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Source CalendaThe Flâneur Abroad : international and historical perspectives on an urban archetype. A conference co-organised by the Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture, and the Urban Culture Network at the University of Nottingham. Friday 6 - Saturday 7 July 2012The flâneur – the leisurely but vigilant urban stroller - is well-known as a quintessential nineteenth-century Parisian archetype, and has attracted a distiguished array of champions and historians – from Balzac and Baudelaire to Walter Benjamin. However, although recent writing on the subject (The Flâneur, ed. Keith Tester, and The Invisible Flâneuse. Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris (2006), ed. Tom MacDonough &#38; Aruna D’Souza) have certainly been eclectic in their scope, there has been little sustained attention given to the adaptation of the phenomenon outside Paris, let alone outside France and indeed Europe, whether in the form of modern sequels, contemporary echoes, as well as historic antecedents. Lire la suite &#160;