Feb. 17-19, 2011
Directed by Thomas Gensheimer and Jeff Eley
Savannah College of Art and Design's Architectural History Department
The 2011 symposium will explore the role of spirituality as it relates to the development and shaping of architectural and urban forms. Paper sessions will focus on the broadest context of spirituality as a significant factor in the study of the built environment globally, nationally and locally. Of particular interest are essays that provide a critical evaluation of the relationship or co-existence of sacred and secular spirituality in regards to the constructed world.
2011 Keynote Speakers
Kenneth Foote is a professor of Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he has taught since 2000. He is the vice president of the Association of American Geographers and serves on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Geography Education Foundation. He received a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago, and his principle areas of research in cultural geography focus on issues of how events of violence and tragedy are marked on the landscape and the development of national commemorative traditions in Europe and the United States. Dr. Foote has published numerous articles and essays in the areas of American and European landscape history, geographic information science and the learning and teaching geography in higher education. He has received the Gilbert Grosvenor Honors in Geographic Education by the Association of American Geographers in 2005. His books include "Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy" (1997) which received numerous awards including the J.B. Jackson Prize of the Association of American Geographers in 1998.
Louis Nelson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Early American Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architectural History at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 2001. Nelson serves on the Board of Directors for the Vernacular Architecture Forum and the Falmouth (Jamaica) Heritage Renewal, which is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of historic structures in the community. He received a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the University of Delaware, with principal research on Anglican architecture and early landscape representations of South Carolina.
Dr. Nelson has made notable contributions to the study of architecture and historic preservation. He has served as a consultant on projects including the Wren Building in Williamsburg, Virginia, as an adviser to the Digital Archaeological Archives of Comparative Slavery, as a visiting scholar to the museum of Early American Southern Decorative Arts and the Nevis Heritage Project, and as a member of the Albemarle County Historic Preservation Committee. He has authored numerous articles and essays, including "The Architectures of Identity: Race, Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean and the American South," "The Diversity of Countries: Anglican Architecture in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica," "Placing the Sacred: Reflections on Contemporary American Church Architecture" and "Sensing the Sacred: Anglican Material Religion in Early South Carolina." The last essay received the 2009 Southeast Society of Architectural Historians "Article of the Year" Award. His books include "The Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina" (2009) and "Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America," a collection of essays co-edited with Maurie McInnis (in production).
http://www2.scad.edu/architectural-history/symposium/2011/ for more information.
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2011 Keynote Speakers
Kenneth Foote is a professor of Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he has taught since 2000. He is the vice president of the Association of American Geographers and serves on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Geography Education Foundation. He received a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago, and his principle areas of research in cultural geography focus on issues of how events of violence and tragedy are marked on the landscape and the development of national commemorative traditions in Europe and the United States. Dr. Foote has published numerous articles and essays in the areas of American and European landscape history, geographic information science and the learning and teaching geography in higher education. He has received the Gilbert Grosvenor Honors in Geographic Education by the Association of American Geographers in 2005. His books include "Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy" (1997) which received numerous awards including the J.B. Jackson Prize of the Association of American Geographers in 1998.
Louis Nelson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Early American Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architectural History at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 2001. Nelson serves on the Board of Directors for the Vernacular Architecture Forum and the Falmouth (Jamaica) Heritage Renewal, which is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of historic structures in the community. He received a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the University of Delaware, with principal research on Anglican architecture and early landscape representations of South Carolina.
Dr. Nelson has made notable contributions to the study of architecture and historic preservation. He has served as a consultant on projects including the Wren Building in Williamsburg, Virginia, as an adviser to the Digital Archaeological Archives of Comparative Slavery, as a visiting scholar to the museum of Early American Southern Decorative Arts and the Nevis Heritage Project, and as a member of the Albemarle County Historic Preservation Committee. He has authored numerous articles and essays, including "The Architectures of Identity: Race, Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean and the American South," "The Diversity of Countries: Anglican Architecture in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica," "Placing the Sacred: Reflections on Contemporary American Church Architecture" and "Sensing the Sacred: Anglican Material Religion in Early South Carolina." The last essay received the 2009 Southeast Society of Architectural Historians "Article of the Year" Award. His books include "The Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina" (2009) and "Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America," a collection of essays co-edited with Maurie McInnis (in production).
http://www2.scad.edu/architectural-history/symposium/2011/ for more information.
For more information, e-mail architectural history.
Learn more about architectural history at SCAD.
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