INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIANS
2007 PROGRAM
Friday Afternoon Tour Opportunity:
The Kinsey Institute 4:00pm-5:00pm
TOUR IS NOW FILLED
Friday, February 23, 2007 6:30pm-7:00pm
Fountain Square Ballroom, 101 West Kirkwood Avenue, 3rd floor
IAH Board Meeting
Friday, February 23, 2007 at 7:00pm
Fountain Square Ballroom, 101 West Kirkwood Avenue
Reception and talk: "Creating a Landscape of Memory"
David Bodenhamer, Polis Center/IUPUI
Saturday, February 24, 2007
8:00am to 12:30pm: Frangipani Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Conference Registration
8:00am to 5:00pm Frangipani Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Book Displays
8:00am to 9:00am, Frangipani Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Continental Breakfast
9:00am to 10:20am: IMU Tree Suites
Paper Sessions and Roundtables
Maple Room:
Roundtable: "The Last Picture Show: Historic Downtown Theaters and Community Life"
"Seventy Years of Movie Dreams: Bloomington's Indiana Theatre" Susan Ferentinos, Organization of American Historians
"Saving Indiana's Historic Theaters" Jeannie Regan-Dinius, Indiana Department of Natural Resources
"'Bring it Back for an Encore!': Marketing a Theater's History" Danielle Mclelland, Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, Bloomington
Moderator: Barbara Truesdell, Indiana University Bloomington
Oak Room:
"Kinsey for the 21st Century"
"Jeannette Howard Foster, Alfred C. Kinsey, and the Study of Female Sex Variance" Joanne Passet, Indiana University East
"The President and the Professor: Establishing Sex Research at Indiana University" James Capshew, Indiana University Bloomington
"Donors and Users: Building of and Access to The Kinsey Institute Archives" Liana Zhou, Kinsey Institute
Chair and Comment: Lynn Gorchov, Denison University
Persimmon Room:
Roundtable: Collaborations in Experiential History
A. James Fuller, University of Indianapolis
Samantha Meigs, University of Indianapolis
Jane Hetrick, Conner Prairie
Walnut Room:
"History Meets Public: Local History in Indiana"
Charlotte Sellers, Jackson County historian
Joe Skvarenina, Hancock County historian
Chair: James H. Madison, Indiana University
Respondent: David Vanderstel, Marion County historian
10:30am to 11:50am: IMU Tree Suites
Paper Sessions and Roundtables
Maple Room:
"'The Region' and Its Image"
"'To protect, enhance, preserve and wisely use': Public Sentiments toward the Use of Natural Resources in Indiana" Brittany Bayless, Purdue University
"City and Suburb Unite: History, Material Culture and the Twenty-First Century Redefinition of the Calumet Region" Joseph Biggott, Purdue University Calumet
"The City of Gary's Centennial and The Perils of Writing Contemporary History" James Lane, Indiana University Northwest
Chair and Comment: Glory-June Greiff, Independent Historian
Oak Room:
"Northern Women in the Civil War Era"
"Putnam County, Indiana Women in the Civil War Era" Nicole Etcheson, Ball State University
"Preserving Unions: Midwestern Women on the Civil War Home Front " Ginette Aley, University of Southern Indiana
"The John Brown Women and Historical Memory" Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz, Indiana University
Chair and Comment: Stephen Towne, IUPUI
Walnut Room:
Roundtable: "History and the Documentarian"
Steven Krahnke, Indiana University Radio and Television Services
Eugene Brancolini, Indiana University Radio and Television Services
Susanne K. Schwibs, Indiana University Radio and Television Services
Rich Remsberg, Archival Image Researcher, North Adams, Massachusetts
Moderator: R. Douglas Hurt, Purdue University
Persimmon Room:
"Public Commemoration of a Centenary: Indiana and the Legacy of Eugenics, 1907-2007"
"The History of Eugenics in Indiana" Jason Lantzer, IUPUI
"'Human Farming: Sowing the Perfect Seed' A Museum Exhibit on the History of Eugenics in Indiana, 1907-2007" Matt Groshek, Herron School of Art
"100 Words: A Historical Marker and the Indiana Eugenics Sterilization Laws" Amanda Jones, IUPUI
"Using the History of Eugenics in Medical Education" Peter Marcus, Indiana University School of Medicine
Chair and Comment: William H. Schneider, IUPUI
12:00 IMU Frangipani Room
Lunch Buffet and IAH Keynote/IU Paul V. McNutt Lecture:
"Why Aren't We All Public Historians?"
