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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2006
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:00-8:45 am, Ochre Court
Welcome
8:45-9:00 am, Ochre Court State Dining Room
Dr. Dean E. de la Motte,
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Salve Regina University

SESSION I: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
9:00-9:45 am, Ochre Court State Dining Room
Memory and Commemoration in 19th-Century America
Richard Guy Wilson,
Commonwealth Professor and Chair of Architectural History, University of Virginia

SESSION II:
MEMORIALIZING THE DEAD: FROM THE NEOCLASSICAL TO THE NECROPOLIS
10:00-12:15 am, Ochre Court State Dining Room
Moderator: James C. Garman
Coordinator, Cultural and Historic Preservation Program Salve Regina University

An "Imperishable Commemoration:" William Strickland and the Construction of George Washington's Tomb
Robert D. Russell
Addlestone Professor, Department of Art History, College of Charleston

"A Deep Feeling of Regard and Reverence:" John Struthers, Philadelphia Marble Mason, and Washington's Sarcophagus
Frances Henderson Ford
Richard Marks Restoration

America’s National Cemeteries in the 19th Century
Sara Amy Leach, Senior Historian
Darlene Richardson, Historian
National Cemetery Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Lunch
12:15-1:00 pm, Ochre Court Terrace

SESSION III:
COMMEMORATION AND CONFLICT: REMEMBERING THE CIVIL WAR
1:00-2:45 pm, Ochre Court State Dining Room
Moderator: Eric Hertfelder,
Executive Director, Fort Adams Trust

"Final Victory on the First Battlefield of the Rebellion:" Commemoration and Memory at Manassas, Virginia
Eric F. Gollannek
PhD Candidate, University of Delaware, Art History

Come See the Memorial in my Backyard
Elizabethada A. Wright
Associate Professor of English and Communications, Rivier College

Terrain and the Battlefield as Artifacts: History and Preservation at Gettysburg National Battlefield Park
Glenn W. LaFantasie
Frockt Family Professor of Civil War History, Western Kentucky University

SESSION IV:
REVISITING THE PAST: ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
3:00-4:45 pm, Ochre Court State Dining Room
Moderator: Scott W. Loehr
Executive Director, Newport Historical Society

Marking and Making Civilization: The History of the Saratoga Monument
David Amott
PhD Candidate, University of Delaware

'Forsaken Graves:' Battlefield Tourism and Historic Commemoration in the Early Republic
Thomas A. Chambers
Assistant Professor of History, Niagara University

(Mis)Remembering the Revolution: The Commemoration of Revolutionary Civil Conflict in Nineteenth-Century South Carolina
Rebecca Brannon
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan

GALLERY OPENING

“The STONE-CARVERS’ Business:”
Three Centuries of Craft Tradition at the John Stevens Shop
5:30-7:00 pm, University Gallery, Salve Regina University
Conferees are invited to an exclusive opening of the exhibition. Wine and hors d'ouevres will be served.

For more than three hundred years, the artists and artisans of Newport’s John Stevens Shop have produced grave markers, monuments and other stone works in commemorating the lives of those ranging from enslaved African Americans to Franklin D. Roosevelt. No previous exhibition has ever considered the historical, social, and artistic significance of this Shop or the people who have carved stone within its walls. Through sculptural pieces, graphic objects, tools, and other objects, visitors will experience the history of the Shop from its earliest beginnings to its reinvention by John Howard Benson in the 1920s as well as its present-day range of large-scale monumental work for the World War II Memorial in Washington.