The City: Traces of Urban Memories

Conference

Online event via Zoom
Datum: 10.05.2021
Uhrzeit: 15:00 - 19:00
Vortragende(r): Conference
Gastgeber: AAR American Academy Rome

Cities, like any other forms of human settlements and like works of art, are in constant flux, a process of shaping and reshaping, of being erased, demolished, newly designed, renovated, and preserved. Like a canvas on which marks of artistic activities—lines, scratches, stains of colors, and spots—are visually documented, the urban landscapes accumulate and display through their particular structures, planning, architecture, parks, and public monuments histories of urban creativity and imagined landscapes of inhabitants. Thus could be read both the plethora of built substances that turns a space into a place and the markers of remembering and forgetting. Sites epitomize durations and changes and embody a sense of time.

Celebrating the City is a two-day event taking place May 10–11 at the American Academy in Rome.
The program consists of an academic conference on the first day (described below) and a literature reading on the second. You may register to attend either event or both.

Conference
The City: Traces of Urban Memories

Monday, May 10, 2021

This conference gathers several academics and intellectuals to discuss the city as a remembered and constructed entity—an architectural tangible artifact and a product of our thoughts. In its core are the stories and histories of the citizens of cities as reflected, or rather imprinted, on the formation of the city’s urban spaces and its delicate receptive surfaces.
Participants include: architectural historian Esra Akcan (Cornell University); art historian Dario Gamboni (University of Geneva); architectural theoretician and journalist Niklas Maak (FAZ Germany); art historian Tanja Michalsky (Bibliotheca Hertziana Rome); architect Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths, University of London); and architect Mabel Wilson (Columbia University).

Download a PDF of the event program.
This event, to be presented on Zoom, is free and open to the public.
Please register in advance.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The start time of the conference is 3:00pm Central European Time (9:00am Eastern Time). It is being recorded and will be edited and posted on the AAR website at a later date.

The conference is co-sponsored by the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History. (Department Michalsky)