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Past Events 2009
LEFT FORUM 2009 • "Turning Points". April 17-19, 2009. Pace University (across from City Hall) One Pace Plaza New York, NY 10038 ...Pace University (across from City Hall) One Pace Plaza New York, NY 10038. www.leftforum.org/
Mark Leff's answers on the New Deal 2/5/09 Inside Illinois
Past Events 2008
August/September:
Remembering FDR: Digital Images of the Joseph M. Jacobs Memorabilia
Collection at the Center for New Deal Studies. Showcases newly digitized
photographs of this collection of over 3500 objects related to FDR the New
Deal, Great Depression, and World War Two.
November 17: William Leuchtenburg, Roosevelt Scholar and William R.
Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina will
give the 16th Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Lecture. This event
will also celebrate Roosevelt University Dedication Day. Co-sponsored with
the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, NY.
State: Illinois Town: Charleston
Title of the Event: New Deal in Illinois Symposium
Date of Event: October 9, 2008
Contact Name: Dr. Edmund Wehrle Contact info:
efwehrle@eiu.edu
Type of event: Public lectures that address Illinois politics during
the 1930s, the response to the economic crisis in Springfield, the Illinois
Arts Project. Keynote speakers include Dr. Margaret Rung, Roosevelt
University's Center for New Deal Studies, and U.S. Senate Historian, Donald
Ritchie
October/November—Plans are underway for the Center for New Deal Studies
to sponsor a bus tour of WPA murals and a lecture/panel on the built
environment of Chicago during the Chicago Humanities Festival. The 2008
theme for the Festival is “Grand Visions.”
Midwest NNDPA Chapter—A series of 25 minute in-studio interviews with
people involved in ND projects including CCC will be available at the
Evanston Community Media Center on DV tape with distribution on DVD’s.
Copies of scholarly ND presentations at a 2003 NNDPA national conference
will also be for sale.
Roosevelt University—Center for New Deal Studies will host a FSA photography exhibit from Gage Gallery at Roosevelt Univ. and their annual fall speaker event will focus on the 75th celebration. It is also hope that they will be able to work with the Chicago Humanities Festival to highlight the New Deal celebration theme with those events in November and the Chicago Metro History Fair.
Nat. Archives Film Fest—this is currently being scheduled.
Southside Federal Art Center—New Deal Federal Art Center--Exhibit hopefully in conjunction with Art Institute
Bronzeville –considering some activities to compliment Southside Art Center.
"Recalling the
Great Depression" by Chicagoland by 11/6/08 Chicago Tribune Lucille
Holst & Betty Shoemaker Alex Garcia
Illinois Labor History: Chicago, Illinois 12/5/08 Illinois History
Society Jan Schakowsky
41st Spoon River Scenic Drive Central Illinois 10/6/08 Clinton Daily
Ledger Illinois cities with New Deal Spoon River Country Projects
Remembering Stud Chicago Humanities 11/2/08 Chicago Tribune Terkel by Stuart
Dybek Festival "Depression era Works" by Julia Keller
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