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> H-ASIA
> April 29, 2011
>
> Symposium: Architecturalized Asia (Seattle, May 14-15, 2011)
> ***********************************************************************
> From: Vimalin Rujivacharakul <vimalin@art-sci.udel.edu>
>
> Symposium "Architecturalized Asia"
> Saturday, May 14 – Sunday, May 15, 2011
> Seattle University, Hunthausen (HUNT) Room 110
> Seattle, WA USA
>
> This symposium explores the historical mapping of "Asia" both spatially
> and ideologically, through the lenses of architecture, geography, visual
> studies, and textual representations. Ten speakers will collectively
> highlight the dynamics of cultural exchange and various national and
> imperialist projects, as well as alternative and more inclusive ways of
> imagining Eurasia and other frameworks produced from the 16th to the 20th
> centuries.
>
> This symposium is related to a book project, "Architecturalized Asia:
> Mapping a Continent through History," edited by
> Vimalin Rujivacharakul, H. Hazel Hahn, Ken Tadashi Oshima and Peter
> Christensen.
>
> Full details can be found at:
> http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/history/Default.aspx?id=72817
>
> Speakers (in alphabetical order):
>
> Zoltán Biedermann, University of London Birkbeck College
> "Setting the Frame(s): Early Iberian Attempts at Ordering Asian Space"
>
> Peter Christensen, Harvard University
> "The Eurasian Hour: Ratzel, Mackinder, and the Architecture of
> Geopolitical Identity"
>
> Igor Demchenko, MIT
> "Excavating Astana: the New City on the Ruins of Soviet Modernity"
>
> H. Hazel Hahn, Seattle University
> "Abstract Spaces of Asia, Indochina and Empire in French Imaginaire,
> 1800s-1930s"
>
> Yuming He, University of Chicago
> "Remapping Asia: Pictorial Inventory and Vernacular Invention in Early
> Modern China"
>
> Caroline Herbelin, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
> "In Search of 'Indochinese Style': Between Southeast Asian Synecdoche
> and National Identities"
>
> Chia Yin Hsu, Portland State University
> "The Manchurian Project: Railroad Projects in Manchuria and the Russian
> Colonial Lieux de Mémoire, 1890s–1930s"
>
> Ken Tadashi Oshima, University of Washington
> "Asia outside Asia: The Alaska Yukon Exhibition of 1909 and the
> Pacific's Boundaries"
>
> Daniel Rosenberg, University of Oregon Honors College
> "Mapping Time: Projects and Problems"
>
> Vimalin Rujivacharakul, University of Delaware
> "Asia in World Architecture and World Cartography, 1500s-1900s"
>
> For information, contact Hazel Hahn, Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair 2010-12,
> at hahnh@seattleu.edu
>
> This symposium is sponsored by the Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair of
> Humanities Fund at Seattle University. Visit the website at
> http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/history/Default.aspx?id=72817
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