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Agenda,
Speakers, and Special Events
The official timing of events for the Symposium will be
posted in early August. However, the conference will run
from the morning of Friday, September 9, through the afternoon
of Sunday, September 11, 2005. Preconference tours will
be offered on Thursday, September 8, and postconference
tours will be offered on Sunday, September 11. There will
also be a preconference session offered in the afternoon
of Thursday, September 8, on Using Springsteen in the Classroom.
AGENDA
SPEAKERS
Featured speakers include:
Dave Marsh
Frank Stefanko
Barbara Hall
Gretchen Peters
Daniel Wolff
Robert Santelli
Colleen Sheehy
Craig Werner
Bobbie Ann Mason
Joe Grushecky
Greg Tate
Marta Renzi
Featured
sessions include:
Bruce
Springsteen and the Creation of Community
Bruce Springsteen and Storytelling Panel
New Jersey Music Critics Panel
Bruce Springsteen and Catholicism Panel
Ethnic Diversity Panel
A Conversation
with Frank Stefanko
A Walk Down E Street
Bruce Springsteen and the Vietnam Veterans Movement
His City of Ruins
Speaker abstracts:
More than 150 presenters will be speaking at the conference.
To view the abstracts, please click here.
The schedule of when these presentations will occur will
be posted on the web site in early August. They will occur
throughout the three days of the conference.
"Over
three decades into his remarkable career, Bruce Springsteen
has become a major figure in American cultural life. This
conference will honor as well as explore his impact, and
represents one of a number of important ways (along with
concert going, music collecting, and other rituals of
participation) through which his still-growing legion
of admirers can make sense of his work."
--Jim Cullen, author of "Born in the USA: Bruce
Springsteen and the American Tradition" (to be reissued
in a second edition in Spring 2005)
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