Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and its Legacy: One Day Conf, CUNY (Free: Registration Required)

Out of the Smoke and the Flame: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Its Legacy

March 24, 2011; 9 a.m. — 6:30 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016

March 25, 2011, will mark the centennial commemoration of one of the most important events in the history of the U.S. labor movement, the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire. The Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies will cosponsor a one-day national conference that will assess the historical significance of the fire with a focus on its present day legacy, from *9 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 24 *. The conference is free and open to the public but registration is required due to limited space.

We hope you will attend the conference and also circulate this information to the members of your organization.

For registration, more details and the full conference program, visit .

Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU: Historian's Eye with M. Frye Jacobson, Dec. 1

HISTORIAN'S EYE
Matthew Frye Jacobson (Yale University)

“The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.”

—Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1, 2010

4:00-6:00 PM

Dept. of Social & Cultural Analysis

20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor

New York, NY 10003

Beginning as a modest effort in early 2009 to capture the historic moment of our first black president’s inauguration in photographs and interviews, the “Our Better History” project and the Historian’s Eye website have evolved into an expansive collection of some 1300+ photographs and an audio archive addressing Obama’s first term in office, the ’08 economic collapse and its fallout, two wars, the raucous politics of healthcare reform, the emergence of a new right-wing formation in opposition to Obama, the politics of immigration, Wall Street reform, street protests of every stripe, the BP oil spill, and the escalation of anti-Muslim sentiment nationwide. In addition to catching this moment like a firefly in a mason jar, the project seeks to encourage a new relationship to history itself—a mental habit of apprehending the past in the present and history-in-the-making.

Matthew Frye Jacobson is professor of American Studies, History, and African American Studies at Yale and author of five books in the areas of immigration, race, empire, and US political culture.

Next Wed, 11/17: Publication Celebration of RETHINKING U.S. LABOR HISTORY: Tamiment Library

Tamiment Library and Program in Metropolitan Studies invites you to join us in celebrating the publication of

Rethinking U.S. Labor History:

Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756 - 2009

ed. Donna T. Haverty-Stacke and Daniel J. Walkowitz (Continuum International Publishing Group)

With a panel discussion on Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Thoughts on the Recent Past and Future of the Field to include the editor and two of the contributors: Donna Haverty-Stacke CUNY, Hunter College), Daniel Walkowitz (SCA/History, NYU), Eric Arnesen (George Washington University) and Zach Schwartz-Weinstein (American Studies, NYU) with a comment by Michael Nash of the Tamiment Library, NYU

Refreshments to follow.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17

6:00PM - 8:00 PM

Department of Social & Cultural Analysis

New York University

20 Cooper Square, 4th Fl

New York, NY 10003

Tamiment Library

amazon.com

NYU Program in Metropolitan Studies - SCA

Call for Papers: The Conference on New York State History (Proposals Due 12/31)

The Conference on New York State History
COOPERSTOWN
June 2—4, 2011

Sponsored by New York State Historical Association in collaboration with New York State Archives Partnership Trust
Co-sponsored by NewYork Council for the Humanities

Call for Papers Deadline:
December 31, 2010

Submit proposals to:

Field Horne, Conference Chair
Conference on NYS History
Box 215, Saratoga Springs,
NY 12866-0215
(518) 587-4962
conferencechair@nysha.org

Individual paper abstracts, panel proposals,workshop plans, and other program suggestions are invited for the 2011 conference to be held in Cooperstown. Presentations may consider any aspect of the history of New York State over the past 400 years. Diverse theoretical perspectives and innovative methodological approaches are welcomed.

What is the Conference?

The Conference on New York State History is an annual meeting of academic and public historians, librarians and archivists, educators, publishers, and other interested individuals
who come together to discuss topics and issues related to the people of New York State in historical perspective and to share information and ideas regarding historical research, programming, and the networking of resources and services. Ten to fifteen presentation sessions,workshops, and a keynote address permit more than fifty individuals to take part
in the formal program.

