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September 28, 2005
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WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY TO PRESENT CONFERENCE ON THE URBAN, SUBURBAN, AND RURAL IDEALS THAT HAVE SHAPED NEW JERSEY’S UNIQUE IDENTITY ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 17
—A Panel Discussion with New Jersey State Senator Nia H. Gill, Mayor Scott Rumana and Mayor Jose Torres moderated by Michael Aron of New Jersey Network
—Commentary by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martini
A conference addressing New Jersey’s overlapping urban, suburban, and rural ideals and constituencies will be held on Monday, October 17, 2005 at William Paterson University, 1600 Valley Road building, Wayne, N.J., from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The conference, titled “Urban and Suburban Identities in New Jersey Politics and Culture” will explore the development of New Jersey’s unique identity. Participants will learn measures that local government may take to mediate tensions between suburban and urban New Jersey communities, and distinguish the impact of alternative plans for solving New Jersey’s socioeconomic problems.
Michael H. Ebner, author of Becoming Nicholas Martini in Twentieth Century America: A Passaic Story, will speak from 9:15 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Ebner is the A.B. Dick Professor of History at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, IL, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1974.
Lizabeth Cohen, author of The Heartland of the Consumers’ Republic: New Jersey’s Landscape of Mass Consumption, and professor of history at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, will speak from 10:15 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
William J. Martini, a United States District Court Judge who has held elected offices in Clifton and Passaic County, will follow with comments. Martini helped to provide support for the conference and has donated the archives of Nicholas Martini to the University.
Questions will be taken from the audience from 11:15 to noon. Lunch will be served from noon to 1 p.m. at the Valley Road Café.
From 1 to 2:30 p.m., New Jersey State Senator Nia H. Gill (D-Dist. 34), Scott Rumana, mayor of Wayne, Jose Torres, mayor of Paterson, and Michael Thompson, assistant professor of political science, William Paterson University, will discuss the pragmatic realities and challenges of growth and sustainability faced by 21st century Garden State residents. Michael Aron, a senior political correspondent for the New Jersey Network and co-host and producer for “Reporters Roundtable with Michael Aron,” will serve as moderator.
Cohen has written numerous essays that range from urban, social, and political history to material and popular culture in the last century. She is the author of Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (Cambridge University Press: 1990; paperback, 1992), for which she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 and a winner of the Bancroft Prize for Distinguished Work in American History from Columbia University. She is also the co-author, with David M. Kennedy, of the textbook The American Pageant: A History of the Republic. At Harvard, Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the history department and American civilization program.
Ebner has written widely on aspects of American history for learned publications in North America, England, Germany, and Israel. He is best known as the author of the prize-winning book, Creating Chicago's North Shore, A Suburban History (University of Chicago Press, 1988). He is currently a member of the editorial boards of Planning Perspectives (UK) and Journal of Urban History; he also is the founder and co-chair of the Urban History Seminar of The Chicago Historical Society, established in 1983.
Martini served as assistant prosecutor for Hudson County, as an assistant U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey, and as a commissioner for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He has also held elective office as councilman for the city of Clifton, a Passaic County freeholder, and a U.S. Representative in the 104th Congress (1995-1997). He also worked for several years as an attorney in private practice, and is the nephew of Nicholas Martini, the former mayor of Passaic.
The registration fee is $40 per person. For additional information on the conference, visit www.wpunj.edu/cedl, or for information about registration contact Iris DiMaio at 973-720-2491 or via email at DiMaiol@wpunj.edu.
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