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2002-2003 Calendar of Events


Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held in the MARIAL Seminar room.

Spring 2003

Thursday, January 23, 3-5 p.m.
Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Hall (3rd Floor)

Judith Martin (Miss Manners)

Star Spangled Manners: Performing the American Dream


Tuesday, February 4, 3-5 p.m.

Barrie Thorne (Berkeley)

Unpacking School Lunch Time: Daily Rituals and the Negotiation of Childhoods


Tuesday, February 18, 3-5 p.m.

Michelle Brattain (Georgia State University)

Passing and the "Public Interest": Race Identity and the State
in 20th Century New Orleans


Wednesday, February 26, 3-5 p.m.

Harriet Presser (University of Maryland)

Employment in a 24/7 Economy: Challenges for the Family


Thursday, March 6, 3-5 p.m.

Steven Mintz (University of Houston)

Beyond Sentimentality: The History and Future of America's Families and Children


Tuesday, March 25, 3-5 p.m.

Elizabeth Pleck (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Cinderella Dream: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding in Contemporary Consumer Culture


Tuesday, April 1, 3-5 p.m.

Gwen Kennedy Neville (Southwestern University)

Kinship and Pilgrimage: Rituals of Reunion in American Protestant Culture


Thursday, April 3, 7-10 p.m. (note time)

People Like Us: Social Class in America
Film and discussion with producers Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker and Peter Odabashian

***Movie Screening and Discussion will be held in White Hall Room 208


Friday, April 4, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm

Associated Vernacular Modernities Workshop

Vernacular Modernities Conference
"Class-ifying Gender, Gendering Class"


Tuesday, April 8, 3-5 p.m.

Cindy Dell Clark (Penn State)

The Further Uses of Enchantment: Multivocality in American Rituals of Childhood


Tuesday, April 15, 3-5 p.m.

Carol Worthman (Emory University)

Parental Employment Patterns, Family Ecology and Child Well-Being: Findings From the Great Smoky Mountain Study


Tuesday, April 29, 3-5 p.m.

CANCELLED

Donna Klein (Marriott International, vice president)
Building a Family Friendly Workplace


SPECIAL EVENT!

Tuesday, May 2, 1:00 p.m.

Larry Harvey (founder of Burning Man) and Charles Reeve (editor-in-chief of Art Papers magazine)

Ritual without Dogma: Art without Borders


 

Fall 2002


Tuesday, September 10, 3-5 p.m.

Ione Vargus, Temple University

More Than A Picnic: African American Family Reunions


Tuesday, September 17, 3-5 p.m.

Mark Auslander, Oxford College of Emory University

Designer Rituals: Simulating Home Across the Work-Family Frontier


Tuesday, September 24, 3-5 p.m.

Jason DeCaro, Emory University

Experience Monitoring using a Palm Pilot and the PROUST System


Tuesday, October 8, 3-5 p.m.

Bradd Shore, Emory University

Authenticity, Really? Reflections on the Anxious Landscape of Modernity


Tuesday, October 15, 3-5 p.m.

Drew Whitelegg, Emory University

Life in the Air vs. Life on the Ground: Flight Attendants and Their Families


Tuesday, October 22, 3-5 p.m.

Ralph Williams, President SEIU Local 1985

Fighting for Balance Between Work and Family: A Labor Union Approach


Tuesday, October 29, 3-5 p.m.

Bill Porter (poet, translator, cultural commentator)

Getting away from it all: Chinese Hermits and American Escapism at Work and Play




Tuesday, November 26, 3-5 p.m.

Jerome Bruner (New York University)

Family Self-Construction: A Case Study


Tuesday, December 3, 3-5 p.m.

Carrell Dammann, Frank Pittman, and Eve Poling. Moderator: Marshall Duke (Emory University)
Ritual Function and Family Dysfunction: The Therapist's View


Tuesday, December 10, 3-5 p.m.

Leslie Martin (Emory University)

Gays, Drugs, and Kids: Protecting the Family in Gentrifying Communities

 


 

 

DIRECTIONS TO THE MARIAL CENTER

The MARIAL Center is located on the 4th floor of the main building of Emory's Briarcliff Campus, 1256 Briarcliff Rd. There is ample parking close to the building. Alternatively, you may take the Emory shuttle (Route A). The Emory shuttle (Route A) provides transportation from the main campus to the MARIAL Center every 20 minutes (a 5-10 minute ride). For the shortest travel time, board the shuttle in front of the B. Jones Center or at the corner of Dowman and Fishburne (across from Glenn Memorial) at approximately 4, 24, and 44 minutes after each hour. A complete schedule and the route map are available on the web at http://www.epcs.emory.edu/AltTransp/route-a.htm

Please tell the receptionist at the front window that you are here for the MARIAL Center lecture.

 

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