Program


	Please note that this program is subject to change


Thursday, 11 May
9.00-9.30	Registration
9.30-9.40	Welcome by organizing committee
9.40-10.30	Keynote lecture Malcolm Miles University of Plymouth Recreating a Public Sphere?
Tea/coffee break
Session 1: City Branding (Moderator: To be announced)
10.45-11.05	Venda Louise Pollock University of Glasgow Cultivating the Past for a Changing Present: Public Art in Urban Regeneration
11.05-11.25	Ward Rennen Universiteit van Amsterdam Programming the City: The European Capitals of Culture
11.25-11.45	Michael Wintle Universiteit van Amsterdam Brussels: Visualizing the EU
11.45-12.05	Roemer van Toorn Berlage Instituut, Amsterdam Towards a Practice of Dissensus. Aesthetics as a Form of Politics
12.05-12.30	Discussion
Session 2: New York into Art (Moderator: Rachel Esner, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
10.45-11.05	Robert S. Mattison Lafayette College Robert Rauschenberg: Urban Diversity and Crisis in New York during the 1950s
11.05-11.25	Joshua A. Shannon University of Maryland Donald Judd and the Postmodernization of New York
11.25-11.45	Royce W. Smith Wichita State University “What Attracts You to Dark Things?”: Imagining Urban Queerscapes in the Art of David Wojnarowicz
11.45-12.05	Susanne Stemmler Center for Metropolitan Studies-Berlin City, Music, Text: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s New York in the 1980s
12.05-12.30	Discussion
Lunch
Session 3: Citygraphy (Moderator: To be announced)
14.15-14.35	Andri Gerber ETH Zürich The City as Poetical Text: Isidore Isou and Lettrism
14.35-14.55	Caroline Igra University of Haifa The Individual Revealed: Narrative vs. Descriptive Cityscape in the Twentieth Century
14.55-15.15	Sabine van Wesemael Universiteit van Amsterdam The Physical City and its Mental Spaces Since 9/11
15.15-15.35	TBA
15.35-16.00	Discussion
Session 4: (The) Street (and) Art (Moderator: Jeroen Boomgaard, Universiteit van Amsterdam/Rietveld Academie, Lectoraat Kunst en Publieke Ruimte)
14.15-14.35	Shelley Hornstein York University-Toronto Curating Place for Museums-Without-Borders
14.35-14.55	Hannah Feldman Northwestern University Art During War: The Street, The City, and the Nation in “La France Déchirée”
14.55-15.15	Hanna Harris University of Helsinki Moving Between Streets and Screens: Urban Spaces and the Italian Telestreet
15.15-15.35	Lara Schrijver Delft From New Babylon to an Aesthetic Collective
15.35-16.00	Discussion
20.00-22.00	Stedelijk Museum CS-Club 11 A Special Evening with Contemporary Artists

Friday, 12 May
9.00-9.15	Announcements
9.15- 9.45	Keynote lecture M. Christine Boyer Princeton University New Orleans La Ville fatale
9.45- 10.15	Keynote lecture Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen Amsterdam Artistic Blasting
10.15-10.30	Discussion
Session 5: Cinematic Cities (Moderator: Wanda Strauven, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
10.45-11.05	Mark Shiel King’s College-London “Celtic Tiger”: Dublin and its Imaging
11.05-11.25	Floris Paalman Universiteit van Amsterdam Cinematic Proliferation of a City: Rotterdam in the 1960s and 1970s
11.25-11.45	Caroline Philipp Humboldt University Horizontality/Real-Time vs. Simultaneity of Time and Space: Gordon Matta-Clark’s Filmic Interactions with the City
11.45-12.05	Anna M. Dempsey University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Cinematic Los Angeles: Architectural Landscapes and Dreamscapes of Dystopia
12.05-12.30	Discussion
Session 6: City Graphics (Moderator: Esther Cleven, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
10.45-11.05	Christoph Ribbat University of Basel Glowing Cities: The Cultural History of Neon
11.05-11.25	Sandra Schürmann Universität Hamburg New Tastes and Modern Life – Reemtsma’s Cigarette Advertising and Display Windows
11.25-11.45	Miguel Antunes New School University - New York Visual Disobedience in New York City
11.45-12.05	Daniel van der Velden Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht Logo Parc: Economy, Symbol and Architecture on the Amsterdam Zuidas
12.05-12.30	Discussion
Lunch
Session 7: Urban Memory (Moderator: Leen Engelen, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
14.15-14.35	Lanfranco Aceti Univeristy College London Imaged Cities: War Times and Spaces of Peace
14.35-14.55	Danielle Leenaerts Université Libre de Bruxelles The Photographic Missions and the Construction of City Identity: The Case of Brussels
14.55-15.15	Carolyn Loeb Central Michigan University The City as Subject: Contemporary Public Sculpture in Berlin
15.15-15.35	Richard D. Lloyd Vanderbilt University Sitting on the Barstools of Giants: Place Aura and the Contemporary Production of Culture
15.35-16.00	Discussion
16.15-17.00	Closing Discussion (Moderator: Margriet Schavemaker, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Drinks