“The Land of Steady Innovation: Connecticut and the New” was held at Southern Connecticut State University on November 5, 2016.
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- ASCH Fall 2016 Conference
Opening plenary 9:00 to 9:30 EN B121 A-B
Welcome: Nancy Steenburg, President, ASCH
Troy Paddock ,History Department, Southern Connecticut State University
Presentation of Homer D. Babbidge, Jr., Betty M. Linsley, and Bruce Fraser Awards: Eugene Leach, Trinity College
Break 9:30 to 9:45
Concurrent Session I 9:45 to 11:15
Panel 1: Innovations in Medicine and Mental Health EN B121 A-B
Chair: Mark Jones Connecticut State Library retired
Lawrence Goodheart, University of Connecticut: “Insane Acquittees and Insane Convicts: The Rationalization of Policy in 19th-Century Connecticut”
Emily Leonard, Trinity College: “Beyond Bedlam: The Hartford Retreat: Connecticut’s Singular Contribution to Mental Health”
Allen Ramsey, Connecticut State Library: “Jean Kieffer: Inventor of the Kieffer Laminagraph X-Ray Machine to “See Around Bones”
Panel 2: Activism and Social/Cultural innovations EN C112
Chair: Stephen Amerman, Southern Connecticut State University
Rebecca A. R. Edwards, Rochester Institute of Technology: “Education as Innovation: The Case of the American School for the Deaf”
Steven S. Berizzi, Norwalk Community College : “John Brown: From the Land of Steady Habits to the “Meteor” of the Civil War”
Evan Turiano, City University of New York: “‘Every Effort and Sacrifice:’ Reverend James W. C. Pennington and Community Improvement Activism in Hartford’s African American Community, 1840-1841”
Buffet Luncheon 11:30 to 1:00 EN B121 A-B
Concurrent Session II 1:00 to 3:00
Panel 3: Innovation in the Arts EN B121 A-B
Chair: Guocun Yang, Manchester Community College
Martha LoMonaco, Fairfield University: “Bridgeport: Theater Mecca U.S.A.”
George Lechner, University of Hartford: “War and Anti-War in the Art of Kerr Eby”
Stephen T. Shymansky, Fairfield University: “The Federal Theater Project: Hartford, Connecticut and the ‘Living Newspaper’ Stars and Bars”
Panel 4: Innovation in technology and manufacturing EN C112
Chair: Siobhan Carter-David, Southern Connecticut State University
Janet M. Conner, Avon Historical Society: “Farmington Textile Milling Operations: the Transition from Domestic Manufacturers to Innovative Manufactories”
Robert Foley, Independent historian: “Gustave Whitehead: Connecticut’s Aviation Pioneer”
Kristen Keegan, Fairfield University: “Cleaning Up: The Progressive-Era Laundry Revolution in Connecticut”
Robert Klancko and Dan Wizneski, Housatonic Community College: “Three Years of Recognizing and Identifying Connecticut’s Innovation and Invention Leaders”
Closing Reception 3:00 to 3:30 EN C112