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CSA/OCH Conference, Feb 21-23, 2002



Dear ARCHIVES Members,

We are pleased to announce CSA's Fourteenth Annual Conference will be co-
hosted by the Orange County History Conference (OCHC) and sited in
historic south Orange County at the neighboring communities of Dana Point
and San Juan Capistrano. 

The Conference is cosponsored by the Orange County Historical Society,
California Center for the Book, San Jose State School of Library and
Information Science, University of California Humanities
Research Institute, Orange County Public Library, Orange County Historical
Commission and California State University, Fullerton


Sessions:
Thursday    February 21st

12:00PM - 1:00 PM REGISTRATION1:00 PM  -  2:45 PM SESSION 1

Panel A: Territory of the Imagination: California in Books, Film,
TV and Beyond
Chair: Gary Phillips, mystery writer and activist, Coalition L.A.

Panel B: Managing the Rivers and Coast of Southern California
Chair: Jennifer Price, Author, University of California, Los Angeles

Panel C: Dead Last or Phoenixing? California's School Libraries and the
New Information Literacies
Chair: Debra Hansen, Associate Professor, San Jose State School of Library
and Information Science

Panel D: Suburbanization in Southern California: What's Happened and Where
are We Going?
Chair: Stephanie Pincetl, Research Associate Professor of Geography and
Coordinator, Sustainable Cities Program, University of Southern California


2:45  -  3:15 PM COFFEE BREAK

3:15  -  5:00 PM SESSION 2

Panel A: Labor and Government in the City of Angels: How Each Has Shaped
the Other
Chair: Paul Worthman, Director of Broadcast for American Federation of
Television and Radio Artists

Panel B: Documenting California
Chair: Jackie Dooley, Head of Special Collections and University Archives,
University of California, Irvine

Panel C: The Future of California StudiesChair: Dante Noto, Coordinator of
Humanities, Arts and Social Science Research, University of California
Office of the President

Panel D: Place and Placelessness: A Portfolio of California Families and
NeighborhoodsChairs: Michael Steiner, Professor of American Studies,
California State University, Fullerton, and Tracy Smith, Director of
Volunteers, Homestead Museum, City of Industry

5:15  -  7:15 PM RECEPTION  MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO (SOLDIERS'
BARRACKS)

The Life and Times of Charles Fletcher LummisScholar/Performer: Daniel
Lewis, historian, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona (musical
entertainment to follow).  Charles Lummis' granddaughter will also be
present to comment.

Friday,   February 22nd

8:30 A.M.  -  10:15 A.M. SESSION 3

Panel A: Can Outside Media Owners Represent California and the Southland?
Chair: Eric Mankin, Director, Educational Communications and Publishing
Ventures, Information Services, University of Southern California

Panel B: Endless Simmer: California and the Slow Food Movement
Chair: Denise Spooner, Adjunct Professor of History, University of Southern
California

10:15  -  10:30 A.M. COFFEE BREAK

10:30 A.M.  -  12:15 PM SESSION 4

Plenary: Habitat Preservation on the Urbanizing Fringe: Is the
Representation Real?
Chair: Stephanie Pincetl, Research Associate Professor of Geography and
Coordinator, Sustainable Cities Program, University of Southern California


12:15 -1:30 PM LUNCH LAGUNA CLIFFS MARRIOTT RESORT

1:45  -  3:30 PM SESSION 5

Panel A: Image Matters: Creating a Student Workforce to Sustain
California’s Image-Making Industries, Including Film and
TelevisionChair: Elizabeth Lay, Program Coordinator California Studies and
Academic Literacy, Oakland Technical High School

Panel B: By The Book: The Multiple Missions of the California Center for
the BookChair: Sidney Berger, Director, California Center for the Book,
University of California, Los Angeles

Panel C: Can We All Get Along? California Education Gears up  for a New K-
16 Master Plan for Education  -  During the New Millennium’s First
Recession Chair: Mona Field, Trustee, Los Angeles Community College
District, and Professor of Political Science, Glendale Community College

Panel D: Beyond the Energy Monoculture Chair: Michael Black, Visiting
Associate Professor of Political Science, Harvey Mudd College

3:45  -  10 PM SPECIAL EVENT

Train tour through Orange County to Disney's California Adventure (return
to Dana Point/San Juan Capistrano by bus)

Historical interpreter: William Myers, Adjunct Professor of Public
History, California State University, Fullerton

This excursion will first take conference participants on an interpreted
train ride through selected time slices of the "actual" California via the
Orange County landscape; it will then deposit them at Disney's California
Adventure attraction to assess for themselves a new and contested
"representation" of California history and culture.

Saturday, February 23rd

8:30 A.M.  -  12:30 PM SESSION 6

Tours and Correlated Off-Site Sessions

Tour #1 San Juan Capistrano Walking TourCome join the walking tour that
embodies the historic Old Mission and the Los Rios district, California's
oldest neighborhood.

Tour #2 Orange County Ethnic Tour Showcasing selective community sites,
participants will visit Westminster's Little Saigon and Santa Ana's
Hispanic arts complexes.

Tour #3 Laguna Beach Art Tour Stopovers on this tour include the arts and
crafts galleries within Orange County's celebrated art colony and a visit
to the Laguna Art Museum to view its "Representing Los Angeles" exhibit.

Tour #4 Dana Point Maritime Tour This tour will highlight the area's
historical and environmental resources and include a trip to the Ocean
Institute.

Tour #5 South Coast Wetlands Tour This tour will cover the Bolsa Chica
Wetlands and the Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve and Ecological Reserve,
and feature an interpretive nature exploration via outrigger canoes!

12:30  -  1:45 PM LUNCH  CAREY MCWILLIAMS AWARD LUNCHEON

EL ADOBE RESTAURANT, SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO

Speaker: McWilliams Award Winner; Introduction by Carey McWilliams, Jr.,
political scientist, Rutgers University

2:00  -  3:45 PM SESSION 7

Plenary: "Cul-de-Sac: A Suburban War Story" In 1995, Shawn Nelson, an
unemployed plumber from San Diego, California, stole a tank and ran amok
through his home suburb of Clairemont. This  documentary film investigates
the tank rampage and the decline of a 20th century suburban landscape
that's "reached the end of its useful life."  Filmmaker Garrett Scott will
be present Camino Real Playhouse, San Juan Capistrano

4:00  -  5:30 PM          CSA BUSINESS MEETING

Camino Real Playhouse, San Juan Capistrano

More information and updates can be found at our website:
CSA OCHC Conference
(http://ohp.fullerton.edu/CSAOCH/csa_ochc_Conference.htm)
Registration information can be found at
CSA/OCH Form - February 21-23, 2002 Conference
(http://ohp.fullerton.edu/CSAOCH/registration_form.htm)

Questions? csaconference@hotmail.com
Hope to see you there,

Sharon Owen
Consultant, Oral History Program
California State University, Fullerton
P.O.Box 6846 Fullerton, CA 92634-6846
Phone (714) 278-4672
Fax: (714) 278-5069
Email: ohp@fullerton.eduConference email: csaconference@hotmail.com

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