[Discussion] NOTICE: Center for Working Class Studies, 10th Anniversary Conference

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Michael Coventry <coventrm@georgetown.edu>

NEW WORKING-CLASS STUDIES:
PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

The 10th Aniversary Conference
of the Center for Working-Class Studies
at Youngstown State University
Co-sponsored by Ford Foundation

May 18-21, 2005, Youngstown, Ohio

The Seventh Biennial Conference of Center for Working-Class Studies will
celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Center=92s founding. The conference
will feature plenary sessions  involving Michael Rose, Ruy Texieria,
editors from academic and small presses, and reflections on the
development of New Working-Class Studies by experienced and emerging
scholars, including Tim Strangleman, Dorian Warren, Michele Fazio, and
Sherry Linkon.

There will be panel discussions that explore literature by and about the
working class; working-class and labor history; material and popular
culture; current workplace issues; geography and landscape; journalism
and media; sociology; economics; union organizing and practice; museum
studies; the arts; multiculturalism; ethnography, biography,
autobiography; pedagogy; and personal narratives of work.

The conference will also include photographic and art exhibitions,
performance art, and poetry readings by Guy Saldanha,  Tom Juravich,
Jeanne Bryner, and Diane Gilliam Fisher, among others. There will also
be film screenings, workshops, and the first business meeting of the
Working-Class Studies Association.

How to Register

Conference materials, including information on hotels, schedule, and
registration are available on the Center for Working-Class Studies=92s
website, http:/www.as.ysu.edu/~cwcs/.


Michael T. Coventry, Ph.D.
Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship
Georgetown University
<coventrm@georgetown.edu>