PROGRAM

9.00:   Introductory remarks by Michael Veitch (The Frances Xavier Warde School)

9.15:   SESSION I: GOING NATIONAL: LITERATURE’S AUDIENCES
Sam Graber (Valparaiso University), “The Poetry of Pulp: Literature, Memory, and the News”

Commentator: Jennifer Pustz (Historic New England)

Mike Augspurger (Augustana College), “Archibald MacLeish and Professional Leadership”

Commentator: Jay Satterfield (Dartmouth College)

10.45: COFFEE BREAK

11.00: SESSION II: FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE 1930s
Barb Shubinski (independent scholar), “Introducing America to Americans: The Farm Security Administration and the Shaping of American Documentary Photography, 1936-1976”

Commentator: Cinda Nofziger (University of Iowa)

Chuck Maland (University of Tennessee - Knoxville), “‘A Neurotic State of Wanting Perfection’: Chaplin, Studio Records, and the Making of CityLights”

Commentator: Lori Vermaas (independent scholar)

12.30: LUNCH

1.30:  SESSION III: PREWAR/POSTWAR HOLLYWOOD

Thomas Doherty (Brandeis University), “Warner Bros. and the Nazis, 1933-1939”

Commentator: JoAnn Castagna (independent scholar)

Eric Sandeen (University of Wyoming), “The Best Years of Our Lives and the Post-War American Landscape”

Commentator: Brad Williams (Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society)

3:00:  Concluding remarks by John Raeburn

Followed by pizza and drinks at The Sanctuary Restaurant and Pub, 405 S. Gilbert St,
from 6:00 p.m.

Other weekend events:

An English Department party for John in the Gerber Lounge (room 304, EPB Building),
11.30 - 2.00, April 9

A “Floating Friday” talk by Dan Raeburn
(visiting lecturer in the Committee on Creative Writing at the University of Chicago)
“How the Comic Book Faked Its Way into American Culture”
107 EPB, 4.00 – 5.30, April 9

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