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2017 ACLS Annual Meeting May 11-13, Baltimore, MD 2017 ACLS Annual Meeting May 11-13, Baltimore, MD 2017 ANNUAL MEETING of the AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Baltimore, MD, May 11-13 Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel AGENDA MATERIALS Thursday, May 11 5:45-7:00 pm – Salon AB Tab 1 Who Speaks, Who Listens: The Academy and the Community, Memory and Justice Friday, May 12 9:00 am-12:00 noon – Salon AB Report of the President (9:00-9:30 am) Tab 2 Micro Reports from Five ACLS Member Societies (9:30-9:45 am) Tab 3 Meeting of the Council (9:45-10:30 am) Tab 4 Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research: Tab 5 Discussion with ACLS Fellows (10:45 am-12:00 noon) 12:30-2:00 pm – Salon C Tab 6 Luncheon and Speaker Freeman A. Hrabowski, III President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2:00-3:00 pm – Salon AB Tab 7 Pauline Yu in Conversation with Earl Lewis, President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Breakout Sessions (3:00-4:00 pm) Tab 8 1) The Digital Dark Age: What Is Happening to All That Work?–Essex 2) Evaluating Public Scholarship–Falkland 3) Contingent Faculty in the Academic Workforce–Heron 4) Innovations in Humanities Curriculum–Iron 5) The Annual Conference and the Community–Jaames Additional Information Tab 9 Overview of ACLS Activities Biographies of ACLS Board of Directors ACLS Staff Report on Program Activities Back Pocket Biography of Haskins Prize Lecturer Harry G. Frankfurt Meeting Schedule Participants List Hotel Floor Plan 2 2017 ACLS Annual Meeting Baltimore, MD May 11, 5:45-7:00 pm Salon AB Who Speaks, Who Listens: The Academy and the Community, Memory and Justice John J. DeGioia President, Georgetown University http://slavery.georgetown.edu/ Rosemary G. Feal (moderator) Executive Director, Modern Language Association Denise Griffin Johnson Cultural Agent, US Department of Arts and Culture http://usdac.us/baltimore/ Nicole King Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies Director, Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://amstcommunitystudies.org/ http://mappingbaybrook.org/ 3 Who Speaks, Who Listens: The Academy and the Community, Memory and Justice Presenters John J. DeGioia is the 48th president of Georgetown University. For nearly four decades, DeGioia has worked to define and strengthen Georgetown University as a premier institution for education and research. A graduate of Georgetown, DeGioia served as a senior administrator and as a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy before becoming president on July 1, 2001. He continues to teach an Ignatius Seminar each fall, which is part of a program offering first-year students the opportunity to encounter unique courses of study inspired by the Jesuit educational theme of cura personalis (“care for the whole person”). As president, DeGioia is dedicated to deepening Georgetown’s tradition of academic excellence, its commitment to its Catholic and Jesuit identity, its engagement with the Washington, DC community, and its global mission. Under his leadership, Georgetown has become a leader in shaping the future landscape of higher education and has recently completed a $1.5 billion campaign dedicated to enhancing the lifelong value of a Georgetown education. DeGioia is deeply engaged in addressing broader issues in education. He currently serves as immediate past chair of the Board of Directors of the American Council on Education (ACE), and chair of the Board of Directors of the Forum for the Future of Higher Education; he also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the National Association of Independent Schools. DeGioia also serves as chair of the Division I Committee on Academics for the NCAA, and as a commissioner on the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Values and WEF’s Global University Leaders Forum. DeGioia earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Georgetown University in 1979 and a PhD in Philosophy from the University in 1995. Prior to his appointment as president in 2001, DeGioia held a variety of senior administrative positions at Georgetown, including senior vice president and dean of student affairs. He has been presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Academia by the Sons of Italy, and the “Catholic in the Public Square Award” by Commonweal (2012). He was honored as a “Brave Thinker” by The Atlantic (2012), and as “Washingtonian of the Year” by Washingtonian magazine (2008). He has received honorary degrees from Miami Dade College (2008); Loyola University, Maryland (2009); Queens University, Belfast (2009); Sacred Heart University (2011); and Mount Aloysius College (2015). He has also received an honorary fellowship at Glyndŵr University (2010) as well as the “Esteemed Friend” award from Sophia University in Tokyo (2014), and he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010). 