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The Making of Public Culture: Public Spaces and Structures

Speakers, 1987-1988

Fall 1987

September 24, 1987: Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Titles: "Public Culture in Late Twentieth Century India"

October 15, 1987: John Middleton, Yale University
Paper Title: "The Morality of Space in Two East African Societies"

December 10, 1987: Betsy Blackmar, Department of History, Columbia University and Roy Rosenzweig, Department of History, George Mason University
Paper Title: "The Design of a Democratic Public Space: New York City's Central Park"

Spring 1988

January 12, 1988: Susan Barrows, University of California, Berkeley
Paper Title: "The Cafe and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century France"

February 18, 1988: Renata Holod, Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Identity for State and Community in Contemporary Mosque Design"

March 17, 1988: Jeffrey D. Needell, Department of History, University of Florida
Paper Title: "The Restructuring of Public Spaces and Public Consciousness in Turn-of-the-Century Latin America: The Cases of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires"

April 21, 1988: David Prochaska, National Humanities Center
Paper Title: "Cagayous of Algiers"