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17th International James Fenimore Cooper Conference and Seminar SUNY, College at Oneonta July 12-15, 2009 "Global Cooper" Program Sunday, July 12, 2007 4:30 Registration Room 104, Morris Conference Center 5:30 Reception/Cocktails Otsego Cafe Lower Level, Morris Conference Center 6:00 Dinner Otsego Cafe 7:00 Welcome & Introductions Otsego Cafe Monday, July 13, 2009 All lectures will be presented in the Reading Room, Rm. 118, on the first floor of Milne Library 8:30 Continental Breakfast available outside Reading Room, Milne Library 9:15 Welcoming Remarks 9:30-11:30 Panel 1 F. Daniel Larkin, SUNY Oneonta Changing America, the Mid-1820s thru the Mid-1830s Hugh MacDougall The Bravo: Cooper's Message to America 11:30-Noon Student Session Milne 318 1:00-2:15 Panel 2 Allan Axelrad, California State University, Fullerton Historical Contexts of The Last of the Mohicans: the French and Indian War and Mid-1820s America Signe O. Wegener, University of Georgia Not Really the Last Mohican: Chingachgook and East Germany's Indian Movement 2:15-2:30 Break for Refreshments 2:30-4:30 Panel 3 Stephen Arch, Michigan State University Cooper: The Arabesque and the Grotesque James Schramer, Youngstown State University Gleanings of a Harvest Already Gathered: Recollection & Response in Cooper’s European Landscapes Matt Sivils, Iowa State University Buffon's Theory of American Degeneracy and the Biogeography of Cooper's The Prairie Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:30 Continental Breakfast, Outside Reading Room, Milne Library 9:00-11:00 Panel 4 Robert Daly, University at Buffalo Cooper's Stoic Cosmopolitanism and His Gleanings in Switzerland Alf Siewers, Bucknell University Cooper's Green World: Eco Semiotics of Adapted European Tradition Sarah Poulette, Boston College “Across the Channel:” Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Use of France in Rural Hours 11:00-Noon Student Session, Milne 318 12:00-2:00 Conference Luncheon & Keynote Address Otsego Grille, Lower Level, Morris Conference Center Lance Schachterle, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Cooper, Style and The Bravo 2:15-4:00 Panel Discussion, Milne 118 Allan Axelrad, Robert Daly, Michael Pikus, Matt Sivils Why Cooper Matters in the 21st Century 7:00 Otsego Grille, Lower Level, Morris Conference Center Musical Performance: Little Delaware Chamber Players Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:30 Continental Breakfast Outside Reading Room, Milne Library 9:00-11:00 Panel 5 Steven Harthorn, Willams Baptist College An Unfired Shot in the Literary Battle of Lake Erie: Cooper's Unpublished Reply to Alexander Slidell MacKenzie Peter Ramos, Buffalo State College (Never) True Romance: The Function of History and the Imagination in Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans David Lampe, Buffalo State College A Knight of Ancient Chivalry: The Last of the Mohicans as Medieval Romance 11:30 Pick up box lunches at Morris Hall 104 Afternoon in Cooperstown: Vans Leave Morris at 11:45 1:00 Cooper Society Board of Directors' Meeting Fenimore Museum Study Center 1:00-3:30 Tours of Farmers' Museum and Fenimore House 5:00 Conference Wrap-up and Reception East Veranda, Otesaga Hotel Thursday, July 16, 2009 Student Meetings (location tba) Friday, July 17, 2009 Student Meetings (location tba) Presenters Stephen Arch, Michigan State University Allan Axelrad, California State University, Fullerton Robert Daly, University at Buffalo Steven Harthorn, Williams Baptist College David Lampe, Buffalo State College F. Daniel Larkin, SUNY, College at Oneonta Hugh MacDougall, The James Fenimore Cooper Society Sarah Poulette, Boston College Peter Ramos, Buffalo State College Lance Schachterle, Worcester Polytechnic Institute James Schramer, Youngstown State University Alf Siewers, Bucknell University Matt Sivils, Iowa State University Signe O. Wegener, University of Georgia Conference & Seminar Staff Roger W. Hecht is Conference Director and Assistant Professor of English at the College at Oneonta. He is the editor of The Erie Canal Reader, 1790-1950 (2002); his poems have appeared widely in national literary magazines. He is currently researching primary material for a text on the literary products of upstate New York's Anti-Rent War. John Morsellino is Seminar Coordinator and teaches at Niagara County Community College and was nominated 2009 for the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has presented papers on Cooper at numerous conferences. His essay on Cooper is collected in Prospero's Isles: The Caribbean in the North American Imaginary (2004). Michael Pikus teaches at Niagara Community College. He received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2001. He is a long-time participant in the Cooper Conference & Seminar, has presented a number of papers on Cooper at various conference, and has chaired since 1994 the Cooper Panel at the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature at SUNY, Cortland. A special thanks is given to Dr. Richard Lee. His advice and guiding hand has been invaluable to the success of this conference.
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