Virtual Events in the Conversation on "Empires and (Dis)Contents
(To receive a Zoom links for the March, April, and May meetings, please email Cyrus Schayegh at cyrus.schayegh@graduateinstitute.ch .)
Friday, 3 Feb, 13:30-15:00 UTC:
· Stephen Legg: “Mapping a Pre-Partition City: the Communal Geographies of Late-Colonial Delhi”
· Michael Thornton: “Growing a City, Cultivating an Empire: Urbanization and Agriculture in Early Japanese Colonialism”
Link: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/95162031911?pwd=ZzdyNk9Xc0N1VjNTVXVxUUhlcHR1QT09
Friday, 3 March, 14:00-15:30 UTC:
· Geert Castryck: “The dissociation between imperialism and colonialism in the 1920s: a snapshot of the urban area of Kigoma-Ujiji”
· Cyrus Schayegh: “The Making of an Aerocity: US empire and Urban Transformation in Beirut, 1945-1955”
Thursday, 6 April, 12:00-13:30 UTC:
· Sohini Chattopadhyay: “The urban in the history and sociology of science”
· Umit Firat Acikgoz “The Problem of Continuity”
Thursday, 4 May, 11:00-13:15 UTC:
· Dries Lyna: “Institutional(ized) Inequality? Access to Justice in Cities across VOC Asia”
· Mohd Aquil: Medical panics and the restructuring of urban spaces in Colonial North India
· Taoyu Yang: “Multi-Imperial Entanglements and Spatial Configuration in Treaty-Port Tianjin, 1860s-1940s”
Upcoming Event in the Conversation on Theory Of, For, and By Urban Historians
March 31, 1 pm UCT:
GUHP Meets Uta-DO African Urban Studies Workshop, Nairobi:
A "Trialogue" on Theory, History, and Global South Urbanism
Moderators: Wangui Kimari, Uta-DO and Kenny Cupers and Carl Nightingale, GUHP
Main Presenter: Kanishka Goonewardena, University of Toronto
With help from our main presenter, Professor of Urban Theory Kanishka Goonewardena, we hope to start an ongoing “trialogue” between global urban historians, urban theorists, and urban practitioners. Our aim is to find suitable new meeting grounds and develop new intellectual agendas accountable to those who are directly involved in Global Southern challenges. The ethos of this meeting is to open our minds to ideas and forms of practice articulated in conceptual languages and research methodologies that may differ or even contradict with our own yet also hold potential to expand our interpretive tools.
This roundtable follows upon last year's discussions of "Urban Theory from the Global South" and inaugurates a multi-year, multi-disciplinary collaboration between the Global Urban History Project (GUHP) and the Nairobi-based UTA-DO African Cities Workshop -- an annual “venue for critical African urban scholarship development and collaboration.” The event, led by Professor Goonewardena and featuring scholars from both organizations will offer a new platform for exchange between scholars of the urban past and an emerging generation of urbanists who are engaging in multi-year conversations with theorists to grapple with the urban future of some of the fastest-growing cities on Earth. Participants will seek to tackle an array of questions, including: How may historical scholarship contribute to ongoing debates on and solutions to majority-world urban challenges? How do these challenges invite widened perspectives on the global urban past?