Friday June 17 2005
Gender and the Imagined City
Conference
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study
Malet Street London WC1E 7HU
Saturday June 18 2005
Journey into Unfamiliar Space
Workshop
V&A
Cromwell Road
London SW7
The Conference explores ways in which a range of women within Romance and other European cultures actively and richly re-imagine and represent contemporary cities in order to change them.
The imagined or virtual' city includes digital representations of cities as well as those explored through literature and urban performance.
Keynote Speakers Liedeke Plate and Els Rommes will be speaking on the theme of SafeCitySpace', with reference to Amsterdam Digital City and Amsterdam based Spanish artist Alicia Framis, whose work engages strongly with urban spaces.
To complement the Conference, Lidewij Tummers of Rotterdam based architectural practice Tussen Ruimte will be running a Practical Workshop entitled Journey into Unfamiliar Space' at the V&A in South Kensington on Saturday June 18, 10-1.30.
As the departure point for this workshop is women's perceptions of space and experiences of the city, it is designed primarily for female participants. Places on this workshop are limited to 15 for safety reasons and need to be booked separately from the main Conference via the IGRS rather than the V&A: Cost £10.
For the main Conference standard IGRS rates apply.
£25 per day standard
£10 per day members of the IGRS and concessions (student, retired person, unemployed)
£5 per day graduate students in a department subscribing to the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Delegates paying at the membership / concessionary rate will be required to show their membership card or other evidence of status when registering.
The Conference is organized by Margaret Andrews with the kind support of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in London, the IGRS and the V&A,
Further enquiries can be made to Administrator Rosemary Lambeth at the IGRS: Email Telephone 020 7862 8677
DRAFT PROGRAMME (March 2005)
Saturday June 18 2005
Venue: Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
9.30-10.00 Registration: tea and coffee
10.00-11.30
Introduction: Margaret Andrews
Keynote Speakers
Liedeke Plate and Els Rommes, (Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
SafeCitySpace: Women's Interventions in Urban and Virtual Space
11.50 Break: Tea and coffee
12.00-1.30 The re-created city Lidewij Tummers (Tussen Ruimte Architects, Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Journey into Unfamiliar Space
Helen Scalway (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Gender, Pattern and Memory in the Imagined City
1.30-2.30 Break: Lunch
2.30-4.15 The divided and post-divided' city.
Gabriel Koureas (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
(Re)-Negotiating Space in a Divided City. Women Artists in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Godela Weiss-Sussex (Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, UK)
Writing the New Berlin
Lyn Marven (University of Manchester, UK)
Auf der Suche nach der verneuerten Zeit': Past and Present in Two Berlin Documentary Narratives
4.15-4.30 Break: Tea and coffee
4.30-6.00 Urban histories and gender in an Italian context
Katia Pizzi (Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, UK)
Gender, Confession and Ethnicity: Women Writers and Trieste
Christina Manson (University of Kent, UK)
Re-examining Oppression: Dacia Maraini's Sicily
6.15 Plenary
6.45 Drinks Reception
Saturday June 18 2005
Venue: The Studio, the V&A Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington
SW7
(Nearest tube South Kensington: Circle, District and Piccadilly Lines)
10am1.30pm
Workshop: Journey into Unfamiliar Space
Lidewij Tummers (Tussen Ruimte Archictects, Rotterdam, the Netherlands)