Pückler and America

June 22 – 25, 2006

Program (as of March 26, 2006)

Participants

Conveners:
Sonja Dümpelmann (GHI, Auburn University)
Cord Panning (Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau)

Keynote Lecture:
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers (Foundation for Landscape Studies)
The German Olmsted?: Similarities and Differences in the Landscapes of Prince Pückler-Muskau and the Father of American Landscape Architecture

Conference Papers

Charles Birnbaum (Cultural Landscape Foundation)

Hubertus Fischer (University of Hannover)
Pückler and German Travel Literature

Peter Goodchild (University of York)
The British Dimension: The Picturesque and the Gardenesque in Germany and North America

Gert Gröning (Universität der Künste Berlin)
Pückler's Significance for Landscape Architecture in Nineteenth Century America

Thomas Hansen (Wellesley College)
The Prince in the Landscape: Edgar Allan Poe and Prince Pückler

David Haney (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England)
Bringing the Americanized Pückler Back to Germany: The Pre-World War One Writings of the Urban Designer Werner Hegemann and the Landscape Architect Leberecht Migge

Rachel Hildebrandt
The Prince's Long Shadow: Pückler's Theories in the Twentieth Century

Ulf Jakob
Pückler’s Biography

Michael Lee (Rhode Island)
Pückler-Muskau at Harvard University

Keith Morgan (Boston University)
Muskau on the Charles: Prince Puckler's Influence on Charles Eliot and Metropolitan Planning in Boston

Daniel Nadenicek (Clemson University)
The Useful and the Beautiful, American Style

Lance Neckar (University of Minnesota)
Pückler von Muskau: Imagination as Weltanschauung

Andreas Pahl (Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Museum Park und Schloss Branitz)
Pückler’s Park in Branitz

Cord Panning (Stiftung Pückler Park Muskau, Bad Muskau)
Pückler’s Park in Bad Muskau

Linda Parshall (Washington, DC)
Hirschfeld and Pückler: Literary Modeling of Nature

Michael Rohde (Spsg)
Pückler’s Park in Babelsberg

Erika Schmidt (Universität Dresden)
Pückler’s Significance for Landscape Architecture in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany

Noel Dorsey Vernon (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
Adolph Strauch's Spring Grove Cemetery: Intimations of Pückler in the American Midwest