The State of Cultural History

Please note: if you plan to attend the conference, please register your name. Registration is free: it allows the to keep track of logistics and will allow regstrants to gain access to conference papers in advance

Conference events, unless otherwise noted, will take place in Room 329 of the "original building" (3401 Fairfax Drive)

Friday, Sept. 16th

2:00: Conference Introduction: Peter Stearns, Provost, George Mason University; James Cook, University of Michigan; Lawrence Glickman, University of South Carolina

2:30: Lawrence Levine, George Mason University (video) "My Career as a Cultural
Historian" (Introduction: Leon Litwack, University of California,
Berkeley)

3:30: Coffee

4:00-6:00 Keynote Addresses on the Evolution of Cultural History and
the Significance of Lawrence Levine's Work within That Evolution:
Jean-Christophe Agnew, Yale University and Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton
University (Introduction: Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University)

Friday 7:00-10 Dinner and Tributes from Friends and Former Students at Hunan Number One, Arlington, VA (Welcome from Daniele Struppa, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, George Mason University; Presiding: Mike O'Malley, George Mason University).

8:45: Coffee and Bagels

9:30-11:30 Practicing Cultural History, Session I
Chair: Michael Kazin, Georgetown University; Comment: Lawrence Glickman, University of South Carolina. Presenting: Phil Deloria, University of
Michigan; Elaine Tyler May, University of Minnesota; Kathy Peiss,
University of Pennsylvania; Mary Odem, Emory University; Shane White,
University of Sydney

11:30-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:00 Practicing Cultural History, Session II
Chair and Comment: James Gregory, University of Washington. Presenting: Eric
Avila, University of California, Los Angeles; Elliot Gorn, Brown
University; John Kasson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill;
Waldo Martin, University of California, Berkeley; Deborah Willis, New
York University

3:00-3:30 coffee

3:30-5:30 Futures of Cultural History
Presiding: Lynn Dumenil, Occidental College. Presenting: James Cook;
Michael Denning, Yale University; Geoff Eley, University of Michigan;
Nan Enstad, University of Wisconsin

5:30-6:00 Conference Wrap-Up. Elaine Tyler May, Mike O'Malley presiding

6:00-7:30 Reception, Atrium, George Mason University Law School, 3301 Fairfax Drive (Hazel Hall Arlington I)

Organizing committee: James Cook, Lawrence Glickman, Olivia Ryan, Mike O'Malley, Roy Rosenzweig. For additional information contact Olivia Ryan