The 16th year of the Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives Brown Bag Series continues in January.
Following is the 2012 spring semester schedule:
- 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 Department of History - 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.