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Friday, Oct. 2, 2009
 
12:00-5:30 p.m.
Registration (MAC Rotunda)
(Note: Participants who have signed up for site visits must arrive by noon on Friday)
 12:30-4:30 p.m.
Guided site visits:

• Coney Island
• Downtown Brooklyn
• Brooklyn Waterfront and Gowanus

4:30-5:30 p.m.
Break
5:30-9:00 p.m.
Opening reception

• Welcome: Regina Peruggi, President, Kingsborough Community College
• Opening Comments: Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President
• Performance by Indoda Entsha
• Introduction:
  Dr. Eben Wood, Conference Co-Chair, Department of English, Kingsborough
  Community College
• Keynote address: Kevin Powell, activist and author, Open Letters to America
• Dinner

Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast (Art Gallery (S-building))

Art exhibition viewing: “The Soul Is the Size of Elsewhere”: Brooklyn and Development

9:00 - 10: 30 a.m.:  Morning Session I

Waterfronts ( M-337)
 
“Vernacular Recreation at Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal”
Daniel Campo, Morgan State University

“Ethnicity, Corruption and Labor Politics on the Brooklyn Waterfront: A Critical Re-reading of Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront”
Peter Catapano, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

“Considering Gateway’s Future: Design and the Public Imagination”
William Mangold, CUNY Graduate Center

Moderator: Brian Vines, Brooklyn Independent Television

Literary Brooklyn (M-366)

“A Poetics of Brooklyn”
Wendy Galgan, St. Francis College

“The Outside, the Block, Dean Street: The Cartographic Impulse in Brooklyn’s Literary History”
Martha Jane Nadell, Brooklyn College

“Identity, Memory, and Agency in Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities”
Rosalie Jayde Uyola, Rutgers University-Newark

Moderator: Rick Armstrong, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

“The Kings’ Crown: Fires and Festivals in the History of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights”
Sharron Greaves, Nyack College

“Propinquity Without Community: Urban Space as Neighborhood and Strangerhood in Downtown Brooklyn”
David J. Madden, Columbia University

“Bushwick: A Neighborhood of Contrasts”
Kim Robinson University of California (Los Angeles) and Barbara Walters, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

“‘Who Says This Was a Slum?’ Culture, Space, and What It Means to Be Local”
Lena Sze, New York University

Moderator: Eben Wood, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

Transportation (M-239)
 
“‘Considering the Private and Public Good:’ Henry Evelyn Pierrepont and the Montague Street Streetcar Line”
Joshua Britton, Lehigh University

“From Horsepower to the Power Station: The Creation of Rapid Transit in Brooklyn 1885-1886”
Darryl Heller, University of Chicago

Moderator: Frank Percaccio, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

Brooklyn at Eye Level (M-208)

Steven Cosson, The Civilians Theater Company

Marion Friedman, The Civilians Theater Company

Michael Premo, The Civilians Theater Company

Moderator: Steven Cosson

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.: Morning Session II

Water and Work in the Literature of Brooklyn

(M-366)
 
“Motherless Brooklyn: Literary, Familial and Professional Inheritance on the Waterfront”
Caroline Hellman, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

“Ample: Sizing Up Whitman’s Brooklyn”
Matthew K. Gold, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

“A View from the Bridge: Natural and Industrial Metaphors along the Brooklyn Literary Waterfront”
Mark Noonan, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

Moderator: Richard Hanley, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

Gentrification (M-338)

“Narratives of Gentrification”
Denise V. Campbell, Temple University

“Brooklyn’s Roommate Belt”
Denali K. Dasgupta, Office of the New York City Comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr.

“From Industrialization to Globalization: Views of Manhattan for Sale”
Judith DeSena, St. John’s University

“Necessity and Luxury: Visual Gentrification in Williamsburg, Brooklyn”
Sara Martucci, CUNY Graduate Center

Moderator: Avri Beard, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

Gastropolis and Diverse Foodways in Brooklyn

(M-239)

“Gastropolis and Brooklyn’s Food Voice”
Jonathan Deutsch, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

“My Little Town: A Brooklyn Girl’s Food Voice”
Annie Hauck-Lawson, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

“Asphalt Terroir: Making Food in Brooklyn”
Joy Santlofer, New York University

Moderators: Jonathan Deutsch and Annie Hauck-Lawson

Public and Private Spaces (M-208)

“Design in the Divided City, or the Myrtle Avenue Style”
Daniel Huppatz, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

“Preserving Brownstone Brooklyn: Brooklyn Townhouses and the Construction of Outer Borough Identity”
Kailin Husayko, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

“Owning Brooklyn”
Alyssa Katz, New York University

“In Defense of Decline: Stabilized Ruins in the Contemporary City”
Anne E. Leonard, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

Moderator: Katherine Opello, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

Highlights of the Brooklyn Trends Report (M-333)

Lorna Mason, Center for the Study of Brooklyn

Edward Morlock, Center for the Study of Brooklyn

12:15 – 1:30 p.m.: Lunch (MAC Rotunda)

Presentation:
“Environmental Justice on the Waterfront”
Elizabeth C. Yeampierre, UPROSE

