A SENSE OF PLACE : THE CITY AND THE SENSES

1998 European Urban History Conference

Place:
Venice

Time:
3-5 September 1998

Conference Theme:
A sense of place: the city and the senses. The Research Group for European Urban Culture at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle has been invited to organise one of the Main Sessions at the 4th European Urban History Conference in Venice.

Papers in the 'Sense of Place' session, which embraces all periods of urban history from medieval to contemporary , will engage with the five senses in an urban context. We see this as a line of enquiry which will encourage imaginative responses from scholars engaged with a whole range of disciplines relating to the urban experience.

Topics:

• TOWNS AND SOUNDS (music, street cries, gossip).
• TOWNS AND SIGHT (the visual impact of buildings old and new, representations of towns by artists and photographers for local and outsdie consumption).
• TOWNS AND SMELLS (changing perceptions of smell - movement by the wealthy to the suburbs, zoning of odorous industrial activities, smells in urban literature;, good air, bad air and disease).
• TOWNS AND TOUCH (play, social encounters and distances, sex).
• TOWNS AND TASTE (eating and drinking).

Alexander Cowan, Department of
Historical and Critical Studies, 
University of Northumbria, 
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1
8ST. UK.

email : a.cowan@unn.ac.uk
Phone : +44 191 227 4925.     Fax : +44 191 227 4630