Leeds Psychogeography Group Talk, Asa Roast, Tues October 9th 5.10pm
Dear All,
PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY TALK: 'Memory, Modernity and Forgetting in Shanghai
after Socialism' by Asa Roast
Tues October 9th, 5.10pm, University of Leeds
Title: 'Memory, Modernity and Forgetting in Shanghai after Socialism'
Abstract:
Shanghai is a special sort of megacity: a colonial modernist project
re-imagined and re-animated in an age of post-socialist capitalism, a
nominally communist city whose population has doubled in the last
twenty years, and which is now a global hub of finance and industry.
Based on his MA thesis, Asa Roast takes a broadly psychogeographical
look at the dichotomy of remembered past and projected future in
Shanghai. Looking at a handful of districts in the inner city, he
considers how the city's past and future stories are projected in the
built environment and the quotidian practices of these places, and how
these narratives are challenged by the liminal spaces and people of
this apparently hyper-modern city.
http://groundzeromongkok.blogspot.co.uk/
VENUE (please note new venue for this semester)
Baines Wing, Seminar Room (SR)1.15, University of Leeds
Campus map of buildings: click on this link, then launch the
interactive campus map, and choose Baines Wing from the list on the
right.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/timetable/assets/map/index.htm
Once you are in the Baines Wing:
From the main entrance, go straight on past the front desk, turn
right and first left. Take the lift or stairs to the first floor. On
coming out of the lift/stairs, turn left, room 1.15 is just a little
further along the corridor on your right, almost straight ahead.
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Best regards, Tina Richardson
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Tina Richardson
PhD Researcher: Cultural Theory
School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies
University of Leeds
website: www.schizocartography.org
blog: www.particulations.blogspot.com
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