What is a city? conference - UM-St. Louis - Center for the Humanities

What is a city?
13th Annual Conference • October 25-26, 2007

Urban Perspectives in Film, Fiction, and Photography

The Center for the Humanities invites you to join speakers from around the country and St. Louis in examining urban life in contemporary and historical films, fiction, television, and photography. We will discuss examples from London, Chicago, Sarasota, Paris, Los Angeles, Florence, St. Louis, and small towns. The conference presenters are historians, geographers, photographers, film critics, community activists, literary experts, and writers. Engaging in discussion across many disciplines, they will consider ways artistic images and writings shape how we see our cities and those of others.

Thursday, Oct. 25

8:45 a.m.
CHECK IN , 126 J.C. Penney Conference Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis

9:00 a.m.
OPENING & WELCOME
Glen Cope , Provost, UM-St. Louis
Diane Touliatos, Director, Center for the Humanities, UM-St. Louis

9:10 a.m.
Anand Prahlad, Professor of English, UM-Columbia
The City as a Landscape of Amnesia

10:10 a.m.
Susan Hacker Stang, Professor of Photography,
Webster University
FIRENZE un incontro
(Encountering Florence)

11:05 a.m.
Andrew Hurley, Professor of History, UM-St. Louis
Trailer Park History: Making a Documentary--with screening of Suburbs on Wheels

Noon
Presenters-Audience Discussion

12:15 p.m.
Lunch on your own

1:30 p.m.
CHECK IN , Gallery 210 Auditorium, Telecommunity Center

1:35 p.m.
Mary Bly, Associate Professor of English,
Fordham University
17th-Century Snapshots: Mapping Urban Space in Early Modern Drama

2:30 p.m.
Sarah S. Marcus, Historian, Chicago History Museum; Managing Editor, Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago
Chicago on Screen: Images of a Midwestern Metropolis in Television and Film

3:30 p.m.
Mel Watkin, Director of the Photography Project, Public Policy Research Center, UM-St. Louis
PPRC Connects: Photography Project

4:15-5:30 p.m.
Conference Reception in Gallery 210

Exhibition: Chakaia Booker: Sculpture
in Gallery 210, Oct. 4-Dec. 8, 2007

Exhibition: Cheryl Yun: Recycling the News
in Gallery 210, Oct. 4-Dec. 8, 2007

*A parking permit will be mailed to preregistrants. Parking in Lot C for Thursday and Friday morning sessions. Parking in Millennium Student Center Garage North for Thursday afternoon session.

Cancellation policy: The University reserves the right to cancel any program. In the event of cancellation, you will be notified immediately.

Friday, Oct. 26

8:45 a.m.
CHECK IN , 126 J.C. Penney Conference Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis

9:00 a.m.
WELCOME
Tom George, Chancellor, UM-St. Louis
Karen Lucas, Associate Director, Center for the Humanities, UM-St. Louis

9:05 a.m.
Edward Ahearn, Professor of Comparative Literature and French Studies, Brown University
Writer and Crowd: The City, Violence, and Globalization in Baudelaire and DeLillo

10:00 a.m.
Ronald A. Davidson, Assistant Professor of Geography, California State University-Northridge
What Is Los Angeles? Narration and Place in the Southland

10:50 a.m.
Marco Williams, Director and Producer, Hiptruth Productions, New York
BANISHED: The Violent Expulsion of African Americans and the Remaking of the American City--a documentary film

11:45 a.m.
Joe Williams, Film Critic, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
From Bedford Falls to Pottersville: Civic Progress and Urban Decay in the Movies

crosswalk

All sessions are filled.
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.

Please check back in fall 2008 for information on next year's conference.

Registration is free and open to the public.

We encourage registrants to bring canned
food donations, which will be delivered
to a hunger-relief organization.

(314) 516-5699

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