 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.: Afternoon Session I

Atlantic Yards ( M-146/47)

“Who’s Planning Brooklyn? An Alternate Point of View”
Eve Baron, The Municipal Art Society of New York

“The Yards Development Workshop Unity Plan”
Marshall Brown, Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture

“Atlantic Yards: Brooklyn’s Most Controversial Development through the Lens of Public Relations and News Coverage”
Norman Oder, Independent Journalist

“Atlantic Yards and the Cultural Logic of Monopoly Rent”
Stuart Schrader, CUNY Graduate Center

Moderator: Ted Hamm, Brooklyn Rail

Labor (M-366)

“The Taxi Workers’ Struggle for Justice and Rights”
Bhairavi Desai, New York City Taxi Workers Alliance

“The Changing Brooklyn Labor Market and Worker Organizing”
Immanuel Ness and Joseph Wilson, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

“Unionized Construction, Development, and Brooklyn”
Elly Spicer, New York and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation

Moderator: Vernon Mogensen, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

History (M-337)

“Branding Brooklyn: The Sanitary Fair of 1864 and the Birth of Brooklyn Identity”
Elizabeth Call, Brooklyn Historical Society

“A Silent Educator: The Brooklyn Museum Building, 1893-1934”
Gwynneth Malin, CUNY Graduate Center

“Toxi City: Brooklyn’s Brownfields”
Robin Michals, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

"Architectural Structure and Brooklyn's Black Churches"
Clarence Taylor, Baruch College (CUNY)

Moderator: John Manbeck, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

Experimental Spaces (M-239)

“Exhibitions at Proteus Gowanus”
Sasha Chavchavadze and Tammy Pittman, Proteus Gowanus

“Proteus Gowanus Publications”
Tom La Farge and Wendy Walker, Proteus Gowanus

 “Exhibiting Urban Change in Downtown Brooklyn”
David Frisco and Meredith A. TenHoor, Pratt Institute

Moderator: Tom La Farge

Education (M-208)

“A College Grows in Brooklyn: Community and Politics in the Debate over the Creation of Brooklyn College”
Rachel Burstein, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

“Plugging into Brooklyn: Undergraduate Students, Online Sources, and Images of Brooklyn”
Phyllis Conn and Benjamin Turner, St. John’s University

“Service Learning and the Cycle of Abandonment and Redevelopment in Bedford Stuyvesant”
Heather Lewis and Brynna Tucker, Pratt Institute

“Youth in Brooklyn: Environmental Challenges”
Itai Nartzizenfield Sneh, John Jay College (CUNY)

Moderator: Annie Del Principe, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

3:15 – 4:45 p.m.: Afternoon Session II

Coney Island (M-146/47)

"The City’s Comprehensive Rezoning and Revitalization Plan for Coney Island"
Nathan Bliss, New York City Economic Development Corporation

“Where Will the Rocket Go? Performance, Amusement and the Coney Island Development Debate”
Hilary Miller, CUNY Graduate Center

“Residential Development in Coney Island”
Barbara Smith Mishara and Paul King, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

Moderator: Michael Spear, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

Life In/Between Two Cultures: The Russian Immigrant Community  (M-208)

“Acculturation process among Russian immigrants to the USA, Israel, and Germany”
Ludmila Isurin, Ohio State University

“Close Your Eyes and Go to Sleep Immediately!: Soviet Mentality and Pedagogy ‘Smuggled’ to Brooklyn”
Vera Kishinevsky, Manhattan College

“Foreigners: Bilingual Dogs, Neighbors, and Kids”
Natasha Lvovich, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

Moderator: Natasha Lvovich

Activism (M-239)
 
“Being an Activist: Challenges and Difficulties”
Mark Winston Griffith, Drum Major Institute
 
“’Shall We Choose Our Leaders or Shall They Be Chosen for Us?’: The Origins of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and the Question of Representation in Community Development”
Joshua Guild, Princeton University

“Youth Organizing in New York City”
Adilka Pimentel, Make the Road, New York

“‘Brooklyn in America’: Race, Rights, and Liberalism in Postwar Brooklyn”
Brian Purnell, Fordham University

Moderator: Eleanor Bader, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

Representations (M-333)  

“Competing Spaces: How West Indian Childcare Providers Negotiate Public and Private Space”
Tamara Mose Brown, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

“Visualizing Brooklyn's Vernacular Landscapes: Past, Present, and Future?”
Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

“Same Buildings, New Ethos: Brooklyn and the Cult of Authenticity”
Jonathan Silverman, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

“The Branding of Brooklyn: Gentrification, Nostalgia, and the Unbearable Whiteness of Hipster Culture”
Laura Tanenbaum, LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)

Moderator: Robert Singer, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY)

Hide and Seek…Hip-hop Where You At?  Examining the Relevancy of Hip-hop for Urban High School Students Today (M-366)

Omari Bennett, Benjamin Banneker High School

Kharese Gitten, Benjamin Banneker High School

Tatyanna Picou, Benjamin Banneker High School

Ngozi Romain-Johnson, Benjamin Banneker High School

Cristina Valentin, Benjamin Banneker High School

Moderator: Askia Egashira, Benjamin Banneker High School

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