Special consideration is accorded first-time presenters, graduate students, and local government historians. The conference is self-sustaining and is organized by a committee
of historians from a variety of institutions across the state. Interested parties are encouraged to discuss proposals and any conference-related ideas with Field Horne, conference chair (e-mail preferred). The Program Committee will meet to consider proposals in mid-January. Applicants will be notified immediately thereafter.

What to submit:

All proposals must be received by December 31, 2010 at 5:00 PM. If at all possible, submit a Word document by e-mail (conferencechair@nysha.org).A proposal should be a one-page description of each 25-minute presentation—not the full manuscript—and must include the following information at the top of the page: paper and/or session titles, names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of all participants, and all equipment needs and scheduling requests. It should also briefly discuss sources,methodology, and argument. All program participants are required to register for the conference.

How to submit:

Send proposals to Field Horne (address and e-mail at left).

Commentators sought:

Qualified commentators for sessions are needed. Please indicate your willingness, with your areas of expertise, in an e-mail to the conference chair.

The Conference on New York State History
COOPERSTOWN
June 2—4, 2011
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center, Suite 9C49
Albany NY 12230

Call for Papers • Deadline December 31, 2010

Internship: American Museum of Natural History North, American Archaeology

The North American Archaeology Department of the American Museum of Natural History is now accepting applications for our Fall Lab Intern Researcher positions. Our fall Intern Researchers will staff the North American Archaeology (NAARCH) Lab. The NAARCH Lab handles, stores, and analyzes a wide variety of artifacts from an extensive temporal and spatial range. Past Lab Researchers have had the opportunity to work with lithics, Native American ceramics, historic European pottery, Spanish colonial material culture, and a large number of other material culture types. Analysis techniques include sorting of fine screen materials, basic lab organization, cataloging, and basic artifact analysis. In addition to lab work, interns will also be considered to take part in our ongoing fieldwork program on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, USA. Our fieldwork package supports room and board, transportation, and a stipend of $12.00 per hour for three weeks.

Individuals interested in joining the NAARCH Lab internship should be highly motivated, patient, and detail-oriented. We will be accepting applications from both upper level undergraduates as well as graduate students. Individuals who have not yet completed their sophomore year need not apply unless they have extensive experience that off-sets their lack of academic training. Prior archaeological experience in either the field or in the lab is not necessary, but will be a factor in our selection.
Lab Researcher positions are unpaid volunteer positions with museum perks while working in the lab in New York. However, if accepted to the field work component, interns are compensated for an average of 130 paid hours. Course credit will be offered to those individuals currently enrolled in an accredited school of higher learning. The term of the internship will be from mid-September through the end of December. The museum asks 18 hours a week (3 days) from its Lab Staff.

Applications will be accepted until August 27th, 2010. Interested applicants should send a resume and a 1-page statement of purpose to rcajigas@amnh.org. Applications may also be sent via mail to:

Rachel Cajigas
Anthropology Department
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West @ 79th Street
New York, New York 10024-5192

The statement of purpose should briefly outline the applicant’s prior experience in archaeology as well as their future plans within the discipline. Individuals with questions should feel free to email rcajigas@amnh.org at the NAARCH Lab.


Rachel Cajigas
Nels Nelson North American Archaeology Lab
Division of Anthropology
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th street
New York, NY 10024
(212) 313-7616

NYU History of the Telescope Conference 4/16-17

The Polytechnic Institute of NYU, the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and the Humanities Initiative at NYU
Present

The History of the Telescope:
Exploring the Boundaries Between Science and Culture

April 16-17, 2010
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor

On April 16-17, NYU will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the invention of the telescope, as leading scholars come together to explore the interfaces between the humanities and social sciences, and science and technology. For two days, humanists, scientists, and engineers will discuss how the instrument's use led not only to a multitude of discoveries and the development of new branches within the physical sciences, but to probing questions about the role and purpose of humanity in the universe. Far from being just a crucial scientific instrument, the telescope since Galileo has served as a potent symbol of aristocratic patronage as well as a genuine threat to received ideas about how the heavens work. From the 18th century to the present, it has conferred power and prestige on those who used it to redefine the origins of the universe. Ethical, political, economic, religious, cultural, and aesthetic ideals converge in this exciting history. By placing the invention and development of the telescope within their proper historical contexts, we can appreciate the role of science in culture as well as the role of culture in framing the scientific enterprise -- and how both scientific and cultural ventures engage creativity and ingenuity.

