geneseo Martha Matilda Harper and the Creation of
the Retail Business Franchise Chair/Comment: Susan Ingalls Lewis, NY, New Paltz Memory, Place and Space The Cinematic Space: Memory, Place, and
Diaspora in “Do the Right Thing” Under Island : The Secret History of
Roosevelt Island Chair/Comment: Karen Mahar, Siena College War in New York State Watershed, Bloodshed: Toward a Social and
Environmental History of the Upper Hudson-
Champlain Valley Corridor in the Age of
Imperial Warfare Chair/Comment: Bruce Eelman, Siena College SESSION II Jewish Criminals in New York The Jews of Sing-Sing American Prison: The Forgotten Jews Bodies and Souls: The Trafficking of Jewish
Prostitutes in the Americas Chair/Comment: Jonathan Karp, Binghamton University, SUNY The Irish in New York: Research, Analysis, and Dissemination New York Through the Lives of Four Irish
Immigrant Families: Using Family History
and Archives The Bellevue Almshouse Project: Public Charity and the Famine Irish in New York City Chair/Comment: Margaret Lynch-Brennan, New York State Education Department The Shop Floor, the Community, and the State: Responses to Business and Labor in New York State The 1906 Foundry Strike and the Creation of the
Open Shop in Buffalo , New York 's Factories
The Tobin Packing Plant: Loving the
Neighbor Who Kills 500 Hogs Per Day
Public Policy Confronts Capital Flight: Business,
Labor, and the ‘Business Climate'
Debate in New York State Chair/Comment: Howard Rick Stanger, Canisius College SESSION III “MINI-SESSSIONS” Women in Song: Women in 19th Century
Traditional Songs of New York State (As Found
in Various Archival Resources Around the State) Standing on the Shoulders of John Homer
French: The Encyclopedia of New York State
in Historical Perspective RECEPTION & LIGHT SUPPER FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
7:15 PM Josiah Allen's Wife: The Marietta Holley Story
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2005 Registration/ Continental Breakfast SESSION IV Roots and Branches: Modern Feminism in New York Women Together: The 1970s Feminist
Movement in Northern New York The ERA Battle in New York and the Rise of
Conservative Women's Activism New York City : Leader of the Nation in Child Care
Chair/Comment: Amy Kesselman, SUNY New Paltz Health, Housing, Labor: Public Policy in New York Reds and Relief: Unemployed Councils and the Creation
of the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration Dual Relief: Needy Families and Public Health
Nurses in Depression-Era New York State Postwar Interracial Public Housing: A Federal,
State and City Venture Chair/Comment: Andrew Morris, Union College Researching Westchester's Suburban Roots ‘Market in the Meadows': The Development and
Impact of Westchester 's Cross County Center Interpreting Glenview : What Story DOES a
House Tell? Westchester : The American Suburb, 1875-2000 Chair/Comment: Charlotte Brooks, University at Albany, SUNY SESSION V Discovery, Recovery, and Representation: Marietta Holley and the North Country Biographical Research and the Pursuit of Character From Documents to Documentary: How It Works Grassroots Documentaries: Challenges
of the North Country Using Historical Research: Do It Write! Stories Lost, Stories Found, Stories Told ‘I owe you thtis for Appomattox': U.S. Grant's
Mystery Visitor a Mount McGregor William H. Miner: A North Country Legend & His Legacy Chair/Comment: Erin Crissman, Historic Cherry Hill Culture, Identity and Community Community Mothering in Action: The Beginning
of the South Side Community Center,
Ithaca , New York , 1938 Sports Clubs and Community Identities
Among Spanish Immigrants to New York City Chair/Comment: Andor Skotnes, Sage Colleges LUNCH KEYNOTE Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in
Antebellum New York SESSION VI “MINI SESSIONS” In Three Voices: A Theatrical Reading of the
Writings of Julia, Mary, and Hatti The Machine and the River Front: From City
Beautiful to City Practical in Albany , NY , 1900-1922 SESSION VII Gendered Civic Life Matilda Joslyn Gage and
the Women's Vote of 1880 “Progess and Poverty:” Marguerite Moore,
An Irish Catholic Woman in the American
Reform Tradition Creating a World for Women Citizens: Suffolk
County Women 's Clubs, 1896-1930 Chair/Comment: Alison Parker, SUNY, Brockport Celebration and Commemoration “The Character of Our Common Country:” Celebration and Social Change in New York , 1825 Jane Ladouceur, College of St. Rose Building the De Witt Clinton Monument in
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn Great Festivals and Modern Memory: The
Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Celebrations of
1909 and 1959 Chair/comment: Melinda Lawson, Union College Object Lessons: The Research and Material Culture of New York City, 1820-1920 Silver as Evidence: Silversmith William Gale
and the Social Landscape of Antebellum New
York City A.A. Vantine and Yamanaka: Purveyors of
Two Kinds of ‘Japanese Arts,' 1895-1920” Chair/Comment: Douglas McCombs, Albany Institure of History and Art SESSION VIII Rethinking Martin Van Buren: a Roundtable RECEPTION & BOOK SIGNINGS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CLOSING PLENARY |