Symposium “Architecturalized Asia”
Saturday, May 14 – Sunday, May 15, 2011
Seattle University, Hunthausen (HUNT) Room 110
Seattle, WA USA

This symposium explores the historical mapping of "Asia" both spatially and ideologically, through the lenses of architecture, geography, visual studies, and textual representations. Then speakers will collectively highlight the dynamics of cultural exchange and various national and imperialist projects, as well as alternative and more inclusive ways of imagining Eurasia and other frameworks produced from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

This symposium is related to a book project, “Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent through History,” edited by Vimalin Rujivacharakul, H. Hazel Hahn, Ken Tadashi Oshima and Peter Christensen.

Full details on the symposium can be found at:
http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/history/Default.aspx?id=72817

For information, contact Hazel Hahn, Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair 2010-12, at hahnhseattleu.edu

Confirmed Speakers (in alphabetical order):
Zoltán Biedermann, University of London Birkbeck College
“Setting the Frame(s): Early Iberian Attempts at Ordering Asian Space”

Peter Christensen, Harvard University
“The Eurasian Hour: Ratzel, Mackinder, and the Architecture of Geopolitical Identity”

Igor Demchenko, MIT
“Excavating Astana: the New City on the Ruins of Soviet Modernity”

H. Hazel Hahn, Seattle University
“Abstract Spaces of Asia, Indochina and Empire in French Imaginaire, 1800s-1930s”

Yuming He, University of Chicago
“Remapping Asia: Pictorial Inventory and Vernacular Invention in Early Modern China”

Caroline Herbelin, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
“In Search of ‘Indochinese Style’: Between Southeast Asian Synecdoche and National Identities”

Chia Yin Hsu, Portland State University
“The Manchurian Project: Railroad Projects in Manchuria and the Russian Colonial Lieux de Mémoire, 1890s–1930s”

Ken Tadashi Oshima, University of Washington
“Asia outside Asia: The Alaska Yukon Exhibition of 1909 and the Pacific’s Boundaries”

Daniel Rosenberg, University of Oregon Honors College
"Mapping Time: Projects and Problems"

Vimalin Rujivacharakul, University of Delaware
“Asia in World Architecture and World Cartography, 1500s-1900s”

This symposium is sponsored by the Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair of Humanities Fund at Seattle University.
Visit the website at http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/history/Default.aspx?id=72817