Multinational Institute of American Studies

Study of the U.S. Institute on U.S. Culture and Values 2019

THE RECONCILIATION OF AMERICAN DIVERSITY WITH NATIONAL UNITY

Saturday, June 8

All day Arrival and check-in at Palladium.

Sunday, June 9

Morning Unpack and catch up on sleep.

1:00-2:30 PM Administrative Orientation

Meet MIAS staff in the Palladium lobby at 12:45pm.

2:30-5:30 PM Tour of Union Square, NYU and Washington Square.

I. LOCAL AUTONOMY AND PLURALISM IN AMERICA

Monday, June 10

8:30 AM Meet in Palladium lobby to walk over to 246 Greene Street.

9:00 AM-

12:00 PM

NYU Card Center, 7 Washington Place

Bank of America, 770 Broadway

Administrative Tasks, 246 Greene Street

Distribution of Assigned Books: Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American

Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2006); Richard Rorty, Achieving Our

Country (1998); Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today’s

Divided Society Endangers our Future; Nicholas Lemann, The Promised

Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America; Kenneth

Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States

(1987); Larry Bartels, Unequal Democracy: The political economy of the new

gilded age (2008); Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A

Double-Edged Sword (1996)

1:00-2:30 PM

Information Technology Services, NYU Library and E-Resources Orientation to NYU research resources with Scott Collard, Bobst Librarian, in

Bobst Library Lab 743.

5:00 PM Meet in the Palladium lobby to walk over to 246 Greene Street.

5:30-7:30 PM Opening Reception

Meet with other NYU officials, faculty, and graduate students

246 Greene Street, 1st Floor.

Tuesday, June 11

9:30-11:15 AM Reconciliation of Diversity with National Unity Speaker: Philip Hosay, Professor of International Education, and Director of

the Multinational Institute of American Studies, NYU

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street.

11:30-1:30PM Tour of NYU – Led by MIAS Staff

2:00-4:00 PM

Discussion of Research Interests

There will be a roundtable discussion over lunch in which the participants will

be able to present how the study of the US is approached in each of your

countries.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

6:00-9:00 PM Museum Mile Festival (free and optional): Join the crowds listening to live

music and visiting museums for three hours during Museum Mile Festival on

5th Avenue (from 82nd to 105th Street). This year's participating institutions

include: El Museo Del Barrio, Museum of the City of New York, the Jewish

Museum, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Neue Galerie New York,

the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Assigned Reading: Thomas Bender, "Strategies of Narrative Synthesis in American

History," American Historical Review (February 2002): 129-153; David Levering Lewis,

“Exceptionalism's Exceptions: The Changing American Narrative,” Daedalus (Winter 2012):

101-117; Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2006), chps.

1-5, 10-11.

Recommended Reading: Gary Wills, Explaining America (1981), 1-93 ; William H. Chafe,

“The American Narrative: Is There One & What Is It?” Daedalus (Winter 2012): 11–17; Alexis

De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. Richard D. Heffner, pp. 49-58, 95-142, 189-220,

289-317; Stephen H. Sumida, “Where in the World is American Studies,” American Quarterly

55, no.3 (2003): 333-351

Wednesday, June 12

9:30-11:15 AM

Politics and Democracy in Early America

Speaker: Andrew Robertson, Professor of History, Lehman College and

CUNY Graduate Center.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street.

2:00-4:00 PM Individual Research

Meet with staff who will assist 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. - that you may wish

to visit.

4:30-7:00 PM Film Viewing Wim Wenders’ Land of Plenty.

Bobst Library, 7th floor immersion viewing room.

Assigned Reading: 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; David J. Silverman,

"Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating Wampanoag Christianity in

Seventeenth-Century Martha's Vineyard," Archives of American Art Journal 23, no.4 (1983): 27-

33; 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).

Recommended Reading: 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; Jane Landers, “Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose: A Free Black

Town in Spanish Colonial Florida,” American Historical Review, 95 (1990); Sumner C. Powell,

Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town (1963), chps. 5-l0.

Thursday, June 13

9:30-11:15 AM The Search for Community in the American Imagination Speaker: Rene Arcilla, Professor, Philosophy and Humanities Education, NYU.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street.

11:30-1:00 PM Lunch, New England Trip Briefing, and Program Evaluation

1:00-5:00 PM

Individual Research

Starting at 6 Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park (free and optional)

“Much Ado About Nothing,” Delacorte Theater in Central Park

Assigned Reading: Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country (1998); Sacvan Bercovitch, The

Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America, ch. 10

Recommended Reading: Mary Ann Villarreal, “Finding Our Place: Reconstructing Community

through Oral History,” The Oral History Review (Summer–Autumn, 2006): 45-64; Vicki L. Ruiz,

“Citizen Restaurant: American Imaginaries, American Communities,” American

Quarterly (March 2008): 1-21.

Friday, June 14-Sunday, June 16

Community in New England

You will meet at the Palladium Lobby on Friday at 6:45AM to take the train to Boston. This

tour will be led by Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, Co-Director of the summer institute and Assistant

Professor of International Education, NYU. After checking into the Boston Club Quarters Hotel,

you will take a historical tour of Boston, examining early examples of democratic governance

and how economic change undermined the social cohesiveness of the first settlements. On

Saturday, you will take the train to Lowell, a 40 minute train ride. Among other sites, you will

visit the Boott Cotton Mills Museum, where you will consider the impact of industrialization and

immigration on traditional communal structures in New England. That evening you will attend a

dinner hosted by Dr. Mitalene Fletcher, Director of Pre K-12 and International Programs at the

Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an alumna of the NYU International Education

doctoral program. Sunday morning there will be a tour of Harvard University. In the afternoon

you will depart by train for New York. The focus of this tour will the changing character of the

New England community and how its democratic traditions facilitated the incorporation of

diverse groups of migrants.

Recommended Reading: William Cronon, Changes in the Land (1983), pp. 159-170; Norman

Ware, The Industrial Worker (1924), pp. 1-25; Tuyet-Lan Pho, “Southeast Asian Women in

Lowell: Family Relations, Gender Roles, and Community Concerns,” Frontiers: A Journal of

Women’s Studies, vol. 24, no. 1 (2003), pp. 101-129.

II. INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND THE AMERICAN CREED

Monday, June 17

9:30-11:15 AM The Constitutional Basis for Individual Rights in America Speaker: Thomas Halper, Professor, Political Science, Baruch College, City

University of New York

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene St

2:00-4:00 PM Electronic Media, Censorship, and Individual Privacy Panel discussion moderated by Terence Moran, Professor Emeritus of Media,

Culture, and Communication, NYU Steinhardt. Members of the panel are:

Kitty Bridges, Associate Vice President, IT Policy & Compliance, NYU;

Norman Siegel, attorney and former Executive Director of the New York

Civil Liberties Union; Tiffany Hsu, journalist, New York Times.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

6:45-9:30 PM Stargazing (free and optional): Peer through high-powered telescopes provided by the knowledgeable

members of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York to see rare

celestial sights. On the High Line at 14th Street in The High Line

Manhattan.

Assigned Reading: Leonard W. Levy, "The Original Meaning of the Establishment Clause of

the First Amendment," in Religion and the State: Essays in honor of Leo Pfeffer, ed. James E.

Wood, Jr. (1985); Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience (1965), 325-390;

37-63; Dworkin, Ronald, "Affirmative Action: Does it Work?" and "Affirmative Action: Is it

Fair?" in Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality (2002); Robert Faris and Bruce

Etling,“Madison and the Smart Mob: The Promise and Limitations of the Internet for

Democracy,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs (Summer 2008): 65-85; Nathaniel Persily,

“Can Democracy Survive the Internet?” Journal of Democracy, Volume 28, Number 2, April

2017, pp. 63-76. Recommended Reading: Noah Feldman, " From Liberty to Equality: The Transformation of the

Establishment Clause ," California Law Review (May 2002): 673-731; Richard J. Arneson,

“Perfectionism and Politics,” Ethics (Oct., 2000), pp. 37-63; William Banks, "State

Responsibility and Attribution of Cyber," Texas Law Review (June, 2017); Evgeny Morozov,

“Wither Internet Control?” Journal of Democracy, Volume 22, Number 2, April 2011, pp. 62-74.

Tuesday, June 18

9:30-11:15 AM American Federalism and Local Governance Speaker: Kimberley Johnson, Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

2:00-4:00 PM Individual Research

6:00-10:00 PM Screening and Talkback: Brooklyn Historical Society (free and optional) Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America is a documentary about

Frederick Law Olmsted’s masterworks of Central and Prospect Parks which

are cherished by New Yorkers. It will then be followed by a presentation from

the film’s lead researcher and historian, Laurence Cotton!

128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn.

Assigned Reading: 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); Gordon S. Wood, “Review: Federalism from Bottom Up,” The University

of Chicago Law Review, 78.2 (Spring, 2011), 705-732; Stella Burch Elias, “The Perils and

Possibilities of Refugee Federalism,” American University Law Review, 66.2 (2017), 353-414.

Recommended Reading: The Federalist Papers , nos. 10, 78, 81; Timothy J. Conlan,

“Federalism and policy instability: Centralization and decentralization in contemporary

American federalism,” Revue française de science politique (English Edition), Vol. 64, No. 2,

pp. 27-48; Robert Inman and Daniel Rubinfeld, “Rethinking Federalism,” The Journal of

Economic Perspectives 11, no.4 (Autumn 1997), 43-64.

Wednesday, June 19

9:30-11:30 AM Religious Liberty and the American Creed Panel discussion moderated by Gabriel Moran, Professor Emeritus of

Religion and Philosophy of Education, NYU. Panelists include Robert

Seltzer, Professor of History, Hunter College, CUNY; Gary Dorrien,

Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, and Professor of

Religion, Columbia University; Jennifer Hill Fletcher, Professor, Theology,

Fordham University.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street.

1:00-5:00 PM Individual Research

6:30-9:00 PM Theater (required): “To Kill a Mocking Bird”

Shubert Theatre

Assigned Reading: Robert Putnam and David Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Unites

and Divides Us (2010); chs. 1-2, 8-9, 11, 14-15; Randall Balmer, “Under Trump, America's

religious right is rewriting its code of ethics” The Guardian, 18.1. 2018; Pew Research Center,

“More Americans now say they’re spiritual but not religious,” 9.6. 2017, see:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/06/more-americans-now-say-theyre-spiritual-

but-not-religious; PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute), “America’s Changing Religious

Identity,” 6.9.2017.

Recommended Reading: Winthrop S. Hudson, " Liberty , Both Civil and Religious," in The

Lively Experiment Continued, ed. Jerald Brauer (1988); Anthony Gill and John M. Owen IV,

“Religious Liberty and Economic Prosperity: Four Lessons from the Past,” Cato Journal, Winter

2017; Karen Leonard, “American Muslims and Authority: Competing Discourses in a Non-

Muslim State,” in John J. Bukowczyk, ed., Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship

(2016).

Thursday, June 20

9:30-11:15 AM Individualism and American Business Enterprise

Speaker: George Smith, Professor of Economics and International Business,

Stern School of Business, NYU

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene.

1:00-4:00 PM Lower Manhattan: Tour of Wall Street, the World Trade Center, and the

World Financial Center.

7:00 - 10:00 PM NY Philharmonic (free and optional):

Prospect Park- Brooklyn

Assigned Reading: Joseph Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society

Endangers our Future (2012), chs. 1, 4, 5; Sven Beckert, “History of American Capitalism,” in

American History Now, ed. Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr (2011), 314-335; David Ciepley,

“Beyond Public and Private: Toward a Political Theory of the Corporation,” American Political

Science Review 107, no. 1 (2013),139-158; Benjamin Waterhouse, “The Corporate Mobilization

against Liberal Reform: Big Business Day, 1980,” in What's Good for Business: Business and

American Politics since World War II, ed. Kim Phillips-Fein and Julian E. Zelizer (2012), 233-

248; Mitchell Moss,“The Redevelopment of Lower Manhattan: The Role of the City,” in John

Mollenkopf, Contentious City: The Politics of Recovery in New York City (Russell Sage

Foundation, 2005); Richard E. Ocejo, Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail

Bars in New York City (Princeton University Press, 2014), Conclusion.

