City Limits?: The European City 1400-1900

September 30 – October 2, 2004

Conference Schedule

Thursday, September 30^th

Friday, October 1^st

Saturday, October 2^nd

Date	Time	Panel Title	Paper Title	Reader
Thursday, September 30
	7:00 – 10:00 pm	Welcome and Reception		Registration until 11:00 pm
Friday, October 1
	8:00 – 8:45 am	Sign In & Refreshments
		Welcome		Dr Richard Sigurdson, Dean of Arts, University of Manitoba
	8:45 – 10:15 am	Panel 1: City and Nation	“Edinburgh After 1707: Second City or Center of Sedition in the 18^th Century?”	Margaret Sankey, Minnesota State University Moorhead
			“Between History and Hope: The Urban Centre of William Blake and William Wordsworth”	Jon Saklofske, University of Manitoba
			“French Nationalism and post-1848 Parisian Values”	Melanie Bailey, South Dakota State University
			Chair:	Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba
	10:15 – 10:30 am	Refreshments
	10:30 – 11:45 am	Panel 2: The City, the Fine Arts, and Music	“Music and Catholic Processions in Early Modern Augsburg”	Alexander Fisher, University of British Columbia
			“Apocalypse and Apotheosis in the Myth of St. Petersburg”	Megan Swift, University of Victoria
			“Music and the Urban Agenda in Christian IV’s Copenhagen”	Susan Lewis Hammond, University of Victoria
			Chair:	Jim Bugslag, University of Manitoba
	12:00 – 1:00 pm	Lunch
	1:00 – 2:30 pm	Panel 3: Disease and Urban Opportunity	“A Purified New Jerusalem? London 1654”	Robin Swales, University of Regina
			“Post-Plague Milan and New Traders, 1630-1650”	Stefano D’Amico, Texas Tech University
			“The Victorian Cockroach”	Matthew Candelaria, University of Kansas
			Chair:	Roisin Cossar, University of Manitoba
		Panel 4: Conspicuous Civic and Social Space	“Synagogues and Tourism in Early Modern Amsterdam”	Saskia Coenen, University of Michigan
			“Pageantry and Community in Early Modern Norwich”	Mary Blackstone, University of Regina
			“Hoccleve and the City”	David Watt, University of Manitoba
			Chair:	Pam Perkins, University of Manitoba
	2:30 – 2:45 pm	Refreshments
	2:45 – 4:15 pm	Panel 5: City Views and Representations	“Berlin from a Bird’s Eye View: Literary Texts and Architectural Paintings between 1830-1860”	Laura Tráser-Vas, University of Cincinnati
			“A Tale of Two Maps: The Transformation of Paris from an Imperial to a Republican City 1870-1878”	Kory Olson, Pennsylvania State University
			“Mapping Early Modern London: A Hypertext Atlas Project”	Janelle Day Jenstad, University of Victoria
			Chair:	Vanessa Warne, University of Manitoba
	4:15 – 5:00 pm	Break
	5:00 – 6:30 pm	Keynote Presentation	“The European City in Global Perspective, 1500-1800”	Christopher Friedrichs, University of British Columbia
			Introduction:	Dr Greg Smith
top	6:30 – 7:30 pm	Reception
Saturday, October 2
	8:00 – 8:45 am	Refreshments
	8:45 – 10:15 am	Panel 6: Urban Subcultures and Distinct Communities	“Where Was Sailortown? Urban Geography Meets Subculture Theory”	Isaac Land, Texas A&M University
			“Leprosy, the Pox, and Urban Life in Early Modern Germany”	Mitchell Lewis Hammond, University of Victoria
			“Marginalized Inclusion: Ghettos in Early Modern Europe”	Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland
			Chair:	Jim Bugslag, University of Manitoba
	10:15 – 10:30 am	Refreshments
	10:30 – 11:45 am	Panel 7: Mobilizing the City	“‘Gateways of the Republic:’ Besieged Cities in the Imagination of Revolutionary France”	Ian Germani, University of Regina
			“Rethinking the Fin de Siècle City: London’s Crowds”	Matthew McKean, Queen’s University
			“Off the Map: Mobility and the Reading of Paris, 1830-1848”	Keri Berg, Indiana State University
			Chair:	Johannes Wolfart, University of Manitoba
		Panel 8: Gendering the City	“The Men of the Crowd: Transparency and Opacity in the Victorian City”	Struan Sinclair, University of Manitoba
			“Man or Woman, Widow or Lover? Elizabethan and Jacobean Representations of the City of London”	Kim Martin, University of Guelph
			“Commercial Exchange and London City Comedy: The Shopkeeper’s Compromised Masculinity”	Ronda Arab, Augusta State University
			Chair:	Vanessa Warne, University of Manitoba
	11:45 – 1:00 pm	Break		(no food provided)
	1:00 – 2:30 pm	Panel 9: New Urban Landscapes	“Rethinking the Fin de Siècle City: the Parisian New Woman”	Julie Johnson, Queen’s University
			“Urban Iconography and Architectural Text: Henry James, Florence (1877) and New York (1905)”	Robin Hoople, University of Manitoba
			“The Edicola, the Piazza and the Noise of the Utterance”	Davide Panagia, Trent University
			Chair:	Johannes Wolfart, University of Manitoba
	2:30 – 5:00 pm	Break		Walking Tour
	5:00 pm	Shuttle Bus from Hotel Fort Garry to University of Manitoba
	5:30 – 7:00 pm	Keynote Presentation	“Feminism and the Moving Body”	Judith R. Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University
			Introduction:	Dr Arlene Young
	7:00 – 9:00 pm	Banquet
	9:15 – 9:30 pm	Return Shuttle Bus to Downtown Winnipeg Hotels
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