Friday April 27th’s Sessions
8:45Introductions:
Dan Martino DuquesneUniversity
Gary BackhausLoyolaUniversity
John MurungiTowsonUniversity
Troy PaddockSouthern ConnecticutStateUniversity
Stephen SandbankIndependent Scholar
Session 1a:Theories of built space
Moderator:Stephen SandbankIndependent Scholar
9:15Gary BackhausLoyolaUniversity
Norberg-Schulz’s Phenomenology of Built Space: An Introduction
9:50Kascha SnavelyBostonCollege
The Habit of Inhabitation: Place in Merleau-Ponty and Proust’s “Place-Names: The Place”
10:25Malte Chr. LyneborgUniversity of Copenhagen
Built Spaces: Earth-Sky and Human Praxes
Session 1b:Planning future visions of peace and ecology in built space
Moderator:Dennis SkoczIndependent Scholar
9:15Connie PriceUniversity of Tuskagee
Building Spaces of Peace, a Reflection: After the Syphilis Study and Other Wartime Engagements
9:50Linda ArditoDowlingCollege
Musical SpacesBefore the Concert Hall
10:25Miriam GusevichCatholicUniversity of America
The EcologicalCity: a historic chapter.
10:45Break
Session 2a:Built Space and Spiritual Practice
Moderator:Gary BackhausLoyolaUniversity
10:55Forrest ClingermanOhio Northern University
Building Heaven:An Inquiry into the Depth of Place
11:30Mark H. DixonOhio Northern University
The Architecture of Solitude
12:05Raymond F. Person, Jr.Ohio Northern University
Built Space on a Farm as an Expression of Faith
Session 2b: Mapping and Transforming Natural Space
Moderator:William BehunPennsylvaniaStateUniversity
10:55Christine PettoSouthern ConnecticutStateUniversity.
A View of the Early Modern Cities of London and Paris
11:30Troy PaddockSouthern ConnecticutStateUniversity.
Rivers and Built Space
12:05John MurungiTowsonUniversity
The Nightclub and the Transformation of African Culture
12:40Lunch
Session 3a: The Sacred as Architectural Space
Moderator:
2:00Dennis SkoczIndependent Scholar
A Taleof Two Temples: Approaching Sacred Space With HegelandHeidegger
2:35Patricia Trutty-CoohillSienaCollege
Phenomenological Descriptionof the Sistine Ceiling
3:10William BehunPennsylvaniaStateUniversity
To the Center of the Sky: Polar Symbolism in Christian Sacred Architecture
Session 3b:Improvisational Art and the Built World
Moderator: Troy PaddockSouthern Connecticut State University
2:00Stephen GimbelUniversity of Gettysburg
Stephen SternUniversity of Gettysburg
Einstein’s Jewish Science: Relativity and the Covariance of Experience
2:35James HatleyUniversity of Salisbury
Rebuilding Walden:Gathering the Earth’s Fruits in Solitude and Simplicity
3:10Elizabeth HoppeLewisUniversity
Phaedo and Strabo: Geography and Philosophy
Session 4a:Built Space of funerary art
Moderator:Patricia Trutty-CoohillSienaCollege
3:55Christopher Wilson IzmirUniversity of Economics
Identity Politics in the Architectural Competition for the Mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
4:30Kimberly KatzTowsonUniversity
Cooperating to Preserve the Built Heritage: The Arab League and the Republic of Tunisia
5:05Erin TarverVanderbiltUniversityBodies,
Earth and Sacred Space:Heidegger’s Origin of the Work of Art and the Crypt of the Capuchins
Session 4b:The Influence of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas on Constructing Space
Moderator:Christine PettoSouthern ConnecticutStateUniversity
3:55Patricia M. LockeSt. John’s College
Architectureand Voicesof Silence
4:30Kascha SnavelyBostonCollege
The Habit of Inhabitation: Place in Merleau-Ponty and Proust’s “Place- Names:The Place”
5:05Eric BoyntonAlleghenyCollege
Anti-monuments, Commemoration, and the Building of Absences
5:40Break
6:30Dinner
8:00Keynote Speaker
Moderator: Dan MartinoDuquesneUniversity
Eva M. SimmsDuquesneUniversity
Children’s Lived Spaces in the Inner City: Geographical and PoliticalAspects of the Psychology of Place
Saturday April 28th’s Sessions
Session 5a:Unique Transitional Spaces of the Built World
Moderator:Lorna ZukasNationalUniversity
9:00Catherine ArgiropoulosYorkUniversity
Experiencing Place and Non-Place in the City: An Ethnography of the Spadina Streetcar
9:35Gabrielle Aruta Barnes Foundation
The Barnes Foundation’s Architectural 'Builtness' & Earth-Sky Horizon
10:10Gilbert BurghUniversity of Queensland (Ipswich Campus)
Building democracy: creating and nurturing an environment for deliberation
Session 5b:Artistic Perspectives on the Presentation of Space
Moderator: Joe TatarewiczUMBC
9:00Clark LunberryUniversity of NorthFlorida
Installing James Turrell’s Installation Art: The Building of Next to Nothing at All
9:35Xinmin LiuUniversity of Pittsburgh
Emotive Intervention: Affect, Ethics, Dwellings in Chinese Cinematic Arts
10:10Michael LazarinRyukokuUniversity
Japanese Architecture: Place as Transition
10:45Break
Session 6a:Communities in Transition: Session 1
