Progressive Geographies

5pm 24th May 2011

Fiona McConnell (University of Cambridge)

Rehearsing statehood: the governance practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile

5pm 7th June 2011

Adam Ramadan (University of Cambridge)

Space, Sovereignty and Territory: Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon

These seminars are held in the Wolfson Room of the Institute of Historical Research in Senate House, University of London.

The last meeting of the AAG in Seattle is barely over, but the call for papers and sessions for the 2012 meeting in New York is already up, here. Part of the reason for the early deadline is that next year’s meeting is held earlier than usual, in late February.

Cities at the Speed of Light: Asian experiments of the urban century

Department of Geography & Environment public lecture
Date: Thursday 12 May 2011 
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue:  New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Professor Ananya Roy
Chair: Dr Gareth Jones

The 21st century will be an urban century. It will also be a ‘Southern’ or even ‘Asian’ century, with much of the urban growth taking place in the cities of the global South. This talk highlights these Asian experiments and the ambitious claims of the making of ‘Asian’ futures.

Ananya Roy is professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and co-director of the Global Metropolitan Studies Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

More details here.