Public Art & Public History
Annual Meeting: Right Here, Right Now, The Power of Place Revolutionary Narratives: New Approaches for an Expansive 250th Commemoration Idea Studio This session invites public historians of diverse backgrounds, including those working outside the traditional temporal and spatial boundaries of the American Revolution, to discuss research and interpretation in relation to the approaching US semiquincentennial…
University of Antwerp
Historians that have studied the experience of modernity have often looked to periods of industrialisation and urbanisation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many approaches and definitions of modernity co-exist, but, in general, an element of rupture – a distinctive and often conscious break with the past – has dominated…
In the mid-18th century, George Washington purchased from a family member a small story-and-a-half wood frame house overlooking the Potomac River. Over the next four decades, he substantially rebuilt the house, reflecting his own evolving status from militia member to commander-in-chief of the Continental Army to the first president of the United States of America…
The Chicago Summer School focuses on the American roots of Modernism. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, progressive architects and patrons moved the city to the forefront of technological and aesthetic experimentation. Through expert lectures and tours, course directors Tina Strauss ad John Waters lead a survey of 19th and early 20th century architecture…
Duke University
A Zoom discussion on the essays from "Black Muslim Portraiture in the Modern Atlantic." Special issue of The Muslim World Journal. PANEL III: Joseph Cinque: Reframing and a Digital Reading 12:50pm – 1:40pm Moderator: Nick Mumejian Rebecca Hankins, Wendler Endowed Professor & Archivist/LibrarianTexas A&M University Laura Macaluso, Independent Scholar & Art HistorianAuthor…
In the US, the Revolutionary-Era historic house museum plays a long-standing and central role in the presentation and interpretation of early American history for the public…
The Virginia Forum will hold its seventeenth annual conference April 7–9, 2022, at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, VA. The Virginia Forum offers an opportunity for scholars, teachers, writers, museum curators, historic site interpreters, archivists, librarians, and all those interested in Virginia history and culture to share their knowledge, research…
Join us on Wednesday, February 23rd at noon for a fascinating new perspective of Benedict Arnold- from underground. We’ll be joined by Robert Greenberg, Laura Macaluso and Sarah Sportman who will talk about the ongoing project that will hopefully uncover more about Arnold’s life and his former New Haven residence from an archeological dig at the site…
Theme: Communities How communities construct their own pasts; how communities challenge the narratives that have been foisted upon them or are used to oppress and discriminate; how communities challenge their own consensual understandings of their past. The theme of the 7th annual conference of the Historical Fictions Research Network is “Communities” and spans a wide array of topics across the disciplines of Archaeology…
SECAC
Public Art Dialogue's first SECAC panel session.CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 The School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky is pleased to be hosting the 77th annual meeting of SECAC in Lexington, KY, from November 10–13, 2021. As its theme, the conference will engage in conversations centered around the social responsibilities of artists…