Urban Asia

7th annual IIAS-TU Delft seminar convened by Dr Ir Gregory Bracken, who is a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden and Assistant Professor of Architecture at TU Delft.

This is the latest in a series of spring seminars that explores the urban environment of Asia from a variety of different multidisciplinary perspectives. This particular seminar, entitled ‘Urban Asia’, will look at a number of different themes, including the urban transformation that took place in Japan after World War II; conditions in the slums of Mumbai, particularly the plight of Dalit women there; Hong Kong’s urban identity; and the related topic of the emergence of a Chinese urban subjectivity. Finally, Dr Bracken will present one of the key concepts from his forthcoming book Asian Cities Colonial to Global (Amsterdam University Press, May 2015): a collection of the best papers from the 5th annual IIAS-TU Delft seminar which took place in Leiden in 2013.

Speakers
Prof. Carola Hein (TU Delft, the Netherlands)
Maansi Parpiani (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Ir. Renske van Dam (Royal Academy of Arts, the Netherlands)
Jacob Dreyer (Beijing, China)

Book launch
Asian Cities: Colonial to Global by Gregory Bracken (Editor).

Program and Abstracts
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Registration
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