<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-size: 18px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0603FF">School of English, Media and Performing Arts Seminar Series</FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-size: 14px; ">5pm Wednesday 28th March, Rm 327, level 3 Webster Building, UNSW</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-size: 18px; "> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-size: 18px; "> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0312"><B>The City as Narrator? </B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-size: 18px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0312"><B>Transformations of the Metropolitan Narrative in </B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-size: 18px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0312"><B>Weimar Germany and Beyond</B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-size: 18px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0312"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-size: 17px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0312">Prof. Klaus R. Scherpe, Humboldt University, Berlin</FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Abstract:</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">In this seminar I want to address the ‘narrativity’ of cities in the discourse of modernity (not modernism at large) that was constituted in Germany in a distinct way. My discussion will consider the re-perceptions of the metropolis in the scripts of Kracauer, Doeblin, Moholy-Nagy and others. I will examine changes in symbolic speech and imaginary expansions of time and space and link the modernist problem of narrating the city to present day techniques—techniques that push beyond the limits of a classical Anglo-European discourse of modernity.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">All Welcome!</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Professor Scherpe's visit has been supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Seminar Conveners: A/Prof George Kouvaros & Dr Michelle Langford</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">If you wish to be removed from this mailing list please email <A href="mailto:m.langford@unsw.edu.au">m.langford@unsw.edu.au</A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Dr Michelle Langford</DIV><DIV>Associate Lecturer</DIV><DIV>School of English, Media and Performing Arts</DIV><DIV>The University of New South Wales</DIV><DIV>Sydney 2052 Australia</DIV><DIV>Room: Webster 311O</DIV><DIV>Phone: + 61 2 9385 4489</DIV><DIV>Fax: + 61 2 9385 6812</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>