Domestic Lectures, Conferences

SEPTEMBER 2009

  • SEMINAR: The Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies “Rosario Candela: An Immigrant Architect in New York” by Andrew Alpern Calandra Institute. September 10, 2009, 6 p.m. When Rosario Candela (1890-1953) left Palermo to come to America with his father, he was an 18- year-old laborer with virtually no knowledge of English. Yet he overcame his humble background, talked his way into the School of Architecture at Columbia University, and became an architect who designed many of the finest apartment houses in New York City. Architectural historian Andrew Alpern will discuss Candela’s unusually fast rise within his profession and the exceptional buildings he produced. The event is free and open to the public (RSVP by calling 212-642-2094; be prepared to show a photo ID to the building’s concierge). The Calandra Institute is located at 25 West 43rd St., 17th Floor, between 5th and 6th Avenues, Manhattan.
  • The Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Fourth Annual Student Symposium, Owens Science Hall (OWS) and O’Shaughnessy Science Hall (OSS), University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. September 26, 2009, 8:30a.m.-1:00p.m.
    • Free and open to the public!
    • Location:  Parking available in adjacent lots. For information on getting to campus and campus maps see: http://www.stthomas.edu/campusmaps/.
    • A light breakfast will be served beginning at 8:30a.m. in the lobby of the OWS.
    • Session One (two concurrent sessions) - 9:00a.m. – 11:00a.m. New Readings of Modern Classics
      • The Double-Tongued Enchanter (Tyrone Guthrie and Ralph Rapson), Martina Foss, Iowa State University
      • The Architecture of the “Ill-Tempered” Environment: Re-reading Banham for a Revised Theory of Environmental Control, Julia L. Sedlock, University of Illinois at Chicago.
      • Fallingwater and Zen, Adam Childers, University of Wisconsin-Madison
      • Transforming Bankside: The Tate Gallery of Modern Art, Elizabeth Henderson, University of St. Thomas
      • Memorials and the City, Time, Space, and Memory: Chronotopic Views of Architectural Restoration in the Late Roman Empire, Andrew Ruff, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
      • Bur Oaks, Bronze, and Boyhood: A Brief History of Cochran Park, Erin Lovell, University of Minnesota
      • Creating “A Work of Genius”: The Origins and Program of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Competition, Eva Quigley Timmons, University of St. Thomas
    • Session Two (two concurrent sessions), 11:00a.m. – 1:00p.m., Fabrication and Consumption of Culture
      • Making History: Ethnicity, Locality and Business in an Italian Specialty Store, Caitlin T. Boyle, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
      • The Invented Swiss Architecture of New Glarus, Wisconsin: A Case Study and Formal Analysis of the Glarnerladen Antique Store, Stefan Osdene, University of Wisconsin–Madison
      • Musée du Quai Branly: Adventures in Transparency, Kristine Elias, University of St. Thomas
      • Branding Our American Architectural Heritage: Weyerhaeuser’s Role in the 1920’s Housing Industry, Jillian DeCoursey, University of Minnesota
    • Architecture, Politics, and the City
      • Digging Deeper: Massimo Vignelli’s Subway Map and the Redesign of the New York Subway, 1968-1975, Emma Boast, University of Chicago
      • “All that Space”: Philip Johnson and the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library,  Alexander Kauffman, New York University
      • Masjid An-Nur: Building Meaning in a Minnesota Mosque, Melissa Aho, University of St. Thomas. Envisioning Detroit: Detroit’s Michigan Central Station and the Politics of Representation Nate Millington, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Initiatives in Art & Culture, 11th Annual Arts & Crafts Conference, Enduring Legacies: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Seattle and Environs, September 23-27, 2009 Lectures at Museum of History & Industry, Seattle Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, Bellevue Arts Museum and on tour. [An opportunity to register for September 23 and 24 only is available].
    • “Enduring Legacies” is hosted by the Museum of History and Industry, the Seattle Art Museum, the Frye Art Museum, and the Bellevue Arts Museum, with the participation of Historic Seattle. The 11th annual Arts and Crafts conference focuses on the region’s indigenous architectural tradition, the influence of Japan and Native American art, as well as the continuity in the region between Modernism and the Arts and Crafts Movement (the work of architect Lionel Pries and some of his students, especially Paul Kirk and Roland Terry) and the flourishing contemporary craft tradition. Lectures are complemented by walking tours (e.g., Pioneer Square, First Hill), site visits (e.g., Stimson-Green Mansion, Leary House, Ferry residence, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Beaux Arts Village) exhibition viewings (The Arts & Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest, the Bellevue Arts Museum), and receptions at the Sorrento Hotel, the Traver Gallery, Facèré, and the Bellevue Arts Museum, often complemented by viewings.
    • Among speakers are: Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History, University of Virginia; Lawrence Kreisman, co-author with G. Mason of The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest and co-curator of the accompanying exhibition; David Martin, co-owner of Martin-Zambito Fine Art and art historian focusing on Seattle and the Pacific Northwest; John Marshall, master silversmith and professor emeritus, University of Washington, Seattle; Michael Monroe, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Bellevue Arts Museum; Jeffery Karl Ochsner, professor, University of Washington, Seattle, and a leading authority on American architects Henry Hobson Richardson and Lionel Pries and on Seattle architecture; Barbara Brotherton, Curator of Native American Art, Seattle Art Museum; Ken Tadashi Oshima, professor University of Washington and an authority on Japanese influence; David C. Streatfield, professor University of Washington, Seattle and a garden and landscape historian with numerous publications including California Gardens: Creating A New Eden; David F. Martin, independent art historian and curator focusing on the art of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest and of Western New York State, and co-owner of Martin-Zambito Fine Art in Seattle; Thomas Wake, collector and researcher of metalwork of Albert Berry; Harriet Edquist, Professor of Architectural History, RMIT University of Melbourne and author of Pioneers of Modernism: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia; Christine Carr, independent architectural historian and architect; Erin Doherty, architect; for the past 17 years, she has been working in historic preservation and new construction in Central New York, Ohio, and Washington State; William Traver, founder Traver Gallery, which for over 30 years has served as a theater for the visual arts; and Stewart Wurtz, studio furniture maker, and Guest Lecturer, Furniture Studio, School of Architecture University of Washington. The conference is organized by Lisa Koenigsberg, founder and president, Initiatives in Art & Culture, who originated the series of annual Arts and Crafts conferences in 1999.

