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NEWSLETTER OF THE HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY SPECIALTY GROUP
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS
Winter 2002
Volume 11, Number 1
Jon T. Kilpinen
Department of Geography
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN 46383
Telephone: (219) 464-5157
E-mail: Jon.Kilpinen@valpo.edu
Co-Editors
Artimus Keiffer
Department of Geography
Wittenberg University
Springfield, OH 45501
Telephone: (937) 327-7304
E-mail: akeiffer@wittenberg.edu
HGSG on the World Wide Web: http://www.geog.okstate.edu/hgsg/hgsg.htm
VIEWS FROM THE CHAIR
David J. Robinson, Department of Geography, Syracuse University; Syracuse, N. Y. 13244
Telephone: (315) 443-2605, or E-mail: drobins@maxwell.syr.edu
As I mentioned in the last edition of Past Place one of the
first items of business during my tenure as Chair is my
proposal to establish a set of Bylaws (published at the end
of the last Past Place) to govern the HG specialty group.
This is intended to be a written set of guidelines that I
think would clarify who we are and what we do, etc. To
date I have not received any suggested modifications to
them as set out, and I would like us to consider them, and
any amendments from the floor, and adopt them by
formal vote during our business meeting at the upcoming
2002 AAG meeting.
I noted in my last message that perhaps the most
important modification is in regard to the establishment
of a separate position of Secretary of the HGSG. It has
become clear from past experience that one person
cannot, or rather should not, be responsible for two
tasks. This will mean adjusting the chronology of
elections to several positions of the Group but we can
consider this issue at the Los Angeles meeting.
I would like to thank, on behalf of everyone, our new
webmaster, Brad Bays of Oklahoma State, who has very
efficiently enhanced our position on the Web. Please
note the new address if you haven’t already added it to
your Web favorites:
http://www.geog.okstate.edu/hgsg/hgsg.htm
Anyone contacting the old site at Syracuse is automatically
forwarded to the new one.
We also have to thank Samuel Otterstrom for having set
up the new H-HistGeog listserv for members of the
Group. We shall no doubt hear from him regarding
membership of the Advisory Board and other matters in
the near future. I know from past experience on other
listservs run through the H-Net that we have to maintain
a good flow of items to remain on that system, so please
send items of information, questions, comments, notices
of events, etc, to Samuel. For more on the listserv, visit
the H-HistGeog listserv website at:
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~histgeog/
I would like to invite all members to attend both the
paper sessions in honor of David Lowenthal at the AAG
meeting in Los Angeles, and especially the reception
afterwards since we have provided substantial funding for
the latter! Here are the particulars on the reception:
Date:
Time:
Room:
Wednesday, March 20
8:15-10:00 p.m.
San Gabriel B
I look forward to seeing many of you in Los Angeles.
(HGSG-sponsored sessions are highlighted on p. 6.)
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EDITOR’S REMARKS
WANTED: HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, Dead or Alive?
A while back, I suggested an article on the current status
of Historical Geography in higher education, and began to
collect information. Now with a change in jobs and
residence, I somehow misplaced along the way the
various research items I had accumulated. Kind of
geographic isn’t it?
Now, with this turn of events, I am soliciting input on this
topic. I—and other historical geographers, I hope—would
be interested in knowing to what degree historical
geography is surviving in our various programs. How
many departments still have a course titled “historical
geography” listed in their catalogs? How often is it
taught? When was the last time it was taught? Is it a
required class for the major? Is it listed as a viable
research tool? Are there any variations on the topic?
A few observations on what I recall from compiling stats
on those questions. First, the HGSG is one of the largest
specialty groups in the AAG. Most of us are intrigued by
history, and geography itself is a historical compilation of
spatial variations. These can be represented with maps
(GIS and computer cartography) showing changes in
demography, weather patterns, and cultural diversity, as
well as ecological changes and diffusion processes, all of
which are common threads in most geographical studies.
So we have the necessary interest in the topic; now we
need the information as to its position and direction.
Second, recent trends in academia are key: University
departments are shifting to technologically based classes,
bringing in instructors with backgrounds in technology.
And with the current departmental trend toward
competition and, indeed, survival in the institution (given
budget cuts and student enrollment hours), offering an
introductory course or advanced seminar on historical
geography is less and less a priority.
Third, with technology-savvy students increasingly
focused on real-life employment opportunities, many
schools now emphasize newer courses to attract the
career-minded students looking ahead to a technologybased marketplace. These include the marketable and
technological side of geography: urban planning,
environmental policy, and education.
Fourth, although historical geography provides a platform
for other areas of inquiry, it is not a field in which one is
easily employed. Scanning the newspaper’s job listings, I
see no ads for historical geographers per se, unless you
delve into museum studies or history project curators.
Even most of these positions require a degree in history
or museum administration.
