Colloquia
Location:
Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies SLIS Commons, 4207 H.C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street
Spring 2008 Schedule:
Wednesday, February 27, Noon-1:00 p.m. "The Spider's Web: Constructing the Canon of Children's Literature." Anne Lundin, Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Monday, March 3, 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m., 6191 Helen C. White Hall." American Imprints: Transatlantic Print Culture and the British Canon." Linda Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature, Texas Christian University.
Wednesday, March 26, Noon-1:00 p.m. “A 'Native Intelligence' - The Poolaw Photography Project 2008.” Nancy Mithlo, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and American Indian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Monday, March 31, Noon-1:00 p.m “ Why You (Actually) Should Judge a Book by Its Cover - Some Reflections on Christa Wolf's ‘What Remains.’ ” Roswitha Skare, Associate Professor, Documentation Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway.
Wednesday, April 30, Noon-1:00 p.m. “Old Medium/ New Medium: American Newspapers Embrace Television, 1947-60.” James L. Baughman, Director and Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2007 Schedule:
March 7, “Venereal Print Culture: Contagion and Conspiracy in Antebellum America.” David Zimmerman, Associate Professor, Department of English, UW-Madison.
March 28, “The Intellectual Life of Yiddish-Speaking Workers: Socialist ‘Enlightenment’ and Self-Education in New York, 1890s - 1920s.” Tony Michels, Associate Professor, Department of History, and Center for Jewish Studies, UW-Madison.
April 13 – April 14, Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium, “Alternative Print Culture: Social History and Libraries: A Symposium in Honor of James P. Danky.” Celebrating James P. Danky’s 35 year tenure as Newspapers and Periodicals Librarian, Wisconsin Historical Society, as well as his role as Director and Co-Founder of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
September 26, Wednesday, Noon-1:00 p.m. "Reading, Writing, and Resisting: African American Print Culture, 1880-1940." James P. Danky, Faculty Associate in Journalism, Afro-American Studies, School of Library and Information Studies; Former Director, Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Annual Lecture.
October 10, Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. "Artifacts of African American Memory: The Scrapbook in American Life." Susan Tucker, Curator of Books and Records at the Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Library, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University. Part of the Wisconsin Book Festival.
November 28, Wednesday, Noon-1:00 p.m. "Canonicity and the 'Legitimization' Process." Brad Wiles, Molly Fischer, Amanda Schnirring, and Cynthia Bachhuber, SLIS Master's students repeat their presentation from the 2007 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) Conference.
2006 Schedule:
March 27, Memorial Library, Room 126. “From Women in Print to Women's Reading: Domesticity, Difference, and Possibilities for Sisterhood.” Elizabeth Long, Professor and Chair, Sociology Department, Rice University.
October 20, “What Is an American Book?” Gary Taylor, Professor, English Department, Florida State University. Annual Lecture. In conjunction with the Wisconsin Book Festival.
November 29, “States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States.” Oz Frankel, Assistant Professor of History, The New School of Social Research, New York.
2005 Schedule:
February 16, “Brown America: Representing African Americans in Julius Rosenwald Fund Libraries, 1928-1948.” Erin Meyer-Blasing, Doctoral Student, School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison.
October 14, Wisconsin Historical Society. “Witch Hunt in the Heartland and a Nation’s Response, 1940-1943.” Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor of Information and Professor of American Studies, Florida State University, and co-founder of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Annual lecture. In conjunction with the Wisconsin Book Festival.
November. "Where the Masses Met the Classes: Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Their Significance to Literary Scholars." Charles Johanningsmeier, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Nebraska, Omaha.
2004 Schedule:
February 10, “Beauty Along the Color Line: Aesthetics and The Crisis.” Russ Castronovo, Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies, UW-Madison.
February 28, “In Search of Black Readers: Recovering Lost Literary Traditions in African American Contexts.” Elizabeth McHenry, Department of English, New York University.
March 8, “Women, Porn, and Print.” Carolyn Bronstein, Department of Communication, DePaul University.
April 7, “The Re(a)d Menace: Cold War Nationalism and the Politics of Reading.” Kristin L. Matthews, Department of English, UW-Madison.
September, “’Perpetually in the Hands of the People’: The King James Bible and Late Nineteenth-Century American Culture.” R. Bryan Bademan, Assistant Professor of American History, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.
