The Tourist Gaze and the Sniper

Robert Davidson is assistant professor of Spanish and Catalan at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto. He holds a PhD from Cornell and an MA from Queen's University at Kingston. His research interests include theories of space, architecture, and Spanish cinema. He is currently working on hotel culture. He will be speaking about the Hotel Colon in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and a hotel in Sarajevo during the Balkan wars in the 1990s.

Professor Davidson has published on different aspects of Castilian and Catalan avant-gardes, cultural theory, and film. He is currently completing two book projects: Jazz Age Barcelona and Hotel: From Détente to Detention.

Sponsored by the Iberian Studies Program at the Forum on Contemporary Europe and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.