New York UniversityMultinational Institute of American Studies

UK Summer Institute on American Civilization

THE RECONCILIATION OF AMERICAN DIVERSITY WITH NATIONAL UNITY

Sunday, June 21

Arrival

3:00 – 5:00 Tour of NYU: Visit the libraries, sports facilities, book stores, computer banks, University eating facilities, Kimmel Center for University Life, etc.

Monday, June 22

9:00 - 12:00 Administrative OrientationDisbursement of per diem allowances, registration at NYU I.D. Center, and receive accounts and/or travelers checks at Citibank.

2:00 – 5:00 New York Architecture, Urban Design and Community PlanningTour of Mid-Town Manhattan and lecture by Carol Krinsky, Professor, Art History, NYU. The tour will begin at Grand Central Terminal, a building which reflected a new appreciation of the importance of integrating architectural design with the needs of a booming urban community, and end at Rockefeller Center, a complex that is still regarded as one of the finest examples of urban planning in the world. The focus of this tour will be local zoning regulations, the impact of technology on city planning, and the achievements of private enterprise.

7:00 - 9:00 Opening Reception Pless Hall Lounge, 82 Washington Square East

Assigned Reading: Thomas Bender, “Strategies of Narrative Synthesis in American History,” American Historical Review (February 2002), pp. 129-153; Heinz Ickstadt, “American Studies in an Age of Globalization,” American Quarterly 54.4 (2002) 543-562; Paul Giles and R.J. Elis, “E Pluribus Multitudium: The New World of Journal Publishing in American Studies,” American Quarterly 57.4 (2005).

Suggested Readings: Robert J. Berkhofer, Jr.,“A new Context for American Studies,” American Quarterly 41 (1989); Stephen H. Sumida, “Where in the World is American Studies,” American Quarterly 55.3 (2003), 333-351; Joel Pfister, “The Americanzation of Cultural Studies,” Yale Journal of Criticism 4:2 (1991).

I. LOCAL AUTONOMY AND PLURALISM IN AMERICA

Tuesday, June 23

9:30 - 11:15 Creating Successful Communities in Early AmericaSpeaker: Karen Kupperman, Silver Professor, History, NYU

12:00 – 2:30 Lunch Discussion: “Reconciliation of Diversity with National Unity”Discussion of central theme of program led by Philip Hosay, Professor and Director of International Education, and Director of the Multinational Institute of American Studies, NYU.

2:00 - 4:00 Local Community in New York: Greenwich Village and SoHoThe focus of this walking tour, apart from a general orientation to the New York University community, will be how Americans continually root themselves in small homogeneous subcultures, even in the midst of a large metropolis like New York City.

4:00 - 5:15 Computer Telecommunications: Receive NYU e-mail accounts at NYU’s Information Technology Services, and orientation to NYU computer facilities. Leonid Litvin will conduct the orientation and be available on a consulting basis throughout the program to provide individual assistance to the participants on the use of the Web-based research resources at NYU, as well as other data bases.

Assigned Readings: Karen Kupperman, "International at the Creation:  Early Modern American History," in Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age (2002), 103-23; Jane Landers, "Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose:  A Free Black Town in Spanish Colonial Florida," American Historical Review, 95 (1990); James Merrell, “The Cast of His Countenance: Reading Andrew Montour” in Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, and Fredrika Teute, eds., Through a Glass Darkly:  Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America (1997), 13-39.

Recommended Readings: Simon Middleton, "'How it Came that the Bakers Bake No  Bread':  A Struggle for Trade Privileges in Seventeenth-Century New Amsterdam," William and Mary Quarterly (2001), 347-72; David J. Silverman, "Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation:  Creating Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth-Century Martha's Vineyard," William and Mary Quarterly (2005), 141-74.

Suggested Readings: Sumner C. Powell, Puritan Village (1963), chps. 5-l0; Joseph S. Wood, “‘Build, therefore, your own world:’ The New England Village as Settlement Ideal,” The Annals of the Association of American Geographers (March, 1991); Frances FitzGerald, Cities on a Hill (1986), pp. 203-245.

Wednesday, June 24

9:30 – 12:00 Individual Research Interests Roundtable discussion with staff of Multinational Institute of American Studies

on major issues in American Studies in the U.K., and on identifying individual research interests. Staff will assist the you in locating scholarly resources and establishing contacts with relevant academics and other scholars in the New York metropolitan area. You will also have an opportunity to indicate what sorts of civic organizations and other associations - political, religious, environmental, economic development, educational, etc. – you may wish to visit.

12:00 – 2:00 LunchTap Room of the Torch Club for Faculty

2:00 – 3:45 The Search for Community in the American ImaginationSpeaker: Rene Arcilla, Professor, Philosophy and Humanities Education, NYU.

