8:30 a.m. Registration and Coffee

9:30 a.m. – 12.00 noon Welcome

Opening Remarks:  Hanna Holborn Gray, President Emerita of the University, Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of History,  The University of Chicago

"'All the World's a Fair': Towards an Expositionary History of the Museum"
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, University Professor, Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

“A Bed for the Museum! The Complex Relationship between Alfred Barr and Leo Castelli”
Annie Cohen-Solal,Professeur des Universités (Université de Caen and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris),  Visting Professor at Tisch School of the Arts,  New York University

“Encapsulating the Present: The War of the Classes and the Birth of the Time-Capsule, 1876-1914."
Nicholas Yablon, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Iowa

Noon -1 p.m.  Lunch

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

“Architecture as Catalyst: Rudolph Schindler’s Kings Road House, Los Angeles (1922-    )”
Thomas Hines,  Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles

"Display and Sullivan's Modern City: From 'Shirt-Front,' to 'All-Around Structures'"
Daniel Bluestone, Associate Professor, Department of Architectural History, School of Architecture,  University of Virginia

"Lessons on the Monument Lifecycle: Civic Virtue and the Politics of Display in Manhattan and Queens."
Michele H. Bogart, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies,  Department of Art,  Stony Brook University

3 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.  Break

3:15 – 5 p.m.

"The Everyday Politics of Religious Display."
Sally M. Promey, Professor of Religion and Visual Culture, Professor of American Studies, and Deputy Director, Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University

"The  Religion of Experience:  a Reading of Modernism" 
T. Jackson Lears, Professor of History, Rutgers University

Concluding Remarks

5 p.m. – 6 p.m.  Reception

The symposium is sponsored by the  Department of History, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, The Franke Institute for the Humanities,  the Department of Art History, The Cultural Policy Center of the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, The Smart Museum of Art, The College, The Committee on Geographical Studies, the France Chicago Center, and the Preston and Sterling Morton Endowment Fund, all of The University of Chicago.

Registration is Free but you MUST pre-register.