Friday, October 12, 2012
Wood Auditorium
Move: Theatrum Mundi / Global Street
Organized by Saskia Sassen and Richard Sennett
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought
Presence and Absence in the City
October 12–13
The overall theme turns on the difference between absence and presence in the city. This difference lies both physically—who is actually on the street?; and perceptually—how are people aware of others, accounting or discounting their presence in urban space? How are those considered invisible or inconsequential enabled to ‘make presence’ in urban space—through their bodies, actions, activities. We want to account the roles of technological, trade, design, and politics in constructing presence and absence; finally, we want to pose questions about how to arouse people to want more engagement with one another, rather than retreat into isolation.
3:00pm – 4:15pm
THE TRADE OF IDEAS AND GOODS: FROM ARTIFACTS TO CITIZENSHIP
One critical issue is the active and ideational legacy/impact of old and new imperial modes on today’s urban space. More generally, how cities, and the people in them, are connected to one another, through currents of the present and of the past.
Chair: Mamadou Diouf
Panelists: Clémentine Deliss, Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Sudhir Venkatesh
