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Commemorating Discovery: Our Past and Our Future
April 3—The Arts and the Built Environment; Changes in Suburban Life
Focus: Changing forms and uses in housing, suburban culture as seen through media and popular culture; and the evolution of a new mode of living: that of the suburbanite.
University Host: E. Thomas Sullivan, senior vice president and provost
Moderator: Tom Fisher, dean, College of Design
Presenters: John Archer, chair, Cultural Studies, College of Liberal Arts; Kate Solomonson, associate dean, College of Design; and Becky Yust, head, Design, Housing, and Apparel
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Introduction: Ann Pflaum introduced host E. Thomas Sullivan
Second speaker: Kate Solomonson
Written transcripts of these recordings will be available in the future; they are in process at present.
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Presentation program (121 K PDF)
Suburbia—A Selected Bibliography (80 K PDF)