OCTOBER 3-4, 2010 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Documenting History, Charting Progress, Exploring the World: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Architecture

This symposium is free and open to the public. It is supported by Indiana University's New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities, program, funded by the Office o of the President and administered by the Vice President for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research; and at the University of Notre Dame by The Snite Museum of Art, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and the School of Architecture.

Sunday, October 3, 2010 sessions are from 2 to 5 p.m. in Weikamp Hall, Room DW1001, campus of Indiana University, South Bend

The keynote lecture, "An Art Calculated Peculiarly for Architecture--Henry Talbot's Photography," will be presented by Larry Schaaf, a photography historian.

Monday, October 4, 2010 sessions are from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Annenberg Auditorium, the Snite Museum of Art, campus of Notre Dame.

THe 4:30 p.m. closing lecture, "Blockscapes on Paper: Capturing the Streets of the New 19th-Century City will be presented in Room 104, Bond Hall, Notre Dame School of Architecture by Jeffrey Cohen, senior lecturer in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program, Bryn Mawr College.

The symposium is organized by Micheline Nilsen, associate professor of Art History, Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts, Indiana University South Bend, mnilsen@iusb.edu, 574-520-4277.

Click here for a PDF of the conference schedule.

Three nearby hotels are:

The Morris Inn (located on campus)

The Inn at St. Mary's

Ivy Court


Related Exhibitions: Held in conjunction with the Snite Museum of Art exhibition, Documenting History, Changing Progress, and Exploring the World: Architecture As Illstrated in Selections from the Janos Scholz Collection of Nineteenth-Century European Photographs, which is on view through October 31, 2010.

Catalog:
The Museum published its catalog of the sculpture archive, Passages of Light and Time: The Artistic Journey of George Rickey, written by ND graduate intern Shannon Kephart, in conjunction with the symposium. It is available as a Friends of the Snite membership incentive at the $60 level or above.

Click here for more information on the Rickey Symposium.