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CGA events
The Cooperstown Graduate Association (CGA), the alumni organization of the Cooperstown Graduate Program, organizes a variety of academic and social events throughout the school year. For information on any of these events, please contact Catherine M. Raddatz, Coordinator of Alumni Affairs.
CGA Online Auction
Thank you to all who participated in the Fall 2010 Auction!
The auction was a tremedous success and exceeded our goal with a net total of $5,610. The CGA Auction Team thanks you for your generous donations and enthusiastic bidding in the online auction. And, of course, we congratulate the winners. The proceeds will support CGA and the Snow Foundation scholarship fund to support talented, emerging professionals. We could not do what we do without your participation and support.
CGA Conference
Every other fall CGA sponsors a scholarly symposium held in Cooperstown. A call for papers is made in the spring preceding the conference. Submissions are received from nationally known historians and material culture scholars as well as students from graduate programs in a variety of disciplines. The conference also coincides with our yearly hands-on workshops. Click here to learn more.
CGA Workshops
Every autumn, the Cooperstown Graduate Association puts on a series of hands-on workshops. Topics have ranged from hearth-oven bread baking and fantasy pumpkin carving, to Native American beading, Russian punch embroidery, and folk art painting. Click here to learn more.
Bruce Buckley Lecture
CGP’s legacy is steeped in the dedication to the study of folklore and folk life. Until 1979, CGP offered a degree in American Folk Culture, and folklorists throughout the country recognized the program for its quality and dedication to the field.
Although no longer a degree program, folk studies remains an important component of the CGP education and curriculum. A research and fieldwork course is required during the first year of study, and students learn how to conduct oral histories and record traditions and stories of the past.
CGP also holds an annual lecture on a topic in folk studies. Every year, the program invites an established scholar in the field to share his or her expertise, experiences, and advice through a free evening presentation for the entire community and a professional seminar for students.
Click here to learn about this year's Buckley Scholar as well as previous Buckley Scholars.