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Dear Professor Foot,
yesterday I received all the information related to the event on "Le
pianure". Vorrei ringraziarLa per la Sua gentilezza, e colgo l'occasione
per augurare a Lei e famiglia un felicissimo anno nuovo!

I hope to be able to send you a proposal by early next week, and I
apologize for the delay.
Grazie ancora. A risentirci presto,
Manuela Gieri


John Foot wrote:

> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> City and Identity.  The Italian City in the Industrial Era.
>
> A joint Association for the Study of Modern Italy-City and Identity
> Research Project (Centre for Italian Studies, UCL, London) Conference
> to
> be held in London in November 2000 with the financial support of the
> Arts
> and Humanites Research Board.
>
>  This conference will conclude the four-year AHRB-funded City and
> Identity
> research project based at the Centre for Italian Studies at UCL with
> the
> active participation of researchers in other institutions in the UK
> and in
> Italy.
>
>  Urban studies have begun in recent years to touch on a series of
> themes
> which have previously been confined within specific disciplines.  This
>
> conference aims to bring together scholars of urban Italy from a wide
> range
> of subject-areas to discuss the key themes of identity, urban history
> and
> cityness in the contemporary era.  International debates on aspects of
> the
> city - public and private space, places and non-places,
> de-industrialisation, images and realities are all of relevance here
> and
> cut across disciplines and historical periods.  Papers are invited in
> particular in those areas upon which the City and Identity project has
>
> concentrated: immigration, identity and the city; subcultures; urban
> regeneration and contested space; public sphere; representations of
> the
> city in cinema and literature; visual arts and the city.
>
> The project has concentrated on the cities of Milan and Turin and we
> would
> especially welcome papers based on either or both of these cities.
> Papers
> with a comparative (inter-city) perspective would be particularly
> welcome.
>
> Great importance will be attached to discussion and paper-givers would
> be
> expected to both provide other panellists with copies of their papers
> well
> before the conference.  Participants (for example research students)
> with
> current research in progress or research at an initial stage are also
> encouraged to present papers or presentations which will be included
> in a
> special ëposterí session.
>
> Proposals (one side of A4) plus a short CV and contact email address
> should
> be sent by email to John Foot at [log in to unmask]
>
> The closing date for proposals is February 28 2000.  Proposers will be
>
> informed of the outcome of their proposals by the middle of March.
>
> Papers should be in English if at all possible although proposals in
> other
> languages, especially Italian, will be considered.
>
> Robert Lumley (Conference organiser and Project coordinator)
> John Foot (Conference organiser)
> David Forgacs (Head of Italian Department, UCL)
>
> Department of Italian, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.