An urban image is a summary of the dweller's aspirations and aversions, expectations and delusions, but the city also received its identity from outsiders who "discover" it through an authorizing look.  Joan Ramon Resina considers some of the ways Barcelona, or more precisely its port-side fifth district, known as the barrio chino, became a zone of encounters between local and foreign gazes in the 1920s and 1930s.

Hosted by: Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, School of Art and Design

In conjunction with: Chancellor's Initiative on the Humanities in a Globalizing World, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies, Hewitt International Conference Grant, Krannert Art Museum, Program in Comparative and World Literature, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Program for the Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture, Education and Sport and United States' Universities