"Constructing the City"
Graduate Student Symposium
November 8, 2003
Department of the History of Art, Yale University
New Haven CT
Graduate Students in the Department of the History of Art at Yale
invite proposals for an interdisciplinary one-day graduate student
symposium entitled "Constructing the City" to be held 8 November 2003.
The city has increasingly become a focus for academic study, and there
is an ever-expanding body of work concerning itself with the physical
and imagined transformation of the city through history. This one-day
graduate student symposium hopes to bring together a range of graduate
students from different disciplines in the humanities whose research
addresses visual aspects of the city. It intends to create a dialogue
between the study of the concrete construction of the city-that which
was actually built and experienced-and the representation of that
environment. This dialogue should encourage an exploration of the ways
in which these aspects interact, as well as asking if analysis of one
can be kept separate from the other. While focusing specifically on
this interface, the symposium will be broad in scope, working without
limits of chronology or geography. Materials under investigation could
range from guidebooks to manuscript illumination, street plans to film,
postcards to architectural designs and models, panorama to medical and
social mapping.
Dr. Frank Salmon, assistant director of the Paul Mellon Centre for
Studies in British Art, London will give the keynote address. His
research interests focus on British, Italian, and French Architecture
and Culture, c. 1700-1900. His book Building on Ruins: the Rediscovery
of Rome and British Architecture (Ashgate Publishing, 2000) won the
2002 Spiro Kostof Prize of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Papers are expected to be no more than 20 minutes in duration. An
abstract of 300-500 words should be submitted by 15 July. Potential
presenters are asked to provide full contact details with their
proposals.
Themes for papers might include, but are certainly not limited to, the
following:
*city as Utopia
*city as modern Babylon
*city as New Jersusalem
*city as cosmos/state in miniature
*the Imperial metropole
*constructing the colonial/postcolonial city
*city limits and urban sprawl
*archaeology and the recovery of cities
*cities as spaces of confinement or liberation
Send abstracts to Morna O'Neill at:
The Department of the History of Art
Yale University
P. O. Box 208272
New Haven, CT 06520-2872
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