The Saturday talks will conclude with internationally-acclaimed actor Jay Sanders' readings of key scenes from Robert Goodwin's recent play, "Two Gentlemen of Florence," in which Sanders performed the role of Galileo. Sanders' performance will be followed by a reception.

The event is free and open to the public. To attend, please RSVP on or before Monday, April 12: send an email to cbrown@poly.edu.


Schedule:

Friday, 16 April 2010
2:00 pm: Welcoming and Opening Remarks: Myles W. Jackson, The Dibner Family Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Director of Science and Technology Studies, NYU-Poly, and Professor of the History of Science, Gallatin; Susanne Wofford, Dean of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study of NYU; Jane Tylus, Director of the Humanities Initiative at NYU
2:30 pm: Tom Settle, NYU-Poly and Florence: “When Was the Telescope Possible? The Catalan Background”
3:10 pm: Tom Mayer, Augustana College, "Galileo's Telescope and Roman Elites, 1611: The Casino Malvasia and Vigna Bandini"
3:50 pm: Eileen Reeves: Princeton University, “ ‘Come, give me an instrument’: Telescopes, Trumpets, and Organ Pipes”
4:30-5:30 pm: Questions and Gerneral Discussion
5:30 pm: Remarks by Kurt Becker, Associate Provost NYU-Poly

Saturday, 17 April 2010
9:00 am: Coffee and Bagels
9:30 am: Mario Biagioli, Harvard University, "Did Galileo Copy the Telescope?"
10:10 am: Mordechai Feingold, California Institute of Technology, "Bringing Heaven to the Capacity of All: The Telescope and the Culture of Astronomy from Galileo to Newton"
10:50 am: Myles W. Jackson, NYU-Poly and Gallatin-NYU: “Joseph von Fraunhofer’s Artisanal Optics, Skill, and Experimental Natural Philosophers in the Early Nineteenth Century”
11:30-12:30 pm: Questions and General Discussion
12:30-2:00 pm: LUNCH BREAK
2:00 pm: David DeVorkin, The Smithsonian Institution: “Catch a Falling Star: Meteor and Satellite Trackers: Who Made Them and Why? Who Paid for Them and Why?”
2:40 pm: David Munns, John Jay College: “The Radio Astronomers: New Communities and Knowledge via New Telescopes and Disciples”
3:20 pm: Robert Smith, The University of Alberta: “Telescopes Beyond the Atmosphere: Making Space Astronomy and Building Coalitions”
4:00-5:00 pm: Questions and General Discussions
5:00 pm: Reading by Jay Sanders, from Richard Goodwin’s Two Men of Florence.
6:00 pm: Reception

Bettina Aptheker talk: Queering the History of the American Left, 2/4

Department of Social & Cultural Analysis - New York University

Spring 2009 SCA SPEAKER SERIES Presents:

BETTINA APTHEKER

Professor of Feminist Studies - UCLA
Spring 2010 Visiting Scholar, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, NYU

Queering the History of the American Left: Who "Counts" as Radical?
February 4th, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
20 Cooper Square, 4th Fl

This presentation is based on a project in progress to bring together the queer and the radical left into a historical dialogue, with particular attention to those in and around the Communist Party between the 1940s and the 1980s. In part this is a continuation of an autobiographical journey and, in part, it is about bringing these histories into a unified, if contested and conflicted space, with attention to an intersectional analysis of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Bettina Aptheker is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a visiting professor at NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis in Spring 2010. Her most recent book is a memoir, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became A Feminist Rebel (Seal Press, 2006).

