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NEW YORK LABOR HISTORY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE

"MAKING LABOR'S STORIES PUBLIC:  PART II"

Saturday, May 9
Cornell University Metropolitan District Office
16 East 34th St. (between 5th and Madison Aves.)
New York, New York

Co-sponsored by the New York State Historian's Office and Cornell
University, NYSSILR, Metropolitan District Office


REGISTRATION:  8:30-9:15 a.m.


OPENING SESSION: 9:30-10:30 a.m.

Melvyn Dubofsky, Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology,
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Marty Pottenger, "City Water Tunnel #3," Obie Award-winning performance
project


CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS: 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

1.  Labor History for Local Unions

* Reggie B. Qadar, President, AFSCME Local 1306
* Rachel Bernstein, Public History Program, NYU
* Jack DuMars, Co-Editor, New York Generator, CWA Local 1101
* Jon Garlock and Marilyn Anderson, Education Committee, Rochester Labor
Council
* Robert Reynolds, Managing Editor, Labor's Heritage

2.  Labor History 'n' Us:  Kids, Parents and Educators

* Kate Fermoile, Lower East Side Tenement Museum
* David S. Cohen, Director, Ethnic History Program, New Jersey Historical
Commission
* Debra Bernhardt, Wagner Labor Archives, NYU, and Alexander
Bernhardt-Bloom
* James Loewen, author, Lies My Teacher Told Me; Professor Emeritus,
University of Vermont; Research Fellow, Smithsonian Institution


LUNCH:   12:15-1:00 p.m.


CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS: 1:00-2:30 p.m.

1.  Mixed Media

* Steve Brier, Executive Director, American Social History Project
* Ben Salazar, Folklorist, City Lore's Oral History, "High Steel and Corn
Meal:  Recounting an Era"
* Allan Berube, Independent Scholar, Slide Show/Oral History on the Marine
Cooks and Stewards Union
* Gerald Zahavi, History and Media Project, Department of History,
University at Albany, SUNY

2.  Preserving Working People's Heritage

* Paul Cole, Secretary-Treasurer, New York State AFL-CIO, Union Square
(New York City) and Kate Mullaney House (Troy)
* Lisa Maya Knauer, American Studies Department, NYU; REPOhistory and
Artists Collective
* Gerald Meyer and Laura Hansen, "Rediscovering East Harlem" Map, East
Harlem Historical Organization
* Craig Steve Wilder, History Department, Williams College;  Co-Curator,
"In Pursuit of Freedom:  African-Americans and the Anti-Slavery Movement," 
Brooklyn Historical Society


CLOSING SESSION: 2:45-3:30 p.m.

Presentation of newly-published New York State Labor History Map by Dr.
Joseph Meany, Acting New York State Historian

Performance piece, "Life on the Erie Canel," by Kenda James, Adirondack
Women in History


POST-CONFERENCE DISCUSSION

Moderated by Paul Mishler, Labor Relations and Research Center, University
of Massachusetts at Amherst

(Conference funding provided by the New York Council for the Humanities)

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PLEASE JOIN US FOR A PRE-CONFERENCE SOCIAL HOUR
Friday, May 8, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW)
243 W. 20th St., New York, NY

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REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

The conference is free.  Lunch will be provided for $10.  Please R.S.V.P. 
Registration information should include requests for lunch. 

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REGISTRATION FORM:  NYLHA CONFERENCE, MAKING LABOR'S STORIES PUBLIC

Yes, please register me to attend the NYLHA conference

Name___________________________________________________________________

Affiliation____________________________________________________________

Address________________________________________________________________

City__________________________________State_____________Zip____________

Telephone Number_______________________________________________________

Yes, I want to order the lunch_________________$ enclosed______________

Yes, I will attend the pre-conference social on Friday evening_________


FAX registration form to: 212-995-4070

E-mail to:   [log in to unmask]

Mail to:   NYLHA Conference
    Wagner Labor Archives
    Bobst Library, NYU
    70 Washington Square South
    New York, NY   10012

Last resort:   Call (212) 998-2649

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