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Nationally Significant Olmsted Landscapes Threatened

October 25, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Cultural Landscape Foundation today released Landslide 2022, an annual thematic report and exhibition about threatened and at-risk landscapes, focusing on twelve sites designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., and his successor firms, a founder of the discipline of landscape architecture best known as the co-designer of Central Park in New York City.

This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Olmsted Sr. (1822-1903). The sites feature the involvement of one or more of all three Olmsteds: Olmsted Sr., his son Olmsted Jr. (1870-1957), and stepson John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920). [Read more…] about Nationally Significant Olmsted Landscapes Threatened

Under Threat: Genesee Valley Park in Rochester, NY

July 14, 2022 by Editorial Staff 7 Comments

Genesee Valley Park in Rochester, NY was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1890, and it remains a well-used and defining community landscape. An original aspect of the park’s design is a woodland buffer that runs from Elmwood Avenue to the Erie Canal next to the University of Rochester. [Read more…] about Under Threat: Genesee Valley Park in Rochester, NY

Univ of Rochester to Hold Race and Gender Conference

February 16, 2010 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The University of Rochester has announced a two-day conference on April 16 and 17, 2010 to celebrate the launching of a new book series by the University of Rochester Press, “Gender and Race in American History.” The Conference is free and open to the public. The conference organizers include Carol Faulkner (of Syracuse University), Alison M. Parker (of The College at Brockport, SUNY), and Victoria Wolcott (of the University of Rochester).

Featured Speakers will include:

Deborah Gray White (Rutgers University), “What Women Want: The Racial Paradoxes of Post-Modernity.”

Michelle Mitchell (New York University), title TBA

Meredith Clark-Wiltz, Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, Ohio State University, “Persecuting Black Men, Gendering Jury Service: The Interplay between Race and Gender in the NAACP Jury Service Cases of the 1930s.”

Kendra Taira Field, Assistant Professor, U.C. Riverside, “‘You mean Grandma Brown. Grandpa Brown didn’t have no land.’ Race, Gender, and An Intruder of Color in Indian Territory.”

Rashauna Johnson, Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, NYU, “‘Laissez les bon temps rouler!’ and Other Concealments: Households, Taverns, and Irregular Intimacies in Antebellum New Orleans.”

Michelle Kuhl, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, “Countable Bodies, Uncountable Crimes: Sexual Assault and the Anti-Lynching Movement.”

Vivian May, Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Syracuse University, “Historicizing intersectionality as Theory and Method: Returning to the Work of Anna Julia Cooper.”

Helene Quanquin, Associate Professor, University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, “‘There are Two Great Oceans’: The Slavery Metaphor in the Antebellum Women’s Rights Movement as ‘redescription’ of Race and Gender.”

For more information visit:
http://www.rochester.edu/College/humanities/projects/index.php?history&events