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From: Urban Geography [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Sharad Chari
Dear All,
Please circulate to your networks, with thanks. We hope to see you at the
seminar.
All best wishes,
Sharad Chari
Department of Geography & Environment
London School of Economics
The Research Seminar in Cities, Space, and Development, 2010-11
Tuesdays 4-6pm, Room U208, Tower 1, LSE, London
Seminar Convenor: Sharad Chari
MICHELMAS TERM 2010
Oct 26 - Dr. Rivke Jaffe, Universiteit Leiden
No Bwoy Cyaan Violate: Crime, 'Alternative Governance' and Popular Culture
in Urban Jamaica.
Nov 2 - Professor Miles Ogborn, QMUL
'The Power of Speech: Orality, Oaths and Evidence in the British Atlantic
World, 1630-1830'
Nov 9 - Professor James McCarthy, Penn State University
A genealogy of 'ecoterrorism'
Nov 16 - Dr. Dave Featherstone, Glasgow
Black Internationalism and the Spatial Politics of Anti-Fascism
Nov 23 - Dr. Hakan Seckinelgin, LSE
Whose knowledge counts? Gender, Conflict and HIV/AIDS
Nov 30 - Professor Fulong Wu, Cardiff
The development of migrant villages in Chinese cities
Dec 6 - Professor Derek Gregory, UBC Vancouver
The kill-chain: air wars and abstraction (5:00-6:30pm, NAB 1.04)
Dec 7 - Professor Bob Jessop, Lancaster
Crises in Varieties of Capitalism OR Crisis in Variegated Capitalism?
Alternative approaches to the financial crisis and its urban and global
ramifications
LENT TERM 2011
Jan 11 - Dr Asher Ghertner, LSE
Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City-Making in Delhi
Jan 18 - Professor Wendy Wolford, Cornell University
From Mosquitoes to Marx: The Changing Dynamics of Governance and
Mobilization in Brazilian Land Reform
Jan 25 - Dr. Cathy McIlwaine, QMUL
The gendered nature of political and civic participation among Colombian
migrants in London
Feb 15 - Dr. Jason Dittmer, UCL
Grounding and embodying the nation-state: territory/landscape/superhero
Feb 22 - Dr. Alan Mace, LSE
Belonging in suburbia: does class matter?
Mar 1 - Dr. Elliot Green, DESTIN, LSE
The Political Geography of Nation Formation in Tanzania
Mar 11 - PUBLIC EVENT and BOOK LAUNCH
Gender and Poverty Panel with Professors Sylvia Chant, Nancy Folbre, (UMass
Amherst), Diane Elson (Essex) and Maxine Molyneux (ISA) - Old Theatre,
6-8pm. Followed by Book Launch of Sylvia Chant ed. International Handbook
of Gender and Poverty (Elgar, 2010) - Senior Common Room, 8-9.30pm
Mar 15 - Professor Sylvia Chant, LSE
'Looking for the One(s): Young Love and Urban Poverty in The Gambia'
SUMMER TERM 2010
May 18 PUBLIC LECTURE with LSE AFRICA TALKS
Professor Michael J. Watts, University of California, Berkeley
6:30 - 8:00pm.
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