Agenda
WEEK ONE
Sunday, June 14
Evening reception with all participants, followed by opening lecture
Topic: The Geographies of Space and Place in the City of Print
Time: 6:00-8:30 pm
Location: The Brooklyn Historical Society (128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights)
Seminar scholar: Mark Noonan, Director, “City of Print” and Associate Professor of English at New York City College of Technology
Monday, June 15
Morning
Topic: Program Overview; Digital Tools Demonstration
Time: 9:30-noon
Seminar leaders: Mark Noonan, Janice Simon, Adam McKible, and Jeffrey Drouin
Location: New York City College of Technology (300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, Namm Hall 119)
Afternoon
Topic: Paper Gotham: New York City as Pulp Mecca
Time: 1:30-4:00
Location: New York City College of Technology, CUNY (Namm Hall 119)
Seminar scholar: David M. Earle, Associate Professor of Transatlantic Modernism and Print Culture at the University of West Florida
Tuesday, June 16
Morning
Topic: Performing Periodical Archival Research
Time: 9:30-noon
Location: New-York Historical Society (170 Central Park West at 77th Street)
Seminar scholars: Collections curator, Mariam Touba, and Sandra Roff, Professor and Librarian at Baruch College
Afternoon
Topic: The Rise of New York’s Penny Press
Time: 1:30-4:00
Location: John Jay College (524 West 59th street)
Seminar scholar: Vincent Digirolamo, Associate Professor of History at Baruch College
Conference sessions with institute faculty about project
Wednesday, June 17
Morning
Topic: Visual Culture in 19th-Century New York Periodicals
Time: 9:30-noon
Location: Baruch College (55 Lexington Ave at 24th St)
Seminar scholar: Janice Simon, Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Georgia
Afternoon
Topic: Independent Work
Conference sessions with institute faculty about project
Thursday, June 18
Morning
Topic: The Representation of Labor in New York Periodicals
Time: 9:30-noon
Location: New York City College of Technology, CUNY (Namm Hall 119)
Seminar scholar: Joshua Brown, Executive Director of the American Social History Project and Professor of History at the Graduate Center, CUNY
Conference sessions with institute faculty about project
Afternoon
Activity: Site visit of Herman Melville’s New York
Time: 1:30-4:00
Friday, June 19
Morning
Topic: The Evolution of Nineteenth-Century New York Newspapers
Time: 9:30-noon
Location: New York City College of Technology, CUNY (Namm Hall 119)
Seminar Leader: Karen Roggenkamp, Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University and co-editor of American Periodicals
Afternoon (Take Brooklyn Ferry to Manhattan)
Activity: Site visit of Park Row and Printer’s Square
Time: 1:30-4:00
WEEK TWO
Monday, June 22
Morning
Topic: New York Modernism in the Magazines
Time: 9:30-noon
Location: Baruch College (55 Lexington Ave at 24th St)
Seminar scholars: Adam McKible (Associate Professor of English at John Jay College) and Suzanne W. Churchill, (Professor of English at Davidson College)
Conference sessions with institute faculty about project
Afternoon
Lunch at Pete’s Tavern (NYC’s oldest saloon and where O. Henry penned “Gift of the Magi”)
Activity: Site visit of Gramercy Park and Union Square
Time: 1:30-4:00
Tuesday, June 23
Morning
Topic: Contending Voices/Mixed Communities: New York’s Immigrant Press
Time: 9:30-noon
Location: John Jay College (524 West 59th street)
Seminar scholar: Peter Conolly-Smith, Associate Professor of History, Queens College
Afternoon
Topic: Visioning and Re-Visioning the Harlem Renaissance in the Afro-American Press
Time: 1:30-4:00
Location: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (515 Malcolm X Boulevard at West 135th Street, Harlem)
Seminar scholars: Schomburg Center Curator and Adam McKible
Conference sessions with institute faculty about project
Wednesday, June 24
Morning
Topic: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture
Time: 9:30-noon
Location: Baruch College (55 Lexington Ave at 24th St)
Seminar Scholars: Catherine Keyser, Associate Professor of English (University of South Carolina) and Kevin Fitzpatrick, President of the Dorothy Parker Society
Luncheon: The Algonquin Hotel (59 West 44th St)
Seminar Scholars: Catherine Keyser, Associate Professor of English (University of South Carolina) and Kevin Fitzpatrick, President of the Dorothy Parker Society
Afternoon
Activity: Site tour of the Condé Nast Building and exploration of its archives (1 World Trade Center in The Freedom Tower)
Time: 2:30-4:00
Thursday, June 25
Morning
Activity: Tenement House Tour of the Lower East Side
Time: 10:00-11:30
Afternoon
Activity: Site visit of the East Village
Time: 1:30-4:00
Site Tour Leaders: Peter Conolly-Smith and Daniel Kane, Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Sussex, Brighton, and Director of the Sussex Center for American Studies
Friday, June 26
Morning
Topic: Teaching New York Periodicals in the Digital Age
Time: 9:30-noon
Location: New York City College of Technology (Namm Hall 119)
Seminar scholar: Jeffrey Drouin, Associate Director of the Modernist Journals Project
Afternoon:
Topic: Review of Institute and Participant Presentations
Time: 1:30-4:00
Location: New York City College of Technology (Namm Hall 119)