UWP Lecturers Wendy Ashmore: Distinguished Humanist Achievement Lecturer

[John Ganim]

>"Reading Biographies of Place"
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>Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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>4:30pm - 6:00p
>Humanities 1500
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>Why are buildings and spaces in ancient 
>places—archaeological sites today—arranged as 
>they are? Answers to this question increasingly 
>attribute social and symbolic meanings to 
>architecture and lived space. Culture-specific 
>texts, oral traditions, and imagery are key 
>interpretive sources. The built environment 
>itself, however, offers initial cues about form, 
>historical development, and potential meaning of 
>spatial forms and arrangements. In a phrase, 
>they invite reading biographies of place, 
>complementing or even contradicting recorded 
>history. This presentation proposes biographies 
>of place read from the built environment, focusing on Classic Maya Quiriguá.
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>Georgia Warnke
>Professor of Philosophy
>Interim Director, Center for Ideas and Society
>Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities
>College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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