Lecture Series 2002-2003

Youngstown State University

Center for Working-Class Studies

 

Lecture Series 2002-2003

 

October 7, 2002, McDonough Museum of Art, 7:30 p.m.

The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit: The Website as Art, The Fifth Incarnation, DetroitYES.com"

Lowell Boileau, Artist

Co-sponsored by the McDonough Museum of Art

 

November 12, 2002, Humphrey Room, Kilcawley Center, 7:30 p.m.

Race and Class in Youngstown

Panel featuring Al Bright, Rosemary D'Apolito, John Russo, and Homer Warren

Co-sponsored by the Freshman Reader Project

 

February 14, 2003, Humphrey Room, Kilcawley Center, 7:30 p.m.

Preparing African-American Adolescents for Civil Society: Traditional African Values at Work

Emmanuel Babatunde, Sociology and Anthropology, Lincoln University

Co-sponsored with the Africana Studies Program

 

March 27, 2003, Jones Room, Kilcawley Center, 7:30 p.m.

Country Music's Gone to Town: Urbanization, Class Consciousness, and Country Music

Rachel Rubin, American Studies, University of Massachusetts/Boston

Co-sponsored with the English Department

 

April 17, 2003, Humphrey Room, Kilcawley Center, 7:30 p.m.

Working-Class Autobiography

Tim Strangleman, Sociology, University of Nottingham

 

May 14-17, 2003

Working-Class Studies: Intersections of Class, Race, Gender, and Sexuality

The Sixth Biennial Conference

Co-sponsored by the Race, Gender, Class Project of Southern University of New Orleans 

 

May 2 to July 31, 2003, McDonough Museum of Art

Exhibit: Solidarity Forever: Graphics of the International Labor Movement

from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles

   

The Center for Working-Class Studies is a multidisciplinary teaching and research center devoted to the study of working-class life and culture. The CWCS is funded by Youngstown State University and a grant from the Ford Foundation.