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
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