Friday April 8, 2011 Tours

9a.m.: MAFA: MID-TOWN ARTIST TOUR

Tour Begins at 9AM and departs from the Caffeine Connection Coffee Shop, 512 N. 3rd Street. The tour cost is $10 per person, with all contributions going toward our artist guide. Dur-ing the tour we will explore midtown Harrisburg and the Third Street Arts Corridor. With a criti-cal eye to the relationship between "official arts" and "community arts," we will consider how public policy, public funding, and community aesthetics intersect with two designations. We'll visit several long-standing and relatively recent additions to Third Street, including Broad Street Market, the Midtown Scholar (bookstore), Midtown Riley Cinema, 3rd Street Gallery, Gallery Blu, Hodgepodgery. We'll also tour the Midtown Arts Center and Stage on Herr. Along the way we'll visit other public art installations such as murals, community gardens, etc…

11:30 a.m.- 12:45 p.m.: CAPITOL TOUR: PRESERVING A PALACE OF ART

Conducted by the Capitol Preservation Committee staff (tour begins at registration table by 60 East Wing; return by 12:45)

Saturday, April 9th Tour

11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.: PA STATE MUSEUM TOUR

Behind-the-scenes tour of collections and exhibits of the State Museum

Conducted by the PHMC staff (begins registration table in Rm. 60 EW; return by 12:45)

Front Entrance to Main Capitol Bldg. Ryan Building →

2011 Conference

Middle Atlantic American Studies Association

Pennsylvania Political Science Association

Middle Atlantic Folklife Association

April 8-9, 2011

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Thursday, April 7 6 p.m. MAFA Business Meeting and Dinner, Passage to India, 525 South Front St. Harrisburg

Friday , April 8 For all Friday and Saturday Tour Information see Descriptions at the back of the Program.

10:30-4:30 a.m.: Registration (Room 60 Capitol East Wing) 11:00-12:30 a.m.: Session I ( See PPSA Program for individual presenter information)

PPSA Judicial Politics, (417 Main Capitol)

PPSA International Relations, (Senate Hearing Room 2, North Office Bldg)

PPSA State and Local Government (140 Main Capitol)

PPSA Undergraduate Student Panel: Political Theory (31B Main Capitol)

12:30 – 1:45 p.m.: MAASA Luncheon Board Meeting, (Rm. 39, East Wing) 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.: Session 2 (See PPSA Program for individual presenter information)

PPSA Considering State and National Public Policy (Senate Hearing Room 1, North Office Bldg.)

PPSA Political Economy in Domestic and International Contexts (31B Main Capitol)

PPSA Undergraduate Student Panel: Public Policy (140 Main Capitol)

Panel 1: Issues of Heritage: Chair, Amy Milligan, Penn State Harrisburg (G-50 Irvis Bldg.)

1. Jennifer Dutch - Penn State Harrisburg : “Don't Eat That! When Public Health and Public Heritage Clash in the Kitchen”

2. James Deutsch- Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage “Making History Everyday: The Films Corps Project and World War II”

3. Katharina Hering- Independent Scholar: “Who Are the People Of Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania, the Movement to Promote Local and Family History, and the Shifting Ideologies of the People and their Heritages, 1870’s-early 1970s”

Panel 2: The Jersey Devil: A Documentary Film,

Angus Gillespie, Rutgers University — Facilitator (60 East Wing) Panel 3: Heritage Policy, Politics, and Rhetoric– Chair, Carolyn Kitch, Temple University (417 Main Capitol)

1. James Counts Early- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, "Engaging Real-Cultural-Politic: Heritage, State-Craft And Artistic And Scholarly-Diplomacy"

2. Michelle Stefano- International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, UK “The Construction of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Political Considerations and Local Level Expressions”

3. Iveta Pirgova- Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, “The Concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage”

