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New York University Multinational Institute of American Studies UK Summer Institute on American Civilization THE RECONCILIATION OF AMERICAN DIVERSITY WITH NATIONAL UNITY Sunday, June 21 Arrival 3:00 – 5:00 Tour of NYU: Visit the libraries, sports facilities, book stores, computer banks, University eating facilities, Kimmel Center for University Life, etc. Monday, June 22 9:00 - 12:00 Administrative Orientation Disbursement of per diem allowances, registration at NYU I.D. Center, and receive accounts and/or travelers checks at Citibank. 2:00 – 5:00 New York Architecture, Urban Design and Community Planning Tour of Mid-Town Manhattan and lecture by Carol Krinsky, Professor, Art History, NYU. The tour will begin at Grand Central Terminal, a building which reflected a new appreciation of the importance of integrating architectural design with the needs of a booming urban community, and end at Rockefeller Center, a complex that is still regarded as one of the finest examples of urban planning in the world. The focus of this tour will be local zoning regulations, the impact of technology on city planning, and the achievements of private enterprise. 7:00 - 9:00 Opening Reception Pless Hall Lounge, 82 Washington Square East Assigned Reading: Thomas Bender, “Strategies of Narrative Synthesis in American History,” American Historical Review (February 2002), pp. 129-153; Heinz Ickstadt, “American Studies in an Age of Globalization,” American Quarterly 54.4 (2002) 543-562; Paul Giles and R.J. Elis, “E Pluribus Multitudium: The New World of Journal Publishing in American Studies,” American Quarterly 57.4 (2005). Suggested Readings: Robert J. Berkhofer, Jr.,“A new Context for American Studies,” American Quarterly 41 (1989); Stephen H. Sumida, “Where in the World is American Studies,” American Quarterly 55.3 (2003), 333-351; Joel Pfister, “The Americanzation of Cultural Studies,” Yale Journal of Cr