123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Celebrity in Motion: The Spatial Experience of Fame in the Twentieth Century

Celebrity in Motion: The Spatial Experience of Fame in the Twentieth Century

AHA Session 58

Saturday, January 3, 2009: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Gibson Suite (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania

Papers:

Mapping Fame in the Tourist Circuit: Official Itineraries and Spatial Diversions
Eva D. Giloi, Rutgers University-Newark

The Space of Modern Architects: Émigré Architects between Europe and the United States
Martin Kohlrausch, Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau

Cosmic Cosmopolitanism: Willy Ley, UFOs, and the Epistemology of Outer Space, 1926–57
Alexander C. T. Geppert, Freie Universität Berlin

Comment:

Thomas W. Laqueur, University of California at Berkeley

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