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WALLS &  BARRICADES NOVEMBER 14,15   Walls and Barricades: November 14 and 15, 2008

 

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Friday November 14, 2008

3335 Dwinelle –History Department

Saturday November 15th

223 Moses Hall– IIS

 

2.00PM-3.35PM  :The Politics of Walls

Dario Biocca: University of Perugia, Italy. -  "Memory Encircled: the Belfast Sunken Wall and the Famagusta Fence of Steel"


Richard Wittman: UC Santa Barbara - "The Risorgimento and the Walls of Rome
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Discussant: Yuri Slezkine   

9.30AM -11.00AM: The Construction and Deconstruction of Walls in  Germany

Yair Mintzker: Stanford University -"The City and Its Walls:The Defortification of the German City, 1740-1866"


 Edith Sheffer: Stanford University -"The Iron Curtain in Germany: How a 'Wall in the Head' became a Wall on the Ground"

Discussant:  John Connelly

 

3.45PM-5.15PM: Barricades in France

Mark Traugott: UC Santa Cruz "The Insurgent Barricade"

Jordan Rose: UC Berkeley- "Meissonier's Barricade"  

 

Discussant: Carla Hesse, UC Berkeley           

 

11.15 -1.00: The Modern Siege, Barricades, and Memory
 
Alexis Peri: UC Berkeley- "Blokada: the real and imagined walls around Leningrad"

Andre Burguiere: EHESS Paris- "From one barricade to another Paris, August 1944 and Paris, May 1968.”

Discussant: Ted Margadant, UCDavis

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