A panel discussion titled, "After Utopia: The Landscape of Socialist Cities," will be held at the Woodrow Wilson School at 4:30 p.m. March 13 in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, on the Princeton University campus.
It is free and open to the public.
Panelists will include Princeton faculty members Christine Boyer, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Architecture and director of the Program in Urban Studies; Hal Foster, the Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art and Archaeology, chairman of the Department of Art and Archaeology and director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism; and Stephen Kotkin, professor of history and director of the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Professor Boyer, who joined the faculty in 1991, is an urban historian whose interests include the history of the American city, city planning, preservation planning, and computer science. Boyer was previously a professor and chair of the City and Regional Planning Program at Pratt Institute. She has written extensively about American urbanism.
Professor Foster teaches lecture and seminar courses in modernist and contemporary art and theory. He also works with the programs of Media and Modernity and European Cultural Studies as well as with the School of Architecture.Recent publications include "Art Since 1900" (2005), a textbook on 20th#-#century art; "Prosthetic Gods" (2004), concerning the relation between modernism and psychoanalysis; and "Design and Crime" (2002), on problems in contemporary art, architecture, and design. He writes regularly for October, Artforum, The London Review of Books, The Nation, and The New Left Review.
Professor Kotkin is currently the director of the Program in Russian Studies. He is a member of the Social Science Research Council, Committee on Russia and Eurasia (2001) and has long been an editorial board member for International Labor and Working Class History. He is currently writing a book entitled "Lost in Siberia: Dreamworlds of Eurasia."His research interests range across Eurasia, from Japan to Britain, in the modern period, and include topics such as empire, nation building, political corruption, modernity and modernism.
This event is being held in conjunction with the art exhibit in the Bernstein Gallery entitled "After Utopia." A reception with the artist, Elidor Mehili, a graduate student in the history department, will immediately follow the discussion. It is cosponsored with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Davis Center.

