Schedule of Events

THURSDAY 9 APRIL

5:30PM Welcome with refreshments, Armstrong Great Hall

6:15PM Keynote Panel Discussion: What happened at Ludlow and Why? Max Kade Theater (3rd floor of Armstrong Hall)

7:30PM Adjourn for dinner

FRIDAY 10 APRIL

9:00AM Coffee and continental breakfast, Armstrong Hall room #319

10:00AM Panel Discussion: Writing About Ludlow, Max Kade Theater

11:00AM Breakout workshop sessions

12:00PM Break for Lunch

1:30PM Panel Discussion: Teaching Ludlow, Max Kade Theater

2:30PM Breakout workshop sessions

4:15PM Wine reception, Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies (Dern House)

5:30PM Adjourn for dinner

SATURDAY 11 APRIL

8:30AM Trip to Ludlow! Depart east side of Armstrong Hall on a coach bus with symposium participants. Tour the Ludlow battlefield and nearby sites. Visit the grave of Louis Tikas in Trinidad. Trip cost: $10. Box lunch available for $6.50.

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The Symposium

Since news of southern Colorado Coal strikes first made national headlines in the early twentieth century, writers have put accounts, stories, interpretations, and memories into writing in the press, in photographs, in poetry, in monographs. Writers have called the Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914, which effectively ended the southern Colorado Coal war, the bloodiest labor conflict in American history. What it meant to immigrant laborers, to corporate barons, soldiers and ordinary businesspeople has been of grave importance to the nation, though for a time it seemed the events and their implications would go forgotten. Recently, the Ludlow Massacre has engendered a series of books—academic, journalistic, poetic, fictional—that are bringing events and the arguments about them back into light. This symposium on Ludlow will raise questions about what actually happened on that day (and before and after), how we know, how we tell the tale. In panel discussions and workshops the symposium will ask us to deal with narrations of events, problems in teaching histories, and writing about Ludlow.

Speakers Include

• Thomas Andrews—Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado Denver. Author of Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (2008) • Anne Hyde—Professor of History and Director of Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies, Colorado College. • Scott Martelle—Journalist. Author of Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West (2008) • David Mason—Professor of English, Colorado College. Author of Ludlow, a verse novel (2007) • Maria Montoya—Associate Professor of History, New York University. Author of Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840–1940 (2002). At work on a book on the Colorado Fuel & Iron, Co.. • Zeese Papanikolas—Writer. Author of Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre (1991)

At Colorado College April 9–11 2009, On Writing and Teaching Histories of the Ludlow Massacre

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