These observations would seem to indicate that historical
geographers are underrepresented in course offerings.
The focus of spatial change over time is not a marketable
track in the university arena. Students want jobs, not
more history—they are required to take a certain
number of general education hours in the history
department. A negative connotation could also affect
economic geography, when students are required to take
economics and learn about supply and demand curves
instead of a geographic view of how regular people
historically make a living on a global scale.
My thesis advisor, a declared historical geographer, said
on many occasions, “We have to have a sense of the past
to know where we are today.” I agree with that but
would add, “So we understand where we might be
heading in the future.”
I thought about this as I viewed restoration sites at one
Smithsonian Institution museum a few weeks ago. When
we create an exhibit, we copy pieces of history from their
spatial elements and paste them into displays as one
moment of time without relationship to other events and
places. Without an educational foundation, younger
viewers are unlikely to grasp the significance of the
historical snippet as an integral piece of a much larger
concept and connection—instead seeing it only as an
exhibit in a museum. Isn’t it our job to ensure they have
the opportunity to learn its full spectrum?
Obviously, we view historical geography as a separate
entity that warrants serious study—as a method of
inquiry unto itself. Many of us were fortunate to attend
school when the topic was considered a major course of
study. And though historical geography is by its nature
integrated into most classes, is it truly alive—or just
caught up in an academic stranglehold by the general
circumstances of the day?
In 1973, Wilbur Zelinsky, in this very newsletter stated:
“these are intoxicating times for the ‘historical
geographers’ of North America. In this glorious
springtime, which comes after a long winter of relative
obscurity and isolation, just to be alive seems like perfect
bliss” (Vol. 3, 2). Perhaps we became too intoxicated,
because Zelinsky made two other points: 1) “there is,
alas, no logical basis for the existence of a field of study
that could be honestly labeled ‘historical geography’” and
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2) “insofar as there does exist a community of scholars
with related concerns who call themselves ‘historical
geographers,’ these individuals and their concerns are
more accurately described by other terms.”
That treatise was refuted by several other leading
geographers. But, perhaps, coming from that
background, one could have ascertained future trends.
Perhaps we are caught up in other fields of study that
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actually use the guise of ‘historical geography’ to
understand but feel the need to make it more specialized.
Perhaps we focus on those areas to the extent that we
forget the underpinnings of what brought us there.
Perhaps we just don’t care that there is not a logical basis
for our field of study. That, in and of itself, is geographic
and could be interpreted by various groups differently. I
have my interpretation; I’d appreciate your thoughts. A.K.
(akeiffer@wittenberg.edu)
CONFERENCES
The Pioneer America Society will hold its 34th annual conference in Springfield, Illinois, on October 17-19, 2002.
The meeting will be held in conjunction with the Conference on Historical
Archaeology in Illinois, at the Hilton Hotel just east of the Old State Capitol in
downtown Springfield. The hosts for this event will be Tracey and Keith Sculle of
the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Robert Sherman of the Elijah Iles House
Foundation, and Floyd Mansberger of Fever River Research.
The theme for this year’s conference is: “Cultural Crossroads.” The Saturday field
trip will focus on the Abraham Lincoln sites in and around Springfield. It will also
include other important historic and architectural places within the city such as the
Elijah Iles House, a mid-19th century dwelling that reflects central Illinois’s cultural
crossroads, and the Dana Thomas House, an early Prairie School home designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright.
The conference committee is currently soliciting proposals for papers, special
sessions, and panel discussions relating to the conference theme. Papers on Illinois are especially welcome, but
presentations on all material culture topics of interest to the Society will be considered. The abstract deadline is July 5, 2002.
For guidelines and complete conference information, contact:
Tracey Sculle
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
Old State Capitol
Springfield, Illinois 62701
Phone: (217) 785-4324
Fax: (217) 524-7525
E-mail: Tracey_Sculle@IHPA.state.il.us
Student membership in the Pioneer America Society is still $10 a year and includes subscriptions to the Society’s two
journals, Material Culture and P.A.S.T. Students also receive a discount on conference registration fees.
The Eastern Historical Geography Association (EHGA) will convene a meeting in St. Augustine, Florida, in early
February, 2003. During the 30+-year history of the group, meetings have been held in Charleston and Savannah in the
southeast, as well as many other locations. The St. Augustine venue provides an ideal opportunity to focus on the Spanish
colonial presence in North America. However, papers on any topic of interest to historical geographers will be most
welcome. To place your name on the mailing list for notices about this meeting, please contact the organizer at one of the
following addresses:
Ary J. Lamme III
Department of Geography
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
Phone: (904) 392-0494
Fax: (904) 392-8855
E-mail: ajl3@geog.ufl.edu
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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Assuming David Robinson’s proposal to establish formal bylaws for the HGSG passes at the next business meeting, and given
the fact that Ted Muller has completed his term as Chair of the Special Events Committee, the HGSG will have two positions
to fill at the Los Angeles meeting. We therefore requests nominations for these positions. Nominees should be members of
the AAG HGSG and be prepared to attend future HGSG business meetings at the annual AAG meetings.
