International symposium

Great Exhibitions in the Margins, 1851 – 1938

University of Wolverhampton, 26-27 April 2012

City Campus North, MX building, MX004

Programme

26 April 2012

9.30-10.00 Registration
10.00 Opening
10.05-10.15 Welcome from Dr. Bryony Conway, Dean of School of Art
and Design

10.15-11.15 Keynote speech: Prof. John R. Davis, Kingston
University, Exhibitions and the Nation-State: the All-German
Exhibition at Berlin, 1844

11.15-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.00 Session 1: The colonial experience
- Rebecca Rice, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, A ‘Ramble’
through art at the 1865 New Zealand Exhibition
- Giovanni Arena, The Second University of Naples, Italy, A fair for an
empire.
Politics of imagery in the colonial exhibitions of the 20th century
organized by the Italian government
- Laurence Gourievdis, Blaise Pascal University, France, An Clachan, the
Gaelic village at Glasgow’s 1911 Scottish Exhibition of National History,
Art and Industry

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Session 2 Constructing spaces, constructing places
- Taina Syrjämaa, University of Turku, Finland, Interconnected
exhibitions: constructing and experiencing the condensed world in
Helsinki in 1876
- Jeffer Daykin, Portland Community College, USA, International ambitions
of exhibitions at the margins: The relationship of the Osaka (1903) and
Portland (1905) expositions
- Anne Neale, University of Tasmania, Australia, International exhibitions
and urban aspirations: Launceston, Tasmania in the 19th century

15.30-15.45 Coffee break

15.45-17.15 Session 3 The state and the nation I.
- Livia Lazzaro Rezende, College of Industrial Design of Rio de Janeiro,
The artifice of nature and the naturalisation of the state at the 1922.
The Rio International Exhibition Denise Gonyo,
- University of Brighton, The development of the modern nation at the
Indian National Congress Exhibitions, 1901-1906
- Miklós Székely, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Hungary, A
capital on the margins, the case of Budapest between 1867-1917

27 April 2012

9.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-11.30 Session 4 The state and the nation II.
- Samuel D. Albert, The nation for itself: The Budapest 1896 Millennial
Exhibition and the Bucharest 1906 National General Exhibition
- Tomáš Okurka, Unviersity of J. E. Purkyn?, Czech Republic, In search of
a centre. Exhibitions in the German-speaking areas of Bohemia before the
First World War
- Sezgi Durgun, Marmara University, Turkey, From the “Culture Park” to the
“International Expo”: The Izmir Fair

11.30-11.45 Coffee break

11.45-13.15 Session 5 Cities with great ambitions I.
- Marta Filipová, University of Wolverhampton, Displaying the Black
Country. Wolverhampton’s great exhibitions of 1869 and 1902
- Marina Muñoz, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, The 1888 Barcelona’s World
Exhibition: an atypical case of a great exhibition
- Wilson Smith, University of Edinburgh, Old London, Old Edinburgh:
constructing
historic cities

13.15-14.15 Lunch

14.15-15.15 Session 6: Cities with great ambitions II.
- Claire O’Mahony, University of Oxford, Frontiers, friends and foes:
The International Exhibition of Eastern France 1909
- Davy Delepchin, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, The Ghent World’s
Fair
(1913): Reconciling historicism and modernity with exoticism

15.15-15.45 Closing remarks

For booking and other information, please contact Marta.Filipovawlv.ac.uk.