Conference Program
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
War and the Urban
Context
CUNY-Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016 USA
May 19, 2017
Sponsored by
CUNY Academy for the Humanities
CUNY Graduate Center
CUNY Research Office
Organizers
Dr. Sarah K. Danielsson
([email protected])
and
Tim Keogh, Ph.D.
([email protected])
8:30 Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Panel 1
Defining Urban Warfare
Cities of Earth, Cities of Rubble: The Spade
and Red Army Landscaping (Brandon
Schechter, New York University)
Learning the “Grammar” of Urban
Operations: The United States Army and
Urban Combat in World War II (Jonathan
Beall, University of North Georgia)
Inverse Geometry as a Tool to Reconnect the
Disconnected (Maheen Abbasi, Middle East
Technical University)
Reconstruction Undone: The City of Gaza in
the Aftermath of WWI (Dotan Halevy,
Columbia University)
Moderator: Mark Van Ells (Queensborough
Community College/CUNY)
10:45-12:15 Panel 2
Cities as Warzones
The Cosmopolitan Connection: The
International Medical Aid Movements to
Help China and Spain, 1936-38 (Carles
Brasó Broggi, Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya)
Panic in London? The Attitudes of the
Civilian Population During Air Attacks in
1917 and 1944/45 (Linda Parker,
Independent Scholar)
Government Forces Dare Not Penetrate’:
British Counter-Insurgency, the Othering of
Palestine’s Old Cities and ReConceptualizations of Battle-Space During
the Great Arab Rebellion, 1936-1939 (Simon
Davis, Bronx Community College and
Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Death of a City: The Yugoslav Peoples
Army Siege of Vukovar, 1991, Refugee
Crisis, and its Aftermath (James Horncastle,
Simon Fraser University)
Moderator: Frank Jacob (Queensborough
Community College, CUNY)
12:15-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Panel 3
Occupied Cities
War and the Urban Context in Paris during
World War II: The Germans and Tourism
During their Military Occupation, 1940-1944
(Bertram Gordon, Mills College)
Imperial Designs: U.S. Military Government
and the Neocolonial Spatial Politics of Labor
in Santiago de Cuba and Oriente after 1898
(Justin F. Jackson, New York University)
Beyond Resilience: Survivors and Strangers
in Postwar Berlin (Avi Sharma, Technical
University of Berlin)
4:30-6:00 Panel 5
Postwar Urban Reconstruction
The Politics of Food during the Occupation
of Naples in World War II (Stefan Laffin,
Bielefeld University)
Postwar and Conflict Time Reconstruction:
Sharing Space in the City (Anita Bakshi,
Rutgers University)
Moderator: Bob Wintermute (Queens
College, CUNY)
A Polish Solution for Postwar German
Planning Disasters? Brutalist Old Towns and
the Search for Rootedness in Frankfurt and
Leipzig (Andrew Demshuk, American
University)
2:45-4:15 Panel 4
Cities and Memories of War
Competing Scars on the Walls and Souls of a
Paris Suburb: A Century of Reviving and
Obliterating War Memories in Saint-Denis,
1914-2017 (Fabrice Langrognet, University
of Cambridge)
War, Memories and Identities: The Case of
the City of Strasbourg, 1681-1914 (Donatus
Dusterhaus, Université de Fribourg)
In the Shadow of the Sino-French War:
Nationalist Memories and Cosmopolitan
Histories of China’s Naval Culture in Fuzhou
(Ke Ren, College of the Holy Cross)
The Role of Media Propaganda in Discussing
Post-Conflict Reconstructions: The Case of
Two Buildings in Belgrade (Aleksandar
Stanicic, Columbia University)
Moderator: Kenneth Pearl (Queensborough
Community College, CUNY)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
WAR AND THE
URBAN CONTEXT
The Russification of Vilna and the Jewish
Survivors, 1944 – 1945 (Miri MerinFreilich, Beit Berl College)
Postwar Urban Reconstruction in Aachen
between 1945 and 1955: An Opportunity for
Urban Development? (Florian Wöltering and
Sarah Gatzlik, RWTH Aachen University)
Refugees in the Old City of Damascus
(Faedah M. Totah, Virginia Commonwealth
University)
Moderator: Sarah Danielsson
(Queensborough Community College and
Graduate Center, CUNY)
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