The City and its Representation
ACCUTE at the Congress for Learned Societies,
Edmonton, Alberta, May 24-27, 2000
Despite its obvious artificiality, the city has become paradoxically
naturalized in contemporary Western culture. Notwithstanding the efforts of
modernist writers like Walter Benjamin, Antonin Artaud, and Sean O'Casey (to
name only a few), as well as a number of recent collections on urban culture
and its imagery, the city amorphosouly resists attempts to bring it into
some kind of conceptual clarity. This panel will present papers that
demystify the city and/or its constituent elements from a number of
theoretical perspectives. I am particularly interested in materialist,
political, ideological, and psychoanalytic critiques of both the city itself
and attempts to represent it. The following is a brief list of issues that
may be addressed in this session:
The City and Technology
The City and Gender
The City and the Gaze
Ideology and the Function of Public Space
Guidebooks, Travel Culture, and Mapping/Reconstructing the City
The City as Dramatic Setting (including the City and Cinema)
Please submit 3 copies of either a full paper or 300-500 word proposal,
a 100-word abstract, and 50-word bio-bibliographical sketch, along with a
disk or email copy (preferred) by November 15, 1999 to:
Dr. Robert Brazeau
Dept. of English, H-C 3-5
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
T6G 2E1
Email: rbrazeau@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
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Dr. Robert Brazeau Office: Humanities Centre 3-72
Instructor, Dept. of English Phone: (780) 492-7404
University of Alberta
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