Sponsored by the
Europe Union Delegation to the United States
and the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke & Smith Colleges
& The University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Thursday, April 19th
1-4:00 p.m. Smith College Museum of Art
Conference Registration
“Debussy’s Paris: Art, Music and Sounds of the City” and
“Pursuing Beauty: The Art of Edo Japan”
[Free Admission for Conference Attendees]
4:00-6:00 p.m. A.P.E. Gallery Northampton
“Riverscaping: Design/Build Competition”
Exhibition Opening
Welcomes: Thom Long
7:00-9:00 p.m. Smith College John M. Greene Hall
keynote speaker:
christo
“Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Two Works in Progress:
Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado &
The Mastaba, Project for the United Arab Emirates”
Christo will speak for about 45 minutes, followed by an extended question and answer period.
FREE BUT TICKETS ARE REQUIRED. Get tickets here >>
Friday, April 20th
9-1:00 Conference registration
Hampshire College, Johnson Library
Tours of Museums, Historic Houses, Nature Walks
(printed guides will be distributed in registration materials)
2:00-5:00 Hampshire College
Liebling Center Bill Brand Screening Room
Traces and Interventions
Design Session
Thom Long (Hampshire, Amherst & Mount Holyoke Colleges)
Anna Schrade (University Bayreuth, Germany) “Rivers as agents of entangled histories and the Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes, France.”
Frank Sleegers (UMass Amherst)
Martin Kohler, (Hafen City University, Hamburg Germany)
“Visual Inquiries in Gateway Cities”
Andrea Mubi Brighenti & Cristina Mattiucci (University of Trento, Italy; L'école and Nationale supérieure d'architecture La Villette, Paris, France) “Visualizing the Riverbank”
Jeffrey Knopp (ASLA, Behnke Associates, Cleveland, Ohio)
“The Cuyahoga: Reflections on a Burning River”
Caryn Brause (Hampshire College and UMass, Amherst)
Sigrid Miller Polin (UMass, Amherst)
“Scale Jumping the Connecticut River”
6:00-8:00 5 College Water Projects
Student Symposium and Poster Session
Hills North, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
Conveners:
Marushka Grogan & Sue Darlington
(Hampshire College)
Spring rolls, egg rolls, dumplings and drinks for all attendees
Saturday, April 21st
8:30-5:30 AMHERST COLLEGE
Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall
riverscaping symposium
8:30-9:00 Conference registration
9:00-9:30 Welcomes/Convocation, Karen Koehler (Hampshire College)
Jonathan Lash, President (Hampshire College)
“Why the River Matters”
9:30-11 Session I: Moments
Heidi Gilpin (Amherst College)
Introductions
Jinnai Hidenobu (Hosei University Tokyo)
“Urban Regeneration of Tokyo as a Water City”
Manu Sobti (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
“Medieval Riverlogues: Crossings and Contestations along the Oxus Borderland”
11:30-1:00 Session II: Contestation
Polina Barskova (Hampshire College)
Introductions
T.S. McMillin (Oberlin College)
“From Paradox to Vortex: The Strange Waters of the L.A. River”
Rachel Thompson (Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
“Changing Small Bones Into Large”: The Solo River as Literary Method within the Essay Film Extinction Number Six”
Sam Morse (Amherst College)
Response and Discussion
SELF-GUIDED TOURS
BENESKI MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND THE MEAD ART MUSEUM
2:00-4:30 Session III: Currents
Beth Hooker (Five College Sustainability Director)
Anna Martini (Amherst College)
Introductions
Johan C. Varekamp (Wesleyan University)
“A River Runs Through It - Human Impacts on Connecticut Watersheds”
Jared Taber (University of Kansas)
“High Water in Hartford: Adaptations to Flooding in the Connecticut River Valley, 1801-1910”
Laura Sivert (Pennsylvania State University)
“Visualizing a Romantic Past and Technological Future in the Tennessee Valley Authority”
Ipek Rohloff, (Five College Mellon Postdoc)
"Rethinking/Reclaiming Canals within Economic and Technological Change"
Martin Kohler & Anke Jurleit (Hafen City University, Hamburg)
Response and Discussion
4:30-5:30 Reception, Mead Art Museum
8:00-10:00 HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE RED BARN
Performing the River
Readings and musical performances
Marty Ehrlich, “Reading the River” (For John Carter)
Dan Warner, "In medias res"
Polina Barskova, “River Name”
David Brule, “West Along the River”
Deborah Gorlin, “Poems and Prose”
The Five College West African Music Ensemble
Faith Conant, Director
“Music from the Volta Region of Ghana”
Sunday, April 22nd
12-2:00 MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
Art Building, 2nd Floor, Rooms #220 & 221
Riverscaping: Art, Environment, Community
Learning Laboratory
Conveners: Thom Long and Frank Sleegers
Community groups, speakers and visitors
Discussions include the winners of the Design/Build Competition:
Springfield site: Anthony Di Mari / Quincy MA
Holyoke site: Lee Hutt / Holyoke MA
Hadley site: Laura Brooks / Amherst MA
Turners Falls site: Terry R. Marashlian / Northfield MA
2:00 Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Closing Event
Landscapes in the Permanent Collection