Below please find the programme for our workshop next week on "Cities Across Time." The workshop will take place on Wednesday in Room G50 at SOAS. On Thursday and Friday, we will be in the Menzies Room at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 28 Russell Square. (Nearest tube stops are Russell Square or Euston).

We are pleased to welcome Isaac Julien on Wednesday evening at 5.30 pm in the Main School Lecture Theatre.

If you have not yet registered for the workshop and would like to do so, please contact Gillian Hudson, via email. Please also let Gillian know whether you will be attending the workshop dinner on Thursday evening (£15, £10 concessions).

We have a really exciting line-up and look forward to seeing you at the workshop!

Ross Forman

Wednesday, 5 November (Room G50, SOAS)

1-1.45
Registration and Tea/Coffee (Room G59)

1.45-2.0
Steve Dodd (Japanese, SOAS)
Opening Remarks

2.-3.30
Charles Rice (Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment, New South Wales) 'Life's Better with Pictures': City, Image and the Uncertainty of Self

Trevor H.J. Marchand (Anthropology, SOAS)
Forging Tradition and Shaping Space: Competing Discourses on the Style-Soudanaise Architecture of Djenne

3.30-3.45
Break

3.45.-5.15
Suradech Chotiudompant (British and Comparative Cultural Studies, Warwick) Cities as Labyrinths: Jorge Luis Borges and Urban Complexity

Stuti Khanna (English, Oxford)
The City in Joyce and Rushdie: A Comparison

5.30
Public Lecture: Isaac Julien (Main School Lecture Theatre, SOAS)
A reception will follow the public lecture.

Thursday, 6 November (Menzies Room, Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

9.0-9.30
Tea/Coffee/Croissants

9.30-11.00
Focus on Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
Wendy Pullan (Architecture, Cambridge)
Narrative and Time in Early Christian Jerusalem

Anna Cossiga (Cultural Geography, Università di Tor Vergata, Rome)
Jerusalem between Myth and Reality: Reading the Holy City through Time and Space

11.0-11.15
Break

11.15-12.45
Yosefa Loshitzky (Film Studies, London)
A Tale of Three Cities: Amos Gitai's Urban Trilogy

Erik Zakim (Modern Hebrew, Maryland)
The Modernist City: Between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv

12.45-1.45
Lunch (Senior Dining Room, SOAS)

1.45-2.30
Vic Seidler (Sociology, Goldsmiths)
Re/membering Vienna

2.30-3
Break

3-4.30
Ranka Primorac (English and Media Studies, Nottingham Trent)
The City and Identity in Two Zimbabwean Novels

Sudipta Kaviraj (Political Studies, SOAS)
TBA

7.30
Workshop Dinner at Navarro's, Charlotte Street (£15 contribution, £10 concessions).

Friday, 7 November (Menzies Room, Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

9-9.30
Tea/Coffee/Croissants

9.30-11
Focus on East Asian Cities
Helen Weetman (Japanese, SOAS)
Grass and Concrete: Authority, Subversion and the Changing Face of the City in the Writing of Ishikawa Jun

Seiji M. Lippit (East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA)
Temporalities of Ruin: The City in Postwar Japanese Fiction

11-11.15
Break

11.15-12.45
Stephen Dodd (Japanese, SOAS)
The Ambiguous City: Self and Other in the Works of Kajii Motojirô

Robert Bickers (History, Bristol)
On the Beat in the Mythic City: Shanghai Policemen Remember

12.45-1.45
Lunch (Hancock Room, Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

1.45-3.15
Brenda Assael (History, Swansea)
Pornography or Art?: The Female Nude on the London Stage During the Fin de Siècle

Valeria Tinkler (English, Leiden)
A "Mass Enorm": James Thomson's Statue of Liberty in The City of Dreadful Night

3.15-3.30
Break

3.30-4.15
Tim Beasley-Murray (SSEES, UCL)
The Historically Imponderable City of Wilsonovo: Bratislava, Pozsony, Pressburg and the Politics of Memory

4.15-5.30
Roundtable Discussion

5.30
Stephen Dodd (East Asia, SOAS)
Closing Remarks and Reception