6:00 -8:00 Tour (free and optional): Visit to Ground Zero (World Trade Center site).

Assigned Readings: Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country (1998).

Recommended Readings: Sacvan Bercovitch, The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America, chp. 10; Toni Morrison, "Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature," The Tanner Lecture on Human Values, University of Michigan, October 7, 1988.

Suggested Readings: Charles Newman, The Post-modern Aura: The Act of Fiction in an

Age of Inflation (1985); Philip Fisher, "American Literary and Cultural Studies since The Civil War" and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "African American Criticism," in Stephen Greenblatt and Giles Gunn, eds., Redrawing the Boundaries.

Thursday, June 25

9:30 – 11:15 American Federalism and Local GovernanceSpeaker: Richard Pious, Ochs Professor of American Studies, Barnard College and Columbia University.

1:00 – 5:00 Individual Research Free for individual appointments

7:00 – 11:00 Theater (required): “XXX”

6:30 -9:00 Movie (free and optional): Bryant Park – film to be announced.

Assigned Readings: Gary Wills, Explaining America (1981), pp. 1-93; The Federalist Papers, nos. 10, 78, 81; Norval White, New York: A Physical History (1987), pp. 111-129; Neil Harris, Building Lives (1999), chps. 1, 3.

Recommended Readings: Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t (1996); William Jordy, American Buildings and Their Architects (1972), vol. 5,

pp., 221- 227; Daniel J. Elazar, "Opening the Third Century of American Federalism: Issues

and Prospects," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (May 1990).

Suggested Readings: Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. by Richard D.Heffner, pp. 49-58, 95-142, 189-220, 289-317; Robert P. Inman and Daniel L.

Rubinfeld, “Rethinking Federalism,” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 11, No. 4. (Autumn, 1997), pp. 43-64; David B. Walker, "The Advent of an Ambiguous Federalism and the Emergence of New Federalism III," Public Administration Review (May/June 1996).

II. INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND THE AMERICAN CREED

Friday, June 26

9:30 - 11:30 The Constitutional Basis for Individual Rights in AmericaSpeaker: Thomas Halper, Professor, Politics, Baruch College.

2:00 – 4:00 Religious Liberty and the American CreedPanel discussion moderated by Gabriel Moran, Professor, Philosophy of Education and Religion, NYU. Members of the panel are: Courtney Bender, Professor, Religion, Columbia University; Robert Seltzer, Professor, History, Hunter College, CUNY; Alyshia Galvez, Professor, Latin American Studies, Lehman College, CUNY.

5:00- 8:00 MoMA (free and optional): Target Free Fridays.

Assigned Readings: Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience (1965), pp. 325-390; Richard J. Arneson, “Perfectionism and Politics,” Ethics (Oct., 2000), pp. 37-63 ;Winthrop S. Hudson, "Liberty, Both Civil and Religious," in Jerald Brauer, ed., The Lively Experiment Continued; Leonard W. Levy, "The Original Meaning of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment," in James E. Wood, Jr., ed., Religion and the State: Essays in honor of Leo Pfeffer (1985).

Recommended Readings: Ronald Dworkin, "Affirmative Action: Does it Work?" and "Affirmative Action: Is it Fair?" in Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of

Equality (2002); David P. Forsythe, “United States Policy toward Enemy Detainees in the ‘War on Terrorism’," Human Rights Quarterly ( May 2006), pp. 465-491; Michael V. Angrosino, “Civil Religion Redux,”Anthropological Quarterly (Spring 2002), pp. 239-267; Noah Feldman, “From Liberty to Equality: The Transformation of the Establishment Clause,” California Law Review (May, 2002), pp. 673-731.

Suggested Readings: Richard Kluger, Simple Justice (1975); Judith Baer, Equality Under the Constitution: Reclaiming the 14th Amendment (1983), chps. 2,6,10; Linda Krieger, "Civil Rights Perestroika: Intergroup Relations After Affirmative Action" California Law Review 86 (1998), pp. 1251-1333; Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: The Christianizing of the American People, chps. 1-2; Martin E. Marty, "Religion: A Private Affair, in Public Affairs," Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation (Summer, 1993); Linda Pritchard, "The Spirit and the Flesh: Religion and Regional Economic Development," in Philip R. Vandermeer and Robert P. Swierenga, eds., Belief and Behavior: Essays in the New Religious History (1991); Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, “Muslims in U.S. Politics: Recognized and Integrated, or Seduced and Abandoned?,” SAIS Review (Summer-Fall 2001), pp. 91-102.

