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Program Schedule:
Laborlore Conversations IV
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
7:00-8:30 pm -- FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
Morristown (2007), with filmmaker Anne Lewis [read bio]
Morristown documents the impact
of corporate globalization, free trade and immigration policy on working people's lives. In locations as far apart as the mountaints of east Tennessee and interior Mexico and Ciudad Juarez and in places ranging from factories to fields to union halls to stores and employment agencies, working people speak directly to the camera about their lives, work and dreams. The film explores the phenomenon of factory flight out of Morristown, Tennessee as well as the forces that cause immigration out of interior Mexico. It also documents Morristown poultry workers' efforts to organize to address their problems, a struggle that culminates with a union victory at a large processing plant in the city. (Adapted from http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/22/18429467.php)
Thursday, August 16, 2007
9:00-9:15 am -- Welcoming
Remarks & Introduction
View
the webcast of the Welcoming Remarks, Introduction and Keynote Address [Running time 55:27]
Peggy
Bulger (Director,
American Folklife Center)
9:15-9:45 am -- Keynote Address
Nick
Spitzer [read
bio]
Topic: "In Katrina's Wake: The Building
Trades in New Orleans"
10:00-11:30 am -- Social Justice, The Environment
& the Ethics of Collaboration
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the webcast of this session
[Running time 1:46:44]
Convener: Bob
McCarl [read bio]
Topic: "George Korson's Pioneering Fieldwork &
Research Ethics"
Brian McNeil [read bio] with Elaine
Purkey [read bio] & Freda Williams [read bio]
Topic: "Organizing Coal Communities in West VA Around Issues of
Environmental Degradation and Social Justice"
Anne Lewis
Topic: "The 'Morristown' Project and Challenges in Community
Documentation"
Bob McCarl [read bio] and Barbara Miller [read bio]
Topic: "Labor's Deconstruction at Environmental Sites; Environmental
Activism and the Consequences of Heavy Industry"
11:30-1:00 pm -- LUNCH
1:00-2:30 pm -- Collecting
and Contextualizing Laborlore
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the webcast of this session [Running time 1:27:58] Convener: Paula Johnson [read bio]
Topics: "Assessment of Waterways Work; Representing and
Translating the Craft of Labor in the Museum"
Elaine Eff [read bio] with Janice
Marshall [read bio] & James
Lane [read bio]
Topics: "The Changing Nature of Work Traditions in a Watermen's Community;
Issues in Collecting and Collaborating Between Community Scholars and Scholars"
Carl Fleischhauer [read
bio]
Topics: "Collecting
and Presenting Labor Techniques & Traditions in Paradise Valley, NV;
Self-documentation Strategies and Methods"
2:45-4:15 pm -- Expressive
Culture, Work Culture and the Art of Representation
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the webcast of this session and the Summing
Up remarks [Running time 2:27:44]
Convener: Maribel Alvarez [read
bio]
Topic: "Transnational Artisanal
Culture on the US-Mexico Border"
Julie Ardrey [read
bio]
and Mike
Munoz [read
bio]
Topic: "The Expressive Culture of Giacomo Patri"
Hal Cannon [read bio] and Susan
Church [read bio]
Topic: "Deep
West Video Community Documentation
project"
4:30-5:15 pm -- Summing Up
David Roediger
[read bio]
Topics: "The Big Red Songbook and a Short History of Labor Song Collecting"
7:00-9:30 pm -- Evening
Reception & Performance
Montpelier Room, 6th floor, Madison Building
Special guests and speakers (TBA)
Hazel Dickens [read
bio], Mike
Seeger [read bio] & Elaine
Purkey
[read bio] in performance and conversation with Joe Wilson [read bio]
Participant reception
and gathering to celebrate Archie Green's lifelong achievements
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