Lecture Torsten König January 7, 2025
Dr. Torsten König: Transformations of a Colonial Capital: Urban Structures, Institutions, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life
Poster for the lecture “Transformations of a Colonial Capital: Urban Structures, Institutions, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life” by Dr. Torsten König on January 7, 2025, at the SLK Faculty of TU Dresden.
Over the course of the 19th century, France established a colonial empire that spanned every continent. Paris became the capital of this empire. What did this development mean for the city? How did colonial expansion alter Paris’s urban structures, and what traces did it leave behind?
In what ways did it shape popular and everyday culture? What was the relationship between the center—as perceived by the French—and the empire’s many peripheries? How did Paris present itself as a colonial capital?
Dr. Torsten König is the Research Coordinator at the CFF. His research focuses, among other things, on the cultural history of colonialism.
As part of the lecture series “Paris, Cultural Capital of the 19th Century ” by Bettina Lindorfer.
Interested guests were warmly welcome.
WHEN? January 7, 2025, 2:50–4:20 p.m.
WHERE? Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, Wiener Straße 48, 1st floor, Room 1.01