Paper at the BU Art History Graduate Student Symposium, "Place"

I was delighted to be selected to present at the BU Art History graduate student symposium on March 20th. The presentations and keynote look wonderful and place is a favorite topic of mine. I can't wait to hear them all! The full schedule of events is below and more information is here.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, March 19, 2010, 5:30pm
Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery
855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215

Anne Whiston Spirn, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Language of Landscape
(www.annewhistonspirn.com)

GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 10:00am-3:00pm
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115

10:00 am COFFEE, Riley Seminar Room

10:30 am MORNING SESSION
Moderator: Lana Sloutsky, Boston University

10:40-11:40 am - PRESENTATION OF PAPERS

Elisa Foster, Brown University
Remembered Places and Lost Spaces: Retrieving the Medieval Sites of Le Puy-en-Velay

Jessica Roscio, Boston University
The New Woman at Home: Alice Austen, Gendered Identities, and Domestic Spaces

Sally H. King, Columbia University/The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Establishing the Modern Gateway: the Ornament and Architecture of Grand Central Terminal, 1913

11:40 am QUESTION & ANSWER

12:00 pm LUNCH
1:00 pm COFFEE, Riley Seminar Room

1:30 pm AFTERNOON SESSION
Moderator: Austin Porter, Boston University

1:40-2:40 pm - PRESENTATION OF PAPERS

Elizabeth Bennett Hupp, University of California, Berkeley
On China Cabinets in a Mennonite Living Room

Erica North Morawski, University of Illinois at Chicago
Savior of Stop-Gap Housing: The Role of the Quonset Hut in Post-World War II University Housing

Leslie K. Brown, Boston University
Nostalgia with a View: Meditations on the Tower Optical Coin-Operated Binocular Viewer

2:40 pm QUESTION & ANSWER

For more information please contact Carrie Anderson, Symposium Coordinator, Art History Department, Boston University at moorec@bu.edu, or visit www.bu.edu/ah/news/2009-2010/symposium.html. This event is sponsored by The Humanities Foundation at Boston University; the Art History Department, Boston University; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery.

Above Image: Henry Pelham, A Plan of Boston in New England with its Environs (detail), 1777. Map Reproduction Courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library.

Help needed: Photogs who document places that look like other places

I am writing as I would love to have help/input. This is hopefully what the blog-o-sphere and the internets are for, right? Right!

As many know, I am in my second semester as a full-time student. Currently, I am taking a seminar on Globalization and Contemporary Art (in addition to Institutional Architecture). I am hoping to write my seminar paper in part on photographers who document places that look like other places and all of the issues surrounding the locations and this practice. This includes of course Andrea Robbins and Max Becher's project on the "Transportation of Place" and also series like Seung Woo Back's "Real World," a global place theme park in South Korea, and Reiner Riedler's "Fake Holidays." Many focus on sites of tourism in which a locale has either capitalized on a previous connection (either strong or tenuous) or created one out of the blue.

I know that that there have to be more people doing work on and about this, and perhaps it's just my tired graduate student memory that needs help jogging...can you help point me to more? I have included links above to spur your thinking and names that others have suggested so far below. If you also know of sites (such as Miniaturk in Turkey) that bring sites and monuments from disparate places together in one place, that would be welcome too.

Comment if you wish below. Many many thanks, and if used, there will be a grateful citation and endnote awarded in your honor!

OTHER NAMES SUGGESTED BY AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL FOLKS:
Beth Dow, Thomas Demand, Christopher Sims, E. Robinson Brady, An-My Lê, and variations of "Never been to"...and more.

ABOVE: Reiner Riedler, from the series "Fake Holidays"