The Department of Literature and Culture of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland at the University of Łódź, the Institute of Literary Theory, Theater, and Audiovisual Arts at the University of Łódź, the Institute of History at the University of Łódź, and the Institute of German Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen cordially invite you to the International Conference “Cities and Machines: Technology-Migration-Avant-Garde.” In many American and European cities, epochal transformations took place from the mid-19th century onward….