City Seminar Programme 2006-07
Michaelmas Term 2006
| Inaugural seminar 17 October |
Professor Edward Soja (Department of Urban Planning, UCLA) Tales of Postmetropolis |
| 31 October | Vikki Bell (Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London) Art, Memory, Politics: Tales from Belfast and Buenos Aires |
| 14 November | Peter Carl (Architecture, University of Cambridge) Pasolini, Le Corbusier: amor vacui, amor horrores |
| 28 November | Issam Kourbaj (artist in residence, Christ's College, Cambridge) The EyeCone project: Building a Camera Obscura in Cambridge's Great St Mary's Church Location: Great St Mary's Church |
Lent Term 2007
| Doreen Massey (Geography; The Open University) Alternative spatialities for a global city | |
| Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (Centre for Information Technology and Architecture; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen) Habit patterns: drawing a space of behaviour | |
| George Pattison (Theology; University of Oxford) Kierkegaard & Copenhagen: From Genius in a Market-Town or Philosopher-Flâneur | |
| Aristotle Kallis (European Studies, Lancaster) Creating the 'third Rome' - uses of the past in the Fascist capital |
Easter Term 2007
| 24 April | Maureen Thomas (Digital Studio, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge) Narrating the City: Screen Cities |
| 8 May | Kristin Veel (Modern & Medieval Languages, Cambridge) Fictional Cities in a Digital Age |
| 22 May | Christopher Young (Department of German, University of Cambridge) Munich and its Olympics in 1972: looking to past, present and future *** PLEASE NOTE: This seminar takes place at the Architecture Lecture Room, Scroope Terrace, (across from Martin's coffee shop). Wine reception to follow in the Gallery**** |
| 5 June | Jonathan Sergison (architect with Sergison Bates LLP; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Some Notes on Cities and Places |
