Presented By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
Kemp Family Symposium on Geography and History
Various Panels and Keynote Lecture: Sallie Marston, “Thinking and Doing Spatiality Differently”
Presented in conjunction with the Kemp Family Symposium on Geography and History, October 2-3, 2014. Follow the link listed under "Web and Social" below for the full symposium schedule of events.
9:00 a.m., Welcome
9:15-11:00 a.m., Panel: "Imagining, Claiming, and Organizing Space," featuring presentations by Philip J. Deloria (University of Michigan), Christian de Pee (University of Michigan), and Tiggy McLaughlin (University of Michigan)
11:15am-12:30pm: Keynote Lecture: Sallie Marston, “Thinking and Doing Spatiality Differently.” Abstract: Since the publication of “The Social Construction of Scale” in 2000, Professor Marston (University of Arizona) has worked with two colleagues on reconsidering scale, a key concept within geography. As a result, they have turned to ontological flatness to guide their thinking and to avoid the calcification that scale produces when researchers attempt to sort the world hierarchically. In this presentation Professor Marston traces their site ontology argument as it has evolved over the last fifteen years. Their aim has been to provide a way of enacting research that embraces the complexity of the always-unfolding difference that constitutes the worlds they as scholars attempt to comprehend.
2:30-4:15 p.m., Panel: "Collisions of Time and Space," featuring Charles Sullivan (University of Michigan), Dario Gaggio (University of Michigan), and Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan).
4:30-4:50 p.m., Reflections on Conference Themes, Don Mitchell, Syracuse University
4:50-5:30 p.m., General Discussion of Conference Themes
The Kemp Family Symposium on Geography and History has been made possible by a generous contribution from the Kemp Family Fund, consisting of four generations of University of Michigan graduates with a lifelong commitment to encourage the study of history; not only as a way to learn about the past, but as a guide to understand the present and to anticipate the future. Additional support from the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, International Institute, Rackham Graduate School, and Institute for the Humanities.
9:00 a.m., Welcome
9:15-11:00 a.m., Panel: "Imagining, Claiming, and Organizing Space," featuring presentations by Philip J. Deloria (University of Michigan), Christian de Pee (University of Michigan), and Tiggy McLaughlin (University of Michigan)
11:15am-12:30pm: Keynote Lecture: Sallie Marston, “Thinking and Doing Spatiality Differently.” Abstract: Since the publication of “The Social Construction of Scale” in 2000, Professor Marston (University of Arizona) has worked with two colleagues on reconsidering scale, a key concept within geography. As a result, they have turned to ontological flatness to guide their thinking and to avoid the calcification that scale produces when researchers attempt to sort the world hierarchically. In this presentation Professor Marston traces their site ontology argument as it has evolved over the last fifteen years. Their aim has been to provide a way of enacting research that embraces the complexity of the always-unfolding difference that constitutes the worlds they as scholars attempt to comprehend.
2:30-4:15 p.m., Panel: "Collisions of Time and Space," featuring Charles Sullivan (University of Michigan), Dario Gaggio (University of Michigan), and Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan).
4:30-4:50 p.m., Reflections on Conference Themes, Don Mitchell, Syracuse University
4:50-5:30 p.m., General Discussion of Conference Themes
The Kemp Family Symposium on Geography and History has been made possible by a generous contribution from the Kemp Family Fund, consisting of four generations of University of Michigan graduates with a lifelong commitment to encourage the study of history; not only as a way to learn about the past, but as a guide to understand the present and to anticipate the future. Additional support from the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, International Institute, Rackham Graduate School, and Institute for the Humanities.
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