Alexander C.T. Geppert
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2005
9:00 – 9:05
Welcome and Introduction
Tammy Lau (California State University, Fresno)
9:05 – 9:45
Opening forum: "New Directions in World’s Fair Scholarship"
Robert Rydell, Montana State University
10:00 – 11:30
Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism at Expositions in the "Motherland"
Alda Blanco (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Memory Work and Empire: Madrid’s Phillipine Exposition (1887)"
Lynn Palermo (Susquehanna University)
"Louis Aragon and the 1931 Anti-Colonial Exposition in Paris: Political or Aesthetic Protest?"
Deborah L. Hughes (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"Contesting Metropolitan Unity: India, Kenya and the Spectacle of Colonial Politics, 1923-1925"
12:45 – 2:00 Work in Progress
Noah W. Sobe (Loyola University, Chicago)
"Pedagogies of Attention and Spectatorship: Educational Exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915"
Allison Marsh (Johns Hopkins University)
"The Industrial Tourist at the Fair"
Volker Barth (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
"World’s Fairs: Worlds in Their Own Right"
2:00-3:30
International Expositions: Microcosms of Ethnic and Cultural Stereotypes
Mae Ngai (University of Chicago)
"Chinese American Culture Brokers and the World’s Fairs, 1893-1915"
Abigail Markwyn (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Inviting the Alien: Images and Reality of China and Japan at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition"
Paul Young (University of Exeter)
"Eating People is Wrong: Monkey Man, Economic Man and the Great Exhibition of 1851"
3:45 – 5:00
World’s Fairs in Teaching Roundtable
Moderators: Robert Rydell and Eric Breitbart
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2005
9:00 – 10:30
War and World’s Fairs: Myth and Propaganda
J.D. Bowers (Northern Illinois University)
"War Fair!"
E. Anthony Swift (University of Essex)
"Selling Socialism: The Soviet Union at the World’s Fairs of the 1930s"
Marco Duranti (Yale University)
"Utopia, Nostalgia and Total War at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair"
10:45 – 12:15
Identity, Gender and Race in World’s Fair Architecture
T.J. Boisseau (University of Akron)
"’Where Every Woman May be a Queen?": World’s Fairs as Sites of Modern and Postmodern Gender-building"
Johan Lagae and Rika Devos (Ghent University)
"Inventing Africa: the Section of the Belgian Congo at the 1935 Brussels’ World’s Fair"
M. Haluk Zelef (Middle East Technical University)
"Representations of Turkish National Identity in Architecture: World’s Fair Pavilions"
Mabel O. Wilson (California College of the Arts)
"Exhibiting the New American Negro"
1:30 – 3:00
Absence and Presence: Germany and World’s Fairs
Alexander C.T. Geppert (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen)
"Why Never in Germany? Failed Exposition Projects, Wilhelm II and the Concept of the ‘Pre-factual,’ 1870-1910"
Christiane Heiser (University of Groningen)
"The German Werkbund goes into Politics, or How Germany Happened to Participate in the Ghent World’s Fair in 1913"
Jeff R. Schutts (University of British Columbia)
"Finding Refreshment at the World’s Fairs: How Coca-Cola came to Quench the Thirst of Hitler’s ‘German People at Work’"
3:15 – 4:45 Transformations in World’s Fairs
Angela Schwarz (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
"Designing the World of World’s Fairs: A European-American Joint Venture"
Mauricio Tenorio (University of Texas at Austin)
Title TBA
J.T. Todd (Drew University)
"The New York World’s Fairs and the Rise and Fall of Judeo-Christian America"
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2005
9:00 – 10:30
Design, Technology and New Media: Influences on World’s Fairs and the Influence of World’s Fairs
Paul Greenhalgh (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design)
"Modernity, Idealism and Style: The Presentation of the Modern at Victorian World's Fairs"
Michelle Henning (University of the West of England)
"Interactivity and New Media at the International Expositions"
Andreas Fickers (University of Utrecht)
"Presenting the ‘Window to the World’ to the World: Competing Narratives of Television at the World’s Fair in Paris (1937) and New York (1939)"
Robert D. Tamilia (University of Quebec at Montréal)
"Technology Transfer, World’s Fairs and the Department Store, 1851-1900"
10:45- 12:15
A Conversation with the Curators
Tammy Lau (Special Collections Library, California State University, Fresno)
Theresa Salazar (Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)
Patricia Keats (Society of California Pioneers Library)
Ronald Brashear (Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution)
Susan Goldstein (History Center, San Francisco Public Library)
Inez Cohen (Mechanics’ Institute Library)
David Shayt (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution)
12:30 Concluding Luncheon
Featured speaker: Vicente Gonzalez Loscertales
(Secretary General of the Bureau International des Expositions, Paris)
"Future World’s Fairs and the Future of World’s Fairs"
For more detailed information about the symposium (including the speakers’ abstracts) or to register for the symposium, please visit the web site at: http://www.lib.csufresno.edu/extra/wfs2005/. Any questions should be directed to Tammy Lau at tammyl@csufresno.edu or +1 (559) 278-2595