Saturday, June 27

9:00 – 3:00 The Fusion of Regional Cultures: The New England Town in the MidlandTour of Litchfield County, Connecticut, to examine the spatial configuration of eighteenth century New England towns (Salisbury, Cornwall, Sharon, etc.), and the changing relationships of human inhabitants and the environment, including such areas as the Cathedral Pines stand of woods near Cornwall. Subsequently resettled by migrants from New York City, this part of Connecticut is an archetypal example of a hybrid culture that is now part of the Midlands.

Sunday, June 28

Free DaySome of the free and optional activities you may wish to pursue include the following: the Gay Pride Parade, which begins at 11:00 a.m. at the intersection of 5th Avenue and 52nd Street, and continues to Christopher and Greenwich streets; tour of the military history of Governors Island (ferries leave from Battery Maritime Building at 10:00 a.m.); Central Park SummerStage: Mosh Ben Ari, Rupa and The April Fishes, Y-Love DJ Diwon, from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM; Chess in Bryant Park, from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.; Farmers' Market, 12:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., Greenstreet; Harlem Meer Performance Festival.

Monday, June 29

9:30 – 11:15 Individualism, Entrepreneurship and American Business EnterpriseSpeaker: George David Smith, Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship, Stern Business School, NYU.

2:00 - 4:00 Class Consciousness and Organized Labor in America

Panel discussion moderated by Joshua Freeman, Professor, History, Queens College, CUNY. Members of the panel are: Ida Torres, Secretary-Treasurer, United Storeworkers Union, Local 3; Bill Henning, Vice President, Communications Workers of America, Local 1180; Heather Beaudoin, Political Director of the New York City Central Labor Council.

7:00 – 9:00 Author Presentation (free and optional): Philip Gourevitch, of the New Yorker, on

his book Standard Operating Procedure- Barnes & Noble, 82nd & Broadway.

Assigned Readings: Melvyn Dubofsky, Hard Work: The Making of Labor History (2000); Thomas K. McCraw, Prophets of Regulation (1984), pp. 300-309; Paul Krugman, “Crony Capitalism,” in The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century (2003).

Recommended Readings: Anisya S. Thomas and Stephen L. Mueller, "A Case for Comparative Entrepreneurship: Assessing the Relevance of Culture,” Journal of International Business Studies (2nd Qtr., 2000), pp. 287-301; Eric Foner, “Why is There

No Socialism in the United States?” History Workshop Journal 17 (Spring 1984).

Suggested Readings: Glenn Porter, The Rise of Big Business: 1860-1920 (1973); Charles Riley, Small Business, Big Politics: What Entrepreneurs Need to Know to Use Their Growing Political Power (1995); Gary Marks, Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1989); Herbert Hill, “The Problem of Race in American Labor History,” Reviews in American History (1996), pp. 189-208; Bruce Nissen, “Alternative Strategic Directions for the U.S. Labor Movement: Recent Scholarship,” Labor Studies Journal (Spring 2003), pp. 133-155.

Tuesday, June 30

9:30 - 11:15 Gender and Individualism in American CultureSpeaker: Lisa Stulberg, Professor, Sociology of Education, NYU,

2:00 – 4:00 Electronic Media, Censorship, and Individual Privacy

Panel discussion moderated by Frank Moretti, Professor, Communication and Education, Columbia University. Members of the panel are: Ralph Engelman, Chairman, Department of Journalism, Long Island University, and former Chairman of the Board, WBAI; Norman Siegel, civil rights attorney and former Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union; Marilyn McMillan, Chief Information Technology Officer, Information Technology Services, NYU.

7:00 -9:00 Concert (free and optional): Son Volt, country-punk flavored rock songs, World Financial Center Plaza

Assigned Readings: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Feminism without Illusions: A Critique of

Individualism (1991), chps. 6, 8; Laura R. Winsky Mattei, “Gender and Power in American Legislative Discourse, The Journal of Politics, (May, 1998), pp. 440-461; Richard Lanham, The Electronic Word (1993), pp. 98-137; Rosemary J. Coombe, “Culture Wars on the Net: Trademarks, Consumer Politics, and Corporate Accountability on the World Wide Web,” The South Atlantic (Fall 2001), pp. 919-947.

Recommended Readings: Nancy F. Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism(1987), chps. 3-4; Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (1991), pp. 271-308; Lawrence Grossman, The Electronic Republic (1996), pp. 50-68; Daniel J. Solove and Marc Rotenberg, Information Privacy Law (2003).

Suggested Readings: Virginia Sapiro Women in American Society: An Introduction to Women's Studies (1998), chp. 8; Theresa de Lauretis, "Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities, an Introduction," in Differences, No.2, 1991; Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "Writing History: Language, Class, and Gender," in Teresa De Lauretis, ed., Feminist Studies/Critical Studies (1986), pp. 31-54; bell hooks, Feminism Is For Everybody (2000); Esther Dyson, "If you don't love it, leave it" New York Times Magazine, July16, 1995; David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 (1990), pp. 339-391.

