The 2011-12 Brown Bag Series schedule has been announced. This marks the 16th year of the series.
Following is the 2011-12 schedule:
2011
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)
2012
Jan. 20 - "Visions and Visages: Transforming Images of American Indians in Indians at Work, 1933-1945"
Mindy Morgan, MSU Department of Anthropology
Jan. 27 - "The Centerpieces and the People's Party: Creating a Workplace Holiday Tradition"
The Centerpieces, Michigan Historical Center
Feb. 6 - "On Equal Terms: 'Respect, Opportunity and Dignity' for Women in the Construction Workplace"
Susan Eisenberg, Women's Studies, Brandeis University
Feb. 10 - "The General Strike: Reflections on the Flint Sit-Down Strike and Anti-Capitalist Art"
Dylan Miner, MSU Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (Co-sponsored by the Motorcities/Automobile National Heritage Area)
Feb. 17 - "Culture and Community: Organizing Hearts and Minds"
John McCutcheon, MSU Library, Room 449W
Feb. 24 - "The Work of Race: African American and African-Indian Farmers, Farm Laborers, and Indentured Servants in the Old Northwest" - Jennifer Stinson, History Department, Saginaw Valley State University (Co-sponsored by African- American and African Studies)
March 16 - "When Good Jobs Go Bad: Globalization, De-unionization, and Declining Labor Standards in the North American Auto Industry"
Jeffrey Rothstein, Department of Sociology, Grand Valley State University (Co-sponsored by the Motorcities/Automobile National Heritage Area)
March 22 - "'Whites Don't Act Like Proletariats, They Act Like Racists': Race, Labor and the Struggle for Shopfloor Peace, 1915-1945"
Matthew Birkhold
April 13 - "Exploring Power and Place: The Enrico Fermi Atomic Energy Plant and the Workers of Downriver Detroit"
Lisa Fine, MSU History Department
April 20 "'Doin' time in the White Man's Army': African Americans and Penal Labor in the American Military 1917-1919"
Paul Lawrie, History Department, University of Toronto (Co-sponsored by African- American and African Studies)
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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