FRIDAY, MARCH 4
9 – 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30-10:45
Welcome, Mark Magleby, Museum Director
Keynote Address: Dr. Phil Deloria
10:45-11 Break
11:00-12:30 Session 1 (Auditorium and Lecture room Concurrent Sessions)
Museum Auditorium:
Performance of the Wild West
Alison Fields, “Travel Routes, Performance Spaces and New Technologies: Blurring the Lines between Wild West Shows and Early Cinema,” Asst. Prof. of Art History, University of Oklahoma
Laura F. Fry, “The West Goes Global: Frederick Remington and the Spectacle of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West,” Curator, Gilcrease Museum
Elizabeth S. Hawley, “Imaging the Indian, Imagining the Indian: Maria and Julian Martinez at the 1915 Panama-California Exposition,” The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NYC
Museum Lecture room:
Fashion, Design, and the Commercial West
Sonya Abrego, “Beef-borne Hieroglyphics to Corporate Branding: The Cattle brand in the Twentieth Century Design,” New York University
Alison Goodrum, “Out West, In Vogue, On Vacation: Fashionable, Technical and Casual Clothing at the Dude Ranch, 1920 to 1940,” Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University, England
Caroline Jean Fernald, “The Persistence of Memory in the American Southwest: Anthropology, Art, and Authenticity (1880-1930),” Executive Director, Millicent Rogers Museum
12:30-2 LUNCH BREAK (On Own)
2- 3:30 Session II (Auditorium and Lecture Room Concurrent Sessions)
Museum Auditorium:
Tourism and the Imagined West
Laura Arata, “Branding Montana as the ‘Wild West