Wednesday, July 1

10:00 - 12:00 Poverty in America: Social Responsibility and Individual Self-Reliance Panel discussion moderated by Lawrence Mead, Professor, Politics, NYU.Members of the panel are: Marc Scott, Professor, Applied Statistics, Humanities

and the Social Sciences, NYU; Nancy A. Rankin, Director of Research, Community Service Society; David Chen, Executive Director, Chinese American Planning Council.

1:00 – 5:00 Individual Research Free for individual appointments

7:00 -9:00 Concert: Metropolitan Opera (free and optional): Great Lawn, Central Park.

Assigned Readings: James T. Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentieth Century (2000), pp. 171-184, 210-223; Douglas J. Besharov, “The Past the Future of Welfare Reform,” The Public Interest (Winter 2003): 4-21.

Recommended Readings: Alberto Alesina, “Why Doesn't the United States Have a European-Style Welfare State?,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2001, 2), pp. 187-277.

Suggested Readings: Michael Katz, In the Shadow of the Poorhouse (1996), pp. 251-292; Martin Gilens, Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy (1999), chps. 2, 8.

III. CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HETEROGENEITY

Thursday, July 2

9:30 - 11:15 Immigration and Cultural ConflictSpeaker: Thomas Kessner, Professor, History, City University of New York Graduate Center

12:00 - 5:00 Pluralistic Integration Tour of Sunnyside Gardens and the surrounding area in Queens, New York, conducted by Susan Meiklejohn, Professor of Urban Affairs and Regional Planning, Hunter College, CUNY. Sunnyside Gardens, a 16-block enclave in western Queens, was one of the first planned communities in urban America. It is now one of the most ethnically diverse middle class neighborhoods in the United States, home to a largely immigrant population from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Korea, China, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Argentina, and a host of other countries.

8:00 - 11:00 Theater (required): “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”

Assigned Reading: David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1999), chps. 1 and 7; Lawrence H. Fuchs, The American Kaleidoscope (1990), pp. 1 34, 384-404.

Recommended Readings: Roger Sanjek, TheFuture of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City (1998); Stephen Thernstrom, The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970, pp. 220-261.

Suggested Reading: John Higham, Send These to Me: Immigrants in Urban America (1984).

Friday, July 3

9:00 – 11:00 Baseball Practice

12:00 – 5:00 Baseball (required): The New York Yankees vs. Toronto Blue Jays

Suggested Reading: Roger Angell, Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader (2001).

Saturday, July 4

10:00 – 1:00 July 4th: Celebration of American PluralismBrian Deimling, historian of Brooklyn and teacher at St. Ann’s School, will lead a tour of New York's July 4th festivities, including Brooklyn Heights, a walk

across the Brooklyn Bridge and various patriotic public performances in lower Manhattan. This session will focus on the ceremonial homage to American pluralism and the American democratic creed.

3:30 – 5:00 Concert (free and optional): Yo La Tengo, Lawn of Battery Park.

7:00 – 10:00 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular at the East River

Suggested Reading: Ralph H. Gabriel, The Course of American Democratic Thought (1956), pp. 99-104, 315-318, 439-450; Homer Calkin, “The Centennial of American Independence ‘Round the World,’” Historian (1976); Robert Andrews, “The Real American Independence Day?,” New-England Galaxy (1975); Ray Privett, “Independence: An Intercultural Experience in North America,” The Drama Review (2000).

Sunday, July 5

Free DayAmong some of the free activities available on this day are the River to River Festival’s “Wall Street Walking Tour - a 90 minute guided walking tour

weavingtogether the history, events, architecture and people of Lower Manhattan – and the Summergarden Concert, which begins at sunset at the Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at MoMA. The music director of this series is Joel Sachs, who will

lecture later in the program on contemporary American art music.

Monday, July 6

9:30 - 11:15 Recreating Community: The Black Migration from Farm to CitySpeaker: Gunja SenGupta, Professor, History Department, Brooklyn College.

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Discussion in Harlem: Charles’ Restaurant in Harlem

2:00 - 5:00 Diversity in West HarlemAlexandra Wood will lead a tour of Harlem, including a meeting with the staff of Congressman Charles Rangel, the offices of the Inner City Broadcasting, WLIB/WBLS. W.P. Mohammed at the Masjid Malcolm Shabazz Mosque, an orthodox Muslim center, and the Community Association of Progressive Dominicans. The tour will also look at the recent gentrification of West Harlem. The focus of this tour will be the diverse communities that make up Harlem.

