Images of America
Princeton University Summer Seminar for Foreign Policy Officials
July 27 - August 17, 1997

1. ORIENTATION
7.27 Participants arrive in Princeton
Informal evening greetings and reception (7 - 9 pm) at the Nassau Inn

7.28 A.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
  • Welcomes from Sean Wilentz, director of the American Studies Program, Tom Keenan, organizer of the summer seminar, and the staff of the institute
  • General introduction to the aims and procedures of the summer institute; walk-through of syllabus and schedule; distribution of reading material
  • General orientation and administration

    NOON President's Dining Room, Prospect House

  • Lunch Reception: Welcome from Bill Bate, Chief, Branch for the Study of the U.S., U.S.I.A.

    P.M.

  • Maclean House: Orange Key tour of the campus
  • McCosh Cluster: orientation to campus computer resources by David Herrington, CIT
  • Firestone Memorial Library: orientation and tour by Mary George

    EVE Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture
    FILM The War Room (Chris Hegedus/D.A. Pennebacker, 1993) [96 mins.]

    READINGS:
    The New York Times Magazine, June 8, 1997 ("How the World Sees Us")
    Time, July 7, 1997 ("America the Inside Story")

    LINKS:
    Siskel and Ebert Movie Review



    • 2. INTRODUCTION
    7.29 AMERICA AND HISTORY
    A.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    Alan Brinkley, History, Columbia University; fellow, Russell Sage Foundation

    P.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    Lawrence Weschler, staff writer, The New Yorker

    EVE Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    FILM Independence Day (Roland Emmerich, 1996) [142 mins.]

    READINGS:

  • Lawrence Weschler, "Chapter 1: High School (1943-1946)," Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (Berkeley: U of California P, 1982) 3-21
  • Lawrence Weschler, "The Media's One and Only Freedom Story," Columbia Journalism Review (March/April 1990) 25-31
  • Lawrence Weschler, "Getting Over," The New Yorker (April 5, 1993) 4-6
  • Lawrence Weschler, "Enabling Washington," The New Yorker (December 2, 1996) 9-10

    LINKS

  • For images of some Vermeer paintings, click here and/or here.
  • Vermeer Tutorial
  • News Report on Vermeer Exhibit in Washington, DC
  • For general information on the film, type "Independence Day" on the page that appears after clicking here.
  • Official ID4 Home Page
  • Alternate Official ID4 Home Page
  • Index of ID4 Fan Home Pages

    • 7.30 AMERICAN IDEAS AND IMAGES
    A.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    Anne Norton, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

    P.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    Andrew Ross, American Studies, New York University

    EVE Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    FILM: Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins, 1992) [105 mins.]

    READINGS:

  • Langston Hughes, "Let America Be America Again" (1936) and "Freedom's Plow" (1943), The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, ed. Arnold Rampersad (NY: Vintage, 1994) 189-191, 263-268
  • Anne Norton, "Republic of Signs," Republic of Signs: Liberal Theory and American Popular Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1993) 9-45

    LINKS:

  • For general information on the film, type "Bob Roberts" on the page that appears after clicking here.
  • Official Miramax Bob Roberts Home Page
  • Tim Robbins Interview
  • Movie Review


    • 3. POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT: CLINTON VS. DOLE, 1996
    7.31 ELECTION 96: ISSUES AND IMAGES
    A.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    Stephen Hess, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.

    P.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation, New York
    Tamala Edwards, Time, Washington, DC

    EVE Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    David Rieff, author of Slaughterhouse

    READINGS:
    "Covering the 1996 Presidential Campaign," Media Studies Journal (Winter 1997)

    LINKS:

  • CBS Campaign '96 Coverage

    • 8.1 WHERE WAS THE 'REST OF THE WORLD' IN THE 1996 ELECTION?
    A.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    Roy Gutman, Newsday, Washington Bureau

    P.M.
    SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT: SHOPPING MALLS

  • Tour of local shopping malls with David Smiley, School of Architecture, Princeton University

    READINGS:

