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Princeton
University Office of Communications Princeton University hosts meeting on cultural conflict in the United StatesPRINCETON NJ -- Princeton University's Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies is hosting a two day event on October 11 and 12 to explore the past and present of cultural conflict in the United States. The event is intended to highlight a three-year project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. It opens with a public forum at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 11 titled, "Culture, Contention, and Conflict: An Historical Perspective." The forum will be held in Bowl 016 Robertson Hall on the Princeton University campus. The public forum is a panel discussion meant to provide
an historical context to contemporary battles over artistic
expression and cultural and moral values. The panelists
include: Stanley N. Katz, director of the Center for Arts
and Cultural Policy Studies; Gerald Graff, professor of
English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author
of Beyond the Culture War: How Teaching the Conflicts Can
Revitalize American Education; Michael Kammen, professor of
history at Cornell University and author of Contested
Values: Democracy and Diversity in American Culture; and
Nell Irvin Painter, professor of history at Princeton
University and author of Southern History Across the Color
Line and the forthcoming Creating Black Americans (Oxford
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