Recommended Reading: Jeffrey Sklansky, “The Elusive Sovereign: New Intellectual and

Social Histories of Capitalism,” Modern Intellectual History (2012), 233–48; Alfred D.

Chandler, Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge:

Harvard University Press/Belknap Press, 1977), 209-283; Mary A. O’Sullivan, “Funding New

Industries: A Historical Perspective on the Financing Role of the U.S. Stock Market in the

Twentieth Century,” in Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to the Present, ed.

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (2007), 163-216; Bethany Moreton, To Serve

God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (2009), 24-35, 49-66;

Martin Filler, “New York’s Vast Flop,” The New York Review of Books, March 9, 2017; Julian

Brash, “Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in

Contemporary New York City,” in Marina Peterson and Gary W. McDonogh, ed., Global

Downtowns (2012).

Friday, June 21

9:30-11:15 AM Organized Labor in America

Speaker: Joshua Freeman, Distinguished Professor, History, Graduate Center,

City University of New York.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene.

2:00-4:00 PM Social Responsibility and Individual Self-Reliance Panel discussion moderated by Lawrence Mead, Professor, Politics, NYU

Members of the panel are David Chen, Former Executive Director, Chinese

American Planning Council; Jeremy Reiss, Deputy Officer for Public Policy

and External Relations, Henry Street Settlement; Rosemonde Pierre-Louis,

Professor and Deputy Director, McSilver Institute, NYU.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street.

6:00 - 10:00 PM Summer Solstice Celebration (free and optional): In honor of the current

exhibition, Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space, festivities range from

high-energy daylight to reflective starlit nighttime, exploring the celestial-

terrestrial connection and otherworldly origins of expression and art. Includes

art-making workshops, face painting, a solstice ritual, music, and

entertainment. Socrates Sculpture in Queens, New York -

32-01 Vernon Blvd, Long Island City.

Assigned Reading: Larry Bartels, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New

Gilded Age (2008), chps. 1-3, 5, 9; Melvyn Dubofsky, Hard Work: The Making of Labor

History (2000), 100-173; Jennifer Klein, "We Were the Invisible Workforce: Unionizing Home

Care" in The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor, ed. Dorothy Sue Cobble

(2007); James T. Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentieth Century (2000),

pp. 171-184, 210-223; Stone et al. “A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income

Inequality,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Oct 2015); U.S. Census Bureau, Income

and Poverty in the United States: 2015 (September, 2016); “New Census Data Shows More

Americans Emerging From Poverty,” The Atlantic, September 12, 2017

Recommended Reading: Eric Foner, "Why is There No Socialism in the United

States?" History Workshop Journal 17 (Spring 1984); Stephanie Luce, “The Good, the Bad, and

the Ugly: A Labor Day Assessment of the Past Year,” New Labor Forum (Fall 2012): 66-73;

Tayyab Mahmud, “Debt and Discipline,” American Quarterly (September 2012), 469-494;

Marianne P. Bitler and Hilary W. Hoynes, “The State of the Social Safety Net in the Post-

Welfare Reform,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Fall 2010), 71-127; Elvin Wyly, C.

S. Ponder, Pierson Nettling, Bosco Ho, Sophie Ellen Fung, Zachary Liebowitz, and Dan

Hammel, “New Racial Meanings of Housing in America,” American Quarterly (September

2012), 571-604; Josh Bivens, et al. “Raising America’s Pay: Why It’s Our Central Economic

Policy Challenge,” Economic Policy Institute (June 4, 2014).

Saturday, June 22 - Sunday, June 23

Free Weekend

As this is one of only two free weekends in the program, the participants can choose to catch

up on reading, do some shopping, rest, go to the beach, or visit museums. There are endless

options of museum exhibits, concerts and other activities going on in NYC in the summer,

which can be consulted at TIME OUT (https://www.timeout.com/newyork) and the NYC

official events website (www.nycgo.com). Below is a list of just a few free museum

exhibits.

● June 22nd: 2:00- 3:30 pm. Union Square: Crossroads of New York Walking Tour

at Barnes & Noble, Manhattan. Experience Union

Square in a new way by participating in the Union

Square Partnership's free walking tour - Union Square:

Crossroads of New York.

● June 23nd: 2:00- 3:30 pm. Central Park Tour: Stroll to Strawberry Fields at

Columbus Circle Information Kiosk (in Central Park), Manhattan.

● June 23rd: The Gay Pride Parade: https://www.nycpride.org/

● June 23rd: 6:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m. Summer on the Hudson: Let's Dance! at Pier I (in

Riverside Park South), Manhattan. Learn to dance like a pro at these Salsa, Cha-Cha

and Bachata lessons and group social dances led by master teachers.

Museum exhibitions

● Admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art is $25 for adults and $12 for

students, for those visiting NY. For current exhibits, see:

http://www.metmuseum.org/ ● Admission to the American Museum of Natural History in general is “pay what

you wish”; special exhibits may have a fee. For current exhibits, see:

http://www.amnh.org/ ● Admission to the National Museum of the American Indian is free. For current

exhibits, see: http://www.nmai.si.edu/visit/newyork/ ● The Museo del Barrio is free every third Saturday of the month (June 17th) for

Super Sábado, with additional events. See: http://www.elmuseo.org/ ● Saturdays at the Guggenheim Museum are also “pay what you wish” from 5:45 to

7:45 pm. A line forms at 5:15. See: https://www.guggenheim.org/plan-your-

visit#admission ● The Tenement Museum offers highly recommended neighborhood immigration

tours and is located at 103 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan (see

the website at www.tenement.org for more details). ● The Brooklyn Museum is free after 5 pm on the first Saturday of every month, with

additional concerts and activities. See:

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays

III. CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HETEROGENEITY

Monday, June 24

9:30-11:15 AM Immigration and Cultural Conflict Speaker: Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, International Education,

NYUConference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street.

1:00-5:00 PM Individual Research

6:00 – 8:00 PM Monday Night Films at Jefferson Market Library (free and optional):

Secret Beyond the Door (1948; 99 mins.) Dir: Fritz Lang. When a wife and

husband settle into an ancient mansion, she discovers he may want to kill her.

