Jan Hansen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Day 1, Sunday, 14 May 2023, 5 PM
Workshop Welcome and Introduction
Paul Lerner (University of Southern California)
Keynote Address: Katherine Zubovich (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
Architectures of Control: Stalinist Urban Design in Global Context
Participant Dinner, 7 PM
Day 2, Monday 15 May 2023
Panel 1: Socialist and Post-Socialist Landscape and Environment, 9 AM
Chair: Katherine Zubovich
Andrew Demshuk (American University, Washington, D.C.)
Cultural Landscapes out of Lignite Moonscapes: Dreams and Realities in Leipzig’s Coalfields before and after 1989
Brigitte Le Normand (Maastricht University)
Rebuilding Belgrade: Urban Planning and Behavioral Science after World War II
Ognjen Kojanic (University of Cologne)
Concrete Dreams in a Marshy Landscape: Environment, Socialist Planning, and Human Behavior in a Yugoslav Periurban Area
Coffee Break, 10:45
Panel 2: Urban Planning, Rural Retreats, and Behavior Regulation, 11 AM
Chair: Jan Hansen (Humboldt University Berlin/USC)
Juliana Kei (University of Liverpool)
“A Matter of National Importance”: Social Science and Built Environment Research in 1960s Britain
Oliver Sukrow (Technical University, Vienna)
From Embellished Landscapes of Health to Spaces of Leisure and Hygiene: Designing the 20th Century Spa Town as Space of Experience
Anna-Christine Grant (Occidental College)
Our Fellows Are Proletarians: Penitentiary Agricultural Colonies as Urban Spaces in a Rural Setting, From Nineteenth-century France to Early Soviet Ukraine
Lunch Break, 12:45 PM
Panel 3: Urban Flow: Mobility, Consumption, and Lived Experience, 2 PM
Chair: Milos Jovanic (UCLA)
Jan Hansen (Humboldt University of Berlin/USC)
Regulating from Below: Electricity Infrastructure and Urban Informality in Los Angeles, 1920–1940
Laura Isabel Serna (University of Southern California)
Home Economics, Material Culture, and Mexican Immigrant Americanization in the Early Twentieth Century
Coffee Break, 3:15 - 3:30 PM
Christoph Schimkowsky (University of Tokyo)
From Governing for Infrastructure to Governing through Infrastructure: The Emergence of “Orderly Boarding” on Tokyo’s Urban Railway Network in the 20th Century
Tambet Muide (Tartu University)
Soviet Modernist City Planning and the Permanently Temporary Mobility System of Tallinn
Panel 4: Closing Discussion and Future Directions, 4:45 - 6 PM
Chair: Andreas Greiner (German Historical Institute, Washington)