The Mind of Cleveland | National Cityscapes Conference (March 27-29)

National Cityscape Conference

March 27, 28, 29, 2008

Join leading local, national, and international artists and scholars as they explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Conference papers will investigate the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place. Historic and contemporary topics will range from the “managerial sublime” in nineteenth-century photographs of San Francisco to the reinvention of public space in Berlin today.

All events and conference sessions are free and open to the public. Online conference registration is recommended. Note that the program will be held at both the Cleveland Institute of Art and at Case Western Reserve University.

Visit the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities to register for the conference or for more information.

The Cityscapes Conference is jointly sponsored by The Cleveland Institute of Art and The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. Funding has also been made available to the Baker-Nord Center by a major grant from the Presidential Initiative Fund for the Humanities through the generosity of the Cleveland Foundation and a grant from the Ohio Humanities Council. Additional support comes from Clear Channel; Cuyahoga County Public Library; Councilman Joe Cimperman, Cleveland, Ward 13; and Progressive Arts Alliance.

Conference Events

Thursday, March 27

4:00-5:00 pm	Art Exhibition Preview
	The Mind of Cleveland, by Carl Pope
→	The Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Galleries Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd. [see location]


5:00-6:00 pm	Conference Keynote Speaker
	Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Art and Art Professions at New York University
	Days of Race: Democracy and Black Reconstruction in the Work of Carl Pope
→	The Cleveland Institute of Art, Aitken Auditorium Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd. [see location]


6:00-8:00 pm	Art Exhibition Opening with Reception
	The Mind of Cleveland, by Carl Pope
→	The Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Galleries Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd. [see location]

Friday, March 28

9:00-11:30 am	Morning Session
	Creating and Performing Community
	Moderated by Ágnes Berecz, Fashion Institute of Technology
	Theater and Identity in Cleveland Lisa Bernd, Case Western Reserve University Performing the City: The Los Angeles Poverty Department and Downtown Redevelopment in Los Angeles Marina Peterson, Ohio University Reinventing Public Space: Contemporary Placemaking Practices in Berlin, Germany Christina Lanzl, Urban Art Institute at Massachusetts College of Arts and Design
→	The Cleveland Institute of Art, Aitken Auditorium Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd. [see location]


11:30-1:00 pm	Lunch


1:00-4:00 pm	Afternoon Session 1
	Contested Spaces and Social Divisions
	Moderated by Rita Goodman, The Cleveland Institute of Art
	When Photography Met City Planning: Art Sinsabaugh’s Urban Landscapes Nanette Esseck Brewer, Indiana University Art Museum Los Dos Laredos: A Tale of Two Cities Mehnaaz Momen, Texas A&M International University Churches, Residents, and Community in High Poverty Neighborhoods R. Drew Smith, Morehouse College The Corner of Cope Street: Detroit Reimagined for the 21st Century John Goins III, University of California, Berkeley
→	The Cleveland Institute of Art, Aitken Auditorium Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd. [see location]


1:00-4:00 pm	Afternoon Session 2
	Organizing the City
	Moderated by John Recchiuti, Mount Union College
	Making Sense of the Modern City: Urban Education in Nineteenth-Century Britain Christopher Ferguson, Indiana University Urban Kaleidoscope: Seeing and Being Seen on the Streets of Paris Elizabeth Carlson, Lawrence University The Counter-Revolution of the ‘White City’: How Chicago’s Business Elite Used the World’s Fair of 1893 to Construct the Urban Future Robert Kargon, Johns Hopkins University Paris of the Future Miriam Levin, Case Western Reserve University
→	The Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio Bell Auditorium Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd. [see location]


4:30 pm	Baker-Nord Center Humanities Week Keynote Speaker
	Urban Planner and Winner of the 2007 Cleveland Arts Prize for Lifetime Achievement Looking at Cleveland’s Future
	Norman Krumholz, Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
→	Case Western Reserve University, Amasa Stone Chapel 10940 Euclid Ave. [see location]

Saturday, March 29

9:00-12:00 am	Morning Session
	Knowing, Remembering, and Imagining the City
	Moderated by Paul Iverson, Case Western Reserve University
	And I used to Live in that Bodega, Archiving Memory in Urban New Media Projects Germaine Halegoua, University of Wisconsin Can you hear the difference?’ The Berlin Sounds: Audible Cartography of a Former Divided City Nicole Dietrich, Freie Universität Berlin The Epistemology of Cool: Race and Recognition in the Urban Milieu Joseph D. Lewandowski, The University of Central Missouri The Discursive Construction of the City: Imagining Downtown Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century Daniel Chamberlain, University of Southern California
→	Case Western Reserve University, Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations Room 115, 11402 Bellflower Rd. [see location]


12:00-1:30 pm	Lunch


1:30-4:30 pm	Afternoon Session 1
	Representation and Urban Spaces
	Moderated by Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University
	Managerial Sublime, Executive Terror: Eadweard Muybridge’s "Panorama of San Francisco from California Street" John Ott, James Madison University Battlefield of Utopias: The Ideal Soviet City Elana Gomel, Tel-Aviv University Assembled City Fragments Dennis Maher, SUNY at Buffalo
→	Case Western Reserve University, Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations Room 106, 11402 Bellflower Rd. [see location]


1:30-4:30 pm	Afternoon Session 2
	Marketing the City
	Moderated by David Hart, The Cleveland Institute of Art
	Urban Planning, Mega-Events, and the Selling of Central and Eastern European Cityscapes, 1867-1938 Alexander Vari, Marywood University Framing Harlem Elizabeth Watson, CUNY Graduate Center How Townscapes Travel: New Urbanism in Europe through the Example of the DPZ Company Blaise Dupuis, University of Neuchâtel New Beijing, Great Olympics: From Tourist Gaze to Urban Renovation Tan Zhang, University of Maryland
→	Case Western Reserve University, Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations Room 107, 11402 Bellflower Rd. [see location]


4:30 pm	Closing Speaker and Reception
	Lee Quiñones, Public Artist
	The Lincoln-West High School Mural Project
→	Case Western Reserve University, Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations Room 115, 11402 Bellflower Rd. [see location]