Programme

Cripps Court, Seminar Room 1
Magdalene College, Cambridge
9 – 10 June 2017

Friday 9 June

14.00    Welcoming Remarks

14.15 – 15.45      Panel I: Reading the City: Fears, Excitement, Memory

Uilleam Blacker (University College London)
Texts on the City and the City as Text

Bota Kassymbekova (Humboldt University Berlin)
New Temples: Restaurants as Places of Modern Urbanity in Russia’s Fin-de-siècle 

Hannah Rose Woods (University of Cambridge)
‘The Cleansing of England’: Urban Anxiety and Rural Nostalgia in late Victorian and Edwardian Culture

 

16.15 – 17.45      Panel II: Global Approaches to Urban History
                                   
Michael Goebel (Free University Berlin)
Patchwork Cities: A Global History of Urban Ethnic Clusters, 1850–1950

Joseph Ben Prestel (Free University Berlin)
Effects of Connection: Regional Categories and the Portrayal of Cities in Egypt, c. 1850–1914

Sören Urbansky (University of Cambridge)
Faces of Fear: Anti-Chinese Sentiments from a Global Perspective

 

Saturday 10 June

9.00 – 10.30        Panel III: Politics, Architecture, and the Urban Landscape

Amira Bennison (University of Cambridge)
Understanding Urbanism in Medieval North Africa

Marcus Colla (University of Cambridge)
Razing Prussia: The Politics of Destruction in the German Democratic Republic

Michael Sugarman (University of Cambridge)
Urban Poverty and a ‘New’ Model of Development? Reconstructing Hong Kong and Singapore, 1941–1960

 

11.00 – 12.30      Panel IV: Trade, Industry, and the Economic Life of Cities

Antonio Carbone (Free University Berlin)
Industry: What’s in a Name? Introduction to a Chapter on the Crisis of the Meat Industry in Buenos Aires, 1860s–70s

Lasse Heerten (Free University Berlin)
Welthafen Hamburg: Governing an Urban Space of Trade, Traffic and Transit, c. 1880–1914

Alexia Yates (University of Manchester)
The Double Life of Property: Territory and Capital in Nineteenth-Century France

 

13.00 – 14.00      Concluding Discussion