OCTOBER 2009

  • 2009 ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) Southeast Fall Conference – Architecture is a Think of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Schools of Building Arts, Savannah, GA, October 8-10, 2009. https://www.acsa-arch.org/conferences/09SEFallConf.aspx
  • Annual Meeting of the Marion Dean Ross/ Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. Portland, OR, October 9-11, 2009.
    • Deadline for registration and discount hotel reservations is September 6, 2009.
    • For program, registration, and travel information, go to http://sahmdr.org/meetings.html
    • PROGRAM OVERVIEW: Join us in Portland, Oregon, for the annual meeting of the Marion Dean Ross/Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 9-11, 2009. Portland is a most appropriate site for the conference theme, “From Cast-Iron to Green Design: A Closer Look at Materials and Craft in Pacific Northwest Architecture.” Within a few blocks of the conference hotel, one can encounter terra cotta masterpieces, Richardsonian Romanesque masonry structures, iconic modern works such as Michael Graves’ Portland Building and Pietro Belluschi’s Equitable Building and the nation’s second largest collection (after New York) of cast iron-fronted buildings. Especially exciting about Portland, a city noted for sustainability, is the confluence of old and new building technologies. The iconic armories, warehouses, and office buildings of the early 20th century have been transformed into ‘green buildings’ and many sport eco-roofs and other sustainable features.
    • Friday’s events start with a pre-conference tour package organized by Elisabeth Walton Potter. The tour starts at noon with a visit to the University Club (Whitehouse & Fouilhoux, 1913) where host Lewis A. McArthur will provide an orientation to recent renovations. Following a courtesy lunch, and a presentation by David Talbott of Architectural Reproductions, Inc., registrants will visit Mr. Talbott’s shop to see works in progress. The tour will conclude with a visit to the restored landmark, the Pioneer Courthouse (Alfred B. Mullet, finished 1875). On Friday evening, the Architectural Heritage Center will be the site of the conference opening reception. The AHC occupies the historic West’s Block (1883), restored over several years, and home of the Bosco-Milligan Foundation, Oregon’s premier preservation organization. Following a catered reception, William (Bill) Hawkins, author of the definitive The Grand Era of Cast-Iron Architecture in Portland (1976), will deliver the presentation, Cast-Iron Portland: Skidmore-Old Town.
    • On Saturday, conference sessions will take place at the White Stag Block, a suite of four historic buildings (1883-1907) in the Skidmore-Old Town Historic District renovated to house the University of Oregon’s Portland campus as well as offices, gallery, and shop. Topped by the iconic White Stag sign, this renovated ensemble was awarded a LEED Gold certification from the US Green Building Council. At White Stag, six impressively credentialed scholars will present papers closely relevant to the theme of Pacific Northwest materials and building. Following lunch and the annual business meeting, Art DeMuro will speak on the transformation of the White Stag Block. Mr. DeMuro is president of the award-winning Venerable Group, Inc., Portland’s most successful developer of historic commercial properties. The afternoon at White Stag concludes with a walking tour of nearby cast-iron and other historic buildings led by Bill Hawkins. As a prelude to Sunday’s walking tour, several original drawings by preeminent Portland architect Albert E. Doyle will be available for viewing. The Hilton Hotel (SOM, 1963) will be the site of Saturday night’s events, which include a reception followed by a banquet buffet. The evening’s featured speaker is Leland M. Roth, Marion Dean Ross Distinguished Chair in Architectural History, who will provide a personal interpretation of Portland’s architectural highlights. Dr. Roth is currently creating the Oregon volume of the SAH Buildings of the United States series.
    • On Sunday, participants will be treated to an architectural walking tour of downtown Portland led by James Hamrick. Mr. Hamrick, recently retired from the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, is the first recipient of the George A. McMath Award in recognition of his life-long commitment to historic preservation. The conference will conclude after this inspired look at the architectural treasures of one of America’s favorite cities.
    • For more information, contact Ed Teague, ehteague@uoregon.edu.
  • 2009 ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) Southwest Fall Conference – Change[e]ing Identities: Design, Culture + Technology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, October 15-17. 2009. https://www.acsa-arch.org/conferences/
  • The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) The 13th National Conference on Planning History,  Oakland, California, October 15-18, 2009. Information about the conference can be found at the following website: http://www.dcp.ufl.edu/sacrph
  • Infrastructure’s Domain: Architectural Manifestations of Techno-bureaucratic Systems, Graduate Student Conference: Call for Papers, Conference date: October 23-24, Princeton University School of Architecture.
  • LECTURE: “Archaeologies of Performance: Ritual Movement through Greek Sacred Space.” Joan Connelly, New York University. Silverberg Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, Friday October 23, 2009, 4:00 p.m.

NOVEMBER 2009

  • Association for Preservation Technology Preserving the Modern Metropolis November 2-6, 2009
    • The Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) is accepting registrations for its Annual Conference, Preservation in the City Without Limits, scheduled for November 2-6, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Registration can be completed on-line at www.apti.org. Los Angeles represents the quintessential American city of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Technological and social changes allowed an interconnected, yet scattered, collection of towns and villages to grow (sprawl) into one of the world’s major metropolitan regions comprising five counties; more than 200 towns, cities, and municipalities; and more than 15 million residents. The APT LA 2009 Conference in Los Angeles will address the scientific, engineering and technical ramifications of preserving the modern metropolis and its expansive body of historic resources through four Conference tracks in the program.
  • “Traditions–I,” Virginia Commonwealth University’s 17th Annual Symposium on Architectural History and the Decorative Arts November, 13, 2009. Virginia Historical Society, 428 North Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia
    • The conference will have four sessions: (1) The story of the “Palladian” window from the ancient world through Colonial Revival Virginia; (2) Furniture classics in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and furniture made in Richmond; (3) American cast iron of the Aesthetic Movement and American wrought iron of the Arts & Crafts Movement; and (4) A “parade of white columns,” from the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition of 1907 through more recent buildings inspired by Monticello. To register for the symposium or reception afterward, call or email Courtney Culbreth at 804.828.2784 or cculbreth@vcu.edu.

DECEMBER 2009

  • LECTURE: “From Chicago to Hunstanton: Photographic Architecture on the Eve of Postmodernism.” Claire Zimmerman, University of Michigan. Silverberg Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, Friday December 4, 2009, 4:00 p.m.

