Reading Benjamin's Arcades
King Alfred's College, Winchester, UK, in association with New Formations
Saturday, 13 July 2002
Conference Programme

Keynote Address (09.30-10.30)

Esther Leslie, Birkbeck College, University of London: 'Stars, Phosphor and
Chemical Colours: Extraterrestriality in the Arcades'

Session 1 (10.30-11.45) - Parallel Papers

Julius Simon, University of Texas, El Paso: 'Benjamin's "Feast of Booths"'
Stavros Stavrides, National Technical University of Athens: 'The Dialectic
of Trace and Aura in the Experience of Modern Dwelling'

Peter Garloff, Free University, Berlin: 'Literalizing Freud's Metaphor of
Dream as Text: Reading and History in Benjamin's Arcades Project'
Nadir Lahiji, Drexel University, Philadelphia: '"Awakening": The Ethics of
Traumatic Memory in The Arcades Project'

Anthony Kinik, McGill University: 'Spazieren in London: Walter Benjamin and
Patrick Keiller's LONDON'
Dan Smith, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London: 'Concrete
Fossils and the Ruins of the Crystal Palace'

Diana Reynolds, Point Loma Nazarene University: '"The Eternal is Far More
the Ruffle on a Dress than Some Idea": Benjamin and Riegl on Knowledge and
Memory'
Fran Tonkiss, Goldsmiths College, University of London: 'On Fragments,
Clues and Ruins: Benjamin and Knowledge'

Coffee (11.45-12.00)

Session 2 (12.00-13.15) - Parallel Papers

Emma Mason, Corpus Christi College, Oxford: 'Spiriting Baudelaire: The
Religious Aesthetic of The Arcades Project'
Bram Mertens, University of Nottingham: 'The Arcades Project: A Talmud for
our Times?'

Daryl Lee, Brigham Young University: To Be Announced
Donald Preziosi, University of California, Los Angeles: 'The Inconstant
Object: Walter Benjamin's Dialectical Imaging in the Passagenwerk'

Irving Goh, National University of Singapore: 'The "Architecturality" of
the Arcades, the Arcades of "Architecturality"'
Virginia Liberatore, New York University: 'Iron Construction: Physiognomy
of the Modern Unconscious'
 Henning Goldæck, University of Southern Denmark: To Be Announced
Maeve Pearson, Queen Mary, University of London: 'Benjamin, Fourier and The
Child of The Arcades'

Lunch (13.15-14.00)

Session 3 (14.00-16.00) - Parallel Papers

Justine Lloyd, University of Technology, Sydney: 'Airspace: The
Transnational Arcade?'
Graham MacPhee, University of Portsmouth: 'Where Nearness Looks With its
Own Eyes': The Return of Allegory in Central Park'
Stephanie Polsky, Goldsmiths College, University of London: 'Arcadia
Benjaminia'

Derek Bunyard, King Alfred's College, Winchester: 'Allegories of Seeing:
Benjamin's Dialectical Images'
Adam Chalmers, York University, Toronto: 'The Colour of Gray Elysium: The
Phenomenological Experience of Colour in Benjamin's Arcades Project'
Cheryl Locke, Brown University: '"To Be Everyone's Contemporary: Fashion as
Mass Media in Benjamin's Arcades Project'

Stephen Dobson, Lillehammer College, Lillehammer: 'Convolute O: The
Dialectical Image of Gambling and Prostitution'
Janet McCabe, University of North London: 'Geographical Debaucheries and
the Flâneur's Textual Journey: Prostitution as a Critique of Bourgeois
Discourse in Walter Benjamin's Passagen-Werk'
Keri Walsh, Corpus Christi College, Oxford: 'Historicism's Bordello:
Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge in the Arcades'

Christopher Bush, Harvard University: '"Genie der Nichtigkeiten": Peter
Altenberg's Passagenwerk'
Robert Stanton, University of Leeds, 'Dream Cities, Convolutions, Ruins:
Reading Benjamin's Arcades Project alongside W. G. Sebald'
Andy Williams, Cardiff University: 'Shopping with Pickwick: Dickens's
Textual Arcades'

Coffee (16.00-16.15)

Session 4 (16.15-17.30) - Parallel Papers

Tim Dant and Graeme Gilloch, University of East Anglia/University of
Salford: 'From Passage to Parley: Commodity Culture in Benjamin and
Baudrillard'
Sunil Manghani, University of Nottingham: 'Angels Run to Ground...:
Dialectics at a Standstill, (No) Logos, and East German Consumerism'

Richard Lane, South Bank University, London: 'The Materiality of the Text:
Boxed Books and Portable Archives'
Suh-Young Catherine Kim, University of Sheffield, 'The Arcades Project with
Benjamin's discussion of Baudelaire's Allegory: Modernity as the Newest
Antiquity'

Ben Highmore, University of the West of England, Bristol: 'Tortoise Time
(On Some Motifs in Benjamin)'
Scott McCracken, University of Salford: 'Walter Benjamin and Modernity/
Modernism'

Zahid Chaudhary, Cornell University: 'Dreaming History'
Ken Hirschkop, University of Manchester: 'Dreaming, Waking and the Deep,
Deep Sleep of the Bourgeoisie'

Keynote Address (17.30-18.30)

Andrew Benjamin, Monash University: 'How does Jugendstil become Modernism?
Painting in the Arcades'

Conference Website: www.wkac.ac.uk/english/benjamin/html



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