The Paradigmatic City (II): Capitals and their Successors

2016. október 13. 09.30 - 2016. október 15. 16.00

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2016. október 13. 09.30 - 2016. október 15. 16.00
 

The Paradigmatic City (II): Capitals and their Successors címen, angol nyelvű, nemzetközi, interdiszciplináris konferenciára kerül sor a Károlyi-palotában. A tudományos összejövetelt a PIM közösen rendezi a Miskolci Egyetem Irodalomtudományi Doktori Iskolájával és a Bukaresti Egyetem Kulturális Identitást Kutató Kiválósági Központjával. Minden érdeklődőt szeretettel várunk.

Petőfi Literary Museum (Budapest) houses this year the 14th international, interdisciplinary conference entitled The Paradigmatic City (II): Capitals and their Successors. In the interval of 13–16 October, 2016 the event is being organized by the Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity (University of Bucharest ) jointly with the Doctoral School for Literary Studies (University of Miskolc) and the Petőfi Literary Museum.

Részletes program:

PROGRAMME

13 October, 2016 (Thursday)

09:30–10:00

Registration (Lobby)

10:00–10:30

Opening Ceremony (Ceremonial Hall): Alexandra Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Vice Mayor for Human Affairs, Budapest as the main social patron of the event; Csilla E. Csorba, the General Director of the Petőfi Literary Museum; Gabriela Matei, the Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute (Budapest), as a partner in organizing the conference; Professor Mihaela Irimia, the Director of the Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity (University of Bucharest); Associate Professor László Gyapay, Head of the Department of the History of Hungarian Literature (University of Miskolc)

 

Opening Session (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: Mihaela Irimia

10:30–11:30

Keynote Address: Gábor Gyáni, The Metropolis as a Symbol for Modernity

11:30–11:50

Coffee break (Balcony Hall)

 

Session 1 (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: NICK CERAMELLA

Session 2 (Lotz Hall) Chair: WOJCIECH NOWICKI

11:50–12–20

John Dunkley (Aberden), Haussmann and Zola

Simon Edwards (Center for Inter American Studies, University of Graz), Wells, Orwell and Suburbia: Modernism, Urbanity and Carpet Bombing

12:20–12:50

Gabriel H. Decuble (University of Bucharest), The ‘Cool Person’ Facing the ‘Architectural Uncanny’: Why Postmodern Cities Are Uncentered

Ákos Sivadó (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Philosophy, Budapest), From Organic to Numerical Representations: William Petty and Urban Life in Early Modern England

12:50–14:00

Lunch

 

Plenary 1 (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: PÉTER DÁVIDHÁZI

14:00–15:00

Keynote Address: Stephen Prickett (University of Kent), Picturing Jerusalem: New and Old

 

Session 3 (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: SIMON EDWARDS

Session 4 (Lotz Hall) Chair: JOHN DUNKLEY

15:00–15:30

László Gyapay (University of Miskolc), Buda Presented as the Symbol of National Might and Decline: Dániel Berzsenyi, To the Hungarians

Ludmila Volná (Charles University, Prague; IMAGER University, Paris XII), Prague: The Myth of Creation

15:30–16:00

Péter Dávidházi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute for Literary Studies, Budapest), A Sinful City for the Lord: Nineveh in Mihály Babits’s Book of Jonah

Mirosława Modrzewska (University of Gdańsk), The Capital of Kashubia by Huelle

16:00–16:20

Coffee break (Balcony Hall)

 

Session 5 (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: OANA BOSCA-MALIN

Session 6 (Lotz Hall) Chair: HORATIU DECUBLE

16:20–16:50

Cezara Dragomir (University of Bucharest), The City as Means of Identity Construction in Băiuțeii, by Filip and Matei Florian

Wojciech Nowicki (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin), The Town Eclogue: Mock-Pastoral Representations of London in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

16:50–17:20

Radu Stoica (University of Bucharest), An Allegorical Construction of the (Post-)Colonial / (Post-)Communist Urban Periphery: A Comparative Reading of Dan Lungu and V. S. Naipaul

Nick Ceramella (Independent Scholar), Italy: The Multi-Capitals Country

17:20– 17:50

Dragoş Manea (University of Bucharest), Harap Alb continuă and the Aesthetics of the Historical Fantasy City

 

 

 

14 October, 2016 (Friday)

 

