10.00am – 5.30pm, Saturday 2 October 2010 (with registration from 9.30am)

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

‘Street Life and Street Culture’ involves art historians, architectural historians, historians, architects, planners, artists, critics, sound artists, actors and theatre producers to create an interdisciplinary, international community drawn from the UK, USA and Europe. The project has been to consider how streets shaped and informed the daily lives of urban communities in the past, and how this historical experience relates to contemporary realities. The final conference of this two-year AHRC-Funded Network, under the 'Beyond Text' initiative, considers major themes that have emerged during the course of the project:

- the street as locus for celebration, religion and rituals
- the relation between ephemeral performances and permanent urban change
- street sounds
- the performative siting of violence, punishment and protest
- surveillance, policing and control
- gossip and the circulation of news
The conference is free and open to all but advance booking is required by 30th September. Please register by email to Claire Hogg (C.Hogg@bath.ac.uk)

Lunch is not provided, but there will be tea/coffee in the afternoon break

Organised by Fabrizio Nevola (University of Bath) and Georgia Clarke (The Courtauld Institute of Art)