Friday, April 17, 2009

8:30 a.m.	Registration and coffee Intellectual Commons, Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California. All sessions will be held in this location.
9:00	Welcome Carole Shammas, University of Southern California
9:30–11:30	Session I: The Pacific and the Challenge to Permanence
	Chair: David Igler, University of California, Irvine Permanently Impermanent: Living with Natural Disasters in the Western Pacific, 1770–1820 Paul D’Arcy, Australian National University Buildings as Property in an Evolving Fire Regime: Edo-Tokyo, Seventeenth-Twentieth Centuries Jordan Sand, Georgetown University The Land Decides What Stays A. Spencer Leineweber, University of Hawai’i, Manoa Comment: David Igler
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.	Session II: The Footprint of Foreign Big Business
	Chair: Brett Sheehan, University of Southern California A Provisional Presence: Canton’s Thirteen Factories Johnathan Farris, Western Carolina University Permanence and the City of Malacca Katrina Gulliver, Center for Metropolitan History, University of London Comment: John E. Wills, University of Southern California
1:00–2:00	Lunch
2:00–4:00	Session III: The Indigenous Built Environment and the Coming of Europeans
	Chair: Peter Mancall, University of Southern California The Built Environment of Stratified Societies in Polynesia and Micronesia in the 1700s Ross H. Cordy, University of Hawai’i, West Oahu Naked Possession: Building and the Politics of Legitimate Occupation in Early New South Wales, Australia Grace Karskens, University of New South Wales Easter Island Mo’ai and the Eighteenth-Century Exploration of the Pacific Rainer Buschmann, California State University, Channel Islands Comment: Peter Mancall
4:00–5:30	Reception. University Club Courtyard