\nBucknell<\/i> University<\/i><\/p>\n
Elaine Langone Center Terrace Room<\/p>\n
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 7:00 pm<\/p>\n
ENGL 290 – JONESTOWN RECONSIDERED<\/i>:<\/p>\n
A STUDENT RESPONSE PROJECT<\/i><\/p>\n
On November 18, 1978, more than 900 Americans died in Jonestown, in the small South American country of Guyana. A U.S. Congressman was assassinated on a remote airstrip, along with 4 Journalists who were shot and killed. A woman slit her three children’s throats and then her own, and hundreds of men, women and children died in what appeared to be the largest mass suicide in history. Many ask and argue: was it suicide or murder?<\/p>\n
Sixteen of us in English 290, have studied the history of Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, focused on characters, events, questions of religion, race, poverty, power, civil rights, sexuality, aspiration, identity, read narratives spanning the 1950s through the 70s, and attended lectures by survivors, victims’ relatives, and concerned artists.<\/p>\n
We thank you for being here tonight to share some of our responses to Jonestown and Peoples Temple.<\/p>\n
Heidi Schuerger: METHODISM, SOCIALISM AND JONESTOWN:\u00a0REFLECTIONS ON FAMILY & SEARCH FOR COMMUNITY<\/p>\n
Eli Evans: \u00a0OUT OF THE DARKNESS, AWAY FROM THE FEAR:\u00a0IMAGINED SERMONS CONTRASTED WITH JIM JONES’ SERMONS<\/p>\n
Kiara Huertes: THINGS WE’D LIKE TO BELIEVE ABOUT JIM JONES<\/p>\n
Allison Friedlander: A READING FROM “THE BOOK OF MARCELINE”<\/p>\n
Allison Wright: \u00a0CLAIRE JANARO:\u00a0SURVIVING JONESTOWN, BEFORE AND AFTER<\/p>\n
Jack Chen: IMAGINING: I WAS TIM STOEN<\/p>\n
Chloe Drennen and Jess Gunther:\u00a0JOHN VICTOR STOEN:\u00a0A CASUALTY OF JIM JONES’ QUEST FOR POWER<\/p>\n
Brandon Farrell: BOB HOUSTON: A QUESTIONABLE DEATH<\/p>\n
Jess Gunther and Tim Bergen:\u00a0LEO RYAN: A TRAGIC HERO<\/p>\n
Meghan Carroll: A BROKEN BOND: MARIA KATSARIS AND HER FATHER<\/p>\n
Matt Liguori: KATSARIS<\/p>\n
Jack Chen: THE DEVELOPMENT OF STEPHAN JONES<\/p>\n
Kate VanNess: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: JIM JONES AND STEPHAN JONES<\/p>\n
Ben Barrett: STEPHAN JONES: JIM JONES GREATEST OPPOSITION \u2013 HIS SON<\/p>\n
Ashlyn Trimmer: LEO RYAN: INTENTIONS OF THE INNOCENT<\/p>\n
Matt Liguori: THE WAY THAT WE DIED<\/p>\n
Kiara Huertes: THE AFTERMATH OF JONESTOWN: A FOUND POEM<\/p>\n
Ben Barrett and Chloe Drennen: CHRISTINE MILLER: HEROISM IN THE FACE OF MURDER<\/p>\n
Kiara Huertes: CHRISTINE MILLER AT JONESTOWN<\/p>\n
Allison Friedlander: SURVIVORS: HYACINTH THRASH AND ODELL RHODES<\/p>\n
Meghan Carroll: LOST VOICES: THE CHILDREN<\/p>\n
Julianne Mammana: THE LAST DAY<\/p>\n
Entire class: EPILOGUE<\/p>\n
Jonestown Class Response Project Director: Professor Bob Gainer<\/p>\n
ITEC Team: Debra Sarlin, Brianna Derr and Debra Cook-Balducci<\/p>\n
Technical Directors: Jeffrey Campbell and George Lincoln<\/p>\n
Technical Associate: Aaron Diebler-Gorman<\/p>\n
Interim Assistant Director of The Griot Institute: Rebecca Willoughby<\/p>\n
Griot Institute Assistant: Rebecca Gaffron<\/p>\n
Elaine Langone Center Staff: Gina Stockdale, Mary Schramm and the ELC Custodial staff<\/ul>\n
Special Thanks to:<\/b><\/p>\n Fielding M. McGehee III – for his “Jonestown Institute: Alternate Considerations of Jonestown” Digital Website, an ongoing online repository for Jonestown scholarly studies created and housed at San Diego State University. Mr. McGehee’s website (and generous communication with us throughout the semester) has served as a major source of information and stimulation for the students in the ENGL 290 course.<\/p>\n Professor Rebecca Willoughby \u2013 for her facilitation of many course and lecture series components<\/p>\n Professor Shara McCallum \u2013 for her essential support on this endeavor<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bucknell University Elaine Langone Center Terrace Room Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 7:00 pm ENGL 290 – JONESTOWN RECONSIDERED: A STUDENT RESPONSE PROJECT On November 18, 1978, more than 900 Americans died in Jonestown, in the small South American country of Guyana. A U.S. Congressman was assassinated on a remote airstrip, along with 4 Journalists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":40138,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41137,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40160\/revisions\/41137"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Professor Carmen Gillespie – for her inspiration in conceiving both this ENGL 290 course and project, and for envisioning the Griot Institute’s complementary “Jonestown Reconsidered: Lecture Series.”<\/p>\n