festivals and world's fairs

SYMPOSIUM: NEW RESEARCH INTO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS, FESTIVALS
AND WORLD'S FAIRS

Friday 4th March 2005, The Lecture Theatre, Victoria & Albert Museum,
London

This one-day symposium will be a forum for discussion of new research into the
history of National and International Exhibitions, Festivals and World's Fairs.

The event will be open to anyone with a research interest in the field, and no
charge will be made for participation. However, places will be limited. The
programme, speakers' abstracts and biographies are on the RCA's web-site at
www.rca.ac.uk News/ Exhibitions & Events).

To apply to attend please contact: Harriet Atkinson at
harriet.atkinsonrca.ac.uk or Lisa Godson at lisa.godsonrca.ac.uk.

PROGRAMME

9-9.30 Registration

9.30 Welcome from Harriet Atkinson and Lisa Godson, Symposium Co-convenors

Display Cultures
Chair: Dr Carolyn Sargentson, V&A

9.40 Overview: Harriet Atkinson, RCA/V&A
9.50 Rika Devos, Ghent University: Smaltz, googie and honky-tonk? Belgian
architects at Expo 58 and the Atomic Style
10.10 Emily Klancher, University of Michigan: Consuming the Empire at the
1924-5 British Empire Exhibition
10.30 Dr Julie K Brown, Independent scholar: Devices of Display: Exhibits of
Health and Medicine in International Expositions in the United States,
1876-1904

10.50 Discussion

11.15 Break

Urban Festival and Spectacle
Chair: Dr Ulrich Lehmann, RCA/V&A

11.30 Overview: Lisa Godson, RCA/V&A
11.40 Dr Anne Wohlcke, Eastern Kentucky University: Clocks, Monsters and
Drolls: Race, Nation and the Amusements of Late-17th and Early-18th Century
London Fairs
12.00 Charlotte Wildman, University of Manchester: Civic Week Celebrations in
Liverpool and Manchester 1924-1928

12.20 Discussion

12.45 Lunch

2.00 Exhibiting Identities
Chair and overview: David Crowley, RCA/V&A

2.10 Dr Anoma Pieris, University of Melbourne: Modernity at the margins: The
architecture of Ceylon's 1965 Industrial Exhibition
2.30 Dr Carolyn Malone, Ball State University Indiana: Sweated Women Workers
on Display: The 1906 Sweated Industries Exhibition
2.50 Dr Haluk Zelef, Middle East Technical University Ankara and Dr Hande
Kokten, Ankara University: Representations of National Identity,
Representations of Gender: Turkish Exhibitions in the World Fairs

3.10 Discussion

3.30 Break

Experience and Affect
Chair: Professor Jeremy Aynsley, RCA/V&A

3.45 Overview: Dr Jana Scholze, V&A
3.55 Dr Alexander Geppert, KWI, Essen: Exhibition Fatigue and Beyond: European
Exposition Networks and their Discursive Crisis, 1880-1930
4.15 Dr Ben Highmore and Michelle Henning, University of West of England:
Researching Experience and Affect in Display Culture

4.35 Discussion

5.00 Panel discussion
Chair: Professor Jeremy Aynsley, RCA/V&A

5.30 Close