A6: Memory and the City

Seminar Leader: Deborah Starr, Cornell University

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Westminster 1

Kathryn Milun, Arizona State University: “Cathartic Method and the City: Treating the Built Emptiness of Modern Urban Space”

Sabine Haenni, Cornell University: “Mobile Metropolis: Cinema and the Circulation of Images and People in New York City”

Edward Dimendberg, University of Michigan: “Reyner Banham and the Cinematic Writing of Los Angeles”

Barbara Mann, Princeton University: “Reflections on Remembering Tel Aviv”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Westminster 1

Fred Liers, University of California – Los Angeles: “In Praise of the City: The Epideictic Imperative in Western Art Biography”

Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams College: “The Rhetoric of Anticipation of Loss in the Global City: Abdelkrim Jouiti and the City of Copper”

Daniel Purdy. Pennsylvania State University: “Berlin’s New Classicism and the Jewish Museum”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Westminster 1

Scott Spector, University of Michigan: “Remembering Utopian and Dystopian Futures in the Fin-de-Siecle Central European City”

Nirmala Singh-Brinkman, The Citadel: “Remembering the Future of Seville: Fabricating an Originary Past in the Andalusian Movement for Autonomy (1907-1936)”

Alisa Freedman, Cornell University: “Ishida Ira’s Novel 4-Teen and 2002 Tokyo Development: Stories of Boys and Buildings”

Deborah Starr, Cornell University: “Alexandrian Renewal”