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Part 1:\u00a0Friday, October 8, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome:\u00a0Richard Grusin (C21) and\u00a0Arijit Sen (Architecture)<\/p>\n

Politics of Place<\/em>
\nSwati Chattopadhyay<\/strong>, “Visualizing the Body Politic”
\nJoseph Sciorra<\/strong>, “Vernacular Exegesis of the Gentrifying Gaze: Saints, Hipsters, and Public Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn”
\nModerator: Arijit Sen (Architecture and Urban Planning, UWM)<\/p>\n

Making Jewish Space<\/em>
\nJennifer Cousineau<\/strong>, “Rabbinic Urbanism as an Index to Popular Belief in Late 20th-Century London”
\nCharlotte Fonrobert<\/strong>, “Marking Boundaries: The Politics of Mapping Neighborhoods”
\nModerator: Lisa Silverman (History, UWM)<\/p>\n

Civic Performances<\/em>
\nJames Rojas<\/strong>, “Interactive Planning: Engaging the Public in Placemaking”
\nKaren E. Till<\/strong>, “Witnessing and Performing Place: Memory Traces of Displacement in Wounded Cities”
\nModerator: Ryan Holifield (Geography, UWM)<\/p>\n

Plenary Discussion<\/p>\n

Part 2:\u00a0April 29, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome:\u00a0Jeffrey Merrick, Professor of History and Associate Dean for the Humanities, College of Letters & Science (UWM)<\/p>\n

Theorizing Space Transnationally<\/em>
\nEmanuela Guano<\/strong>, “Inside the Magic Circle: Conjuring the Terrorist Enemy at the 2001 Group of Eight Summit”
\nCarl Nightingale<\/strong>, “What Does an Urban Color Line Feel Like? Transnational Sensations from Johannesburg and Chicago, 1900-1920”
\nModerator: Merry Wiesner-Hanks (History, UWM)<\/p>\n

Mapping Urban Space<\/em>
\nRachel Breunlin<\/strong>, “‘Shotgun Life’: Embodied Placemaking in New Orleans”
\nElizabeth Currid-Halkett<\/strong>, “The Warhol Economy: The Social Life of Creativity and the Importance of Place”
\nModerator: Kate Kramer (C21, UWM)<\/p>\n

Engaging Visual Culture<\/em>
\nJanet Zweig<\/strong>, “Public Art and Embodied Placemaking: An Artist’s Perspective”
\nJennifer Geigel Mikulay<\/strong>, “On Wikis, Public Art, and Agency”
\nModerator: Polly Morris (Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee)<\/p>\n

Plenary Discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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