Solidarity and Fragmentation Schedule for 2013 Midwest Labor and Working Class History Graduate Student Colloquium

February 15th, 2013. Friday. Keynote Panel on Solidarity and Fragmentation. 6:00-7:30 PM. Student Union room 191 Introductory Comments: John Terry Panel Chair: Joseph Walzer Keynote Panel: Dr. Joe Austin, Dr. Robert Johnston, Christine Neumann-Ortiz Closing Remarks: Michael Gonzales February 16th, 2013. Saturday. Graduate student panels. 9:00 AM4:45 PM. 8:00 AM Registration, breakfast available. UW-Milwaukee Student Union room 250. 9:00-10:30. Panel One. Union Room 280. Wisconsin: Past or Prologue? Chair: Melissa Seifert Meredith Aska McBride: Roll Out the Recall: Contentious Musical Performances and their Emotional Work in the Wisconsin Pro-Union, Anti-Walker Protests Roger Bybee "Wisconsin, Walker and the Spirit of Resistance" David K. Seitz: Beyond the Purple State Thesis: Feeling Difference in Contemporary Wisconsin Politics 10:45-12:15 Panel Two-A. Union room 260. Socialism, Revolution and Marginalization. Chair: Jacob Glicklich James Nealy: The Working Class in Soviet Historiography since 1991 Michael Gonzales: Womens Popular Movement and the Shining Path: The Contradiction of Patriarchal Womens Liberation April Bernath: Frans Masereels Ide: Social Justice, Sexual Liberation, and Revolution in the Interwar Period Panel Two-B. Union room 280. Tragedy, Connection and the Fall of the Individual. Chair: Dr. Robert Smith William I. Tchakirides: Partiality Invested With Power: The Milwaukee Police, Civil Rights, and the Death of Ernest Lacy Peter Kotowski: In Order to Destroy Himself: The Ecology of Servant Suicide in Colonial Pennsylvania Alexis Smith: From a Cultural Necessity to a Peculiar Predicament: The Story of Native American Captivity in the Southern Great Lakes and Ohio River Valley from 1776-1812 Lunch. Union room 240. 12:15-1:00 PM

1:00-2:30 Panel Three-A. Union room 260. Politics From the Land: Workers For and Against Work. Chair: John Terry. Katie Sutrina: Cream of Exploitation: Agribusiness, the Food Chain, and Farmworker Agency, the Case of FLOC Jason Whisler: Class Identities and Working-Class Conservatism: Community Study of Unions, Class, and Politics in Waterloo, Iowa in 1968 Bryan D. Pekel: Re-evaluating the Chartist Land Co-operative Society and Chartisms Failure Panel Three-B. Union room 280. Connections Between Unstable Labor, Cultural Expression and Migration Chair: Dr. Philip Minehan Rosemary Walzer: The Working Mans Orchestra: Solidarity Organizing, Class Struggle, and High Art in the Turn-of-the-Century British Band Movement Ronald Larson: Straight, White, Fathers: The Claiming of Identity by U.S. Airmen in China During WWII Michael Ellery: "The Most Southern Place in the State: The Great Migration, Segregation, and Activism of African-American Women in Beloit, Wisconsin, 1915-1948" 2:45-4:15 Panel Four-A. Union room 260. Consuming History: The Museum and Beyond Chair: Dr. Rachel Buff Audrey Jacobs: The Peoples Museum: Art Historical Thinking Skills in School Programs Emma Molls and Kadie Seitz: Working Titles: A Study of Labor Collections at Selected Milwaukee and Madison Area Libraries Jacylyn Schultz: "Unconventional Pedagogies of the Gilded Age: Childhood Lessons in Consumerism and Race" Panel Four-B. Union room 280. Violence and the Dynamism of Urban Growth, Segregation and Unrest. Chair: Joseph Walzer. Monica Drake: Urban Renewal and Urban Protests in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lucas Wolff: The Cultural Deprivation of Milwaukees Youth: Two Interpretations of a Problematic Concept Aaron Brunmeier: Redcoats, Laborers, and the Dialectic of Plebian Culture in Revolutionary New York City 4:15--4:45 Closing of 2013 MLWCH in Union room 240. Discussant: Dr. Aims McGuinness. 1