Please send your nominations to Jeanne Kay Guelke, HGSG Councilor for Elections (e-mail: jkg@fes.uwaterloo.ca) no later
than March 15, in order to have a ballot ready for the Los Angeles meetings. In the case of multiple nominations, a secret
ballot will be held during the business meeting. Obviously if the new bylaws are not adopted, we will keep with our existing
slate of officers, but we will still need nominees for a new member of the Special Events Committee. (Special thanks to Ted
for his excellent service on this committee!)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
New Student Representative Elected
Blake A. Harrison was recently elected to serve as the HGSG’s Student Representative. Blake, a Ph. D. student at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison and 2000-2001 recipient of the HGSG student research award, succeeds Jason Gilliland of
McGill University as our student representative. We extend our thanks to Jason for his service and wish Blake our best in his
new capacity.
HGSG Student Research Award—Prize Winners, 2001-2002
The HGSG awarded research awards to the following student members in 2002:
Jim Hanlon, University of Kentucky
• For work on a topic on public housing, racial segregation, and urban transformation in Louisville, KY.
Langdon Smith, University of Kansas and University of Montana
• For research on state park development during the New Deal years.
Gareth John, University of Kentucky
• To investigate Yellowstone and the "national park idea."
Our congratulations to these scholars, and our thanks to Craig Colten, Geoff Buckley, and Karl Byrand for serving on the
Student Research Award selection committee.
HGSG Student Paper Competition—Call for Papers
The HGSG will sponsor three student competitions in 2001-2002:
The Ralph Brown Award for papers written by Master’s-level students;
The Andrew Hill Clark Award for papers written at the Ph.D.-level; and
The Applied Historical Geography Award for projects of an applied nature.
Eligibility for the first two awards is open to any graduate student who has or will present a paper at any professional
conference beginning the day after the 2001 AAG Annual Meeting and ending the last day of the 2002 Annual Meeting.
Students wishing to participate in the first two awards should send three (3) copies of a conference-length paper of no
more than 11 double-spaced pages plus notes, figures, etc. to the person listed below. Students wishing to enter the Applied
competition should submit three (3) copies of a project description of no more than 11 double-spaced pages plus
supporting materials such as photographs, site plans, etc. to the same person listed below.
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Each award carries with it a $250 First Prize. Second prizes of lesser amounts may be awarded at the discretion of the
competition judges. Please note: If the paper you wish to enter for the Ralph Brown Award is based upon research
conducted while you were a Master’s student, you are eligible to enter this competition, even if you are now a Ph.D.
student. In evaluating the papers, preference will be given to those based on primary sources of information rather than
literature reviews. Regardless of which competition you enter, please indicate in a cover letter to which one you are
applying and include your e-mail address, if you have one. Deadline for receiving materials is February 25, 2002.
All mailings should be sent to, and any questions can be directed to:
Brad Bays
HGSG Student Competition Coordinator
Dept. of Geography
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078-4073
Phone: (405) 744-9171
Fax: (405) 744-5620
E-mail: bbays@okstate.edu
New Book Honors Alan R. H. Baker
A festschrift for Dr. Alan R. H. Baker (Cambridge University), long one Britain's leading historical geographer was launched at
the recent ICHG in Quebec:
I.S. Black and R.A. Butlin, eds. Place, Culture and Identity: Essays in Historical Geography in Honour of Alan R.H. Baker (Les
Presses de l'Universite Laval, Quebec, 2001)
The book can be ordered through the following distributors:
Distribution de Livres Univers
845, Rue Marie-Victorin
Saint-Nicholas (Quebec)
Canada G7A 3S8
http:/www.ulaval.ca/pul
UBC Press
University of British Columbia
2029 West Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V6T 1Z2
Eurospan University Press Group
3 Henrietta Street
Covent Garden
London WC2E 8LU U.K.
info@eurospan.co.uk
New Book Published (with the help of the Leifer Center)
Jewish Women in the Yishuv and Zionism: A Gender Perspective, edited by Margalit Shilo, Ruth Kark and Galit HasanRokem, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, 2001 (Hebrew, 462 pp.).
The book contains six parts:
Constructing the Historical Narrative
Women and Immigration
Pioneers and Defenders
The editors intend to publish the book in English.
Education, Health and Politics
Creativity in Work and Music
Shaping the Collective Memory
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2002 AAG ANNUAL MEETING—HGSG-SPONSORED SESSIONS
Historical Geography Specialty Group Business Meeting
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Tentative agenda:
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9.
