IGK PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES WINTER SEMESTER 2014/15

IGK PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
WINTER SEMESTER 2014/15
October 21st:
Jeanne Haffner (Harvard University)
“A Natural History of Reconstruction”
November 4th:
Florian Urban (Glasgow School of Arts)
“La Perla: 100 Years of Informal Architecture
in San Juan, Puerto Rico”
December 2nd:
Boris Vormann (Freie Universität Berlin)
“Fixing Infrastructure: Cities, States, and Globalization”
December 16th:
Samuel Roberts (Columbia University)
“Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of
Segregation”
January 20th:
Prashant Kidambi (University of Leicester)
“Crisis and the City in Modern India: A Historical Perspective”
January 27th:
Susanne Hauser (Universität der Künste Berlin)
“Zur 'Kultur' der Stadt: Kulturbegriffe im Stadtdiskurs”
February 17th:
Jennifer Robinson (University College London)
“Thinking Cities through Elsewhere: Comparative Tactics for a More
Global Urban Studies”
Tuesdays 6 - 8 pm
Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin
Hardenbergstr. 16-18, Room 0.05
www.metropolitanstudies.de
DFG/IGK 1705:
„The World in the City: Metropolitanism
and Globalization from the 19th Century
to the Present“