Faculty and graduate students at Rutgers-Newark will explore the problems of the economy from contemporary, historical and literary perspectives at “Recession/Depression: A Forum Responding to the Economic Crisis.”
“Recession/Depression,” a public forum organized by the American Studies Program, will take place Wednesday, April 15, at 2:30 pm in Room 234 of the Paul Robeson Student Center. The Robeson Center is located at 350 Martin Luther King Boulevard in Newark.
Speakers will include:
Rachel Hadas, Board of Governors Professor of English, who will read three great poems about money by three great poets: George Herbert, Philip Larkin, and Robert Frost.
Mara Sidney, associate professor of political science, will examine urban governance and the impact of the economic crisis.
Jason Barr, associate professor of economics, will relate the history of booms and busts in the United States and the world.
Philip Cerny, professor of political science, will address the crisis and neo-liberalism.
Sherri-Ann Butterfield, associate professor of sociology and anthropology, will speak on immigration and the economy.
Susan Carruthers, associate professor of history, will discuss right-wing populism as a response to economic depression.
Tad Hershorn, archivist, Institute of Jazz Studies, will speak on folklore, laborlore and the Great Depression in the life of Archie Green.
Sean Singer, doctoral candidate in American Studies, will read poems written in response to economic distress by Virgil, Larry Levis and James Tate.
Rosie Uyola, doctoral candidate in American Studies, will report on the work of the Newark-Essex Foreclosure Task Force.
Neil Maher, associate professor of history, NJIT, will speak on the New Deal’s Civilian Conservation Corps and its significance for the environmental movement.
Robert Snyder, associate professor of journalism and American Studies, will speak on media, memory and the legacies of the Great Depression.
Contact: Robert Snyder, Associate Professor, Journalism and American Studies
rwsnyder@andromeda.rutgers.edu
973-353-3727 (office); 212-861-9880 (home)
Media Contact: Rob Snyder
973-353-3727
E-mail: rwsnyder@andromeda.rutgers.edu