Room: Los Cerritos
Approval of the Minutes of 2001 AGM
Welcome to international members and visitors
Treasurer’s Report
Changes in Committee membership, officers and duties
Election of Officers
Consideration of proposed Bylaws for the Group
Special events: the Lowenthal Sessions and future events
Local "historical geography" event
Any other business
(Please send other items you wish to be included to drobins@maxwell.syr.edu)
The Lowenthal Papers
Conveners: Kenneth Olwig & Denis Cosgrove
David Lowenthal has been an important figure in a range of differing fields of study. So broad have been his concerns, that a
person who knows him as a founding figure in heritage studies, for example, may not be aware of his pioneering work on
landscape and environmental perception, his key contributions to the study of conservation history or his work in American
and West Indian studies. Yet, there is a scholarly foundation for Lowenthal’s many faceted work that has contributed
importantly to the theoretical vitality of contemporary cultural geography. This foundation derives from Lowenthal’s point of
departure in the social and scholarly practice of the conservationist and geographer, George Perkins Marsh. It is in Marsh’s
work that one finds an important alternative icon for a generation of geographers who sought an alternative human
geography to that offered by the triad of space, sociology and economy that dominated mid-Twentieth Century geography.
Marsh was not concerned with nature simply as an object of study, but also as a culturally perceived and historically
constituted phenomenon. Lowenthal indicated that the same epistemological issues can be addressed within geographical
landscapes, thus laying the ground for his pioneering work on heritage and environmental preservation. This work, in turn,
has great bearing upon the contemporary interest in place, region and identity, which Lowenthal helped develop in the
context of American and West Indian studies in particular, and of islands in general.
In the following three sessions, each paper will pursue a topic that has been important to the Lowenthal oeuvre. The point,
however, is not to lionize Lowenthal. It is rather to follow him (directly or indirectly) in deriving inspiration from the often
hidden links between the apparently divergent areas of study covered in these sessions.
Session One: Environment, the Humanities and Landscape
Date: Wednesday, March 20
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Room: San Gabriel B
Marsh, Italy, Nature and Environment, Marcus Hall
Landscape, Kenneth Olwig
Perceptual Geography, Yi-Fu Tuan
Geography Scholarship, and the Humanities, Denis Cosgrove
Commentary: Edmunds Bunkse
Session Two: Environment and History
Date: Wednesday, March 20
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Conservation, Michael Williams
Nature and Community, Mike Bell
Heritage and History, Max Page
Heritage and Place, Jacquie Burgess
Commentary: Stephen Daniels
Room: San Gabriel B
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Date: Wednesday, March 20
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:40 p.m.
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Room: San Gabriel B
The Wellsprings of America’s National and Regional Landscape Identities, Michael Conzen
The West Indies, Bonham Richardson
Islands of the Mind: Imagining Islands over Time and Space, John Gillis
The Decisive Influence of Ephraim Ketchall, David Lowenthal
Commentary: Harvey K. Flad
The Lowenthal Papers Reception
Date: Wednesday, March 20
Time: 8:15 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Room: San Gabriel B
Light Impressions: Travel, Writing, and Photography
Organizer: Joan M. Schwartz, National Archives of Canada; Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Geography,
Carleton University; and Adjunct Professor of the History of Photography, Department of Art, Queen’s University
Photography stepped onto the world stage at a time when travel had already become a powerful method for acquiring
geographical knowledge. The link between travel writing and the construction of imaginative geographies has been explored
extensively by geographers in recent years. This session examines the origins and nature of travel photography and its
relationship to travel and travel writing. It interrogates the images of photographers who traveled, and the images of
travelers who photographed or collected photographs, relating their photographs to their writing, as well as to their notions
of landscape, identity, and memory.
Chair: Karen M. Morin, Department of Geography, Bucknell University
Date: Wednesday, March 20
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Room: Santa Anita A
Speakers:
Joan M. Schwartz, “Earth Writing / Light Writing: Alexander von Humboldt, Travel, and the Dawn of Photography”
Kathleen Stewart Howe, “Photography and the Construction of Historical Geographies in the Middle East”
Nancy Micklewright, “The Travel Writing and Photograph Albums of Annie Lady Brassey”
Alison Devine Nordstrom, “Photography and Tourism in the Gilded Age”
Urban Flood Hazards: Long-Term Perspectives
Organizer: Craig Colten
Date: Wednesday, March 20
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
Room: Marriott Grande Ballroom - Salon 2
Patterns of urban flooding have changed over the last century due in part to massive land-use alterations, policy adjustments,
and social expectations. The development of adequate flood protection demands a long-term view, both in terms of the
human and hydrological aspects of the problem. This session will consider the long-term aspects of urban flood risks, the
evolving policy framework, and public adjustment to risks and policy. Case studies from the U.S. and U.K. will illustrate the
commonalities of the problems and the different national responses.
