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