"Getting Away: Country Houses, Resorts, Travel, and Leisure Culture in
Nineteenth-Century America"

Fifth Annual Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
and Boston University's American and New England Studies Program

Thursday, February 7, 2002 and Friday, February 8, 2002
Boston, Massachusetts

Free and open to the public. No advance registration required.
Accessible by public transportation. For more information:
amnesgscbu.edu

Thursday, February 7, at SPNEA (One Bowdoin Square, Boston, Mass.)

3:00 Registration and Refreshments

3:30 Introduction and "An Armchair Tour of SPNEA's Historic
Properties," Peter Gittleman, Director of Interpretation, Society for the
Preservation of New England Antiquities

4:00 Panel: "Travel and the Construction of 'Whiteness'"

" 'Ghastly Whiteness,' Local Color, and Resort Culture in Celia Thaxter's
Among the Isles of Shoals"
Tara K. Parmiter, New York University

"Promoting Racism: Tourism and Southern Identity, 1870-1875"
Rebecca C. McIntyre, University of Alabama

Respondant: Patricia Hills, Professor of Art History, Boston University

5:30 Reception and viewing of exhibition, "One Woman's Work: The
Visual Art of Celia Laighton Thaxter," SPNEA Gallery, One Bowdoin Square.

6:30 Dutch-treat pub dinner

Friday, February 8 at BU (The Castle, 225 Bay State Road, Boston, Mass.)

9:00 Registration and Refreshments

9:45 Welcome from Bruce Schulman, Associate Professor of History and
Director of the American and New England Studies Program, Boston
University

10:00 Panel: "Going Away: Desire, Consumption, Renewal"

"Writers and Tourism in the 1820s: The Cases of Irving, Cooper, and
Sedgwick"
Richard Gassan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"The Orient(al) in my Living Room"
Thomas W. Kim, University of Chicago

" 'Wondrous Medicinal': Why American Philosophers Went to the Mountains
in the Late Nineteenth Century"
Amy Kittlestrom, Boston University

Respondent: Chris Wilson, Professor of English, Boston College

12:00 Lunch

2:00 Panel: "Tourism: Sites and Sights"

" 'An Elegant Public Mansion': Politics, Business, and Domesticity at
Boston's Tremont House"
Jessica Lepler, Brandeis University

" 'An Institution Well Worthy of a Visit': The Business of Antebellum
Penitentiary Tourism"
Jennifer Lawrence Janofsky, Temple University

"The View from Within: John Vanderlyn, Frederick Catherwood, and Panorama
Production in New York, 1818-1842."
Stephanie Mayer, Boston University

Respondent: Abigail Van Slyck, Dayton Associate Professor of Art History
and Director of Architectural Studies, Connecticut College

4:00 Reception at AMNESP, 226 Bay State Road

Contact:
Francine Weiss
fweissbu.edu
Boston University

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