Schedule

1:30 – 2:15 p.m.

Panel 1

In Search of a Countercultural Moment: A Discussion

• Dov Weinryb Grohsgal

  • Associate Research Scholar
  • Columbia University

• Hendrik Hartog

  • Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus
  • Professor of History, Emeritus
  • Princeton University

2:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Panel 2

An Economy of Tools and Knowledge

• Daniel T. Rodgers

  • Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emeritus
  • Princeton University
  • Comment

• Margot Canaday

  • Professor of History
  • Princeton University
  • Chair

• Erik Baker

  • Doctoral Candidate, Department of the History of Science
  • Harvard University
  • “Access to Tools: Stewart Brand and the Countercultural Work Ethic”

• Meredith Gaglio

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
  • Swarthmore College
  • “‘One Highly-Evolved Toolbox’: Soft-Tech and the Eco-technological Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog“

• Heidi Morefield

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Global Health Program, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
  • Princeton University
  • “Small is Beautiful: Appropriate Technology, International Development, and the American Counterculture”

4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Keynote Address

• “Small Planet, Big Crises, and Hope Through Democratic Action”

• Dov Weinryb Grohsgal

  • Associate Research Scholar
  • Columbia University
  • Introduction

• Anne Anlin Cheng

  • Professor of English and American Studies
  • Director, Program in American Studies
  • Princeton University
  • Introduction

9 – 10:30 a.m.

Panel 3

Movements and Alliances

• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  • Assistant Professor of African American Studies & Charles H. Mciwain University Preceptor
  • Princeton University
  • Comment

• Judith Weisenfeld

  • Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion
  • Chair, Department of Religion
  • Princeton University
  • Chair

• Ray Arsenault

  • John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History
  • University of South Florida St. Petersburg
  • “The Mahatma Invades America: CORE, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Movement Culture of Nonviolent Direct Action”

• Andrew Hannon

  • Lecturer
  • University of Massachusetts Boston
  • “The San Francisco Diggers and the Lost Legacy of Performance and Radical Politics”

10:50 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.

Panel 4

Scarcity and Abundance

• Alison Isenberg

  • Professor of History
  • Princeton University
  • Comment

• William Gleason

  • Hughes-Rogers Professor of English and American Studies
  • Princeton University
  • Chair

• Sharon Haar

  • Professor of Architecture, Taubman College
  • University of Michigan
  • “‘We Have to Be Able to Do It for Ourselves:’ The Community Design Movement and Its Conflicted History”

• Kevin Rose

  • Doctoral Candidate, Department of Religious Studies
  • University of Virginia
  • “‘We’re Doing Something That Runs Counter to Society’: Mainstreaming Lappé Through the More-With-Less Cookbook”

• Nicole Sackley

  • Associate Professor of History and American Studies
  • University of Richmond
  • “Food for People, Not for Profits: Countercultural Legacies and the Politics of Global Hunger and Development in the 1970s”

2 – 3:30 p.m.

Panel 5

Expertise and Radical Cultures

• Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong

  • Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
  • Princeton University
  • Comment

• Hendrik Hartog

  • Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus
  • Professor of History, Emeritus
  • Princeton University
  • Chair

• Katherine McClain Fleming

  • Princeton University ’19
  • Princeton Project 55 Fellow
  • Chicago Volunteer Legal Services
  • “Bridges, Borders, and Burdens: Latinas Navigate Our Bodies, Ourselves“

• Marci Kwon

  • Assistant Professor of Art History
  • Stanford University
  • “Carlos Villa’s Other Sources”

• Mark Tushnet

  • William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law
  • Harvard Law School
  • “‘Rock ‘n Roll’ and ‘Roll Over Beethoven’: Tom Stoppard and Critical Legal Studies”

3:50 – 5:20 p.m.

Panel 6

Anxiety and Spirituality

• Peter Wirzbicki

  • Assistant Professor of History
  • Princeton University
  • Comment

• Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús

  • Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and American Studies
  • Acting Associate Director, Program in American Studies, 2019-20
  • Princeton University
  • Chair

• Jason Fitzgerald

  • Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Theatre Arts
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • “Countercultural Humanism: A Recovery and Critique”

• Matthew Hedstrom

  • Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies
  • University of Virginia
  • “Planetary Citizens: Building Global Consciousness and Spiritual Cosmopolitanism in the 1970s”

• Sam Lebovic

  • Associate Professor and Director of the Ph.D. Program, Department of History and Art History
  • George Mason University
  • “Satellites of Love: Simultaneity, Globality, and the Audio-Visual in Sixties Counterculture”

5:40 – 6:30 p.m.

Closing Discussion and Remarks