October 8, “Motherhood, Marriage, and (Sexual) Morality in 19th Century African America.” Frances Smith Foster, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies, Emory University.
November 4, “Intersections: Gender, Print and Public Life.” Mary Kelley, Ruth Borden Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies, University of Michigan.
2003 Schedule:
March 26, "Right Here I See My Own Books: Recovering the Woman's Building Library of the World's Columbian Exposition." Sarah A. Wadsworth, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
April 15, "Defining Print Culture for Youth." Anne Lumdin, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison.
April, "Current Research in Print Culture." Stephen Karian, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Marquette University.
September 25, “The Imp of the Perverse: Reading American Comic Books.” Dan Raeburn, Independent Scholar, Artist and Graphic Designer, Chicago , IL.
October 24, “Classic Books and Common Readers.” Jonathan Rose, Professor of History, Drew University, Madison, NJ. Annual lecture. In conjunction with the Wisconsin Book Festival.
November 12, “The Quiet Crusade: The Moody Bible Institute's Mission to Public Schools, 1921-1951.” Adam Laats, Department of History, UW-Madison.
2002 Schedule:
March 1, "Librarianship and the Alternative Press: Another Perspective." Toni Samek, Associate Professor, University of Alberta at Edmonton.
March 13, "Connecting Lives: Women and Reading, Then and Now." Barbara Sicherman, Kenan Professor of American Institutions and Values, Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
April 4, "Girls, Zines, and the Miscellaneous Production of Subjectivity in an Age of Unceasing Circulation." Jan Radway, Frances Hopkins Professor of Literature, Duke Univeristy, Durhan, N.C.
September 18, "Finding Our Heritage Through Cookbooks." Barbara Haber, Curator of Printed Books at The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College.
October 11, State Historical Society Auditorium. "Readers and Publishers: Where the Twain Meet in the History of Print Culture." Carl F. Kaestle, Professor of Education, History and Public Policy, Brown University. Annual lecture.
November 13, "Libraries as Agencies of Culture." Tom Augst, Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota.
2001 Schedule:
February 28, “Hard-boiled Fiction, Middlebrow Culture and the Invention of Tough Authorship.” Jim Miller, English Department, UW-Whitewater.
April 18, “French Libraries in the Twentieth Century: A Paradoxical History.” Martine Poulain, Director of Mediamix, Pole Metiers du Livre, Paris.
April 25, “The Sex Radical Press and Late 19th Century Readers.” Joanne Passet, Departments of LIS and History, Dominican University.
September 14, "Women in Print: Authors, Publishers, Readers and More Since 1876." Barbara Sicherman, Keenan Professor of American Institutions, Trinity College, Hartford, CT. Annual lecture. Cancelled.
2000 Schedule:
September 13, “Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communications Politics.” Robert W. McChesney, Professor of Communications, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign.
September 25, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Room L 140. “The Imp of the Perverse: Reading American Comic Books.” Dan Raeburn, Independent Scholar, Artist and Graphic Designer, Chicago, IL.
September 27, "On The Front Lines: The ACLU and Intellectual Freedom Banned Books Week." Chris Ahmuty, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union, Wisconsin Chapter.
October 18, “Television and Reading in the United States: The Consumer Negotiations of the 1950's.” Jim Baughman, Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, UW-Madison.
October 24, Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium. “Classic Books and Common Readers.” Jonathan Rose, founder of SHARP and Professor of History, Drew University, Madison, NJ. In conjunction with the Second Wisconsin Book Festival.
November 12, "The Quiet Crusade: The Moody Bible Institute's Mission to Public Schools, 1921-1951." Adam Laats, Department of History, UW-Madison.
November 15, Memorial Library Room 976, Special Collections. “Poetry in Practice: American Readers and the Uses of a Literary Genre.” Joan Shelley Rubin, Professor of History, University of Rochester. Annual Lecture.
1999 Schedule:
February 3, “Race and Ethnicity: Slavery and the German Radical Tradition.” Hartmut Keil, Professor for American Culture and History, University of Leipzig.
March 17, "'A Barkeeper Entering the Kingdom on Heaven': Did Mark Twain Really Hate Jane Austin? Emily Auerbach, Department of English, UW-Madison.
March 24, "'Alternative Family Magazine': Present at the Creation of a New Journal." John Quinlan, Publisher of Alternative Family Magazine.
