One Day in the City: Schedule for 15 June 2012
Final Schedule
Please note: Bookings will close at midnight on Wednesday 13 June
09.15 – 10.00 Registration (South Cloisters, UCL, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT) with tea and coffee
10.00 - 11.00
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre
Iain Sinclair followed by a conversation with Chris Petit and Professor Iain Borden
11.00 – 12.00
Panel 1a: Walking the City
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre
Chair: Jane Darcy
Isabelle Southwood, OVER UNDER TAMESAS OVER UNDER
Susan Anderson, Walking the Seventeenth-Century City
Anne Hultzsch, Hunting for Treasures: Nikolaus Pevsner and Everyday Architecture
Hope Wolf, One Day on the Strand
Panel 1b: The Politics of Space
Venue: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Chair: Matthew Ingleby
Hilary Powell and Isaac Marrero, The Art of Dissent: London's Olympic State
Sabina Andron, This Is Not Graffiti: A Geosemiotic Look at Hybrid Surface Inscriptions
Claire Dwyer and Ali Mangera, Making the Suburban Sacred: Creating The Salaam Centre in Harrow
Panel 1c: Urban Technologies
Venue: Haldane Room
Chair: David Roberts
Doris Bremm, Visualizing London: Using Digital Mapping Tools in the English Composition Classroom
Sophie Hoyle, Visual technologies: Artistic Subversion and the Contemporary Urban
John Bingham-Hall, One Day Listening to the City: a commemorative audio documentary of the old East London Line
Alan Ashton-Smith, Reorganising Harry Beck: The London Underground Map and the Art It Has Inspired
12.15 - 13.00 LUNCH
13.00 – 14.00
Panel 2a: Conceptual City
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre
Chair: Gregory Dart
Sebastian Groes and Hugo Spiers, 'What I want to know doesn't appear in the A-Z': neuroscientific and literary approaches to psychogeography in the work of Will Self
Will Self as himself
Panel 2b: Contested Spaces
Venue: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Chair: Michael Stewart
Luke Davies, Writing Homelessness in London: 1903-1933
Richard Morgan, Down and Out in London and St Petersburg: Aesthetics of the Urban Poor
Ruth Richardson, London Works
Matthew Ingleby, Railings, Riots and Representation
Panel 2c: Working in the City
Venue: Haldane Room
Chair: Hope Wolf
Will Tosh, The Inns of Court, Spies and Old School Ties in the Age of Elizabeth I
Jonathan Black, An Alien Race on our Streets? The Costermonger in pre-First World War British Literature and Painting
Chris Hartley, The Carnivals of Exchange Alley and Exchange Square: The City in 1720 and 2017
Alex Murray, ‘The London Sunday Faded Slow’: Writing the Sabbath in the Victorian Metropolis
14.00 – 15.00
Panel 3a: Nightwalking
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre
Chair: Matthew Beaumont
A showing of William Raban's short film, The Houseless Shadow, followed by a conversation between
Panel 3b: Run, Jump, Shoot,
Venue: Haldane Room
Chair: Iain Borden
This session will involve a discussion of Urban Photography, the RIBA photographic archives, and an introduction of MyStreet - 'Your story told through film. Where you are, who you are and how you live.'
Andy Day, Freelance Photographer (www.kiell.com)
Justine Sambrook, Assistant Curator of the RIBA Library Photographs Collection
Michael Stewart, MyStreet (http://www.mystreetfilms.com)
Panel 3c: Venue: Architexture
Venue: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Chair: Kasia Boddy
Kyran Joughin, “I Look Up, I Look Down.” (James Stewart, Vertigo, Hitchcock, 1958). Two ways of describing a place in town: Georges Perec and John Smith.
Laura Ludtke, Writing London by Night: the Landscape of Public and Private Light in Virginia Woolf's Night and Day
David Roberts, FROM HEROIN TO HEROINES: Reviving Richardson in a ‘sink estate’
15.00 – 15.45 TEA AND COFFEE
15.45 – 17.00
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre
followed by a debate on
Living and Writing in London
Chair: Peter Swaab
17.00 – 19.00 WINE RECEPTION - South Cloisters
17.45 - 18.45
Venue: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
supported by Waterstones, Gower Street and Harvard University Press
Poetry Readings by
19.00 – 20.15 Man Booker Prize Evening
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre
Chair: Professor John Mullan
A.S. Byatt in conversation with Alan Hollinghurst
