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Art, Culture, and Government:
The New Deal at 75
Program
Thursday, March 13, 2008
New Deal Resources: Preserving the Legacy
1:00-1:10 pm -- Welcome and Opening
Remarks [View the webcast for the presentations 1:00 to 3:00. Total running time 1:55:29]
- Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services
- Peggy Bulger, Director, American Folklife Center,
Library of Congress
- Nancy Groce, Folklorist, American Folklife Center
1:10 pm -- Walter
Zvonchenko, Music Division, Library of Congress [Introduced at 0:07:35]
1:30 pm -- Alice
Birney, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress [Introduced at 0:30:40]
1:50 pm -- Laura
Gottesman,
Digital Reference Team, Library of Congress -- New
Deal Web Guide [Introduced at 0:49:30]
2:00 pm -- National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA):
- William Creech, NARA's New Deal Resources in Washington, D.C.
[Introduced at 0:56:55]
- Tom Wiltsey , NARA's New Deal Resources in Regional Offices [Introduced at 1:15:36]
2:40 pm -- Mark
Dimunation, Director, Rare
Books Division, Library of Congress [Introduced at 1:38:30]
3:00 pm --
Break
[View the webcast for the presentations from 3:30 to the conclusion of Thursday's events. Total running time 1:13:53]
3:30 pm -- Ford Peatross,
Historic American Building Survey, Library of Congress
[Introduced at 0:04:50]
3:50 pm -- Andrea
Kalin, Spark Media -- 'Soul of
a People': Voices from the Writers' Project (documentatry
film) [Introduced at 0:27:20]
4:00 pm -- Robert
Clark, Supervisory Archivist [read bio]
-- The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library
and Museum [Introduced at 0:32:30]
4:20 pm -- Bryan Cornell, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library
of Congress [Introduced at 0:46:30]
4:40 pm -- Charlie
Camp, Folklorist and independent scholar
[read bio]-- The
America Eats Manuscript [Introduced at 0:58:50]
Friday, March 14, 2008
The New Deal Legacy and Contemporary Scholarship
8:30 - 9:00 am -- Registration
[View the webcast for the morning presentations. Total running time 2:18:17]
9:00 - 9:15 am --
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Peggy Bulger, Director, American Folklife
Center
9:15 - 9:45 am -- Keynote
Address [Introduced at 0:05:40]
Michael Kazin, Professor, History, Georgetown University
[read
bio]
Topic: "The New Deal and the American People"
9:45 - 11:30 am -- Panel I
John Cole (moderator), Director, Center for the Book, Library
of Congress [read
bio] [Introduced at 0:42:20]
Mindy J. Morgan, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Michigan
State University [read bio][Introduced at 0:52:50]
Topic: " 'Please Remember That I, Too, Am an Indian': Native American Voices
in the Federal Writers' Project"
Laura Katzman, Associate Professor, Art History, James
Madison University [read bio] [Introduced at 1:25:40]
Topic: "Picturing Puerto Rico under the American Flag:
The New Deal Photographs of Edwin and Louise Rosskam, 1937-38"
11:30 - 1:00 pm -- LUNCH
[View the webcast for the afternoon sessions. Total running time 4:23:57]
1:00 - 2:45 pm -- Panel II
Catherine Hiebert Kerst (moderator), Folklife Specialist/Archivist, American Folklife Center, Library
of Congress [read bio]
[Introduced at 0:01:18]
Richard
Remsberg, Photo Researcher/Independent Scholar [read
bio] and Henry Sapoznik, Ethnomusicologist, Living
Traditions [read
bio][Introduced at 0:19:38]
Topic: " 'All I Got Is Gone': Roots Music Photos from the Farm
Security Administration"
John Edgar Tidwell, Associate Professor, English, University
of Kansas [read bio] [Introduced at 0:57:45]
Topic:"Negro Fictions, Fictitious Negroes, and Sterling A. Brown's
Quest for Authenticity on the Federal Writers' Project"2:45 - 3:15 pm -- BREAK
3:15 - 5:00 pm -- Panel III
Beverly Brannan (moderator),
Prints and Photographs
Division, Library of Congress [read bio]
[Introduced at 1:50:00]
Colleen McDannell, Professor, Religious Studies and History,
University of Utah [read bio] [Introduced at 2:16:10]
Topic: "Religious America and New Deal Photography"
Peter
Rachleff, Professor, History, Macalester College [read
bio] and Beth Cleary, Associate Professor, Theater and Dance, Macalester
College [read bio] [Introduced at 2:49:25]
Topic: "Refiguring Race: The Jubilee Singers of the Buffalo Historical Marionettes"
5:00 - 5:30 pm
Stetson
Kennedy [read bio] [Introduced at 3:35:00]
"Working for the New Deal: A Voice from the Era"
5:30 - 5:45 pm -- Summary
Remarks
Christopher Breiseth, Director, Franklin
and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute [read bio] [Introduced at 4:06:50]
"Lessons from the New Deal for the 21st Century"
5:45 - 7:00 pm --
Reception [No webcast]
(Co-sponsored by the National New Deal Preservation
Association and the American Folklife Center)
Montpelier Room, 6th floor, Madison Building
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