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Deadline Thursday 28 May
Urban Research at Cambridge: end-of-year workshop for graduate students and early career researchers
The City Seminar at CRASSH would like to invite urban researchers from across the University of Cambridge to take part in a half-day workshop at the end of the academic year. Graduate students and early career researchers from all departments will have a chance to present a city-related work in progress and receive in-depth feedback.
Please note that a maximum of 20 participants will be accepted in order to ensure meaningful exchange.
The event is free but registration is required.
Part of the City Seminar research group series
| 12.30–13.00 |
Registration and lunch |
| 13.00–13.45 |
1. Conflict Fallout
- Alex Young Il Seo (Architecture): Understanding Korean Border Through Human Habitation
- Irit Katz-Feigis (Architecture): From Expansion to Exclusion — the Versatile Spatiality of the Exception
- Gruia Badescu (Architecture): "Achieved with no Ambiguity": Architectural Reconstruction and Making Sense of the Past in Belgrade after the 1999 NATO Bombing
Respondent: Max Sternberg (Architecture) |
| 13.45–14.20 |
2. 'Normal' conflict cities?
- Andreas Papallas (Architecture): Terra Nullius, questioning normality. Urban rapproachment tactics for Nicosia
- Anwar Jaber (Architecture): Displaced Capital — The development of Massioun Neighbourhood in Palestinian Ramallah
Respondent: Hanna Baumann (Architecture) |
| 14.20–15.10 |
3. Urban Transformations
- Richard Bramwell (Criminology): On The Bus My Oyster Card Goes “Ding De Diing De Ding Ding”’: Transforming the Space of London’s Public Transport
- Andrew Hoolachan (Architecture): The ‘Nature’ of Legacy under Localism: fragmentation along the Greenway
- Pawda Tjoa (Architecture): Marketplace Coordination as an Apparatus for Ordering
Respondent: Charlotte Lemanski (Geography) |
| 15.10–15.30 |
Tea/Coffee break |
| 15.30–16.00 |
4. Urban Imag(inari)es
- Katherine Prater (Architecture): The Image of the City: Exploring Brussels's Evolving Identity through Museums and Sites of Heritage
- Eve Avdoulos (Architecture): The Decline of Detroit: the role of representation in shaping narratives of growth and decay
Respondent: Michele Lancione (Geography) |
| 16.00–16.50 |
5. Latin American Cities
- Adriana Massidda (Architecture): Spatial Agency from the Urban Margins: The transformation of Villa Jardín (Buenos Aires, 1958-67)
- Sergio Triana (Criminology): Context effect in the recidivism of ex-combatants in Colombia in urban and rural areas
- Juan Fernando Bucheli (POLIS): Living together: urban quality of life in spatially segregated areas of Bogota
Respondent: Alister McFarquar (Land Economy) |
| 16.50–17.00 |
Discussion |