JANUARY 2010

  • 8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, January 13 – 16, 2010, Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa and Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    • Sponsored by: University of Louisville – Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org – Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org
    • The 8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities will be held from January 13 (Wednesday) to January 16 (Saturday), 2010 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa and the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome.

FEBRUARY 2010

MARCH 2010

  • Panel: Architecture, Violence, and Risk,  2010 Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, March 25-28, 2010.
  • Visualizing Interiority in the Eighteenth Century, 41st ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting Albuquerque, NM, March 18-21, 2010
  • Looking into the Modern Interior: History, Theory and Discipline in Education and Practice, Interior Design Educators Council’s Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia March 23-24, 2010.
    • The Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) and Modern Interiors Research Center (MIRC) are proud to sponsor a symposium centered on the modern interior, c. 1870 to the present.

APRIL  2010

  • Architecture and the State, 1940s to 1970s, 2-3 April 2010, Columbia University.
    • Architecture and the State, 1940s to 1970s is part of Architecture Inside/Out a forum for academic discussion organized by the doctoral students in architectural history and theory at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. The conference is supported by the GSAPP and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
  • Society of Architectural Historians 63rd Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 21-25, 2010. www.sah.org

MAY 2010

  • Foreign Trends on American Soil, University of Maryland, May 2010.
    • This symposium will be a forum for the discussion of the formation of a multifaceted American tradition of garden and landscape design that is based on the interpretation and adaptation of trends imported into the United States from the eighteenth century till today. Topics of interest may include the reception and legacy of foreign horticultural and design literature, and may also investigate the impact of the work of overseas designers and critics on contemporary practice.
  • VAF (Vernacular Architecture Forum) 2010 Annual Meeting “Housing Washington” Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., May 19-22, 2010. www.vafweb.org

OCTOBER  2010

APRIL  2011

  • SAH 64th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 13-17, 2011

OCTOBER  2011

APRIL  2012

  • SAH 65th Annual Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, April 18-22, 2012

    DOMESTIC LECTURES, CONFERENCES ARCHIVE

    If you have information on conferences that have occurred between 2004 and 2009, please forward the information to SAHGradStudentBlog@gmail.com and we will post the information here.

