City Seminar 2010-11

Conveners

Anita Bakshi (Architecture)
Konstantin Kastrissianakis (Architecture)
Marlene Schafers (Anthropology)

The spatial transformations brought about by the rapid and endless growth of cities, amassing larger and more disparate flows of people, are challenging the categories of analysis that inform the study of human settlements and human relations. Seemingly boundless sites of diversity and difference, cities are indeed very difficult entities to grasp, but their significance makes this task all the more critical.
This seminar aims to further an understanding of the specificity of the urban condition: as the human condition is increasingly an urban one, how is it articulated culturally, economically, socially, and politically?
Papers delivered during the Michaelmas Term will address the The City of Exclusion, looking at integration and its opposites, such as enclaves, fragments & ghettos. During Lent Term, the Seminar will look at The City and Memory, while Easter Term will see the organisation of a multi-disciplinary workshop on Urban Research Methodologies and Approaches.

Programme 2010-11

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Easter Term 2011

Lent Term 2011

Michaelmas Term 2010