Symposium Schedule (All Times EST)
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Thursday, May 28
9-10:30 AM: Building Neoclassicism
Moderated by Robin Hartanto Honggare (National University of Singapore)
Dante Furioso (Princeton University, USA), Tools and Chains: Producing Neoclassicism in Colonial Havana
Erika Brandl (University of Bergen, Norway), Counterfeit Neoclassicism: Forging Identity and Hierarchy in West African Home Architecture (1816-1847)
Aleksander Musial (gta, ETH Zürich, Switzerland), Sites for Eternity: Modern Tumuli and Emancipated Settlements in Eastern Europe, ca. 1775-1825
11AM-1PM: Keynote Presentation, Prof, Meredith Martin (New York University, USA)
2-3:30 PM: Enforcing Neoclassicism
Moderated by Y. L. Lucy Wang (Pratt Institute and Syracuse University, USA)
Aden Solway (Harvard University, USA), Returnist Form in the Nationalist Maghreb
Michael Faciejew (Dalhousie University, Canada), The Architecture of False Transition: Neoclassicism in the Settler Colonial Hydroscape
Magali Franchino (Universidad de la Plata, Argentina and Universitat de Girona, Spain), Where Does Character Lie? Teaching Architecture in Buenos Aires: Between the Ideals of the Post-Revolutionary State and the Argentine Nation-State, 1820-1890
Friday, May 29
9-10:30 AM: Endowing Neoclassicism
Moderated by Nikos Magouliotis (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Elli Antonia Vlachou (Independent Researcher, History and Theory of Architecture), Two Neoclassicisms: Diasporic Benefaction and the Making of National Architecture in Modern Greece
Charles Ro (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Imperial Forms, Impossible Sovereignty: Seokjojeon and the Limits of Korean Neoclassicism
Jyoti Pandey Sharma (School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India), An Unconventional Cosmopolitan Affair in Mofussil India: Neoclassical Adventures of the Trio of an India Queen: Her Italian Mercenary-turned Architect and her Anonymous Artisans
3-4:45 PM: Consecrating Neoclassicism
Moderated by David Sadighian (Yale School of Architecture)
Sara González Castrjón (Universidad Católica de Santa María, Peru), Negotiated Neoclassicism: Neoclassical Aesthetics and Ecclesiastical Art in the Andean Highlands
Alexandra Lindqvist (Independent Scholar), Neoclassicism as Autocratic Modernity: Catherine II, Orthodoxy, and Non-State Patronage in Late-Eighteenth-Century Russia
Robbin Skinner (Victorian University of Wellington, New Zealand), Concrete Expression: Neoclassicism in Colonial New Zealand
João Francisco Grave (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Lisbon and Beyond: Discussing Pombaline Sacred Architecture
Saturday, May 30
9-10:45 AM: Localizing Neoclassicism
Moderated by Ünver Rüstem (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Adekunle Adeyemo (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife-Ife, Nigeria), (Re)appropriating Neoclassicism: Robert Jones’ Mapo Hall, Ibadan, Nigeria
Shen Boyang (National University of Singapore), Premature Death and Political Possession: Neoclassicism and Preparatory Constitutionalist Architecture on the Eve of the Qing Collapse
Federico Marcomini (Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Italy), The Ambiguities of the Classical and Africa’s First Independent Republic: Architecture in Liberia (1823-1910)
Markus Lähteenmäki (University of Helsinki, Finland), Empire Off-Center: Territorial Expansion and Contested Meanings of Neoclassicism in the Russian Empire
12-1:30 PM: Visualizing Neoclassicism
Moderated by Barbara Vujanović (The Ivan Meštrović Museums)
Jennifer Laffick (Southern Methodist University, USA), Atlantic Davidians: French Neoclassical Painting in Cuba and Brazil
Agnieszka Anna Ficek (Meadows Museum, USA), Classical Forms, Colonial Fantasies: Neoclassical Iconography and the Visual Logic of Peruvienophilie
Benjamin Weisgall (Columbia University, USA), Constance and Propriety: Classical Architecture in Colonial India