Terra Foundation Symposium - June 29, 2023

John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies

Lansstraße 7-9, Berlin-Dahlem

Room 319

Schedule (Central European Summer Time) (GMT+2)

11:00  Welcome and Introduction

Julia B. Rosenbaum, symposium organizer (Freie Universität Berlin/Bard College)

Session I: Material Resources and the Domestic: The Case of Wood
Joseph Zordan (Harvard University)
“Rivers of Sulfur, Banks of Walnut: Settler Identity Formation and Furniture in Late 18th-
Century Pennsylvania”

Jennifer Y. Chuong (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
“Violent Admiration: Veneer in Early America"

13:40  Session II: Belonging: Perspectives from Women Artists

Nancy Siegel (Towson University)
“The Mountains as Home: Susie M. Barstow—Inveterate Artist/Hiker”

Kate Menconeri and Amanda Malmstrom (Thomas Cole National Historic Site)
“Women Reframe Land: Critical Perspectives + Contemporary Practices at the Home and Studios of Thomas Cole”

15:15  Session III: Home/Habitat Interacting

Krista Caballero (Bard College) and Frank Ekeberg (transdisciplinary artist and composer)

“Birding the Future”

16:30  Session IV: A Sense of Place

Panel with curators of the To Be—Named exhibition, inaugural opening in Berlin at Haus Kunst Mitte, curated by Dorothea Schöne

 

Friday, 30 June

18:00-22:00: Opening for To Be—Named, Haus Kunst Mitte, Berlin