Cities in Crisis: Emergency Measures in Architecture and Urbanism, 1400-1700

*This event will be live streamed at https://bit.ly/2BY4OlK

Thursday, September 6, 2018

8.00 a.m.
Tristan Weddigen 
Bibliotheca Hertziana
Welcome

Danielle Abdon and Margaret Bell
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Temple University; University of California—Santa Barbara, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Introduction

I. Crisis Architecture Today

8.15 
Esther Charlesworth
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Keynote

9.30 Break

10.30 
Walking Tour of Rome with Stalker
(Meeting Point: Piramide Metro Station)

13.30 Break

II. Urban Crises: Now and Then
Moderator: Morgan Ng

14.30 
Philine Helas
Bibliotheca Hertziana
“…per Roma l’acqua sua spandendo”: The floods of the Tiber during the XV and XVI centuries

15.30 Break

III. Architectures of Displacement
Respondent: Fabrizio Nevola

16.00 
Iacopo Benincampi
Università di Roma-Sapienza
The ‘New’ City of Cervia: An Urban Deal between Public Health, Industrial Activities and Social Emergency

Danielle Abdon
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Temple University
From Tents to Urban Ornaments: Sheltering the Local and Foreign Poor in Early Modern Venice

Maria Teresa Gigliozzi
Università di Macerata
In fieri: The Continuous Adaptation of Norcia to the Seismic Activity over the Centuries

Friday, September 7, 2018

IV. Urban Control in Times of Crisis  (Part I)
Respondent: Gauvin Alexander Bailey

9.00 
Anita Ruso
Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
The Republic of Dubrovnik after 1667: Strategies for Rebuilding the City
 
Nuno Grancho
DINÂMIA’CET – IUL
The Sieges of Diu and the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial City

10.20 Break

V. Urban Control in Times of Crisis (Part II)
Respondent: Gauvin Alexander Bailey

10.50 
Narciss M. Sohrabi
Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La  Défense
Emergent New Julfa: Emergency Measures in the Crisis Architecture or Socio-Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Urbanism of Iran

Kristen Streahle
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Inquisition Architecture in the Kingdom of Aragón and its Territories: Painted Petitions in the Aljafería of Zaragoza and the Steri of Palermo

12.30 Break

VI. Disease and Hospitality
Respondent: Ann Carmichael

13.30 
Britta Hentschel
Universität Liechtenstein
Crisis and Control: Keeping Tabs on the Urban Development in Early Modern France
  
Isabel Ruiz Garnelo
Universitat de València
The Insufficient Hospitality in Early Modern Rome: The Cases of the Crown of Aragon

Darka Bilić  
Centar Cvito Fisković
Plague Control Measures in Early Modern Split and Distinctive Role of its Lazaretto

15.30 Break

VII. Final Discussion: Urban Crises from a Historical Perspective
16.00
Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Ann Carmichael, Esther Charlesworth, and Fabrizio Nevola