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SUMMARY:Stirbitch: Performing the Vanished Polis - Dr.Michael Hrebeniak\, 
 Wolfson College
DTSTART:20151124T174500Z
DTEND:20151124T191500Z
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CONTACT:Prof Jane Chapman
DESCRIPTION:In 1199\, King John granted a fair to the Leper Hospital on th
 e Cambridge margins. Within a century Stourbridge Fair had outgrown its ho
 st to comprise the most significant event of its kind in medieval Europe: 
 an international epicentre for material transaction. Its development would
  serve as an analogue of the movement from an economy of subsistence to th
 at of surplus and\, by the Nineteenth Century\, the business of pleasure.\
 nToday the site yields no sign of this temporary polis other than the Lepe
 r Chapel's husk and a few survivals in local street-names. Patchily docume
 nted\, it comprises an acute instance of culture without archive. A seven-
 century continuity of the carnivalesque has been deleted. \nDrawing upon a
  film-in-progress\, this talk will appraise the site as a mnemonic to refl
 ect upon relationships between the spatial performance of social life\, ha
 bitat and cultural memory. It will explore how an imaginary of the Fair ca
 n yield insights into the affective ties between people and the land's phy
 sical contours. \n
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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