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"The Monumentality of Linear Landscape"
This symposium is being held in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition "Crossing Kazakhstan: The Monumentality of Linear Landscape." The event will feature two presentations, each of which considers the physical reality and social dimension of linear landscape in Central Asia. A roundtable discussion will follow each presentation, focusing on some of the fundamental questions raised by the exhibition including: What is cultural space? How does one begin to visually document large-scale linear infrastructure with particular attention to Eurasia? And how is the Silk Road metaphor being redeployed in reference to emergent energy corridors and burgeoning transportation infrastructures in the region? The conversation will hopefully continue during the exhibit's opening reception, which will directly follow the symposium.
Please see the event website http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/monumentality-linear-landscape for additional details.
Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Mellon Urban Initiative, Harvard University.
