Nov. 13, Center for 21st Century Studies Lecture
“Defining a Public Realm: Conflict, Imagination, and Demeanor in the Antebellum American City”
a lecture by Dell Upton (Architectural History & Art History, UCLA)
Sponsored by the UWM Center for 21st Century Studies, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Department of Art History
Friday, November 13
4:30 pm AUP 170
Dell Upton is a Professor of Architectural History and Chair of the Department of Art History at UCLA. His interests include the history of architecture, cities, and material culture and the ways that cultural, social, aesthetic, and cognitive theories can enrich the study of architectural history. Professor Upton is the author of
- Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic (2008),
- Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans (1996) and
- Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (1986).
He is working on a world history of architecture and a study of civil-rights monuments and urban politics in the American South.