Archiving the City/ The City as Archive
Thursday 16 March
2017, University of York, 10.00am-6.00pm
Confirmed keynote
speakers: Sharon Macdonald (Humboldt), Paul Jones (Liverpool), Rebecca Madgin
(Glasgow) and Graeme Gilloch (Lancaster).
This event, hosted by the Centre for Modern Studies and supported by the
Department of History and Department of Sociology at University of York,
considers the cultural forms through which the modern city is archived. It
examines the different ways—via institutions, public art, collective practice,
and more—in which urban history and memory are organised and presented in
contemporary culture. It also engages with how the spaces and architecture of
the city may themselves present as an archive, offering up reminders of social and
cultural processes, imaginaries, struggles and events. Through keynote speakers and panels the symposium will explore perspectives that make
links between contemporary archiving processes, city
museums, visual culture, heritage urbanism, ‘authenticity’ and the cultural
regeneration of historic urban spaces.
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Dr Gareth Millington
Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD
01904 323058
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