FYI...Stefanie ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- TAKING UP SPACE IN THE AMERICAN WEST: A SYMPOSIUM A Symposium to Explore Space and Spatial Analysis in the Making and Remaking of Western Land- and Cityscapes, featuring Mike Davis, author of _City of Quartz_, and the work of graduate students in the Department of History at UC Irvine. 30 May 1998 8.30-9.00 Cont'l Breakfast 9.00-9.20 Groundwork Douglas C. Sackman, UC Irvine, 'Opening Vistas on Western Spaces' * Spencer C. Olin, UC Irvine, 'Space as a Category of Analysis' 9.25-11.10 Negotiating Public Space Chair, Dorothy Fujita Rony, UC Irvine * Anthony Bernier, 'Erasing the Sidewalk Metropolis: Street Furniture, Pedestrians, and Public Space in Urban America, 1910s-1939' * Tom Heaney, 'Home, Home on the Road: Space, Travel, and Family Vacations, 1935-1955' * Jeremiah Borenstein Axelrod, '"I Want Them to Feel They are in Another World": Space, Transportation, and Urbanism in 1950s Disneyland and Southern California' * Discussant, Hal K. Rothman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, author of _Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the 20th Century West_ 11.20-1.00 Spaces Sacred and Profane in the Borderlands Chair, Michael C. Steiner, California State University, Fullerton * Dennis Kortheuer, 'High & Low: Space and Architecture as Locations and Symbols of Power in a Baja California Mining Enclave' * Teresa Romero, 'Writing Home from the Papal Frontier: American Women's Accounts of Missionary Work in Mexico, 1850-1920' * John Rubio, 'Missionary Images and Spaces in Colonial California' * Discussant, William Deverell, California Institute of Technology, author of _Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910_ 1.00-2.00 Lunch 2.00-3.45 Geographies of Danger and Desire Chair, Thelma Foote, UC Irvine * Kyle Julien, 'Keeping Jazz "In Its Place": Music and the Geography of Race in 1940s Los Angeles' * Fiona Brigstocke, 'Illicit Metropolis: New York Cabarets and Buffet Flats' * Cindy I-Fen Cheng, 'Spatialized _Other_: Chinatown in Los Angeles' * Jon A. Mochizuki, 'Mapping the Black Dahlia Murder: The Geography of Sexual Danger in Postwar Los Angeles' * Discussant, Virginia Scharff, University of New Mexico, author of _Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age_ 4.00-5.30 Capstone Address Introduction, Jon Wiener, UC Irvine * Mike Davis, '"White people are just a bad dream": Wovoka's Vision and the Millennial West' The Conference will Take Place at the University of California, Irvine 30 May 1998 in the Humanities Instructional Building. This Symposium has been made possible by the generous support of: The Council for Collaborative Research in the Humanities * The Department of History, UC Irvine * Office of Graduate Studies, School of Humanities, UC Irvine. * We would also like to thank Cornelia Dayton and Spencer Olin. For More Information, and Directions, check our website <http://www.hnet.uci.edu/hgsa/conference/space.html>. Or contact Tom Heaney at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Jem Axelrod at 949 675 1723 (phone) or 949 675 0901(fax). doug sackman department of history uc irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^^^ doug sackman department of history uc irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^^^ ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 56 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