Moderator:
10:55Asha KuttyUniversity of Wisconsin,
MilwaukeeSanctuaries from the Streets: The Contested Storefront Churches of ShermanPark, Milwaukee
11:30Lorna ZukasNationalUniversity
Spaces of Danger, Spaces of Belonging: a Building, a Park, a Sunken City, and "Walker's World"
12:05Jim Smith TowsonUniversity
Built Environments and ‘Placed’ Identities in the Global City: The Politics of Ethnic Enclaves in Los Angeles
Session 6b:Science and Technology: Inner and Outer Built Space
Moderator:
10:55Joe TatarewiczUMBC
Interior Design for Outer Space: Making Spacecraft Homes
11:30Leonard OrtmannTuskekeeUniversityNationalCenter for BioethicsNanotechnology and the Inverted Cosmos
12:05Emiliano TrizioPoincaré Archives
From the Space of Cosmological Symbolism to the Space of Laboratory
12:40Lunch
2:00Plenary Session
Moderator: John MurungiTowsonUniversity
Alphonso Lingis PennsylvaniaStateUniversity
Building for Movement
2:50Break
Session 7a:Communities in Transition: Session 2
Moderator:
3:00Glenn Broadhead Illinois Institute of Technology
Paula RobinsonBronzevilleVisitorInformationCenter
Building a Model of Lost and Future Space: The Bronzeville Visitors InformationCenter and Illinois Institute of Technology
3:35A. Sameh El KharbawyCaliforniaStateUniversity
Modernity’s Modernity: A Legacy of (Building) Follies
4:10Matthew DuringtonTowsonUniversity
Gentrification Dilemmas in Urban Baltimore
Session 7b:Literature & Apocalyptical Visions of Future Built Spaces
Moderator:Alex ZukasNationalUniversity
3:00Steve SandbankIndependent Scholar
Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Merleau Ponty's View of Nature
3:35Randy LaistUniversity of Connecticut
The Being of “Skyscraper-ness”: Images of the WorldTradeCenter in the Novels of Don DeLillo
4:10Frederick WaageEastTennesseeStateUniversity
Reading Urban Ecology in George R. Stewart’s The Years of the City
4:45Break
Session 8a:The Space of Memory and its Impact on Built Space
Moderator:
5:00Dylan TriggUniversity of Sussex
(Un)building the Self: Place, Memory, and Nostalgia
5:35Mitha BudhyartoLondon Consortium
Persistent Memory: The Body, Remembrance and Homogenous Places
6:10Andrea CakarsCamden County Historical Society
Navel of the Earth: Understanding a Late Archaic Shell Ring on Saint Catherine's Island, Georgia
Session 8b:Economic and Political Possibility in Built Spaces
Moderator:
5:00Zulfiqar Ali ChughtaiUniversity of Balochisan Quetta
Politics of human praxes in coastal economy: a case study of Gwadar
5:35Alex ZukasNationalUniversity
Built Spaces and Contested Places: The Geography of Unemployed Protest in the Ruhr during the late WeimarRepublic
6:10Michael WenischMorganStateUniversity
Peak Oil and Global Space
6:45IASESP Business Meeting
Sunday April 29th’s Sessions
Session 9a:Artistic Envisioning and Enveloping of Built Space
Moderator: Peter NikolaNew School Of SocialResearch
9:00Christos C. EvangeliouTowsonUniversity
Building the PerfectCity between Earth and Sky, (With Help from the Birds!)
9:35Geraldine FinnCarletonUniversity
The Place of Improvisation – The Improvisation of Place
10:10Brendan MahoneyBinghamtonUniversity
PoeticBuilding in the Locations of Metaphor
Session 9b:Modern vs. Post Modern Built Realities
Moderator: Michael LucasCaliforniaPolytechnicStateUniversity, San Luis Obispo
9:00Helmut KlassenYorkUniversity
A Critical Renovationofthe Architectural Project
9:35Greg WatsonMississippiStateUniversity
Improvisational Building: The Architecture of Edgar Miller
10:10Roger PadenGeorgeMasonUniversity
The Role of Culture and Society in Debates about the Ideal Society
10:45Break
Session 10a:Constructing and Relating to Protective Built Spaces
Moderator:
11:00Peter NikolaNew School Of SocialResearch
Buildings Above the Tree Line
11:35Richard WilliamsRutgersUniversity
Preservation and Renewal
12:10Francis ConroyNeumannCollege
Jessica HayesPennsylvaniaStateUniversity
Allison HayesClarkUniversity
The Land Talking: On the Soil and Architecture of Deep Dialogue
12:45Steve VogelDenisonUniversity
Alienation and the Built Environment
Session 10b:The Hidden and Unhidden in Built Spaces
Moderator:
11:00DeMond Shondell MillerRowanUniversity
Joel C. YelinRowanUniversity
Jason D. RiveraRowanUniversity
Architectural Expressions of Empire: Monuments of Spanish Colonialism in Puerto Rico
11:35Michael LucasCaliforniaPolytechnicStateUniversity, San Luis Obispo
Deconstruction and Destruction of Place: Powers at MorroBay
12:10Gail Higginbottom Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust
Over-throw of the Copernican System: How the Built Environment Entails Our Primordial Experience
12:45Hugh SilvermanSUNY Stoney Brook
Postmodern Environments
1:20Closing Remarks
1:30Lunch