Walter Benjamin’s work remains central to discussions of modernity within the Humanities, Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. This conference will bring together scholars working on all aspects of Benjamin´s work as well as those who deploy the insights of that work in developing projects of their own. In addition, we are particularly interested in papers related to the following themes:

• Benjamin and the city

• The uptake of Benjamin’s thought in architectural theory

• Politics and Benjamin’s oeuvre

• Benjamin’s radio scripts and the technology of radio

• The use of Benjamin’s thinking in theorizing new media

Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to walterbenjamin@uts.edu.au by 30 April 2006. These will be subject to a refereeing process. We also invite proposals for panels of three papers organized around a particular theme. Papers delivered at the conference should be 20 minutes in length.