New York City Latin American History Workshop

New York City Latin American History Workshop

Friday, Jan 29, Jocelyn Olcott (Duke), "Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women's Year Conference"

The sessions are from 11 am to 1 pm. They meet at New York University in the Juan Carlos
Center, Room 607, 53 Washington Square South. The paper under discussion is circulated
to the NYCLAHW mailing list one week in advance of the session.

To join the NYCLAHW mailing list or to request the paper, contact Julia del Palacio at
ajd2128@columbia.edu

NYU Archives and Public History Program Brown Bag Lunch

Friday February 5, 12:00-2:00pm
King Juan Carlos Center, room 607
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Centennial
Draper students invited

The Archives and Public History Brown Bag Lunch Series commences this semester on Friday, February 5. This session will feature a discussion of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Centennial celebration, which will occur in March of 2011. Leading members of the Remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Coalition, Sheryl Woodruff and Ruth Sergel, will discuss their goals for the centennial, and invite NYU students and faculty to brainstorm ideas and get involved in the planning process. This centennial is particularly significant for the NYU community as it occurred in what is now NYU's Brown Building of Science, next to the Silver Center.

Remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Coalition was founded to commemorate the massive 1911 industrial disaster that killed 146 workers and inspired a movement for labor rights and social justice. Sheryl Woodruff is the Senior Director of Operations at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. Ruth Sergel is a researcher and adjunct faculty member at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).

Please bring a brown bag lunch. Complimentary drinks and desserts will be provided.

Please RSVP to Kate Dundon kcd206@nyu.edu by Tuesday, February 2.

Museum of Chinese in America Architectural Design Tour & Brown Bag Lunch: Friday, Dec. 4

Museum of Chinese in America
Exhibit and Architectural Design Tour & Brown Bag Lunch
Friday December 4, 12:00-2:00pm
Meet at MOCA- 215 Centre Street- at noon

The Archives and Public History Brown Bag Lunch Series presents the final brown bag for the semester this Friday, December 4. This session will feature a tour of the Museum of Chinese in America led by MOCA staff. The tour will be followed by an open question and answer session. Founded in 1980, the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) is dedicated to preserving and presenting the history, heritage, culture and diverse experiences of people of Chinese descent in the United States. The greatly expanded MOCA at 215 Centre Street is a national home for the precious narratives of diverse Chinese American communities, and strives to be a model among interactive museums.

Please RSVP to Keara Duggan kearadugganATgmailDOTcom by Thursday, December 3.

Third Annual Leon Levy Lecture

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE THIRD ANNUAL LEON LEVY LECTURE
Thursday, November 5, 6:00 pm
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

ISAW is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education, intended to cultivate comparative and connective investigations of the ancient world. It features doctoral and post- doctoral programs, with the aim of training a new generation of scholars who will enter the global academic community and become intellectual leaders. In an effort to embrace a truly inclusive geographical scope while maintaining continuity and coherence, the Institute focuses on the shared and overlapping periods in the development of cultures and civilizations around the Mediterranean basin, and across central Asia to the Pacific Ocean.

*The Historian in the Future of the Ancient World: A View from Central Eurasia
*PRESENTED BY

Nicola Di Cosmo
Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies
Institute for Advanced Study

*Third Annual Leon Levy Lecture
Thursday, 6:00 pm
November 5, 2009*

Oak Library
ISAW Building
15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028

*RSVP:*
212.992.7818
isaw@nyu.edu

Much of the making of the ancient world has to do with the movement of peoples, and with the languages, genes, and material cultures they carried from place to place. Central Eurasia from the Pontus to the Baikal was a major theater of population movements from the dispersal of the Indo-Europeans to the migratory waves of the early Middle Ages. While often met with skepticism, the recent encounter between molecular biology and genetic studies with linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology has heralded radical changes in the study of the ancient world, if nothing else because all these disciplines have consequently been thrown into closer contact with each other. A dialogue has developed among geneticists, linguists, archaeologists and anthropologists over the past twenty-some years that, while sometimes dissonant and acrimonious, has produced ideas and data that may prove useful for historical research. How should the historian of the ancient world view this development? Does the historian have a role to play? This question will be discussed especially in relation to the study of ancient Eurasian nomads.

