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THINKING URBAN SPACE
February 15, 2008


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-          Patrick Gallagher (New York University“The Redaction of Space: Segregation and the Urban Imagination in Franz Kafka’s The Trial

-         Doreen Densky (Johns Hopkins University) “Place, Space, and Pace; intersections of Traffic and Language in Joseph Roth's Berlin Feuilletons”

-         Genevieve Hendricks (New York University) “Erich Mendelsohn's Twentieth-Century City-scape Built Anew with Light and Print” 

-         Melanie Adley (University of Pennsylvania) “Epistolary Space in Fräulein Else

-         Nathan Magnusson (University of Washington) “Hex and the City: Carnival as Social Space in Tieck's Liebeszauber

-         Corey Twitchell (Washington University) “The Disintegration of the Individual and Evacuation of Urban Spaces in Kracht's 1979” 

-         Patrick Brugh (Washington University) “Andreas Gursky's Visual Dilemma: Time and Space in Gursky's Photography”

-         Alexander Eisenschmidt (University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University“Rethinking the Metropolis: Perception Theory and the Emergence of a New Urban Space”

-         Steffen Lehmann, in absentia (University of Newcastle) “‘Back to the City’, or: What makes Berlin (still) a creative city?”

 

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