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List of students presenting and responding to papers:

Gina Badger (MIT), Lara Belkind (GSD), Juliet Davis (LSE), Cecilia Dinardi (LSE), Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia (LSE – responding only), Gunter Gassner (LSE), Leigh Taylor Graham (MIT), Suzi Hall (LSE - responding only), EB Kelly (HLS), Steven Moga (MIT), Olivia Muñoz-Rojas-Oscarsson (LSE), Ninad Pandit (MIT), Nida Rehman (MIT), Laura Lee Schmidt (MIT), Torsten Schroeder (LSE), Susanne Seitinger (MIT), David Seligman (HLS), Jesse Shapins (GSD), Lily Song (MIT), Orkan Telhan (MIT)

Core faculty: Richard Sennett, Jerry Frug, Fran Tonkiss

Monday  1^st of June: New Academic Building – ‘NAB’, LSE (off Sardinia Street)

17h00:  Keynote address  by Professor Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London

(Thai Theatre, NAB)

18h30: Drinks and snacks (8^th floor, NAB)

20h00: Optional activity

Tuesday 2^nd of June: A316 in the Old Building – ‘A’, LSE (off Houghton Street)

Session 1: Conceptions (Chaired by Juliet Davis)

09h30 – 11h00:

- Digging, Sowing, Tending, Harvesting (Bringing the War Home), Gina Badger, MIT (Respondent: Olivia Muñoz-Rojas-Oscarsson)

- “The Bottoms” and the Colloquial Language of American City Form,

Steven Moga, MIT (Respondent: Lily Song)

- Competing Conceptualisations of the University-City Relationship,

David Seligman and EB Kelly, HLS (Respondent: Suzi Hall)

11h00 – 11h30: Tea break

11h30 – 13h00:

- Metonyms for a Dictatorship: Cities under Franco,  

Olivia Muñoz-Rojas-Oscarsson, LSE (Respondent: Steven Moga)

- Reconciling Critical Social Theory with Zen Buddhist Principles and Practice,

Lily Song (Respondents: David Seligman and EB Kelly)

Closing discussion on ‘Conceptions’

13h00 – 14h00: Lunch at the LSE

Session 2: Symbols (Chaired by Suzi Hall)

 14h00 – 16h30 

- Writing an Urban Story from the Walls of a Building: The Case of the Post and Telecommunications Palace in Buenos Aires, Cecilia Dinardi, LSE (Respondent Nida Rehman)

- Semantic Anxiety: The Mughal Pavilion and Historic Conservation in Delhi, Laura

Lee Schmidt and Ninad Pandit, MIT (Respondent: Jesse Shapins)

- Mapping Main Street: Tracing an American Political Mythology, Urban Imaginary and Built Environment, Jesse Shapins, GDS (Respondent: Cecilia Dinardi)

- The Canal in the ‘City of Gardens’: An Historic and Projective Examination of an Infrastructural Artery, Nida Rehman, MIT (Respondents: Ninad Pandit and Laura Lee Schmidt)

Closing discussion on ‘Symbols’

18h00: Drinks (hosted by Richard Sennett)

20h00: Dinner at Kolossi Grill, 56-60 Roseberry Avenue, EC1R 4RR

Wednesday 3^rd of June: A316 in the Old Building – ‘A’, LSE (off Houghton Street)

Session 3: Approaches (Chaired by Olivia Muñoz-Rojas-Oscarsson)

10h30 – 12h00 

- Skylines and the “Whole” City, Gunter Gassner, LSE (Respondent: Orkan Telhan)

- Political Battles – Images between Built Environment and Biosphere, Torsten Schröder, LSE (Respondent: Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia)

- Sensor Narratives, Orkan Telhan, MIT (Respondent: Gunter Gassner)

Closing discussion on ‘Approaches’

12h00 – 13h00: Lunch at the LSE

Session 4: Processes (Chaired by Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia)

13h00 – 16h00 

- Towards Sustainable Communities? Community, Consultation and the Compulsory Purchase of the site for the 2012 Olympic Games, Juliet Davis, LSE (Respondent: Lara Belkind)

- Demolishing Public Housing for the Good of New Orleans: Culture and Conflict among Housing Advocates over the Future of the City,  Leigh Graham, MIT (Respondent: Susanne Seitinger)

- The Internet and the City: Blogging and Gentrification of New York’s Lower East Side, Lara Belkind, GSD (Respondent: Leigh Graham)

- Beyond Use: Alternative Approaches to Urban Infrastructure,  Susanne Seitinger, MIT (Respondent: Juliet Davis)

16h00 – 16h30: Closing discussion

16h30: Tea