JNBC faculty, staff, students, fellows, and other affiliates present talks at conferences and seminars, and write long and short papers of all sorts. A number of the talks are listed here, some of them with links to PowerPoint files, speaking notes, presentations, or audio and video files. Papers – from bibliographies to working papers to publications – are listed here as well, with links to the published or unpublished paper where possible.
Anne Valk and Leslie Brown: Living with Jim Crow:
African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South, published in July, 2010, Palgrave Macmillan Press.
Winner of the 2011 Book Award for Outstanding Use of Oral History, presented at the 2011 Oral History Association Annual Meeting, October, 2011. Regarding the award...
Anne Valk, Amy Atticks, Rachael Binning, Elizabeth Manekin, Aliza Schiff, Reina Shibata, and Meghan Townes: "Engaging Communities and Classrooms: Lessons from the Fox Point Oral History Project," published in April, 2011 Oxford University Press' Oral History Review (2011) 38 (1): 136-157. More
Ronald Potvin, "Washington Slept Here? Reinterpreting the Stephen Hopkins House," published in the Spring 2011, Volume 66, #2 edition of AASLH History News, The Magazine of the American Association for State and Local History. More
Ron M. Potvin, "House or Home? Rethinking the House Museum Paradigm" in "The Power and Predicament of Historic Sites," History News, Spring 2010 more
Steven Lubar, "Forty Students, One Semester: An Exhibition Challenge," The Teaching Exchange, January 2010 more
Robyn Schroeder, "Abraham Lincoln: The Man, The Myth, The Making of a President," a booklet to accompany a bicentennial exhibition in honor of Abraham Lincoln (1809 –1865), curated by Holly Snyder, with the assistance of Robyn Schroeder. Spring 2009 more
Rachael Binning; Elizabeth Manekin; Aliza Schiff, informational booklet on the "Faces of Fox Point" community history project. October 2009 more
Steven Lubar, "Public History: 25 years, Five Questions", presented at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst conference: Public History 2036: The Next 25 Years, September 23-24 2011. Check out a video clip from this lecture! more
Ronald Potvin, "Hands-On vs. Hands-Off: The Rembrant Rule Revisited", presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for State and Local History 2011 Annual Meeting, Richmond, VA. September 2011.
Steven Lubar, "Record, Preserve, Document, Shape: Talking About the Public Humanities," Paley Library, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, November 2010 more
Ron M. Potvin, "The Rembrandt Rule Revisited," American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, OK, September 2010 more
Steven Lubar, address to the Board of Directors at the Slater Mill Historic Site, Pawtucket, RI, November 2008 more
Steven Lubar, "A Museum's Bygone Era," a response to Pete Daniel's "History with Boundaries: How Donors Shape Museum Exhibits" in the Organization of American Historians' newsletter, November 2008 more
Steven Lubar, "Public History: Hong Kong and Macao," January 2008 more
Steven Lubar, "Collecting and Exhibiting Twentieth-century Technology," presentation given at the MIT
Museum, October 2007 more
Steven Lubar, “Twentieth Is the New Nineteenth: Thinking About Collecting and Exhibiting the Last Century.” Keynote address for “Collecting and Interpreting the 20th Century," the 2007 Massachusetts History Conference, May 2007 text images
Steven Lubar, address to the Board of Directors at the Slater Mill Historic Site, Pawtucket, RI, May 2006 more
Jessica Johnson, ”Public Humanities," a field list for Department of American Civilization doctoral examination, 2006 more
Katie Chavez, ”Site-Specific Performance at Historical Sites: Resources, Bibliographies, and Examples,“ August 2005 more
Ron M. Potvin, Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska, and Shana Weinberg, ”A Selected Compilation of Historic House Museum Resources,“ November 2010 more
Ron M. Potvin, ”Museum Professional Training and Education: Results from a Web-based Survey,“ 2007 more
The John Nicholas Brown Center is pleased to present selected papers from a series of international biannual conferences on American Studies conceived and executed by a consortium of American studies programs in the United States and Europe. The partner departments are all parts of universities – presently Università di Bologna, University of Paris III, Yale University, Brown University, and University of California at Berkeley – that have exchange programs with each other
The conferences are designed to allow faculty and graduate students to share recent work and consider new paradigms relating to American studies as a scholarly field. A response to initiatives within the field of American studies to imagine a transnational practice, these conferences allow for an in-depth examination of what an internationalized American studies might look like.
To find paper titles, abstracts, and sometimes full papers, click on the conference titles below. Please contact Susan Smulyan with any questions about the Bologna Conferences.
Mobility and American Cultures, June 20–22, 2002 more
Public Spheres and American Cultures, June 4–6, 2004 more
Reform and Revolution in American Culture and History, June 6–8, 2006 more
The USA in the World, the World in the USA, June 19–21, 2008 more