ABGESAGT!!! Guest Lecture Lina Tegtmeyer (The Tourism Studies Working Group, University of California, Berkeley)
"America's Outcast City: Detroit Between Tourism, Rebellion, and Survival"
1996, Peter Marcuse suggested the term "outcast ghetto" for post-Fordist urban developments. Detroit had been famous as one true democratic American city where-with the automobile industry- the American experiment of democracy seemed a lived reality. Later, Detroit had become infamous for being a place of abandonment: houses, inner city, citizens. In a big city within of one of the richest nations, people lost access to running water, infrastructures like public transportation, garbage removal, ambulance and police, street lights. This presentation will explore how urban tourism, image campaigns and architectural ruins are part of an American success narrative that stage the city as resurrected place while filing for bankruptcy.
Dr. Lina Tegtmeyer completed her PhD on urban tourism imagery at the Graduate School for North American Studies, Berlin and is a core research affiliate at the TSWG, UC Berkeley, Dept. for Anthropology. Educated as academic and in artistic practices like drawing and printing, Dr. L. Tegtmeyer has presented her diverse research projects at different international conferences, including Berkeley, Lisbon, Gothenburg, Berlin, Potsdam, Aachen, Bristol, Coventry, Maastricht. Dr. L. Tegtmeyer has been teaching her interdisciplinary approach in universities and art schools in different disciplines: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Urban Anthropology, Media Studies, Fine Arts, Design and Architecture. With a focus on aesthetic practice, Dr. L. Tegtmeyer currently works on a research project on analogue drawing in the context of science, international art and travel.
The event is free and open to the public.
This lecture is organized by the Department of American Studies.
Department of American Studies Graz
Institut für Amerikanistik
Attemsgasse 25/II
A-8010 Graz
Tel. +43/316/380-2465
amerikanistik(at)uni-graz.at