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PresentationIdeas about the origins and context for the&#160;fl&#226;neur&#160;have been tied to Paris, and viewed through the lens of Walter Benjamin&#8217;s&#160;Arcades Project. While Benjaminian orthodoxy has increasingly been challenged, the association of the&#160;fl&#226;neur&#160;with modernity and European cities has continued to dominate studies of its variant forms. This conference aims to de-centre the concept and expand such critique by identifying and analysing forms of pedestrian observation in the early modern period taking note of the fact that strolling, seeing and being seen&#8212;and walking the city&#8212;emerged well before Europe and the 19th&#160;century in urban experiences in cities like Istanbul, Isfahan, Delhi and Beijing.ProgrammePlease note that the conference takes place at The Courtauld&#8217;s Vernon Square campusFRIDAY, November 15, 201916:30 &#8211; 17:00&#160;Registration&#160;17:00-17:30&#160;Opening remarks: Sussan Babaie and Richard Wrigley17:30 &#8211; 18:30Keynote Address:&#160;Modalities of urban experience and a lexicon of vision: Walking-viewing early modern Istanbul Professor &#199;iğdem Kafescioğlu (Boğazi&#231;i University, Istanbul)&#160;18:30 &#8211; 19:30&#160;Drinks receptionSATURDAY, November 16,&#160;2019,9:30 &#8211; 17:009:00-9:30am: Registration9:30-10:00.&#160;Aslıhan Aksoy-Sheridan (TED University, Ankara) An Ottoman Armenian fl&#226;neur in early modern Istanbul: Eremia Chelebi Komurjian capturing the seventeenth-century Ottoman capital &#160; &#160;10:00-10:30.&#160;David&#160;Karmon (Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts) Pavements and pedestrian movement in the Renaissance: Venice and Rome10:30-11:00.&#160;Saundra&#160;Weddle (Drury University, Springfield, Missouri) Visualizing and mobilizing sex work on Venice&#8217;s canals12:00-12:30.&#160;Peyvand Firouzeh (University of Sydney) Walking Yazd: Historicism, urban planning, and imperial connectivity12:30-13:00.&#160;Nuno Grancho (Instituto Universit&#225;rio de Lisboa, ISCTE-IUL) Spatial mobility in the early modern colonial city of Diu14:30-15:00.&#160;Marika Takanishi Knowles (University of St Andrews) A guide to walking in Yoshiwara (1678): Hishikawa Moronobu&#8217;s&#160;fl&#226;neur15:00-15:30&#160;Marie Yasunaga (University of Amsterdam) Exploring urban space of Edo through Hasegawa Settan&#8217;s illustrations of&#160;Edo Meisho Zue16:00-16:30 Concluding remarks: Stephen Whiteman (Courtauld Institute of Art)