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Global Urbanism Lectures: Wed, 14 March 2012, University of Manchester
cities@manchester (www.cities.manchester.ac.uk) and The Global Urban Research Centre (GURC) are hosting two leading urban scholars on Wednesday 14th March.
All welcome, no registration required.
Schedule
1-2.15: Professor Ash Amin (University of Cambridge) in conversation with Professor Kevin Ward
This informal event, exploring Professor Amin's academic career and contributions ,will be held in the Mansfield Cooper Building (building no. 65 on the University of Manchester campus map, available at: http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=6507)
3pm: GURC Annual Lecture
Professor Susan Parnell (University of Cape Town)
‘(re)theorising cities from the global south’
Introduced by Professor Caroline Moser (Director, Global Urban Research Centre)
4.30pm: Tea and Coffee Break
5pm: cities@manchestser Inaugural Lecture
Professor Ash Amin (University of Cambridge)
‘Telescopic urbanism: on slums’
Introduced by Professor Nina Glick Schiller (Director, Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures
6:15pm: Drinks reception
Both lectures will be held in Samuel Alexander Arts Lecture Theatre (building no.67 on the Univesity of Manhester campus map, available at: http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=6507)
Speaker biographies
Prof Sue Parnell is an urban geographer and is the Director of the 'CityLab' at the University of Cape Town (UCT) African Centre for Cities. Previously she taught in the Witswatersrand University Geography Department (Johannesburg) and the School of Oriental African Studies (London). She is the author of over 80 academic papers, 4 edited volumes and 2 co-authored books, and is on the Editorial boards of 11 academic journals. She is currently Leverhulme Visiting Professor at University College London.
Prof Ash Amin is the 1931 Chair of Geography at Cambridge University, and until recently, Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University. He writes about race and multiculturalism, cities and regions, the changing nature of politics, and the cultures of economy, always exploring the interface between situated and instituted practice. His recent books includeArchitectures of Knowledge (with Patrick Cohendet, Oxford University Press, 2004), The Cultural Economy Reader (edited with Nigel Thrift, Blackwell, 2005), Community, Economic Creativity and Organization (edited with Joanne Roberts, 2008, Oxford University Press). In 2012, his book with Nigel Thrift Political Openings, which outlines new arts for the Left will be published by Duke, as will his book Land of Strangers by Polity, which examines the biopolitics of belonging in the contemporary West.
More information: http://www.cities.manchester.ac.uk/events/global_urbanism/
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