City/State/Nation: Historians on Twentieth Century Urbanism

East Asian Connections The Transnational Humanities at the UW–Madison and Beyond Friday, April 17, 2015 1:00 – 3:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm 5243 Humanities) “The Socialization of Risk in the Neoliberal City” Sean Dinces / History “City Stories as National Allegory in Postcolonial Africa” Emily Callaci/ History “Tokyo-centrism, or the Ideology of the Metropolis” Louise Young/ History With comments by Preeti Chopra/ Art History Cities were at once the agents and the staging ground for the global movements of the twentieth century: modernism, post-colonialism, neo-liberalism. This roundtable explores global forces through the lens of particular urban sites; examining ways urban forms inflect state power and national ideology, even as they express tensions between the local and the national. UW–Madison historians of Chicago, Dar es Salam, Tokyo, and Bombay assemble to reflect on the meaning of cities in modern times. Participants: Sean Dinces, working on Bulls Markets: Power, Place, and Professional Sport in Late Twentieth-Century Chicago; Emily Callaci, writing a book on Ujamaa Urbanists: Street Archives and City Life in Socialist Tanzania; Louise Young, author of Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan; and Preeti Chopra, author of A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay. Generous sponsorship provided by: Department of History, Center for East Asian Studies, Harvey Goldberg Center, L&S Anonymous Fund, Institute for the Research in Humanities, and Center for the Humanities at UW–Madison.