Cyrus R. K. Patell and Bryan Waterman announced the lineup for their conference Lost New York, 1609-2009, being held at NYU October 2nd and 3rd, 2009.Lost New York marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage for the Dutch and the 200th anniversary of Washington Irving's legendary reimagining of this New World encounter in his Knickerbocker's History of New York.
A wide array of conference participants, including neighborhood bloggers Bowery Boogie, Ephemeral New York, Flaming Pablum, and Lost City, will explore the dynamics of creativity and destruction, nostalgia and invention, that have for centuries marked efforts to "Do New York," as Henry James advised Edith Wharton. Lectures and panels will address the relationships between literary imagination and the archives, between migrations and displacements, between loss and remembrance, and between preservation and development in the long and storied history of one of the world's greatest cities.
A complete schedule can be found on their website, A History of New York.