Plenary 2 (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: FLAVIO GREGORI

09:30–10:30

Keynote Speaker George Rousseau (Oxford University), The Implicit Emotion: Reflections on Cities Classical, Modern, Terrorist, and Digital

 

Session 7 (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: RAÚL IANES

Session 8 (Lotz Hall) Chair: JUKKA TIUSANEN

10:30–11:00

Leonor Santa Bárbara (CHAM/FCSH-UNL/UAç.), From Athens to Alexandria

Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru (University of Bucharest), What Makes a Capital? Violence, Architecture and the Media in New York City

11:00–11:30

Mihaela Irimia (University of Bucharest), Sailing from Byzantium

Júlia Demeter, Planning Theatres – Turning a City into a Capital

11:30–11:50

Coffee break (Balcony Hall)

 

Session 9 (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: Hans­Peter Söder

Session 10 (Lotz Hall) Chair: MARIA FENGLER

11:50–12:20

Raúl Ianes (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA), Madrid in 1898: at the End of the Century and the Empire

Vassil Anastassov (Fatih University, Istanbul), Constantinopolis – Civitas Paradigmatica: What Is It that Makes Istanbul a Paradigmatic City? The City as Text

12:20–12:50

Elena Butoescu (University of Craiova, Romania), Chronicles from the Galata Bridge, or Geert Mak’s Multi-Ethnic Heterotopian Space

Patricia Erskine-Hill (NADFAS lecturer), The Making of Venice, from Swamp to Serenissima

12:50–14:00

Lunch

 

Plenary 3 (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: CHRISTOPH EHLAND

14:00–15:00

KeynoteAddress:  Andrew Sanders (ex University of Durham), Between the Celestial City and the City of Destruction: Dickens's London

 

Session 11 (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: Júlia Demeter

Session 12 (Lotz Hall) Chair: Leonor Santa Bárbara

15:00–15:30

Flavio Gregori, (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia), Anomic City: Early Eighteenth-Century Satiric Descriptions of London

Maria Fengler (University of Gdansk, Poland), The Picture of Dublin in Dermot Bolger’s The Journey Home

15:30–16:00

Zelma Catalan (Sofia University), Encountering the Metropolis in the Victorian Novel: First Impressions, Lasting Effects

Cornelia Wächer (Ruhr University Bochum), Paradigmatically Queer: Manchester’s Gay Village from Queer as Folk to Cucumber, Banana and Tofu

16:00–16:20

Coffee break (Balcony Hall)

 

Session 13 (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: LUDMILA VOLNÁ

Session 14 (Lotz Hall) Chair: ELENA BUTOESCU

16:20–16:50

Christoph Houswitschka (University of Bamberg), Rome and its Successor: Ancient London in Bernadine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe (2001)

Ágnes Klára Papp (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest), The Poetics of the Provincial Town

16:50–17:20

Anett Schäffer (University of Miskolc), The ‘Cockney Venus’: The City and Female Identity in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus

Dalma Török (Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest), Encounter with the Ideal: Narrated Cities in Between the Realm of Ideas and Experience

 

 

15 October, 2016 (Saturday)

 

Plenary 4 (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: Chair: MIROSŁLAVA MODRZEWSKA

09:30–10:30

Keynote Address: Liviu Papadima, (University of Bucharest), Bucharest, Iaşi (Jassy) and the Assertion of Romanian Modernity

 

Plenary 5 (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: VASSIL ANASTASOV

10:30–11:00

Ruxanda Topor (University of Bucharest), Post-Soviet Kishinev: Struggling for the Reassertion of Romanian Identity

11:00–11:30

Jukka Tiusanen (University of Vaasa), Helsinki's Architecture: Ambiguous Paradigms and the Making of Modernity

11:30–11:50

Coffee break (Balcony Hall)

 

Plenary 6 (Ceremonial Hall) Chair: László Gyapay

11:50–12:20

Oana Bosca-Malin (University of Bucharest), Una giornata particolare in Rome: the Essence of Mass Fascism at Its Peak

12:20–12:50

Christoph Ehland (Paderborn), Monumental Capital: Memories of a Nation Before Brexit

12:50–13:20

Hans­Peter Söder (University of Munich), Picturing Europe as an Imaginary Museum

13:20–13:50

Conclusion and future activities

13:50–

Lunch

 

ABSTRACTS HERE