Presenters:
Ron Hagelman, “Down by the River: The Spatial Evolution of Urban Flood Hazards in San Antonio, Texas”
Frank Thomalla, “Towards Long-Term Flood Management on Canvey Island, UK”
Sarah Damery, “UK Flood Management Policy: To Much Geography . . . or Not Enough?”
Craig Colten, “Adjustment to Socially Created Flood Hazards in New Orleans”
Spotlight on Recent Work in Historical Geography
Organizers: Steven Hoelscher, Edward Muller, and William Wyckoff.
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
Room: Beaudry A
Paper presenters
Judith Carney (UCLA)
Author of: Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Harvard UP, 2001)
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Matthew Hannah (Vermont)
Author of: Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America (Cambridge UP, 2000).
Discussants: Meghan Cope (SUNY-Buffalo) and Kent Mathewson (LSU)
GIS in the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
Organizer: Anne Knowles
Growing numbers of scholars involved in the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) are using GIS in their research. These
two sessions highlight ongoing ECAI projects where GIS plays a significant role in studies of cultural history.
GIS in ECAI 1
Chair: Karen Kemp
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Room: San Fernando
Presenters:
Paul Ell, “Towards a British Electronic Cultural Atlas”
Eileen Llong, “Central Eurasian Information Resource”
Robert J. Haug, “Trading Places: Caravan Routes, Markets, and Fairs in Medieval Arabia”
Frank Njubi, “The geography of langauge and identity in eastern Africa”
Discussant: Ian Gregory
GIS in ECAI 2
Chair: Anne Knowles
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
Room: San Fernando
Presenters:
Kary Ryavec, “GIS as a Research Tool in the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library”
Brian Zittoli, “Village and State in Nineteenth Century Vietnam”
William Powell, “The Cultural Production of Space in China, Spatial Analysis of Religious Sites, Routes and
Boundaries”
Lewis Lancaster, “Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative: GIS and Cultural Data”
Discussant: Anne Knowles
Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History
The publication of Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History brings GIS into the heart of historical studies. The first session
highlights contributors who are using GIS to revisit some of the best-known stories and sources in American history. The
second session highlights contributors using GIS as the foundation for large-scale historical investigations.
Past Time, Past Place 1
Chair: Meredith Williams
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Room: San Fernando
Presenters:
Benjamin Ray, “Mapping the Salem Witch Trials”
James Harlan, “Missouri’s Lewis and Clark Landscape”
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, “New Approaches, New Insights: Historical GIS in the Valley of the Shadow”
Amy Hillier, “Searching for Red Lines: An Empirical Investigation of Mortgage Discrimination in Philadelphia, 19301950”
David Rumsey and Meredith Williams, “Using Historical Maps In GIS”
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Chair: Lewis Lancaster
Date: Thursday, March 21
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Room: San Fernando
Presenters:
David Bodenhamer, “North American Religion Atlas: Creating an Interactive Atlas Using Time-Enabled Spatial
Internet Technology “
Thomas Elliott, “Pleiades: A Digital Collaborative Workspace for Ancient Geography”
Andrew Beveridge, “Exploring and Visualizing the U.S. Past: Prospects and Examples”
Ian Gregory, “The Great Britain Historical GIS: Distorting the Past to Understand Demographic Change”
Anne Knowles, “Through the Looking Glass: Is GIS Changing History?”
Popular Cartography and Society
Organizers: Christina Dando, University of Nebraska at Omaha, and James Akerman,The Newberry Library
Popular Cartography and Society: 18th and 19th Century Perspectives
Chair: Christina Dando, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Room: San Fernando
Jordana Dym, Skidmore College, “More calculated to mislead than inform”: Travel Writers’ Maps of NineteenthCentury Central America
Andrea Foroughi, Union College “Magnifying and Masking Others’ Presence Through Colonial North American Maps”
Karen Mulcahy, East Carolina University,”Consistency and Chaos: Projections and Meridians in 19th Century American
Atlases”
Christine Petto,Southern Connecticut State University, “A Taste for Maps: Map Promotion in Early Modern Europe”
Discussant: David Woodward, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Popular Cartography and Society: 20th Century Roadscapes
Chair: Daniel Block, Chicago State University
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Room: San Fernando
Daniel Block, Chicago State University, “Corn and Skyscrapers: Deconstructing Images of Iowa on Official State
Highway Maps, 1930-2001.”
Christina Dando, University of Nebraska at Omaha, “‘Going Places?’: Gender and Map Use on 20th Century Road
Maps”
Joann Conrad, University of Missouri, “Mapping Californialand”
Panel Discussion: Applications to Teaching Geography and History
Chair: James Akerman, The Newberry Library
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:40 p.m.
