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Conferences and Symposia
The Pennsylvania Landscape Project (forthcoming, 2004)
A conference that is now in the planning stages will be organized
to attract scholars of Pennsylvania’s designed landscapes
that are currently not thoroughly documented. The anticipated outcome
of the conference is a volume (or volumes) that examines important
landscapes of the Commonwealth.
Beyond Preservation: Managing Change
Held at Penn State in 2000. The conference, aimed at practitioners
in the design, preservation, and engineering fields, provided the
opportunity to examine current issues related to the landscape,
history, and land development in workshop settings. Keynote speaker:
Ada Louise Huxtable
Gendered Landscapes: An Interdisciplinary
Exploration of Past Place and Space
Held at Penn State in 1999, an international conference attended
by 150 scholars representing 10 countries and 18 academic disciplines.
It produced examples of cutting-edge scholarship and disseminated
multiple interpretations of knowledge.
Plenary speakers: James Duncan; Susan K. Harris; James Loewen; Daphne
Spain
The Convergence of Nature and Historical Culture:
Exploring the Pinchot Legacy
Held at Grey Towers, National Historic Landmark and home of Gifford
Pinchot, Milford, PA., June 1998. The meeting, cosponsored by the
Center and the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation explored
the potential interface of landscape ecology and historic preservation.
Developing the Family Tree in Landscape History
Held at Iowa State in 1997, cosponsored by the Center and the Alliance
for Historic Landscape Preservation, this conference focused on
research, trends, and current issues in landscape history and preservation.
OnSite/InSight:
Nature, Humanity and Time, a Symposium on History in Landscape Architecture
Held at Penn State in 1996. Scholars of landscape history from various
disciplines—landscape architecture, architecture, history,
art history, geography, sculpture, painting, photography, religious
studies, English literature, American Studies, preservation, and
public history—met to discuss varying approaches to and perspectives
on landscape history.
What Do We Expect to Learn From Our History?
The First Symposium on History in Landscape Architecture
Held at Penn State in 1994. Teachers and researchers of landscape
architectural history gathered to discuss problems and successes
in teaching and conducting research in landscape architectural history
and begin a dialogue on the future development of the discipline.
This symposium was completed prior to the official organization
of the Center but contributed significantly to its development.
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