JNBC faculty, staff, students, fellows, and other affiliates present talks at conferences and seminars, and write long and short papers of all sorts. A number of the talks are listed here, some of them with links to PowerPoint files, speaking notes, presentations, or audio and video files. Papers – from bibliographies to working papers to publications – are listed here as well, with links to the published or unpublished paper where possible.
Steven Lubar, address to the Board of Directors at the Slater Mill Historic Site, Pawtucket, RI, May 2006 more
Steven Lubar, “Twentieth Is the New Nineteenth: Thinking About Collecting and Exhibiting the Last Century.” Keynote address for “Collecting and Interpreting the 20th Century," the 2007 Massachusetts History Conference, May 2007 text images
Steven Lubar, "Collecting and
Exhibiting Twentieth-century Technology," presentation given at the MIT
Museum, October 2007 more
Steven Lubar, "Public History: Hong Kong and Macao," January 2008 more
Steven Lubar, “A Museum's Bygone Era,” a response to Pete Daniel’s “History with Boundaries: How Donors Shape Museum Exhibits” in the Organization of American Historians' newsletter, November 2008 more
Steven Lubar, address to the Board of Directors at the Slater Mill Historic Site, Pawtucket, RI, November 2008 more
Jessica Johnson, ”Public Humanities," a field list for Department of American Civilization doctoral examination, 2006 more
Katie Chavez, ”Site-Specific Performance at Historical Sites: Resources, Bibliographies, and Examples,“ August 2005 more
Ron M. Potvin and Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska, ”A Selected Compilation of Historic House Museum Resources,“ July 2008 more
Ron M. Potvin, ”Museum Professional Training and Education: Results from a Web-based Survey,“ 2007 more
The John Nicholas Brown Center is pleased to present selected papers from a series of international biannual conferences on American Studies conceived and executed by a consortium of American studies programs in the United States and Europe. The partner departments are all parts of universities – presently Università di Bologna, University of Paris III, Yale University, Brown University, and University of California at Berkeley – that have exchange programs with each other
The conferences are designed to allow faculty and graduate students to share recent work and consider new paradigms relating to American studies as a scholarly field. A response to initiatives within the field of American studies to imagine a transnational practice, these conferences allow for an in-depth examination of what an internationalized American studies might look like.
To find paper titles, abstracts, and sometimes full papers, click on the conference titles below. Please contact Susan Smulyan with any questions about the Bologna Conferences.
Mobility and American Cultures, June 20–22, 2002 more
Public Spheres and American Cultures, June 4–6, 2004 more
Reform and Revolution in American Culture and History, June 6–8, 2006 more
The USA in the World, the World in the USA, June 19–21, 2008 more
Please check back for publications by John Nicholas Brown Center staff and faculty.