Cities After Hours Colloquium

Description

Presenting paper "Soho, After Hours:A Short Filmic History of London’s Hedonistic Playground – After Dark." About UCL Cities After Hours: Keynote lectures will be delivered by Professor William Sharpe and Professor Joachim Schlör. William Sharpe (Barnard College, Columbia University) is the author of New York Nocturne: The City after Dark in Literature, Painting and Photography (winner of the Peter S. Rollins Award of the Northeast American Studies Association and the MSA Book Prize of the Modernist Studies Association) and will be introduced by Dr Matthew Beaumont (UCL, English), author of Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London. Joachim Schlör Professor of Modern Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, Director of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton and author of Nights in the Big City: Berlin, Paris, London 1840-1930 will deliver the second keynote lecture of the day. The film director Barnaby Southcombe will present his feature film I, Anna (2012), a noir thriller set in London, followed by a question and answer session with the audience. The shift from the diurnal to the nocturnal city will be the over-arching theme of the day’s talks. As the notion of London as a 24 hour city is debated and plans for the night tube put on hold, we will consider the way in which cities have been the loci of inclusion and exclusion, policing and controlling, after-hours. The historical relevance of the night-time curfew will be considered in relation to contemporary policing of night-time, addressing, for example, the implications of the state of emergency declared in France following the attacks in Paris in November 2015 which allows for the imposition of curfews by the state. The impact on the inhabitants of the city streets after hours will be considered in relation to the increasing use of “hostile architecture” in public spaces. The colloquium will be part of UCL’s week-long Festival of Culture.

Period	25 May 2016
Event type	Conference
Location	London, United KingdomShow on map