This document outlines the agenda for the SAFA Summer Fellowship Symposium held on July 11, 2013 at the Brooklyn Historical Society. The symposium featured presentations by college students and faculty on research conducted using the Gabriel Furman papers in the Brooklyn Historical Society archives. Presentation topics included Furman's influence on Brooklyn's built environment, political development in the US, and his whimsical side as shown through poems and myths. The day concluded with thanks from SAFA fellow Hannah Brown.

1. SAFA Summer
Fellowship
Symposium
Students and Faculty in the Archives
Thursday, July 11, 2013

2. Welcome
Deborah Schwartz, BHS President
Julie Golia, SAFA Co-Director
Robin M. Katz, SAFA Co-Director
Lauren Onifer, Fellowship Librarian
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

3. Welcome
Elizabeth Peralta, SAFA Fellow
Ava Quigley, SAFA Fellow
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

4. Furman and the
Built Environment of Brooklyn
Nicole Molinelli, St. Francis College
Michael Tutko, New York City College of Technology
Alia Kasem, St. Francis College
Yuliya Bas, New York City College of Technology
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

5. Nicole Molinelli
“A Day in the Life of Gabriel Furman:
A Walking Tour”
St. Francis College
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

6. Michael Tutko
“Furman’s Lens on Brooklyn”
New York City College of Technology
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

9. Alia Kasem
“Soul of Brooklyn”
St. Francis College
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

10. Yuliya Bas
“A Study in Dutch Brooklyn”
New York City College of Technology
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

21. Furman and the political
development of the US
Alice Albers, St. Francis College
Hannah Brown, St. Francis College
Brian Ballie, New York City College of Technology
Elizabeth Peralta, St. Francis College
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

22. Alice Albers
“The Journals: The Irish and Germans”
St. Francis College
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

26. Hannah Brown
“The Mormons as Recorded by Gabriel Furman”
St. Francis College
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

34. Brian Ballie
“Financial Panic Through the Eyes of
Gabriel Furman”
New York City College of Technology
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

38. Elizabeth Peralta
“Furman’s Gradual Change on Slavery”
St. Francis College
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

46. Furman’s Whimsical Side
Jacqueline Camacho, St. Francis College
Shawn Brumell, New York City College of Technology
Ava Quigley, New York City College of Technology
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

47. Jacqueline Camacho
“Through My Eyes: A Modern Interpretation of
Early American Poems”
St. Francis College
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

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“The literature of the New World,
at that time (1830) stood very low in the
estimation of Americans in general.”
- - William Gowans
Gowans, William, and The Faust Club of Brooklyn. “Two Biographical Sketches of
Gabriel Furman.” Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries. Transcribed by Paul Royster.
Paper 23 (1865): accessed July 2013, http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/23

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“Talk not to me of the beauties of the ballroom.
The pleasures of the billiard table- or card party.
I am an admirer of Nature in her roughest mood.
It fills my soul with a terrified pleasure to hear
the reverberating of the crashing thunder amid
the chasms of the rock.”
- - Gabriel Furman
Remarks, November 6, 1816, volume 2, page 11-12; Gabriel Furman Papers, ARC. 190, box
1, folder 1; Brooklyn Historical Society

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56. Shawn Brumell
“Gabriel Furman’s Myths of the Sea”
New York City College of Technology
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

63. Ava Quigley
“A Song for Gabriel”
New York City College of Technology
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society

65. Thank You
Hannah Brown,
SAFA Fellow
http://safa.brooklynhistory.org/fellowship2013
Students and Faculty in the Archives Brooklyn Historical Society