Dwight Pitcaithley, New Mexico State University, and retired chief historian, National Park Service
1:45pm to 3:05pm: IMU Tree Suites
Paper Sessions and Roundtables
Maple Room:
Roundtable: Collaborations to Save Indiana Women's History
Beth Van Vorst Gray, Indiana Women's History Association
Jill Chambers, Indiana Women's History Association
Pam Bennett, Indiana Historical Bureau
Jeremy Hackerd, Indiana Historical Bureau
Moderator: Pam Bennett
Persimmon Room:
Roundtable: Journalism as a Source for Historians"
"Journalism and the JAH" David Nord, Indiana University Bloomington
"Journalism and the Civil Rights Movement" Carol Polsgrove, Indiana University Bloomington
"Early Television Journalism as a Historical Source" Mike Conway, Indiana University Bloomington
"Journalistic Evidence for the Life of Ernie Pyle" Owen Johnson, Indiana University Bloomington
Moderator: Carol Polsgrove
Oak Room:
"Lincoln, Historians and the Public"
Chair: Mike Capps, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
"Historians and the Lincoln Bicentennial" Darrel Bigham, University of Southern Indiana
"Sources for Lincoln's Indiana Years" William Bartelt, University of Southern Indiana
"'Lincoln is Everybody's Subject': The Implications of Popularity for Public Historical Practice" Keith Erekson, Indiana University Bloomington
Comment: Matthew Vosmeier, Hanover College
Walnut Room:
"Turning Historians' Tools on Ourselves: Historians in their own Public Contexts"
"'A Seat at the Table': Worker Resistance and the Minnesota Historical Society Interpreter's Caucus, 1993-1996" Amy M. Tyson, DePaul University
"'We Can't Interpret Ourselves!': Public Historians and Postindustrial Lowell" Cathy Stanton, Tufts University
"'We're Not Actors': Historical Interpreters as Reluctant Edutainers" Scott Magelssen, Augustana College
Chair and Comment: Edward Linenthal, Indiana University Bloomington
3:15pm to 4:35pm: IMU Tree Suites
Paper Sessions and Roundtables
Maple Room:
"20th-Century Biography: Private Lives, Public Culture"
"Prelude to a Public Life: The Early Years of Governor Paul V. McNutt (1891-1917) Dean Kotlowski, Salisbury University
"A Hoosier History Lesson: Thomas Hart Benton's Indiana Murals" Nan Brewer, Indiana University Art Museum
Chair and Comment: Susan Curtis, Purdue University
Walnut Room:
Roundtable: Controversy, Audience and Good History: Using Museum Programs to Convey Multiple Perspectives
Moderator: David Allison, Conner Prairie Living History Museum
Ailithir McGill, Conner Prairie
Faith Revell, Indiana Historical Society
Comment: Dwight Pitcaithley, New Mexico State University
Lillly Library, IU Campus
"Collecting and Documenting: Case Studies"
"'Private' Publics: The Role of a Consulting Archivist" Noraleen Young, Independent Archivist
"'O Miners Awake': Documenting Indiana's Coal Mining Communities " Cinda Ann May, Indiana State University
"Oral History as Historical Method: Indiana Extension Homemakers Association, 1920-1940" Carla Hostetler, Purdue University
Chair and Comment: Rebecca Cape, Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington
Saturday Afternoon Tour Opportunity:
The Lilly Library 4:30pm-5:30pm
TOUR IS NOW FILLED
4:35pm to 5.00pm IMU Oak Room
Indiana Magazine of History advisory board meeting
5:00pm to 5:45pm IMU Oak Room
IAH Executive Council Meeting