16 – 17 March, 2023
Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
Convenor: Achim Saupe, Anja Tack, Christoph Bernhardt, Daniel Hadwiger
The conference “Authenticity in European Cities. Creating, Visualizing and Contesting Urban and Built Heritage” will focus on how buildings, urban neighborhoods, urban spaces and actors were and are perceived as “authentic”. Debates on how a city should look like and who decides which objects are worth representing it are a major opportunity to analyze “regimes of historicity” (François Hartog) as well as past and present urban societies. We will focus on the field of built heritage with its various forms of reconstruction, renovation or demolition. Another focus will be laid on the question of urbanity. What makes a city “unique”, “characteristic”, and “urban” and how have these images of urbanity changed in the past and present?
„CfP: Authenticity in European Cities. Creating, Visualizing, and Contesting Urban and Built Heritage“ weiterlesen