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Missing Subjects: Bridging the Gaps in the History of Business,
Technology, Consumption and Work
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware
Agenda
| 8:30-9:30 |
Coffee |
| 9:30-10:15 |
Keynote
Address |
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Missing
Artifacts, Missing Archives: A Curator's Perspective
Fath
Davis Ruffins, National Museum of American History
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| 10:30-12:10 |
Panel
1: Marginalized in the Market |
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“What
the Colored Women Need[s] is an Opportunity to Make Money”:
African American Women, Food Service, and the Railroad
Psyche
Williams-Forson, University of Maryland College Park |
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The
Invincible Daughters of Commerce: Black Women Entrepreneurs,
1900-World War II
Shennette Garrett, University of
Texas at Austin |
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Commerce
and Protest: The Evolution of a Street Vending Organization
in Puebla, Mexico, 1960-1990
Sandra Mendiola García,
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
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Comment:
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware |
| 12:20-1:20 |
Lunch |
| 1:30-3:10 |
Panel
2: Making “it” Work |
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“Impelled
by the sight of ugly carpets,” Women as Industrial Designers
in late 19thC America
Sarah A. Johnson, University
of Hertfordshire |
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Flight
Fancies or: Why Nobody Writes About Air Cargo
Guillaume
de Syon, Albright College |
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“Technical
Hobbyists and the Repercussions of Tinkering”
Kristen
Haring, Columbia University |
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Comment:
Joe Corn, Stanford University |
| 3:10-3:20 |
Break
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| 3:20-5:00 |
Panel
3: The Laboring Mind & Body |
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Invisible
Men: The Effacement of the Laboring Body in Nineteenth-Century
Representations of American Industry
Vanessa Meikle, The University of California, Irvine
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“Capturing
the Labor Movement” and Defeating Christian Socialism: Charles
Stelzle and the Workingmen’s Church, 1902-1914
Janine Giordano, University of Illinois |
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Managing
Elephant Labor: Writing Animals into the History of American
Business
Susan Nance, University of Guelph |
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Comment:
Edward Slavishak, Susquehanna University |
| 5:00-6:30 |
Reception |
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