Panel 4 Roundtable continued... 5. Samantha Dutkus- La Salle University: “Americans, Europeans, and Sneakers: Lacing

the Connections” 6. Lauren Saxer- Rutgers University: “The Culture of Underground Punk Communities: A

Look into the Punks of New Brunswick, New Jersey” 7. Caitlin Black-Franklin & Marshall College: “Mothers and Daughters: Resistance and

Womanhood in Women’s Slave Narratives” Panel 5: Entertainment, Display, and Heritage: Chair, Bryant Simon, Temple University (417 Main Capitol)

1. Emily Brennan- University of Pennsylvania: “Walt Disney World and Public Heritage, Part 1”

2. Megan Colleen McGee- LaSalle University: “Walt Disney World and Public Heritage, Part 2”

3. Brant Ellsworth- Penn State Harrisburg: “The Shifting Image of American Exceptionalism: America's World Fair Pavilions at 1893 Chicago, 1962 Seattle, and

2010 Shanghai” (See PPSA Program for Individual Presenter Information) PPSA Undergraduate Student Panel: Women in Politics (140 Main Capitol)

PPSA Undergraduate Student Panel: Law (North Office Bldg.)

12:45-1:45 p.m.: PPSA Student Luncheon (RSVP to Michael Cassidy at registration)

Pizza and Informal Discussion

12:45 – 2:00 p.m.: MAASA/MAFA Luncheon (60 East Wing) (Awards luncheon Included in

registration fee)

MAASA/MAFA Remarks by Francis Ryan (La Salle University) and Kara Rogers Thomas (Frostburg State University)

Award Presentations

2:00-3:00 p.m.: Roundtable Discussion: “The State of Heritage Advocacy” (60 East Wing)

(RSVP to Michael Cassidy at registration)

Program Note: Conference registrants receive $4 discount by showing their badges to attend Blues Guitar workshop (4:30 p.m.) and concert (7:30 p.m.) by recording artist Mary Flower, Fort Hunter Historical Site, Harrisburg. See http://www.sfmsfolk.org/concerts/MaryFlower.html

Session 4 continued...

( See PPSA Program for Individual Presenter Information)

PPSA The Politics of Elections and Governance (140 Main Capitol)

PPSA Comparative Institutions (Senate Hearing Room 1, North Office Bldg.)

11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Session 5 Panel 1: Material Heritage II: Chair, Anne Verplanck, Penn State Harrisburg (31B Main Capitol)

1. José Feliciano- Penn State Harrisburg: “Built Objects as Folk: Examining Harrisburg's Walnut Street Bridge”

2. Trevor Blank -Penn State Harrisburg: “Toward a Theory of Material Behavior: Aesthetics, Tradition, and Modernity in the Conceptualization of American Folklife” 3. Michael Lawrence Murray -St. Thomas Aquinas College: “’Hemphill Thing’: Selling

Twentieth Century Folk Art to the Smithsonian”

Panel 2: Bicentennial Heritage: Memory and Legacies of 1776: Chair, Charlene Mires, Rutgers University (39 East Wing)

1. Todd Bennett- East Carolina University: “The Spirits of '76: The American Bicentennial and the Struggle for the Nation's Soul” 2. Max A. van Balgooy- National Trust for Historic Preservation: “The Bicentennial's Impact on Historic Sites” 3. Barbara Pollarine- Valley Forge National Historical Park: “The Icon in Our Backyard”

Panel 3: Folklife and the Marketplace: Chair, Jess Hayden, Susquehanna Folk Music Society (205 Ryan Bldg.)

