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and the departments of History, Art History, Anthropology, and South Asia Regional Studies, the Latin American Cultures Program, the Middle East Center, the African Studies Center and the Center for Folklore and Ethnographyof the University of Pennsylvania |
Thursday, September 19, 2002
4:30-6:30 at 3619 Locust Walk, First Floor
Ethnohistory Workshop (co-sponsored
by the University of Pennsylvania Department of the History of Art)
“The 'Médina': Colonial
Nomenclature and the Haunting of Scholarship”
Mia Fuller, University
of California at Berkeley, Department of Italian Studies
6:30 Reception immediately following
Friday, September 20, 2002
"Material Worlds" Symposium
Department of Chemistry, 231 S. 34th St.,
Lynch Room
9:00-11:00 Session I: Zones of Contact, Zones
of Exchange: Rethinking Dependency, Resistance, and
Colonial Relationships
"Material Dimensions of
Contact in the Orinoco"
Franz Scaramelli, University
of Chicago, Department of Anthropology
Discussant: Robert Preucel,
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology
"Assimilation or Resistance?
The Production and Consumption of Tlingit Beadwork"
Megan Smetzer, University
of British Columbia, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
Discussant: Daniel Richter,
University of Pennsylvania, Department of History and Director
of the McNeil Center for
Early American Studies
"Collecting China and Making
Meanings: Britons at the Treaty Ports and in Beijing, 1860-1900)"
Judith Green, University
of Sussex, Graduate Research Centre in Humanities, History of Art
Discussant: Susan Naquin,
Princeton University, Department of History
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30-1:30 Session II: Mediating Imperial Politics: Trade, Consumption and Self-Representation
"Undressing Malesore
Albanians: Rewriting Late Ottoman History through its Material Culture"
Isa Blumi, New York University,
Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies
Discussant: Peter Stallybrass,
University of Pennsylvania, Department of English
"Currencies of Nature:
The Atlantic Mahogany Trade, 1700-1800"
Jennifer Anderson, New
York University, Department of History
Discussant: Timothy Burke,
Swarthmore College, Department of Anthropology
1:30-3:00 Lunch
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Seminar
3:00-5:00 Department of Chemistry, 231 S.
34th St., Lynch Room
"Identity in a Season of
Revolution: Portraits, Memory and Copley's Men"
Margaretta Lovell, University
of California at Berkeley, Department of Art History
5:00 Reception immediately following
Saturday, September 21, 2002
"Material Worlds" Symposium
Department of Chemistry, 231 S. 34th St.,
Lynch Room
9:00-11:00 Keynote Address
"The Biography of a Cloth:
Unfolding Meanings, Circulating Images"
Sally Price, College of
William and Mary, Department of Anthropology
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30-1:30 Session III: Consolidating Colonial Power, Producing Elite Identities
"Ephemeral Art, Spectacle,
and the Reassertion of Colonial Authority in Eighteenth
Century Puebla: The Celebration
in Honor of the Bourbon Hercules"
Frances Ramos, University
of Texas at Austin, Department of History
Discussant: Nancy Farriss,
University of Pennsylvania, Department of History
"The Materialism of an Import:
Italian Opera in European Africa"
Jessica Otey, University
of California at Berkeley, Department of Italian Studies
Discussant: Lee Cassanelli,
University of Pennsylvania, Department of History and
Director of African Studies
Center
"Coyas and Curacas: Issues
of Power and Gender in Colonial Peruvian Portraiture"
Nenita Ponce de Léon
Elphick, Harvard University Department of Art and Architecture
Discussant: Diana Fane,
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Curator Emeritus
1:30-3:00 Lunch
3:00-5:00 Session IV: Contested Colonial States:
Communal Identities, Nascent Nationalisms,
and Emergent Ethnicities
"The Capsola: Contesting
the Colonial in Palestine"
Esmail Nashif, University
of Texas at Austin, Department of Anthropology
Discussant: Renata Holod,
University of Pennsylvania Department of the History of Art
"'Reconstructing the Ruins':
The Production, Circulation and Consumption of Archaeological
Sites in Colonial North
India"
Tamara Sears, University
of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art
Discussant: Mia Fuller,
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Italian Studies
"The Weeping Virgin of San
Miguel: Religion and Authority in Colonial El Salvador"
Anne Pushkal, University
of Pennsylvania, Department of History
Discussant: Robert St.
George, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History
5:00-5:15 Coffee Break
5:15-5:45 Closing Remarks
Maria Feliciano, University
of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art
Yanna Yannakakis, University
of Pennsylvania, Department of History
6:00-7:00 Reception