Room: San Fernando
Panel members:
Jordana Dym, Skidmore College; Jackie Fenno, University of Alaska; Andrea Foroughi, Union College; Karen Mulcahy,
East Carolina University; Karen Trifonoff, Bloomsburg University; Joann Conrad, University of Missouri
Homelessness and Planning in a Comparative Perspective: Brazil, India, The Philipines and the UK in a
Historical and Contemporary Approach
Organizer: Joel Outtes
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Room: San Gabriel C
Presenters:
Prakash M. Apte, “The Master Plan: Search for Indian Alternatives”
Colin McFarlane, Department of Geography, Science Site, University of Durham, “Travelling discourses: anti-poverty
strategies in India and the UK”
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Joel Outtes, Oxford Brookes University, UK, “Disciplining Society through the city: The Genesis of City Planning in
Braziland Argentina (1894-1945)
Anthony Blackbourn, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON. Canada, “ The relevance of Jane Jacobs concepts of
urbanization and economic development to cities in less developed areas”
Leonora C. Angeles, Centre for Human Settlements, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada,
“Bureaucracy, Gender Planning and the Governance of Urban Poverty in Two Secondary Cities in Post-Marcos
Philippines”
Memory and Commemoration
Organizers: Owen Dwyer, Steve Hoelscher, Derek Alderman
Geographies of Memory and Commemoration I: American South
Chair: Stephen P. Hanna
Date: Wednesday, March 20
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Room: Santa Anita C
Presenter: Steven Hoelscher, “Forging the Old South, Constructing a New South in Memory’s Region”
John P Radford, “The Uses of Memory: the South Carolina Low-country Plantation, 2001-1670”
Owen J Dwyer, “Memory and counter-memory in the American South”
David R. Jansson, “The Haunting of the South: American National Identity and the Unique Burden of Southern History”
Derek H Alderman, “Preserving the King’s Court: Memorial Entrepreneurs and the Scale Politics of Commemorating
Elvis Presley”
Geographies of Memory and Commemoration II: Race/Ethnicity
Chair: Derek H. Alderman
Date: Wednesday, March 20
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Room: Santa Anita C
Eric Gable, “Invisible Landscapes: Race and Slavery, Representation and Memory at Monticello and Colonial
Williamsburg.”
Judith T. Kenny, “Replanting Walnut Street: Memory, Redevelopment and Milwaukee’s African American Community”
Robert Rundstrom, “Landscape, American Indians, and Narratives of Memory”
Mark H. Palmer, “A Fragment of Kiowa Memory Set in Stone: Interpreting the Monument at Cutthroat Mountain”
Discussant: Kenneth E. Foote
Geographies of Memory and Commemoration III: Nations and Nationalism
Chair: Steven Hoelscher
Date: Wednesday, March 20
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:40 p.m.
Room: Santa Anita C
Tovi Fenster, “Belonging, Memory and Spatial Planning in Israel”
Nimrod - Luz, “Nationalizing the Noble Sanctuary”
Sheila A. Hones, “National Space in the Narrative Reconstruction of Historic Event: the 1853-4 Perry Expedition to
Japan”
Yvonne Whelan, “Scripting national identity: landscape and commemoration in post-colonial Ireland “
Discussant: Euan Hague
Geographies of Memory and Commemoration IV: Selling the Past
Chair: Owen J Dwyer
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Room: Santa Anita C
Craig Young, “Remembering the Communist past? Re-imaging the post-socialist state in government tourism websites”
Stephen P Hanna, “Tourism Workers and the Reproduction of Heritage in “America’s Most Historic City””
Roy Jones, “Rural idylls, socioeconomic change and cultural landscape preservation in “Housman’s” Shropshire”
Gerardo M Castillo, “El Paso’s ‘The XII Travelers Memorial of the Southwest’: The construction of a Regional Identity”
Discussant: Brian Graham
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Geographies of Memory and Commemoration V: Politics of Representation
Chair: Steven Hoelscher
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Room: Santa Anita C
Mike A Crang, “The Presence of the Past: texts, tactility, and memory”
Lisa M Benton-Short, “The Brawl over the Mall: politics, parks and the World War II Memorial”
Fernando J Bosco, “Scaling commemoration: Conflicting landscapes of memory among the “Madres” of Argentina”
Julie A Rice, “Battling the Forces of “Deep Regret”: Contemporary Efforts at Memorializing Wounded Knee”
Discussant, Michael Heffernan
Geographies of Memory and Commemoration VI: Journeys
Chair: Owen J Dwyer
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:40 p.m.
Room: Santa Anita C
Gareth C Hoskins, “Writing back into Space: Angel Island and the recovery of a social history”
Penny L Richards, “Memories, Maps, and Mobility: Women’s Cartographic Comforts in the Antebellum South”
Joanne F Maddern, “Front Doors to Freedom and Portals into the Past: Geographies of Ellis Island Immigration
Museum.”
