Urban Studies 'Winter Day' on Jan 23rd
Finnish Society for Urban Studies
is organizing a winter day seminar.
CAPITAL CITIES IN POSTWAR EUROPE: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
On Wednesday the 23rd of January 2008
University of Helsinki (Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor)
The seminar is open for everyone interested.
Program
13.15 Opening
Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna
Finnish Society of Urban Studies
13.20 Helsinki: Dreams of a Modern Capital City
Professor Laura Kolbe
University of Helsinki, Department of History
13.50 London - A Modern Panorama
Professor Michael Hebbert
University of Manchester, School of Environment and Development
14.20 Discussion
14.45 Coffee
15.10 Moscow and Leningrad: Two Models of Postwar Reconstruction of the
Socialist Capital City
Dr. Ivan Nevzgodin
Delft University of Technology, Department of Architecture
15.40 History, Memory and the Becoming of a Capital in Late Modernity: The
Berlin Case
Professor Beate Binder
University of Hamburg, Department of
Anthropology
16.10 Discussion
Closing (-16.45)
Enrollment by Jan 18th at skts(at)kaupunkitutkimuksenseura.fi
More information: Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna, Finnish Society for Urban Studies/ Chairman, anja.nevanlinna(at)helsinki.fi, 040 7085126