Schedule

Friday, October 14, 2016

All events take place in McCormick 106, unless otherwise noted.

• 2:30 pm. Sign in, McCormick 106 lobby
• 3:00 pm. Welcome
• 3:15 pm. Panel 1: After the Floods
  • Cassandra Shepard, “As Salient as Saltwater: the Post-Colonialism in Post-Katrina”
  • Liz Koslov, “Unmaking the Waterfront: Experiences of Managed Retreat From the Coast”
  • Ifor Duncan, “Waterlines”
  • Respondent: Curt Gambetta
• 4:45 pm. Break
• 5:00 pm. Opening keynote address
  • Prof. Matthew Klingle: “Solvent Stories: Water and Power in North American History”
• 6:00 pm. Break
• 6:15 pm. Music and discussion, McCormick 106 lobby
  • Ben Cosgrove, “Place of Many Waters”
  • Respondent: Bora Yoon
• 7:00 pm. Wine & cheese reception, McCormick 106 lobby
• 8:00 pm. Dinner for presenters, respondents, and keynote speakers, restaurant T.B.A.

Saturday, October 15, 2016

All events take place in McCormick 106, unless otherwise noted.

• 9:00 am. Coffee & pastries, McCormick 106 lobby
• 9:15 am. Panel 2: Place and Displacement
  • Lucy Partman, “Arthur Wesley Dow’s Visual Displacement in the ‘Country of the Marshes'”
  • Rupa Pillai, “Insights from Beach Pujas: Guyanese Hindu Place-Making in New York City”
  • Joshua Bartlett, “Underneath the ‘Azure Reign’: Exploring the Atlantic in Phillis Wheatley’s ‘A Farewel to America'”
  • Respondent: Dr. Monica Huerta
• 10:45 am. Coffee break, McCormick 106 lobby
• 11:00 am. Panel 3: Dangerous Waters
  • Grace Carey, “Flint: Where Even the Water Burns”
  • Marnie Riddle, “Landscape Scale, Local Sensibilities, and Cooperative Federalism in the History of Clean-Water Regulation”
  • Shreya Subramani, “New Orleans’s Gentilly Resilience District”
  • Respondent: Prof. Alan Braddock
• 12:30 pm. Lunch, McCormick 106 lobby
• 1:30 pm. Panel 4: The Power of Rivers
  • Zachary Bennett, “Flowing Power: Rivers on New England’s Eastern Frontier”
  • John Nelson, “American Empire and the Fluid Frontier:
 Competing Visions of Land and Water at the Chicago Portage, 1795-1833”
  • Sigma Colón, “Rivers of America”
  • Respondent: Prof. Martha Sandweiss
• 3:00 pm. Coffee break, McCormick 106 lobby
• 3:15 pm. Panel 5: Arid Futures?
  • Jennifer Garcia Peacock, “Picturing the Rural Chicanx Watershed: Pilgrimages, Ditches, Canals, and Roadside Shrines, 1965-1970”
  • Vanessa Nicholas, “Wet and Wild: The Ecopolitics of Water in David Hockney’s Pool Paintings”
  • Sayd Randle, “On Aqueducts and Anxiety: Reading L.A.’s Future Through Infrastructure Stories”
  • Respondent: Prof. D. Graham Burnett
• 4:45 pm. Coffee break, McCormick 106 lobby
• 5:00 pm. Closing keynote address
  • Dr. Nenette Luarca-Shoaf

 

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