2004 Conference Sound Files
Conference 2004
Becoming American / Maintaining Identity
A Community Conference on Newcomers, Neighbors, & Social Networks
Downloadable mp3 sound files. Please be patient while downloading. These are large files.
These files may be downloaded and opened with any mp3 player or software capable of playing mp3s (iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.).
Welcome (4:40 minutes / approx. 2 megs)
Lawrence Yerdon - President, Strawbery Banke Museum
Thaddeus Guldbrandsen - Director,
Center for the Study of Community
New Directions for Understanding
Migration and Community (17:59 minutes / approx. 7 megabytes)
Nina Glick Shiller - UNH Anthropology
Thaddeus Guldbrandsen - UNH Anthropology &
Center for the Study of Community
Panel 1: Newcomers, Neighbors & Networks in New England - 1880-1920 (Intro) (4:03 minutes / approx. 2 megabytes)
Black Portsmouth (20:54 minutes / approx. 9 megabytes)
Valerie Cunningham - African American Resource Center
Mark Sammons - Wentworth Coolidge Mansion
Migrants, Immigrants & Yankees in the Piscataqua (30:12 minutes / approx. 13 megabytes)
Martha Pinello - Strawbery Banke Museum
French Canadian Migration (12:25 minutes / approx. 6 megabytes)
John Tousignant - Association Canado-Américaine
Chinese Migration & Chinese Exclusion Act (30:43 minutes / approx. 13 megabytes)
Gary Libby - Attorney at Law, Portland, ME
Panel 2: Contemporary Issues Facing Newcomers in New England
Somali Migration in Lewiston-Auburn
The USA Patriot Act, Civil Liberties & Civil Rights (28:25 minutes / approx. 12 megabytes)
Behzad Mirhashem - Attorney, NH Public Defender
The Immigrant Drivers License Debate on NH (20 minutes / approx. 8 megabytes)
NH Immigrant Rights Coalition
Theo Amani on the Contemporary Experience of Immigration in New Hampshire (25:10 minutes / approx. 10 megabytes)
Concluding Remarks (6:54 minutes / approx. 3 megabytes)
David Watters - Center for New England Culture