8:00 - 10:00 Theater (free and optional): Public Theater Shakespeare Festival, Central Park

Assigned Readings: Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America.

Recommended Readings: Adam Fairclough, Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000, chps. 9-15; Larry L. Hunt, “Hispanic Protestantism in the United States: Trends by Decade and Generation,” Social Forces (June, 1999), pp. 1601-1624; William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race (1978), pp. 155-182.

Suggested Readings: Paul R. Spickard, “The Illogic of American Racial Categories,” in Maria P.P. Root, Racially Mixed People in America (1992); Robert L. Harris, Jr., "The Flowering of Afro-American History," American Historical Review (December, 1987); Robin D. G. Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (1994), chp. 8; Jorge Duany, “Reconstructing Racial Identity: Ethnicity, Color, and Class among Dominicans in the United States and Puerto Rico,” Latin American Perspectives (May, 1998), pp. 147-172.

Tuesday, July 7

9:30 - 11:30 Ethnicity, Race and Gender in American PoliticsPanel discussion moderated by Daniel Feldman, Special Counsel for Law and Policy, New York State Comptroller, and New York State Assemblyman. Members of the panel are: Ellis Henican, columnist, New York Newsday, and political analyst for Fox News; Ester Fuchs, Professor, Politics, Columbia University; Roscoe Brown, Director of the Center for Urban Education Policy and University Professor, City University of New York.

12:00 – 2:00 Lunch and Evaluation Session in Chinatown: review of lectures, field trips, and panels.

2:00 - 5:00 Chinatown: The Ethnic CommunityElizabeth Hanauer will lead a tour of Chinatown, including visits to the Chinatown Senior Center, the Chung Pak Day Care Center, and the Eastern States Buddhist Temple of America. The focus of this tour will be the tension between the process of assimilation and the formation of an Asian American ethnic identity.

7:00- 11:00 Party (free and optional): Summer on the Hudson: GlobeSonic Sound System Dance Party, Join hundreds of others who come to dance the night away at our open-air summer dance parties with the GlobeSonic Sound System DJs accompanied by the Body Temple Drummers. At Pier I at 70th Street.

Assigned Reading: Michael Dunne, “Black and White Unite? The Clinton-Obama Campaigns in Historical Perspective,” The Political Quarterly (Jul-Sep 2008); Kavita Nandini Ramdas, “Leveraging the Power of Gender and Race,” The Nation (February, 21, 2008); Diane Winston, “Back to the Future: Religion, Politics, and the Media,” American Quarterly (September 2007), pp. 969-989; Lawrence Bobo and Camille Charles, “Race in the American Mind: From the Moynihan Report ot the Obama Candidacy,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2009).

Recommended Readings: Donald R. Kinder and Nicholas Winter, “Exploring the Racial Divide: Blacks, Whites, and Opinion on National Policy,” American Journal of Political Science, (April, 2001), pp. 439-456; Sally Howell and Andrew Shyrock, “Crashing Down on Diaspora: Arab Detroit and America’s ‘War on Terror,’” Anthropological Quarterly (Summer 2003); Carl Boggs, “The Great Retreat: Decline of the Public Sphere in Late Twentieth-Century America,” Theory and Society (Dec., 1997), pp. 741-780; Joel L. Swerdlow, “New York’s Chinatown,” National Geographic (August, 1998).

Suggested Reading: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, ed., The Muslims of America (1991); Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (1992), pp. 3-30, 199-219; Philip Q. Yang, “Sojourners or Settlers: Post-1965 Chinese Immigrants,” Journal of Asian American Studies (February 1999), pp. 61-91.

IV. NATIONAL UNITY: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION

Wednesday, July 8

9:30 - 11:15 Inventing American CultureSpeaker: Steven C. Wheatley, Vice President, American Council of LearnedSocieties.

2:00 – 4:00 Postmodernism in AmericaPanel discussion moderated by Stacy Pies, Professor, Gallatin School, NYU. Members of the panel are: Ed Guerrero, Professor, Cinema Studies, NYU; Mark Johnson, artist and Director of Print Making, NYU; Robert Vorlicky, Professor of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

8:00-10:00 Concert (free and optional): Concerts in the Parks - Central Park (Great Lawn)Presented by Didi and Oscar Schafer, Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Sibelius: Finlandia.  

Assigned Reading: Lawrence W. Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (1990), pp. 169-242; Ann Douglas, Miriam Hansen, “The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism,” Modernism/Modernity (1999) pp. 59-77;

Recommended Reading: “Periodizing the American Century: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Postcolonialism in the Cold War Context,” Modernism/Modernity (September 1998), pp. 71-98; Marianne DeKoven, “Utopias Limited: Post-sixties and Postmodern American Fiction,” Modern Fiction Studies (Spring 1995), pp. 75-97.

