Event Details
Premodern city dwellers defined themselves largely according to the people and structures around them. But if a person was lost, in an unknown city, or otherwise disoriented, what became of his or her identity? In this lecture, Niall Atkinson looks at the moment of reurbanization in Europe in a series of 14th-century urban contexts. He'll explore what the relationship between familiar and unfamiliar spaces can tell us about how to construct modern cities to make them more meaningful to our everyday lives.
Niall Atkinson is a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Art History and the College. His research has focused on the urban experience in the Renaissance city, and he has recently completed a manuscript on the soundscapes of Renaissance Florence.
To learn more, listen to a lecture by Atkinson at the Franke Institute for the Humanities on the urban experience in the Italian Renaissance and read about the conference Digital Mapping and Techniques of Visualizing the Premodern Italian City.
$20/person for general admission
$10/person for recent graduates (College alumni of the past 10 years and graduate alumni of the past five years)
Two complimentary registrations for members of the Alumni Leadership, Chicago, Harper, and Phoenix Societies
Includes program and refreshments
Program
2:00 PM-2:30 PM: Registration
2:30 PM-3:45 PM: Presentation and discussion
3:45 PM-4:30 PM: Reception
Speaker Profiles
Niall Atkinson (Speaker)
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College
Questions
Kelly Doody
Event Contact
773.702.7788