Session Details

Friday, 29 December

499. Cities and Public Spaces

3:30–4:45 p.m., Commonwealth Hall A2, Loews

Program arranged by the Community College Humanities Association

Presiding: George Louis Scheper, Community Coll. of Baltimore County, MD

1. “Lily Bart as Failed Flaneuse in Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth,” Lisa L. Tyler, Sinclair Community Coll., OH

2. “The Architecture of Cultural Theming: Ethnographic Inquiries in Las Vegas,” Scott Lukas, Lake Tahoe Community Coll., CA

3. “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Turning: Fires, Urban Renewal, and Gentrification in the Fiction of Ernesto Quinonez,” June S. Dwyer, Manhattan Coll.

4. “Cinematic ‘Flânerie’ in Postreunification Berlin Films: Mapping the Topography of Contemporary Berlin,” Sylvia H. Rieger, Harvard Univ.

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