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Departmental Events 2007-2008
 Rutgers Academic Calendar
October 11-14
American Studies Association
Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA
November 13
American Studies Career Night
7:30 PM, Douglass Student Center, Commuter Lounge
November 14
Symposium. James Livingston
"The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century"
January 30
Symposium. Imani Perry
"I Always Fell LIke Somebody's Watchin' Me: The Facing of Privacy, Voyeurism and Surveillance"
February 23
Evening of Gospel Choirs
Celebrating Black History Month
Featuring the Mississippi Blind Boys and the Lumzy Sisters of Mississippi
7:00 PM, Voorhees Chapel, Douglass Campus
February 25
Screening. My American Girls, A Dominican Story by Aaron Matthews
7:00 PM, College Hall, Livingston Student Center
March 4
Writers House Bookmark Series
Designing Minds, Designing Spaces
Alison Isenberg (Rutgers History) Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It, and Carla Yanni (Rutgers Art History) Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States
March 5
Symposium. Cheryl Wall
"Stranger at Home: James Baldwin on What it Means to be an American"
March 5
RateMyProfessors.com and “Professors Strike Back”:Professorial and Audience Performance Art in an Evening of Sit-Down Comedy
7:30 PM, Trayes Hall, Douglass Student Center
April 3
New Jersey Folk Festival Open House Info Session
Join the NJFF 2009 Staff
Applications invited for "Folk Festival Management" - an American Studies Course carrying 3 credits, featuring event management experience. 7:00 PM, Ruth Adams 018, DC
April 22
American Studies Association trip on the USCG Cutter Katherine Walker in NY Harbor.
April 23
Symposium. Chris Iannini
"Birds of America: New World Nature and the Specter of Caribbean Accumulation"
April 26
New Jersey Folk Festival
2008 Theme: Celebrate Germany
May 2
Celebration of our Student's Work.
Douglass College Hall, Fellows Lounge, 3-6 PM
May 6 and 7
American Studies Prize Judging and Celebratory Lunch
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