Next lecture on city as the main motif – Gdynia

5 lutego 2014

Next meeting within the series ‚Cities, myths, mystifications. Toposemiotics of city space’ will take place 22 January at 7 p.m. in the Institute’s lobby. Dr Jacek Friedrich of Gdańsk will give a lecture entitled ‚The city of the sea: Gdynia’.

Next lectures will be focused on Rome, Paris, Kiev, Lviv, and Venice.

‚Cities, myths, mystifications. Toposemiotics of city space’ is a series of monthly lectures focused on cities not only as space creations and urban and architectural structures but also as fields of cultural strata, palimpsest histories and social interactions. Cities as ideological creations and symbolic places; cities covered by myths, and cities involved in the history. 

 Dr Bilewicz says: ‚Cities are books written on many layers with many codes used. They require different interpretations and they provoke people to read them. It is the best to read them with others – during the lectures, during those imaginary city walks; with pictures, landscapes, vedute; by animating the memories of the places we visited or inducing the desire for future meetings. The experience of many cities mirrors the perception of the city we are present at currently.

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Schedule of  lectures ‚Cities, myths, mystifications. Toposemiotics of city space’

22 January — The city of the sea: Gdynia / dr Jacek Friedrich (University of Gdańsk).

19 February — The eternal city: Rome / dr Jacek Bielak (University of Gdańsk).

19 March — Paris as a book / prof. Krzysztof Rutkowski (University of Warsaw).

23 April — Identity schizophrenia: Kiev and Lviv / dr hab. Agnieszka Korniejenko (Jagiellonian University).

21 May — Venice: city and death / dr Hubert Bilewicz (University of Gdańsk)

The lectures take place on Wednesdays at the City Culture Institute, ul. Długi Trag 39/40, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Admission free.