From the ads in ’48: “Some men destroy what they love the most!” Starring

Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave and Anne Revere.

Assigned Reading: Lawrence H. Fuchs, The American Kaleidoscope (1990), pp. 1-34, 384-

404; Pew Research Center, “Statistical Portrait of the Foreign-Born Population in the United

States,” (May 3, 2017); Pew Research Center, “Key Findings about US Immigrants

“(November 30, 2018); NAS (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine),

“Summary” of The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration (The National

Academies Press: Washington, DC. 2017).

Recommended Reading: David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the

Making of the American Working Class (1999), chps. 1 and 7; Ronald H. Bayor, "Another

Look at 'Whiteness': The Persistence of Ethnicity in American Life," Journal of American

Ethnic History (Fall 2009), pp. 13-30; William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of

Race (1978), pp. 155-182; David M. Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and

The Turn Against Immigration (1998), chps. 1-3.

Tuesday, June 25

9:30 AM-

2:00 PM

The Ethnic Community in America Tour of the Lower East Side and Chinatown with Philip Hosay and Sebastian

Cherng. The walking tour will include a history of SoHo, the Jewish Lower

East Side, Little Italy, and end with lunch in Chinatown. The focus of this

tour will be the tension between the process of assimilation and the formation

of an ethnic identity.

2:00-5:00 PM Individual Research

6:00-8:00 PM Midsummer Night Swing (free and optional): Midsummer Night Swing begins with a lesson in swing, tango, salsa, etc.,

followed by a live band in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center. 10 Lincoln

Center Plaza, Manhattan.

Assigned Reading: Jacob Riis, How The Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of

New York (1890), pp. 1-16, 82-102; Nga-Wing Anjela Wong, “‘They See Us as Resource:’

The Role of a Community-Based Youth Center in Supporting the Academic Lives of Low-

Income Chinese American Youth,” Anthropology & Education Quarterly (Jun., 2008), 181-

204; Joel L. Swerdlow, “New York’s Chinatown,” National Geographic (August, 1998);

Deborah Dwork, “Immigrant Jews on the Lower East Side of New York, 1880-1914," in

Jonathan Sarna, ed., The American Jewish Experience (1986), pp. 120-35

Recommended Reading: Andrew S. Dolkart, Biography of a Tenement House in New York

City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street; Hasia R. Diner, Lower East Side

Memories: A Jewish Place in America (2002); Philip Q. Yang, “Sojourners or Settlers: Post-

1965 Chinese Immigrants,” Journal of Asian American Studies (February 1999), pp. 61-91;

Ernesto Qui̜onez, Bodega Dreams (2000); Laurie Fabiano, Elizabeth Street (2010); Vivian

Louie, Compelled to Excel: Immigration, Education, and Opportunity among Chinese

Americans (2004), chps 3, 5, 8.

Wednesday, June 26

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

CUNY.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

1:00-4:00 PM Diversity in Harlem

Walking tour of Harlem led by R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy, Professor,

Sociology of Education, NYU. Focus is on landmarks indicating its history as

the most important African American community, both politically and

culturally, in the United States. The tour will also examine the recent

gentrification of Harlem.

7:00 – 9:00 PM Metropolitan Opera's 2019 Summer Recital Series: (free and optional) The

recital will feature soprano Gabriella Reyes de Ramírez, tenor Gerard

Schneider, and baritone Adrian Timpau joined by pianist Dan Saunders.

Assigned Reading: Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration

and How It Changed America; Violet M. Showers Johnson. “’What, Then, Is the African

American?’ African and Afro- Caribbean Identities in Black America.” Journal of American

Ethnic History 28, no. 1 (Fall 2008); Edward E. Curtis, “Islamism and Its African American

Muslim Critics: Black Muslims in the Era of the Arab Cold War.” American Quarterly

(2007), 683-709; Michael Henry Adams, “The End of Black Harlem,” New York Times,

May 27, 2016; 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; Lawrence Bobo and Camille Charles, “Race in the American

Mind: From the Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy,” The Annals of the American

Academy of Political and Social Science (2009).

Recommended Reading: Bridget R. Cooks, “Black Artists and Activism: Harlem on My Mind

(1969),” American Studies, Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2007, pp. 5-39; Michael Dunne,

“Black and White Unite? The Clinton-Obama Campaigns in Historical Perspective,” The

Political Quarterly (Jul-Sep 2008); Sally Howell and Andrew Shryock, “Crashing Down on

Diaspora: Arab Detroit and America’s ‘War on Terror,’” Anthropological Quarterly (Summer

2003); Kavita Nandini Ramdas, “Leveraging the Power of Gender and Race,” The Nation

(February, 21, 2008); Taeku Lee, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow? Post-Racial & Pan-Racial

Politics in the Age of Obama,” Dædalus (Spring, 2011).

Thursday, June 27

9:30-11:30 PM Pluralistic Integration in Queens Tour led by Sebastian Cherng. You will meet with Susan Tanenbaum,

Director of Immigrant and Intercultural Affairs for Queens, as well as other

government officials at the Queens Botanical Gardens, and also participate in

a task force on immigration and integration. Queens is 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, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico,

Argentina, and a host of other countries.

12:00-2:00PM Lunch, New Mexico Trip Briefing, and Program Evalutaion

2:00-5:00 PM Individual Research

Assigned Reading: Roger Sanjek, The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in

New York City (1998), chps. 10-11, 15, conclusion; Stéphane Tonnelat and William

Kornblum, International Express: New Yorkers on the 7 Train (2017).

Recommended Reading: R. Scott Hanson, City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration,

and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens (2016); Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan, Crossing the

BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America (2003); Matthew Thomas, We Are

Not Ourselves (2014).

Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3

Ethnicity and Assimilation on the American Frontier Tour of New Mexico, led by Philip Hosay and Sebastian Cherng. Following your arrival in

Albuquerque, you will travel directly to Santa Fe along the Turquoise Trail, stopping briefly at

Madrid and Cerillos. The next morning you will tour the Santa Fe Plaza, tracing through its

architecture the successive waves of immigration that have left their mark on the character of the

community. Afterwards you will discuss Native American history and culture with Tiffany Lee,

Professor of Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico. On Sunday morning,

you will meet with the Governor of the Santa Clara Pueblo, J. Michael Chavarria, who will

discuss the governing structure and economy of the northern pueblos. He will then take you to

the Puye Cliff Dwellings, a National Historic site, where we will have lunch prepared by the

Pueblo. That afternoon you will have lunch at the Rancho de Chimayó restaurant. After lunch

you will visit the El Santuario de Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas, a small church ascribed with

miraculous healing powers that serves the local Spanish community in Chimayo. Afterwards our

group will take the “high road,” along the edge of the Sangre Cristo Range, stopping briefly at

Cordova and Truchas, both small working class Spanish towns known for their weaving

industries. On Tuesday morning, you will tour the Taos Pueblo; after which you will visit the

Millicent Rogers Museum’s collection of contemporary Native American art and Spanish-New

Mexican art. In the afternoon you can visit either the Rio Grande Gorge, from which you can

view the Rio Grande River 650 feet below, or the Wild Rivers Recreation Area northwest of

Questa, a pristine area where they can hike down an 800 foot gorge. On Wednesday, after a

leisurely morning in Taos, we will return to Albuquerque for the flight back to New York. In

Santa Fe you will stay at the Hilton Hotel, and in Taos you will stay at the El Monte Sagrado

Resort. The focus of this tour is patterns of ethnic confrontation and assimilation on the Western

frontier.

Recommended Reading: Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop; Gerald D. Nash and

Richard W. Etulain, eds. “Mexican Americans In the New West” and “Indians of the Modern

West,” in, The Twentieth-Century West (1989); Ramon Gutierrez, “The Pueblo Indian World in

the Sixteenth Century,” in David Hackett, ed., Religion and Culture: A Reader (1995); Anthony

F. C. Wallace, The Long, Bitter Trail (1993), pp. 30-49; Manuel Gonzales, Mexicanos: A

History of Mexicans in the United States (1999), chps 7, 9; Charles Montgomery, “The Trap of

Race and Memory: The Language of Spanish Civility on the Upper Rio Grande,” American

Quarterly (September 2000), pp. 478-513.

Thursday, July 4

1:00-4:00 PM

The Brooklyn Bridge and the Changing Neighborhoods of New York

A tour of the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO led by

Jonathan Friedman, Director, Campus Free Speech, PEN AMERICA. The

tour will focus on immigration and social class in the construction of the

bridge, the evolution of transportation between Manhattan and Brooklyn, and

the changing neighborhood dynamics of New York City. Meet in the

Palladium Lobby at 1pm.

4:00-6:00 PM July 4th: Celebration of American Pluralism Among the activities in which the participants can take part is the

Independence festival at the South Street Seaport. This is also an excellent

day to explore other parts of Brooklyn, like Prospect Park, or other parts of

Manhattan, like Battery Park. Many New Yorkers choose to spend July 4

walking around the city. The focus of this day will be how Americans

celebrate both pluralism and national unity.

9:00-10:00 PM Fireworks (free and optional): Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks, East River.

Staff will meet the participants at the Palladium lobby and take them to a

place where they can view the fireworks along Manhattan’s midtown on the

East Side.

Recommended 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).

Friday, July 5

9:30-11:15 AM

English Language Learning and American Schools

Speaker: Shondel Nero, Professor of Language Education, Department of

Teaching and Learning, NYU

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

2:00-4:00 PM

Ethnicity, Race, and Gender in American Politics Panel moderated by former New York State Assemblyman Daniel Feldman,

Professor of Public Management at John Jay College. Panelists include Galen

Kirkland, Executive Director, Center for War/Peace Studies, and former New

York State Commissioner of Human Rights; Hector Cordero-Guzman,

Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College; Ester

Fuchs, Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science and Director of the

Urban and Social Policy Program, Columbia University.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

7:00-10:00 PM

Theater (required): “Oklahoma”

Circle in the Square Theater

Assigned Reading: Ryuko Kubota and Angel Lin, “Race and TESOL: Introduction to Concepts

and Theories,” TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Sep., 2006), pp. 471-493; Jennifer McCloud,

“Just Like Me”: How Immigrant Students Experience a U.S. High School,” The High School

Journal, Volume 98, Number 3, Spring 2015, pp. 262-282;Joshua A. Fishman, “Is a Fuller

Relinguification of TESOL Desirable?” TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 2 (June 2009), pp. 313-

317; Lily Wong Filmore, “English Language Learners at the Crossroads of Educational Reform,”

TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 3, (September 2014), pp. 624-632; Laura R. Winsky Mattei,

“Gender and Power in American Legislative Discourse, The Journal of Politics, (May, 1998), pp.

440-46; Gary Jacobson, “The Triumph of Polarized Partisanship in 2016: Donald Trump's

Improbable Victory,” Political Science Quarterly (Spring, 2017), pp. 9-41; Pew Research

Center, “An Early Look at the 2020 Electorate,” January 30, 2019.

Recommended Reading: Jim Cummings, “Multilingualism in the English-language Classroom:

Pedagogical Considerations,” TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 2 (June 2009), pp. 317-321;

Nelson Flores, “The Unexamined Relationship Between Neoliberalism and Plurilingualism: A

Cautionary Tale” TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3, (September 20113), pp. 500-520; Avik Roy

and John Yoo, “The Republican Party Needs Asian Voters,” The National Interest, March 7,

2019; George C. Bunch, Aída Walqui P. David Pearson, “Complex Text and New Common

Standards in the United States: Pedagogical Implications for English Learners,” TESOL

Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 3, (September 2014), pp. 533-559 Bruce Baum, “Donald Trump’s

‘Genius,’White Natural Aristocracy,’ and Democratic Equality in America,” Theory & Event,

Volume 20, Number 1, January 2017 Supplement, pp. 10-22; Gregory Smith and Jessica

Martinez, “How the faithful voted: A preliminary 2016 analysis,” Pew Foundation (November 9,

2016).

Saturday, July 6 - Sunday, July 7

Free Weekend

See the List of free Weekend Activities for a complete list of free museum exhibits and events.