  • Roy Gutman, "Candidates Alike, Yet Worlds Apart," Newsday
  • Patrick Sloyan, Roy Gutman, and Martin Kasindorf, "Cast Changes," Newsday
  • "The Store Strikes Back," The New York Times Magazine
  • Margaret Crawford, "The World in a Shopping Mall," Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space, ed. Michael Sorkin (NY: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1992) 3-30

    LINKS:

  • International News Sources

    • 8.2 MARKETING IMAGES (WORKSHOP)
    A.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    Thomas Levin, German and Film Studies, Princeton University
    Jennifer Golub, Partner and Senior Producer, TBWA Chiat/Day,Venice, CA

    8.3 Exploring Princeton and Vicinity


    4. IDENTITY AND SOCIETY: O.J. SIMPSON AND LOS ANGELES
    8.4 RACE-GENDER-JUSTICE: THE O.J. SIMPSON TRIAL
    A.M Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    Gina Dent, English and African-American Studies, Columbia University
    Lynne Tillman, author and writer, New York

    P.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    Thomas Dumm, Political Science, Amherst College
    Neil Gotanda, Western State University College of Law
    Jennifer Hochschild, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

    EVE Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture
    FILM:

  • Falling Down (Joel Schumacher, 1993) [112 mins.]

    READINGS:

  • John Gregory Dunne, "The Simpsons," The New York Review of Books (September 22, 1994) 34-39
  • Neil Gotanda, "Tales of Two Trials: Joyce Karlin in People v. Soon Ja Du; Lance Ito in People v. O.J. Simpson," The House That Race Built: Black Americans, U.S. Terrain, ed. Wahneema Lubiano (NY: Pantheon, 1997) 66-86

    LINKS:

  • National Civil Rights Museum
  • Black Cultural Studies Pages
  • CNN OJ website
  • Court TV OJ Casefile
  • For general information on the film, type "Falling Down" on the page that appears after clicking here.
  • Siskel and Ebert Movie Review
  • The Tech Movie Review
  • IMDB Movie Review
  • Washington Post Movie Review

    • 8.5 LOS ANGELES: CITY OF DISASTERS
    A.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    Mike Davis, Southern California Institute of Architecture

    P.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    1:30 P.M.
    FILM: Sa-i-gu (Elaine Kim, 1993) [39 mins.]

    Elaine Kim, Ethnic Studies, University of California-Berkeley
    Mario Gandelsonas, School of Architecture, Princeton University
    Brenda Bright, Fellow, Getty Center for the History of Arts and the Humanities

    EVE Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture
    FILM: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) [118 mins.]

    READINGS:

  • Elaine Kim, "Home Is Where the Han Is: A Korean-American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals," Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising, ed. Robert Gooding-Williams (NY: Routledge, 1993) 215-235
  • Sumi K. Cho, "Korean Americans vs. African Americans: Conflict and Construction," Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising, ed. Robert Gooding-Williams (NY: Routledge, 1993) 196-211
  • Brenda Jo Bright, "Remappings: Los Angeles Low Riders," Looking High and Low, eds. Brenda Jo Bright and Liza Bakewell (Tucson: University of Arizona, 1995) 89-123

    LINKS:

  • LA Net
  • For general information on the film, type "Blade Runner" on the page that appears after clicking here.
  • Master Blade Runner Home Page
  • General BR Information
  • BR Image
  • More BR Information



    • 5. CULTURE AND ECONOMY: MEDIA, GLOBALIZATION, INTERNET
    8.6 THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS BUSINESS,
    with Rob Snyder, Editor, Media Studies Journal,
    at Media Studies Center, 580 Madison Avenue, New York City

    A.M.
    Leo Bogart, author of Commercial Culture
    Josh Friedman, Stacy Sullivan, Newsweek

    P.M.
    early afternoon free for visits to consulates, United Nations, etc.

