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September 2015
Wed
16
Sep
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
Kevin Fisher, Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
How did the early landscapes of the Late Bronze Age (c. 1700-1200 BC) shape patterns of social interaction and power relations? This lecture presents the results of ongoing archaeological work on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus aimed at understanding the relationship between the emergence of its first cities and the profound socioeconomic changes that took place there during this time.
October 2015
Wed
21
Oct
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
Thomas Maloutas, Geography, Harokopio University
In this talk, Thomas Maloutas will analyze the experience to undertake empirical research in Athens, an archetypical urban setting for peripheral, Southern Europe.
November 2015
Wed
18
Nov
Richard V. Ericson Lecture
Carolyn Cartier, Human Geography and China Studies, University of Technology, Sydney
January 2016
Wed
20
Jan
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
David Ley, Geography, UBC
This talk examines the role of international investment in the construction of a local, and largely unaffordable, housing market in Vancouver.
February 2016
Wed
10
Feb
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
Cindi Katz, Environmental Psychology and Women’s Studies, and Executive Officer for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Drawing on history, biography, theatre, field research, and academic documents, this lecture will focus on what can be gleaned through various individuals’ embodied knowledge of the sedimented historical geographies of the Bronx and Detroit, of exploring and making a community of memory in place, and of activating alternative geographical imaginations.
March 2016
Wed
16
Mar
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
Michael Storper, Urban Planning, The University Of California, Los Angeles
Join us for a talk on how San Francisco outpaced L.A.’s urban growth in an unconventional way.
September 2016
Wed
21
Sep
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
Coll Thrush, History, UBC
Are urban and Indigenous histories mutually constitutive? Join us for this talk, drawn from a new book on the history of Indigenous visitations to London, England, over the past five centuries.
October 2016
Wed
12
Oct
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
Andy Yan, Researcher and Urban Planner, Bing Thom Architects
Climate change, uneven patterns in the post-industrial economy, and global flows of people, ideas, and capital are reshaping the demographic, social, economic, and physical terrains of Metro Vancouver. How have these challenges manifested themselves in time and space?
November 2016
Wed
16
Nov
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
Chris Hamnett, Geography, King's College London
This talk will examine the changing social class composition of major western cities over the last 150 years, focusing particularly on the last 50 years.
January 2017
Wed
18
Jan
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
Sarah Levin-Richardson, Classics, University of Washington