Research Group Cultural History & Literary Imagination
Conferences
The City and the Imagination
30 June 2003
St John's College, Cambridge
Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building
Programme
11am-12.30
Chair: David Midgley (Cambridge)
Catherine Keen (Leeds), Medieval Views of the City
Susanne Hauser (Kassel/Berlin), Modern(ist) Views of the City
Respondent: Peter Burke (Cambridge)
12.30-1 pm: Lunch
2-3.30 pm
Chair: Christian Emden (Cambridge)
Wilhelm Ribhegge (Müster), Thomas More's "Utopia": The Humanist View of City and Court in the Renaissance
Nigel Thrift (Bristol), Contemporary Perceptions of the City
Respondent: Helen Watson (Cambridge)
3.30-4 pm: Tea/Coffee
4-5.30 pm
Chair: Christian Emden (Cambridge)
David Midgley (Cambridge), Memory: The City as Palimpsest
Paul Julian Smith (Cambridge), Urban Theory and Cinema
Further information can be obtained from the organisers:
Dr David Midgley, Director of Studies in Modern Languages, St John's College, Cambridge CB2 1TP, United Kingdom, Telephone: +44 (0)1223 338779, Fax: +44 (0)1223 337720, E-mail: drm7@joh.cam.ac.uk
Dr Christian Emden, Research Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge CB2 3HU, United Kingdom, Telephone: +44 (0)1223 338813, Fax: +44 (0)1223 338884, E-Mail: cje22@cam.ac.uk