In addition, here are some suggestions for this weekend:

● Summer on the Hudson: Amplified Sundays (free, Pier I in Riverside Park South, 7:00

p.m.–9:00 p.m.) Enjoy vibrantly-danceable live music accompanied by spectacular

sunsets over the Hudson River!

● Visit Central Park: Paddle boats and gondola rides can be rented/purchased at the

Loeb Boathouse, which provides beautiful views of the Bethesda Fountain, from 10am-

6pm, daily (take the 4,6 from Union Square to 86th Street and the boathouse is

approximately off of 74th in the middle of the park). There will also be free concerts in

the park both days as part of the SummerStage program.

● You may enjoy a scenic trip to popular Governor’s Island to try out their new

hammock grove, famous array of food trucks, or to take in the unique views of

Manhattan (take the free ferry from Battery Park in Manhattan -

https://govisland.com/).

IV. NATIONAL UNITY: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION

Monday, July 8

9:30-11:30 AM Schooling and American Society

Panel discussion moderated by Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng. Panelists include

David Kirkland, Professor of English Education, New York University;

Marguerite Lukes, Director of Research and Innovation, Internationals

Network for Public Schools Inc; Adriana Villavincencio, Assistant Professor,

University of California, Irvine and Deputy Director, Research Alliance for

New York City Schools.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street.

1:00-5:00 PM Individual Research

6:30-8:30 PM Beginner Chess Social (free and optional): Learn the basics of chess with the help of a friendly Games Host. At

Bryant Park.

Assigned Reading: Bernard Bailyn, Education in the Forming of American Society (1960);

Daryl Michael Scott, “Postwar Pluralism, Brown v. Board of Education, and the Origins of

Multicultural Education,” The Journal of American History 91, no. 1 (June 2004); Richard

Neumann, “American Democracy in Distress: The Failure of Social Education,” Journal of

Social Science Education, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 2017); Steven Fesmire, “Democracy and the

Industrial Imagination in American Education,” Education and Culture, Vol. 32, No. 1 (2016),

pp. 53-61.

Recommended Reading: Lawrence Cremin, Popular Education and Its Discontents (1990),

pp. 1-50; Richard J. Murnane and John P. Papay, “Teachers’ Views on No Child Left Behind:

Support for the Principles, Concerns about the Practices,” Journal of Economic Perspectives,

(2010), 151-166; Natasha Warikoo and Prudence Carter. "Cultural explanations for racial and

ethnic stratification in academic achievement: A call for a new and improved theory." Review

of Educational Research 79.1 (2009): 366-394; Andrew Hartman, “A Trojan Horse for social

Engineering: The Curriculum Wars in recent American History,” Journal of Policy History,

Volume 25, Number 1, 2013, pp. 114-136.

Tuesday, July 9

9:30-11:15 AM

American Popular Culture and Consumerism Speaker: Daniel Flamberg, Managing Director, Publicis Kaplan Thaler

Group.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street.

2:00-4:00 PM

6:00-10:00 PM

Mass Culture, the Media, and American Politics

Panel discussion moderated by Neil Hickey, Adjunct Associate Professor,

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and former editor at

large of the Columbia Journalism Review. Members of the panel are: John

Pavlik, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University;

Ralph Engelman, Senior Professor, Department of Journalism &

Communication Studies, Long Island University; Joe Peyronnin, Professor of

Journalism, NYU, and producer for CBS News, Fox News and

Telemundo/NBC News. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

Summer Stage in Central Park (free and optional): The Bridge: Vince

Giordano & The Nighthawks / Avalon Jazz Band / Aurora Nealand

presented by the French Mission du Centenaire of WWI, the Cultural

Services of the French Embassy and New York Hot Jazz Festival. A

celebration of Parisian and New York Hot Jazz, Swing & Ragtime in

commemoration of WWI and the cross pollination of French and US culture.

Assigned Reading: Lizabeth Cohen, “From Town Center to Shopping Center: The

Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America,” The American Historical

Review, Vol. 101, No. 4 (Oct., 1996), pp. 1050-1081; Guiliz Ger and Russell W. Belk “I'd Like

to Buy the World a Coke: Consumptionscapes of the "Less Affluent World,’’’ Journal of

Consumer Policy (September 1996); W. Lance Bennett, “The Personalization of Politics:

Political Identity, Social Media, and Changing Patterns of Participation,” The Annals of the

American Academy of Political and Social Science (November 2012), 20-39; Joel Simon and

Alexandra Ellerbeck “The president’s phantom threats,” Columbia Journalism Review (Winter

2018).

Recommended Reading: Richard Butsch, The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to

Television, 1750-1990 (2000), pp. 158-294; Yoichi Shimemura, “Globalization vs.

Americanization: Is the World Being Americanized by the Dominance of American Culture?”

(2002), Comparative Civilizations Review, no. 47; John Sides, Michael Tesler, Lynn Vavreck,

“How Trump Lost and Won,” Journal of Democracy, Volume 28, Number 2, April 2017, pp. 34-

44; Marvin Kalb, Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and

the Threat to American Democracy ( 2018), pp. 149-156.

Wednesday, July10

9:30-11:15 AM The Rise of the Middle Class and Suburbanization Speaker: Daniel Walkowitz, Professor, History, NYU.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

11:30 AM Group Photo in Washington Square Park

1:00-5:00 PM Individual Research

7:00-10:00PM

Musical Performance: Oh Wonder / Sasha Sloan (free and optional)

The London duo Oh Wonder’s origin story is the stuff of, well, wonder.

Anthony, a producer, and Josephine, a vocalist and classical pianist, began

their stark, alternative pop project in a DIY way, and never intended to play

live. Cut to the mononymous musicians becoming the sound of the screen,

with their songs gracing television shows such as Scream and Doctor Foster,

and, along the way, becoming unwitting pop stars, too. Joining the duo is the

rising pop star and established songwriter, Sasha Sloan. At SummerStage,

Central Park, Rumsey Playfield, Manhattan.

