{"id":48,"date":"2014-04-29T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T10:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/?p=48"},"modified":"2014-04-29T11:19:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T11:19:44","slug":"ethnography-and-american-culture-in-the-gilded-age-and-progressive-era-1870-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/2014\/04\/29\/ethnography-and-american-culture-in-the-gilded-age-and-progressive-era-1870-1920\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnography and American Culture in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870-1920"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent\u00a0is hosting a one-day symposium on <strong>19th May 2014<\/strong>, entitled <strong>&#8216;Ethnography and American Culture in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870-1920&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium is being\u00a0organised by <strong>Dr Michael J. Collins<\/strong> (University of Kent) and it will include Plenary Lectures<b> by Professors Nancy Bentley<\/b> (University of Pennsylvania)and <b>Brad Evans<\/b> (Rutgers, New Jersey)<strong>.<\/strong> It will attempt to unite literary studies and print culture with intellectual history, anthropology, the history of science and visual culture studies in order to explore how mainstream media related to emergent social-scientific disciplines in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full\u00a0Programme<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9.00 \u2013 9.30 Registration<\/li>\n<li>9.30 \u2013 9.15 Welcome and Opening Remarks<\/li>\n<li>9.15 \u2013 10.45 <strong>Keynote Lecture \u2013 Nancy Bentley UPENN<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>10.45 -11.00 Coffee<\/li>\n<li>11- 12.30 <strong>Panel 1: Documenting Difference and The Making of American Modernity<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cCulture Encounters in The Southwest: George Wharton James and the American Indian\u201d \u2013<strong> Martin Padget<\/strong>, (Aberystwyth University)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAt Home With\u2026\u201dCelebrity Interviewing as Ethnography in the Gilded Age\u201d \u2013 <strong>Rebecca Roach<\/strong> (New College, Oxford)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHarlem\u2019s Magician: Charles S. Johnson and the Ironies of Urban Race Relations from Riot to Renaissance\u201d &#8211; <strong>Cheryl Hudson<\/strong> (The University of Sheffield)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>12.30 \u2013 1.30: Buffet Lunch<\/li>\n<li>1.30 \u2013 3.00 <strong>Panel 2: Memorialisation and Material Culture &#8211; Ethnography on Display<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cEthnography and the Progressive Era: The \u2018Memorial\u2019 to the American Indian\u201d \u2013 <strong>Danielle A. Fleming<\/strong> (University of Glasgow)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTo Amuse as Well as to Instruct: The Display of Humans at America\u2019s Western World\u2019s Fairs, 1894-1914\u201d \u2013 <strong>Emily Trafford<\/strong> (University of Liverpool)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCurious Objects: The Still-Life Paintings and Amateur Ethnography of William Harnett\u201d \u2013 <strong>Nika Elder<\/strong> (Princeton University)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>3.00 \u2013 3.15 Coffee<\/li>\n<li>3.15 \u2013 4.45 <strong>Panel 3: Performance and Parody in the Ethnographic Imagination<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe Three R\u2019s of Show Biz \u2013 Gags, Singing and a Time Step! The Marx Brothers Go to School\u201d \u2013 <strong>Rick DesRochers<\/strong> (Long Island University)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBlack Ice: Blackface, Plantation Songs and the Myth of Old Dixie During Polar Exploration\u201d &#8211; <strong>Tomek Mossakowski<\/strong> (King\u2019s College, London)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>4.45 \u2013 6.30 Drinks and Canapes<\/li>\n<li>6.30 \u2013 Close<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Screening of &#8216;In the Land of the Headhunters&#8217; with Introduction and Q&amp;A by Brad Evans<\/strong> (Gulbenkian Cinema)<\/p>\n<p>Based on recent archival research, in 2008 a collaborative team led by Aaron Glass (now at the Bard Graduate Center), Brad Evans (Rutgers), and Andrea Sanborn (of the U\u2019mista Cultural Centre in BC) oversaw a new restoration of the film that returned the film\u2019s original title, title cards, long-missing footage, color tinting, initial publicity graphics, and original musical score\u2014now thought to be the earliest extant original feature-length film score in America. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curtisfilm.rutgers.edu\/\">http:\/\/www.curtisfilm.rutgers.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Sponsored by The School of English, Centre for American Studies, and Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent\u00a0is hosting a one-day symposium on 19th May 2014, entitled &#8216;Ethnography and American Culture in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870-1920&#8217;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/2014\/04\/29\/ethnography-and-american-culture-in-the-gilded-age-and-progressive-era-1870-1920\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}