Mercer County Consortium, Seminar Agenda

July 21-24, 28-31, 2008

Sunday, July 20, 2008
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Registration and check-in at Princeton University residence hall
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm A Princeton-Style Welcome and Reception
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Opening Banquet


Monday, July 21, 2008
8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am - noon Presentation: The Constitution and the "Social Question"; Progressivism (Prof. Paul Moreno)
noon - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Introduction to 3rd Year Summer Seminar: Bradford P. Wilson
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Film: The 400 in Control - Martin Scorsese's The Age Of Innocence


Tuesday, July 22, 2008
8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am - noon Presentation: The New Deal (Prof. Moreno)
noon - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Discussion
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm The Age of Innocence (cont.)


Wednesday, July 23, 2008
8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am - noon Presentation: The Constitution and the "Culture War" (Prof. Moreno)
noon - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Discussion
2:15 pm - 4:00 pm Depression Days in New Jersey: Thornton Wilder's Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden


Thursday, July 24, 2008
8:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast
8:45-4:15 Epater le Bourgeoisie? Trip to Whitney Museum of American Art
8:45 a.m.: Leave from Robertson Hall, Corner of Washington Road and Prospect Avenue


Monday, July 28, 2008
8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am - noon Presentation: Can There be an "After Socialism"? (Prof. Alan Kors)
noon - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Discussion
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Film: Mission to Moscow


Tuesday, July 29, 2008
8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am - noon Presentation: Civil Rights and Affirmative Action (Prof. Bradley Watson)
noon - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Discussion
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Presentation: Black Militancy in the Late 1960s (Prof. Alan Petigny)


Wednesday, July 30, 2008
8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast
10:00 am - noon Presentation: How Obscenity Became the Litmus Test for the First Amendment (Rochelle Gurstein)
noon - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm Presentation: "A Republic If You Can Keep It" (Prof. Jeffrey Poelvoorde)
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Performance - The Golden Age of American Popular Music: Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks


Thursday, July 31, 2008
8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am - noon Presentation: The Constitutional Sources of the Culture Wars (Prof. Poelvoorde)
noon - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm Discussion
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Evaluation of Seminar by Dr. Jeong-Ran Kim of Educational Evaluation, Inc.