    2009

    • Lecture: “Reviving the Invented: Zoroastrian Architecture in the Land of the Raj,” Talinn Grigor (Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Brandeis University), Silberberg Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Arts, New York, Friday, January 30, 4:00 pm.
    • Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, Conference co-organized with Canadian Center for Architecture and Princeton University’s School of Architecture, and the Institute of Fine Arts, Saturday, March 7 10:00 to 7:00 pm, Sunday, March 8 10:00 to 6:00 pm.
    • A Symposium on the History of Art, Presented by the Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts, Friday April 3, 2009 and Saturday April 8, 2009. http://www.frick.org/education/symposium.htm
    • Buell Dissertation Colloquium 2009, Wood Auditorium, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Friday April 17-18, 2009.
      • 6:30 Introduction by Reinhold Martin, Director, Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture
      • 6:45 pm, Plenary Panel:  Field Notes From Beyond the PhD, Lucia Allais, Behrman-Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows & Lecturer in Architecture and the Humanities, Princeton University, John Harwood, Asstistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Architectural History, Oberlin College, Timothy Hyde, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
      • Saturday 4/18
      • 10:00-12:00 , Panel 1, Moderator: Lucia Allais
      • “Non-Design: The Marketplace and the American City”, Anthony Fontenot, School of Architecture, Princeton University
      • “The “Method of Approach”: Walter Gropius and the New Deal Discourse of Economic Recovery”, Anna Vallye, Department of Art History, Columbia University
      • Discussion
      • “Insuring the City:  Prudential’s Postwar Urban Policy and the Architecture of Risk Management”, Elihu Rubin, Program in History of Architecture and Urbanism, University of California, Berkeley.
      • “The System is Constantly Moving. Wal-Mart’s “Transbuildings”", Jesse Lecavalier, Department of Architecture, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich
      • Discussion
      • 2:00-4:00, Panel 2, Moderator: John Harwood
      • “The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York (1967-1984): A Cultural Project in the Field of Architecture”, Kim Foerster, Department of Architecture, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich
      • “Alvin Boyarsky presents Chicago à la carte,” Irene Sunwoo, School of Architecture, Princeton University
      • Discussion
      • “Parallel Engagement in Symbolic Systems of the Philosophy of Science and Architectural Praxis,” Dorit Fershtman, Department of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
      • “Vision in Motion: Architectural Space Time Notation and the Sequential Experience of Space,” Divya Rao Heffley, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
      • Discussion
      • 4:30-6:00, Panel 3, Moderator: Timothy Hyde
      • “Crossing Paths: The Intersection and Interaction Between Livestock, Architecture and Landscape in 17th-18th c. New France”, Leila Marie Farah, School of Architecture, McGill University
      • “Democracy by Design: Dwight Perkins and the Reform Park, Chicago 1904-1913,” Jennifer Gray, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University
      • “After Tlatelolco: Architecture and Ideology at the Mexican Olympics of 1968,” Luis Castañeda, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
      • Discussion
      • Concluding round-table on doctoral education in architecture-related fields today with all participants.
      • 6:00-7:00, Reception to follow.
    • Travel, Boundaries and Sojourns through the Unfamiliar: The 2009 ICLS Graduate Student Conference, Maison Française, Columbia University, April 17 – 18, 2009.
      • Faculty discussants: Timothy Mitchell, Lydia Liu, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Brent Hayes Edwards and Claudio Lomnitz.
      • This conference aims to establish a critical transdisciplinary dialogue to reflect upon the representations, ethics and material consequences of travel and the various ways in which modalities of travel simultaneously reinstate and violate notions of border and cartography – spatial, social, economic, legal, artistic, political or epistemological. What are the distinct types of travel? In what ways are travel and its ethics represented?  How does travel condition boundaries and vice versa? How has media and popular literature affected our relationship to travel and the recording/archiving of it? How are categories such as identity, subjectivity, and sovereignty inscribed (negatively or positively) in the act of travel?
      • The program of events:
      • FRIDAY (April 17th)
        • 12:30-1:30pm, Welcome, Lunch Reception
        • 1:30-1:45pm, Introduction, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (University Professor, Columbia; Director, ICLS)
        • 1:45-3:15pm, Panel #1: Traveling the world from home, DISCUSSANT: TIMOTHY MITCHELL, Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia
          • 1) A Flying Man, A Strong Ship, an Original Time Keeping Device: Reflections on Ibn Battuta Mall (Gökçe Günel, Anthropology, Cornell University)
          • 2) Lost Paradises? Proust and Place (Lauren Silvers, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)
          • 3) Staging Cultural Otherness at Home: The Case of Surrealism (Jen Hui Bon Hoa, Comparative Literature, Harvard University)
        • 3:15-3:25pm, Coffee break
        • 3:25-4:25pm, Panel #2 Transversing the Urban Space, DISCUSSANT: DAVID SMILEY, Architecture and Urban Studies, Barnard
          • 1) Travel as Ethos: Reconstituting Beirut through Movement (Bernardo Zacka, Government, Harvard University)
          • 2) Mapping Boundaries: Conflicting Visions of Shanghai Urban Space (Kevin Li, East Asian Studies, Yale University)
        • 4:25-4:30pm, Coffee break
        • 4:30-6:00pm, Panel #3 Border Crossing and the Negotiation of Identity, DISCUSSANT: CLAUDIO LOMNITZ, Anthropology, Columbia; Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
