Calendar
Event
- Title:
- Romanticism in the City
- When:
- Thursday, 11/05 - Sunday, 11/08
- Category:
- Conferences
Description
Thursday November 5th, 2009 - Sunday November 8th, 2009, The Graduate Center and City College
Organized at the Graduate Center and City College by the International Conference on Romanticism, this interdisciplinary conference will address a wide range of topics, from “Romanticism and Urban Gothic” to “Urban Planning in the Romantic Era” to “Sex and City.” Speakers include Michael Moon (Emory) on “Idiocies Urban and Rural,” Marjorie Levinson (Michigan) on “Clouds and Crowds, Solitude and Society: Revisiting Romantic Lyric” and Alexander Gelley (UC – Irvine) on “Utopian Cities.” Complete conference schedule is available at www.ccny.cuny.edu/icrnyc/index.htm.
Michael Moon’s talk will coincide with the opening of The Metropolis Between One’s Ears (November 5th – December 6th), an installation in the James Gallery featuring Charles Sheeler’s and Paul Strand’s 1921 urban homage, “Manhatta,” and two new projects that respond to the symposium’s topic by American filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh, and British Sculptor Andrew Lord. For more information about the exhibit, visit www.gc.cuny.edu/events/art_gallery.htm.
Co-sponsored by The City College, CUNY and the Office of the President, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Exhibit co-sponsored by the James Gallery.
Organized at the Graduate Center and City College by the International Conference on Romanticism, this interdisciplinary conference will address a wide range of topics, from “Romanticism and Urban Gothic” to “Urban Planning in the Romantic Era” to “Sex and City.” Speakers include Michael Moon (Emory) on “Idiocies Urban and Rural,” Marjorie Levinson (Michigan) on “Clouds and Crowds, Solitude and Society: Revisiting Romantic Lyric” and Alexander Gelley (UC – Irvine) on “Utopian Cities.” Complete conference schedule is available at www.ccny.cuny.edu/icrnyc/index.htm.
Michael Moon’s talk will coincide with the opening of The Metropolis Between One’s Ears (November 5th – December 6th), an installation in the James Gallery featuring Charles Sheeler’s and Paul Strand’s 1921 urban homage, “Manhatta,” and two new projects that respond to the symposium’s topic by American filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh, and British Sculptor Andrew Lord. For more information about the exhibit, visit www.gc.cuny.edu/events/art_gallery.htm.
Co-sponsored by The City College, CUNY and the Office of the President, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Exhibit co-sponsored by the James Gallery.
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