Suggested Reading: Cornell West, "The Postmodern Crisis of the Black Intellectuals," in Cultural Studies, eds. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler (1992), pp. 689-705; David James, “Tradition and the Movies: The Asian American Avant-Garde

in Los Angeles,” Journal of Asian American Studies (June, 1999), pp. 157-180.

Thursday, July 9

8:00 - 11:00 Education and the American CharacterRachel Wahl and Alexandra Wood will lead a tour of Hunter College High School. The participants will meet with teachers and students. The focus of this visit is the politics of multicultural education and the process of political socialization in America.

2:00 – 4:00 Diversity and Experimentation in American MusicPerformance and lecture by Joel Sachs, Director, Contemporary Music, The Julliard School, and Director of Continuum.

8:00 – 11:00 Concert (free and optional): Free outdoor classical music festival, Washington Square Park.

Assigned Readings: Bernard Bailyn, Education in the Forming of American Society (1960).

Recommended Reading: Martin Carnoy, “ Do School Vouchers Improve School Performance?,” American Prospect (January 1-15, 2001); Lawrence Cremin, Popular Education and Its Discontents (1990), pp. 1-50.

Suggested Reading: Paul Peterson, “The Case For Charter Schools” and John E. Brandl, “Civic Values In Public And Private Schools,” in Paul Peterson and Bryan Hassel, eds., Learning from School Choice (1998); Mortimer J. Adler, The Paideia Proposal, rev.ed. (1998), pp. 15-45.

Friday, July 10

10:00 – 12:00 American Art and IdentityTour of the Whitney Museum of American Art conducted by Kirsten Swenson. The tour will cover the Museum’s permanent collection, focusing on young American artists in the 1960’s who were particularly concerned with American popular culture and identity. You will also look at some seminal figures of American Art and representatives of artists who will be part of the “2008 Biennial Exhibition.”

1:00 – 5:00 Individual Research Free for individual appointments

8:00 - 11:00 Theater (required): “Hair”

Assigned Reading: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001), vol. 19, pp. 424-452; Milton Brown, American Art: Paintings, Sculpture, Architecture and Decorative Arts (1979). Recommended Reading: "Charles Ives," New Grove Dictionary of American Music; Burton Peretti, The Creation of Jazz - Music, Race and Culture in Urban America (1994), chps. 3-4; Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music (1994), chps. 1, 6; Maxwell Anderson, "Foreword" to Lisa Phillips, The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000 (2000).

Suggested Reading: Lewis Erenberg, Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture (1998), chps. 4-5; Daniel Kingman, American Music; Beth Venn and Adam D. Weinberg, eds., Frames of Reference: Looking at American Art, 1900-1950 (1999); David Joselit, American Art since 1945 (2003).

Saturday, July 11

9:00 - 5:00 Ethnic Accommodation and Pluralism in the Nineteenth CenturyIndustrial City and the Twentieth Century SuburbTour of Paterson, New Jersey, one of the oldest industrial regions in the United States, and Teaneck, New Jersey, the first voluntarily integrated suburban community in the United States. Paterson’s Great Fall provided the power necessary to run some of America’s earliest factories--including those that produced locomotives and guns. The development of the industrial sector led to massive immigration and the creation of mixed-communities as early as the mid-nineteenth century. Intercultural contact led to interchanges that led to a new identity among the American working class. Similarly, Teaneck a suburb of New York City created in the late nineteenth century has become home to one of the most ethnically and religiously diverse middle class communities in the United States. Both provide examples of how new identities emerged in distinct American environments which transcended older primordial loyalties of immigrants.

Sunday, July 12

Free DayThere are no scheduled activities on this day. Suggested activities include: NYC Celebration of Nations Festival (on Madison Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street); Central Park SummerStage, 3:00 – 7:00; Global Family Day! Little Maestros, Big Nazo, Baby Loves Salsa, featuring Jose Conde, Cinderella Samba; Bryant Park Chess Lessons, 12:00 - 1:30; Summer on the Hudson: Acoustic Sundays Ernestidio Rodriguez y Su Conjunto Tipico, 7:00 - 9:00.

Monday, July 13

9:30 – 11:30 Mass Culture, the Media, and American PoliticsPanel discussion moderated by Neil Hickey, Editor-at-Large, Columbia Journalism Review. Members of the panel are: John Pavlik, Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Rutgers University; Steve Rendall, Senior Analyst, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; Rodney Benson, Professor, Culture and Communications, NYU.

2:00 – 5:00 New York Times Visit the New York Times building to meet with members of the editorial

board.