April 14, "Newspapers of the Homeless: An Adventure in the Culture of Print." Norma Green, Columbia College, Chicago, IL.
July 15, "Recovering Hispanic Print Culture in the United States." Nicolas Kanellos, Professor of Spanish, University of Houston and founder and Director of Arte Publico Press.
September 29, "Readers, Writers, and Printers in England: A Case Study." Stephen Karian, English Department, UW-Madison.
October 6, "Special Collections in Children's Literature." Karen Nelson Hoyle, Curator of the Kerian Collection, University of Minnesota.
October 20, "A Mother's Tears and a Nation's Fears: Charles A. Lindbergh and the Tabloid Press." Elana Levine, UW-Madison.
December 1, "The History of Piracy: Intellectual Impropriety from Gutenberg to Gates." Adrian Johns, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego. Annual lecture.
1998 Schedule:
March 18, “The ‘New’ Censorship” Historical Perspective.” Stephen L. Vaughn, Professor. School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW-Madison. Freedom of Information Day Address.
September 30, "Poetry, Typography, and Illustrated Books in the Modern Literary Economy." Claire Badaracco, College of Communications, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
October 14, Memorial Library's Special Collections Room. ''Before Stonewall: A History of the Gay and Lesbian Press.'' Rodger Streitmatter, Professor, School of Communication, American University, Washington, D.C. Annual lecture.
October 28, "Wisconsin Books and Authors." Faith Miracle, Director of Wisconsin Academy Center for the Book.
1997 Schedule:
January 31, "Pat Robertson is a Publisher, Too: The Christian Right Press in the 1990s." James P. Danky and John Chrvey, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison.
March 3, "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Posthumous Career." James L. West III, Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Pennsylvania State University Center for the Book.
April 4, "Children and the New Media Environment." Suzanne Pingree and Renee Bolta, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW-Madison.
April 10, "Ordinary Folk, Information, and Life in the Round." Elfreda Chatman, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
April 16, "'The American Historical Review', 1895-1995: A Bibliometric Analysis." Thomas Walker, School of Library and Information Science, UW-Milwaukee.
September 17, "The State Historical Society of Wisconsin: Future Plans." Robin Rider, Curator of Special Collections, Memorial Library, UW-Madison.
October 9, "Queer Stories: Perspectives on Children's and Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian Content." Christine Jenkins, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
October 21, "From Anthony Comstock to Larry Flynt: Censorship and Freedom of the Press in Historical Perspective." Paul Boyer, Merle Curti Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison. Annual lecture.
November 19, "A Sense of Place: Geography and Children's Literature." Anne Lundin, Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison. In commemoration of National Children's Book Week.
1996 Schedule:
October 3, "American Taste: Fiction and Reception, 1920-1960." Gordon Hutner, Professor, Department of English and Research Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison, and Editor of American Literary History, Annual lecture.
1995 Schedule:
February 8, “The African-American Newspapers and Periodicals Bibliography Project.” James P. Danky, Assistant Librarian for Research and Development, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
March 2, Memorial Library Room 976, Special Collections. "The Kitchen Table Press." Barbara Smith, Editor, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.
March 29, "Cultural Crusaders: Women Librarians in the American West, 1900-1917. " Joanne Passet, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University.
September 13, “Constructing a Database of Historical Library Records.” Christine Pawley, Lecturer, School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison.
October 4, “The Cold War in 'National Geographic' Magazine.” Catherine A. Lutz and Jane Collins, Lutz is Watson Institute Professor (research) and Professor, Department of Anthropology, Brown University, Collins is Professor of Sociology & Women's Studies, UW, Madison. Annual lecture.
November 15, "Twentieth Center Pioneers in Children's Library Services." Anne Lundin, Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison.
1994 Schedule:
October 20, “James T. Fields, Gail Hamilton and the Changing Politics of Publishing in the Nineteenth Century.” Susan Coultrap-McQuinn, Professor of Humanities and Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Annual lecture.
1993 Schedule:
September 20, "Reading the Newspaper: Strategies and Politics of Reader Response, Chicago, 1912-1917." David Paul Nord, School of Journalism, Indiana Univeristy.
Inaugural Lecture:
October 26, 1992. State Historical Society of Wisconsin Auditorium. “The History of the Book in Twentieth Century Britain and America: Perspectives and Evidence.” Ian Willison, Co-Editor, The History of the Book in Great Britain. Formerly of the British Library.