The event will begin at 9:30 am in the Marriott Center, on the 11th floor of the Campus Center at UMass Amherst. At 5, we will break and reconvene at 5:45 pm for a reception and dinner in the Cape Cod Lounge in the Student Union.
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Marriott Center: Campus Center, 11th floor
9:30-10:15: Registration, snacks
10:15-10:30: Welcome and opening remarks
10:30-12: Morning session: Labor History
- Robert Forrant (University of Massachusetts Lowell), “‘Great is the provocation, greater must be the answer of the workers to the employing class…’: What the Bread & Roses Strike Tells US about Working Class Organization”
- Rob Weir (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Vermont, B.S. (Before Sanders): Municipal Socialism in Barre”
12-1:30: Lunch, with informal remarks
1:30-3: First afternoon session: Slavery, Abolition, and Local History
- Mark Hubbard (Eastern Illinois University), “George Washington Julian and the Transformation of Land Reform in the Age of the Civil War”
- Margo Shea (Sewanee – The University of the South, and Salem State University), “Think Globally, Do Local History”
3-3:30: Break
3:30-5: Second afternoon session: Political History Meets Labor History
- Paula Baker (Ohio State University), “Labor History Meets Political History: Artisanal Campaigns in the Early-Nineteenth-Century U.S.”
- Justin Jackson (New York University), “From the New Labor History to the New Labor History of U.S. Empire.”
Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union
5:45-6:15: Bruce will read from his work in progress
6:15-7: Cocktails and snacks
7-9: Dinner, with informal remarks
If you have any questions, or would like to make informal remarks, contact us! organizers <at> BruceLaurieEvent.org