Thinking Urban Space

University of Pennsylvania
THINKING URBAN SPACE
February 15, 2008

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Program, subject to change:

8:30-9:30 Registration and Breakfast

9:30-11:00 Panel One
•    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"

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-1:00 Panel Two
•    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"

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:00 Keynote Address
Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:00    Panel Three
•    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?"