Washington, DC, May 5-7
2011 ACLS Annual Meeting Agenda
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| Time |
Activity |
Links/Downloads |
| 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m.
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ACLS Board of Directors Executive Committee Meeting |
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| 2:00-5:00 |
ACLS Board of Directors Meeting |
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| 5:45-6:30 |
Welcome Reception |
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| 6:00-8:30 |
Buffet Supper |
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| 8:00-10:00 |
"The Consequences of Financial Turbulence in the Academy"
William E. Davis, moderator
Executive Director, American Anthropological Association
Srinivas Aravamudan
President, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
Dean of the Humanities in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of English, Duke University
B. Robert Kreiser
Associate Secretary, American Association of University Professors
Delegate, Society for French Historical Studies
David Marshall
Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, and
Executive Dean, College of Letters and Science, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
Director, Program in Comparative Literature, University of Texas
Secretary-Treasurer, American Comparative Literature Association
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biographical notes on panelists |
| 8:00-10:00 |
"The Humanities in Washington: NHA Report"
Jessica Irons
Executive Director, National Humanities Alliance
Michael Brintnall
Executive Director, American Political Science Association
Lee White
Executive Director, National Coalition for History
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www.nhalliance.org
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| Time |
Activity |
Links/Downloads |
| 7:30-8:30 a.m.
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Executive Committee of the Delegates Meeting |
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| 7:30-9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:45-9:30 |
Meeting of the Council |
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| 9:30-10:15 |
Report of ACLS President Pauline Yu |
2011 President's Report |
| 10:15-10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:45-12 noon
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"Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research: Discussion with ACLS Fellows"
Marjorie Garber, moderator
William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
Mary Flanagan
2010 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellow
Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities and Professor of Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth College
Rebecca E. Keegan
2010 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellow in American Art
Doctoral Candidate in African-American Art and Visual Culture,
Duke University
Matthew Walker
2010 New Faculty Fellow
ACLS Faculty Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
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biographical notes on panelists
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| 12:30-1:00 p.m.
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Reception |
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| 1:00-2:15 |
Luncheon and Speaker
Jim Leach
Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
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"Defending the Liberal Arts" |
| 2:15-4:00 |
"Global Perspectives on U.S. Higher Education"
Thomas Bender, moderator,
University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History, New York University
Lisa Anderson
President, American University in Cairo
Peter Lange
Provost, Duke University
John Sexton
President, New York University
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biographies notes on panelists
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| 4:00-4:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 6:00-8:00 |
The 2011 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture. "A Life of Learning"
Henry Glassie
College Professor Emeritus of Folklore, Indiana University |
Haskins Prize Lecture program |
| 8:00-10:00 |
Buffet Supper in honor of Henry Glassie |
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| Time |
Activity |
Links/Downloads |
| 9:00-9:30 a.m.
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Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:30-11:00 |
Conference of Adminstrative Officers (CAO) Spring Meeting |
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| 10:00-3:00 |
Burkhardt Fellows Gathering |
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