The Penn State Committee for Early Modern Studies presents the conference:

Day One - Friday, April 13th, 2007
Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library

3:00 p.m. Benjamin Edwards
Presentation of his Paintings
4:00 p.m. Yoko Tawada with Bettina Brandt
"Dejima and Huis ten Bosch -- Two Dutch Cities in Japan"
5:00 p.m. Thomas Beebee (Penn State University)
"The Four-Square City: The New Jerusalem as Proto-Urban Planning"


Day Two - Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library

10:00 a.m. Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Nuremberg: The Not-So-Secret Nazi Capital"
11:00 a.m. Susan Dixon (Tulsa University)
"Reconstructions of Rome and Invisible Cities"
12:00 p.m. John Shannon Hendrix (Roger Williams University)
"Architecture and Psychoanalysis in the Seventeenth Century"
Lunch
2:00 p.m. Alberto Perez-Gomez (McGill University)
"Filarete's Sforzinda: The Ideal City as a Poetic and Rhetorical Construction"
3:00 p.m. Heghnar Watenpaugh (University of California, Davis)
"The Image of the City and its Reverse"
4:00 p.m. Reception in the Rare Books Room for the Exhibit:
"Imaginary Cities: Selections from the Arthur O. Lewis Utopia Collection"
4:30 p.m. Tom Conley (Harvard University)
"Plan and Poème: The Art of the Early Modern City