Assigned Reading: Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the

United States (1987), pp. 3-11, 116-218; Pew Research Center, “The Lost Decade of the Middle

Class: Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier,” (August, 2012); LeRoy Ashby, With Amusement For All: A

History of American Popular Culture Since 1830 (2006), pp. 302-340; John Bodnar, “Saving

Private Ryan and Postwar Memory in America.” The American Historical Review 106, no. 3

(June 2001).

Recommended Reading: Stuart M. Blumin, The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social

Experience in the American City (1989), pp. 1-18, 138-229; Robyn Muncy, “Cooperative

Motherhood and Democratic Civic Culture in Postwar Suburbia, 1940-1965.” Journal of Social

History 38, no. 2 (2004): 285-310.

Thursday, July 11

9:30-11:30 AM

Interest Group Politics and the National Interest Panel discussion moderated by Ellis Henican, Columnist and Political Analyst

for CNN. Members of the panel are: Rick Ungar, co-host of “Steele and

Ungar” on POTUS; Alyshia Galvez, Director of the CUNY Institute of

Mexican Studies and Associate Professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican

Studies, Lehman College, CUNY; Richard Harris, Professor, Political Science

and Public Policy and Administration, Rutgers University-Camden, and

Founding Director, Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

12:00-2:00 PM Washington DC Trip Briefing, and Lunch

2:00-4:00 PM Individual Research

7:00 - 9:00 PM Latin American Music: (free and optional)

This celebration of Latin American music and culture, marks the first all-

Colombian lineup to come to Queens. This incredible double bill includes the

stylings of the dance music collective Systema Solar, whose work is informed

by Caribbean sound systems, and their mesmerizing audiovisual

performances. Very Be Careful, who create vallenatos (a traditional form of

cumbia), will also bring their riveting sounds to Queens. SummerStage,

Queensbridge Park.

Assigned Reading: Richard L. Hall, Alan V. Deardorff, “Lobbying as Legislative Subsidy,”

American Political Science Review (February 2006), 69-83; 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;

Kristin Goss, “Policy Plutocrats: How America’s Wealthy Seek to Influence Governance,” PS:

Political Science & Politics, Volume 49, Issue 3, July 2016; Yascha Mounk, The People vs.

Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It (2018), chps. 3, 6, 7; William A.

Galston, “The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy,” Journal of Democracy (April 2018).

Recommended Reading: Kenneth R. Mayer, “Public Election Funding: An Assessment of What

We Would Like to Know,” The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics

Volume 11, Issue No. 3 (October 2013), p. 365-384; 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; Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die (2018).

Friday, July 12

9:30-11:15AM

American Foreign Policy and Public Diplomacy

Speaker: Arthur Zegelbone, retired Foreign Service Officer, and Adjunct

Professor, International Education, NYU.

3rd Floor Conference Room, 246 Greene Street

12:00-2:00 PM Baseball Practice in Central Park

7:00-11:00 PM Baseball (required) - New York Yankees vs. Toronto Blue Jays

Assigned Reading: Charles Frankel, The Neglected Aspect of Foreign Affairs: American

Educational and Cultural Policy Abroad (1953), pp. 67-110; Nancy Snow, “International

Exchanges and the U.S. Image,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social

Science, Vol. 616, (Mar., 2008), pp. 198-222; Nicholas J. Cull, “Public Diplomacy: Taxonomies

and Histories,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 616,

(Mar., 2008), pp. 31-54; Joseph Nye, “The 21st Century will not be a Post-American World,”

International Affairs Quarterly, March 2012; Keren Yarhi-Milo, “American Foreign Policy in

the Trump Era,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 97, No. 1 (January/February 2018), pp. 68-77.

Recommended Reading: Richard Arndt, The First Resort of Kings: American Cultural

Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century (2005), pp. 161-287; Joseph S. Nye, “Public Diplomacy and

Soft Power,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 616 (Mar.,

2008), pp. 94-109; Kenneth A. Osgood, “Hearts and Minds: The Unconventional Cold War,”

Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 4, no. 2, Spring 2002, 85-107; Sean Duggan, “Redefining the

Relationship: Reclaiming American Public Diplomacy from the US Military in Iraq,” Middle

East Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Winter 2012), pp. 53-78; Kristin Lord, “Voices of America: U.S.

Public Diplomacy for the 21st Century,” (Brookings Institution, November, 2008).

Saturday, July 13 - Monday, July 15

The Democratic Process and National Unity

Tour of Washington, D.C. led by Sebatian Cherng and Philip Hosay. You will depart via train on

Friday morning, and in the afternoon, you will tour the Capitol, after which you are free to

explore D.C. neighborhoods such as Adams Morgan, Dupont Circle, and Georgetown. On

Sunday morning, you may elect to observe a religious service at the Shiloh Baptist Church, a

prominent and politically active African-American congregation in Washington, or visit the

White House. During the afternoon, accompanied by MIAS staff, you will be free to visit the

Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, the Vietnam Memorial, the

Holocaust Museum, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, the East Wing of the National Gallery

of Art, etc. In the early evening, you will attend a barbecue dinner at the house of Philip Hosay’s

daughter and son-in-law, Marcea and Paul Barringer. Marcea is a Senior Consultant for the

Federal agency that regulates affordable housing, and Paul is a Senior Vice-President of one of

the nation’s largest health insurance companies. On Monday morning, you will have a debriefing

meeting with officials in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. That afternoon you will

meet with staff from the office of New York Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) before taking the

train back to New York. You will stay at the Mayflower Hotel. The focus of this tour is the

nature of the democratic process in America and how it differs from democratic practices in

other countries.

Recommended Reading: Gordon S. Wood, “Democracy and the Constitution,” in Robert A.

Goldwin and William Schambra, eds., How Democratic is the Constitution, pp. 1-17; Larry J.

Sabato, The Rise of Political Consultants: New Ways of Winning Elections, pp. 302-337;

William H. Hansell, Jr., “A Common Vision for the Future: The Role of Local Government and

Citizens in the Democratic Process,” National Civic Review (Fall 1996); P.S. Martin, “Voting’s

Rewards: Voter Turnout, Attentive Publics, and Congressional Allocation of Federal Money,”

American Journal of Political Science (January 2003), pp. 110-127.

