December 7, 2006. VIULECTURES 1|06_2 Sinking and Shrinking Cities. New Orleans & Venice
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| Thursday, 7 December 2006, 5pm VIU Isola di San Servolo |
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Sinking and Shrinking Cities: New Orleans & Venice Berndt Ostendorf is professor of North American Cultural Studies at Ludwig Maximilians Universität. Current research includes New Orleans culture and politics, evangelical fundamentalism and African-American studies. During the Fall 2006 semester he is teaching two courses in VIU’s Joint Undergraduate Program: Conspiracy Nation: conspiracy theories from the Illuminati to the X-Files and Americanism, Americanization, Anti-Americanism: Transatlantic Relations in the age of Globalization.
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Venice and Globalization and Sinking and Shrinking Cities: New Orleans & Venice are the first two topics addressed in this lectures series promoted by VIU, in collaboration with Marsilio, to give a platform to international and local professors to discuss key issues in current debate.
The lecture series is open to the public.
