THURSDAY, June 16, BAVARIAN AMERICAN ACADEMY

6:00 pm Welcome
Raimund Lammersdorf
Sonja Dümpelmann

6:20 pm Keynote Lecture
JOHN DIXON HUNT (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
Parks, Promenades, and Politics:Tradition and Innovation in Europe and North America

7:20pm Reception

FRIDAY, June 17, BAVARIAN AMERICAN ACADEMY

9:00 am – 9:10 am Welcome

I. German-American Exchange in Garden Culture
Chair: Sonja Dümpelmann

9:10 am – 9:50 am
GERT GRÖNING (Universität der Künste Berlin)
On the Work of German-American Landscape Architects in Nineteenth-Century America

9:50 am – 10:30 am
FRANZISKA KIRCHNER (Berlin, Mülheim)
New York’s Central Park: A German–American Collaboration

11:00 am – 11.15 am Coffee Break

11:15 pm – 11:55 pm
TERENCE YOUNG (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
German Influences on San Francisco’s Greenspace in the Nineteenth Century

11:55 am – 12:35 am
SOLVEIG KÖBERNICK (Leipzig)
Hugo Koch and the American Impact on German Public Park Development

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch

II. Public Parks and International Exchange
Chair: Gert Gröning

2:30 pm – 3:10 pm
SUSAN HERRINGTON (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Kindergartens: Shaping Childhood from Blankenburg to Boston

3:10 pm – 3:50 pm
SONJA DÜMPELMANN (GHI, Washington, DC)
“American System” and “Italian Beauty”: International Exchange in Park Planning at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

4:15 pm – 4.30 pm Coffee Break

4:30 pm – 5.10 pm
ALAN TATE (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg)
City Parks in Europe and North America: What Works?

SATURDAY, JUNE 18, KATHOLISCHE PFARRKURATIE ST. FLORIAN

9:00 am – 9.05 Welcome

III. Conservation and Use of Public Parks
Chair: Susan Herrington

9:05 am – 9:45 am
SARA CEDAR MILLER (Central Park Conservancy, New York)
Central Park: An American Masterpiece

9:45 am – 10:25 am
ELIZABETH BARLOW ROGERS (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York)
Art of the Park and Art in the Park: Frederick Law Olmsted Meets Christo and Jeanne-Claude

10:55 am – 11.10 am Coffee Break

11:10 am – 11:50 am
RAINER HERZOG (Bayerische Verwaltung der staatlichen Schlösser, Gärten und Seen, München)
Munich’s Englischer Garten: History – Design – Use

12:05 am – 1:30 pm Lunch

IV. Garden Festivals and Future City Development
Chair: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn

1:30 pm – 2:10 pm
ANDREW THEOKAS (City of Boston/Boston Architectural Center)
Does America Need Garden Shows?

2:10 pm – 2:50 pm
WOLFRAM HÖFER (BUGA GmbH, München)
Change of Perspective: Garden Festivals as Instruments for Urban and Regional Development

2:50 pm – 3:30 pm Final Discussion