ASSOCIATION OF CENTERS FOR THE STUDY OF CONGRESS |
ACSC Annual Meeting – May 13-15, 2015
May 13, 2015 Wednesday |
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Noon |
Check-In |
12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
1:30 p.m. |
Announcement of Election Results Welcome by Program Committee Welcome by Incoming ACSC President |
2:00 p.m. |
Session 1: Keynote – Andrew Rich, Executive Secretary, Truman Scholarship Foundation – Think Tanks and the War of Ideas |
2:45 p.m. |
Break |
3:00 p.m. |
Session 2: Demo of “Bill of Rights” App – Charles Flanagan, Center for Legislative Archives, NARA
Tour of “Spirited Republic: Alcohol in American History”– |
4:00 p.m. |
Session 3: Business Meeting Introduce Officers and Committee Chairs Introduce Winners of Scholarships and Awards Membership Report Preview Executive Committee Agenda and Potential Membership Action Items News Roundup from Members |
5:30 p.m. |
Adjourn |
May 14, 2015 Thursday |
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8:00 a.m. |
Executive Committee Meeting |
8:30 a.m. |
Coffee and Danish |
9:00 a.m. |
Session 4: You’ve Got a Friend in Me: Passion and Purpose in Congressional Collections Debbie Davendonis-Todd (Moderator), Bob Bullock Archivist, W.R. Poage Legislative Library, Baylor University Clarissa Unger, Development Coordinator, Dole Institute of Politics David Cortes, Development Officer, Baylor University Fowler West, Staff Director for Congressman Poage, 1969-1971 |
10:00 a.m. |
Break |
10:15 a.m. |
Session 5: Assembling, Amplifying, Ascending: A Roundtable Discussion about Women in Congress Since the 1980s Matthew Wasniewski (Moderator), Historian, U.S. House of Representatives Eva Clayton (D-North Carolina) Connie Morella (R-Maryland) |
11:45 P.M. |
Lunch |
1:00 P.M. |
Session 6: Jump In! Electronic Congressional Records Edition Laura Litwer (Moderator), Digital Initiatives Archivist, South Carolina Political Collections, University of South Carolina Mark Evans, History Associates, Inc., Director of Digital Archives, Interim Director of Information Resources Management Service Matt Stahl, U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Alison White, Deputy Archivist, U.S. Senate |
2:00 P.M. |
Break |
2:15 P.M. |
Session 7: Research in Congressional Holdings James Wyatt (Moderator), Director of Programs and Research, Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, Shepherd University Neal Allen, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wichita State University Katherine A. Scott, Assistant Historian, U.S. Senate Historical Office |
3:15 P.M. |
Break |
3:30 P.M. |
Session 8: Business Meeting Action Items for Membership Vote Treasurer’s Report Budget Items Brought from the Executive Committee President’s Report Next Year’s Annual Meeting Host and Dates Preview of Continuing or Upcoming Projects Open Discussion |
5:00 P.M. |
Adjourn |
6:30 P.M. |
Dinner at Clyde’s |
May 15, 2015 Friday |
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8:30 A.M. |
Coffee and Danish |
9:00 A.M. |
Session 9: The Great Society Congress: An Online Exhibition James Wyatt, Director of Programs and Research, Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, Shepherd University Danielle Emerling, Assistant Librarian, Manuscripts and Archives Department, University of Delaware Library Debbie Davendonis-Todd, Bob Bullock Archivist, W.R. Poage Legislative Library, Baylor University Hope Grebner, Political Papers Archivist, Drake University Archives and Special Collections
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10:15 A.M. |
Break |
10:30 A.M. |
Session 10: Oral History Collections and the Voting Rights Act Donald A. Ritchie (Moderator), Historian, U.S. Senate Jacqueline Burns, Historical Publications Specialist, Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives |
11:45 A.M. |
Lunch Executive Committee meeting [if necessary] |
12:45 P.M. |
Conference Ends |