[Discussion] Memory and the City Memory and the City

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CFP for a panel at the American Comparative Literature Association
April 15-18, 2004, Ann Arbor
http://www.umich.edu/~acla/
Deadline: October 8, 2003

Memory and the City

What is the relationship between memory, individually or collectively
inscribed, and ever-changing urban populations and landscapes? How
does memory affect the organization of cities, and vice versa?
Cities, as some have argued, resist theorization.  To what extent do
they also resist memorialization? How does memory, evoked and erased,
come to play in discourses of urban decay and renewal? How can one
begin to map or trace urban networks of memory across neighborhoods
and/or ethnic groups?

Submissions may include but are not limited to investigations of the
built environment, urban planning, development, visual, filmic and
textual representations, archaeology, iconic structures or monuments.
We encourage submissions on pre-modern and non-Western topics.

Please mail or email proposals for papers and brief bios to:

Deborah Starr
Dept. of Near Eastern Studies
415 White Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14850
das86@cornell.edu

Sabine Haenni
Dept. of Theatre, Film & Dance
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Cornell University
430 College Ave.
Ithaca, NY 14850
sh322@cornell.edu