Networked New York
A conference on material, literary, and digital connections in the city
Friday, March 9 / 19 University Place, Great Room
Free and open to the public
10:00 – 11:15 Panel 1: Institution and Enterprise
Moderator: Thomas Augst
Joey McGarvey (New York University – English), “‘The Good, the Great, and the Gifted’: An Introduction to the New York Fruit Festival”
Reed Gochberg (Boston University – English), “Miniatures and Museums: Philanthropy, Cultural Institutions, and Edith Wharton’s Tableau Vivant”
Kristen Doyle Highland (New York University – English), “Finding New York City in the Bookstore”
11:15 –12:30 Panel 2: Community, Production, and Place
Moderator: Lisa Gitelman
Cecily Swanson (Cornell University – English), “‘Personal-Experiences-Personally-Experienced’: Gurdjieff and the Harlem Renaissance”
Micki McGee (Fordham University – Sociology), “The Yaddo Archive Project”
Edward Whitley (Lehigh University – English), “Digital Social Networks and New York’s First Bohemians”
1:30 – 2:45 Panel 3: Authors and Neighborhoods
Moderator: Lenora Warren
Karen Karbiener (New York University – Global Liberal Studies), “The Living Archive of Walt Whitman’s New York”
Mark Sussman (City University of New York – English), “Tenement Aesthetics: Howells, the Poor, and the Picturesque”
Josh Glick (Yale University – Film Studies and American Studies), “Memory at the Margins: Jewish American Fiction and the Lived Landscape of Coney Island”
3:00 – 4:00 Keynote
Marvin Taylor (Director, Fales Library & Special Collections), “Playing the Field: Thoughts about Social Networks and the New York Downtown Arts Scene”
4:00 – 5:30 Panel 4: Blogscapes and Digital Interaction
Moderator: Bryan Waterman
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
5:30 – 6:30 Reception
Sponsored by the Project on New York Writing,the Colloquium in American Literature and Culture, and the Workshop in Archival Practice at New York University
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