Shelley Hornstein, “The Memorial to Walter Benjamin and the Complexities of “Being There””
Daniel R. Weir, “No Place to Die: Roadside Death Memorials in Mexico”
Industrial Landscapes
Organizer: David S. Robertson
Date: Wednesday, March 23
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
Room: Santa Barbara B
Chair: David S. Robertson
The papers in this session are devoted to historical/cultural approaches to the industrial scene, broadly defined to include all
sectors of the industrial economy.
Participants:
Deanna H. Benson: “Industry in the Garden: Company Town Landscapes, 1820-1929.”
Gabriel L. Judkins: “Salt of the Earth.”
Blake A. Harrison: “New Places for Old Places: Technology, Tourism, and the Landscape of Vermont, 1945-1970.”
Nicholas J. Jungbluth: “The Geography of the North American Ghost Town.”
David S. Robertson: “Reclamation and Industrial Preservation in the Historic Longwall Mining District, Illinois.”
Empires of Science
Organizer: Richard Powell (Cambridge University), Matthew J Farish (University of British Columbia)
Empires of Science I: Cartographies of knowledge
Chair: Bruce Braun (Geography, Minnesota)
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Room: Marriott Grande Ballroom - Salon 3
Bonnie Kaserman (Geography, UBC), “Colonial Satellite: Earth Science Enterprise’s Performance of Nature”
Jason Grek Martin (Geography, Queen’s), “On Cartographic Rhetoric and Social Networks: Mitchell’s Map and the
Latourian Framework”
Sandy Sufian (Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis), “Mapping the Marsh: Malaria and the Sharing of Medical
Knowledge in Mandatory Palestine”
Beth Greenhough (Geography, Open) and Sarah J Whatmore (Geography, Open), “Bio-geographies: situating
cartographies of life”
Discussant: Michael T Bravo (Geography, Cambridge)
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Empires of Science II: Spatial histories of geography
Chair: Anne MC Godlewska (Geography, Queen’s)
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
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Room: Marriott Grande Ballroom - Salon 3
Francis Harvey (Geography, Minnesota) and Ute Wardenga (Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig), “The Reception and
Transformation of Alfred Hettner’s
System of Geography in Richard Hartshorne’s The Nature of Geography”
Michael Heffernan (Geography, Nottingham), “Geography and National Revolution in Vichy France”
Trevor J Barnes (Geography, UBC), “Decline and Fall: Geography at Harvard, Part Two”
Ron Johnston (Geographical Sciences, Bristol), “Who Influences Whom? Spatial Scale and Actor Networks in the History
of Geography”
Discussant: Neil Smith (Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY)
Empires of Science III: Fields of nature
Chair: Scott Kirsch (Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill)
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Room: Marriott Grande Ballroom - Salon 3
Sarah G Cant (Geography, Royal Holloway-University of London), “British Speleologies: geography under-the-ground,
1935-1950”
John Horton (Geographical Sciences, Bristol), “‘A little dual world of two halves’: practices of Geography and quarrying
at Wren’s Nest Hill, 1830-50”
Sean K Maher (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge), “Knowledge, Performance, and Mapping the Land:
Encounters between the Field Sciences and Northern Indigenous Communities”
Annette Watson (Geography, Minnesota), “Neither Tropic Nor Polar: Islands as Field Sites in Imperial Science”
Discussant: Noel Castree (Geography,Manchester)
Empires of Science IV: Geographies of scientific practice
Chair: Michael Heffernan (Geography, Nottingham)
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Room: Marriott Grande Ballroom - Salon 3
Richard C Powell (Geography, Cambridge), “Positioning on ice: field practices and spatial formations of environmental
science”
Matthew J Farish (Geography, UBC), “From the Laboratory to the Skies: MIT and the Defense of a Cold War
Continent”
Heike Jöns (Geography, Heidelberg), “Geographies of Scientific Practices in Experiment and Theory”
Thomas F Gieryn (Sociology, Indiana), “Truth-Spots”
Discussant: John Pickles (Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill)
Empires of Science V: Panel discussion
Chairs: Matthew J Farish (Geography, UBC) and Richard C Powell (Geography, Cambridge)
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:40 p.m.
Room: Marriott Grande Ballroom - Salon 3
Trevor J Barnes (Geography, UBC); Sarah J Whatmore (Geography, Open); Thomas F Gieryn (Sociology, Indiana); Neil
Smith (Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY); Michael T Bravo (Geography, Cambridge); John Pickles
(Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill)
Environmental History in Mexico
Organizer: Peter Klepeis
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Room: San Gabriel A
The session seeks to address issues of environmental history through various perspectives.
