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SUMMARY:Springtime in the City: Time\, Seasons\, and the Transnational Urb
 an Environment - Dorothee Brantz (TU-Berlin) 
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CONTACT:Dr AM Price
DESCRIPTION:Dorothee Brantz is a professor of urban environmental history 
 and the director of the Centre for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische 
 Universität Berlin. Her research interests include urban environmental hi
 story\, the history of war and peace\, and the different temporalities of 
 the urban.\n\nDo seasonal changes matter in urban environments? From our o
 wn experiences as urban dwellers\, we would certainly say "yes they matter
 ". Looking at urban scholarship\, however\, they do not seem to matter at 
 all. In historical scholarship\, the seasons seem to belong to countryside
  living not city life. This talk will advance an argument that the seasons
  are actually a central aspect of urban living. Using Spring as her empiri
 cal focus\, Dorothee will show how the seasons were articulated in a trans
 national context during the height of the industrial era around 1900 and a
 lso in our current post-industrial age. She will ask how a focus on season
 ality can aid our understanding of everyday life\, the impact of natural f
 orces on the urban environment and even our understanding across cultures.
  On a conceptual level she will demonstrate how the seasons can help us to
  gain a more differentiated understanding of urban temporalities and their
  impact on the life of cities in different climate zones.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 3\, Cripps Court\, Magdalene College
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