SCHEDULE:
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2006
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2006
ONLINE REGISTRATION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2006
Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:00-8:30 am, Young Building
SESSION V:
PAGEANTRY AND PATRIOTISM: THE 20TH CENTURY DISCOVERS THE PAST
8:30-10:15 pm, Young Building
Moderator: Catherine W. Zipf
Assistant Professor in Cultural and Historic Preservation, Salve Regina University
Monumental Ambitions: The Pierre Charles L'Enfant Tomb, 1909-1911
Sara A. Butler
Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History,
Roger Williams University
The Hudson-Fulton Celebration and the Emergence of the Democratic Monument
Richard Sommer,
Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Director of Urban Design Programs,
Harvard University
Imagining Norwood's Past: Old House Week and the Creation of Community Memory
Heather Cole
Masters Degree Candidate,
Salem State College
SESSION VI:
THE IRISH EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA : THE GREAT HUNGER, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE CIVIL WAR
10:30 am - 12:15 pm, Young Building
Moderator: John F. Quinn,
Professor of History,
Salve Regina University
The Great Irish Hunger: Invisible Memories and Public Memorials
Christine Kinealy
Professor,
Drew University and the University of Central Lancashire (UK)
St. Patrick's Church in 19th-Century America: A Home for the Heart of the Irish
Jean Minto
Associate Professor of Humanities,
Philadelphia Biblical University
The Harp, the Green Flag and Remember Fontenoy! The Irish and the Civil War
William B. Rogers
Associate Dean,
Caspersen School, Drew University
Lunch
12:15-1:00 pm, Young Building Veranda
SESSION VII:
CONSTRUCTING MEMORY: BUILDING THE SPACES OF REMEMBERANCE
1:00-3:15 pm, Young Building
Moderator: Richard E. Greenwood Ph.D.
Historian/Archaeologist,
Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission
Visiting Professor, Urban Studies Program, Brown University
God and Country: Enshrining the Nation in Ecclesiastical Design in
Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Thomas F. Rzeźnik
Assistant Professor,
Seton Hall University
Myth, Memory and the Re-making of the John William "Blind" Boone Park
in Warrensburg, Missouri
Delia C. Gillis
Associate Professor,
Central Missouri State University
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC: The Ups and Very Deep Downs of America's First National Cemetery
C. Dudley Brown, FASID
President,
C. Dudley Brown and Associates, Inc.
Transportation to Channing Memorial Church
3:15-3:30 pm, Young Building Porte Cochere
THE CHANNING MEMORIAL'S MEMORIALS
3:30-4:30 pm, Channing Memorial Church
James L. Yarnall
Associate Professor, Art Department,
Salve Regina University
Begun 1879, the erection of the Channing Memorial Church celebrated the centennial of the birth in Newport of William Ellery Channing, a founder of Unitarianism. Funded by international subscriptions, this building became a virtual pantheon of high-quality commemorative stained glass and sculpture by artists including John La Farge, Donald MacDonald, Augustus Saint-Gaudens and William Clark Noble. This tour and on-site presentation is open to all conference attendees.
WALKING TOUR OF HISTORIC NEWPORT
4:30-5:30 pm, leave from Channing Memorial Church
This free walking tour of Newport will feature the buildings, thoroughfares and public spaces that have shaped the Landmark Historic Hill neighborhood. The tour is limited to 36. Participants must indicate their desire to attend this tour on their registration form.
RECEPTION
Sponsored by the Victorian Society in America and the Alumni Association of the Victorian Society in America
Co-sponsored by the Victorian Society Summer Schools Committee
5:30-7:00 pm, Bellevue House |
