CONFERENCE REMINDER
The Viennese Café as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange
17th October - V & A Museum, Lecture Theatre, 10am - 6pm
18th October - Royal College of Art, Lecture Theatre 1, 10am - 6pm
Although the Viennese coffeehouse has long been recognised as a site of
importance, there has as yet been no in-depth scholarly investigation of how
it functioned in relation to the broader culture of the city at this time. The
cultural significance of the café provides a central theme for scholars from the
fields of visual, social, literary and cultural history to meet and explore the
similarities, differences and shared points of interest in recent research into
Vienna 1900. The programme examines the café from a variety of
perspectives, with the aim of deepening our understanding of the nature of
this urban space, and the cultural exchanges and performances that went on
there.
Keynote speakers: Dr Steven Beller, independent scholar, Washington DC and
Professor Edward Timms, University of Sussex.
For further details of the programme and registration please visit:
www.rca.ac.uk/viennacafe/conference.html
Or contact Angela Waplington [log in to unmask]
The conference is organised to coincide with the Vienna Café Festival, running
at the RCA and partner venues from the 7th-24th October.
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