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Thinking the City: Multidisciplinary Views on Urban Life and Culture Play

Thursday 19 April
0930 - 1700 [ GMT ]

A conference in which internationally celebrated cultural theorists explored the role art plays in forming our experience of modern cities. Organised in collaboration with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Cities Initiative.



Time

Session

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10.50-11.00

Welcome by Chair, Doreen Massey, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University

11.00-11.40

Daniel Miller, Department of Anthropology, University College, London, UK

11.40-12.20

Dolores Hayden, Department of Architecture and Planning, Yale University, USA

12:20-13.00

Open Discussion

 

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14.00-14.40

John Rajchman, Department of Art History, Columbia University, NYC, USA

14:40-15.20

Alan Read, School of Arts: Drama and Theatre Studies, University of Surrey Roehampton, UK

15:20 -16:00

Open Discussion

 

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16:30 - 17:10

Lawrence Grossberg, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

17:10 - 18:00

Open Discussion

 

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