8:00-10:00 Concert (free and optional): Concerts in the Parks - Central Park (Great Lawn)Presented by Didi and Oscar Schafer, Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Sibelius: Finlandia.  

Assigned Reading: Joseph E Uscinski, “Too Close to Call? Uncertainty and Bias in Election-Night Reporting,” Social Science Quarterly (March 2007); Susan Herbst, “Political Authority in a Mediated Age,” Theory and Society (2003); George C. Edwards III and B. Dan Wood, “Who Influences Whom? The President, Congress, and the Media,” The American Political Science Review (June, 1999), pp. 327-344.

Recommended Reading: Herbert Gans, Deciding What's News (1979), pp. 8-35, 146-155; John Fiske, Television Culture (1987), chp. 16; Vivian B. Martin, “Media Bias: Going Beyond Fair and Balanced,” Scientific American (November 2008).

Suggested Reading: Mathew Kerbel, “PBS Ain't So Different: Public Broadcasting, Election Frames, and Democratic Empowerment,” The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics (Fall 2000), pp. 8-32; C. Richard Hofstetter, David Barker, James T. Smith, Gina M. Zari, and Thomas A. Ingrassia, “Information, Misinformation, and Political Talk Radio,” Political Research Quarterly (Jun., 1999), pp. 353-369; Pippa Norris, “Does Television Erode Social Capital? A Reply to Putnam,” Political Science and Politics (Sep., 1996), pp. 474-480); Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being (2000).

Tuesday, July 14

9:30 – 11:30 Interest Group Politics and the National InterestPanel discussion moderated by Galen Kirkland, Commissioner, New York State Division of Human Rights. The members of the panel are: William Donahue, President, The Catholic League for Religious Rights; Douglas Muzzio, Professor, Public Policy, Baruch College, City University of New York; Richard Harris, Professor, Politics, Rutgers University-Camden, and Director, Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs.

1:00 – 5:00 Individual Research Free for individual appointments

8:00 – 11:00 Concert (free and optional): Free outdoor classical music festival, Washington Square Park.

Assigned Reading: John W. Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (1995), pp. 48-74, 152-172; Nelson Polsby and Aaron Wildavsky, Presidential Elections: Strategies of American Electoral Politics (1988), pp. 1-42; Andrew Perrin, “Political Microcultures: Linking Civic Life and Democratic Discourse,” Social Forces (December 2005), pp. 1049-1082 .

Recommended Reading: Richard A. Smith, “Interest Group Influence in the U. S. Congress,” Legislative Studies Quarterly (Feb., 1995), pp. 89-139; Marie Hojnacki and David C. Kimball, “The Who and How of Organizations' Lobbying Strategies in Committee,” The Journal of Politics (Nov., 1999), pp. 999-1024.

Suggested Reading: Robert C. Lowry, “The Private Production of Public Goods: Organizational Maintenance, Managers' Objectives, and Collective Goals,” The American Political Science Review (Jun., 1997), pp. 308-323; Ronald Hinckley, People, Polls, And Policymakers : American Public Opinion And National Security (1992), chps. 1-3; Anne Marie Cammisa, Governments As Interest Groups: Intergovernmental Lobbying and The Federal System (1995).

Wednesday, July 15

9:30 – 11:15 The American Sense of Mission and Foreign PolicySpeaker: David Denoon, Professor, Politics, New York University

2:00 – 4:00 Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Future of American Foreign Policy Panel discussion moderated by Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of

International Politics, Columbia University. The members of the panel are: Norman Friedman, national security consultant, and former Director, National Security Services, Hudson Institute; Herbert London, President, Hudson Institute; Farhad Kazemi, Professor, Politics and Middle Eastern Studies, NYU.

6:30 – 8:00 Poetry Reading (free and optional): “Word for Word Series” at the Bryant ParkReading Room

Assigned Reading: Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword

(1996), part I; Michael Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (1987), chp. 5; James Chace, “The Death of American Internationalism,” The World Policy Journal (Spring 2003); James

D. Fearon, "The United States Can't Win Iraq's Civil War." Foreign Affairs (March/April 2007); Michael O’Hanlon, “Toward Reconciliation in Afghanistan,” Washington Quarterly (2009);Stephen Graubard, “A Broader Agenda: Beyond Bush-Era Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs (Jan/Feb 2009).

