Schedule:

14 April 2007
10am-6pm
Schermerhorn room 612 (map)

10:00am-10:10am - Introduction

10:10am-10:30am - Landscape of Pilgrimage: The Hajj and the Sinai
Robert Tate
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

10:30am-10:50am - Remembering the Landscape of Colonization: The Role of the Western Sicilian Landscape in Thucydides
Emily Modrall
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

10:50am-11:10am - Ritual Orientations: Embodied Space in Early China
Nick Vogt
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

11:10am-11:20am - Question/Answer session

11:20am-11:40am - The Articulation of Democracy: The Tyrannicide Monument in the Athenian Agora
Jessica Paga
Department of Anthropology, Princeton University

11:40am-12:00pm - Imperial Landscapes of the Incas in the Andes
Darryl Wilkinson
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

12:00pm-12:30pm - Questions and Discussion by Professor Terry D'Altroy

12:30pm-1:30pm - LUNCH

1:30pm-1:50pm - Ruins and their Politics in Delhi
Anand Taneja
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

1:50pm-2:10pm - Political Use of Landscape to Concretize Identity in the United States
Kaet Heupel
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

2:10pm-2:30pm - The Production of Governing Spaces & The Spatiality of Governance: An Analysis of Nicolae Ceausescu and His Victory of Socialism Civic Center
Bruce O'Neill
Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University

2:30pm-2:50pm - Landscape and Architecture (The Glass House)
Leslie Klein
Department of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University

2:50pm-3:00pm - Question/Answer session

3:00pm-3:30pm - TEA

3:30pm-3:50pm - Nationalism and the British Genre of Landscape (CANCELLED)
Catherine Holochvost
Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware

3:50pm-4:10pm - Beneath the Surfaces of Silence: Places and Nostalgia in East Berlin
Nitzan Shoshan
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

4:10pm-4:30pm - Interactive Social Art: Greenville's Liberty Bridge, or How a Public Sculpture and a Community Engage in Reciprocal Shaping?
Nadia Savova
Department of Anthropology, Princeton University

4:30pm-4:40pm - Question/Answer session
4:40pm-5:00pm - Discussion and Closing Remarks by Professor Zoe Crossland
5:00pm-6:00pm - Drinks Reception (Anthro Lounge, 465 Schermerhorn Extension)

The conference will take place in Schermerhorn Main room 612. Lunch and tea will be held in the Anthropology Department Lounge(Fried Lounge, Schermerhorn Extension 465). Following the closing remarks there will be a small reception in theLounge, and all participants should feel free to join us for dinnerand drinks at a nearby establishment (to be decided).