The workshop Multistable Cityscapes is meant to provide a ground for reciprocal confrontation addressed to all those scholars, theoreticians and artists who are interested in exploring the implications of multistability in relation to cityscapes and urban communities. The workshop aims to promote a reflection on urban spaces around the world bypassing merely historical/historicist approaches, thus endorsing a horizontal, rhizomatous and open perception of cities’ ambivalent relationship with modernity and stressing aspects of confrontation and plurality rather than complaining the loss of any alleged former identity. As multistable figures, cityscapes also take dissimilar, even contradictory and mutually exclusive shapes, which correspond to equally valid or possible descriptions, yet cannot be combined into a single picture – shapes that may have sharp contours but are also liable to transformations and sudden aspect changes.
Programme:
10:00 Welcome: Manuele Gragnolati and Fabio Camilletti
Session I
Chair: Jennifer Burns
10:15 Fabio Camilletti:
Mourning and Melancholia. Rome, Pompeii, Paris
11:00 Filippo Trentin:
Rethinking the Origin. The Quarrel between Ancients
and (post-)Moderns in Contemporary Rome
11:45 Break
Session II
Chair: Manuele Gragnolati
12:00 Jennifer Burns:
Cities and Elsewheres. The Multiple Experience of the Italian City in Works by Migrant Writers
12:45 Silvia Cresti:
On Jews and Cities in Italy.
Outsiders and Insiders intermingled
13:30 Lunch Break
Session III
Chair: Christoph Holzhey
15:00 Sandrine Sanos:
Nostalgia, Elsewheres, and the Future.
Interwar Far-Right Intellectuals’ Fantasies of Paris
15:45 David Kishik: Benjamin in New York
16:30 Bobby Benedicto: ‘Elsewhere’, in Gay Manila
17:15 Break
Session IV
Chair: Fabio Camilletti
17:45 Pauline Julier and Camille Louis:
Reversible Landscapes
18:45 Break
19:00 Simone Brioni:
Screening: Aulò
(ITA, directed by Simone Brioni, Ermanno Guida, Graziano Chiscuzzu, 40′)
In English
With
Bobby Benedicto
Simone Brioni
Fabio Camilletti
Pauline Julier
Camille Louis
et al
Organized by
The workshop Multistable Cityscapes is co-organized by the Department of Italian at the University of Warwick and the ICI Berlin. It is part of the ‘Roman Modernities’ network, which will allow scholars, artists and urban historians to engage in joint enquiry on Rome as a paradigmatic location for reconfiguring the field of urban modernity.
‘Roman Modernities’ is co-organized by the University of Warwick, the University College London, the British School at Rome, the ICI Berlin, the National Archive in Rome, and the Centre for the Study of Modern Rome (CROMA) at the University of Rome 3.
The event, like all events at the ICI Berlin, is open to the public, free of charge. The audience is presumed to consent to a possible recording on the part of the ICI Berlin. If you would like to attend the event yet might require assistance, please contact Event Management.
