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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. If you would like to receive all the information about upcoming talks, please email [log in to unmask] and put 'psychogeography subscribe' in the subject line. Thank you. Best regards, Tina Richardson _______________ 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 twitter: www.twitter.com/concretepost