Writing the Urban Workshop

Area:

Presenter:

Blagovesta Momchedjikova (New York University)

Presentation type:

Paper

Abstract:

As in previous years, we will use the time to write about a particular urban theme, share our writing, and plan on how to expand on it beyond this hands-on workshop. In the past, themes have included city characters, everyday urban performances, public places, food. So, bring a piece of paper, a pen or a pencil, and your urban enthusiasm, and let’s write together.

Session:

Writing the Urban: A Writing Workshop

Scheduled on:

Friday, November 9, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm

About the presenter

Blagovesta Momchedjikova

Dr. Blagovesta Momchedjikova, NYU, edited Captured by the City: Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies (2013) and Urban Feel (2010); and co-edited From Above: The Practice of Verticality (2019), The Panorama Handbook (2018), and Public Space: Between Spectacle and Resistance (2016). Her work appears in the International Panorama Council Journal, Streetnotes, The Everyday of Memory, Robert Moses and the Modern City, ISO Magazine, The Journal of American Culture, Tourist Studies, Genre: Imagined Cities, PIERS.

Session information

Writing the Urban: A Writing Workshop

Urban Culture / Round table

Friday, November 9, 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm (Hannover A)

Do you like to write about cities? Are you curious about how to write about cities? If so, come to this writing workshop, equipped with your urban enthusiasm, a pen or a pencil, and some paper to write on: we will write a lot. Via a series of writing prompts, we will tackle a particular urban theme. In previous years we wrote about public places, urban memory, city characters, everyday urban performances, city food, urban conflict.

MAPACA
Mid-Atlantic Popular &
American Culture Association

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