Study Tour Schedule / Topic

„Immigration and Ethnicity“

Study Tour to the Upper Midwest of the United States, 15 September – 2 October, 2009
organized by the American Studies Institutes of the University of Leipzig, Germany and of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Tentative Schedule


Tuesday, September 15
Departure from Leipzig: 9:15 am, from Kraków: 6:15 am, arrival Chicago O’Hare: 5:01 and 5:15 pm; students from Kraków and Leipzig meet at the airport after formalities with Homeland Security. Transfer to Chinatown Hotel.

Wednesday, September 16
Session at the History Department, University of Chicago; discussion with Professor Kathleen Neils Conzen on historical immigration patterns to the rural and urban centers in the Midwest; talk by Professor Michael Conzen on the effects of changing patterns of mass immigration on Chicago’s metropolitan geography

Thursday, September 17
9:30-11 am: Professor Lewis Erenberg, Loyola University: “American popular entertainment, popular music, and sports as a meeting ground for diverse peoples,” Room 528 of Crown Center on the Loyola University Lake Shore Campus
1-2:45 pm: Visit to a neighborhood elementary school on Chicago’s Northwest Side organized by Professor Susan Hirsch, Loyola University; discussion with teachers and students, Swift Specialty School, 5900 N .Winthrop

Friday, September 18
Polish American Association
City of Chicago: issues of integration
LULAC
Minority students at University of Illinois

Saturday, September 19
10 am: Dominic Pacyga: tour of Chicago’s ethnic neighbor¬ hoods
In between: lunch in an ethnic restaurant
End of tour: about 3 PM

National Urban League, NAACP
Journalists at Chicago Defender
Jazz session

Sunday, September 20
11:15 am: Service at The Faith Community of St.Sabina Parish, 1210 West 78th Place, Chicago, IL 60620
Rest of day: free time

Monday, September 21
10 am: Meeting with President and staff of the “Chicago Defender”

Joint meeting with Polish and German Consul Generals and J.D. Bindenagel, former Ambassador of the U.S. to Germany
Visit of Hull House and the Haymarket, with Leon Fink (University of Illinois, director of the project “History of Work, Race, and Gender in the Urban World”)
Michael Perman: Obama presidency and African American identity
Museum

Tuesday, September 22
Jan Lorys, Polish Museum of America
Polish National Alliance


Wednesday, September 23
Pick-up of vans at 9:00 am; drive to Madison/Wisconsin

Thursday, September 24
Joel Salmons (Director of the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures): language maintenance in rural communities
recent findings of work on German immigrants
cartographing ethnic maps; paper on Frisian-speaking communities

Friday, September 25
Visit of Hustisford, a rural ethnic community in Dodge County
Center for European Studies
Max Kade Institute (Director Cora Lee Kluge)

Saturday, September 26
Drive to Minneapolis/St. Paul; on the way: visit of a Native American reservation

Sunday, September 27
Church service
2-4 pm: Weisman Museum: Exhibit on the Somali Diaspora
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Native American)
Shopping Mall

Monday, September 28 Yom Kippur!
1-2:30 pm: Immigration History Research Center: current immigration research, Donna Gabaccia
cavern/storage areas
3:30 pm: guided walk through the Somali neighborhood
7 p.m. in 120 Andersen Library: Bruno Ramirez's short video "Sempre, Rudi"


Tuesday, September 29
10 am: Erica Lee, Asian-American Studies
1:30 pm: American Studies Department: immigrant cultures and identities, Elaine Tyler May and colleagues, American Studies commons in Scott Hall, University of Minnesota
3:30 pm: Dan Detzner: Somali and East African Community

Wednesday, September 30
Native American Community
American Indian Movement
American Indian Development and Policy Centers

Native American neighborhood associations
Minneapolis American Indian Center: Ginew Gold Eagle Youth Program

Thursday, October 1
Departure from Minneapolis: Polish group at 11:20 am, German group at 3:34 pm

Friday, October 2
Arrival