2004 Conference Schedule
Conference 2004
Becoming American / Maintaining Identity
A Community Conference on Newcomers, Neighbors, & Social Networks
Friday October 15, 2004
Strawbery Banke Museum
10:00 - 5:00 pm
Oral History Recording Room (pre registration required)
1:00 pm - 4 :00 pm
Building Partnerships and Celebrating Our Work with
Multicultural Audiences:
Cooperative Extension
Workshop -
Charlie French, & Others
This workshop is targeted towards staff from agencies and organizations, as well as community leaders that serve multicultural audiences, particularly individuals & families who are recent arrivals to the United States. The goal of the workshop provide ideas for building collaborative networks that will help service-providers to strengthen networks and outreach to multicultural audiences. The following is the workshop agenda: Alan Robichaud, Director of the Belknap County Citizens Council, will outline through stories how the Council built partnerships to enhance service provision to county residents.
Umija Gusinac, who immigrated to the United States years ago, will talk about her work in building partnerships to help provide services for new immigrants (and not- so-recent immigrants) in the Laconia area.
A panel of diverse individuals from New Hampshire organizations and agencies will talk about their experiences building effective partnerships to serve multicultural au- diences.
Charlie French, Community Development Specialist with UNH Cooperative Extension, will outline practical tips for building collaboration to enhance work with multicultural audiences.
2.00 pm - 3:00 pm
Memoir Writing Workshop - Jan Marx
3.00 pm - 5:30 pm
Strawberry Banke Museum Migration Tours
Martha Pinello, Sherry Brandsma & Others
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm
Americanization vs. Academic Success: Lao American
Youths in a NH High School
Monica Chiu, UNH English
5:00 pm - 6.00 pm
Reception with light refreshments - Open to all!
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Music & Migration Accordion Performance & Lecture
by Gary Sredzienski
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Community Campus
9:00 am - 9:30 am - Refreshments
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Welcome
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Lawrence Yerdon - President, Strawbery Banke Museum
Thaddeus Guldbrandsen - Director,
Center for the Study of Community
9:45 am - 10:15 am
New Directions for Understanding
Migration and Community
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Nina Glick Shiller - UNH Anthropology
Thaddeus Guldbrandsen - UNH Anthropology &
Center for the Study of Community
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Panel 1: Newcomers, Neighbors & Networks
in New England - 1880-1920
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Black Portsmouth
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Valerie Cunningham - African American Resource Center
Mark Sammons - Wentworth Coolidge Mansion
Migrants, Immigrants & Yankees in the Piscataqua
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Martha Pinello - Strawbery Banke Museum
French Canadian Migration
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John Tousignant - Association Canado-Américaine
Chinese Migration & Chinese Exclusion Act
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Gary Libby - Attorney at Law, Portland, ME
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Lunch (Posters & Displays)
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Panel 2: Contemporary Issues Facing Newcomers in New England
Somali Migration in Lewiston-Auburn
The USA Patriot Act, Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
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Behzad Mirhashem - Attorney, NH Public Defender
The Immigrant Drivers License Debate on NH
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NH Immigrant Rights Coalition
Theo Amani on the Contemporary Experience of Immigration in New Hampshire
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Community Forum
4.00 pm - 4:15 pm
Concluding Remarks
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David Watters - Center for New England Culture
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm - Reception
Association Canado-Américaine (Section Voyageurs) will present French Canadian Folk Music