1. Zachary Langley- Penn State Harrisburg: “At the Intersection of Politics, Academia, and Tourism: The "Folk" Debate and the Kutztown Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival”

2. David Puglia- Penn State Harrisburg: “Apocalyptic Appropriation: Spurious "Mayan" Heritage in Modern American Folk and Popular Culture”

3. Mark Miyake– SUNY Empire State College: “That High Lonesome Sound: Promotion of an Appalachian and European Bluegrass Music Heritage and the Bluegrass Music Mar-ketplace”

Panel 4: Undergraduate Roundtable: Chair, Francis Ryan, La Salle University (G-50 Irvis)

1. Brian Tervo- Eastern University: “Quakers and the American Revolution” 2. Evan Romano- Penn State Brandywine: “The History, Debate, and Ties to Citizenship

of Healthcare in the United States” 3. Matthew Catalano- University of Pennsylvania: “From Tool to Toy: Pocket Knives, Progressivism, and the Boy Scouts of America” 4. Nathan Hershberger- Eastern Mennonite University: “Cooperation Deferred: The

Knights of Labor and the Trajectory of the American Labor Movement”

3:45- 5:15p.m.: Plenary Session: Sustaining Heritage: Funding, Politics & Programming (House Chamber) Chair, Michael Cassidy, Executive Director, Democratic Caucus Committee Barbara Franco, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Theresa Colvin, Executive Director, Maryland Arts Council Mary Soderberg, Former Pennsylvania Secretary of the Budget Ed Nolan, Executive Director, House Majority Appropriations Committee 5:15 - 6:15 p.m.: Reception (Ryan Office Building Atrium—the Old State Museum Building ) 6:15 - 7:15 p.m.: Dinner (Juniata-Delaware Room, Harrisburg Hilton Hotel) (dinner and performances included in MAASA/MAFA registration fee)

7:15 –8:30 p.m.: Performances and conversation with master artists in Central Pennsylvania regarding the role of public policy for cultural sustainability and

traditional arts initiatives (Juniata-Delaware Room, Harrisburg Hilton Hotel) Performers: Chen-Yu Tsuei, is a Chinese traditional dance master artist with students from the Chinese Culture and Arts Institute (Harrisburg) Adnan Prang,is an Acheh rapai drumming master artist with men who are learning this tradition from him so it remains strong in this newcomer community Michele Hairston is a Hip-hop master artist with the Harrisburg City Breakers Lisa Rathje, Independent Scholar, Facilitator

Saturday, April 9

7:30 - 10:00 a.m.: Registration and Refreshments (Room 60 East Wing)

8:15 - 9:30 a.m.: Session 3 Panel 1: Focus on Pennsylvania I: Chair, David Witwer, Penn State Harrisburg (31B Main Capitol)

1. Kendra Gruber- Penn State Harrisburg : “The Shores of the Keystone State” 2. Jared Rife-Penn State Harrisburg: “The Pennsylvania System: Prisoner Rights in Public Institutions” 3. Ellen Lyon – Penn State Harrisburg: “Decoding a Rage to Live: A Key to the Real-Life,

People and Events Behind John O’Hara’s Harrisburg Novel”

Saturday, April 9 (continued)

Panel 2: Memory and History I: Chair, Charles Kupfer, Penn State Harrisburg (39 East Wing)

1. Mary Clater- Penn State Harrisburg: “Whose Memory? The Politics of Memorializing the Holocaust”

2. Lindsay Harlow- Penn State Harrisburg: “The Untold Story: A Narrative of the Spanish-American War by the Soldiers Who Fought and How It is Studied by Public Historians’” 3. Louise Barnett- Rutgers University “Impasse: The Contested Heritage of the Little

Bighorn Battlefield National Monument”

Panel 3: Heritage and Museums: Chair, Rosina Ryan, La Salle University (205 Ryan Bldg.)

