Invisibility Studies Seminar II: Urban Topography, Void and Display

Invitation to the second seminar in the Invisibility Studies Seminar Series 2015.

Presentations

Urban Topography or the City writing the Voids
Anne Bordeleau, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo

Atlas of the Copenhagens
Deane Simpson, Associate Professor, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

Breath Catalogue
Kate Elswit, Artist, Bristol

Round Table Discussion
Chaired by Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel

  • Henrik Reeh, Associate Professor, Department of Arts And Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen
  • Dora Osborne, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in German, University of Edinburgh
  • Mark Vacher, Associate Professor, The Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen

The Invisibility Studies Seminar Series 2015 seminar series takes as its starting point the book Invisibility Studies: Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture (Peter Lang), which was published in January 2015.

We have invited contributors to the book, as well as distinguished Danish and international scholars and artists, to read a section of the book as a way of launching further discussion.

The common themes of the seminars, as of the book, are current changes in the relationships between what we consider ‘visible’ and ‘invisible’ in different areas of contemporary culture, including architecture, visual art, literature, philosophy, and technology.

Over the course of four biweekly seminars in Spring 2015, we hope to stimulate discussion and provoke new thinking. The format of the four seminars will vary slightly, but they will all start at 16 and will be followed by a light snack with a glass of wine, and the opportunity for more informal discussion.

We would like to encourage scholars, students, practitioners and anyone interested in current changes to the cultural fabric to participate.

Registration

To register for the seminars, please email invisibilitystudies15@gmail.com. We will accept registrations up until 48 hours before each seminar.

The seminar series is organised by: Henriette Steiner, Associate Professor, Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning, University of Copenhagen and Kristin veel, postdoc, Department of Arts And Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.