Guantanamo Bay: Archives and Memory (Nov. 6)

Brown Bag Lunch
Friday November 6, 12:00-2:00pm
KJCC 527

Guantanamo Bay: Archives and Memory

The Archives and Public History Brown Bag Lunch Series continues next Friday, November 6. This session will feature a discussion of public memory surrounding Guantanamo Bay. We will focus on New York University’s Tamiment Library and Seton Hall University’s Center for Policy and Research new project to document, preserve, and make accessible the legal records and the human stories of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. The Guantanamo documentation project is co-directed by Mark Denbeaux, professor of law at Seton Hall University Law School and director of the Center for Policy and Research; Jonathan Hafetz, adjunct professor of law at Seton Hall; and Michael Nash, director of the Tamiment Library and co-director of the Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center at NYU. The International Sites of Conscience has also partnered with the project and Liz Sevcenko will discuss its Guantánamo Public Memory Colloquium and working group, “Remembering Guantanamo, 1898-Tomorrow.”

Please bring a brown bag lunch. Complimentary drinks and desserts will be provided.

In order to assure we have enough chairs and desserts, please RSVP to Keara Duggan kearaduggan@gmail.com by Tuesday, November 4.

Call for papers - Sixth Annual Graduate Student History Conference at NC State

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Sixth Annual Graduate Student History Conference
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Riddick Hall, on the North Carolina State University campus in Raleigh, NC

The NC State History Graduate Student Association welcomes proposals
from graduate students for individual papers on any historical topic,
including public history, and any time period. Presentations will last
approximately fifteen minutes each, and each panel will be followed by
comments from area faculty, as well as a general discussion. Selected
papers will be published electronically in a conference proceedings.

If interested, please submit a 250-word proposal and a current CV.
Email submissions are preferred. Please send an email to
hgsaconference@gmail.com with your name, institution, and field of
specialization, and with the proposal and CV attached. Email submissions
are preferred.

Hard copy submissions may be sent to:

   North Carolina Graduate Student History Conference
   Dept. of History, Box 8108
   North Carolina State University
   Raleigh, NC 27695-8108

All proposals must be received by November 30, 2009.

Lunch will be provided for attendees that have preregistered at the
Conference website.

For more information, visit
http://history.chass.ncsu.edu/graduate/hgsa/conference.php, or send an
email to hgsaconference@gmail.com.

Best,
Laura Hepp Bradshaw
North Carolina State University Graduate Student Association Co-President

Call for Papers: Crisis and Consequence

Call for Papers

Crisis and Consequence

A Conference at the Hagley Library, Wilmington, Delaware

November 5, 2010

Economic crises have been the midwife to dramatic social change throughout American history. For a conference on Friday, November 5, 2010, the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware invites proposals for imaginative essays that explore the long-term consequences of panics, depression, financial contractions, and other episodes in which the American economy dramatically declined. Papers should suggest significant relationship between such episodes and societal change, including (but not limited to) migration, religion, consumption patterns, technological change, and business practices. We welcome proposals based on new research, as well as unpublished synthetic essays drawing on extensive secondary literature. Papers drawing attention to the little-known or little-appreciated impacts of crises would be especially compelling.

Proposals of approximately 500 words summarizing the paper’s argument and sources accompanied by a c.v. of no more than 2 pages are due by March 1, 2010. Travel funds may be available for those presenting papers. Please direct proposals or queries to Carol Lockman, clockman[at]Hagley[dot]org.