1. Susan Ortmann- Penn State Harrisburg: “The Engle Monumental Clock: The Columbia Watch and Clock Museum's Efforts to Preserve and Maintain American

Heritage” 2. Shannon M. SanCartier- University of North Carolina, Wilmington: “Interpreting African American Narratives at Fort Fisher State Historic Site” 3. Cynthia Byrd- Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art, Salisbury University: “Pass It On: Engaging with the Public Schools through Heritage Literacy Programming”

Panel 4: Literature and Heritage: Chair, Rosemary Hathaway, West Virginia University

(417 Main Capitol)

1. Sheila Rohrer- Penn State Harrisburg: “Reuben, Rachel, and Yonie: The Portrayal of the Old Order Amish in Children's Literature”

2. Mark Metzler Sawin- Eastern Mennonite University: “The Prolific Profligate: Ned Buntline and His Literary World”

3. Ashley Kniss- Catholic University of America: “Symbolism at Stake: 19th Century Vampiric Obsession and Poe's "Ligeia"

Panel 5: Forum on Marcellus Shale: The Current Impact of Gas Drilling on Culture, Heritage, and Community in Pennsylvania OR What Happens to the Meaning of Place in a Gas Field?” — Chair, Ruth Tonachel, Northern Tier Cultural Alliance (G-50 Irvis Bldg)

Jen Swain- Northern Tier Cultural Alliance

Simona Perry, Dickinson College

Tim Murtha, Penn State University

Elle Morgan, “Marcellus Shale: A Question of Legacy” project

(See PPSA Program)

PPSA Borders, Identity and Movement in Comparative Context (Hearing Room 1, North Office Bldg.)

PPSA Undergraduate Student Panel: International Relations (140 Main Capitol)

9:45 - 11:00 a.m.: Session 4

Panel 1: Material Heritage: Chair, Jerry Clouse, McCormick Taylor Engineering and Planning (31B Main Capitol)

1. James McMahon—Penn State Harrisburg: “Kinderhaus: Analysis of a Swiss Bank House with a Raised Basement Hearth.”

2. Diane Wenger – Wilkes University: “Changing Interpretations of the Alexander Schaeffer Farm”

3. Patricia Gibble- Independent Scholar: “Public Heritage Outreach and Public Archaeology at the Alexander Schaeffer Farm”

Panel 2: Memory and History II: Chair, Michael Barton, Penn State Harrisburg (39 East Wing)

1. Stephanie Morrow- Temple University: “Through the Eyes of Habermas: The Heritage of Liberalism and Deliberative Politics”

2. Emily Churilla- Stony Brook University: “Planes, Trains, and Historical Moments: The Rights of Heritage in Barack Obama's Inauguration”

3. Kelly George- Temple University: “Vernacular or Vulgar? Disability and Haunted History at the "Pennhurst Asylum"

Panel 3: Heritage Preservation: Chair, Jean Cutler, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum

Commission (205 Ryan Bldg.)

1. Lynne Calamia- Penn State Harrisburg: “A New Deal for Historic Preservation?: The Influence of Depression-Era Work Relief Programs on the Development of National Identity”

2. Aaron Cowan- Slippery Rock University: “Building Western Pennsylvania History: Charles Morse Stotz”

3. Jean Hershner -Penn State Harrisburg: “Heritage, Hardship and Hope: Sustaining the Future of Pennsylvania's Past”

Panel 4: Media and Heritage: Chair, Lisa Jarvinen, La Salle University (417 Main Capitol)

1. Richard Aquilla- Penn State Behrend: “History You Can Dance To: NPR's Rock and Roll America”

2. Valentina S. Plavinskaya- Penn State Harrisburg: “"Friday Night Lights": Reflection of American Values in the TV Show”

3. Laura Holzman- Univ of California Irvine: “Rocky Rejected, Rocky Reclaimed: How Philadelphia Formed a New City Icon.”

Panel 5: Environment: Chair, Mark Gross, Analyst, LMI Energy and Environment Group (G-50 Irvis)

1. Nancy Jones- Penn State Harrisburg: ‘ Squeezing Water Out of Rock and Other Feats of Desert Living: A Personal History of One Family's Experiences with Water in the

Deserts of the West”

2. Spencer Green - Penn State Harrisburg: “A Rough Patch: Heritage and History on Pennsylvania's Appalachian Trail”