Events

03/26/2010
The Architectural Ethics of Frank Furness
MICHAEL J. LEWIS
5:30 PM

Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street

Michael J. Lewis is Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art at Williams College. He writes widely on art and culture, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic Monthly, and his books include Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind and American Art and Architecture.  In 2008 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his study of Utopian societies.


 
04/16/2010
Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument
SETH BRUGGEMAN
5:30 PM

Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street

Seth C. Bruggeman is assistant professor of history and American Studies at Temple University where he also coordinates the public history program. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William and Mary. His teaching and research specialties concern memory, commemoration, and material culture. Remembering George Washington at the Sites of his Birth - The National Park Service’s George Washington Birthplace National Monument has commemorated Washington and his life for nearly eighty years.