Events

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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Book launch: The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination

To celebrate the launch of Matthew Gandy's new book, The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination (MIT Press, 2014), join us on the evening of Thursday 29 January for a special launch event in the Wilkins Haldane Room of UCL.

Date and time
Thursday 29 January 2015
6.30-9 pm (GMT)

Location
Wilkins Haldane Room, Gower Street, University College London, London WC1E 6BT (www.ucl.ac.uk/maps)

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South(Africa)-South(America): Segregation and Housing in São Paulo and Johannesburg

The final event of the Urban Salon year, 2-5pm on Monday 23 June, will be a South(Africa)-South(America) encounter, with a Johannesburg-São Paulo comparative exchange between Marie Huchzermeyer (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and Eduardo Marques (University of São Paulo, Brazil).

Date and time
Monday 23rd June

2pm-5pm (GMT)

Location
Exhibition Room, PBG07, Pearson Building, Gower Street, UCL (see www.ucl.ac.uk/maps for directions)

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