    David Gelber, 60 Minutes/CBS Reports, CBS News,
    at CBS, 524 West 57th Street, New York City

    EVE
    SCREENING: Welcome to Sarajevo

    READINGS:

  • "Global Views of U.S. Media," Media Studies Journal (Fall 1995)

    LINKS:

  • Center for New Media at Columbia

    • 8.7 PICTURING THE WORLD FROM AMERICA,
    with John Santos, Education Media Arts & Culture, Ford Foundation,
    at Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, New York City

    A.M.
    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
    Robert Kaplan, author The Ends of the Earth
    James Der Derian, Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

    P.M.
    Lunch at the Ford Foundation

    Open Society Institute/Soros Foundations, 888 7th Avenue, New York
    Anthony Richter and David Rieff

    READINGS:

  • James Der Derian, "Global Swarming, Virtual Security, and Bosnia," The Washington Quarterly 19.3 (1996) 45-56
  • Robert Kaplan, "The Coming Anarchy," The Atlantic Monthly
  • Robert Kaplan, "Fort Leavenworth and the Eclipse of Nationhood," The Atlantic Monthly

    • 8.8 DEMOCRACY AND NEW MEDIA,
    with Jonathan Alter, Senior Editor, Newsweek,
    at Newsweek, 251 West 57th Street, New York City

    A.M.
    Gary Wolf, Executive Editor, HotWired
    Stanley Katz, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

    P.M.
    Afternoon free

    READINGS:

  • Kevin Kelley, "Network Economics" and "E-Money," Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization (NY: Addison-Wesley, 1994) 184-229
  • "Cyberporn," Newsweek

    LINKS:

  • "Journoporn," HotWired
  • Cyberporn Debate
  • The Cyberporn Report



    • 6. FOREIGN POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: GOVERNMENT, MEDIA, AND OTHER ACTORS
    8.9 P.M.
    Travel to Washington, D.C.

    EVE
    Free to explore Washington

    LINKS:

  • International Relations Archive
  • Foreign Policy Archive

    • 8.10 A.M.
    Tour of monuments and city by Akram Elias

    P.M.
    Free for further exploration

    8.11 A.M. Department of State, 2201 C Street NW
    Presentation by Deputy Spokesperson James Foley, Bureau of Public Affairs

    Free time to meet with State Department Desk Officers

    P.M.
    State Department daily press briefing, Jamie Rubin

    AIMS OF FOREIGN POLICY AND IMPACT OF MEDIA ON ITS SHAPING AND SUCCESS,
    at USIA Foreign Press Center, National Press Building

    Warren Strobel, The Washington Times, author of Late Breaking Foreign Policy
    Jose Carreno, El Universal
    Susan Bennett, USA Today
    Eddie Lachica, Asian Wall Street Journal

    Reception at Foreign Press Center

    8.12 A.M. School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS),
    Rome Building, 1690 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Room 806
    THE GLOBALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY AND ITS EFFECTS ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
    Claude Barfield, AEI
    Kimberly Elliott, IIE
    David Fernandez, SAIS

    P.M. The Pentagon
    Weekly press briefing at the Pentagon, Kenneth Bacon, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)

    MILITARY-MEDIA RELATIONS
    Clifford H. Bernath, Principal Deputy Spokesperson

    8.13 A.M.
    THE WASHINGTON POLITICAL SCENE,
    at Room 550, USIA, 301 Fourth Avenue, SW
    Welcome by Robert Earle, Counselor, U.S.I.A.
    Jonathan Rauch, National Journal

    ISSUES OF FOREIGN POLICY ON CAPITAL HILL,
    at Room 1539, Longworth House Office Building
    Chris Madison, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
    Hillel Weinberg, House International Relations Committee
    Andy Semmel, office of Senator Lugar
    Charisse Espy, office of Representative Payne

    P.M.
    Time free for individual appointments [arranged by USIA desk officers]

    EVE
    White House VIP Tour

    8.14 A.M. Room 560, USIA, 301 Fourth Street, SW
    LOBBYING, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND BUSINESS
    Tom Warrick, Counsel, Coalition for International Justice

    INTERNATIONALISM AND NEW NATIONALISM
    Bruce Robbins, English, Rutgers University

    P.M. Room 600, 1220 Nineteenth Street, NW
    Visit with Michael Kelly and other editors of The New Republic

    Leave for Princeton

    8.15 A.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    Concluding remarks by Institute directors and general discussion on lessons learned

    P.M. Room 8, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School
    Further summaries and conclusions, including institute evaluations and exit interviews

    8.16, 8.17 Depart Princeton