Presenters:
Eric P. Perramond, “Neo-liberal Landscapes of Agrarian Mexico: Cases from the State of Guanajuato”
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Georgina Hope Endfield and Sarah O’Hara, “Responses to extreme climate events in Colonial Oaxaca: an archival
investigation”
Narciso Barrrera-Bassols, “Environmental history of cattle ranching in the Mexican tropics: 1521-1990”
Peter Klepeis, “Legacies of the Porfiriato: Forest History and Development in Southeastern Mexico”
Dan Klooster, Discussant.
Practicing Historical Geography I: Continuity and Change in the Practice of Historical Geography
Organizers: Elizabeth Gagen (Manchester), Matthew Kurtz (ENRI, Alaska), Jamie Winders (Kentucky)
Date: Wednesday, March 20
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m
Room: Santa Anita A
Chair: Dydia DeLyser (LSU)
Panelists:
Alan Baker (Cambridge), Cole Harris (UBC), Cheryl McEwan (Birmingham), Heidi Nast (DePaul), Miles Ogborn (QMC),
Richard Schein (Kentucky)
Practicing Historical Geography II: Feminist Historical Geographies
Organizers: Lawrence Berg (Okanagan UC), Elizabeth Gagen (Manchester), Matthew Kurtz, Jamie Winders
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Room: San Gabriel B
Chair: Jamie Winders (Kentucky)
Panelists:
Matthew Hannah (Vermont, Lawrence Berg (Okanagan UC), Meghan Cope (SUNY Buffalo), Mona Domosh
(Dartmouth), Anne Godlewska (Queen’s), Karen Morin (Bucknell)
Geographies of New Urbanism I: Historical and International Perspectives
Chair: Jennifer Speights-Binet, Department of Geography & Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Room: Santa Anita C
Emily Talen, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Justifying New Urbanism: Tradition, Progress, and the Continuity of Ideals”
Amanda Rees, Geosciences Department and PACE Program, University of Missouri-Kansas City
“Ideological Community Spaces: A Cross-cultural Comparison between New Urbanism and Nineteenth-Century
Industrial Philanthropic Communities”
Alexander P. Vasudevan, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
“Re-designing Berlin: Performing Architectural Modernism in Weimar Germany”
Ahmed M. El-Geneidy, Department of Architectural Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt
“The Effect of New Urbanism on the Planning and Managing the Old City Centers, Islamic Cairo Egypt.”
Thomas C. Hubka, Department of Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Creating Place?: A Critical Analysis of New Urbanism’s Aesthetic Foundations”
Discussant: Eugene J. McCann, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University
Geographies of New Urbanism II: Policy, Planning, and Implementation
Chair: James Hanlon, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
Room: Santa Anita C
Eugene J. McCann, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University
“Taking New Urbanism Seriously: Implications for the Study of Urban Politics”
James Hay, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Virtues and Virtualities: New Media, Neo-liberal Governance, and the New Architecture of Community”
Jason Henderson, Department of Geography, University of Georgia
“Contesting the Spaces of the Automobile: The Urban Sprawl Debate in Atlanta, GA”
Judy Walton, Department of Geography, Humboldt State University
“Toward a ‘New’ New Urbanism: Incorporating Environmental Sustainability”
James L. Mulvihill, Department of Geography, California State University-San Bernardino
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“New Urbanism: Hope or Hype...Are There Any Answers?”
Discussant: Emily Talen, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Geographies of New Urbanism III: Urban Reconfigurations
Chair: Judy Walton, Department of Geography, Humboldt State University
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Room: San Gabriel B
Janet L. Smith, Urban Planning and Policy Program, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Community for the Individual Good - Seeing the ‘I’ in New Urbanism”
Jeffrey A. Zimmerman, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
“What Ghetto?: The Culture of the New Urbanism and the Remaking of Public Housing”
James Hanlon, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
“HOPE VI, New Urbanism, and the Place of ‘Race’ in Urban Revitalization”
Jennifer Speights-Binet, Department of Geography & Anthropology, Louisiana State University
“‘Beginning to Remember’: Translating New Urbanism on the Local Scale”
Dowell Myers, School of Policy, Planning & Development, University of Southern California
“Temporal Dimensions of the Spatial Claims of New Urbanism: New Insights on Consumer Preferences and
Collective Planning”
Discussant: Judith T. Kenny, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Mobilizing Places, Marking Alterity
Organizers: Claire Barnes (UCLA) and Joan Hackeling (UCLA)
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Room: Marriott - 308
Michael C Soller (UCLA History of Science)
“Negotiating North and South: Identity, Suffering, and The Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction America”
Claire A Barnes (UCLA Geography)
“Alterity at Home: The U.S. War Department and Control of Civil Space During WWI”
Joan Hackeling (UCLA Geography)
“Unlikely Cosmopolitans: East German ‘Identity’ and the Measure of Other Places, 1975-1990”
Discussant: Michael Curry (UCLA Geography)
The deadline for submitting items for the next issue of Past Place is September 10, 2002.