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Urban Representations
The Interest Group on Urban Representations aims at assessing, contextualising, and theorising urban still and moving imagery. In the context of the “spatial turn” issues about the relationship between urban space and its visual representation have become focus of a number of publications. This interest group hopes to expand the field of urban imagery studies by focusing on the urban subject beyond the core European model. European metropolises and rural life are the point of departure for a transnational and transdisciplinary discussion that takes into consideration the growing challenges of defining what a city is in the age of globalisation and of the increasingly immaterial city or what Manuel Castells calls the “city of flows”.
The issues the Interest Group on Urban Representations is raising are threefold: 1) What are the functions and modes of representation that have developed in the city and to what extent is the city a responsive subject for these modes and media? 2) What kind of readings and narratives of the city can we harvest from urban imagery and how are they different from literary and other readings and narratives? 3) How can we theorize the urban image acknowledging, for example, the social construction of space, everyday routines and experiences of the city, the center-periphery dichotomy, the tension between nature and culture/technology, and the formation of collective and individual memory in the city?
This interest group operates via casual and more goal oriented exchanges that lead to thematic sessions at international conferences, workshops and symposia and to the establishment of a durable and broadly embedded scholarly community around this theme.
For more information please contact the EAHN Office at office@eahn.org or one of its leaders:
Miriam Paeslack, paeslack@buffalo.edu
Anat Falbel, anatfalbel@uol.com.br
Jeffrey Cohen, jcohen@brynmawr.edu
Documents List
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EAHN2018 Interest Group Events Report
At each biennial conference, the EAHN interest groups are given the opportunity to hold meetings which can range from brainstorming sessions or business meetings to more planned workshops. They are open to all conference participants and meant to carry forward the EAHN’s mission to be an open, non-hierarchical and welcoming network. This document contains short reports of the group events held in Tallinn at EAHN2018 on 13 June 2018.
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CFP: Cities, Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities Summer School, Deadline August 6
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CFP: Cities, Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities Summer School, Deadline August 6
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EAHN Urban Representations Workshop Tallinn 2018 "Curated Urban Visions"
Dear All,
This is this year's Urban Representations workshop program. Please feel free to come by and participate in what promise to be lively discussions!Miriam, Anat, Jeff
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Dublin Workshop Program Update
This is the final program for the Urban Photography, Film and Video ("Urban Representations") Interest Group's workshop in Dublin.
With best regards from Miriam, Anat, Jeff and Conor.
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EAHN 2016 WORKSHOP online material.pdf