          • 1) Travel and the Shaping of Self: The Biography and Fiction Writing of Art Historian Holger Cahill (Jillian Russo, Art History, CUNY Graduate Center)
          • 2) Juan José Saer’s interior travelogues: La ocasión, El río sin orillas, El entenado, and La pesquisa (Juan Caballero, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley)
          • 3) Indigenous Mobility: Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and the Global Commons in Rigoberta Menchú’s Crossing Borders (Lindsay Van Tine, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
        • 6:00pm, Reception
      • SATURDAY (April 18th)
        • 10-10:30am, Breakfast
        • 10:30-11:30am, Panel #4 Constructions of the traveler: Agents, victims and the privilege of travel, DISCUSSANT: BRENT HAYES EDWARDS, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia
          • 1) The “Abnormal” Travelers: A Study on Late Imperial China’s Travel Stories (Li Mengyun, Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University)
          • 2) The Politics of Travel in Anti-Trafficking Humanitarianism: Gullible Travelers in the Neoliberal Economy (Roxana Galusca, English Language and Literature, University of Michigan)
        • 11:30-11:45am, Coffee break
        • 11:45am-1:15pm, KEYNOTE (Introduction by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak), Mary Louise Pratt (Silver Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, NYU), ”On Staying: A Degression”, Response by Rosalind Morris, Anthropology, Columbia; Associate Director, ICLS
        • 1:15-2:00pm, LUNCH (provided)
        • 2:00-3:00pm, Panel #5 Establishing and Violating the Border, DISCUSSANT: LYDIA LIU, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia; Director of Graduate Studies, ICLS
          • 1) Anthropologicalization of History: Owen Lattimore and his Chinese Frontier Stories (Nianshen Song, History, University of Chicago)
          • 2) Heterotopian China and an Ottoman Messiah: Borders in an Age of Apocalypse (Kaveh Hemmat, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
        • 3:00-3:15pm, Coffee break
        • 3:15-4:45pm, Panel #6 Strange Encounters, DISCUSSANT: SOULEYMANE BACHIR DIAGNE, French and Romance Philology & Philosophy, Columbia
          • 1) God or Indigestion? The Philosophy of Physical and Metaphysical Pilgrimage (Ajay Chaudhary, Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University)
          • 2) The Pretty Machine: Representations of European Technology in 19th Century Iranian Travelogues (Annie Pfeifer, Comparative Literature, Yale University)
          • 3) A Melancholic Missive: Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Cina” and the Aesthetics of Infatuation (Jenny Lin, Art History, UCLA)
        • 4:45pm, Reception
    • Lecture: ”Sultan al-Mu’ayyad Shaykh and the Biggest Buildings,” Irene Bierman-McKinney (Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles), Silberberg Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Arts, New York,  Friday, April 17, 4:00 pm. CANCELLED
    • Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life and Work, Graduate Symposium. The symposium will be held on Saturday, April 18, 2009, at Price Tower Arts Center, housed in Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1956 Price Tower, his only realized skyscraper design. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Richard Cleary, Professor and Page Southerland Page Fellow in Architecture, University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. Dr. Cleary, author of Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright (Carnegie Museum of Art and University of Washington Press, 1999), is a specialist on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and building technology and served as consulting architectural historian for the restoration of Kentuck Knob (I.N. Hagan residence), designed by Wright in 1954. For more information: www.pricetower.org or email Scott W. Perkins at sperkins@pricetower.org
    • Lecture: “The Enchanted Palace: Philibert de L’Orme’s Chateau d’Anet,” Richard Etlin (Distinguished University Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, University of Maryland), Sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians, New York Metropolitan Chapter and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Location: Institute of Fine Arts (1 E. 78th Street at 5th Avenue), Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 6 p.m.
    • Lecture: “The History of Legends and the Legends of History: The ‘Pilastri Acritani’ and the Spoils of Acre at the Church of San Marco in Venice,” Robert Nelson (Robert Lehman Professor of History of Art, History of Art Department, Yale University), Silberberg Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Arts, New York,  Friday, April 24, 4:00 pm.
    • Symposium to highlight Italian influence on Thomas Jefferson. Sponsored jointly by Landscape History Chapter – SAH, Poplar Forest and Lynchburg College on Saturday, April 25, 2009.http://www.sahlandscape.org/www.poplarforest.org/palladiosymposium.html.
    • Lecture: “Won + Lost?: Modern Architecture USA: Survival in the Sub-urbis.” Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, Rhode Island School of Design. Thursday, April 30, 6:30 p.m.Architect Diane Lewis lectures on the competition-winning “Riverview Music Quadrangle,” a project to save Paul Rudolph’s first civic building.  Since 1982, Lewis has served both as principal at her own firm and as a professor architecture at The Cooper Union School of Architecture.  Her minimalist approach emphasizes refined, inventive use of structural elements and space, integrating the character of preexisting on conditions.
    • AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies), St. John’s University, Manhattan, New York, NY, May 7-10, 2009. http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/renga1/AAIS08/index.html
      • Session: Orientalism in Art, Literature, and Architecture in Liberal and/or Fascist Italy
      • Session: Views from the Grand Tour I: Fiction-Building, Buildings in Fiction
      • Session: Views from the Grand Tour II: The Urban Flaneur

    • Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation and the Association for Preservation Technology, 31st Annual Meeting, The Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation, At the Confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers: Managing Regional Change in Urban and Suburban Cultural Landscapes, St. Louis, Missouri, May 27 – 30, 2009. www.alhp.org
    • Race, Labor and the City: Crises Old and New, LAWCHA – Chiago Conference, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, May 28-31, 2009. http://chi-lawcha09.indstate.edu/
    • Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation Annual Meeting, 27- 30 May 2009, St. Louis, Missouri.
    • Vernacular Architecture Forum Conference, Butte, MT, June 10-13, 2009. http://www.vafweb.org/conferences/2009.html http://www.vafmontana.org/
    • Lecture: “Daniel Burnham, Urban Visionary.” By Donald L. Miller (author of City of the Century, The Epic of Chicago and the Making of Modern America). Wednesday, June 17, 6-7:30 pm. John Buck Compnay Lecture Hall Gallery, 224 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL. http://www.caf.org
    • Discussion:Third Church: A Hard Building to Love (Endangered Third Church of Christ Scientist, Washington, D.C.). Saturday, June 20, 10 am – 12:30 pm. The American Institute of Architects, 1735 New York Avenue, NW (Metro Station: Farragut North, Farragut West). Free to the public. Limited space, Registration required 202-783-5144 or amanda@dcpreservation.org.
    • Symposium: “The New England Custom Houses of Robert Mills, America’s First Architect.” Saturday, June 20. The Custom House Maritime Museum, Newburyport, MA. For more information, www.customhousemaritimemuseum.org
    • National Building Museum Lecture Series, Greek Revival / Modernism / Art Deco. In this new series, the National Building Museum explores three significant periods in architectural history. Noted experts discuss the physical characteristics of each movement and how culture, politics, and technical innovations are reflected in the architecture of those times. Then, receive information on how to give friends and family a self-guided tour of local examples.$12 Museum, Art Deco Society of Washington (ADSW), and Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Members; $12 Students; $20 Nonmembers. Individual tickets available on our website.Special Series Pricing for all three: $30 Museum, ADSW, and SAH Members; $30 Students; $50 Nonmembers. To purchase series tickets, please call 202.272.2448, Monday through Friday, by July 10, 2009
      • Greek Revival. Saturday, July 11, 1 – 2:30 pm. Architect Warren Cox, FAIA, Hartman Cox, discusses the Greek Revival movement and its impact in America.
      • Modernism. Saturday, July 18, 1 – 2:30 pm. Martin Moeller, the Museum’s senior vice president and curator, degines and explains modernism and its varied branches.
      • Art Deco. Saturday, July 25, 1 – 2:30 pm. Dr. Karin Alexis, art and architectural historian, discusses the significance of Art Deco and the cultural context that made the movement possible.

