Conferences and seminars
GURC Annual Lecture 2012
(re)theorising cities from the global south
Professor Sue Parnell (University of Capetown and Leverhulme Visiting Professor, UCL)
This public 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
Public Panel discussion
and Q&A session, followed by drinks reception
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).
Wednesday 16 November
4pm
Cordingley Lecture Theatre, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester
Guest Seminar
Urban Poor Communities as Partners in Urban Development - Experiences from India, Bangladesh and Thailand
Michael Slingsby (DPU Associate)
Thursday 29 September
2-4pm
Room 1.69/70, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester
Guest Lecture
What is the heritage of ‘old Beijing’? Oral histories of urban transformation in Beijing’s ‘south city’
Harriet Evans (University of Westminster)
In conjunction with the University of Manchester's Centre for Chinese Studies
Wednesday 23 March
4-6pm
Room 1.69/70, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester
Roundtable Event
Co-hosted by CLACS, sponsored by SLAS
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)
***PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE***
Wednesday 9 March
4-6pm
Room 1.69/70, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester
Public Guest Lecture
Barcelona: The Challenge of celebrity
Oriol Nello (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
In conjunction with SED's Department of Planning & Landscape
Thursday 3 March
4-6pm
Room G6, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester
See the event poster (PDF, 507KB) for full details.
GURC Annual Lecture
Postcolonialising Informality? New perspectives on urban poverty in Latin America
Ann Varley (University College London)
Thursday 24 February
4-5.30pm
Cordingley Lecture Theatre,
Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester
See the event poster for full details (PDF, 284KB)
GURC Lecture Series 2010-11
The Global Urban Research Centre is pleased to announce a new lecture series for the academic year 2010-11.
The programme for the series includes a range of external guest speakers with some lectures co-presented by other disciplines and research groups in the Faculty of Humanities.
Lecture themes relate to GURC's urban research agenda, based on bottom-up, multidisciplinary approaches to issues around globalisation, poverty and exclusion in the urban setting.
GURC Lecture Series 2010-11 full programme (PDF, 403KB)