Friday, October 3, 2008

8:30 a.m.	Registration and coffee Friends Hall, The Huntington Library
9:30	Welcome Robert C. Ritchie, The Huntington Library Peter Mancall, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Ronald Hoffman, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Remarks: Carole Shammas, University of Southern California
10:00	Session I: Concepts of Permanence and Impermanence
10:00–11:30	Architectural Illustration as Visual Permanence in Europeans’ Early Modern Atlantic World John E. Crowley, Dalhousie University Durable and Impermanent Architecture in Eighteenth-Century America Bernard L. Herman, University of Delaware Comment: Dell Upton, University of California, Los Angeles
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.	Permanent or Impermanent? History, Function, and the Creation of Cultural Heritage in the European Trading Posts of West Africa Christopher R. DeCorse, Syracuse University Euroamericans and the Iroquois’ Landscape Chad Anderson, University of California, Davis Comment: Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut
1:00–2:00	Lunch
2:00	Session II: Was the Eighteenth Century a Turning Point in Durability and Preservation of Public Buildings?
2:00–3:30	The Pattern of Church Building in the Middle Atlantic Colonies: Reconciling Field and Documentary Evidence Carl Lounsbury, Colonial Williamsburg The Borrominesque (?) Churches of Colonial Brazil Nuno Senos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Comment: Maria-Elena Martinez, University of Southern California
3:30–5:00	Eating from the Tenant-Patron: Opportunity and Dependency at Cape Coast Castle, 1750–1807 Ty M. Reese, University of North Dakota The Life and Death of White Elephants: The Value of Great Eighteenth-Century English Country Houses Sean McWilliams, Washington University Comment: William Baer, University of Southern California Coffee will be available between papers.