GENDERED LANDSCAPES CONFERENCE
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GENDERED LANDSCAPES: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space
May 29-June 1, 1999
The Nittany Lion Inn
The Pennsylvania State University
State College, Pennsylvania
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The goal of the first Gendered Landscapes conference is to convene
scholars from the many disciplines who study and are inspired by issues of
gender and landscape history. This unique conference offers an opportunity
for participants to establish new standards for communication across
disciplinary and cultural boundaries. The conference theme allows for a
broadly based, widely interpreted discussion regarding the cultural
meanings of the spaces in which we have lived and worked.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Geographers; sociologists; historians of architecture, art, and the environment;
anthropologists; public and urban historians; landscape architects;
scholars in American Studies
and Womenąs Studies; and others.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals for panel sessions of three papers, as well as individual
papers, are welcome. Examples of possible topics and instructions are
available on the web site. Deadline for submission of abstracts of no more
than 250 words is October 15, 1998.
INVITED SPEAKERS
… Nina Baym is the Swanlund Endowed Chair at the Center for Advanced Study
and a professor of English.
… James Duncan is a geographer at Cambridge University and author of
numerous books which focus on issues of landscape representation.
… James Loewen is a sociologist and the author of the best-selling and
critically acclaimed book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your
American History Teacher Got Wrong.
… Daphne Spain is a professor of Urban and Environmental Planning in the
School of Architecture at the University of Virginia.
*For complete details and up-to-date information, please visit the Web site at:
http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/GenderedLandscapes/
FOR MORE INFORMATION
About program content:
Bonj Szczygiel
The Center for Studies in Landscape History
Department of Landscape Architecture
The Pennsylvania State University
E-mail: bx...@psu.edu
Josephine Carubia
Womenąs Studies Program and Department of English The Pennsylvania State
University
E-mail: jm...@psu.edu
Lorraine Dowler
Department of Geography
The Pennsylvania State University
E-mail: lx...@psu.edu
About registration:
Judy Hall, Conference Planner
The Pennsylvania State University
225 The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel
University Park PA 16802-7002
Phone: (814) 863-5100
E-mail: Confere...@cde.psu.edu
an outreach program of the College of Arts and Architecture and the
College of the Liberal Arts; co-sponsored by the Center for Studies in
Landscape History and the Womenąs Studies Program
To be placed on the mailing list, nationwide, call 1-800-PSU-TODAY
(1-800-778-8632) or send us an e-mail with your name, address, phone
number, fax number, and Internet address to Confere...@cde.psu.edu .
Please be sure to reference GENDERED LANDSCAPES in all correspondence.
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