The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University is delighted to announce its Public Lecture Programme 2011/12.   

Public lectures will be held in Culture Lab at 5.30pm except where indicated and further details will be added to our website www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/research/events/PublicLectureSeries.htm when available.

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Please note that the videos from last year’s series are now available to watch online via Vimeo.  
Please go to our website http://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/research/events/Lectures201011.htm to view.


Monday 17 October

Anna Minton : Ground Control : Fear and Happiness in the 21st Century

Anna Minton is a writer and journalist. She has worked as a foreign correspondent, business reporter and social affairs writer and is the winner of five national journalism awards. After a decade in journalism, including a stint on The Financial Times, she began to focus on longer projects for think tanks and policy organisations. She is the author of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Viewpoint on fear and distrust and an associate of the consultancy, The Placeteam. She is a frequent conference speaker and is invited to speak to a wide range of audiences, from art Biennales to policemen. She appears regularly on television and radio and is a contributor to The Guardian.

The idea for Ground Control emerged from a series of three agenda setting reports. The first focused on gated communities and ghettoes in the US, questioning to what extent these trends are emerging in the UK. The second, Northern Soul, looked at polarisation and culture in one British city, Newcastle, and the third, What kind of World Are We Building? investigated the growing privatisation of public space. 


 
Wednesday 23 November **Devonshire Building 4pm**

David Scholsberg

David Scholsberg is Professor at the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney. His general interests are in environmental politics and political theory.  He teaches courses on environmental politics, environmental and climate justice, and contemporary political theory.  His environmental research focuses mainly on environmental and climate justice, environmental democracy and participation, and the political theory, tactics, and organization of environmental and environmental justice movements; his theoretical research deals with issues of pluralization, difference, justice, and engagement in contemporary theory and political life. 

Professor Schlosberg has held visiting positions as a Lecturer in Political Theory at the London School of Economics (2000-01), a Fulbright Senior Scholar and Fellow in Social and Political Theory at the Australian National University (2003-04), and as Barron Visiting Professor in Environment and Humanities in the Princeton Environmental Institute and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University (Spring 2009). His work has also been supported by the National Science Foundation. Current work includes the application of the capabilities approach to justice theory to conceptions and practices of ecological justice, indigenous environmental justice, and climate justice. Schlosberg is also co-editing, with John Dryzek and Richard Norgaard, the Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, to be published in 2011. 


 
Thursday 9 February 2012

Anthony King : Tales of Three Cities: New Delhi, London and New York 

Anthony King is Emeritus Professor, Art History and Sociology, State University of New York, Binghamton and now lives in the UK. He has been Visiting Professor in Architecture, University of California Berkeley and was, for five years, Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has also taught at the Architectural Association and at the Development Planning Unit, University College, London.

Anthony King has published extensively on the impact of colonialism, postcolonialism and globalization on cities and the built environment, and on the social production of building form. His publications include Colonial Urban Development (1976, 2006), Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-Economy: Cultural and Spatial Foundations of the World Urban System (1990), Global Cities: Postimperialism and the Internationalization of London (1990), Buildings and Society: Essays on the Social Development of the Built Environment (ed.1980, 1984), The Bungalow: The Production of a Global Culture (1984,1995), Culture, Globalization and the World-System (ed.1991, 1997, with translations in Japanese, Arabic, Turkish), Re-Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the 21st Century Metropolis (ed.1996) and Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity (2004). Other recent essays are in N. Brenner and R. Keil, eds. The Global Cities Reader (2006), A. Cinar and T. Bender, eds. Locating the City: Urban Imaginaries and the Practices of Modernity (2007), H. Berking, ed. Cultures of Globalization and the Globalization of Cultures (forthcoming). With Thomas A Markus, he co-edits Routledge’s Architext series on architecture and social/cultural theory.
 


Thursday 15 March 2012

Richard Sennett : The Architecture of Cooperation

Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory.  As a social analyst he continues the pragmatist tradition begun by William James and John Dewey.

His first book, The Uses of Disorder, [1970] looked at how personal identity takes form in the modern city. He then studied how working-class identities are shaped in modern society, in The Hidden Injuries of Class, written with Jonathan Cobb. [1972] A study of the public realm of cities, The Fall of Public Man, appeared in 1977; at the end of this decade of writing, Mr. Sennett sought to account the philosophic implications of this work in Authority [1980]. 

At this point he took a break from sociology, composing three novels: The Frog who Dared to Croak [1982], An Evening of Brahms [1984] and Palais Royal [1987]. He then returned to urban studies with two books, The Conscience of the Eye, [1990], a work focusing on urban design, and Flesh and Stone [1992], a general historical study of how bodily experience has been shaped by the evolution of cities. 

In the mid 1990s, as the work-world of modern capitalism began to alter quickly and radically, Professor Sennett began a project charting its personal consequences for workers, a project which has carried him up to the present day. The first of these studies, The Corrosion of Character, [1998] is an ethnographic account of how middle-level employees make sense of the “new economy.” The second in the series, Respect in a World of Inequality, [2002} charts the effects of new ways of working on the welfare state; a third, The Culture of the New Capitalism, [2006] provides an over-view of change. Most recently, Professor Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman [2008], and in a study of cooperation to appear in 2012.

 

Monday 14 May 2012

Eric Parry : Architecture and Ambiguity

Founder and Principal of Eric Parry Architects Eric Parry studied architecture at the University of Newcastle (1970-1973), the Royal College of Art (1976-1978) and the Architectural Association (1979-1980). 

Eric Parry Architects was established in 1983, the year he was appointed as a lecturer in architecture at the University of Cambridge, where he taught until 1997. Significant early projects include an office building at Stockley Park, Foundress Court at Pembroke College, Damai Suria luxury apartments in Kuala Lumpur and the urban interventions at London Bridge. The innovative 30 Finsbury Square won the practice much acclaim and was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2003. The office building Aldermanbury Square is now complete and has also been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize, and the Renewal Project at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square has won many awards since its completion in 2008. 

Eric was elected Royal Academician in 2006. He was President of the Architectural Association in 2005-2007, and a council member since 1995. He served as Chair of the RIBA Awards Group and was a member of the Kettles Yard Committee and the Arts Council of England Visual Arts and Architecture Panels in previous years. Eric serves as an External Examiner at schools of Architecture in the UK and has held lectureships at the University of Cambridge, Graduate School of Design, Harvard, USA and the Tokyo Institute of Technology.