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The conference is co-financed by the Erasmus+ programme under the project Urbanism and Suburbanization in the EU Countries and Abroad: Reflection in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts (2021-1-CZ01-KA220-HED-000023281).

DAY ONE
DAY TWO

Monday May 13th, 2024

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8:00 – 9:00RegistrationPalacký University Art Center, Olomouc Univerzitní 225
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9:00 – 10:30Session 1 – US SuburbsChapelFlajšarováEnglish
9:00 – 9:05Opening
9:05 – 10:05Saum (invited speaker): Blowback
Suburbia, exurbia, and reckoning with the geography of fire in California
10:05 – 10:30Special Event: Vice-Rector & Vice-Dean for Book Culture and Editing
10:30 – 11:00BREAK
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11:00 – 12:30Session 2 –
American Literature		ChapelBloydEnglish
11:00 – 11:30Lovett: Bedroom Suburbs: Reproduction, Eugenics and Suburban Development
11:30 – 12:00Lodwick: Building Suburban Education:School Construction Systems Development in California
12:00 – 12:30Flajšar Jiří: Sanctimony and Failure of Domesticity in Three American Suburban Novels
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11:00 – 12:30Session 3 –
Frankophone Culture 		CarolinaVoždováFrench
11:00 – 11:30Hertrampf: Vivre dans l’entre-deux : Réflexions sur la littérature du périurbaine comme extension de la
littérature de banlieue
11:30 – 12:00Matoušková: « Alger n’est pas une ville pour les enfants ». Les images de l’espace urbain algérois dans les
romans autofictionnels de Nina Bouraoui
12:00 – 12:30Bakešová: Un parc de banlieue à l’intersection de destins humains affectés par une pandémie dans les Brèves de solitude de Sylvie Germain
12:30 – 13:30BREAK
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13:30 – 15:30Session 4 –
American Suburbanization		ChapelFlajšarEnglish
13:30 – 15:30Freitag: A Great Big Beautiful Suburban Tomorrow: Suburbia in Disney’s Tomorrowland
14:00 – 14:30Wiese: The Green City: Grassroots Politics and Environmental Politics in San Diego, California since 1960
14:30 – 15:00Walker: Flowers in the Sky: Urban Roof Gardens as Surrogate Suburbs
15:00 – 15:30McBride: Relations of Debt in US Suburbs
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13:30 – 15:30Session 5 – Frankophone CultureCarolinaMatouškováFrench
13:30 – 15:30Voždová: Habiter l’espace chez Marie-Hélène Lafon : la maison en tant que lieu de mémoire
14:00 – 14:30Poučová: Paris extramuros par le regard du roman policier (ONLINE)
14:30 – 15:00Chignier-Riboulon: Proximité spatiale et distance sociale à Empuriabrava (Espagne), une station balnéaire de la costa Brava
15:30 – 16:00BREAK
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16:00 – 17:30Session 6 –
Suburbs and Planning		ChapelBurianEnglish
16:00 – 16:30Banerjee: (Sub)urbia to Urbia – The politics of socio spatial
transformation of Kolkata’s suburbs: the case of Dum Dum (ONLINE – 20 minutes)
16:30 – 17:00Belhocine-Ladaci: The place of the citizen in the intelligent city (ONLINE – 20 minutes)
17:00 – 17:30Schultz: Trucking Suburbs (ONLINE – 20 minutes)
Klapcsik: Housing Estates in Migrant Cinema: The Eastern European Perspective (ONLINE – 20 minutes)
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16:00 – 17:30Session 7 –
Suburbs Varia and Film		CarolinaVoženílek

English
16:00 – 16:30Barzegar: Suburb Landscape in Post – Revolution Iranian Cinema
16:30 – 17:00Furlanetto: Terrors of White America: Horror, Race, and Suburbia since Get Out
17:00 – 17:30Heiman: Sustainable Suburbanism in the American West
17:45Olomouc Guided Tour

Tuesday May 14th, 2024

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9:00 – 10:30Session 8 – Suburbia and LiteratureChapelSaumEnglish
9:00 – 9:30Flajšarová:Reimagining the Wife of Bath: Intersections of Suburbanization, Gender, Power, and Identity in the Works by Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean Binta Breeze, Zadie Smith, and Patience Agbabi
9:30 – 10:00Bloyd (invited speaker): The Beach by the Banyan: Where the Women of Oceania Preside
10:00 – 10:30Rhys: From Conformity to Rebellion (?): Unraveling the Current Tendencies in Contemporary Canadian Suburban Novel
10:30 – 11:00BREAK
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11:00 – 12:30Session 9 – American LiteratureChapelFreitagEnglish
11:00 – 11:30Křupková: The Municipal Theatre in Olomouc as a Mirror of the Opera Scene in Vienna
11:30 – 12:00Chesney: The Suburban Sound of Garage Bands
12:00 – 12:30Civallero: The Rocky Nest :
Suburban Visions in French Rap Albums
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11:00 – 12:30Session 10 – SuburbsCarolinaNicolaidesEnglish
11:00 – 11:30Martin: Friction and Traction: Housing and Homelessness in Westchester at the End of the Twentieth Century
11:30 – 12:00Brown-Bernstein: Pacoima’s Price Pfister: The Life and Death of an American Pfaucet Pfoundry
12:00 – 12:30Williamson: Design Culture’s Discursive Responses to Northern American Sprawl: 1960s to 2020s
12:30 – 13:30BREAK
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13:30 – 15:30Session 11 – Panel DiscussionChapelFlajšarováEnglish
Gymnázium Hejčín presentations:
Jan Flajšar: Transportation Networks and Cities Skylines Simulation
Anežka Mertová, Natálie Ella Tonnerová: Modern urbanisation of the city and how the surrounding perceive it 
Vojtěch Nejeschleba: In the Gardens of Hejčín
Presentations in the Foyer
15:30 – 16:00BREAK
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16:00 – 17:30Session 12 –
Suburban Mosaic		ChapelWieseEnglish
16:00 – 16:30Hnidková: Flourishing Suburbs and Contested Schemes: Garden Cities in Czechoslovakia
16:30 – 17:00Nicolaides: Reimagining the Suburban Ideal: Forging Multiracial Community in the Suburbs of Los Angeles and Chicago.
17:00 – 17:30Marine: Houses, Lots and Restrictions: The Olmsted Firm and Individual Property as a Regulatory Mechanism of the Suburban Community
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16:00 – 17:30Session 13-
Suburbia Outside EU		CarolinaTylšarováEnglish
16:00 – 16:30Tabatadze: Sub -Urban Social and Political activism: Georgian case.
16:30 – 17:00Marchioni: Periphery as a social condition: Lyon 3rd district
17:00 – 17:30Khosravi: Iranian suburbia and the Cold War geopolitics

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