GRID + Flow : Philadelphia and Beyond
Mapping and Reimagining Urban Ecologies through the Arts and Humanities

 

An Interdisciplinary Symposium hosted by Temple University, April 7-8, 2011 Kiva Auditorium

Thursday April 7

7:00 pm   Welcome by Alan C. Braddock, Department of Art History, Temple University

  • Introduction: Andrew Isenberg, Department of History, Temple University

  • Keynote address by Timothy Morton, University of California, Davis
    Ecology and Philosophy in the Time of Hyperobjects

8:00 pm   Reception/Preview, digital art exhibition:World-Wide-Walks / between earth & water / Rivers by Peter d’Agostino, Department of Film and Media Arts, Temple University

Friday April 8

9:00 am   Opening remarks: Alan C. Braddock

9:15 am – 11:00 am   Plotting Philadelphia Introduction: Andrew Isenberg

  • Historical Maps and Green Initiatives, Kate Wingert-Playdon, School of Architecture,
    Temple University

  • Visualizing Hidden Urban Topography: South Philadelphia, Adam Levine, Independent Historian
    and Consultant, Philadelphia Water Department

  • Landscape Transformations: Long-term Changes in the Woody Species Planted in Two Regional Urban Parks, Robert Loeb, Department of Biology and Forestry, Penn State University, DuBois

  • Colored, Corrupted, and Contested: A 19th-century Creek and its Valley, Donna J. Rilling, Department of History, SUNY Stony Brook

11:00 am - 11:30 am   Morning break

11:30 am - 1:00 pm   Urban Ecology in Modernity Introduction: Alan C. Braddock

  • The Art of American Aquaculture: Thomas Eakins in New Jersey, Laura Rigal,
    Department of English and American Studies, The University of Iowa

  • The Pigeon and the Grid: Animal Locomotion, Comparative Biology, and the Genesis of Ecological Consciousness, John Ott, School of Art and Art History, James Madison University

  • A Railroad Runs Through It: The Urban Geography of Crime in Burlington County, NJ,
    1900-1930    , Lisa Rosner, Historical Studies Program, and J. Russell Manson,
    Computational Science Program, Stockton College, New Jersey

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm   Lunch break

2:30 pm - 5:00 pm  The City Reimagined Introduction: Peter d’Agostino, and Ilya Buynevich,
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Temple University

  • At Disney’s Altar: Stephen Starr, Experience Dining, and the Rebranding of Philadelphia’s
    Built Environmental    , Stephen Nepa, Department of History, Temple University

  • Ambler, Philly, and Beyond: Grids, Flows, and Competing Place Narratives in Toxic Remediation, Jody A. Roberts, Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage Foundation, and Raoul S. Liévanos, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis

  • Panoramic Navigation, Visual Research, and the Outside/Inside Project at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historic Park, Roderick Coover, Department of Film and Media Arts,
    Temple University

  • Invisible Infrastructure: Hertzian Space and Digital Flows of Philadelphia, Alan Wiig,
    Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University

  • Rivers Rising: Art, Design, and Re-imagining Flood Zone Infrastructure, Kira Appelhans,
    Working-Earth.com, and Nim Lee, independent scholar

5:00 - 6:00 pm  Closing Reception

Directions:

Kiva Auditorium is located on the ground floor of Ritter Annex, on Cecil B. Moore Avenue one block
east of Broad Street in North Philadelphia. The Cecil B. Moore stop of the Broad Street Subway is
one block from the entrance to Ritter Annex. There is a parking garage two blocks West, behind Liacouras Hall. The Temple University stop of the SEPTA Regional Rail line is two blocks North and
five blocks East of Ritter Annex.

For additional information, go to http://www.temple.edu/maps/index.htm