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Equinoxes
1999:
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Friday 5 March
1999:
5:00 OPENING
REMARKS
8:00 - 8:30
COFFEE
9:00 - 10:30 SESSION 1:
Pedestrian Traffic: The
Body In and Around the City
1. Sandra Vines, Brown University, "La
représentation au
féminin de l'espace social dans quatre
villes marocaines: Le
Deuil des chiens d'Abdelhak
Serhane" 2. Kelly Austin, UCLA, "Mapping the City and the
Body in Diamela
Eltit's Vaca sagrada" 3. Emily Drugge,
Brown University, "Reading Texts, Spaces, and
Bodies in 'L'Abbaye de
Thélème' and 'L'Isle des
hermaphrodites'" 10:30 - 10:45 BREAK 10:45 - 12:15 SESSION
2: The Celluloid Metropolis: Home
Movies/Screened
Zones
1. Daphnée Rentfrow,
Brown University, "Haunted Vienna:
Mozart and the Specter of Nazism in
Liliana Cavani's The Night
Porter" 2. Karl Schoonover,
Brown University, "Diegesis and Demolition: The
End of Sociality in
Chantal Akerman's Saute ma ville" 3. Daniel Perlin,
Brown University, "Conflicted Spaces: Brazilian
Avant-Pop
Production" 12:15 - 1:45 LUNCH
BREAK 1:45 - 3:00 SESSION 3: Special Session
Roundtable Discussion:
Teaching the City
Jared Green, Co-Chair, Equinoxes
1999: Urban spaces
/ bodies / texts
5:10
KEYNOTE
PRESENTATION
Priscilla Ferguson,
Professor of
Sociology, Columbia University
"Urban
Cuisine"
Saturday 6 March
1999:
Chair: Alisa
Hartz, Brown University
Chair: Nanette Fornabai
Rochambeau House
Library
Moderator: Jared
Green
Participants:
3:00 - 3:15 BREAK
3:15 - 5:30 SESSION
4: Sensational Spaces: Closed Doors and Blind
Alleys
Chair:
Denise Davis, Brown University
1. Madelaine Hron, University of Michigan, "The Space of the Car: Incarceration or Auto-mobility?"
2. Steve Macek, University of Minnesota, "Crack Alleys and Killing Zones: The Post-Industrial City According to the TV News"
3. Jeffrey Myers, Tufts University, "The Great Pen: Newgate as Synecdoche for London in Eighteenth Century Literature"
4. Jonathan Goldman, Brown University, "Flânerie in the Loo: Private Lives, Public Toilets"
5:30 RECEPTION,
Machado House, 87
Prospect St.