Arts of cities (may be of interest!)

LONDON GROUP OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHERS

Seminar Programme, Spring Term 2009

“Arts of Cities” (co-convened by David Pinder, QMUL)

20th January – Luke Dickens (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘These are a few of my favourite fiends: post-graffiti, art worlds and the city’

3rd February – Ian Walker (Newport School of Art, Media and Design), ‘City gorged with dreams: surrealism and urban photography in Paris, London and Prague’

17th February – Rachel Lichtenstein (Artist, writer and oral historian), ‘Memory embedded in place: exploration of city streets’

3rd March – Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘On cold climates’

24th March – Jane Rendell (Bartlett, University College London), ‘Critical spatial practice: site-writing’

These seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5pm in the Wolfson Room at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London. For further details, contact David Lambert, Royal Holloway (01784 443640) or Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary (020 7882 5407). We are grateful to Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, Kings, UCL, Birkbeck, the Open University, Sussex University the Historical Geography Research Group of the RGS/IBG and the IHR for supporting this series.