24-27 August 2001
DBS School of Arts (LSB College)
Balfe Street, Dublin 2

Edward W. Soja
Gayatri Spivak
Declan Kiberd
Immanuel Wallerstein

Friday, 24 August – registration will take place from 12.00 in DBS, 13-14 Aungier Street, Dublin 2

4.30pm – 5.30pm: The Global City in Historical Context
“Giving with One Hand and Taking with the Other: Augustus and the reinvention of Rome” – Katharine von Stackelberg, Trinity College, Dublin
“Writing a City, Envisioning a World: London as a 'world city', 1666-1901” – Philip Dowdall, University of Limerick

5.45pm-6.45pm: ‘The Post-Colonial City’
“Reading the Post-Ethnic” – William W. Stein, Texas Tech University
“Backwaters Modernity: the small-town narrative in postcolonial India” – Rashmi Varma, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

7.00pm – 7.30pm: Wine reception hosted by the Lord Mayor of Dublin

7.35pm: Opening Address “Writing the City Spatially” – Edward W. Soja, University of California, Los Angeles

Saturday, 25 August
10.00am-11.00am – Reading and Writing Urban Lives: the city in literature and media
“Newspapers as a daily orientation to urban living” – Paul S. Moore, York University
”Place as Anthology: the collective city” – Sheila Hones, The University of Tokyo

11.00am Keynote Address, Declan Kiberd, University College Dublin
“If a Flaneur Reads: the print culture of a city; reading Ankara, the capital of Turkey, at the interface of the local and the global” – Ayþe Saktanber, Middle East Technical University
“Cities and Nations in Revolution: from William Blake's London and Erin to our New Jerusalem” – Bob Catterall, University of Newcastle

2.30pm Keynote Address, Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, New York

3.30pm-6.30 – Whose City? A critical sociology
“Dis-Placing Dublin: Spencer Dock and the "needs" of the city” – Mervyn Horgan, York University
“The Symbolic Work of The Horse in Dublin” – Meredith Risk, York University
“Medialabeurope: visions of digital redemption in Ireland's smart city” – Denis Linehan, University College Cork
“Towards an Ecology of Suburbia” – Hugh Bartling, University of Central Florida
“Place attachment, symbolic locale and the search for community” – Mary P. Corcoran, NUI Maynooth

Sunday, 26 August

11.00am – 1.00pm - Spaces of Exclusion: ethnicity, gender and difference
“Queering Belfast” – Rob Kitchin, NUI Maynooth, Karen Lysaght, Queen’s University, Belfast
“Exclusionary Actions in Urban Ireland” – Michel Peillon, NUI Maynooth
“In the heart of the Hibernian post-metropolis: spatial narratives of ethnic minorities and diasporic communities in a changing city” – Ronit Lentin, Trinity College, Dublin
“Forging African Diaspora Places in Dublin’s Retro-Global Spaces” – Elisa Joy White, University of California at Berkeley

3.00pm-5.30pm - The Anthropology of Urban life: shifting contexts
“Ethnographic Joyriding: Notes on the Urban-Rural Continuum” – Stiofan O Cadhla University College Cork
“Music, conflict, and identity: sounds that re-write the city” – Gabriele Marranci, Queen’s University, Belfast
“Researching The City: anthropology in a changing urban context: the case of Beirut-Lebanon, Aseel Sawalha” – Knox College
“Developing Culture: social inclusion discourses and activities as ethnographic problems” - A. Jamie Saris, Brendan Bartley, Ciara Kearns, and Philip McCormack, NUI Maynooth

Monday, 27 August

11.00am: The City in the era of Globalisation: theories, methods and practices
“Cities like the spatial reflection of public space: the relationship between the social and the practical dimensions in the constitution of public space” – Daniela Vicherat, University of Warwick
“Backstage/Backtranslation” –Kerric Harvey, The George Washington University
“The city happens. Urban experiences in the era of global space” – Panu Lehtovuori, Helsinki University of Technology & Research fellow, Manchester Institute for Popular Culture
”Berlin’s Analeptic Spaces of History” – Thomas Mical, University of Oklahoma
“The City is the Global Village: globalisation and the notion of the city in Nigerian home video films” - Onookome Okome, University of Bayreuth, Germany

6.00pm, Closing Keynote Address, Professor Immanuel Wallerstein, Ferdinand Braudel Centre

Conference closes with wine reception

Friday, 24 August – registration will take place from 12.00 in DBS, 13-14 Aungier Street, Dublin 2. Registration fee: £45, (£15 students and unwaged). For further information, please contact, Mark Maguire or Paul Hollywood, Phone: +353 – 1 – 6485485 or Email: MMaguire@Ireland.com