3rd-5th November 2015
As part of the Distinguished Visitors Scheme, Professor AbdouMaliq Simone (Professor of Sociology and Urbanism,
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) will be visiting the Department from
Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th November 2015.
AbdouMaliq Simone is one of the leading urbanists of our time. He has shown repeatedly how misleading is the
characterisation of ‘failed cities’ across Africa and South-East Asia by revealing the sustaining relations,
networks, and structures enabling life in the most precarious of city landscapes. Working extensively in and at
the edges of cities such as Douala, and Dakar, in Jeddah, Johannesburg, and Jakarta, Simone has crafted uniquely
creative methodological engagements at the interface of planning and postcolonial studies, urban policy, global
studies, and critical theory as well as a critical analytics for comprehending ‘rogue urbanism’ and the ‘cities
yet to come’. A short biography is available online.
Department Seminar: Urbanisation at the interface of the habitable and uninhabitable: on redescription and detachment5pm, Tuesday 3rd November 2015 Further details about this talk are available. |
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Public lecture: The fugitives – blackness as urban method5pm, Wednesday 4th November 2015 Further details about this talk are available.
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Doctoral Session11am, Thursday 5th November 2015 Graduate students and post-doctoral staff will be contacted with details of the reading required for this session. |