4 Rosemary G. Feal has served as executive director of the Modern Language Association of America since 2002. She administers the business affairs, programs, and governance of the association; is general editor of the association’s publishing and research programs and editor of two association publications; serves as an ex officio member of all committees and commissions of the association; chairs the committee that oversees the planning of the association’s annual convention; and is a member of the MLA Executive Council’s audit and advisory committees, working with the MLA’s trustees in evaluating and implementing investments of the MLA’s endowment funds and chairing the Finance Committee. She is on leave from her position as professor of Spanish at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where she was chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. From 1987 to 1998 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Rochester. A member of the Board of Directors of the National Humanities Alliance and a past vice president of that organization, she also served on the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies. Feal was a 2011-12 American Council on Education Fellow at the Five Colleges, Incorporated (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst). Working with the executive director of the Five Colleges consortium and the presidents of Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges, she participated in all aspects of academic and campus life, including strategic planning, admissions, curriculum, development, and alumnae relations. Coeditor of the SUNY Series in Latin American Iberian Thought and Culture, Feal is also an associate editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review and former senior consulting editor of the Latin American Literary Review. She has published on contemporary Latin American literature, Afro-Hispanic studies, Caribbean women writers, and feminist theory. Her book publications include Isabel Allende Today (coeditor; 2002); Painting on the Page: Interartistic Approaches to Modern Hispanic Texts (coauthor; 1995); and Novel Lives: The Fictional Autobiographies of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa (author; 1986). She has written on the majors in English and also other languages and on liberal learning for Liberal Education (2009) as well as on the foreign language teaching community for Modern Language Journal (2008). She earned a PhD in Spanish from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and a BA from Allegheny College. Feal also completed the Bachillerato en Letras at the Instituto Belga Guatemalteco (Guatemala) and studied abroad in France and Spain. Denise Griffin Johnson lives in Baltimore City. She identifies her natural talents and passion as an organizer and advocate. Having worked in numerous professional capacities in both nonprofit and government from coordinator to manager, Johnson has also served on numerous boards and advisory groups that focus on community and family. Her professional work is in the fields of human service and community development. In 2007, as a project director with Bon Secours of Maryland Foundation, while working with an OSI artist fellow, Johnson encountered the powerful tool of arts and culture in community revitalization. As a result, a grassroots cultural organizing effort was formulated to continue and define stories, beliefs, history, and values that formulated CultureWorks. Johnson is a member of Alternative Roots (http://alternateroots.org/), cofounder of CultureWorks (http://usdac.us/baltimore/), and an organizer of Roadside Theatre Arts in a Democracy (https://roadside.org/Baltimore). She is a graduate of Coppin State University with a master’s of science in family counseling. 5 Nicole King is an associate professor and chair of the Department of American Studies, an affiliate assistant professor in the Language, Literacy, and Culture doctoral program, and director of the Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She received her PhD in American studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008 and a MA in comparative literature and cultural studies from the University of New Mexico in 2001. Her research and teaching interests focus on issues of place, power, and economic development. King’s scholarship analyzes changes to the social and built environment during the rise of consumer culture in the twentieth century—such as the development of vernacular landscapes of tourism in the US South and the decline of industrial neighborhoods in Baltimore. Her book, Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South: The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina’s Tourism Industry (UP of Mississippi, 2012), explores how the South Carolina roadside tourist attraction South of the Border, home of the world’s largest sombrero, and the historically black resort town of Atlantic Beach, South Carolina, the host of a controversial motorcycle festival for African Americans, foreground the connections between place, politics, and aesthetics during the rise of consumer culture and the period of desegregation.
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