Reconsidering the City: A Conference on Urban History
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April 23 – 24, 2010
ALL CONFERENCE SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE WILLIAMS CENTER ON THE SUNY FREDONIA CAMPUS
Thursday, April 22, 2010
5:00-10:00
Meet for drinks and food at the Ellicottville Brewing Company, 34 W.
Main St., Fredonia
Friday, April 23, 2010
8:30 Registration, Coffee, etc. Horizon Room East,
Williams Center
9:00-11:00 Session I
Panel 1 A: The Politics of Urban Environmental Restoration in the Postwar U.S.
Chair/Comment: Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Professor, Urban Studies, Worcester State College
Banking on Brownfields, Landfills, and History: Toxic Waste and Urban
Renewal in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1986-Present
Steven Corey, Professor and Chair, Urban Studies, Worcester State College
Allocating Greenspace: Urban Stream Restoration and the Problem of
Environmental Equity
Sharon Moran, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SUNY ESF
Greening ‘Fort Apache’: Deindustrialization and Visionary Urban
Reconstruction in the South Bronx
Jordan Kleiman, Assistant Professor, History, SUNY Geneseo
Panel 1 B.: Rethinking Sub/Urbanity: Historical Connections of Metropolitan Places
Chair/Comment: Carl Nightingale, Associate Professor, American Studies, University at Buffalo
“Mi Casa Es Mi Castillo” (“My Home is My Castle”): Suburban Renewal and Class Politics in the Mexican American Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1955-1970
Jerry Gonzalez, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Latina/Latino Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Slums in the Suburbs?: Examining Race, Space, and Urban Renewal in Montclair, New Jersey
Patricia Hampson, ABD, History Rutgers University
Urban Home Rule Movements in Post-Suburban Los Angeles
Michan Andrew Connor, Assistant Professor, Urban and Public Affairs, University of Texas-Arlington
11:15-1:00 Session II
Panel II A: Smuggling and the City
Chair/Comment: Sarah Smiley, Assistant Professor, History and Geography, Morgan State University
'Magendo' - A Household Word: Smuggling and Local Resistance in Colonial Bagamoyo, Tanzania
Steven Fabian, Assistant Professor, History, SUNY Fredonia
Women, Crime, and Social Networks in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing's Neighborhood
Zhao Ma, Assistant Professor, History, SUNY Fredonia
Panel II B: The City in Motion
Chair/Comment: David Kinkela, Assistant Professor, History, SUNY Fredonia
Getting the Shaft: Local Mobilization, City Politics, and the Unrealized Subway to Staten Island, 1913-1929
Kenneth Gold, Associate Professor, Education, CUNY/The College of Staten Island
Putting the City in Motion: Transportation and Urban Space in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore
David Schley, ABD, History, Johns Hopkins University
1:00-3:00 Lunch with Documentary Screening
Coal Market Street
Ou Ning, Documentarian
Chief Curator, 2009 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism
and Archictecture
Director, Shao Foundation
3:00-5:00 Session III
Panel III A: Conceptualizing Urban Space
Chair/Comment: Ivani Vassoler-Froelich, Assistant Professor, Political Science, SUNY Fredonia
Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Green Space and Urban Planning in Berlin, 1920-1945
Barry Jackisch, Assistant Professor, History, University of St. Francis
Technology and the City: The Detached Single Family House as an Artifact in the Face of Increasing Odds
Kenneth S. Mernitz, Associate Professor, History, Buffalo State College
“Modern Man Invents the Museum”: Cities, Museums and Space
William S. Walker, Assistant Professor, Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY Oneonta
Panel III B: Transportation, Politics and the Nineteenth-Century City
Chair: Roger Simon, Professor, History, Lehigh University
“Detrimental to the Public and Private
Interests”: Henry Evelyn
Pierrepont and the Montague Street Streetcar Franchise, 1868-1891
Joshua Britton, ABD, History, Lehigh University
From Horse Power to the Power Station:
The Creation of Rapid Transit
in Brooklyn, 1885-1896
Darryl Heller, ABD, History, University of
Chicago
Comment: John Henry Hepp IV, Associate Professor, History, Wilkes University
6:00 Keynote Address: Thomas Bender, Professor,
New York University,
Cities, Nations, and the Cosmopolitan Experience
Dinner to follow keynote
Saturday, April 24, 2010
8:30 Coffee, etc. Horizon Room East, Williams
Center
9:00-11:00 Session IV
Panel IV A: Race and the City
Chair/Comment: Lindsay Silver Cohen, Lecturer History and Literature, Harvard University
Reverend Charles A. Hill’s Leftist Religious-Based Activism on Behalf of African
American Women Workers in Detroit, 1940-1943
Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Professor, Urban Studies, Worcester State College
“I’m Going to Split Every Election that Comes Up”: Civil Rights and Urban Politics in Montgomery, Alabama, 1965-1972
Robert Heinrich, Lecturer, History, Brandeis University
“Two Comptons:” The Politics of Race and Education in Compton, California, 1955-1965
Emily Straus, Assistant Professor, History, SUNY Fredonia
Panel IV B: The City in Crisis
Chair/Comment: Michael A. McAdams, Lecturer, Political Science, SUNY Fredonia
Bright Lights, Black City: Remapping the Urban Crisis in the Aftermath of MOVE
Lindsay Helfman, ABD, History, Temple University
Lives Interrupted: Oral Accounts of Life In Ciudad Juarez
Eric Meringer, Assistant Professor, History, SUNY Fredonia
11:15-1:00 Session V
Roundtable Discussion: Teaching Urban Studies
Sponsored by the SUNY Fredonia College of Education
Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Professor, Urban Studies, Worcester State College
Steven Corey, Professor and Chair, Urban Studies, Worcester State College
Robert Dahlgren, Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, SUNY Fredonia
Sarah Smiley, Assistant Professor, History and Geography, Morgan State University
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00 Closing Remarks