ISIE News
2025
Feb. 12-15
Two ISIE members presenting at College Art Association's 113th Annual Conference in New York.
Constanza Robles, Boston University
"Transnational Alliances and Visual Culture at the Ibero-American Exposition (1929)"
Session: Identities at Play: Branding, Politics, and Ecology in 20th-Century Visual Culture and Contemporary Art, Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 2:30pm-4:00pm
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James Fortuna, University of St. Andrews
"Fascism, Italian-Americans, and the 1939 New York World’s Fair"
Session: Spectacles of Nationhood: World's Fairs and Italian Identity Formation, Saturday, February 15, 2025, 9:00am-10:30am​​
Jan. 2-6
Panel at the American Historical Association's Annual Meeting in New York.
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International Expositions in Historical Context: Understanding the Social, Cultural, and Diplomatic Consequences of World’s Fair Planning (AHA Session 156)
Saturday, January 4, 2025, 3:30pm-5:00pm​
Chair: James Fortuna, University of St. Andrews
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Papers:
"Meeting Economic Needs, Preserving Morality, and Showcasing Nations: Working-Class Accommodation at 19th-Century World's Fairs"
Lucie Prohin, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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"Perceptions of Jade in Republican China: Handicraft Tradition and the 1937 Paris Exposition in Shanghai"
Emma Laube, University of California, San Diego
"Hemispheric Relations at the 1922 International Exposition of the Centenary of Independence in Rio de Janeiro"
Constanza Robles Sepúlveda, Boston University