Visionary Leadership: Art, Politicians, and the Image of a Nation
Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Karen E. Milbourne, Baltimore Museum of Art
Designing “Empire” in Early Imperial China (221 BCE–220 CE)
Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu, Brown University
Hadrian’s Hydraulic Vision of Roman Cultural Identity
Brenda Longfellow, University of Iowa
Inchoata Roma Forma Leonis: An Augustan Model for Imperial Propaganda at the Forum of Mussolini
Valentina Follo, University of Pennsylvania
Building the Tropical World of Tomorrow: The Construction of Brasilidade at the 1939 New York World’s Fair
Aleca Le Blanc, University of Southern California
Spectacular Nation: Expo ’67, Prime Minister L. B. Pearson and the Photographic Promotion of Canada
Carol Payne, Carleton University