Events

Theorising urban studies on/from China/Asia

This seminar is associated with the beginning of a new ESRC Urban Transformations funded comparative study of large scale urban development projects in London, Johannesburg and Shanghai - Governing the Future City.

Date and time
21 April 2016
5.30-7.30 PM GMT

Location
Room G07, UCL Pearson Building, London WC1E 6BT (See UCL Maps)

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Planetary Gentrification

To celebrate the launch of a new book Planetary Gentrification (2016, Polity Press) by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto Lopez-Morales, join us on the evening of Wednesday 16 March for a special launch event at LSE.

Date and time
16 March 2016
5.30-8 PM GMT

Location
Room PAR.LG.03, Parish Building, LSE (see LSE Maps)

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Differentiated Mobilities in Contested Cities: Towards Comparative Approaches

One of the major on-going debates and challenges in critical urban scholarship is related to the call for de-centring knowledge production, especially the emphasis on the need of ‘theorising’ from outside the Global North. What can we learn from this endeavour to re-assert the importance of southern cities, and are there any limitations in our existing practices? Does the focus on a select number of southern cities result in replicating the extant shortfalls of urban studies from the Global North?

Date and time
2 February 2016
1.30-6 PM GMT

Location
IAS Common Ground, South Wing, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (see UCL Maps

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Learning from China and Questioning China Exceptionalism: An interdisciplinary debate

The next Urban Salon seminar is going to take place at the LSE as a half-day workshop to provide a space for academics working in various disciplines to reflect on their own research and share their thoughts on how studying China has added value to each disciplinary understanding.

Date and time
Wednesday 20th May 2015
2.30-6 pm (GMT+1)

Location
Room 32L.LG.04, 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London School of Economics and Political Science (Maps and Directions)

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Beyond incommensurability, methodological regionalism and the Global North/South divide: the challenges of thinking Naples as an ordinary city

Join Nick Dines for this presentation on an examination of Naples in relation to assumptions about the 'place' of postcoloniality and Eurocentrism in urban-theory debates.

Date and time
Thursday 5th March 2015
6-8 pm (GMT)

Location
Exhibition Room, G07 Pearson Building, Gower Street, University College London (see www.ucl.ac.uk/maps)

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Book launch: Urban Revolution Now

To celebrate the new book, Urban Revolution Now: Henri Lefebvre in Urban Research and Architecture (Edited by Łukasz Stanek, Christian Schmid, and Ákos Moravánszky), join a panel discussion on the possibilities and challenges of applying Lefebvre's theory in international urban research and practice.

Date and time
Thursday 24 February 2015
6.30-8.30 pm (GMT)

Location
Room 108 and G07, Pearson Building, University College London, WC1E 6BT (www.ucl.ac.uk/maps)

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