Recommended Reading: Daniel W. Drezner, "The New New World Order." Foreign

Affairs (March/April 2007); Christopher Layne, “The Unipolar Illusion Revisited: The Coming End

of the United States' Unipolar Moment,” International Security (Fall 2006), pp. 7-41.William I. Robinson, “Globalization, the World System, and ‘Democracy Promotion’ in U.S. Foreign Policy,” Theory and Society (Oct., 1996), pp. 615-665; Thomas Carothers, “Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terror,” Foreign Affairs (January/February 2003); Corwin E. Smidt, “Religion and American Attitudes Toward Islam and an Invasion of Iraq,” Sociology of Religion (Fall 2005); Leslie H. Gelb and Justine A. Rosenthal, “The Rise of Ethics in Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs (May/June 2003); Joseph S. Nye, Jr ., “U.S. Power and Strategy After Iraq,” Foreign Affairs, (July/August 2003).

Suggested Reading: Felix Gilbert, The Beginnings of American Foreign Policy, pp. 115-137; Edward Berman, "Foundations, United States Foreign Policy and African Education, 1945-1975," Harvard Education Review (1979), 145-179; Anders Stephanson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (1995); James M. Lindsay et al., "Determinants of Presidential Foreign Policy Choice," American Politics Quarterly (January, 1992); Daniel Byman, “Constructing a Democratic Iraq: Challenges and Opportunities,” International Security (Summer 2003), pp. 47-78; Christopher Layne, “The Unipolar Illusion Revisited: The Coming End of the United States' Unipolar Moment,” International Security (Fall 2006), pp. 7-41; Theo Farrell, “Strategic Culture and American Empire,” SAIS Review (Summer-Fall, 2005).

Thursday, July 16

9:30 - 11:15 The Globalization of American MediaLecturer: Ted Magder, Professor and Chair, Culture and Communications, NYU.

1:00 – 5:00 Individual Research Free for individual appointments

7:00- 11:00 Party (free and optional): Summer on the Hudson: GlobeSonic Sound System Dance Party, Join hundreds of others who come to dance the night away at our open-air summer dance parties with the GlobeSonic Sound System DJs accompanied by the Body Temple Drummers. At Pier I at 70th Street.

Assigned Reading: Mel van Elteren, “U.S. Cultural Imperialism: Today Only a Chimera,” SAIS Review (Summer-Fall 2003), pp. 169-188; Shujen Wang, “Recontextualizing Copyright: Piracy, Hollywood, the State, and Globalization,” Cinema Journal (Fall 2003), pp. 25-43; David Ryfe, “The Future of Media Politics,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs (Winter 2007), pp. 723-738.

Recommended Reading: Ithiel de Sola Pool, Technologies without Boundaries (1990), pp.101-148; Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld (1995), pp. 137-151, 219-246.

Suggested Reading: Herbert Schiller Information Inequality (1996), pp. 91-109; Mel van Elteren, "Conceptualizing the Impact of US Popular Culture Globally," Journal of

Popular Culture (Summer 1996); Bettig, R. V. "The Enclosure of Cyberspace," Critical Studies in Mass Communication (1997), 138-157.

Friday, July 17

9:30 - 11:30 America: A Model for the World?Panel discussion moderated by Arthur Zegelbone, public diplomacy consultant and retired Foreign Service Officer. Members of the panel are: Carolyn Sorkin, Director, International Studies, Wesleyan University; Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor, International Education, NYU; Brian Gibson, Assistant Dean for International and Comparative Programs, Law School, Columbia University.

1:00 - 3:00 Evaluation Meeting

8:00 - 11:00 Concluding CelebrationDinner and party at the home of Philip Hosay, 100 Bleecker Street, Apartment 6A, where the participants will receive a “Certificate in American Studies” from the New York University Multinational Institute of American Studies.

Assigned Reading: Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1997); Liam Kennedy, “Enduring Freedom: Public Diplomacy and U.S. Foreign Policy,”American Quarterly (June 2005), pp. 309-333; Hady Amr and P.W. Singer, “To Win the ‘War on Terror,"’We Must First Win the ‘War of Ideas’: Here's How,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (July 2008); Francis Fukuyama and Michael McFaul, “Should Democracy Be Promoted or Demoted,” Washington Quarterly (2009).

Recommended Reading: David Apter, Rethinking Development: Modernization, Dependency, and Post-modern Politics (1987), pp. 12-48; Thomas Carothers, Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve (1999), chps. 2, 4, 12; Thomas M. Franck, “Is Personal Freedom a Western Value?” American Journal of International Law, Volume 91, Issue 4 (Oct., 1997). Suggested Reading: Christopher Ross, “Public Diplomacy Comes of Age,” The Washington Quarterly 25.2 (2002); Roxanne L. Euben, "Comparative Political Theory: An Islamic Fundamentalist Critique of Rationalism," The Journal of Politics, Volume 59, Issue 1 (Feb., 1997); Strobe Talbott, "Democracy and the National Interest," Foreign Affairs (November/December, 1996).

Saturday, July 18

Departure