20th IPC International Panorama Conference Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America, September 14-18, 2011 Preserving and Understanding the Battlefield Panorama Heritage In cooperation of the International Panorama Council with the Gettysburg Foundation PROGRAM Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Opening reception and registration, Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center 13.00 Transfer from Baltimore-Washington International/Thurgood Marshall (BWI) Airport to Marriott – Courtyard Gettysburg hotel 15.00 Check-in at Marriott – Courtyard Gettysburg hotel 17.00 Shuttle service from Marriott – Courtyard Gettysburg hotel to Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center 17.15 Registration at Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center Welcome Drinks 18.00 Reception at Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center with opportunity to have a first sight to the Panorama Welcome speeches MSc Ernst Storm (President of the International Panorama Council IPC, The Hague/The Netherlands) Jerry Moore (Gettysburg Foundation Chief Development Officer/USA) 19.00 Dinner in group at the Gettysburg Museum Visitor Center tba Shuttle service to Marriott – Courtyard Gettysburg hotel Thursday, September 15, 2011 Conference Proceedings, Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center 09.15 Shuttle service from Marriott – Courtyard Gettysburg hotel to Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center 09.30 Registration, Coffee/tea 10.00 Opening speeches MSc Ernst Storm (President of the International Panorama Council IPC) Jerry Moore (Gettysburg Foundation Chief Development Officer/USA) 10.30 Session 1: REVITALISING A HERITAGE PANORAMA - 'THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG' CYCLORAMA BY PAUL PHILIPPOTEAUX, 1884 David Olin (Chief Conservator Olin Conservation Inc., Great Falls VA/USA): International collaboration and the conservation of the Gettysburg Panorama 11.00 Greg Goodell (Chief of Museum Services at Gettysburg National Military Park and the Eisenhower National Historic Site): Much To Do - Daily Management and Display of the Gettysburg Panorama 11.30 Coffee/tea 12.00 Jerry Moore (Gettysburg Foundation Chief Development Officer/USA): Short input and discussion on Management and Funding of the Gettysburg Cyclorama 12.30 Lunch 13.45 Session 2 (part 1): TRACING LOST PANORAMAS Dr. Natasja Peeters (Head of Exhibitions, Publications and Arts at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, Brussels/Belgium) and Sandrine Smets (Head of Scientific Department 1914-today at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, Brussels/Belgium): Bastien's battle - The 'Panorama of the Yser' in the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, Brussels 14.15 Dr. Mimi Colligan (Adjunct Research Fellow with the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University/Australia): The Mystery of what happened to The Battle of Gettysburg Cyclorama in Australia and New Zealand 1906-1921 14.45 Jeffry Uecker M.A. (historian, freelance writer, Hillsboro OR/USA): “The Grandest Work of Art” - Portland’s Gettysburg Cyclorama 15.15 Suzanne Wray (panorama historian, New York City/USA): “Puffing the Panorama” - Brander Matthews and the Battle of Gettysburg Panorama in New York 15.45 Coffee/tea 16.15 Michael Kutzer (Painter, leading transcriber for the Heine Diaries project, Milwaukee WI/USA): On the battlegrounds (part 1) - Which information did panorama painters get from researching the battlefields and how did it influence their big paintings? 16.45 Gordon L. Jones, Ph.D. (Senior Military Historian and Curator, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta/USA): On the Battlegrounds (part 2) - What information did the painters of The Battle of Atlanta panorama get from researching the battlefield and how did it influence their work? 17.15 VISIT TO THE PANORAMA 'THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG' Sue Boardman (Gettysburg Foundation): An Evening with the Panorama (presentation followed by a visit to the platform then followed by a brief visit under the platform) 18.30 Dinner in group Gettysburg Museum Visitor Venter Brief remarks, Robert A. Kinsley, Chairman, Gettysburg Foundation 19.30 VISIT TO PRESIDENT D.D. EISENHOWER’S NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE (EISENHOWER FARM) 21.00 Shuttle service to Marriott – Courtyard Gettysburg hotel Friday, September 16, 2011 Conference Proceedings and IPC’s General Assembly, Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center 08.45 Shuttle service from Marriott – Courtyard Gettysburg hotel to Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center 09.00 Coffee/tea 09.30 Session 2 (part 2): TRACING LOST PANORAMAS Kyle Pfalzer: Presentation of a paper by Dr. Sc Milko Asparuhov (Director of the military- historical museums, Pleven/Bulgaria) and Marina Elenkova (Curator in Panorama ‘Pleven Epopee 1877-1878’, Pleven/Bulgaria): Paul Philippoteaux and the first Pleven Panorama 10.00 Prof. Jr. Thiago Leitão de Souza (Architect and Phd Student in Programa de Pós-Graduação em Urbanismo FAU/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil): The Panorama of Rio de Janeiro by William John Burchell 10.30 Coffee/tea 11.00 Session 3: REACTIVATING THE PANORAMA PHENOMENON Dr. Stephan Oettermann (Curator Asisi Visual GmbH, Berlin/Germany): Pergamon 1886 - Pergamon hype, Pergamon party and Pergamon panorama in Berlin 1886 11.30 Dr. Stephan Oettermann (Curator Asisi Visual GmbH, Berlin/Germany): Pergamon 2011 - The new panorama of Pergamon on the Berlin museum island (opening 31st September 2011) 12.00 Lunch 13.30 Session 4: CLOSE RELATIVES: THE WIDER PANORAMA PHENOMENON Jessica Skwire Routhier (Museum Director, Dyer Library and Saco Museum, Saco, Maine, USA): Preserving and Interpreting the Moving Panorama of Pilgrim’s Progress 14.00 Richard Schneider (Analyst in the Preservation Programs Division of the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park MD/USA): Hidden Treasures: Panoramic Photographs of the Alaska Territory by the United States Geological Survey, 1911-1932 14.30 Andy Newman (retired CEO, St. Louis MI/USA): A Panorama of the Use of the Suffix "--Rama" 15.00 Coffee/tea 15.30 Sara Velas (viual artist, founder and director of The Velaslavasay PANORAMA, Los Angeles/USA): The Grand Moving Mirror of California - Or - California as it was & as it is! 16.00 Prof. Jeremy Diggle (Panorama artist, Dean of the School of Art & Design at University College Falmouth/UK): A new digital cyclorama 16.30 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA COUNCIL IPC (open to public) 17.30 Executive Board meeting of IPC (for Board members only) 19.00 Farewell dinner in group at Gettysburg Museum Visitor Center Remarks by Robert Wilbrun, President (ret.), Gettysburg Foundation and Joanne Hanley, President Gettysburg Foundation 20.30 Shuttle service to Marriott – Courtyard Gettysburg hotel Saturday, September 17, 2011 Tour of the Gettysburg Battlefield – Focus on the rehabilitation efforts 08.15 Departure from Marriott – Courtyard Gettysburg hotel 08.30 Tour of the Gettysburg Battlefield with emphasis on preservation and cyclorama view sheds 12.30 Lunch in Refreshment Saloon at Museum Visitor Center (cost on your own) 14.00 Free time in museum and cyclorama galleries, film and bookstore (complimentary tickets will be provided for museum, cyclorama and film) 17.30 Dinner in group at historic Dobbin House (cost on your own) 19.00 Visit to Gettysburg College Special Collections, Musselman Library 20.30- Transfer to Marriott – Courtyard Gettysburg hotel For those leaving on that day: 14.00 Transfer to Baltimore-Washington International/Thurgood Marshall (BWI) Airport 15.45 Approximate Arrival at Baltimore-Washington International/Thurgood Marshall (BWI) Airport Sunday, September 18, 2011 Tour of the Pennsylvania Capitol, Harrisburg 09.30 Departure from Marriott – Courtyard Gettysburg hotel (Approximately one hour drive to Harrisburg) 11.00 Tour of the Pennsylvania Capitol. At the dedication of the Capitol building on October 4, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt said, “This is the handsomest building I ever saw.” The building features various forms of art including Renaissance, Greek, Roman and Victorian art forms. The highlight of the building is a 272-foot, 52 million-pound dome inspired by St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. 12.00 Lunch at Hilton Harrisburg Hotel 14.00 Reception at the Governor’s Residence with First Lady of Pennsylvania Susan Corbett (a former Vice-President of The Gettysburg Foundation). 15.00 Transfer to Baltimore-Washington International/Thurgood Marshall (BWI) Airport 16.45 Approximate arrival at Baltimore-Washington International/Thurgood Marshall (BWI) Airport .