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Date: 3/21/2022
Subject: GUHP Announcement April Events in the Dream Conversations
From: Carl Nightingale


GUHP invites you
to two exciting events in early April
featuring collaborations between the
"Dream Conversations" in Urban History
  the
European Architectural History Network
and the
African Urban Dynamics Collaborative Research Group
 
Monday, April 4, 2022, 13.00-14.30 UTC
 
GUHP's "Dream Conversation" on
CITIES AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
in collaboration with the
European Architectural History Network

Material Environments:

Architecture, Space, and Temporality in the Anthropocene(s)

We are delighted to invite you to a roundtable discussion of the theoretical and methodological implications of the Anthropocene for scholars working on cities as material built environments, social constructions, and ecological entanglements.

Moderators:

Dalal Musaed Alsayer (Kuwait University)

Megan Eardley (Princeton University) from EAHN

Sam Grinsell (University of Antwerp) from GUHP

Participants:

Daniel Barber, University of Pennsylvania

Faysal Tabbarah, American University of Sharjah

Alla Vronskaya, Kassel University

Mark Williams, University of Leicester

The roundtable will especially explore temporal, material and scalar aspects of the Anthropocene in its application to historical sites and thinking. There will be plenty of time for shared discussion of these ideas, drawing on the insights of this international and transdisciplinary gathering of scholars. We hope to welcome a broad range of attendees to enrich this urgent conversation.
 
Please register in advance of this event by clicking here. A Zoom invitation will be sent to you during the week of the event.
Thursday April 7, 2022, 2PM UCT (note corrected time)
 
GUHP "Dream Conversation" on
THEORY OF BY AND FOR URBAN HISTORIANS
in collaboration with the
African Urban Dynamics Collaborative Research Group
Roundtable: Urban Theory from the Global South

Moderator:

AbdouMaliq Simone, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield

Participants:

Wangui Kimari, University of Cape Town

Prince Guma, British Institute in East Africa, Nairobi

Anwesha Ghosh, National Law School of India University Bengaluru

Rafael Soares Gonçalves, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

 
Some questions include:
  • How does urban theory look differently when viewed from the perspective of the “Global South”?  
  • What is southern urbanism and how does it challenge or reframe the way that we define cities as an analytical concept? 
  • What implications does southern urbanism have for technocratic regulation and practice, both in the Global South and beyond? 
  • How / what differentiates the Global South as a place / concept from earlier debates about the 3rd World & Developing World? Is there something unique / specific when put in an urban frame? 
  • How do debates about the (urban) Global South (dis)empower the places and people they are ostensibly about? Who can and should write about the (urban) Global South? (We see this question as connecting to some of your recent work on marginality and blackness as a methodological and conceptual tool.)
  • Urban historians tend to import theory from the social sciences.  What specifically can urban historians working on the Global South bring to the production of urban theory more generally?
To participate, please register here. A Zoom invite will be sent to you during the week before the event.
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