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