The 2012 October Conference for Teachers
Teaching Through the Lens of Race, Class & Gender
Thursday and Friday, October 11 - 12, 2012
Please join us at our 55th annual October Conference for Teachers - a professional development opportunity in social studies education. The 2012 conference will take place in Cooperstown, New York, on Thursday, October 11 and Friday, October 12.
Each session will offer historical content based lecture plus pedagogy. Attendees will receive document packets and/or activity plans to use in the classroom! Thursday evening features a showing of the film, “The Conspirator,” followed by a Q&A session by the film’s historical advisor, Kate Clifford Larson. Conference sessions will be offered on Friday.
Download Registration Form here
Thursday, October 11:
Welcome 6:30pm Fenimore Auditorium
Showing of “The Conspirator,” concerning the Lincoln assassination conspiracy and Mary
Surratt; followed by Q&A with Kate Clifford Larson, the film’s historic advisor.
Friday, October 12:
Session 1 Offerings: 9:00am -10:30 am
●How to Read Art and Use it in the Classroom (William Matthew Prior Exhibition)-Laura Nichols (Art Educator)
●Civic Engagement in a Democratic Society- Julie Daniels (NYS Archives) Josie Madison (Educator)
●Using Municipal Records: Finding and Using Them with Students (Matthew Urtz, Madison County Historian)
Session 2 Offerings: 10:45 am-12:00 pm
●Native American Culture as a Teaching Tool/Tour of Otsego: A Meeting Place, interpretive site-Eva Fognell, Curator of the Eugene V. and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art at the Fenimore Art Museum
●The Uplifting of the Race; The Role of the USCT in the Civil War and its Historical Context in The Advancement of African American Rights- Harry Bradshaw Matthews, Associate Dean and Director of the U.S. Pluralism Center at Hartwick College
●New York Council for the Humanities: Conversations Bureau - The Gettysburg Address Challenges America, A Conversation by David Carlyon
12:15 pm-1:30 pm Louis C. Jones Center, The Farmers’ Museum
Keynote: "Catch me if you can": Facing the challenges of sharing new interpretations and recent historical finds about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Kate Clifford Larson
1:45-2:45 pm, Fenimore Auditorium
Lily Among the Thorns: The Repatriation of Kateri Tekahkwi:tha, Darren Bonaparte
Darren Bonaparte (Photo by Wendy Stevenson)
Conference Registration includes free admission
to the Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers’ Museum
2012 Exhibitions:
-Tasha Tudor Around the Tear
-Internal Landscapes: The Paintings of G.C. Myers
-On the Homefront: New York in the Civil War
-A Lineage of Iroquois Artistry
-To Great Acclaim: Homecoming of the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art
-Artist & Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed
Permanent Exhibitions:
-American Memory: Recalling the Past in Folk Art
-Paintings of American Life
-The Cooper Family Collection
-Otsego: A Meeting Place (Native American interpretive site)
Accommodations:
Holiday Inn Express (Cooperstown)
(607) 547-8000. For reservations give code “NCT.” $77 per night for 10/10 & 10/11 (weekend rates apply for 10/12)
Call for this rate by October 1st.