Tuesday, July 16

10:00AM-

12:00PM New York Architecture, Urban Design and Community Planning Tour of midtown Manhattan, and lecture by Carol Krinsky, Professor of Art

History, NYU. The tour will begin at Grand Central Terminal, the handsome

and brilliantly-planned privately-owned railroad building that restructured

midtown in the 20th century. It continues past skyscrapers built on the

railroad’s land, following the introduction of zoning rules that restricted the

pursuit of competitive profit. The tour ends at Rockefeller Center, a group of

commercial buildings that is recognized as one of the world’s finest urban

complexes. While much of what they will see is striking and beautiful, the

city results primarily from commercial ambitions, aided by engineering and

tempered by law. The architects and artists who designed the buildings

responded to the interests of businessmen, the result of which was a very

American skyline.

1:00-5:00 PM Individual Research

7:30 –9:30 PM Summer Concert Series: The Knights (free and optional)

The Grammy-nominated Knights are an orchestral collective, flexible in size

and repertory, dedicated to transforming the concert experience. This year,

The Knights celebrate their 10th consecutive performance at Central Park's

Naumburg Orchestral Concerts with a program featuring Brahms' Hungarian

Dances, and works by Komitas and Janáček. At the Historic Naumburg

Bandshell, Central Park.

Assigned Reading: William H. Jordy, “The Impact of European Modernism in the Mid-

Twentieth Century,” American Buildings and Their Architects, VOL. 4 pp. 1-83; Carol Krinsky,

“Midtown Tour.”

Recommended Reading: Neil Harris, Building Lives (1999), chps. 1, 3; Norval White, New

York: A Physical History (1987), pp. 111-129.

Wednesday, July 17

9:30-11:30 AM Postmodernism in America Panel moderated by Stacy Pies, Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized

Study, NYU. Other panelists include Alicia Ostriker, Professor Emerita of

English at Rutgers University, and a Chancellor of the American Academy of

Poets; Mark Spicer, Professor of Music at Hunter College and the CUNY

Graduate Center; and Janet Zarish, Professor and Head of Acting, Tisch School

of the Arts, NYU..

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street.

1:00-3:00 PM Whitney Museum

A guided tour of modern art related to prominent American social themes. The

focus will be on American modernism.

7:00-11:00 PM Summer on the Hudson: Film Screening: Sita Sings the Blues (free and

optional)

Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated film written, directed, produced and

animated by American artist Nina Paley. In the director's words, the film is "a

tale of truth, justice and a woman’s cry for equal treatment." Pier I in Riverside

Park South, West 70th Street, Manhattan.

Assigned Reading: Ann Douglas, “Periodizing the American Century: Modernism,

Postmodernism, and Postcolonialism in the Cold War Context,” Modernism/Modernity

(September 1998), 71-98; Richard Pells, “Modernism in Europe and America,” Modernist

America: Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture (Yale University Press,

2011), pp. 1-27; Robert Rosenblum. On Modern Art (1999), pp.62-71; Frascina and Charles

Harrison, Modern Art and Modernism. A Critical Anthology (1982), pp.93-104; Barnett Newman,

“The First Man was an Artist.” and “The Sublime is Now,” in Charles Harrison and Paul Wood,

Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (2002), pp. 566-69, 572-74.

Recommended Reading: Marianne DeKoven, “Utopias Limited: Post-sixties and Postmodern

American Fiction,” Modern Fiction Studies (Spring 1995), 75-97; Harold Bloom, “Introduction”

to Don DeLillo, White Noise (2002 edition); Maxwell Anderson, “Foreword” to Lisa Phillips, The

American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000 (2000); Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940:

Strategies of Being (2000); Annie E. Coombes, "Museums and the Formation of National and

Cultural Identities," in Preziosi and Farago, eds., Grasping the World: The idea of the museum

(2004), pp. 278–298.

Thursday, July 18

10:00 AM-

12:00 PM Diversity and Experimentation in American Music Performance and lecture by Joel Sachs, Director, Contemporary Music, The

Juilliard School, and Director of Continuum.

Location: The Juilliard School, Room 560.

1:00-3:00 PM Participant Research Presentations

6:00 – 8:00 PM Summer on the Hudson: Everybody Tango! (free and optional) Enjoy

introductory Argentine Tango lessons, music, and dancing in the open air. At

On the Pier (in West Harlem Piers), Manhattan.

Assigned Reading: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians “Charles Ives,” (2001), vol.

19, pp. 424-452; Michael Nyman, Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the

Twentieth Century (1999), Introduction, chps. 1, 3; James Pritchett, The Music of John Cage

(1993), chps. 3-4; Judith Tick, Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music

(1997), Part VI.

Recommended Reading: Burton Peretti, “Speaking in the Groove: Oral History and Jazz,”

Journal of American History, Vol. 88, No. 2 (Sep., 2001), pp. 582-595; Roy Shuker,

Understanding Popular Music (1994), chps. 1, 6; Lewis A. Erenberg, "Things to Come: Swing

Bands, Bebop, and the Rise of a Postwar Jazzscene" in Lary May, ed., Recasting America:

Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War (1989), pp.221-245.

Friday, July 19

9:30-11:30 AM American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization Roundtable discussion of participants and MIAS staff led by Philip Hosay.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street.

12:00-2:00 PM Lunch Discussion: Program Evaluation

7:00-10:00 PM Concluding Celebration Dinner and party at the home of Cynthia and Philip Hosay, 755 West End

Avenue, where you will receive a “Certificate in American Studies” from the

New York University Multinational Institute of American Studies.

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

Sword (1996), chps. 1-3, 8; Alice Kessler Harris, “Social History,” in Eric Foner, ed. The New

American History (1990); Shelley Fisher Fishkin, “Crossroads of Cultures: The Transnational

Turn in American Studies,” American Quarterly 57.1 (2005) 17-57.

Recommended Reading: Lawrence W. Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of

Cultural Hierarchy in America (1990), pp. 169-242; Heinz Ickstadt, “American Studies in an

Age of Globalization,” American Quarterly 54.4 (2002) 543-562.

Saturday, July 20 or Sunday July 21

Departure for home – date of departure depends on international travel arrangements