CES: From Cotton and Smoke: The Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity in the Case of Łódź
Date and Time
April 12, 2018
04:15PM - 06:00PM EDT
Location
Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffman Room
Associate Professor, Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw
About
In this presentation, Agata Zysiak will discuss a new project that evaluates journalistic accounts about the city of Łódź at the height of its position as Europe's textile capital in the 19th and 20th century. She will assess how writers dealt with the effects of industrialization and modernization and argue that their reports blended people's real experiences in the rapidly changing city with their utopian visions of its potential.