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Key Speakers
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Fall Conference 2012
Sacred Spaces, Sacred Places: Religious Architecture and Sites
November 9–10, 2012
Stoweflake Mountain Resort and Spa, Stowe, Vermont
Plenary Speakers
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Glenn Andres
Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Middlebury College
A member of the Middlebury College faculty since 1970, Glenn Andres has taught, published, and designed exhibitions on the history of American and New England regional architecture. He is a member the Vermont Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and co-author of the forthcoming Buildings of Vermont.
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Robert A. Oden, Jr.
Former President, Carleton and Kenyon Colleges
A distinguished scholar of Near Eastern languages and religions, Robert A. Oden Jr. has been president of both Carleton College and Kenyon College, headmaster of the Hotchkiss School, and professor of religion at Dartmouth College. He is the recipient of Dartmouth’s first Distinguished Teaching Award.
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Nasser Rabbat
Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art at MIT
Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture at MIT where he has been teaching since 1991. His interests include Islamic art and architecture, medieval urban history, and post-colonial criticism. His research focuses on the intercultural spaces where peoples have always met and exchanged ideas, views, beliefs, and practices, and, in the process, created art and architecture.
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Breakout Session Scholars
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Rabbi Edward Boraz
Rabbi and Executive Director of Dartmouth Hillel and Rabbi of the Upper Valley Jewish Community
In addition to serving as the Michael Steinberg ’61 Rabbi of Dartmouth College Hillel, Rabbi Boraz is an Officer of the Tucker Foundation, Rabbi of the Upper Valley Jewish Community, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. He is the author of Understanding the Talmud: A Modern Reader's Guide for Study. |
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N. Bruce Duthu
Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, Dartmouth College
Chair of Dartmouth's Native American Studies Program and an internationally recognized scholar of Native American law and policy, N. Bruce Duthu is the author of American Indians and the Law (2008) and was a contributing author of Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005), the leading treatise in the field of federal Indian law. He has given talks on the rights of Native Americans and indigenous peoples to audiences throughout the US and the world. |
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Dr. Holly Edwards
Senior Lecturer, Islamic Art, Visual Culture, Williams College
Holly Edwards teaches Islamic art history and visual culture at Williams College. Her publications encompass a broad array of topics, including commemorative architecture in the Indus Valley, architectural epigraphy, and contemporary painting. |
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Dr. Cecilia Gaposchkin
Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth College
Associate Professor of History and Dean of Faculty for advising at Dartmouth, Dr. Gaposchkin's book The Making of Saint Louis (IX) of France: Kingship, Sanctity and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages was published by Cornell University Press in 2008. She is now working on a devotional history of the crusades. |
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Dr. Emily Gray
Assistant Professor of History, Norwich University
Dr. Gray specializes in early modern Germany cultural/religious history. Her first book, Good Neighbors: Confessional Contact and Sacred Space in Augsburg, 1525-1660, is currently nearing completion. |
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Dr. Allen Hockley
Associate Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College
Chair of Dartmouth’s Asian and Middle Eastern Studies program, professor Hockley's research specialties and teaching interests include the history of Japanese prints and illustrated books, early photography in Asia, Japanese sacred art and architecture, and contemporary art of Asia. |
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Dr. Terryl Kinder
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Saint Michael's College
A specialist of Cistercian architecture and archaeology, Dr. Kinder is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester. She has also served as consultant to the restoration of numerous Cistercian abbeys in France, Italy, and England and is an Associate of the Institute of Historical Research in London. |
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Steve Rosenthal, photographer
Steve Rosenthal is an architectural photographer based in the Boston area whose work for leading architectural and design firms has earned him numerous awards throughout a long career. Between commercial shoots, one of his passions is recording the beauty of rural 18th- and 19th- century churches in New England. His book, White on White: Churches of Rural New England is a product of that passion. |
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Dr. Laura Weinstein
Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Laura Weinstein is the Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her scholarly interests focus on illustrated manuscripts from early modern India, while her curatorial work ranges broadly from Koran manuscripts to Hindu temples. |
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Conference Details
Last Updated 10/11/2012 4:10:18 PM
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