The 16th year of the Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives Brown Bag Series begins this month.
Following is the 2011 fall semester schedule:
- Sept. 22 - "Occupational Masks: Real, Assumed and Imagined"
Gary Morgan, MSU Museum - Sept. 30 - "One Autoworker/Painter's Art: From the Factory Floor to the Gallery Wall"
Tony Roko (co-sponsored by Motorcities/The Automobile National Heritage Area) - Oct. 6 - "'Shaking Our Mode of Living to Its Very Roots:' Workers, Consumers and the Packaging Industrial Revolution"
Diana Twede, MSU School of Packaging (co-sponsored by the MSU School of Packaging) - Oct. 13 - "Give Me Your Hands: the Legacy of the Barre Stone Sculptors and Their Stone"
Leslie D. Bartlett, Vermont Granite Museum (co-sponsored by the Michigan Monument Builders Association)
Oct. 21 - "Brotherhood of the Lake: Commercial Fishing, Work and Livelihood in Leland's Fishtown"
Laurie Sommers, Folklorist/Consultant (co-sponsored by the MSU Fisheries and Wildlife Department) - Nov. 3 – "Two Versions/Visions of Irish Immigrant History: Ron Howard's 'Far and Away' (1992) and Martin Scorsese's 'Gangs of New York' (2002)" Doug Noverr, MSU Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures
- Nov. 18 - "From Wisconsin to Memphis: King's Gospel of Labor Rights on the Rebound"
Michael Honey, University of Washington-Tacoma (co-sponsored by the MSU African-American and African Studies Program) - Dec. 8 - "The Lives of Career Waitresses: Rethinking Work and Identity"
Candacy Taylor (co-sponsored by the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context and the Women's Resource Center)
All presentations will take place 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in the MSU Museum Auditorium unless noted otherwise.
"Our Daily Work/ Our Daily Lives" is a cooperative project of the Michigan Traditional Arts Program and the Labor Education Program.
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