Conference “Urban Peripheries?” Emerging Cities in Europe’s South and East, 1850-1945 (original) (raw)

PROGRAMME INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “Urban Peripheries?” Emerging Cities in Europe’s South and East, 1850-1945 September 26 & 27, 2016 / Rèsidencia d’Investigadors, Carrer Hospital 64, 08001 Barcelona MONDAY, September 26, 2016 9:00- 9:15 Welcome Address from the Organizers SECTION I | The Interurban Exchange on Urban Planning Chair: Eszter Gantner 9:15-10:00 Anna Mazanik (Central European University, Budapest): Learning from Smaller Towns: Foreign Models of Urban Reforms in Moscow, 1870-1917 10:00-10:45 Cathleen M. Giustino (Auburn University): Urban Planning and Historic Prague: Reception of and Resistance to Knowledge Transfer in East-Central Europe before and after World War I 10:45-11:30 Goran Hutinec (University of Zagreb): Post-Habsburg Transfer of Knowledge as a Driving Force in Urban Modernisation of Southeast Europe – the Zagreb Example 11.30-12:00 Coffee Break SECTION II | Technology Transfer between “Peripheries” Chair: Ned Somerville 12:00-12:45 Harald R. Stühlinger (ETH Zürich): The Book and the Manhole Cover. An Unwritten History on Urban Infrastructure 12:45-13:30 Igor Lyman (Berdyansk State Pedagogical University): The Interchange of Modernization Experiences: “Russian” Port Cities on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov 13:30-15:30 Lunch 15:30-16:15 Barry Stiefel (College of Charleston): In the Driver’s Seat of Modern Urbanization: A Case Study of Barcelona and Automotive Industry Development in the Emerging Cities of Southern Europe, c.1900-1950 (per Skype) SECTION III | Curing and Controlling: Public Urban Health Chair: Miquel Carandell 16:15-17:00 Alfons Zarzoso (Museu d’Història de la Medicina de Catalunya): A New Medicine for the Insane in a Modern and Industrial Barcelona 17:00-17:30 Coffee Break 17:30-18:15 Sean Brady (Trinity College Dublin): Neither Insular nor Peripheral: Sicily’s Urban Elites during the Influenza Epidemic of 1918–19 18:15-19:00 Christine Krüger (Universität Gießen): Commentary TUESDAY, September 27, 2016 9:00- 9.45 Clara Maddalena Frysztacka (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/O.): Urban Poverty: A Symptom of Urban Modernity in the European Peripheries? 9.45-10:30 Celia Miralles Buil (Université de Lyon): “Central” Speech, “Peripheral” Practices: how did Barcelona Health Agents use the European Interurban Network between 1931 and 1936? SECTION IV | How to build a Modern City: Avant-Garde Architecture in the “Periphery” Chair: Álvaro Girón 10:30-11:15 Eszter Gantner (Herder Institute, Marburg): Travelling Architecture: Géza Maróti between Budapest, Milan, Mexico City and Detroit 11.15-11.45 Coffee Break 11:45-12:30 Tamara Bjažic Klarin (Institute for Art History, Zagreb): Shaping the City – International Competitions as a Platform for Knowledge Exchange 12:30-13:15 Lucila Mallart (University of Nottingham): Visuality in Architecture: Seeing the City from Barcelona to Bucharest in the Interwar Period 13:15-14:00 Heidi Hein-Kircher (Herder Institute, Marburg), Oliver Hochadel (IMF-CSIC, Barcelona): Commentary and Final Discussion End of Conference The organizers are most grateful to the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation for their generous support to host this workshop. Organizers: Oliver Hochadel (Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC, Barcelona), Eszter Gantner and Heidi Hein-Kircher (Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg, Germany) Note: All the papers have been pre-circulated. The speakers will only give a brief summary of about 10-15 minutes. The rest of the 45 minutes allotted to each paper will be dedicated to the discussion. If you are interested in reading the papers please contact oliver.hochadel@imf.csic.es