Thursday: March 25, 1999
School of Architecture, Campbell Hall 153

Welcome: William McDonough, Dean, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
5:30 - 5:45 p.m.

This event offered in association with
The Fifth Annual Virginia Festival of the Book
5:45 - 7:00 p.m.

Friday: March 26, 1999

Session I: Campbell Hall Room #158 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. The Politics of Preservation: Community Design, and Memory

Challenging Historic Preservation and the Image of Privilege in the Contemporary African American Landscape: Exploring Change on Eastern Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan   Kofi M. Boone, Landscape Architect,   Ann Arbor, MI

Rebuilding Bayview: Community Design as Catalyst for Social Change   Maurice D. Cox, Assistant Professor,   School of Architecture, University of Virginia

Waiting on Dawn at Demus: Reflections on Historic Landscape Documentation   LaBarbara J. Wigfall, Associate Professor,   Department of Landscape Architecture, Kansas State University

The Oakland Church Project   William Williams, Associate Professor,   Department of Landscape Architecture, Kansas State University

Moderator: Kenneth Schwartz, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Virginia Respondent: Daniel Bluestone, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Virginia

Session II: Campbell Hall Room #158 11:15 - 1:15 a.m. Memory and Amnesia: Alternative Narratives of Place and Race

Africa on Park Street: Interrogating the Boundaries of Race and Place in Jim Crow Virginia, 1900 - 1910   Reginald Butler, Associate Professor of History, Director,   Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies,   University of Virginia   Scot French, Assistant Director,   Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro- American and African Studies,   University of Virginia

Places of Memory: Walking Tours of Manhattan   Felecia Davis, Visiting Assistant Professor,   School of Architecture, Cornell University

Marking Brown v. Board of Education: Memorializing Separate and Unequal   Amy Weisser;   American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

Enter Between Rooms 306 and 307: Constructing History at the National Civil rights Museum   Mabel O.Wlson, Assistant Professor,   School of Architectural Studies, California College of of Arts and Crafts

Moderator: Christopher Fannin, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia Respondent: Elissa Rosenberg, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia School of Architecture

Session III: Campbell Hall Room #158 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Mnemonic Operations: Theories of Site and Memory

Architecture and the Contamination of Memories   Araya Asgedom, Assistant Professor,   Department of Architecture, Hampton University

Dispersed Development: Musical and Physical Organization of the AACM   David P. Brown, Assistant Professor,   School of Architecture, Rice University

Body.Memory.Map   Lesley Naa Norle Lokko, Assistant Professor,   School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago

Wrapping the Curtain: Resistance and Identity in the Permeability of Streetspace   William Wesley Taylor; Assistant Professor,   College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning, University of Cincinnati

Moderator:Earl Mark, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Virginia Respondent: Wallis Miller, Assistant Professor, College of Architecture, University of Kentucky

Session IV: Campbell Hall Room #158 4:15 - 6:15 p.m. Re-Constructing the Cultural Landscape

Miami' s Urban Surgery: Re-invigorating the Site Specific Center of Miami's African-American Culture   Nathaniel Quincy Belcher, Assistant Professor,   School of Architecture, Florida International University

Negotiated Space: The Historically Black College Campus as a Record of the Postbellum South   Kenrick Ian Grandison, Assistant Professor,   School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

Accomodation and Resistance: Cultural Expression in African American Buildings   Bradford Grant, Associate Professor, Chair,   Department of Architecture, Hampton University

Street Life/Street Corner   Shawn L. Rickenbacker, Assistant Professor,   Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University

Moderator: Clifton Ellis, Department of Architectural History, School of Architecture, University of Virginia Respondent: Camille Wells, Director of Research, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation

Closing Remarks: Craig Barton, Assitant Professor,
School of Architecture, University of Virginia
6:15 - 6:30 p.m.

Reception: The Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, Minor Hall

Exhibition: "History, Memory, Race, and Place in the Jim Crow South, 1900-1925," will be on view at the Carter G. Woodson Institute. This exhibition will present an exhibition of images and artifacts documenting the lives and cultural landscapes of African Americans in Central Virginia, featuring more than 100 images of African Americans from the Rufus W.Holsinger Studio Photograph Collection at the University of Virginia Library. The exhibition funded by a generous grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, is free and open to the public.
6:45 - 9:00p.m.

Saturday: March 27, 1999

Saturday: March 27, 1999