    2008

    2007

    • “Nature’s Disciplines”, The New England Renaissance Conference, Starr Auditorium, Macmillan Hall, Brown University. Sponsored by: The Cogut Center for the Humanities, The Department of the History of Art & Architecture, the Center for the Study of Science and Technology, and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, October 20, 2007.
    • Urban Transformations / Shifting Identities, Graduate Student Symposium in Architecture and Urbanism, Brown University – Providence, Rhode Island
      Wednesday, September 26 and Saturday September 29, 2007.

    2006

    • Bodies in the Streets: Festival Practices in Latin America, Art and the Festival in Latin America, A conference sponsored by the Department of the History of Art, the Cogut Foundation and the Center for Latin American Studies, Brown University, April 8, 2006.
    • William Jordy– A Commemorative Symposium, The Legacy of William Jordy (1917-1997), the distinguished architectural historian, critic, teacher, and preservationist. For three decades (1955 -1985) Professor Jordy taught in the departments of Art and American Civilization. This symposium will bring together a number of colleagues and former Brown students to discuss the significance of William Jordy’s history, criticism, teaching, and work in historic preservation. Click here for program information. March 3-4, 2006.

    2005

    2004

    • Rome In Print Symposium,  April 24, 2004. Associated with “The Theater That Was Rome: 16th-18th Century Views and Maps”, a Brown University and RISD exhibition April 9 – July 11,  2004.

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