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Voyageur, voyeur, voyant, le flâneur privilégie le songe, les jeux de masques. Il transforme la ville, faite de matériaux solides et gris, en un espace fluide, mouvant, coloré. Adepte du rythme lent, il voue un culte à l’inutile et gaspille le temps…

Full title: The psychogeographic mapping of a city: City-dwellers and lived spaces in Walker Evans' Havana portfolio (1933) In this research seminar, James Clifford Kent starts by introducing 'the origins of fascinations with Walker Evans and his…

Organisers' description of the seminar series (source): The School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway is pleased to announce a series of lunchtime Research Seminars in Comparative Literature and Culture. The…

Abstract from the organisers (source): A series of research seminars exploring the flâneur – meaning anidler or loafer – will be launched this week by the School of Modern Languages,Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway,…

Abstract from the distributor: This paper considers the work of one of Indonesia’s most prominent contemporary writers, Seno Gumira Ajidarma. In this paper, I look at how Seno’s writing over the last 30 years traces and documents changes…

Abstract from the distributor: ‘No urbanism without urbanists’ might be a slogan that captures the European and North American urban experience over the past two centuries. Indeed, it is arguable that urbanism is not only an empirical…

Abstract from the publisher: Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism offers for the first time a sustained exploration of parallels between the fiction of James Joyce and the cultural criticism of Walter Benjamin. Benjamin is perhaps modernism’s…