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GURC Annual Lecture 2012
Professor Susan Parnell (University of Capetown and Leverhulme Visiting Professor, UCL) will be presenting:
(re)theorising cities from the global south
This special guest lecture will include a Q&A session, followed by a drinks reception, with an introduction by Director of GURC, Professor Caroline Moser. See the event poster (PDF, 143KB) for further details.
Wednesday 14th March 2012 at 3pm
Samuel Alexander Arts Lecture Theatre (building no.67 on the campus map)
Special guest speaker Sue Parnell is an urban geographer and is the Director of the 'CityLab' at the University of Cape Town (UCT) African Centre for Cities. Previously she taught in the Witswatersrand University Geography Department (Johannesburg) and the School of Oriental African Studies (London). She is the author of over 80 academic papers, 4 edited volumes and 2 co-authored books, and is on the Editorial boards of 11 academic journals. She is currently Leverhulme Visiting Professor at University College London.
This event is scheduled on a day of public guest lectures by leading urban scholars and is immediately followed by a lecture by Ash Amin (University of Cambridge) in the same venue. The two events will be of interest to a shared audience and have therefore been organised so that it is possible to attend both with drinks receptions after each:
3pm: Sue Parnell – “(re)theorising cities from the global south”
4.30pm: refreshments
5pm: Ash Amin – “Telescopic urbanism: on slums”
6.15pm: drinks reception
All welcome, no registration necessary
Melanie Lombard awarded prize for thesis
GURC researcher Dr Melanie Lombard has been awarded the Iberoamerican Sustainable Housing Thesis Prize, run by Mexican housing agency INFONAVIT and the Mexico State Autonomous University, for her PhD thesis Making a place in the city: Place-making in urban informal settlements in Mexico.
New publication, December 2011
Caroline Moser, Bruce Frayne and Gina Ziervogel (Editors) Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities. Earthscan, December 2011.
Presentation by Caroline Moser to DfID, London, 12 December 2011
Caroline gave a seminar on climate resillience and adaptation entitled From asset vulnerability to asset adaptation: building resilience to climate change at the local level.
Caroline Moser at the CLUVA workshop on ‘Urban Participatory Climate Change Adaptation Appraisal Methodology’.Leipzig, 8 December, 2011
Caroline gave five lectures and a keynote address entitled Participatory Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons learnt from cross-disciplinary research in poor human settlements.
Alfredo Stein advises Comic Relief, London, 6 December, 2011
Alfredo Stein participated in a meeting of Comic Relief’s Slum Upgrading Programme Advisory Group.
Alfredo Stein lectures in Central America, 20-25 November, 2011
lfredo Stein lectured on Theories and Practices of Urban Development and Planning at the Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), Tegucigalpa. He also gave a lecture on the impacts of climate change on Central America which will be broadcast by UNAH’s TV channel.
Public panel discussion, 16 November 2011
Understanding the tipping point of urban conflict in the global south: lessons for post-riot Britain?
With special guest speakers and members of the UTP project research team. For further details see the Urban Tipping Point website or download the event poster (PDF, 120KB).
Alfredo Stein in SICA panel discussion, London, 10 November, 2011
Alfredo Stein was part of a discussion panel on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management in Central America, organised by the embassies and high commission of the member countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA).
Alfredo Stein participated in RIBA event, London, 10 November, 2011
The debate - Knowledge communities on Climate Change: Bridging the Gap Between the Developing World and the UK was organised by the Sponge Network, the Young Fabians and Article 25.
Alfredo Stein guest lecture, University of Leeds, 8 November 2011
Alfredo gave a presentation entitled Self-help housing and resilience in cities of the Global South to students of the course ‘Environmental Health, Engineering and Development’ Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds.
New publication, October 2011
Caroline Moser and Alfredo Stein Implementing urban participatory climate change adaptation appraisals: a methodological guideline in Environment and Urbanization October 2011, Vol 23 No. 2 pp 463-485.
Guest seminar, 29 September 2011
Michael Slingsby will present a talk entitled Urban poor communities as partners in urban development - experiences from India, Bangladesh and Thailand. The event will be held at 2pm in 1.69, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester. For further details see the conferences and seminars section.
GURC publish new book with FLACSO, September 2011
La migración latinoamericana a España: una mirada desde el modelo de acumulación de activos edited by GURC Honorary Research Fellow Jorge Ginieniewicz has been published in Spanish in conjunction with FLACSO.
GURC's Dr Melanie Lombard presenting at the 2011 RGS Conference, August 2011
Melanie Lombard will present a paper entitled ‘Seeing like a state: The spatial dimension of tenure formalisation’, in a panel session on ‘The Geographies of Informality’, at the RGS-IBG Conference 2011, London, 31st August-2nd September.
New GURC Briefing Paper, published July 2011
Briefing Paper No.3 (PDF, 575KB): Is cancer a slum health problem? by Caroline Moser, published July 2011.
Alfredo Stein appointed Advisor to Comic Relief, April, 2011
Dr Alfredo Stein has become Advisor to Comic Relief’s Slum Upgrading Programme
Guest public guest lecture, 23 March, 2011
Harriet Evans (University of Westminster) presents What is the heritage of ‘old Beijing’? Oral histories of urban transformation in Beijing’s ‘south city’The event is organised in conjunction with the Univerisyt of Manchester's Centre for Chinese Studies and is part of the 2010-11 GURC lecture series. 4pm, room 1.69/70, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester.
Roundtable Event, co-hosted by CLACS, sponsored by SLAS, 9 March, 2011
The Changing Face of Mexico: From Coercion to Urban Governance:
Wil Pansters (University of Groningen) and Salvador Marti (University of Salamanca) with discussant Peter Watt (University of Sheffield). 4-6pm,
Room 1.69/70, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester.
Caroline Moser, keynote speaker at International Women's Day event, London, 8 March, 2011
The event, entitled Gender and the City was organised by the Bloomsbury Gender Network. Caroline Moser presented the keynote: Mainstreaming gender into safety programmes in urban areas
Caroline Moser's book Ordinary Famillies, Extraordinary Lives published in Spanish
The Spanish publication, Gente del Barrio, Vidas Extraordinarias was launched with events in Guayaquil, Ecuador and Santiago, Chile in March and April.
Public Guest Lecture, 3 March, 2011
Barcelona: the challenge of celebrity: Oriol Nello (Autonomous University of Barcelona), 4-6pm, room G6 Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester. In conjunction with SED's Department of Planning and Landscape, see the event poster (PDF, 507KB) for full details.
New Briefing Paper
Briefing Paper No. 1:
MDGs and Assets
By Philipp Horn, Alfredo Stein and Caroline Moser
CIDOB international conference, Barcelona, 28 February, 2011
Alfredo Stein presented The main challenges of governance and local development in the region at the conference 25 years or Spanish co-operation with Central America organised by CIDOB.
Alfredo Stein lecture broadcast via live video link to 33 universities in Mexico, 23 February, 2011
The lecture, entitled Adapting to climate change: disasters or gradual imperceptible changes? was presented to the Technologio de Monterrey in conjunction with the British Council. It was broadcast via the Technologico de Monterrey's virtual television channel.
Guest seminar, in conjunction with the School of Environment and Development's Department of Planning & Landscape, 9 February, 2011
Post Earthquake effects and urban planning in Chile:
Jorge Inzulza Contardo (Departamento de Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile),
4-5.30pm,
Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester
New Working Paper
Working Paper No. 7
The importance of assets in current development debates: Millennium Development Goals, social protection and climate change
By Caroline Moser and Alfredo Stein