City Theory for the New Millennium – Workshop

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The workshop “City Theory for the New Millennium”, holds in Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS),  is the third and last workshop to be organized in the context of Forum 4 on urban studies.  It follows on two earlier workshops that focused on specific urban challenges: the future of urban planning (New York, August 2014); and the persistence of urban poverty and slums, and with it, forms of resistance to top-down models (Mumbai, December 2014).

As the last workshop in the Forum 4 series, the focus of the Shanghai event will be our knowledge about cities (research approaches, theories, curricula, literature), specifically cities in Asia. At issue is how urban expertise can be framed in a more integrated fashion, by joining social sciences with humanities-based knowledge, to inform applied expertise, and vice versa. A second objective (corresponding to the “Rethinking Asian Studies” program objectives) is to explore how these new forms of city knowledge and theory can contribute to re-shaping humanistic higher education including culturally and historically-grounded “regional studies”. Investigations will thus go in two directions: Knowledge production for cities and  City theory contributions to (humanistic) knowledge production.

Date: October 20, 2015
Location: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) 7-622 Huaihai Zhong Lu, 200020 Shanghai
Link: City Theory for the New Millennium, IIAS Events, October 20, 2015