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TITLE:

Imagining Brooklyn: Part II: Memory and Amnesia

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1-1:15 p.m.: Welcome. 1:15-1:40 p.m.: Introduction. 1:40-3 p.m.: “Imagining Brooklyn: Memory” Panelists: Craig Steven Wilder, Department of History, Dartmouth, "'The High': A Social Biography of a School”; Jocelyn Wills, Department of History, Brooklyn College, “Struggling Upward without Luke Larkin: Re-examining Upward Mobility in 19-Century Brooklyn”; Gunja Sengupta, Department of History, Brooklyn College, “Brooklyn Pasts: Interpreting Brooklyn History.” 3-3:30 p.m.: Suzanne Wasserman, director, The Gotham Center, shows short film “Brooklyn: Among the Ruins.” 3:30-5 p.m.: “Imagining Brooklyn: Amnesia” Panelists: Annie Hauck-Lawson, Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College, “My Little Town: A Brooklyn Girl’s Food Voice”; Peter Schulman, associate professor of French and International Studies, Old Dominion University, “Remembering Next Year: The Brooklyn Dodgers as Lieu de memoire”; Philip Napoli, Department of History, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn’s Vietnam veterans. Dinner follows at the Faculty Dining Room

DATE:

Monday, May07, 2007

TIME:

1:00pm to 5:00pm

LOCATION:

Brooklyn College Student Center – Bedford Lounge

CONTACT:

718-951-5852 or email csb@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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“Imagining Brooklyn: Memory and Amnesia,” held in the Brooklyn College Student Center from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Panelists include experts in Brooklyn’s history, its food and, of course, the Dodgers – or at least on how the fabled team is remembered. Following a break for dinner, that will be followed at 7 p.m. by “Brooklyn on My Mind,” with Leonard Lopate leading “A Frank Conversation” with the memoirist Frank McCourt.

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