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Subject: "Whither Industrial Archeology"
Author: Gray Fitzsimons at NP-LOWE
Date: 10/2/98 3:36 PM
Please review and consider participating in this special conference:
It's only $75.00 (not including the modestly priced banquet)!!!
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WHITHER INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY
Conference at the Doubletree Hotel
Lowell, Massachusetts
November 12-14, 1998
Sponsored by the National Park Service
and the Society for Industrial Archeology
Thursday, November 12, 1998
7:00pm-9:00pm Opening Session: Reflections on the Discipline
"Reflections on the Past Quarter Century of IA in North America"
Emory Kemp, West Virginia University
"Industrial Archeology's Place in Scholarship"
Marie Nisser, University of Uppsala, Sweden
"A Vision of Industrial Archeology in the Twenty-First Century"
Matthew W. Roth, University of Southern California
Southern California Automobile Club
Friday, November 13, 1998
8:30am-Noon Morning Session: Compliance/Mitigation/Design
Issues in Compliance/Mitigation/Design:
"A View from the State Level"
Richard Greenwood, Rhode Island State Historic Preservation
Office
"Issues in Compliance/Mitigation/Design: A View from Europe"
Louis Bergeron, President, TICCIH, and President, Ecomusee du
Creusot, France
"Mercenary Historians? Life in the Private Sector Trenches"
Charlene Roise, Hess, Roise & Company, Minneapolis
"An Evaluation of the Federal Role in Industrial Archeology"
Duncan Hay, Museum Services,
National Park Service, Boston
Comment: A Canadian View
Arnold Roos, Historical Services Branch, Parks Canada
Break-out Sessions
Contracting: Michael Raber,
Michael Raber Associates, Glastonbury, CT
Preservation: Alison K. Hoagland,
Michigan Technological University
1:30pm-5:00pm Afternoon Session: Interpretation in Industrial
Archeology
"Analysis and Interpretation of Artifacts in Industrial Archeology"
Robert Gordon, Yale University
"Speaking in Tongues: The Multiple Voices of Fieldwork in Industrial
Archeology"
Donald Hardesty, University of Nevada, Reno
"Fragments Shored Against the Ruins: The Authentic and the Synthetic
in U.S. Heritage Interpretation"
Thomas Leary, Elizabeth C. Sholes,
Industrial Research Associates, Buffalo
"Interpretation of the Industrial Past in Great Britain"
Barrie Trinder, Nene University College, U K
"Issues in Interpretation at the Technical Museum, Barcelona"
Eusebi Casanelles, Exec. President, TICCIH
Director, Technical Museum, Barcelona, Spain
Break-out Sessions
Artifacts: Larry Lankton, Michigan Technological University
Sites/Districts/Areas: Vance Packard, Pennsylvania Historical &
Museum Commission (retired), Thornhurst, PA
Saturday, November 14, 1998
8:30am-Noon Morning Session: Education in Industrial Archeology
"The Graduate Program in Industrial Archeology at Michigan Tech"
Patrick Martin, Michigan Technological University
"Archaeology or Heritage Management: the Conflict of Objectives in the
Training of Industrial Archaeologists"
Marilyn Palmer, Leicester University, UK
"Training Industrial Archeologists in Canada"
John Light, Parks Canada
Christopher Andreae, consultant, Ontario
"The World Heritage Convention as a Medium for Promoting the
Industrial Heritage"
Henry Cleere, ICOMOS, Paris
"Comment: A View from an Agency that Hires Industrial Archeologists"
Eric DeLony, Historic American Engineering Record, National
Park Service, Washington, DC
Break-out Sessions
"Reaching beyond the Academy"
Ed Rutsch, Historic Conservation & Interpretation,
Newton, NJ
"Breaking Barriers within the Academy"
Sandra Norman, Florida Atlantic University and President, Society for
Industrial Archeology
2:00pm-5:00pm Afternoon Session: New Directions in Industrial
Archeology
"Labor Studies & Industrial Archeology: Evaluations, Suggestions, &
Prescriptions"
Laurence Gross, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
"Gender/Ethnic Studies in Industrial Archeology"
Judith McGaw, Independent Scholar, Portland, OR
"Landscapes as Industrial Artifacts: Lessons from Environmental
History"
Fredric Quivik, Consulting Historian, Alameda, CA;
"Experimental Archeology: Imitation in Pursuit of Authenticity"
Patrick Malone, Brown University
Comment: the Audience
facilitated by John Light
6:00pm-10:00pm Closing Banquet
"An Assessment of the Symposium"
Charles Hyde, Wayne State University, Detroit
WHITHER
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Lowell National Historical Park 67 Kirk Street
Lowell, MA 01852 FAX (978) 970-5030
HOTEL
The conference hotel is the DoubleTree in Lowell. The DoubleTree is
offering a special rate of $89.00 (not including tax) for attendees.
The phone number for reservations at the Lowell DoubleTree is
1-800-222-TREE or locally in Lowell (978) 452-1200. The DoubleTree is
located in Downtown Lowell along the Eastern Canal. The address is
DoubleTree, 60 Warren Street, Lowell, MA 01852.
TRANSPORTATION
By Car from South: I-93 North to I-495 South to the Lowell Connector,
to end. Left on Gorham, to third light, right on Church, then first
left on George, straight ahead to the DoubleTree Hotel.
By Car from North: Rt. 3 South to the Lowell Connector (follow
directions above).
By Air: Flightlines operates shuttles to the hotel from Logan
International Airport ($26) and Manchester, NH Airport ($28). (800)
245-2525.
By Rail: Amtrak runs trains daily to Boston. Take local MBTA from
Boston's North Station to Lowell. (800) 392-6100.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Gray Fitzsimons, Historian, Lowell National Historical Park
67 Kirk Street Lowell, MA 01852
(978) 275-1724 / (978) 970-5030 fax
email: [log in to unmask]
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Fredric Quivik, Gray Fitzsimons, Jane Carolan, Duncan Hay, Patrick
Malone, Patrick Martin, Richard O'Connor
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